On Aug 10, 10:35*am, "Al Lorona" wrote:
"Owen Duffy" wrote in message

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Are you quite sure of what you say?

Beats me... I've never seen one of these antennas and am going only by the
EZNEC model on that web site, as I said in my last post. Says that there's
50 + j500 at the feedpoint. That's a 50 ohm resistor in series with an
inductor, isn't it? Or, as you say, a coil with a real low Q. Either way,
it's an extremely lossy device that adversely affects the results. Try
adjusting the R to a more reasonable value for an average coil and
re-simulating in EZNEC and take a look at the result. KG4JJH has measured
data in that review that definitely coincides with a 50 +j500 device at the
feedpoint.


I though about this while on the road this morning. Sometimes
enlightenment comes when there is not a keyboard to confuse things.

I assumed that he intended to model the shunt coil, and correctly
modelled it, but in fact his load is in series with the feedpoint...
so it hasn't captured the shunt coil.

Removing the load, and running the model gives a feedpoint Z of 16-
j500. A shunt coil with Qi around 100, and L around 29uH will
transform that to 50+jX. That coild has an equivalent shunt R of 120k,
so negligible power is lost in it.

I haven't looked closely at the model in all respects, but it seems to
do some crazy things that certainly give unrealistically low
efficiency.

Owen