Re: Topband: 8 Circle question

2022-02-07 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
On 2022-02-07 4:45 PM, Jim Miller wrote: > I was doing the YCCC version which uses 9 antennas to form a 3 element > endfire in each direction. The 9 circle (3 element endfire) uses approximately 1:2:1 element "drive". Removing one of the end elements will not yield a "clean" pattern but you

Re: Topband: 8 Circle question

2022-02-07 Thread Jim Miller
I was doing the YCCC version which uses 9 antennas to form a 3 element endfire in each direction. I'm obviously limited in space here... Thanks and sorry for the confusion jim ab3cv On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 4:43 PM wrote: > Jim, > > Which 8 circle version are you referring to?? The HiZ-8 or

Re: Topband: 8 Circle question

2022-02-07 Thread Mike Fatchett
You might consider the 9 circle which uses 3 verticals for each direction.  It might be interesting to model that with missing elements in those directions but the other directions should work just fine. The 8 circle uses 2 pair of phased elements.  It is hard to speculate not know which

Re: Topband: 8 Circle question

2022-02-07 Thread w5zn
Jim, Which 8 circle version are you referring to?? The HiZ-8 or the Broad Side-End Fire (BSEF) 8 vertical array? The HiZ-8 uses all 8 verticals for each direction but the BSEF array only uses 4 verticals for each direction. 73 Joel W5ZN On 2022-02-07 14:38, Jim Miller wrote: I'm looking

Topband: 8 Circle question

2022-02-07 Thread Jim Miller
I'm looking at putting out an 8 circle but three of the antennas on the circumference may need to be seasonally placed since they would be on my neighbor's property. If those three were removed would the remaining 2 elements for each (opposite) direction left in place still produce a cardioid