Moxon comments welcome
John E. Davis wrote:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:18:44 -0400, jawod
wrote:
Is it worth consideration?
I built one for the lower 3 MURS channels, and it works great. I put
it in my attic and the environment there brought down the VSWR
enabling it to function well on 2 meters. It works better (in the
direction it is more/less pointed) than my j-pole, and has a very good
front to back ratio.
Here are the design parameters I used (1/8 inch brazing rod):
CM Moxon antenna for MURS
CE
GW 1 1 -0.0962827 -0.00107657 8.78982 -0.00153852 0.000570162 8.78696 0.0015875
GW 2 9 -0.00153852 0.000570162 8.78696 0.000136935 0.000391379 9.50055 0.0015875
GW 3 1 0.000136935 0.000391379 9.50055 -0.0966646 0.000614526 9.49849 0.0015875
GW 4 1 -0.128867 -0.000352607 9.49837 -0.263769 -0.00132972 9.5011 0.0015875
GW 5 9 -0.263769 -0.00132972 9.5011 -0.264979 0.000746241 8.78833 0.0015875
GW 6 1 -0.264979 0.000746241 8.78833 -0.126962 -0.00066876 8.78845 0.0015875
GW 7 17 0.915355 -0.608882 9.49961 0.915743 -0.607934 7.97677 0.0015875
GE 0
FR 0 33 0 0 144 0.5
EX 0 2 5 0 1
RP 0 31 73 1001 0, 0, 3, 5, 10000, 0
EN
--John
I'm sorry, I know what MARS is...what is MURS?
John
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