Somehow in my 49 years as a ham I've managed to avoid practical experience
with phased arrays, but now I'm working on an array of K9AY loops for 160m
receiving, and realize that I lack an essential piece of information. A
cruise through the antenna Book hasn't helped.
The question is this -- when a two-element array is specified as having one
element 90 degrees from the other -- in modeling terms, antenna A's phase
is zero and antenna B's is 90 -- does this mean that you feed antenna A and
then connect from there to B through 90 degrees of coax (1/4 WL x velocity
factor) or is it the other way around? What about 0 and -90? If the two
antennas are supposed to be 180 out of phase can you connect them in either
sequence, as long as the line between them is an electrical half-wave? I'd
think "yes" but I've grown wary of my intuition on such things.
73, Pete N4ZR
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