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Re: LF: VK1OD's analysis of the MiniWhip antenna

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Subject: Re: LF: VK1OD's analysis of the MiniWhip antenna
From: "Graham" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:48:48 +0100
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From: "Roelof Bakker" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2013 2:09 PM
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Subject: Re: LF: VK1OD's analysis of the MiniWhip antenna

Hello all,

Further to this discussion, I have done the ultimate test to demonstrate that an active whip antenna with a 1 meter long whip behaves as a capacitance at LF.

For the test I used the ground wave carrier of semi local NDB ONO at 399.5 kHz. As it is the only station at that frequency the carrier level is very stable at daytime.
The distance is 59 km, which excludes probably all skywave propagation.

The antenna was mounted vertical and the carrier of ONO produced a signal level of -69.1 dBm as received with a PERSEUS SDR.

Next the antenna was mounted horizontal at the same height as the bottom of the vertical mount.
This produce a signal level of -72.0 dBm.

I reasoned that the mean height of the 1 meter long antenna when mounted vertical is 50 cm higher. So the antenna was then mounted horizontal 50 cm higher from its previous position. This produced a signal level of -69.9 dBm, close to the value measured when mounted vertical.

The main point however, is that a horizontal polarized antenna should NOT receive a vertical polarized ground wave signal at (almost) the same strength.

So at LF, there is nothing gained in using a whip instead of a small piece of copper clad PCB.

Comments are much appreciated!

Best regards,
Roelof Bakker, pa0rdt



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