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The commercially available B&W AC3-30 and B&W DS1.8-30 antennas [6] vary from the above to cover 3–30 MHz using a 90 foot length with an 18 inch spacing of the wires. The balun is a 16:1 ratio, thereby transforming the 50 Ω (ohm) coax to an 800 Ω feed at the antenna. The resistor load is also 800 Ω, non-inductive.
Often random wire antennas are also (inaccurately) referred to as long-wire antennas.There is no accepted minimum size, but actual long-wire antennas must be greater than at least a quarter-wavelength ( 1 / 4 λ) or perhaps greater than a half ( 1 / 2 λ) at the frequency the long wire antenna is used for, and even a half-wave may only be considered "long-ish" rather than "truly ...
Homebrew is an amateur radio slang term for home-built, noncommercial radio equipment. [1] Design and construction of equipment from first principles is valued by amateur radio hobbyists, known as "hams", for educational value, and to allow experimentation and development of techniques or levels of performance not readily available as commercial products.
An earth-grounded 4:1 voltage balun may be used to connect the coax to the ladder line, and 1:1 current balun should be used between the coax and the transmitter. [8] Several sources point out that a current balun not only prevents RF interference, but also reduces receive noise.
The monopole antenna is essentially one half of the half-wave dipole, a single 1 / 4 wavelength element with the other side connected to ground or an equivalent ground plane (or counterpoise). Monopoles, which are one-half the size of a dipole, are common for long-wavelength radio signals where a dipole would be impractically large.
A 1 / 4 λ monopole antenna and its ground image together form a 1 / 2 λ dipole that radiates only in the upper half of space. The vertical , Marconi , or monopole antenna is a single-element antenna usually fed at the bottom (with the shield side of its unbalanced transmission line connected to ground).
As can be seen in the above table, for linear antennas shorter than their fundamental resonant length (shorter than 1 / 2 λ for a dipole antenna, 1 / 4 λ for a monopole) the radiation resistance decreases with the square of their length; [24] for loop antennas the change is even more extreme, with sub-resonant loops ...
3 folded dipole. 12 comments. 4 merge with Half wave radiator. 4 comments. 5 Delisted Ga. 2 comments. 6 baluns and stuff.