hi, with a 35" wood stick and 6 pieces of 3/32 welding rod a 70 cm yagi was made. using the AD8302 eval bd to check the reflected energy the
peak Vg was for 429 MHZ. the open end of the DE was trimmed
at Fin=433.9 M until the same peak Vg was gotten. the new peak was
at F=433.4 this is close enough to 433.9. the gamma was calculated by
Vg=928 at no input signals to the 8302 and Vg=1447 mV at its peak.
gamma = (1447-928) / 30 = 17.3 (it's really a minus ). for a VSWR
somewhere between 1.22 and 1.43.
my question is for those of you who have too made your own yagi
and measured its gamma ... what did you get ?
and do you know what is a ball-park gamma for commercial yagis.

previous tests of gamma with the 8302 used a string of VAT's on one
input to make the Vg = 900 mV. but i was getting this funny compression with each add'l VAT dBm unit. until i figured the VAT's themself were
adding up a significant insertion loss compared to the add'l return loss
i was trying to achieve. anyway, now i simply utilize the beauty of this
8302 device by letting the A & B inputs be un-equal and using the Vg
output as the experimental data. then divide whatever it is by the slope of 30mV/dBm to get a number for ret loss. easy as pie this way