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ANTENTOP- 02- 2003, # 003

J - Antenna for 160,15 and 10(FM) meters

 

 

Figure 4. Frequency response of the matching line in range 1- 2.5 MHz

 

In my case, the antenna for 160 m band had a minimum of SWR at 1875 kHz (about 1.3:1), on the edges of the band SWR increased to 2.0... 2.5:1, since the design is a narrow-band one. Compared to my previous dipole, which hanged on the low height (about 5 meters over the ground) along the building, this antenna exhibited much better transmission efficiency and higher signal to noise ratio while receiving.

 

The same design for 10 meters - cheap and simple.

 

About 2 years after getting my first amateur license I upgraded it to the higher license class, which allowed me to operate on 10 meters SSB. In that year, there was a perfect propagation on 10 meters band during the daylight time, and I needed an efficient antenna to work on it. Probably, in some time I will have something like rotable multielement Yagi on my roof, but now it seems to me inaccessible as the Moon due to many factors. After some time I decided to repeat what I built for 160 meters for 10 meters, proportionally reducing all geometrical sizes of the antenna wire and matching line.

 

Since the wavelength on 28500 KHz is just 10.52 m, a half-wavelength dipole should be about 5 meters, and the total length of the coaxial matching line will be 10.52/(4*1.52) = 1.73 m. The feeder is connected to the line 23 cm away from the shortened end. These sizes are relative small and the whole antenna system may be placed without being mounted on the roof, for example just from your window to the neighboring tree.

 

I made the antenna from a 2 mm copper wire with a plastic insulators at the ends, using 75 Ohm coaxial cable for feeder and matching line. There was nothing

 

difficult to tune the system - I hanged the antenna across my apartment and adjusted the length of the matching line as described above for 160m design using 1.80 m as the starting value. The only thing that should be noted is that the actual resonance of the line is very sensitive to the length variations, so on the final steps the cable should be cut in 1 cm (!) portions or even less to not miss the desired resonance position. After I hanged the antenna on the designated position, SWR was less then 1.5 on all frequencies ranging from 28200 to 29000 KHz.

 

This antenna is really very simple and cheap, but nevertheless, I allowed me to establish many connections with Europe and even Far East using just about 10 Watts of power. I really enjoyed working on 10 meters ether in local communications and transnational QSOs, and this was made possible just by several hours of time, dedicated to the antenna building and tuning.

 

About working on other bands- some facts and theory.

 

Though LW antennas with a feeding through coaxial transformer, which were described above, seem to be monoband, this appeared not completely true. As I found out, the whole system has many resonant frequencies, and some of them, are inside or near amateur bands and can be used for working on these bands.

 

As it could be expected, operation on the frequencies, which are twice more that 'native' ones, is impossible. When using an antenna for 160 m, on 80 m band observed SWR is closed to infinity and the transmission efficiency is not more that by using a

 

 

 

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