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John Since I'm a poor reader, I'm not confidant I fully understand your objective. But, a folded monopole (1/4 wave) with a very fat "fed" element and a very thin "grounded" element, with very close spacing will have an input impedance lower that 150 ohms at *resonance*. It occurrs to me that you already know that. Jerry. "The other John Smith" wrote in message nk.net... Good evening, Gentlemen. A thought experiment: Start with a regular 1/4-wave monopole ground plane. The literature says it looks like half the value of a dipole, about 35 Ohms, when resonant. It would be nice to have the resistance at the terminals be a bit higher, and I very much value a grounded element anyway, so let's let it evolve into a folded monopole. The literature says it should now have about 4 times the terminal resistance of the original 1/4-wave we started with (about 140 Ohms). Huh. Now it's a bit high. They tell me that shortening the antenna below resonance will lower the resistance and introduce capacitance. But I think I have also seen in the literature that the antenna can be viewed as a transmission line. A shorted portion of parallel conductor transmission line (the folded monopole) less than 1/4-wave long looks inductive. But wait! Which will win? Will the shortness of the antenna look capacitive or will the transmission line dominate and the antenna will look inductive? Even better, is there some choice of the folded section wire diameters and spacing that will give an inductance that will exactly offset the capacitance due to shortness? So, then, is there a folded monopole of such dimensions that the resistance is 50 Ohms (due to being shorter than 1/4 wave) with no terminal reactance (due to the inductive design of the "transmission line" cancelled by the shortness of the antenna's capacitance)? Brain hurts. John, KD5YI |
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"Jerry Martes" wrote in message ... John Since I'm a poor reader, I'm not confidant I fully understand your objective. But, a folded monopole (1/4 wave) with a very fat "fed" element and a very thin "grounded" element, with very close spacing will have an input impedance lower that 150 ohms at *resonance*. It occurrs to me that you already know that. Jerry. You're very perceptive, Jerry. How did you come to think I would know that? You are correct, of course. The strange thing is that the graphs depicting that sort of behavior is not in the 18th edition of the ARRL Antenna Handbook (unless I somehow missed them) but they are in the 1977 edition of the Radio Amateur's Handbook. I had hoped to use a single wire formed into a hairpin for the sake of simplicity, but I am tempted to use the different sized conductors nevertheless. I have even chosen a ratio of 4:1 for the diameters. Hmmmm. I wonder how it would work with, say, 1/2 by 1/16 inch metal bar and wire. Or maybe orient two bars of the same size 90 degrees (looking down the long dimension) so that the wide side of the "fat" part sees the narrow edge of the "thin" part. Like this: .-. | | | | .-------. | | | | | | '-------' | | '-' but connected across the top. Actually it could be made from one long bar with a twist at the top where the hairpin occurs. I don't know how to model that, so I'll have to build and try it. The foremost objective is to learn. But, at the end of this particular quest I hope to wind up with a suitably rugged antenna mounted to the top of a remote data gathering device transmitting in the 70 cm band. The sensors will measure temperature, rainfall, soil conductivity, and anything else I decide might be fun to know about. In fact, I plan to put another one down by the county road at the site where it floods. That remote sensor will tell me when the road goes under water so I can take an alternate route rather than having to back the car 1/4 mile to a turn-around spot. So much to do, so little time. Thanks for your reply. John |
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I do have a book with a graph of Zin as a function of diameters and spacing of the folded dipole. But, I dont have any equations. I suspect someone on this news group has knowledge of where to get some math tools for predicting the antenna impedance. I'd be glad to scan the page 16-6 of the 1990 ARRL Handbook for you if it would help. Jerry "The other John Smith" wrote in message ink.net... "Jerry Martes" wrote in message ... John Since I'm a poor reader, I'm not confidant I fully understand your objective. But, a folded monopole (1/4 wave) with a very fat "fed" element and a very thin "grounded" element, with very close spacing will have an input impedance lower that 150 ohms at *resonance*. It occurrs to me that you already know that. Jerry. You're very perceptive, Jerry. How did you come to think I would know that? You are correct, of course. The strange thing is that the graphs depicting that sort of behavior is not in the 18th edition of the ARRL Antenna Handbook (unless I somehow missed them) but they are in the 1977 edition of the Radio Amateur's Handbook. I had hoped to use a single wire formed into a hairpin for the sake of simplicity, but I am tempted to use the different sized conductors nevertheless. I have even chosen a ratio of 4:1 for the diameters. Hmmmm. I wonder how it would work with, say, 1/2 by 1/16 inch metal bar and wire. Or maybe orient two bars of the same size 90 degrees (looking down the long dimension) so that the wide side of the "fat" part sees the narrow edge of the "thin" part. Like this: .-. | | | | .-------. | | | | | | '-------' | | '-' but connected across the top. Actually it could be made from one long bar with a twist at the top where the hairpin occurs. I don't know how to model that, so I'll have to build and try it. The foremost objective is to learn. But, at the end of this particular quest I hope to wind up with a suitably rugged antenna mounted to the top of a remote data gathering device transmitting in the 70 cm band. The sensors will measure temperature, rainfall, soil conductivity, and anything else I decide might be fun to know about. In fact, I plan to put another one down by the county road at the site where it floods. That remote sensor will tell me when the road goes under water so I can take an alternate route rather than having to back the car 1/4 mile to a turn-around spot. So much to do, so little time. Thanks for your reply. John |
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"Jerry Martes" wrote in message ... John I do have a book with a graph of Zin as a function of diameters and spacing of the folded dipole. But, I dont have any equations. I suspect someone on this news group has knowledge of where to get some math tools for predicting the antenna impedance. I'd be glad to scan the page 16-6 of the 1990 ARRL Handbook for you if it would help. Jerry I accept your generous offer and extend my thanks. If anybody else is interested, you could put it on a.b.s.e for all of us. If you find no interest from anybody else, you can email it to me at jocjo_john at yahoo dot com. If I learn anything out of all this, I'll let you know. Thanks again. John |
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