[TowerTalk] [CQ-Contest] Stacking on separate towers, take off angles?

[Stan Stockton]

Model this.... Put two mono- band antennas at same height on separate towers with the towers about 1.5 wavelengths apart and the antennas in phase.  Look at the plots with the two antennas North or South  NE or SW, and NW or SE.  I think you will like what you see.

Stan, K5GO

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On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Dan Maguire <djm2150 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Stacking and feeding horizontally polarized Yagis is one of the examples that was developed for the AutoEZ application.  The first part of the example compares a single Yagi mounted at 1.5 WL above real/average ground (blue trace) with a vertical stack of two Yagis, the second one varying in separation above the first by 1/8 WL to 2 WL.
> http://ac6la.com/ae2msani1.gif
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> The second part of the example starts with the vertical stack at a separation which yields the highest gain (7/8 WL) and then duplicates those two antennas to form a 2x2 array, with the horizontal separation varying between 5/8 WL and 2 WL.  Here's what the azimuth plot looks like as the horizontal separation is changed.
> http://ac6la.com/ae2msani2.gif
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> Finally, the third part of the example models the feed system.  In this case all antennas are being fed in phase via a 4-port power divider.
> http://ac6la.com/ae2ms7.png
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> The complete example may be found in the "2 Meter Yagi, Stack and Feed" section of this page:
> http://ac6la.com/aetltu.html
> 
> And the full AutoEZ User Guide is here:
> http://ac6la.com/autoez.html
> 
> Assuming that all antennas in the array are identical, to test your own proposed configuration all you need is an EZNEC model of a single antenna.  AutoEZ will take care of duplicating that antenna to one or more other positions with variable(s) controlling the amount of vertical and/or horizontal separation.  You can also use a different type of feed system if you wish, choosing from a table of 100 built-in line types (line loss included) and perhaps setting the line lengths using other variables so you can see how the pattern and main feedpoint SWR change as the line lengths are changed.
> 
> Dan, AC6LA
> http://ac6la.com/
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