rfoverlord,
They are nice antennas, but I don't have one. Wish I could afford, and had the space required for one that I'd have a use for, but... if I had that kind of space, I probably wouldn't have to worry about what the thing would cost.
My 'active' area is the lower HF bands, not a lot of the higher HF bands or VHF/UHF, so a log would be huge for what I'd want it for. Even with loaded elements that would be something at least 60 feet wide, sort of.
The attractive thingy about log periodics is that they can be used on a very wide range of frequencies/bands. No retuning for band changes, at least one element on each band. Sort of the equivalent of a two element beam on each band. Directional, yes. Some gain but not a lot, yes. Much easier to 'do' on VHF/UHF. Until things sort of went to satellites, the Navy had them on most of their land stations (humongus things!). The other services probably did too, but I know the Navy did. They also covered the HF bands. But then, they used Rohn 25 for the boom, so it wasn't a couple of hours thing to raise them, you know? And the rotor wasn't something I even want to think about!
Still like to have one, but where would I put it??
- 'Doc
