ANTENTOP-
01- 2012, # 016
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Ground Plane for the 40,-30,-20 and 17- meter Bands
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The
antenna is very simple. It is just vertical radiator in 10- meter
length that is matched at the each working band by its own matching
unit that is switched on with help of relay. However to the design
I came not straight away. There were tried several multiband antennas
(for example, antennas from References
1 and 2) but for some reason no one of them did not satisfied
me. I could not get good SWR at each of desirable working bands
of the antennas.
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Friend
of mine, UA7A, ex UA6CW, advised to me to use the described below antenna.
He helped to me to calculate matching circuits for the antenna.
Figure 1
shows schematic of the antenna. Figure 2 shows schematic of the matching units
for 40,- 30,- 20 and 17- meter
Bands. To eliminate static from the antenna the vertical radiator
is grounded through pair resistors in 430- kOhm/2- Wtts.
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