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Date: | Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:38:36 -0500 |
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Mal,
With all due respect for your undoubted high opinion of your own professional expertise might I suggest that you perhaps enquire as to Andy's credentials before wasting space/time/bandwidth trying to teach his grandmother to suck eggs. 73 de Pat g4gvw From: mal hamilton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:45 Subject: LF: Re: E field active antennas
Try a piece of wire as long and high as possible and an ATU this is superior
to any active antenna or loop for that matter, the loop only helps in a
noisy environment, and even then not always.
G3KEV ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Talbot" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:22 PM Subject: LF: E field active antennas > Having just had to make an active antenna for HF (for gainful > employment-type work, not Am. radio purposes. The commercially made > one we've ordered is on five weeks delivery and it was needed before > yesterday) I was wondering about a helical element. > > As the thing had to be resonably lightweight, I made the antenna > element from copper tape on 15mm plastic water pipe rather than use a > solid copper tube. Just for a bit of novelty I wound the tape in a > helix, but then started wondering if doing that would make any > difference to performance. Normally, helically winding an antenna > (rubber duck type at V/UHF) only serves to distribute loading > inductance into a short antenna to make it resonate - unlikely to > change improve the loss terms at all. But I did wonder if the added > extra inductance, or increased conductor length (not element length - > that is 1.2m) would change the performance significantly from a > straight tube. > > Does anyone have any ideas - food for thought if nothing else? The > base amplifier is one I've used several times before for V/LF up to HF > based around a J310 source follower running at 20mA with bootstrapped > input followed by a 2N5109 emiter follower at Ic = 80mA. I may have > published it way-back-when in the amateur press in the 73kHz days. > Not the best design judging by some of those published in more recent > years, but did mean all the components were to hand for an instant > job. > > Andy G4JNT > www.scrbg.org/g4jnt > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.14/1831 - Release Date: 12/4/2008 9:55 PM |
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