[HCARC] Curious question

[Bob Richie]

There are designs for running "radials" under dipoles. Try it and see. My guess is you will get more results by adjusting the RF gain. I have a vertical and a dipole and sometimes switch back and forth between the two then select the one that give best results at the time. I built a dipole that was fed with coax and worked five bands with it one day a couple of years ago. Any working transceiver with any antenna will work better than no receiver and no antenna. The real goal of ham radio is to get on the air. You'll never have a perfect station so just get started. You will get a bigger thrill out of having someone come back to your CQ on any antenna than just talking about minor tweaks to systems that are not perfect.
 
Bob
K5YB
Kerrville, TX 78028


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 From: Gary and Arlene Johnson <qltfnish at omniglobal.net>
To: hcarc at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:00 AM
Subject: [HCARC] Curious question
 
"Typically they are not even 
symetrical: one end will be higher than the other, one end may be near a 
building or in trees, paret of the dipole may run over a driveway which has 
steel mat buried in the concrete, etc.  The typical dipole as installed by 
hams is not balanced.  Many of the dipoles I've seen are not even in a 
straight line."

A curious question about Dipole antennas from the above portion of a question on Baluns/Ununs:    What would happen if one were to run concrete reinforcement mat that is 8 feet wide and 20 feet long under the entire length of a dipole that was cut for 40 or 80 or 20 meters suspended approx 40 feet above the ground??  The mat could be layed either with the 8 foot or the 20 foot perpendicular to the antenna.

Gary J
N5"BAA"


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