Off Center Fed Yagi?

[gregory21greg]

If you can have an off center fed dipole and since a Yagi is just a dipole with passive elements to direct the signal then could you feed a Yagi off center and get the same resonance that a normal ocf dipole has but with forward gain?

 

[prcguy]

It should not matter how you excite the driven element of a Yagi, do it from the center, the end, offset or anywhere in between if its adequately decoupled from the feedline.
prcguy

If you can have an off center fed dipole and since a Yagi is just a dipole with passive elements to direct the signal then could you feed a Yagi off center and get the same resonance that a normal ocf dipole has but with forward gain?

 

[majoco]

IMHO the whole idea of an OCFD is that it covers a wider range of frequencies even to the point of being "untuned". Now for a yagi to work right all the dimensions of element length and spacing are frequency dependant, so what frequency would you use?

IMHO you'd be better off with Log-periodic array.