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Where do you get that info that "it's not going to work"?

Is there a page in the ARRL handbook dealing with a 5/8 yagi-type directional beam which states the reason it won't work to use a center fed 5/8 along with a 5/8 reflector and directors?

Since the Gainmaster sets up the balanced center fed 5/8 current distribution field, why wouldn't other 5/8 parasitic elements play against it, offering a directional effect just like a 1/2 wave yagi, since the 5/8 field is already presented by the 5/8 driven element?

Here's something you should see:

Build it, Booty!

<blockquote data-quote="Needle Bender" data-source="post: 351567" data-attributes="member: 13339">Where do you get that info that &quot;it&#039;s not going to work&quot;?Is there a page in the ARRL handbook dealing with a 5/8 yagi-type directional beam which states the reason it won&#039;t work to use a center fed 5/8 along with a 5/8 reflector and directors?Since the Gainmaster sets up the balanced center fed 5/8 current distribution field, why wouldn&#039;t other 5/8 parasitic elements play against it, offering a directional effect just like a 1/2 wave yagi, since the 5/8 field is already presented by the 5/8 driven element?&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gain-master.it/images/current-distribution-2.gif" target="_blank">Here&#039;s</a> something you should see:<img src="http://www.gain-master.it/images/fig4.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Build it, Booty! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Needle Bender, post: 351567, member: 13339"] Where do you get that info that "it's not going to work"? Is there a page in the ARRL handbook dealing with a 5/8 yagi-type directional beam which states the reason it won't work to use a center fed 5/8 along with a 5/8 reflector and directors? Since the Gainmaster sets up the balanced center fed 5/8 current distribution field, why wouldn't other 5/8 parasitic elements play against it, offering a directional effect just like a 1/2 wave yagi, since the 5/8 field is already presented by the 5/8 driven element? [URL="http://www.gain-master.it/images/current-distribution-2.gif"]Here's[/URL] something you should see: [IMG]http://www.gain-master.it/images/fig4.gif[/IMG] [SIZE="3"][B]Build it, Booty![/B][/SIZE] ;) [/QUOTE]

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