
ROPE
RADIATOR
468
Lh
fMHz
HOUSE
END
INSULATOR
CENTER
INSULATOR
OR BALUN
75
-S2
COAX
RADIATOR
AS
CLOSE
R
z
PE
TO
90
-DEG.
AS
POSSIBLE
END INSULATOR
TREE
Fig.
2 -lt is a safe bet to say that
most
amateur
-radio
dipoles are
installed
under
circumstances
that
are
less than ideal,
as
illustrated here, with one
end
of the
radiator
attached
to the house and the
other
end attached to
a
tree
or another building.
A B
Fig.
3 -There
are two
effects of
in-
stalling a dipole at less than
optimum
height.
First, the pattern is
changed.
The ideal pattern
of the dipole
in
"A"
shows the vast majority
of
the
energy
to be located in the two main lobes.
At less
than ideal heights,
that pat-
tern
degenerates into one with a lot
of sidelobes, as
shown
in "B."
Dipole Length
In free space, the length of a half -
wavelength
radiator
is
found from: L =
492/f, where
"L"
is the length in feet,
and
"f" is frequency in megahertz. But
close to the Earth's surface (not several
wavelengths
above it), a "ground
effect" takes over and reduces the re-
quired length by a few
percent.
The best
formula
to use
is L = 468/f. That length
is the overall length of both radiators
together -the individual elements are
exactly half that length.
But even
that
is a "first cut"
attempt,
for there are several
factors
that affect
length. Make the length a few inches
longer than that,
and initially don't
sol-
der the outer insulators. Install the an-
tenna at its regular height, and measure
the
VSWR
at several frequencies until
the frequency of minimum
VSWR
is
found. If it is lower
than the
design
frequency,
then
the antenna is too long;
if the frequency is higher than the
de-
sign frequency then it's too short.
Adjust the length (both elements
equally) to compensate and re-
measure.
When
the minimum
VSWR
is found at
a
frequency
close to
the
design
frequen-
cy, then you've made it. Tin both ends.
According to the "standard
wisdom"
about dipoles, the following
rules
apply:
Make the dipole as high off the
ground as possible.
Have the feedline go off at an angle of
as
close
to 90- degrees as possible.
Connect the center conductor
of
the
coax to
the end away from the house.
The
validity
of
the
latter is open to
some
doubt
in
my mind, especially
if
a
1:1 balun transformer is used
at the
feed
point between the antenna and the
transmission line. Balun manufacturers
assert that the transformer balances the
current in
the two halves, and thereby
reduces undesirable radiation from the
transmission line.
Warning!:
Under
no circumstances
install a dipole across a power line!
Every
year at
least one
amateur
or SWL
is killed
by tossing a
wire
for an antenna
across the
power
line in order to get
clearance. Some people think that be-
cause the line is insulated, it is safe -
well,
it just ain't so. Insulation gets old,
or can be damaged. It can easily cut
through when the antenna wire contacts
it...and
that can electrocute you.
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