"Kurt" wrote in message
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Hi,

Am trying a homemade 7 element handheld beam I'm making for 70cm
with .25" brass stock. Have a little junction box I have mounted on
the beam with a male socket so I can use a BNC cable for the radio
connection. Does it matter what size/type wire I use to connect the
socket to the brass element and the Gamma match element inside the
junction box? I want to use a socket so I can use different lengths of
cable as opposed to hardwiring the cable to the antenna.


I read the other responses and have no quarrel with them. However,
I have seen a commercial uhf yagi with a gamma match. It was on
the side of a building and was probably cut for the 450 - 470 MHz
business band; it looked just a bit smaller than my 70 cm antennas.

My point: It can be done, assuming the antenna I saw wasn't a
total POS!

73
"Sal"
(KD6VKW)