G.Beat wrote:
Gary -

Look at these web sites.

L.B. Cebik, W4RNL basics on the HB9CV antenna.
The HB9CV version of the 2-element phased array appeared in 1961. In Europe,
some writers refer to almost any 2-element horizontal phased array as an
HB9CV, while the English-speaking world tends to refer to the ZL- Special to
mark the genre of antenna. The HB9CV version of the antenna and many
variants are widely used in Europe, with Christmas tree stacks for 20- 15-10
meters. Users swear by them, claiming near to, and sometimes better than,
3-element Yagi performance.
http://www.cebik.com/hb.html


73 de Greg
w9gb

Greg,

thanks for the pointers. I have already used Google to do searches for
information on this antenna, but some of your pages were new to me. I see that
there is some software to design a HB9CV. This may be helpful in checking the
antenna which I bought.

regards...

--Gary