I thought it sounded familiar.
I have not kept in touch the last decade but Bill was a mentor to me.
He did a lot of antenna experimenting, especially on 432 mhz. He is
listed in QRZ.Com, you might send him a snail mail.
As I recall, the article was written during the building of the
antenna. Testing after the article was published did not support the
calculations. Unfortunately you cannot "un publish" a hard copy!
Most of us were still using slide rules & calculators to crunch number
then!
On 22 Mar 2006 05:54:03 -0800,
wrote:
No Jerry its August 1977 - 73 magizine, im looking at it now & they
try and compare all other antennas to it and noe even come close. The
article was writen by Bill Parker W8dmr, anyway i think i will stay
with a yagi type or try ands build a 8 bay biquad like the Channel
Master uhf tv antenna.
N4aeq
John Ferrell W8CCW