Re: Topband: elevated 4-square

2013-08-18 Thread Brian Machesney
Jeff, You can also use EZNEC to simulate the effect of the driving point impedance on the array's behavior. It doesn't take too much additional effort to learn how to incorporate lumped elements, transmission lines and transformers into your antenna model. If you have a copy of the most recent ed

Re: Topband: elevated 4-square

2013-08-18 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/15/2013 10:46 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote: The R has got to translate into a drive impedance shift - but I am wondering what the expected impact to the array should be? You're asking exactly the right questions, Jeff. If you're not already using SimSmith, or something like it, it should be th

Topband: elevated 4-square

2013-08-15 Thread Jeff Blaine
What affect is there of vertical *resistance* variations are the common 4-square boxes? N6LF’s QEX article shows quantitatively the performance hit associated with using non-resonant elevated radials. Which is interesting because non-resonant radial lengths reduce the sensitivity of individual