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Anybody following the Dallas Files
Hi Guys,
I'm looking over the files at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedallasfiles/ These antennas are mostly for the AMBC band. The author doesn't allow discussion on the site, I wonder if anyone else has viewed these files and has interest in the antennas and wants a discussion group. Mikek |
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:42:16 -0500, amdx wrote:
Hi Guys, I'm looking over the files at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedallasfiles/ These antennas are mostly for the AMBC band. The author doesn't allow discussion on the site, I wonder if anyone else has viewed these files and has interest in the antennas and wants a discussion group. Mikek Hi Mike, Not much to recommend it. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On 7/13/2011 7:35 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:42:16 -0500, wrote: Hi Guys, I'm looking over the files at; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedallasfiles/ These antennas are mostly for the AMBC band. The author doesn't allow discussion on the site, I wonder if anyone else has viewed these files and has interest in the antennas and wants a discussion group. Mikek Hi Mike, Not much to recommend it. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Do you mean you don't have an interest in the subject or do you mean you have a better antenna for the AMBC band? If you have a better antenna, let me know, I'm ready to start building. Ideally I want to rotate a flashlight beam... but I'll settle for rotating a wide aperture null. Mikek |
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:09:02 -0500, amdx wrote:
Do you mean you don't have an interest in the subject or do you mean you have a better antenna for the AMBC band? If you have a better antenna, let me know, I'm ready to start building. Ideally I want to rotate a flashlight beam... but I'll settle for rotating a wide aperture null. Mikek Hi Mike, The subject is Dallas Files, right? What does that mean? I've no interest in playing games with the author who refuses to engage in dialog simply to access files of unknown content. Apparently given the dearth of participation, neither does anyone else. With the absence of discussion at the author's site, there is no interest there either. Now, if you care to describe what you have come to learn, that is another matter. I presume by implication alone that this is about small, beam stearable, receive-only antennas. Unfortunately, there's a lot left unsaid. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On 7/14/2011 6:59 PM, Richard Clark wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:09:02 -0500, wrote: Do you mean you don't have an interest in the subject or do you mean you have a better antenna for the AMBC band? If you have a better antenna, let me know, I'm ready to start building. Ideally I want to rotate a flashlight beam... but I'll settle for rotating a wide aperture null. Mikek Hi Mike, The subject is Dallas Files, right? What does that mean? I've no interest in playing games with the author who refuses to engage in dialog simply to access files of unknown content. Apparently given the dearth of participation, neither does anyone else. With the absence of discussion at the author's site, there is no interest there either. Now, if you care to describe what you have come to learn, that is another matter. I presume by implication alone that this is about small, beam stearable, receive-only antennas. Unfortunately, there's a lot left unsaid. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Hi Richard, Ya, the author has no interest in engaging, he just posts what he has learned. The site was recently moved to Yahoo and is only about 2 months old. As for the absence of discussion on the site, it's not allowed, so that is hardly an indicator. Yes, I'm looking a steerable receive only arrays for the AM broadcast band. Myself, I want one that will fit on a 150ft lot. Sounds like you didn't look at the site so "what is left unsaid." Thanks, Mikek |
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On 7/14/2011 7:31 PM, amdx wrote:
On 7/14/2011 6:59 PM, Richard Clark wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:09:02 -0500, wrote: Do you mean you don't have an interest in the subject or do you mean you have a better antenna for the AMBC band? If you have a better antenna, let me know, I'm ready to start building. Ideally I want to rotate a flashlight beam... but I'll settle for rotating a wide aperture null. Mikek Hi Mike, The subject is Dallas Files, right? What does that mean? I've no interest in playing games with the author who refuses to engage in dialog simply to access files of unknown content. Apparently given the dearth of participation, neither does anyone else. With the absence of discussion at the author's site, there is no interest there either. Now, if you care to describe what you have come to learn, that is another matter. I presume by implication alone that this is about small, beam stearable, receive-only antennas. Unfortunately, there's a lot left unsaid. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Hi Richard, Ya, the author has no interest in engaging, he just posts what he has learned. The site was recently moved to Yahoo and is only about 2 months old. As for the absence of discussion on the site, it's not allowed, so that is hardly an indicator. Yes, I'm looking a steerable receive only arrays for the AM broadcast band. Myself, I want one that will fit on a 150ft lot. Sounds like you didn't look at the site so "what is left unsaid." Thanks, Mikek I don't know what you found there, Mikek, but I have see nothing concerning antennas. |
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On 7/14/2011 7:34 PM, John S wrote:
On 7/14/2011 7:31 PM, amdx wrote: On 7/14/2011 6:59 PM, Richard Clark wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:09:02 -0500, wrote: Do you mean you don't have an interest in the subject or do you mean you have a better antenna for the AMBC band? If you have a better antenna, let me know, I'm ready to start building. Ideally I want to rotate a flashlight beam... but I'll settle for rotating a wide aperture null. Mikek Hi Mike, The subject is Dallas Files, right? What does that mean? I've no interest in playing games with the author who refuses to engage in dialog simply to access files of unknown content. Apparently given the dearth of participation, neither does anyone else. With the absence of discussion at the author's site, there is no interest there either. Now, if you care to describe what you have come to learn, that is another matter. I presume by implication alone that this is about small, beam stearable, receive-only antennas. Unfortunately, there's a lot left unsaid. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC Hi Richard, Ya, the author has no interest in engaging, he just posts what he has learned. The site was recently moved to Yahoo and is only about 2 months old. As for the absence of discussion on the site, it's not allowed, so that is hardly an indicator. Yes, I'm looking a steerable receive only arrays for the AM broadcast band. Myself, I want one that will fit on a 150ft lot. Sounds like you didn't look at the site so "what is left unsaid." Thanks, Mikek I don't know what you found there, Mikek, but I have see nothing concerning antennas. I think you need to join, to see the 14 antenna files (pdfs) Some of the other files are Small Signal amplifiers, Receivers and Theory. Mikek |
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:31:17 -0500, amdx wrote:
Sounds like you didn't look at the site so "what is left unsaid." Hi Mike, As I said, nothing there but a vague suggestion of the topic heavily cloaked in an admonition. Yes, I'm looking a steerable receive only arrays for the AM broadcast band. Myself, I want one that will fit on a 150ft lot. Is that 150' on a side? 150' long? There are any number of ways to construct variable delay lines. A little bit of computer control will pull their outputs together to form beam steering. Planting the antennas is simple and allows for testing of any of those many ways to construct variable delay lines. Those designs themselves have various trade-offs for issues you need to prioritize and pronounce. The antennas don't need to be in any particular, regular pattern as that would be accommodated by computer alignment. If you choose to go manual steering, with analog variable delay line designs; then, yes, having a regular pattern of element layout would reduce complexity. How many antenna elements? At least three, I would suspect. From there on it is a matter of how well you can resolve the various delay angles for steering a broad beam angle. Increase the number of elements and the beam angle gets progressively tighter. You don't say how much directionality you want, but it will be intimately correlated with this count. The delay lines will have to be tolerant of mutual coupling - better yet, they should not perturb the existing mutual coupling at all. Good isolation amplifiers between each element and its delay line before going to a summing amplifier would seem a solution. Tracking between delay lines will affect beam width. More elements will require tighter tracking. Then there is something simpler, an Adcock Antenna and the Bellini Tosi Antenna (about 100 years old, but does the job too). There is the Krug (Wullenweber) antenna. They are all symmetrical designs that simplified the manual, analog delay lines design. In the end, they all comprise the same fundamentals. If you cannot support a symmetrical design, that is your primary limiting factor. If you can digitize the delay lines, then symmetry can be synthesized and the antennas can be placed physically anywhere limited only by the resolution of digital sampling rate. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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On 7/15/2011 1:20 AM, Richard Clark wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:31:17 -0500, wrote: Sounds like you didn't look at the site so "what is left unsaid." Hi Mike, As I said, nothing there but a vague suggestion of the topic heavily cloaked in an admonition. You cast dispersions, but haven't looked at any of the antenna systems. Look at just one and see if you any thoughts. Look at "Hi Z PPL Loop And Flag Arrays.pdf" it's the 5th file down on the antennas page. Yes, I'm looking a steerable receive only arrays for the AM broadcast band. Myself, I want one that will fit on a 150ft lot. Is that 150' on a side? 150' long? There are any number of ways to construct variable delay lines. A little bit of computer control will pull their outputs together to form beam steering. Are you aware that steering the null is very important for AM band dxing? Mikek |
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:32:20 -0700, "Sal" wrote:
am I special? ;-) Yes, as your name is now among the select in the scrolls of the "Dallas Files." |
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