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March 8th 08, 06:44 PM
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Antenna physical size
"Art Unwin" wrote in message ... On Mar 8, 10:21 am, (Richard Harrison) wrote: Art wrote: "---my antenna is a full wavelength which meets Maxwell`s requirements, it is just that the volume is small despite the wavelength." In 1949, I worked at the KPRC-KXYZ broadcast plant. Another operator there, J.L. Davis, W5LIT had a new 1949 Ford in which he installed a surplus ART-13 and a PE-103 dynamotor. For an antenna he wound wire turn by turn on a bamboo pole until it was resonant on a slice of the 75-meter band. When J.L. modulated, Q in the coil produced a tip corona on the first good peak and modulation became loud without a receiver. The 20th edition of the ARRL Antenna Book on page 16-13 says this about continuously loaded antennas: "The general approach has been to use a coil made from heavy wire (#14 or larger), with length-to-diameter ratios as high as 21. British experimeters have reported good results with 8-foot overall length on the 1.8- and 3.5 MHz bands. The idea of making the entire antenna out of one section of coil has been tried with some success." Art`s antenna containing a "full wavelength" of wire would likely feature a greater loss than J.L.`s 1/4-wave resonant coil from simply a greater length of wire while both have peactances balanced to zero. Art`s lower Q would probably kill the corona, increase the bandwidth, while losing the gain that a fullwave straight conductor enjoys. Cecil can probably report on results of continuously loaded mobile antennas versus a bug catcher loaded whip in the California shoot-outs. Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI There are no loads on my antenna so your statements are irrelavent Art the whole antenna is a load. |
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