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The
history
For many years as a camper I am on the
move by the caravan, and I also wanted always to be preferentially
QRV on the
20 m band. Unfortunately, there were not always the suitable
trees where I can hang up a wire. A vertical wire at a
Glassfibremast anyway beside the caravan on a foot was not really
the ideal solution, because there always were problems
with the mounting. Also, putting up and fixing the mast was
always time-consuming.
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The
idea
At the first I had the idea that the caravan shaft is ideal
for the mounting of a mast. With it was certain, it must be
a vertical
antenna. A resonant dipole would be best of course, because
with it there are no problems with the matching. Moreover,
it should be feeded at the lower end, because the 20 m Dipole
is two times 5 m long. Then 10 m wire winded at a 10 m
mast, this would have to fit at approx. 9.5 m of length. Therefore
approximate another 50 cm remains to clamp the mast.
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The
aerial
So I have taken first of all for the upper part 5 m of wire
and for the lower part 5 m of coaxcable RG 58. In the middle
only
the center wire of
the coaxcabel is
connected to the wire. Then in the feedingpoint I have inserted
a coatwaves choke.
The result was satisfactory, but the tuning developed a little
bit difficultly. After I then postturned the leaves intensely
through
the new "Rothammel", I bumped into the description
of the "vertical coaxial dipole by Harper" (see the
"Rothammel
Antennenbuch" 12th edition (Krischke) page 453 and the
following). Then this had to go at the lower part of the dipole
with
coaxcabel with a higher impedance, there is a better compensation
of the blind components and the aerial occurs through
it becomes more bandwith. The feed also occurs below in the
toe about a coatwave choke. Then it is able about any length
of a coaxcabel go to the Transceiver. I still had several meters
of the RG 62 (92 ohms) in my cellar, that was used earlier
on computer networks, and substituted the RG 58 with it. The
success was, that now the usable bandwith range became much
bigger. At the moment the dipole exists of 4.70 m of RG 62 and
5.20 wire. The SWR at 14,250 Mc is with 1:1.2,
the usable range within the SWR of 1:3 is approx. 2 Mc, so I
have changed nothing more! This "to crooked values"
are
closed absolutly with the fact, that the lower part by the ground
nearness capacitive as well as by the choke an inductive
influencing finds out.
The
development to the 40 m / 15 m aerial
After now this aerial on 20 m worked very well, I considered,
how this aerial also for other bands could be of use without
extravagantly adaptation. Then the consideration was the following:
the soul of the coaxcable with the upper one wire
together are 10 m, this is immediatly lambda 1/4 of 40 m and
3/4 of 15 m, and therefore resonant! So the coax only is fed
at the center wire . The coatwave choke is substituted with
an insulating piece and the inside leader is carried out. There
of
course aerials with lambda 1/4 and 3/4 need a counterbalance
(earth etc.), this gets the continuing coaxcable at this point
grounded. In this case as a counterbalance the whole caravan
works. That the ground is even more efficiently copper-
concealed Epoxy were laid under the props of the caravan, in
addition, still in each case 15X30-cm
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As the next I will try to substitute sometimes for the insulating
piece with a coil around thereby to get a resonance on 80 m.
I will report if this aerial also works on 80 m satisfyingly.
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The
implementation