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Question about the uses for an antenna design
Are the differences physical, electrical or both?
I must be picturing the wrong setup if I'm conflating your design with the Lindendblad. You've mentioned the 137MHz Wefax antenna, and that one's not a concept... can you pass along some construction details so I can get a clear picture of it? Dan |
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Question about the uses for an antenna design
wrote in message ups.com... Are the differences physical, electrical or both? I must be picturing the wrong setup if I'm conflating your design with the Lindendblad. You've mentioned the 137MHz Wefax antenna, and that one's not a concept... can you pass along some construction details so I can get a clear picture of it? Dan Hi Dan Yeah, I can show you exactly how I built a Double Cross for receiving NOAA satellite signals. A buddy of mine has chosen to publish everything I send him. http://213.250.83.83/~jerry/index.html There is probably too much data on that site. The excess info and pictures may get confusing. Since you read this "antennas group", I'll assume that you may know as much or more about antennas as I do. I dont claim to know *the best* configuration of the Cross concept for APT reception. I do suggest that four dipoles mounted so they are tilted slightly from vertical and spaced so the diagonal dipoles are about 1/6th wave separated. can be easily fed to provide RHCP toward the horizon and toward zenith. In the web site http://www.amsat.org/amsat/articles/w6shp/lindy.html The Lindenblad is described as an array of four dipoles tilted 30 degrees from Horizontal and spaced 0.3 wave and all fed in phase. The Lindenblad has a deep null straight up. The Double Cross has no null anywhere in the hemisphere. Thanks for the interest in the Cross. If you have any situation where this hemispheric coverage with sensitivity to circular polarization, I'd be interested in helping you design a Double Cross. All the Double Cross antennas I've made seem to work well for receiving signals from the NOAA polar orbiting satellites. Jerry |
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Question about the uses for an antenna design
Jerry,
OK, I'm getting more of an idea of the differences between the Lindy and the Double Cross. Well, I'm not particularly satellite-active right now, but I might have to try one out sometime. Keep up the experimentation... it would be cool to make a NEC model of the thing, but I have EZNEC, currently without circular polarization ability, so I can't do it. I should try the Wefax thing sometime... that's pretty neat. I think I have a TNC that can RX such transmissions. 73, Dan N3OX www.n3ox.net |
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