6 Meter Beam Antenna Plans

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6 meter beam antenna plans.

This captures the screw and 1yagi antenna design 2. We quickly caught the bug for dxing and i started looking for 6 meter antennas. Pq the moxon antenna designed by les moxon g6xn sk is a compact two element beam antenna with about 5 5 6 dbi of gain and a 25db front to back ratio pq les was looking for a compact design for the hf bands when he asked the question. Antenna resonated at 48 9 mhz not 50 1 estimated the length was 6 too long only had to take antenna down once cut off the 6 reset aspect ratio to 1 93 rehung and ran vna on the antenna.

50mhz antennas plans homemade antennas for the six meters category is a curation of 181 web resources on the m2 6m7jhv antenna comparison of commercial 6m antennas 50 mhz coax dipole. The older quick yagi program was used in its design. If you are mounting to a 1 5 mast or smaller please order the antenna with saddles below. As shown in figure 1 the present antenna is designed for broadband 6 meter service using vertically oriented elements.

What if i fold in the ends of a dipole antenna to reduce the amount of space an antenna occupies. Mounts horizontally or vertically on a mast up to 1 1 2 inches using our original saddle design or on a mast up to 2 inches using modified mounting plate and zinc u bolts. The elements are reasonably small but not so. The advantage being moderate forward gain with reduced rear gain.

When we started to put our shack together it was decided that 10 meter fixed dipole would be our 1st antenna. 6 meter band moxon style two element parasitic beam antenna by k8jhr objective. Ing and receiving antennas may result in weak signals or no signals at all. 6 meter 6 element ssb yagi plans for 6 meter sideband fun yagi antenna design program by wa7rai called quick yagi qy4 this 6 meter 6 element ssb yagi was designed and optimized for best feed match using 50 125mhz as the center frequency which is in the ssb portion of the 6 meter band.

Rf homebrewing a 6 meter yagi by zack lau w1vt six meters is a great band for home built yagis. Yagi for 6 meters l. A moxon beam can be expected to provide approximately 5 5 dbi forward gain. The u bolts won t work as.

Resources listed under 50 mhz antenna plans category belongs to antennas main collection and get reviewed and rated by amateur radio operators. This being my first antenna that i. Shows us how to craft an easy to reproduce 6 meter yagi that covers the whole band.