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Old January 18th 06, 12:22 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Roy Lewallen
 
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Default Larger size HF antenna's

What exactly do you mean by an antenna that "takes advantage" of your
lot size? The main advantage of a larger antenna over a simple one is
higher gain. But you only get gain in one or a few directions, at the
expense of gain in other directions. So unless you can rotate the large
antenna, you'll have an antenna that works great in a very few
directions but typically much worse than a dipole in most others. Is
that what you want?

One of the few ways to get both gain and some control over pattern
direction is with a phased array of verticals, symmetrically constructed
so you can switch directions. Among the sources for information are
ON4UN's _Low-Band DXing_ and Chapter 8 of the _ARRL Antenna Book_.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Maarten wrote:
Hi,

I seek some help, advise or suggestions on HF antenna's. I've bought a
house with a plot of approx 330 x 80 ft / 100 x 23 mtr available for HF
antenna's.
But when I research HAM HF antenna's, home build or commercially
available, I only find a lot of small, smaller and smallest HF
antenna's (eg. wire antenna's, inverted V, T2DF) that don't take full
advantage of the size of my land available. On the other end of the
spectrum there are plans for very, VERY large antenna's like Rhombic
and Beverage. For this size of antenna's my plot is to small.

Do you have suggestions for HF antenna's I should check out? Let me
know in this forum or pm me. Thanx in advance. 73

Maarten
maartenkoning2002 (at) yahoo.com