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    The Concentric Yagi

    Apr 01, 2023 5 minutes

    The Gift That Keeps On Giving…

    CQ’s April Fool articles are the gifts that keep on giving, even three decades later! This great one, on a circular Yagi from April, 1991, came back to our attention when a reader who recalled seeing it recently asked for help in finding it and wondered why he’d never seen anything since about the design. We figured that if it was good enough to stick in his mind for 32 years, it’s good enough to share again!

    It was during the blizzard of ’86, just five days before the big CQ DX contest, when my rotator failed. The old unit was replaced with one much larger and more expensive, with the hope that it would withstand the most severe ice storms. It did, only to

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