40 m inverted vee question?????
My 40 m reson. iv used to be completely horizontal at 30 ft.
I had to bend one end (while leaving the other horizontal) at about a 45 deg angle to about 10 ft above the ground. The SWR seems to be higher. 1.5:1 at its lowest. I can't remember what it was before but I know it wasn't this high. Will this cause an efficiency problem or any other????? |
Hi Capo:
The Z of an antenna changes with its height above ground. It is not a liner function but follows a curve. There is a chart in all antenna handbooks showing the change with height above ground. Anyway you lowered the average height of your antenna so you changed the Z of the antenna. Lowering the antenna will change the shape of the radiation pattern. It will not change the efficiency of the antenna, if you put a 100 watts in it will radiate 100 watts. -- John Passaneau Penn State University, State College Pa. W3JXP "capo" wrote in message ... My 40 m reson. iv used to be completely horizontal at 30 ft. I had to bend one end (while leaving the other horizontal) at about a 45 deg angle to about 10 ft above the ground. The SWR seems to be higher. 1.5:1 at its lowest. I can't remember what it was before but I know it wasn't this high. Will this cause an efficiency problem or any other????? |
capo wrote:
My 40 m reson. iv used to be completely horizontal at 30 ft. I had to bend one end (while leaving the other horizontal) at about a 45 deg angle to about 10 ft above the ground. The SWR seems to be higher. 1.5:1 at its lowest. I can't remember what it was before but I know it wasn't this high. Will this cause an efficiency problem or any other????? you have lowered the resonance of the system.. you will need to shorten the antenna a bit to bring the swr down.. though 1:5:1 is not that bad. 73 dave kc1di -- RED HAT LINUX 8.0 |
you have lowered the impedance of the antenna, not the resonance, and thus have
a mismatch at the junction of the antenna and the feedline, which causes the swr. You can add a balun, change the impedance of the feedline, or transform it at the transmitter either with an additional piece of coax, or with a tuner. |
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