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Current Operating Conditions

FTDX101MP 200 WATTS 
US Tower HDX-589 MDPL with tilt feature, is  90' fully extended
Ant.1 KLM 20-meter  6 element Mono-bander Yagi, with a  60 foot heavy duty boom, at 95 feet
Ant.2 Klm 20-30 MHz 6 element Log Periodic Yagi with a  29' boom, at 109 feet
Ant.3 40-80 mtr. Off Center Dipole at 90'
Yaesu G-1000 DXA Rotor for HF beams
VHF/UHF is FT 736R All Mode
Yaesu G-5400B Rotor
Cushcraft Circular Polorized Oscar 2mtr and 440mhz Satellite tracking antennas, worked MIR, Skylab, and an Sts mission or two.

KLM - 20M-6 - 6 ELEMENT MONOBAND BEAM ANTENNA FOR 20 METERS - 5 kW p.e.p. 
The competition on 20 meters is fierce.

A KLM World Class Extra monoband beam lets you compete at the top of the pileups.



KLM's World Class Extra series of antennas are designed to satisfy the needs of the most serious DX operator.
The 80M-3, 40M-4 and the 20M-15M-10M 6 element monobanders offer the ultimate in performance with no compromises.
The electrical designs are devised to achieve maximum gain, bandwidth, and front-to-back ratios.
Construction materials and techniques are selected for maximum strength and durability. All of KLM's World Class Extra antennas use multiple driven elements.
The average multi-element Yagi type beam antenna with only a single driven element is essentially a high Q system.
Maximum gain, maximum F/B ratios, minimum VSWR and cleanest patterns are possible only over a very narrow frequency range; for example over the phone or CW portions of an amateur band.
The Q of a single driven element becomes extremely high in the presence of multiple parasitic elements when these elements are adjusted tor optimum performance.
The Q can be reduced and the bandwidth increased by manipulating the dimensions
of the parasitic elements, but at the expense of reduced gain and F/B ratios.
This undesirable situation can be remedied by the use of two driven elements fed in parallel and tuned to different frequencies - one frequency near the bottom and one near the top of the amateur band.
The parasitic elements can now be adjusted tor maximum gain and F/B ratios rather than tor broad VSWR curves.
This is the familiar "log-cell" driven element system derived from log-periodic antenna design that is used in most of KLM's HF antenna designs.
The response of KLM dual-driven element antennas rolls off very rapidly outside the specified band coverage thus providing an added bonus in the form of lessened radiation on adjacent frequencies.
 KLM uses boom-insulated elements throughout.
This provides total isolation of the antenna elements from the boom and minimizes possible interaction effects from the boom.
 Exclusive KLM designed insulators are molded of a special glass-filled materiai which has excellent insulating properties and extremely high mechanical strength.
The form is webbed .... heavily reintorced at stress points to withstand high winds safely.
To minimize unsightly "droop" in long elements, the mounting angle is tilted slightly upward.

Equipment

FTDX101MP
Ft-1000D
Ft-736R
Xiegu G90 SDR
KLM 6 element log periodic Yagi 20-30 MHz
KLM 20-M6 element 20 meter Yagi 58’ boom
Oscar Satellite antennas 2mtr-400 MHz