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"Jerry Martes" wrote in message
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Thanks for the good information on steel elements for a 100MHz yagi. I
think I was concerned about something that didnt exist. I thought the
fact that the steel was magnetic might effect the elements. I'm
comfortable with using this steel wire now. I saw the straight lengths
of wire at Home Depot where they sell it for hanging Drop Ceilings. It
may not be a rust problem because of the coating on the wire But, the
antennas will be in the San Diego Calif. desert anyway, so rust isnt a
big problem. Besides, these are gifts so the new owners cal deal with
the rust if they want clean *and* cheap.

PS I'm building this (actually several) antenna for friends who live
far enough away from the city that their radio reception is poor. This
"building of antennas" is strictly fun and learning for me. There is
no chance of my buying any commercial antenna, even if it costs me more
to build one. I did build one with copper elements and it worked very
well.

Jerry

Jerry -

In the Popular Electronics July 1969 (VHF/FM) and December 1971 (UHF) ran
a series of articles for homebuilding FM, VHF and UHF antennas. George
J. Monser was the author of these articles, "Build the Pyramidal TV/FM
antenna" and Build the Mini-Pyramidal UHF TV antenna" who the lived in the
Santa Barbara, CA area.

w9gb


BTW, Mr. Monser was a 1947 Connell University graduate in Electrical
Engineering.

Cornell's alumni magazine reported that: George J. Monser ('47 BS EE) of Las
Vegas, NV, formerly of Goleta, CA,
passed away on January 4, 1998. He was a retired consulting engineer for
Raytheon Corporation and author.

-/-