Topband: NORD antenna for top band.....

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Hi Jim, 


The NORD antenna is a relatively inexpensive low frequency 
antenna (typically used at 50-100 kHz) where its impossible to 
achieve vertically polarized antennas with close to 1/4 wavelength 
vertical height. 


The NORD antenna typically consists of an electrically short folded 
unipole (typically less than 0.05 wavelength tall) with at three 
(or more) umbrella wires attached to the top of the vertical spaced 
evenly spaced at 120 degree intervals 


Unlike umbrella antennas used on topband (such as in my W8JI/W5ZN 
8-circle receiving arrays), the NORD antenna also uses a capacitor 
at the end of each umbrella wire. The three capacitors are used to 
tune the antenna, avoiding the need for a lossy loading coil at the 
feedpoint of the antenna, 


The NORD antenna is a poor choice for T opband where many of us 
can use much more efficient quarter wavelength inverted-L antennas 
or in some cases full size quarter wavelength verticals. 


To learn about the NORD antenna simply Google: "NORD Antenna" 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 





----- Original Message -----

From: "James Rodenkirch" <Rodenkirch_LLC at msn.com> 
To: "Top Band Contesting" <topband at contesting.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 2, 2016 4:12:27 PM 
Subject: Topband: NORD antenna for top band..... 

.....anyone experimented with a NORD-configured vertical antenna? 


I have the Navy antenna publication - http://www.hamuniverse.com/US%20NAVY%20Antennas%20and%20Wave%20Propagation.pdf - but, other than a brief description, not much to go by....any assistance, e.g., steerage to a web site or empirical data/analysis results appreciated. 

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72 de Jim Rodenkirch K9JWV 
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