
November 20th 08, 12:50 AM
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Log-Periodic Antenna Design
It's not log periodic but it looks cheap to toss together and they claim
great performance: http://www.digitalhome.ca/ota/superantenna/index.htm
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Regards,
Carl Ijames
"Rich Grise" wrote in message
news 
My current UHF antenna is a 14" Radio Shack clip lead clipped from the
center of my coax to the venetian blind. I have to hand-adjust it
for the channel, weather conditions, phase of the moon, etc. I can
do this because I can _see_ an indication of signal strength.
Well, with this new Fascist "No More Free TV" crap, I'm gonna need
a real UHF antenna. My budget is exceedingly limited, but I have
a supply of materials (GTAW filler rod, with some coppery-colored
coating, so it solders like a dream, and is as stiff as piano wire)
to build an antenna with.
But I've been searching the web for some weeks now, and I can't
seem to find any kind of formula, except there was this program
I downloaded - LPDA.EXE, which runs on DOS. Unfortunately, it's
in Russian or Polish or Uzbekistani - one of those East Yurp
languages. Here's a screen snap:
http://mysite.verizon.net/richgrise/...rog-Output.gif
Which I went through pretty much by-guess-and-by-gosh - can
anybody read that stuff?
There are a lot of factors I don't know about, like "Tau", and
all of the specific designs on the web are flat - something is
telling me I want one of those pyramid-shaped ones, but I really
don't know the difference (between that and flat) - it's probably
something to do with bandwidth or F/B ratio or whatever.
My local library has no ARRL Antenna Book (!), and did I mention
I have a seriously limited budget?
So, how do I pursue this? It'd be nice to have a program that will
calculate the whole thing for me, but am I dreaming? If I want to
send myself to Log-Periodic School, where should I start?
Or, does anyone have a UHF-TV log-periodic design that they'd share? :-)
Thanks,
Rich
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