[Elecraft] Education please

[Ken Alexander]

This is subject to much correction from people who are smarter than me, but my oversimplified description is that an orthogonal antenna basically consists of three loop antennas oriented in three planes that are at right angles to each other (X, Y and Z axes if you remember your basic geometry).  The antenna are bidirectional in each of those planes.

With some associated electronic wizardry, you can compare the signals received by each antenna and establish the direction (in three-dimensional space) of a given transmitter.  Sort of a method of electronic triangulation.

I don't know how much application it has in ham radio.  I don't recall seeing any ham call signs associated with the documents I read during my Google search!  It looks like most of the uses are industrial.

Hope that gets you started, and like I said, probably subject to some clarification by brainier people.

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS



--- On Fri, 11/12/10, Lee Buller <k0wa at swbell.net> wrote:

From: Lee Buller <k0wa at swbell.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] Education please
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Friday, November 12, 2010, 9:32 AM



What the heck is a orthogonal antenna?  Would someone define it or give an 
example?  I have Googled it but it is all mumbo-jumbo to me.

Lee Buller
K0WA
Still learning after all these years!

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