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Elevated vs buried radials
Richard Fry wrote in
: On Oct 1, 12:45 am, Owen Duffy wrote: .... Using NEC-4 to incorporate buried (or elevated) radials into the model should show groundwave fields within 1 km of the monopole that are very close to the theoretical maximum for the applied power when radiated along a perfect ground plane, if the model is optimal, and accurate. It may do, I can not comment. My interest is for an antenna for sky wave path, and I have not explored ground wave performance. In the cases of 32 buried radials and three elevated radials, the patterns are similar, efficiencies are similar, and maximum gain is similar. Reducing the number of buried radials degrades its performance significantly. The elevated radials configuration allows a shortened radiator with capacity hat with negligible degradation in performance. I haven't modelled the same thing over buried radials, but I expect performance degradation would be significantly worse. Owen |
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Elevated vs buried radials
On Oct 1, 3:02*pm, Owen Duffy wrote:
Richard Fry wrote: Using NEC-4 to incorporate buried (or elevated) radials into the model should show groundwave fields within 1 km of the monopole that are very close to the theoretical maximum for the applied power when radiated along a perfect ground plane, if the model is optimal, and accurate. It may do, I can not comment. My interest is for an antenna for sky wave path, and I have not explored ground wave performance. Just to point out that for vertical monopole heights of 5/8-lambda and less, the peak elevation plane relative field (E / E max) _always_ occurs in the horizontal plane, regardless of the r-f losses in the buried radial system or counterpoise wires they are driven against, and the conductivity of the earth in which those radial wires are buried, or above which they are elevated. IOW, the relative field actually "launched" at all angles above the horizontal plane from such antenna systems _always_ is LESS than that in the horizontal plane. The reason for this is related to the r-f current distribution, and its relative phase along the lengths of those monopoles. NEC analyses showing low to zero relative field in the horizontal plane being launched by a monopole of 5/8-lambda height and less and regardless of the r-f ground they are driven against need to be understood in due context. The link next below leads to further development of this ... http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h8...at_Compare.gif The longest, great-circle, single-hop, skywave paths are related to the relative fields launched by a monopole system at elevation angles of less than ten degrees (see Figure 55 in the link below) -- where a NEC analysis may show very low relative field. But if such low relative fields really were true for the fields actually launched by such monopoles, then the nighttime skywave coverage of MW AM broadcast stations would be much different than is shown by real-world experience (and applicable theory). http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h8...Comparison.gif RF |
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