"Sgordon" wrote in message gy.com...
Considering putting up a Vee Beam for 17 meters. I then ran across a couple
websites that show a multiband Vee Beam cut for 15 tuning it for 6-20m. Has
anyone built even a mono-band Vee Beam? How did it preform?
If you would cut one for say 40 meters and feed with opern wire, how will it
preform on the higherbands? Just really looking for some more info on them.

Vee beams, being basically half a rhombic, are not really cut to any
one frequency.
The only real consideration as to length, is to the amount of gain you
will get.
That will vary on the length of the wires per wavelength of the
frequency being used at the time. You can use one on any band, if it's
long enough to qualify as a true vee beam, but you would design the
length for the amount of gain you want on the lowest band to be used.
One wave per leg would be the minimum, and that's not much of a vee
beam. Most are multi waves per leg. Feeding with a tuner and open wire
line as you suggest will be fine, and is the usual method used. The
higher the freq, the higher the gain in general. The angle between the
wires needs to be considered though. In general, the longer the
antenna in wavelengths, the smaller the angle between the wires for
optimum results. MK