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Richard wrote:
"Anyone know of any antenna system that would produce a real good null in the FM band?" Direction finding relies on sharp nulls. The small loop works well with vertically polarized ground waves, but small loops don`t work well in nulling out horizintally polarized waves simultaneously with a null in vertically polarized waves . The lack of a simultaneous small loop null in both polarizations was the cause for development of an improved Radio Direction Finding (RDF) antenna, which was patented by F. Adcock in 1919. The story is found in the 19th edition of the ARRL Antenna Book on page 14-5. FM broadcasts typically contain both polarizations, so what`s needed is an antenna which nulls out both polarizations. The Adcock antenna has been found to prooduce good nulls under sky-wave conditions (containing both polarizations) at HF when loops produced poor nulls. Instructions and directional patterns for the Adcock appear in the ARRL book. All that`s necessary is to approximately scale the Adcock for the frequency of the null. With the interfering station in the null, the desired station may capture the FM detector. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
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