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A very odd feedline.
I tried to post a mention of a very odd feedline called the "G-line"
Two attempts and google ate both of them. It is a true single conductor UHF feedline. It isn't perfect, but has a low loss. It "leaks" and in some situaiton that is a benifit. See: http://w5jgv.com/1970_tower/tower.htm http://www.broadcast.net/pipermail/radio-tech/2004-February/049867.html I have used the damn things, they can't work, but they do. They work very well. I still don't believe in them. But since they do appear to work I will pretend to believe in them. Before flaming me, so some net research. +"G-line" +"antenna" Terry |
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A very odd feedline.
It is in the Rothammel book too
schreef in bericht ps.com... I tried to post a mention of a very odd feedline called the "G-line" Two attempts and google ate both of them. It is a true single conductor UHF feedline. It isn't perfect, but has a low loss. It "leaks" and in some situaiton that is a benifit. See: http://w5jgv.com/1970_tower/tower.htm http://www.broadcast.net/pipermail/radio-tech/2004-February/049867.html I have used the damn things, they can't work, but they do. They work very well. I still don't believe in them. But since they do appear to work I will pretend to believe in them. Before flaming me, so some net research. +"G-line" +"antenna" Terry |
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A very odd feedline.
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I tried to post a mention of a very odd feedline called the "G-line" Two attempts and google ate both of them. It is a true single conductor UHF feedline. It isn't perfect, but has a low loss. It "leaks" and in some situaiton that is a benifit. In my final year of undergraduate engineering, I did a project for a professor on a surface wave transmission line. While my project was not a stellar success, it was interesting reserach. One application he had in mind was to run a line beside a railway track and use time domain reflectometry to track the location of trains. The idea was that the large train body would affect the dielectric and electrostatic environment near the line, cause greater leakage and the radiation would be reflected back onto the line. A surface wave transmission line is a waveguide, the complement of a cylindrically enclosed waveguide. Tom |
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A very odd feedline.
Tom Holden wrote: wrote in message I tried to post a mention of a very odd feedline called the "G-line" Two attempts and google ate both of them. It is a true single conductor UHF feedline. It isn't perfect, but has a low loss. It "leaks" and in some situaiton that is a benifit. In my final year of undergraduate engineering, I did a project for a professor on a surface wave transmission line. While my project was not a stellar success, it was interesting reserach. One application he had in mind was to run a line beside a railway track and use time domain reflectometry to track the location of trains. The idea was that the large train body would affect the dielectric and electrostatic environment near the line, cause greater leakage and the radiation would be reflected back onto the line. A surface wave transmission line is a waveguide, the complement of a cylindrically enclosed waveguide. Tom ------------------------------------------------ I installed a canadian desinged/built intrussion system that used G-line instead of "leaky coax". A pulse of microwave RF was sent down the line and like RADAR, anything man sized that was within ~20' gave a sharp/distinct return. The analog system could be tuned to ingore coyotes and dear. Worked very well. A funny aspect of G-lines is that you can use aluminium wire. And after the wire has ozidesed some more it works better. I installed a 1000' Gline run for a friend on the back side of a hill that blocked TV from Lexington. It worked OK when installed, and got much better after about 2 weeks. The losses at the start were comparable to low loss ladder line. But after the 2 weeks the losses went down. UHF channels of interest where 18, 27, 36, 46, and 52. Still working as of last weekend. We had to change the "feed line" after 15+ years. You do have to keep trees/brush from growing into the "near field". He uses a bush hog twice a year to keep the path clear. We tried to use it for FM, it did work, but the launchers got too big and unwieldy. One study I read suggested a "planer wave front" is formed between the conductor and an insulating layer. I did try a 100' run with bar copper wire and it barely worked. I still don't believe G-line can work, but I will continue to pretend it does. Did you get that link of a synchronous detector I sent you? The hotmail account is dead. I had to give up on trying to fight the spam. After getting several 100 hits a day I deciced it just wasn't worth it. Terry |
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