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Jack wrote:
I have been following the antenna threads since I started building the KX1.
These experiments are based on that thread, the ARRL Handbook 2004, previous
research into commercial verticals and my own experience.
The goals are to find the best antenna for
I have been following the antenna threads since I started building the KX1.
These experiments are based on that thread, the ARRL Handbook 2004, previous
research into commercial verticals and my own experience.
The goals are to find the best antenna for the KX1 under various operating
conitions.
I have been following the antenna threads since I started building the KX1.
These experiments are based on that thread, the ARRL Handbook 2004, previous
research into commercial verticals and my own experience.
The goals are to find the best antenna for the KX1 under various operating
conitions.
Well, it's probably the Pac-12. Add 1-2 more of those sections to the
part below the coil, use plenty of radials, and try something I saw
someone set up, they just use the 40m coil with a jumper with an E-Z
Hook on it to select turns for higher bands. It's a nice antenna! 73
de Alex NS6Y.
The whole concept of radials is to improve the conductivity path for return
current to the base of the vertical antenna, when the antenna is not a
complete half wave dipole, (and therefore, balanced and a complete radiator
unto itself). You are replacing always lossy (to some degree), earth or
What Stuart says about radials is quite true, but there is another important
reason for a tuned radial (or other ground connection) other than to improve
the efficiency of an end-fed wire.
Consider the end-fed dipole; it's probably the most extreme example of what
I'm talking about. Fed at the
Good points Ron.
I usually call those RF control radials, an RF counterpoise, as sometimes
you can use one cut for each band of concern and run it around the baseboard
of a shack.
I like to think of a radial as an outside wire, and counterpoise as an
insulated inside the shack RF control aid.
I have been following the antenna threads since I started building the KX1.
These experiments are based on that thread, the ARRL Handbook 2004, previous
research into commercial verticals and my own experience.
The goals are to find the best antenna for the KX1 under various operating
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