Dan Jacobson wrote:
"What design will utilize my ton of wire at such a short wavelength
(3.33 meters)?"
Dan also indicated he would like to minimize cuts in the wire.
An obvious contender would be an axial-mode helix antenna which just
stretches out a coil of wire with no cuts at all.
The inventor, J.D. Kraus, includes chapter 8 of his 3rd edition of
"Antennas", The Helical Antenna: Axial and Other Modes, Part 2.
Kraus has an example in Fig. 8-54(a) on page 281 of an 80-turn
axial-mode (end-fire) helix with a gain of "24 dB". (This is surely dBi
as Kraus doesn`t specify dBd.)
There would also surely be a few pounds of wire left over unless the
wire is very large indeed. It might be bonded for a reflector or other
purposes.
Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI
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