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I've uploaded two more articles to my web site:
"Antenna Feed Lines for Portable Use", from Technical Correspondence, QST, Feb. 1992. This includes measurements I made of 300 ohm twinlead which showed that it can become very lossy when wet. http://eznec.com/Amateur/Articles/Po...Feed_Lines.pdf. "The Simplest Phased Array Feed System - That Works", from the ARRL Antenna Compendium, Vol. 2. If you simply cut "phasing lines" to electrical lengths equaling the delay between elements in a phased array, you won't usually get anywhere near the phase delay you expect. You'll also get unequal element currents. The reasons for this are explained in Chapter 8 of the ARRL Antenna Book, and briefly in this article. The article shows how "phasing line" lengths which *do* work can be calculated, and new program Simpfeed (http://eznec.com/Amateur/Articles/SimpfeedZip.exe) does the calculations for you. Roy Lewallen, W7EL |
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