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Radiation patterns and loss of antennas operated well below resonance
"Richard Clark" wrote in message
news So, in commemoration of that sort of criteria, what do you mean by ...don't take up a lot of space. I'm liking panel-type antennas that are on the order of, oh, say, 0.2\lambda by 0.2\lamba by perhaps .05\lambda or less. So electrically small, but not super-electrically small. :-) |
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Radiation patterns and loss of antennas operated well below resonance
Joel Koltner wrote:
"Richard Clark" wrote in message news So, in commemoration of that sort of criteria, what do you mean by ...don't take up a lot of space. I'm liking panel-type antennas that are on the order of, oh, say, 0.2\lambda by 0.2\lamba by perhaps .05\lambda or less. So electrically small, but not super-electrically small. :-) Considering a dipole is 0.5 lambda by 0.01 lambda, getting a factor of 2.5 smaller is easy. (that is, you want 40cm by 40cm or so) A simple short dipole with capacity hats and inductive loading will get you there quite nicely. Imagine a "I" with the feedpoint at the middle, on a piece of FR-4 or G-10 (epsilon about 2). make it, say, 30x30 cm. You could also make the dipole diagonal across the square, and have the "capacity hats" be along the edge. You could fool with NEC for a bit and get pretty close. Or, do what I'd do.. get yourself a piece of suitable insulating substrate (a plastic cutting board or piece of acrylic window pane) and some copper foil tape. Lay it down, measure it with an antenna analyzer or similar, and start adjusting. I've built more than one antenna like this using copper foil tape on paper or plastic sheets. |
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