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- Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary
- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Newsgroups: rec.radio.cb
- Subject: Re: Basic Advice
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.160711.10187@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:07:11 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ke4zv.1992Nov18.160711.10187
- References: <1992Nov17.172700.4865@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Nov17.221521.20881@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- Lines: 31
-
- In article <1992Nov17.221521.20881@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) 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.
- >: >:
- >: >: 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.
- >: >: :-)
- >: >
- >: >Nope. It may be a half-wave vertical, but it is not a half wave dipole.
- >: >It is end fed, not fed in the middle. Look at the sensitivity of end
- >: >fed antennas, you will see that it is high for all lengths.
- >: [deleted]
- >: >
- >: >You don't need radials with a dipole antenna. It would only hurt the
- >: >performance.
- >:
- >: Bill, a halfwave antenna, no matter whether it's fed on an end or in
- >: the middle, needs no radials to act as a current mirror to make up a
- >: "missing" half of the antenna. That's the purpose of radials on a 1/4
- >
- >Isn't that what I said?
-
- Nope. You were saying that it wasn't a dipole, as if that made a difference
- as to whether it needed radials. It doesn't. You also said that the feed
- impedance would vary from a few ohms to a few hundred ohms. That's not
- the behavior of a half wave end fed antenna. The impedance will be much
- higher than that.
-
- Gary KE4ZV
-