{"id":12312,"date":"2020-11-02T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T05:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2020-11-02T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T05:54:04","slug":"ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Ham Radio Super Antenna \u2013 Plans, Build, Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by George Ure<br \/>\nNov 1, 2020<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/urbansurvival.com\/ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results\/\">https:\/\/urbansurvival.com\/ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Convenience Store Based Antenna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ham radio operators world-wide would love an antenna that is cheap, easily built out of locally available parts \u2013 and outperforms both standard dipole antennas and other commonly-built wires. Well, here it is\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>After almost a year of modeling our ideas for a \u201cSuper Antenna\u201d the design was locked. It was built and put on the air during the CQ Worldwide contest last week.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pile-up buster.<\/p>\n<p>In a space of 1\/2-hour, I logged Portugal, Aruba, Italy, and somewhere in ITU Zone 29 (roughly Azerbaijan. Plus, uncountable contacts state-side. And when these basic signal contacts were done, had a nice +30dB over S-9 on C.W. (amp on, NY area from Texas).<\/p>\n<p>All on an antenna you can make for about $65-bucks and a few hours work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cSecret Sauce\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Every antenna builder\/designer claims they have some \u201csecret sauce.\u201d I\u2019m no different. EXCEPT that I have run my \u201csecret sauce\u201d through countless iterations modeling.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up modeling software is important for proper evaluation. In EZ-NEC (pro), careful attention was paid to setting up both the ground conditions (Real- High Accuracy) as well as the reference antenna (2.15 dBi) which enables dBd (decibels relative to a free-space (isotropic) dipole.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; The \u201csecret sauce\u201d after all these iterations? Antennas work best when there are multiple conductors on one side of a center feedpoint. Usually, a couple of dB!<\/p>\n<p>At the center, all these additional wires are connected together. At the far end of the antenna, they\u2019re 3 to 6-inches apart but NOT tied together. The effect disappears if you do that\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/urbansurvival.com\/ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results\/\">Click here<\/a> for the full report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by George Ure Nov 1, 2020 https:\/\/urbansurvival.com\/ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results\/ A Convenience Store Based Antenna Ham radio operators world-wide would love an antenna that is cheap, easily built out of locally available parts \u2013 and outperforms both standard dipole antennas and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/ham-radio-super-antenna-plans-build-results\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[119,120,121,122],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-dbi","tag-dipole","tag-self-help","tag-super-antenna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12313,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w6sg.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}