[Antennas] Modeling Help Requested for 2 FD antenna ideas
W3HKK at aol.com
W3HKK at aol.com
Fri May 13 23:57:26 EDT 2005
Im looking for an 80M antenna to give me radiation in the 30-60 degree range
for field day, but the max antenna ht will only be around 35-40 ft.
Two thoughts come to mind:
1. an elongated tilted rectangular loop 90 ft on top and bottom and 40
ft on each side. the loop would be tilted at 45 degrees to get the bottom
wire about 10 ft off the ground. My questions are: what would be the max
radiation angle and would it favor the direction of the slope or away from
it? Would it perform best fed in the center or at a corner, for FD
purposes...ie for most of the US on 80M.
Also, how would it perform on 40M? for FD purposes.
2. An 80m bob-tail curtain with three qtr wave vertical elements suspended
from two half wave segments at both ends and the middle. But since an 80M
bobtail is 66 ft long vertically and my max support ht is 35-40 ft, I
would have to tilt the vertical elements at a 45 degree angle. So we have a 45
degree tilted bobtail curtain, in effect.
Same questions as above. What is the max radiation angle and which way
does it favor. A conventional BTC with 3 vertical elements radiates both
perpendicular to and in the plane of the antenna in a clover leaf pattern. but
at angles under 30 degrees. Im hoping the tilting would raise the max lobe
to a more acceptable 45-60 degree range. The antenna is a direct feed into
one corner with 52 ohm coax and yields a 1:1 swr at resonance.
Can anyone help me? thanks
de Bob W3HKK
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