Hi.

I'm wanting to have a marine band 5 element yagi. You cannot buy these
things. Seems to me, that I could say myself some hassle by just buying a 5
element FM yagi, and scaling things down. Only major snag could be
adjusting the folded dipole, I would have to cut that in the middle as well
as at the connection ends.

Anyone tried modifying a commercial VHF yagi beam with folded dipole?

Richard,

I think the FM antenna would be too far off frequency to trim to size. A
better bet would be to get a used 2 meter antenna, and trim that. To a first
approximation, to get resonance at 156 MHz, you would cut off about 7% from
each element.

Tam/WB2TT
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Hi.

I'm wanting to have a marine band 5 element yagi. You cannot buy these
things. Seems to me, that I could say myself some hassle by just buying a
5
element FM yagi, and scaling things down. Only major snag could be
adjusting the folded dipole, I would have to cut that in the middle as
well
as at the connection ends.

Anyone tried modifying a commercial VHF yagi beam with folded dipole?