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This was gathered from the Internet WXSAT mailing list. The antenna
mods might also apply to the APT antenna in the ver 3.x user manual.
To: wxsat
Subject: Zapper II antenna modifications
From: rick (Rick Emerson)
Message-ID: <qHPiiB1w164w@ssg.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 92 20:30:37 UTC
The following was taken from Dr. Ralph Taggart's WSH BBS (517-676-0368):
DATE: 06 Mar 91
SUBJECT: Errors in the first printing of the 4th Ed. of
the Weather Satellite Handbook
SOURCE: SYSOP
A small number of errors/omissions have been noted in the
first printing of the fourth edition of the WEATHER
SATELLITE HANDBOOK. The ones that I have spotted are
listed below. If you find any more possibilities, please
leave a message and I will check them out and add to this
listing as appropriate. All of these should be corrected
in the second printing.
Page 2-6, Dipole Housing, Par. 1, Line 8 - the 20 inch
piece of PVC pipe should read 21 1/2 inch....
Page 2-6, Dipole Housing, Last paragraph - the phasing
line should be 13 inches instead of the 15 specified
(see Project bulletin #5).
Page 6-3, Figure 6.2 - the unlabeled pin on U11C should
be #11.....
Page 6-6, Figure 6.4 - the collector resistor of Q2 is
labeled 0 ohms (!) - it should be 10 ohms....
==================== end of bulletin ==================
DATE: 09 March 1991
SUBJECT: Zapper (and other) antenna phasing line
SOURCE: SYSOP
Bruce Lanning (W1GBS), in a recent letter, quite correctly
pointed out that the offset between the driven elements of a
circularly polarized antenna such as the Zapper (I or II)
should be taken into consideration in the calculation of the
proper length of the phasing line used to achieve circular
polarization. He is absolutely correct since positional
offset can, by itself, be used without a phase line delay,
to produce circular polarization but the offset is rarely
taken into account in most antenna projects and it certainly
wasn't in the case of the Zapper.
The Zapper uses a 2 inch offset between the two driven
elements or approximately 5.1 cm. Given a wavelength of 219
cm (L) at 137 MHz:
5.1 / 219 = 0.023L
phasing line = 0.25L
0.25L - 0.023L = 0.227L actual length
0.227 x 219 cm = 49.7 cm (free-space quarter-wave)
48.7 cm / 2.54 = 19.57 inches
19.57 inches x 0.66 (velocity factor) = 12.9 inches
The phasing-line jumper should thus be about 13 inches long
instead of the 15 inches specified on page 2-6 of the WSH
(4th Edition). In your specific case, be sure that you are
using a value for the velocity factor that is appropriate
for the cable you are using
Note that this works with regard to RHCP. If you wish to set
the antenna up for LHCP, the length of the phasing line
would have to be INCREASED by about 2 inches (17 inches
total).
After shortening his phasing line based on the spacing of
his dipoles, Bruce noticed a significant improvement in
signal levels down toward the horizon.
==================== end of bulletin =======================