I have built and used an N4GG array for 11 meters just to see how it would do. It worked rather well but that was a few years ago when the cycle was not so good.
I built and put another one up today for 17 meters.
Got a contact with Gerry in Ireland and had a chance to compare it to the Mosley PRO 67B yagi at 55'.
The N4GG array is at 45' with one of the lobes shooting into EU land.
Gerry said the N5GG was 5DBD less than the yagi. Not even an S unit of difference.
The PRO67B has three active elements on 17 meters.
The N4GG was almost identical to the yagi on receive signal strength, yet the noise floor was around 2 S units less than the yagi.
This wire is nice to have on the antenna farm and works as the article states.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jaking/n4gg_array.pdf
In another thread m42duster was explaining how he only used wires for antennas, I remembered about the N4GG array and decided to compare it to the yagi. I was impressed, thanks for the inspiration m42duster.
I built and put another one up today for 17 meters.
Got a contact with Gerry in Ireland and had a chance to compare it to the Mosley PRO 67B yagi at 55'.
The N4GG array is at 45' with one of the lobes shooting into EU land.
Gerry said the N5GG was 5DBD less than the yagi. Not even an S unit of difference.
The PRO67B has three active elements on 17 meters.
The N4GG was almost identical to the yagi on receive signal strength, yet the noise floor was around 2 S units less than the yagi.
This wire is nice to have on the antenna farm and works as the article states.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~jaking/n4gg_array.pdf
In another thread m42duster was explaining how he only used wires for antennas, I remembered about the N4GG array and decided to compare it to the yagi. I was impressed, thanks for the inspiration m42duster.
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