Electric and Magnetic fields
Hi,
I have always been taught that electrical and magnetic RF fields went always together. You couldn't produce one without the other and vice-versa. Then I read about mag-loops having better RX noise immunity than normal antennas because they react to magnetic fields, whilst man-made noise occurs mostly on electrical fields. ?????? If both fields go together, how can noise be greater in the electrical field than in the magnetic one? Does that mean that you can effectively produce one without the other? Taking it further, if you can _receive_ one while rejecting the other, then, by the reciprocity law, you should be able to produce one without the other. What is (where am I) wrong? EA3FYA - Toni |
Toni wrote:
I have always been taught that electrical and magnetic RF fields went always together. You couldn't produce one without the other and vice-versa. The ratio of the E-field to the H-field is the impedance. For free space, the characteristic impedance is 377 ohms. For a small loop antenna, the H-field is much greater than the E-field and the impedance is very small. Presumably, in a superconducting loop, the E-field is zero and all the energy is contained in the H-field. I wonder if we will ever have superconducting ham antennas? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:57:00 +0100, Toni wrote:
Then I read about mag-loops having better RX noise immunity than normal antennas because they react to magnetic fields, whilst man-made noise occurs mostly on electrical fields. Hi Toni, The noise that is very local, or within one or two wavelengths of its source has a different field than that which propagates in from across town, or region, or country.... This would be noise from fluorescent lighting, TVs, Computers, motors and such within the neighborhood or home. That same noise coming from across town has a different field structure and it conforms to your expected reciprocity. But really, this is a matter of luck and the polarization of the loop too. Most of that noise is vertically polarized. The loop in the horizontal position may show more sensitivity than in the vertical position. Further, the noise may be coupled electrostatically rather than electromagnetically. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
Toni wrote in message . ..
Hi, I have always been taught that electrical and magnetic RF fields went always together. You couldn't produce one without the other and vice-versa. A changing magnetic field creates a changing electrical field which are orthogonal (perpedicular) top each other: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...avecon.html#c1 Then I read about mag-loops having better RX noise immunity than normal antennas because they react to magnetic fields, whilst man-made noise occurs mostly on electrical fields. ?????? Sounds like a load of bullsh*t to me. Assuming the man-made noise is still a propagating EM wave, how can they not have an electric field? If both fields go together, how can noise be greater in the electrical field than in the magnetic one? Does that mean that you can effectively produce one without the other? Taking it further, if you can _receive_ one while rejecting the other, then, by the reciprocity law, you should be able to produce one without the other. What is (where am I) wrong? EA3FYA - Toni I think you are correct to question this claim. Slick |
Dr. Slick wrote:
Sounds like a load of bullsh*t to me. Assuming the man-made noise is still a propagating EM wave, how can they not have an electric field? The basic question is probably: Does an incoming EM wave couple more of its magnetic field than its electric field into a small loop (magnetic) antenna? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
In a free-space field far from any antennas, the ratio of electrical
to magnetic fields, for time-varying fields, is always the same, so in such a field, just as you say, there is no way to separate "man-made noise" from something that we hope might have more information than the noise in it. (But avoid American telecasts when making this comparison...) However, near the source of the man-made noise, the ratio is likely to be much higher (more electric than magnetic), and it's in that near-field area where the loop may do you some good. That tends to mean that the rejection will be best at low frequencies, typically medium-wave (AM domestic broadcast band) and lower. In general, in the near field of any antenna, you will see E/M ratios that are significantly different from the far-field ratio. To take advantage of the possible man-made noise rejection, the receiving loop must be properly designed and constructed, and of course the noise must indeed be maily electric-field at your location. Cheers, Tom Toni wrote in message . .. Hi, I have always been taught that electrical and magnetic RF fields went always together. You couldn't produce one without the other and vice-versa. Then I read about mag-loops having better RX noise immunity than normal antennas because they react to magnetic fields, whilst man-made noise occurs mostly on electrical fields. ?????? If both fields go together, how can noise be greater in the electrical field than in the magnetic one? Does that mean that you can effectively produce one without the other? Taking it further, if you can _receive_ one while rejecting the other, then, by the reciprocity law, you should be able to produce one without the other. What is (where am I) wrong? EA3FYA - Toni |
Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Dr. Slick wrote: Sounds like a load of bullsh*t to me. Assuming the man-made noise is still a propagating EM wave, how can they not have an electric field? The basic question is probably: Does an incoming EM wave couple more of its magnetic field than its electric field into a small loop (magnetic) antenna? Well i found this site: http://home.datacomm.ch/hb9abx/loop1-e.htm Which says that the loop antenna will perform better than a dipole when close to the ground plane. But this doesn't prove that man-made noise doesn't have an electric field component. S. |
Dr. Slick wrote:
Which says that the loop antenna will perform better than a dipole when close to the ground plane. But this doesn't prove that man-made noise doesn't have an electric field component. Isn't it supposed to be just the opposite? - the local noise has a high E-field component and a low H-field component? -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
Cecil Moore wrote in message ...
Dr. Slick wrote: Which says that the loop antenna will perform better than a dipole when close to the ground plane. But this doesn't prove that man-made noise doesn't have an electric field component. Isn't it supposed to be just the opposite? - the local noise has a high E-field component and a low H-field component? I suppose that's what the original poster claims. This seems to have more to do with polarization than whether or not man-made noise has a stronger E-field component in the near field. S. |
Ok, so trying to summarize your answers, it seems that
- Electric and Magnetic fields, effectively, go together, but their ratio may vary, especially at the antenna's near field. - Cecil Moore says in free space this ratio is the 377 ohms characteristic impedance. I don't know how to mathematically check this, but seems reasonable to me. - It is clear that polarization is an important factor in rejecting noise. I never doubted that. So, apparently, it would be clear that - a reception system capable of discriminating electric/magnetic fields should be able to reduce unwanted noise from near sources and -adding the capability to discriminate different polarizations would also help with noise from both near and far sources. Correct? 73, EA3FYA - Toni |
Toni wrote:
Ok, so trying to summarize your answers, it seems that - Electric and Magnetic fields, effectively, go together, but their ratio may vary, especially at the antenna's near field. - Cecil Moore says in free space this ratio is the 377 ohms characteristic impedance. I don't know how to mathematically check this, but seems reasonable to me. SNIP Zo = SQRT[u/e] where u = permeability of free space where e = permittivity of free space |
Toni wrote:
"Then I read about mag-loops having better RX noise immunity than normal antennas because they react to magnetic fields, whilst man-made noise occurs mostly on electric fields." A small loop requires high capacitance for resonance. Thus it has a narrow-band response and this provides rejection of off-resonance interference in addition to directional rejection of energy which is not in the plane of the loop. Read about small loop antennas (mag-loops) on page 7-24 of ON4UN`s "Low-Band DXing". Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI |
Your summary seems reasonable, though I'd add one more thing. I
didn't mention the polarization in my first post, to keep things simple. And I didn't mention that you can discriminate also based on direction of propagation. So a highly directional Yagi or parabolic reflector antenna or such can greatly enhance the signal/noise ratio, if the noise is not coming all from the same direction as the signal. And if the noise is coming from only one direction, it's possible to put that direction in the null of a simple antenna with a dipole or a cardiod pattern, such as an electrical dipole or a loop (magnetic dipole). With regard to 377 ohms, it falls nicely out of the physical constants for freespace and Maxwell's equations. If you were embedded in a large block of polyethylene, however, you would see a different ratio, just as the impedance of a coaxial line changes if you change its dielectric from air to polyethylene. About polarization: that works well for signals in freespace. But when you are close to a perfectly conducting plane, the electric field is constrained to be perpendicular to the plane at the surface of the plane. Though it's not a perfect conductor, the surface of the earth tends to keep the electric field vertical in the region where we'd generally put our medium-wave and long-wave antennas...that is, within a fraction of a wavelength of the earth. That's why it's important for a loop antenna to have symmetry about a vertical plane: the so-called "shielded loop" should have its gap at the top (or the bottom, but it's usually easier to have it at the top). This is all explained nicely in King, Mimno and Wing, "Transmission Lines, Antennas and Waveguides." The loop antenna explanation in Johnson and Jasik is also quite reasonable. (There's more to be said about EM wave polarization and the earth, and I suppose others will pipe up and say much of it...) Cheers, Tom Toni wrote in message . .. Ok, so trying to summarize your answers, it seems that - Electric and Magnetic fields, effectively, go together, but their ratio may vary, especially at the antenna's near field. - Cecil Moore says in free space this ratio is the 377 ohms characteristic impedance. I don't know how to mathematically check this, but seems reasonable to me. - It is clear that polarization is an important factor in rejecting noise. I never doubted that. So, apparently, it would be clear that - a reception system capable of discriminating electric/magnetic fields should be able to reduce unwanted noise from near sources and -adding the capability to discriminate different polarizations would also help with noise from both near and far sources. Correct? 73, EA3FYA - Toni |
Hi, I have always been taught that electrical and magnetic RF fields went always together. You couldn't produce one without the other and vice-versa. Then I read about mag-loops having better RX noise immunity than normal antennas because they react to magnetic fields, whilst man-made noise occurs mostly on electrical fields. ?????? If both fields go together, how can noise be greater in the electrical field than in the magnetic one? Does that mean that you can effectively produce one without the other? Taking it further, if you can _receive_ one while rejecting the other, then, by the reciprocity law, you should be able to produce one without the other. What is (where am I) wrong? EA3FYA - Toni Hi Toni, The Magnetic field near a magnetic loop is stronger than the Electric field. A few meters away from the loop the magnetic field and electric field produced by the antenna get more equal. The antenna is less sensitive to pick up man made noise that is mostly produced in the electric field and often comes from the building close to your antenna. But also noise from industrial areas and other sources can cause trouble. An other thing is the high selectivity of the magnetic loop. It acts as a filter and suppresses unwanted signals dramatically. I have quite some information and pictures on my homepage about magnetic loops in practice and some technical explanations about how they work. I have several loops working here. 73, Norbert (PA7NR) http://www.qsl.net/pa7nr/index.html |
En Norbert va escriure en Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:40:56 +0100:
I have several loops working here. 73, Norbert (PA7NR) http://www.qsl.net/pa7nr/index.html Very interesting, thanks. Would you know if I3VHF has a web page? I have tried googling for it with no luck. 73, EA3FYA - Toni |
I have several loops working here. 73, Norbert (PA7NR) http://www.qsl.net/pa7nr/index.html Very interesting, thanks. Would you know if I3VHF has a web page? I have tried googling for it with no luck. 73, EA3FYA - Toni Toni, The internetsite of I3VHF is: http://script.dan.it/mazzoni/ One of the resellers is the Wimo company in Germany: http://www.wimo.de check for HF antennas, magnetic loops. They have an interesting page about this antenna. 73, Norbert (PA7NR) http://www.qsl.net/pa7nr/index.html |
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