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- Path: sparky!uunet!zds-ux!bjstaff
- From: bjstaff@zds-ux.UUCP (Brad Staff)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb
- Subject: Re: Basic Advice
- Message-ID: <694@zds-ux.UUCP>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 04:51:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.154530.4633@erenj.com> <1992Nov14.012137.6544@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Zenith Data Systems
- Lines: 47
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- Bryan D. Boyle writes:
- >>white fibreglass (shakespeare also makes great fishing rods-really!)
- >>coaxial, no radials, about 18' total length. so-239 at one end,
- >>and a metal "mounting area" at the lower end. Rated to handle only
- >>about 25W, and exhibits reasonable vswr over the 40 channels-not the
- >>most broadband antenna, but a 20-year-old design that works reasonably
- >>well..
-
- Bill Nelson writes:
- >If it has no ground radials, then it is sensitive to mounting height.
- >The radiation impedance changes drastically, from a few ohms to several
- >hundred ohms.
- >
- >That would be one way of minimizing the SWR - mount it at the height that
- >gives the best SWR at midband.
- >
- >I personally would use an antenna with radials, or mount the antenna at
- >ground level and install my own radial system.
-
- Sounds like it might be a vertical half-wave dipole. Disclaimer: I have
- never owned one of these, but I do own a vertical quarter-wave monopole.
- :-)
-
- Vertical half-wave dipoles aren't supposed to be terribly sensitive to
- height above the ground. On page 3-11 of The ARRL Antenna Book (16th
- Edition), there is a graph of "Height of center of vertical half-wave in
- wavelengths" vs. "Radiation resistance in ohms". Here are some numbers
- derived from that graph:
-
- .25 wavelengths ~100 ohms
- .35 wavelengths ~80 ohms
- .45 wavelengths ~70 ohms
- .55 wavelengths ~70 ohms
- .65 wavelengths ~73 ohms
- .75 wavelengths ~75 ohms
-
- I'll have to take a look at the effect of using radials on a vertical
- half-wave dipole.
-
- Regards,
-
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