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ZS5LA builds the first (known) LFA Plus2 YagiZS5LA finished and installed his 10 element Plus2 LFA Yagi on Saturday 6th January 2009 making this the first confirmed LFA Plus2 built. However, not far behind him is John ZS6JON who has almost completed 2 of ...
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The Yagi reborn for 2010 - OWL Yagi is hereChoosing a Yagi can be quite a dilemma for many hams, if an OWA (Optimised Wideband Array) 50 Ohm Yagi is chosen, good bandwidth is the result along with simple feeding arrangements too. Another added bonus is t...
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The new Tripple Reflector LFA Yagi - Best ever G/T per W/L, Period!I have been spending much of my spare time over the last few months developing a new series of LFA yagis for VHF. Others for UHF will follow in due course. The objective from the outset wa...
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Ron, G8FJG proves the LFA low noise characteristic by building one and comparing with his existing DK7ZB 70cms Yagi.Ron built a DK7ZB 16el 70cms Yagi some time back and was very pleased with the results. However, after reading the LFA story within DUBUS m...
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The Worlds first 70cms LFA Yagi built and tested - Featured in DUBUS 4The G0KSC SC19-70FJG 19 element Yagi for 70cms is now built and tested and what an antenna it is. Many of my desgins now are bespoke designs at the request of amateurs and this one i...
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FORCE 12 produce the first 'bent element' LFA YagiFORCE 12 once again show their commitment and belief in the LFA Yagi by building and proving the first of the LFA2 series Yagis which includes bent elements in order to enhance performance.The version pict...
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In this months RadCom (October/November 2009), the monthly RSGB magazine, Peter Dodd, G3LDO reviews two commercial LFA Yagis provided by Vine antennas. Whilst he reported 'The best patterns he had seen' the real world polar plots showed pattern distorti...
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The full EME 2M LFA Yagi article will appear in DUBUS issue 4 2009 I have been spending a lot of development time recently trying to enhance the performance of LFA arrays with multiple reflector elements. Traditionally, multi-reflectors have been used upo...
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Brain, VK4DDC built the 7.3 Metre long 6 element 50MHz LFA exactly to the same spec as my own. He had these words to say: 'Gooday Justin.......................well here it is , the 7.3M boom antenna on 6 M. I have to say it works exactlty as you plan...
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FORCE 12 inc choose the LFA Yagi to Spearhead New Antenna Range Today (8th September 2009) FORCE 12 inc, A major US based antenna manufacturer based in Texas USA, raised the first pre-production LFA Yagi onto their mast for testing. The Antenna immediatle...
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VK3VG builds a 13 element 144MHz LFATrevor VK3VG reports: 'Hello JustinJust a short note to let you know that I have built and have been using the 13element design you sent me for over 2 months.The antenna works well and seems to be very close to your d...
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The LFA lands in FloridaHarry, KG4HJA used one of the free designs on this site, scaled it up and used it as the basis of his new 10M station. This is the first confirmed home-build of an LFA I have had from the USA and boy, what a job Harry has made of i...
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The next issue of DUBUS Magazine due in August will include some new 6M LFA designs that have been optimised for maximum performance all round. The list includes easy-to-build antennas from 4 to 12 elements. All have super flat SWR curves and maximised ga...
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The first EME QSO on 6M was achieved on 21st July 2009 by Joe, CT1HZE. Joe worked W1JJ with just one 7 element LFA Yagi.Joe installed the LFA earlier in the day and is comparing the I0JXX 7 element Yagi with the LFA. Early reports are most encouraging. ...
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There is much talk in the amamteur radio community about the new LFA Yagi and still much more work to be done in honing the antenna for absolute best performance. However, one thing is quite clear already, the LFA will be widely used within EME stations t...
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Today I am pleased to announce the launch of the new Loop Fed Array (LFA) Yagi antenna. The LFA Yagi is not fed with a dipole as would be traditional Yagi antennas. Instead it is fed with a full wave loop which is laid flat on the boom between the Refle...
