hello..., i would like to ask the group wisdom for help on the following topic: having learned that the unterminated vee beam is bidirectional and therefore "wastes" radiated power into the backward
Con, I don't have a new one, but the 17th edition of the ARRL Antenna Book has a discussion of the terminated sloping V on page 13-9. Suggest you look at whatever edition you have. 73 Don K5AQ List S
A friend, N5RM in north Texas built a beautiful array of sloping V beams which covered all directions. The center was at 200ft and the low ends came to 8 ft posts. A wire ran down each post to a larg
I suspect the SLOPING WIRES may have contributed to the lackluster performance. I use my 80M dipoles on the WARC bands where the horizontal ones perform quite well. The inverted vees are noticably do
The best that I have read about for anything terminated is that a wire "radial"? "counterpoise"? be run from the terminating resistor line to ground, in the ground under the antenna wire to the groun
Hello Con, Though I do not have the data in front of me at this exact moment, I do remember Ham Radio Magazine did run a number of articles on the Vee antenna. One thing that did stick in my head, wa
"One thing that did stick in my head, was connecting the terminated ends together with a ground wire." Besides the use of radials, out there, by tying the elements together, it made the antenna much
There was a patent on a terminated inverted "V". I use to have a copy of it. It was and end fed inverted "V" with the far end terminated with a non-inductive resistor. To improve efficiency, I believ
Hi All interested, There have been many comments by people who know a lot more about this particular antenna then me. The questions may have already been answered, but here goes. As far as terminatio
The patent was US 4511898 Terminated Inverted V Antenna with Matching Transformer. I think that it is a narrow patent with the main part being the matching transformer. Chris opr VE7HCB List Sponsore