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Old February 18th 05, 01:19 PM
Richard Fry
 
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"Cecil Moore" wrote
Dave Platt wrote:
I believe that you could probably get a fairly effective
pattern-warping by using a non-tuned reflector which is significantly
longer than your collinear radiator.


Passive non-resonant elements have very little effect.
That's what allows a lot of multi-band beams to work.

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As a point of reference, the radiation patterns of sidemounted FM broadcast
transmit arrays are affected by a non-resonant mounting structure (the
tower) -- especially for vertical polarization. Measured patterns from the
manufacturer's test ranges demonstrate this, as do the NEC-2 studies in
several of the papers on http://rfry.org .

RF