Questions tagged [antenna]
Questions about the design, selection, building, testing, mounting, or properties of antennas. See also specific tags: [antenna-theory], [antenna-construction], [dipole], etc.
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Dipole loading coil winding directions?
A single inductive loading coil in a vertical or a pair of loading coils in a dipole are commonly used to match a given total antenna length parameter to a given frequency wavelength (where the ratio ...
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How to simulate two antennas in 4nec2
I need to simulate 2 helix antennae placed side by side, and see the resultant radiation pattern. But after adding the second antenna with a separate and when I try to simulate 4nec2, only simulated ...
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Working satellite on 2 meters, at what arc distance to sun (center) will noise floor be problematic to a disruption of a communication path?
Is there some simple utility, or published set of charts, or suite of formulae, where one can approach the situation by inputting a space weather summary, (sunspots, various indexes, etc), the receive ...
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Can I build a Yagi antenna for my Baofeng UV-5R?
I would like to build a Yagi antenna for my Baofeng UV-5R, but I'm a total newbie when it comes to amateur radios. The antenna will be for UHF and shouldn't be too long (like 1.5 meters max).
So my ...
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How do I Construct a Simple FM Antenna?
I recently bought a cheap stereo amplifier with built in FM receiver from Amazon at the first link below. Testing it out today I found the FM reception to be sub-par. All of my local stations that I ...
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What will be antenna impedance of a dipole antenna when it is kept lambda/2 away from the transmitter
I understand that half-wave dipole antenna, which is in far-field, impedance is around 73 ohms. If I keep same antenna in near-fied at distnace lambda/2 from the 1.25 lambda length tranmiter?
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Small size vertical 10 m antenna with high gain
I need a directional antenna for 10 m that is less than half the size of a yagi or quad with more than about 7 dBi of gain, does anyone know if such a thing exists ?
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Center-loaded vertical, high SWR at lower frequencies
I built a center-ish loaded coil-shortened vertical.
The lower radiator is 3 meters, then the coil, then 5M more radiator, like this (Early prototype with shorter radiators and no covers for the coil ...
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Antenna modelling - pse check my model in EZNEC
With success I use the Fuchsantenna especially for SOTA.
Now I would like to know how is the radiation (Azimuth/Elevation)
I made in EZNEC a model.
But I do not know whjether it is correct.
Any OM ...
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How would I calculate aperture efficiency for an antenna?
How to calculate aperture efficiency for an antenna with the following parameters:
Big reflector diameter= 24 mm
Gain= 9.265 dbi
Frequency= 11.60 GHz
