Anybody seen this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FM-Broadcast-Ci ... 2043382691
If anybody has measurements i would be very interested
Circular Dipole
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Albert H
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Re: Circular Dipole
FFS! These are designed to be stacked and to give "circular" polarisation. The have a loss of about -4dB per aerial against an ordinary dipole. There was a theory (long since discredited) that they gave better signal penetration and lower multipath distortion than ordinary vertical polarisation.
I was forced to use three 8-bay aerial systems with these useless efforts on a station in California. We were running 200kW on one of the sites and 50kW on the secondary "fillers". We had a major power outage and I got us back on the air with a single 10kW rig into a pair of 4-stack vertical dipoles and got better coverage at lower power from a single site. The station fired their "Senior Engineer" the next day!
The clown had bought into the bogus concepts of circular polarisation and had cost the station nearly half a million Dollars that they didn't need to spend!
Stick with simple aerials that we all know that work properly. If you want to conceal your aerial, use a vertical that looks like a CB job!
I was forced to use three 8-bay aerial systems with these useless efforts on a station in California. We were running 200kW on one of the sites and 50kW on the secondary "fillers". We had a major power outage and I got us back on the air with a single 10kW rig into a pair of 4-stack vertical dipoles and got better coverage at lower power from a single site. The station fired their "Senior Engineer" the next day!
The clown had bought into the bogus concepts of circular polarisation and had cost the station nearly half a million Dollars that they didn't need to spend!
Stick with simple aerials that we all know that work properly. If you want to conceal your aerial, use a vertical that looks like a CB job!
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Banus_radio
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Re: Circular Dipole
Ok Albert ill take the advice, thankyou
I see your friends at Arreff are selling them to hehe
I see your friends at Arreff are selling them to hehe