Justin,

I read with interest about your design for a 5 element 6M LFA Yagi.
One detail missing from your published design is if the reflector and
director elements are electrically bonded to the boom (grounded) or
if they are free-floating (insulated from the boom). Would you mind
elaborating? Such a difference can make quite a difference in the
measurements at resonance! Perhaps the info is there, but in skimming
over it, I didn't see it. It's quite an interesting design, and I am in the
market for a new 6M antenna within the next year. This would be a
nice project!

Thanks & 73, -Web (KR4WM)

g0ksc wrote:
> I have just added the first of my Loop Fed Array Yagis to my website that have
been deisgned specifically to reduce unwanted city noise from any other
direction than the one your beam is pointing in.
>
> If you take a look at the El plane of most Yagi's with less than 9 elements,
in 90% of cases, there is a large lobe going straight up and down form the
antenna. This 'gainy' lobes serve to give out problems when transmitting but
also to receive noise form below the antenna regardless of the direction in
which it is facing.
>
> The new LFA - low-noise design has been created to reduce drastically lobes in
any direction other than in a foward direction.
>
> for more info and build dimensions, check out my site at www.g0ksc.co.uk
>