Horizontal loop antenna
 

Dave Platt wrote:
On the other hand, page 16 of the SGC-230 manual PDF specifically
shows a balanced dipole, being fed through "balanced line feeders,
300-600 ohms, up to 40 feet".

My 1990 manual shows nothing like that. Maybe they changed
their minds about balanced line feeders.
--
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Horizontal loop antenna
 

On the other hand, page 16 of the SGC-230 manual PDF specifically
shows a balanced dipole, being fed through "balanced line feeders,
300-600 ohms, up to 40 feet".

My 1990 manual shows nothing like that. Maybe they changed
their minds about balanced line feeders.

Could be... I was using a PDF copy of the manual I downloaded from the
SGC website. Possibly the newer versions of their couplers have more
flexibility in their tuning algorithm?

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Horizontal loop antenna - Dual Wire
 

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:55:20 -0500, Buck
wrote:

I seem to remember an article about someone taking a full-wave
horizontal loop antenna and making two loops (or was it a half-wave
loop?). The second loop caused the antenna to match 50 ohms so it
could be fed with coax and (I think) it operated multiple bands.
Anyone remember this article and know where it might be?

Hi Buck,

It is a small tuned loop (less than a tenth wave) with a smaller loop
(about a third to a fifth in size of the first loop) inside it.

Not much else to say except that polarity is vertical/horizontal when
the loops are in the horizontal/vertical plane. Make every effort to
build low Ohmic connections and elements. The capacitor will have to
stand off a high voltage (and many caps suffer from ESR).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Horizontal loop antenna
 

Roy Lewallen wrote:
"I don`t see anywhere in the response which explains how "radiation is a
function of loop area" and why increasing the loop circumference would
be advantageous."

Didn`t want to bore with details. Terman knows all and tells all. His
loop antenna story begins on page 907 of his 1955 opus:
"The radiation resistance of a loop antenna is less the smaller the loop
area. For the radiation resistance to be large enough to give good
antenna efficiency, it is necessary that the loop perimeter be of the
order of a wavelength. This introduces a difficulty, since when the
perimeter approaches or exceeds a half wavelength, then the loop current
in Fig. 23-40 will not be constant, nor will its phase nnecessarily be
the same in different parts of the loop. The prectical solution is to
build up the loop in such a way that the perimeter consists of resonant
antennas so arranged that the current everywhere in the loop perimeter
flows in the same direction around the loop. A variety of practical
physical arrangements for achieving this result have been devised, three
examples of which are illustrated in Fig. 23-41."

Yet another elegant phase inverter from Kraus as applied to a colinear
dipole appears on Cecil`s webpages.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Horizontal loop antenna
 

Roy Lewallen wrote:
"Perhaps you build antennas for radiation resistance, but I think most
people build them to maximize radiation in some particular direction.."

You must have some radiation resistance or you have no signal, but not
all antennas are highly directional.

Page 8-10 of the 20th edition of the ARRL Antenna Book has (Eq 5):
Efficiency = radiation resistance / radiation resistance + loss
resistance

Zero radiation resistance = zero efficiency.

Best regards, Richard Hsarrison, KB5WZI

Horizontal loop antenna - Dual Wire
 

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:44:48 -0800, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:55:20 -0500, Buck
wrote:

I seem to remember an article about someone taking a full-wave
horizontal loop antenna and making two loops (or was it a half-wave
loop?). The second loop caused the antenna to match 50 ohms so it
could be fed with coax and (I think) it operated multiple bands.
Anyone remember this article and know where it might be?

Hi Buck,

It is a small tuned loop (less than a tenth wave) with a smaller loop
(about a third to a fifth in size of the first loop) inside it.

Not much else to say except that polarity is vertical/horizontal when
the loops are in the horizontal/vertical plane. Make every effort to
build low Ohmic connections and elements. The capacitor will have to
stand off a high voltage (and many caps suffer from ESR).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

The antenna article I was referring to is either full size or 1/2 size
horizontal loop and he used window line (twin-lead) wire for the loop
crossing the connection of the coax so that the wire made a continuous
loop twice going from the center conductor to the shield (he may have
used a balun, but you get the idea). This was a large loop running
around his yard.

Thanks, tho.

Buck
N4PGW
--
73 for now
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Horizontal loop antenna
 

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Jon, LA4RT wrote:
"---but presumably there`s a reason that you`re using a small loop in
the first place."

True. In Norway I specified large dishes for scatter communications with
North Sea platforms but the government sponsored the geosynchronous
satellite program and ignored scatter. In the many tunnels I specified
300-ohm twinlead which works about as well as Andrew`s leaky coax and
costs much less. I think Norway is too rich to care about cost.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

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