Horizontal Omni Antenna
 

Does anyone know of any pointers on how to construct a horizontal omni
antenna in the 900Mhz to 5.8Ghz? Not wide band like that just something
that works somewhere in there. Just real curious how horizontal omnis work
and would like to experiment with one somewhere in that band.

Matt

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:27:55 -0500, "Matt"
wrote:
Does anyone know of any pointers on how to construct a horizontal omni
antenna in the 900Mhz to 5.8Ghz?

Hi Matt,

Folded Dipole, bent into a circle or square with care not to bring the
opposite ends into contact. The feed point half should have a thinner
thickness than the folded back half.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Hi Matt

I have done some work with three leaf clovers, both singly and stacked.
probably not real effective/easy to build on the higher freqs tho..

Stacking can help some of the nulls that appear.

Cheers Bob VK2YQA


Matt wrote:
Does anyone know of any pointers on how to construct a horizontal omni
antenna in the 900Mhz to 5.8Ghz? Not wide band like that just something
that works somewhere in there. Just real curious how horizontal omnis work
and would like to experiment with one somewhere in that band.

Matt

Matt wrote:
: Does anyone know of any pointers on how to construct a horizontal omni
: antenna in the 900Mhz to 5.8Ghz? Not wide band like that just something
: that works somewhere in there. Just real curious how horizontal omnis work
: and would like to experiment with one somewhere in that band.

Now and then I see an antenna that looks like a folded dipole,
bent into an S shape. I believe these are for omnidirectional
FM broadcast reception. Does anyone know if these are good
for 2-meter SSB?

David Winfrey
KB3ICR

try a folded dipole turnstile

"Matt" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know of any pointers on how to construct a horizontal omni
antenna in the 900Mhz to 5.8Ghz? Not wide band like that just something
that works somewhere in there. Just real curious how horizontal omnis
work
and would like to experiment with one somewhere in that band.

Matt




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