On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:20:58 GMT, "
wrote:

As gain increases with a yagi design the forward
lobe narrows .

Let's certainly hope so.

With high gain yagi's the lobe
becomes so narrow it is deemed to be a hinderence
instead of an advantage.

Huh, I didn't know this...for several decades now I've thought it was
an advantage.

For example my EME friends and I have always believed that focusing
the available transmit power on the moon on transmit and rejecting
stellar background noise on receive was desirable. How did we go so
wrong?