vrijdag 29 november 2013

Curled vertical antenna for VHF 2, 4 or 6 meter band ( 145, 70, 50 Mhz)

Introduction


Thinking about the construction of a simple lightweight 4 and 6 meterband vertical antenna , I got the idea for this curled, single radial, design.
Testing on 4 meter it appeared to work very well. SWR soon went 1:1. The design has many advantages above a tradional GP.
These GP's always have 3 or 4 radials which are heavy, compared with this design.


Benefits are:

* easy to construct
* very easy to tune for SWR and frequency.
* less material needed
* light weight and small.
* low wind load
* only 0,2 dB less gain then a dipole has.

Disadvantages

*some horizontal signal will come in (although this also might be a benefit..)

Notes for the design:

I was searching for a one radial counterpoise idea. The radial could be straight about 30 degrees from the mast, but that would mean a non symmatric design. Therefor I found this curled radial design. It shouldn't touch the mast; Therefore I placed a PVC support tube at 3 cm from the mast. It can be moved up and down for easy tuning. The radial has to pass the mast on 90 degrees.
Here some pictures of the prototype:



PE Waterpipe as insulator and support for the radiator.
TESTING THE PROTOTYPE
The lower element of the radiator is of 10mm alu and 48 cm long; the upper 60 cm of 8 mm alu. tube. This can be moved up and down.
Total length is 1.01 m.

Changed the 'curl' a bit to concentrate the current more vertical..

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