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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: Basic Advice
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.103738.17183@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Nov18.160711.10187@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 10:37:38 GMT
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- gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- : >: >
- : >: >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.
-
- Hm, I have never seen a half-wave antenna with ground radials. On the other
- hand, most of the 1/4 wave antennas I have seen employ them, or are mounted
- at ground level.
-
- I do not recall if my impedance comment was in regards to a half-wave or
- quarter wave antenna.
-
- Can you even use an end-fed half-wave antenna. I cannot find my old
- Radio Amateur Handbooks - the newer ones have precious little on antenna
- theory, so I have to trust my memory.
-
- Bill
-