Re: LF: Re: "T" versus "L"aerial

["Dick Rollema" <d.w.rollema@freeler.nl>]

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Bob, ZL2AC wrote:


> Dick
> PA0SE,
>  
> Fine on the test result.  As you
> stated, the tested T has twice the amount of top loading wire (2x 20
> metres) than the L (1x 20 metres).
>  
> It would be interesting to know if a T
> is better than an L for constant length top loading i.e. what the
> difference is if the upwire joins at the end or the middle of the
> horizontal top wire (theory suggests the T is better as there is minimal
> horizontally polarised component).
>  
> Bob,  I cannot answer your
> question by a practical experiment but used computer simulation instead
> by means of K6STI's program Antenna
> Optimizer.

I modeled two antennas with a vertical element of 20m.  One an
Inverted L-antenna with a horizontal top load wire of 40m. The other a
T-antenna with a top load of 2 x 20m.
Both antennas  without losses, over perfect ground and fed with
1kW.

At a distance of 10km (so well outside the near field region) and over
perfect ground both antennas produced a vertically polarised field of
29.9mV/m. The horizontally polarised field was zero; but this is to be
expected because over a perfect conducting ground a horizontal field
component cannot exist.

73, Dick, PA0SE 

Original message:

To: LF-Group

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 3:09 AM

Subject: LF: "T" versus "L"aerial

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Further to my e-mail of 26 December I measured the field strength as radiated by the aerial in

Inverted L-configuration. From this I found EMRP = 57 milliwatt.

This confirms the benificial effect of top loading. The T-aerial radiated 140 milliwatt.

So going from a single 20m top load wire for the "L" to 2 x 20m for the "T" resulted in an improvement by a factor 2.46 (3.9dB) in radiated power.

The vertical part of the "T" consisted of an open wire feedline of 11m with the two wires connected in parallel in the attic shack. For the "L" one of the feedline wires was removed. I assume this did not appreciably affect the EMRP.

73, Dick, PA0SE