[Moon-net] What's the highest gain 144 MHz Yagi in operation?

[Christopher Hazlitt]

    Thanks for your replies on Moon-net and in private everyone,  appreciate your help.
  
  Half of the reason I want to make a super long Yagi is to be a land mark for my  new radio shop that I want to open. I figure with out outrageously long Yagi or  pair of them that I ought to get some notice due to living near the main  highway!
  
  Of course, I want them to work too. Winds would be an issue for sure, I get  terrible winds here. I'd probably have to use a car axel to steer the thing so  that it wouldn't break and fashion some kind of rigging to keep the Yagi's straighter  during moderate winds, during high winds, no operation.
           I wrote M2 asking if they could build me a long one and Mike  was kind to write me back about the idea but recommended several smaller Yagi’s (8 WL)  over a pair of super long difficult to steer antennas, which of course is the  best advice, but I wanted to do this for both EME and as advertisement for my  little telecom biz.
               73 
  
      Chris KL7FB
    

Brian McCarthy <rfacres at gmail.com> wrote:  It might be the VE7BQH rope yagi.
See: http://www.bigskyspaces.com/w7gj/longyagi.htm

At 43 elements and 32 meters long it is at least a contender for
highest gain and longest "boom" among antennas that have actually been
built.

Brian
NX9O

On 6/26/07, Christopher Hazlitt  wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am considering building a couple of super long 144 MHz Yagi's for  EME, can anyone direct me to a link or information for building a very  long 144 MHz Yagi, 75 feet (25 meter) or longer?
>
>   Chris KL7FB
>
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