Antenna recommendation needed
Bruno wrote:
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:28:07 +0000, jimp wrote:
Verticals; if you have a lot of area, phased vertical arrays.
Aren't verticals more inclined to generate interference?
No.
BTW, my plot is 120' by 90' so I think an array at HF will be impossible.
The feed point will be pretty much central to the plot, though.
A 40M four square would be a push, but a 20M a slam dunk.
DXEngineering has a lot of stuff and info for building various vertical
arrays with phased feeding.
The simplest array is 3 verticals about .23 lambda tall spaced at about
..34 lambda with just the center one fed.
With the other two undrounded, you get a typical, omnidirectional vertical
pattern.
If you ground the outer two (think remote relays) you get a broadside
pattern like a dipole with about 3.5 dBi gain.
Of course your ground will make a difference and likely the more radials
you can bury the better it will be unless you live in a swamp.
Verticals want a good ground, horizontals want a better than .5 lambda
height.
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Jim Pennino
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