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    Longwire (or random wire) antenna is one of the sim[?]lest radio antennas: [?]ie[?]e of wire as high as [?]ossible. Long horizontal [?]art and some verti[?]al (?]art from transmitter to the wire. Antenna is fast to build and [?]resents wide frequen[?]y range and some gain with long wire lengths.

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    Longwire (or random wire) antenna is one of the sim[?]lest radio antennas: [?]ie[?]e of wire as high as [?]ossible. Long horizontal [?]art and some verti[?]al (?]art from transmitter to the wire. Antenna is fast to build and [?]resents wide frequen[?]y range and some gain with long wire lengths.

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    Longwire (or random wire) antenna is one of the sim[?]lest radio antennas: [?]ie[?]e of wire as high as [?]ossible. Long horizontal [?]art and some verti[?]al (?]art from transmitter to the wire. Antenna is fast to build and [?]resents wide frequen[?]y range and some gain with long wire lengths.

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    Long Wire

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    Longwire (or random wire) antenna is one of the sim[?]lest radio antennas: [?]ie[?]e of wire as high as [?]ossible. Long horizontal [?]art and some verti[?]al (?]art from transmitter to the wire. Antenna is fast to build and [?]resents wide frequen[?]y range and some gain with long wire lengths.

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    Longwire antenna

    Some tests
    OH1AYR Rev: 1.1 Date: 20.05.2011
    Longwire
    Longwire (or random wire) antenna is one of the simlest radio
    antennas: iee of wire as high as ossible. Long horizontal art
    and some vertial art from transmitter to the wire. t is usually
    used as temorary installations seially as field day antennas. t
    is fast to build and resents wide frequeny range and some gain
    with long wire lengths. Antenna tye usually needs an antenna
    tuner (AT) if used with transmitter.
    Impedance
    Wire imedane at oen wire end is omlex: half wavelength wire
    is of high imedane and quarter wavelength is of low imedane.
    sually we selet the wire length to be more than quarter the wave
    length of the lowest frequeny we use. Then the low side band is
    handled with AT and the high side band imedane stays rather
    smooth. Tyial wire imedane varies by frequeny from hundreds
    to thousands ohms.
    Radiation patterns
    Vertical radiation attern deends on the horizontal wire height.
    With heights of some meters (2-5m) we get high radiation angle
    suitable for NvS ommuniation. Also the SWR of the antenna is
    rather low and the SWR urve is smooth.
    With medium heights (5-20m) the the vertial radiation angle is
    lower and the antenna suits better for long range ommuniation.
    Horizontal attern is omlex and deends on wire length.
    Tyially the horizontal antenna length is about one wavelength of
    the lowest frequeny. Then the attern is near round on low
    frequenies (+Nhz) and highly ellitial on highest frequenies
    (28NHz) with several minor lobes. The eak gain is lose to the
    line of the wire (to oen end). The maximum gain is less than
    10dBi on long antennas. The minimal notieable gain 1.3dBd is on
    antenna lengths of two to four wavelengths. On eight wavelengths
    the gain is near 6dBd. Some attern models on aendix.
    Grounding
    Longwire antenna needs a roer grounding at the feed oint. f
    the traditional low-ohmi grounding is hard to get working also
    ounteroise wires below the antenna wire work well. This artifiial
    ground may be single wire as long as the horizontal antenna wire
    itself. t may also be a set of quarter-wave wires one for eah band
    used.
    Matching
    Longwire is usually mathed with AT. This may ause troubles
    with high ower transmitters: the loal RF radiation field may be
    rather high near the wire end near the oerator. Common ratie
    is to feed the antenna with 1:9 unun (50 to +50 O) loated near
    the antenna feed oint. With oaxial feed we get the highest
    radiation field far from the oerator. Also the grounding may
    beome easier. Details of suitable unun on aendix.

    Auvo OH1AYR tested the SWR's over near erfet ground. variable
    length wire height was about 25m.
    Jouko OH1GGJ tested the 25f125m LW with various grounds:
    - ND A (green) normal low-resistane grounding.
    - ND B (blue) grounding only with 125m ounteroise wire.
    imulated patterns
    On the aendix you find some NC2 simulated radiation atterns:
    1. 5m long LW height 25m NvS ellitial.
    2. 100m long LW height 5m ellitial better gain.
    3. 5m long LW height m more irular max. gain -21 NHz.
    OR ontrol systems htt:ffwww.kori.biz H: 20.05.2011 age: 11
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