Hi Bernard
In a message dated 96-09-13 03:16:40 EDT, you write:
>
>The big problem with any EWE 8what by the way does the abreviation mean) is
>the horizontal section which radiates (and receives horizontal radiation) as
>well.
>Far better than an EWE seems a pair of short, phased verticals, because with
>the horizontal wire section you do nothing else than replacing the feeding
>line that brings the two antennas into the proper phase angle.
>With coax as phasing line you will not longer receive the horizontal
>polarised field.
>
>73s
>
>bernard, oe4bku
I agree totally.
The EWE is a simple pair of verticals with a horizontal feedline. The array
is small enough current is uniform and the vertical are fed cross fore with
180 degree shift plus the delay in the horizonal wire.
The horizontal wire unfortunately is part of the radiator.
Here at my location, a pair of short voltage probe antennas (ten ft
verticals) does NOT work unless I have a large ground screen, the soil is so
poor I can not decouple the feedline. In Ohio the same array worked quite
well with only a few ground rods.
The EWE behaved the same way, and that makes sense because it is a pair of
verticals that are very ground dependent. The EWE also only worked with a
large ground screen, and not quite as well as two ten ft verticals phased.
73 Tom
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