What you are proposing is a planar gaussian antenna which flattens the
cone
into more of a fan shape, displays a flat impedence over a wide
bandwidth
and requires around ten elements of different lengths mounted on a boom
support.
Incorrect. It is a cluster of elements in equilibrium where all
elements
are resonant as is the array in its entirety. I t all ha sbeen well
defined
in past postings on Gaussian antennas


I could be wrong, but I believe that you have reinvented the log
periodic
antenna.
Yes you are wrong



Art

Thank you for your courteous response. I thought I had to be missing
something. It was of course the fact that the cluster of elements and the
array were all in equilibrium and resonant in their entirety. That's the bit
that is obviously causing people problems and upsetting them although I must
confess I don't quite understand the advantages over existing designs. The
antenna is obviously directional and exhibits gain but apparently not at
levels that would render existing antennae obsolete.

Good luck with the project anyway, it makes for an entertaining and
enlightening read.

Mike G0ULI