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The DL7PE-MicroVert edit / delete
Another small HF aerial design, but this one's explicitly designed to use the download as a counterpoise. This appears to be the approach that Firestik's no-ground-plane antennas use. The PDF gives all the design equations, which is nice.
to aerial amateur hf microvert radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
Modelling EH antennas using SPICE. This produces some interesting results.
to aerial amateur eh electronics hf isotron modelling radio small-aerial spice ... on 09 January 2010
Building EH antennas from the sort of "components" that, say, Wilkinsons sell. (And more speculation about how they work.)
to aerial amateur eh hf radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
Site of Lloyd Butler VK5BR edit / delete
And this is someone who has some serious clue about antenna design playing with the EH/Isotron approach -- on the X2/X3 pages, he's doing experiments to figure out how it actually works, and what you need to do to make it work well. The results are nonobvious.
to aerial amateur eh hf isotron radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
L'ANTENNE ISOTRON edit / delete
Right, this is more interesting: this guy twigged that the Isotron and EH antennas look like they're operating on similar principles, and came up with a simpler design drawing on both, which can be homebrewed with some plastic pipe and old hard disk platters (!). Looks like it works well. There's a PDF here giving simple instructions for building the CB version.
to aerial amateur cb eh hf isotron radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
DIY clone of the commercial Isotron antennas. They are unimpressed with the performance.
to aerial amateur cb hf isotron radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
Build the EH STAR Antenna for 27 MHz Packet Radio edit / delete
Building an EH antenna for CB use. He suggests it works all right, but it's very sensitive to the downlead placement -- i.e. it's using the downlead as a radiator.
to aerial amateur cb eh hf packet radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
EH Antenna Systems edit / delete
More commercial small-space antennas, although this is definitely from the wackier end of the experimental radio spectrum, and nobody agrees with *their* explanation of how they work. (Don't miss the paper that mentions in passing that they think they should get a Nobel prize in physics for the design!)
to aerial amateur eh hf radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
Isotron Antennas - Low Profile Limited and Restricted Space Antennas for HF edit / delete
Commercial HF antennas of unusual design. They get good reviews, although people can't agree on how they work. Pretty, but expensive and not very weatherproof.
to aerial amateur hf isotron radio small-aerial ... on 09 January 2010
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