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Marine Radio RF Ground Question
What elements make a good Radio Frequency
(RF) ground system in a yacht? Bart Senior |
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A counterpoise.
"N1EE" wrote in message om... What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? Bart Senior |
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Mostly, hydrogen, oxygen, sodium, chorine and copper. In the right
proportions and places of course. Cheers N1EE wrote: What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? Bart Senior |
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Marine Radio RF Ground Question
What is the best way to make a counterpoise for
a boat? "Gay Sailor" wrote A counterpoise. "N1EE" wrote What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? |
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The simplest is a variable series LC circuit that tunes the ground path for
the lowest impedance possible. A caveat though, the voltage across either element is the circuit Q times the applied voltage. If you drive a 12volt Vcc amplifier (voltage swing of 24 volts) into a circuit with a Q of 10, there is 240 volts across the series inductor and 240 volts across the series capacitor. So for your 12 volt output driver one would be wise to use 500 volt capacitors and inductors. Why not just convert your backstay antenna into a sleeve dipole? No ground is necessary for this antenna, the radiation pattern is good and the bandwidth is ok. I ran some NEC simulations on a 35 foot sleeve dipole over a seawater ground and found the patterns and SWR to be quite good. If I get a round to it I'll post the plans for such an antenna on a website. Any engineer worth the title can look up a sleeve dipole on the net and figure out how to build one too. Swishy tither boy gay sailor! "N1EE" wrote in message m... What is the best way to make a counterpoise for a boat? "Gay Sailor" wrote A counterpoise. "N1EE" wrote What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? |
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Marine Radio RF Ground Question
http://www.arising.com.au/people/Hol...ph/counter.htm
"N1EE" wrote in message om... What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? Bart Senior |
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Marine Radio RF Ground Question
Gilligan, you're way too nerdy for most of these people...
"Gay Sailor" wrote in message link.net... The simplest is a variable series LC circuit that tunes the ground path for the lowest impedance possible. A caveat though, the voltage across either element is the circuit Q times the applied voltage. If you drive a 12volt Vcc amplifier (voltage swing of 24 volts) into a circuit with a Q of 10, there is 240 volts across the series inductor and 240 volts across the series capacitor. So for your 12 volt output driver one would be wise to use 500 volt capacitors and inductors. Why not just convert your backstay antenna into a sleeve dipole? No ground is necessary for this antenna, the radiation pattern is good and the bandwidth is ok. I ran some NEC simulations on a 35 foot sleeve dipole over a seawater ground and found the patterns and SWR to be quite good. If I get a round to it I'll post the plans for such an antenna on a website. Any engineer worth the title can look up a sleeve dipole on the net and figure out how to build one too. Swishy tither boy gay sailor! "N1EE" wrote in message m... What is the best way to make a counterpoise for a boat? "Gay Sailor" wrote A counterpoise. "N1EE" wrote What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? |
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That would be interesting, please do it.
Cheers Gay Sailor wrote: The simplest is a variable series LC circuit that tunes the ground path for the lowest impedance possible. A caveat though, the voltage across either element is the circuit Q times the applied voltage. If you drive a 12volt Vcc amplifier (voltage swing of 24 volts) into a circuit with a Q of 10, there is 240 volts across the series inductor and 240 volts across the series capacitor. So for your 12 volt output driver one would be wise to use 500 volt capacitors and inductors. Why not just convert your backstay antenna into a sleeve dipole? No ground is necessary for this antenna, the radiation pattern is good and the bandwidth is ok. I ran some NEC simulations on a 35 foot sleeve dipole over a seawater ground and found the patterns and SWR to be quite good. If I get a round to it I'll post the plans for such an antenna on a website. Any engineer worth the title can look up a sleeve dipole on the net and figure out how to build one too. Swishy tither boy gay sailor! "N1EE" wrote in message m... What is the best way to make a counterpoise for a boat? "Gay Sailor" wrote A counterpoise. "N1EE" wrote What elements make a good Radio Frequency (RF) ground system in a yacht? |
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Gay Sailor wrote: A caveat though, the voltage across either element is the circuit Q times the applied voltage. If you drive a 12volt Vcc amplifier (voltage swing of 24 volts) into a circuit with a Q of 10, there is 240 volts across the series inductor and 240 volts across the series capacitor. So for your 12 volt output driver one would be wise to use 500 volt capacitors and inductors. Can you explain this. I though that for a parallel LC the impedence went to infinite at resonance (f=1/2pi sqrt(LC)) so that Vin=Vout. What am I missing? Cheers |
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Nav wrote:
Can you explain this. I though that for a parallel LC the impedence went to infinite at resonance (f=1/2pi sqrt(LC)) so that Vin=Vout. What am I missing? Getting beyond my knowledge (or memory), but Gilly did say that the LC circut is series - would that work better? -- Wally www.artbywally.com www.wally.myby.co.uk/music |
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