Tag: 17m 3e beam

18 MHz beam project (Part 2)

If you haven’t arrived here from Part 1, you may want to check this out first. Part 2 final assembly and testing.  The collection of poles had been previously cut to size, this weekend was about the final assembly and mounting the driven element to facilitate testing. The beam is 3 elements and requires a […]

18 MHz 3e Beam Project (Part 1)

As featured in Practical Wireless December 2017. In 2015 I finished a 4e beam for 21 MHz, the performance was very good allowing me to work some great DX including a pile-up of JA.stations You can read more about that project here. A handy guide showing the aluminium sizes required (in both metric and imperial) and the total […]