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Calltrex wrote:
How can one couple this ? A coaxcable with a dummyload: runningwaves everywhere and U and I are in phase. Now the resonant dipole: the U peaks at the ends end I tops in the midle. So very reactive for the driver. Nope, you are confused, at least about resonant standing wave antennas like the 1/2WL dipole. Those peaks and nodes of the voltage and current are *AMPLITUDES*. Amplitudes have nothing to do with reactance. To detect the reactance, one must look at the *PHASE*. You are not looking at the phase. Instead of looking at the amplitudes of the voltage and current, take a look at the phase of the voltage and current. The phase angle which determines the reactance is the difference between the voltage phase angle and the current phase angle. Hint: The phase angles of the standing waves on a standing wave antenna (like a 1/2WL dipole) don't change over the entire length of the 1/2WL dipole. The standing wave is approximately 90% of the total wave on a 1/2WL dipole so the phase angle of the total wave on the antenna changes very little from end to end. Should be. Now the dipole is coupled at the coax instead of the 'inphase' load and, oh wonder, the coax cable doesn't notice the difference ?? The mind boggles. At the antenna feedpoint, for a resonant antenna, the total current and total voltage are in phase so the resulting impedance is *purely resistive, not reactive*. There is a forward wave at the feedpoint which, in a 1/2WL dipole, travels to the end of the antenna and is reflected. At the reflection point, the forward voltage and reflected voltage do not undergo a phase shift but the forward current and reflected current are 180 degrees out of phase at the reflection point. Bottom line is that the reflection phasor adds to the forward phasor after a 180 degree round trip. In a 1/2WL dipole, Vfor is 180 degrees out of phase with Vref and Ifor is in phase with Iref. Assuming a zero degree reference, Vfor is at zero degrees and Vref is at 180 degrees. Ifor and Iref are both at zero degrees. Since everything is in phase or 180 degrees out of phase, we don't need any trig. The feedpoint impedance of a resonant 1/2WL dipole becomes a *magnitude only* calculation: 1/2WL Zfp = (Vfor-Vref)/(Ifor+Iref) The negative sign on Vref takes care of the 180 degree phase shift. The feedpoint impedance of a resonant one wavelength dipole is also a *magnitude only* calculation but the signs of the magnitudes change because of the extra 180 degree delay: 1WL Zfp = (Vfor+Vref)/(Ifor-Iref) It's easy to see why the feedpoint impedance of a 1WL dipole is so much higher than it is for a 1/2WL dipole. The reflected voltage and current are delayed by an additional 180 degrees. -- 73, Cecil, IEEE, OOTC, http://www.w5dxp.com |
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