V Beam Antenna

The edz v beam with design freq at 51 110 mhz will work with very high forward gain at the design freq and as a normal kb4xj v beam at the 15 meter band look at the element length.

V beam antenna. In it smallest of states the horizontal vee must be one of the least researched or understood antennas. I came across a great write up by sam moore nx5z in the march 2011 qst titled a four wire steerable v beam for 10 through 40 meters. It is easy to construct. It omits the closing end of the rhombic.

Beam antenna can have front to side rejection on the order of 40 to 50 db. A rotatable dipole the simplest method of taking advantage of an antenna s directive characteristics is to rotate it. The simplest antenna for this purpose is a rotatable dipole. The model 3403 is a shorter version of the antenna that covers 3 5 to 30.

As such we can model it by removing the outer half of a rhombic. 2 the versatile vee beam our second fiweekend antennafl project is an aerial that you can use on all eight high frequency amateur bands 80 40 30 20 17 15 12 and 10m with an antenna tuner and which gives significant gain on the five bands from 20m to 10m. That antenna requires a great deal more real estate than i have available but i figured if i could get something pointed to europe i d be doing just fine. If each end is connected to earth through a 600 ohm non inductive resistor the antenna is called a terminated vee beam.

An hf amateur radio multiband antenna made from 600 feet of wire in the v formation. The layout of the antenna and a radiation pattern of an unterminated vee beam. Ref2 horizontal v antenna for 15 meters the horizontal v antenna for 15 meters this often leds to the question of what is a beam antenna. This gain is approximately equal to a small three element yagi antenna.

Gain is 14 15 dbi or about 6 db over a dipole. The ten tec model 3402 broadband terminated vee beam antenna offers continuous coverage between 1 8 and 30 mhz with a maximum vswr of 2 1 typically 1 4 1 or less. This is a four wavelength per leg 40 meter v beam antenna. 1 is a 15 meter.

The v beam antenna is the first part of a rhombic antenna. Using open wire feed minimum 4 ft longer is ok but remember it is a part of the antenna at frequencies under 21 mhz will give an easy match from 14 mhz and up.