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How many elements of a Yagi-Uda array are connected to the feeder?

  • A.One
  • B.Two of them
  • C.All of them, through a corporate network running inside the boom
  • D.Half of them, alternating along the boom from the reflector forward

Answer: A

Only the driven element is fed; every other element is parasitic, excited by the field of its neighbours and re-radiating with a phase set by its own length and spacing. That is what makes the antenna so cheap: one connection, one balun and a row of aluminium rods. Feeding more elements would turn it into a driven array with quite different design rules. The whole behaviour of a Yagi follows from the fact that the parasites are excited by coupling rather than by wire.

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