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Re: LF: VLF and SW Fielday Experiment

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Subject: Re: LF: VLF and SW Fielday Experiment
From: "Dick Rollema" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:58:41 +0200
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At 19:40 11-6-03 +0200, you wrote:
Hallo OM's

we are on air at our Fieldday from
Saturday, Jun. 14, 12.00 Mez to Sunday, Jun. 15, 14.00 Mez
from  Phöben, near Berlin with a 4 x 100 meter antenne, designed as a
short wave Quad Antenne. Call is DK0CQ ore DN1VLF.
Special frequencies are 136,72 KHz and 137,72 kHz(QRSS). Output power
may be 1 Watt ERP.

best regards
Klaus


When the antenna is a horizontal quad with sides of 100 metres it will radiate a horizontally polarised signal straight up ("cloud warmer").  This is of no use at LF.

A workable system would be to use the feedline with the two conductors in parallel as a vertical radiator, excited against  a good earth, the quad acting as topload.  It could turn out to be advantageous to put ground wires  on the surface below the quad wires to provide a low-loss path for the antenna currents back to the transmitter.

If the quad is to be erected in a vertical plane please forget this message.

I will be listening for your signal in normal CW.

Good luck!

73, Dick, PA0SE

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