Brian's new Antenna
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Brian's new Antenna
Got Brian a 100W Dominator
I'm fitting it this afternoon
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Looks good! Hope you get some good results.
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Looks like the same design as the old Sigma IV CB antenna. 7/8 wave?
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I think is it based on the Sigma yes
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The best antenna like two dipole but 7/8 is better..? where you buy? pcs is 3/4
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The old Sigma IV was a beast. I had one with intention to convert it to 88-108, but I ended up selling it instead.tokingmenace wrote: ↑Sat May 23, 2020 5:25 pmFunnily enough I thought the same.
If correct, should work well then
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3db that's pretty good for a dominator good choice Brian
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"Max. power: 250 watts, 1KW or 3KW models"BriansBrain wrote: ↑Sun May 24, 2020 11:54 amIt's a real Dominator from the USA
https://fmbroadcastantenna.com/dominator.html
....I thought your one was 100w version? I can't see that on the link posted up for the one you said you're using.
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Sorry... it's the 1000W version
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how many miles does it go?
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depend of to many factors... distance from ground... ground configuration, earth natural disturbance...
but much better then one top quality dipole and also less then 2 way dipoles.
today wee need minimum 2 way or 4 way antenna sistem because rf jam is so high then was 25 years before...
I prefer dominator vector antena because hi get real gain easy to install. one antena like 2 way... but need the higher position... tower etc...
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he antenna is at 210m above sea level +/- 150m above average terrain (HAAT)
@ 140W I was getting a good results with the little dipole +/- 5 Miles or 8km
I have only had one report in up to now from Arguineguin with the new antenna...
... he said
.very good connection now
With the dipole before it was a bit sketchy in Arguineguin. I have not been out with my Pira to do a band scan yet
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I am pretty low down but getting about 8 miles in the car on 7 or 30 watts from my place you must have more hills around
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I always found that a quick twin-stack of dipoles worked well, and gave around 3.2 dBb if matched and assembled correctly. The "Dominator" claims 3 dBd. My ⅞-wave with four ¼-wave radials measures at just over 3.7 dBd, and has a nice low radiation angle - very little signal goes skyward.
Another aerial I've been playing with (at 430 MHz so it's a reasonable size to work on) is the 0.64-wave vertical. The match is tricky, but when it works, it's very useful....
Another aerial I've been playing with (at 430 MHz so it's a reasonable size to work on) is the 0.64-wave vertical. The match is tricky, but when it works, it's very useful....
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I wouldn't call a correctly assembled and matched double stack, "quick", especially one that gets close to 3.2 dBd!
The last one I built took much, much longer I had anticipated by the time I:
- Messed around trying to find a combination of aluminium box section and brass tube that gave me the impedance match that I wanted. I had to obviously go by commonly available sizes of box section, not listed in inside dimension order (which is all I really cared about) and brass tube listed in different units to the aluminium box section, and not available everywhere easily - this took at least 2 hours of calculation, simulation, compromise and lots of searching around to get right.
- Used a milling machine that didn't have enough axis travel to make a quarter-wave splitter from aluminium box section and brass tube in one setup.
- Built the quarter-wave splitter.
- Checked the matching and tuning of the splitter using a VNA and some 50 Ohm loads from a cal kit and then adjusted as required. Hint: if it's wrong, you've got to start again or magically figure out how to make obround tapped holes.
- Tuned the dipoles. This took about 4 hours.
- Made the three pieces of coax with N connectors and hex crimp ferrules including carefully shrinking glue-filled heatshrink over the crimp sections to make them waterproof. Tip: do not buy anything but Amphenol, Pasternack, etc. (high quality, known-brand) crimp-type N connectors as the crimp ferrules will not be the correct size. They will not work with the supposed correct crimp die size. Time wasted: about 4 hours milling very hard tool steel in order to make my own crimp dies on said milling machine in order to make the ferrules grip the coax.
- Checked the tuning when spaced for optimum gain (about 0.925 wavelengths) and spaced from the mounting pole, and adjusted to suit.
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Ahh OK, nice.
....So in that case if you've got the 1kW version and not the 250w version, does that mean you might be planning to use more power?