Back to Basics

I have doing antenna columns for CQ Communications since 1995 and have done columns for four different CQ Communications publications. Let’s just say that after well over 150 columns, the air has been getting a bit thin.

Well, there is an old tradition in writing that I wish I had known earlier. If you haven’t covered a topic in about 10 years, I’m told, it’s perfectly fine to revisit that topic! Wow, 15 years of my own material I can plagiarize.

This month, we will be covering some very easy-to-build Yagis (). Our examples are of an inch. No, I’m talking wooden sticks, coat hangers, yardsticks and a bit of coax ().