Two Element Phase Vertical

Dipole Array
---It fits in a skibag
 Needs on 15

• Directional
• Easy to set up
• No ground plane
• Highly portable
• Materials mostly available from current
stock 
• Fair amount of bandwidth 
"Creating" Gain
(A measure of the effectiveness of a directional antenna as compared to a standard
nondirectional antenna.)

This is how gain is created--by arranging the currents in an antenna so that

the fields they radiate sum together in a few directions and cancel
elsewhere.

-- ARRL Continuing Education Program

Antennas do not somehow magically create power but simply focus the
radiated RF into narrower patterns such that there appears to be more
power coming from the antenna in the required direction.
 
-- Marc Dekenah
 Phasing, in general

Imaging a tank of water with some sort of vibrating element to generate waves stuck
into it. If another vibrating element is stuck into the water operating at the same
vibration rate and same intensity, it will generate waves of the same frequency and
height (or "amplitude"), but the peaks and valleys of the waves generated by the
second vibrating element will not necessarily coincide with those of the first. In
other words, they won't have the same "phase". 
 
 Greg Goebel, Basic Principles Of Radar
 

But, "...two currents are in-phase when they reach their maximum values, in the same
direction, at the same instant. "  ARRL Antenna Book.
Phasing

phased array: A group of antennas in which the

relative phases of the respective signals feeding
the antennas are varied in such a way that the
effective radiation  pattern of the array is
reinforced in a desired direction and suppressed in
undesired directions.
 
 Federal Standard 1037C,  Telecommunications:
Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
 
Arrays

A simple directional antenna consists of a linear array of small radiating antenna

elements, each fed with identical signals (the same amplitude and phase) from
one transmitter. As the total width of the array increases, the central beam
becomes narrower. As the number of elements increases, the side lobes
become smaller.

Toby Haynes, A Primer on Digital Beamforming

 
Or, even simpler:
A phased antenna system consists of two or more active antenna elements,
arranged so the electromagnetic fields effectively add in some directions and
cancel in other directions. This produces enhanced transmission and reception
in the directions where the fields add, and reduces the strength of radiated
and received signals in the directions where the fields cancel.

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One element out of phase

180 degrees
Phasing Graphs

 
Some of the ways to phase

 
Blockish Diagram

Feedline can be
any length
Rendering
Radiation Pattern
SWR in theory (and in practice, too)
Calculations for the Aluminum
468 / 21.2 = 22.0754717    Both the bottom and top must
(468 / 21.2) / 2 = 11.0377358
be little more than eleven feet. 
Therefore there must be 1' of
overlap between the sections.
1.  Mark it
2.  Clamp it
3.  Use Penetrox
Gravity should hold most of this
together.
Alternate guy ring
Clamp for
electrical
connection

Delrin Rods

Close-up of center Insulator

Single Element
Array In Action
Possible other kinds of bases
Ingredients
Tips

• Use high-quality hose clamps

• In your “kit” include a 8mm Y-wrench
(sold primarily to bicyclists)
• Include some ties to ensure that coaxes
leave insulator at 45 degree angle 
• Wrap all ropes neatly around tent stakes
• Penetrox 
• Put something on top like a soda bottle 
• Take care in drilling holes in project
box. 
Some variants

• Stacked Verticals (i.e. colinear)

• “diamond” loop-like thing as used on VP6
• More verticals dipoles
• The whole thing elevated
• Parasitic elements (switchable)
• Move verticals to beach
•  Hats on low bands
Thanks
 

Nasra/KB3OLP
John/N3HBX
Chris/KB3CS 
Bill/NG3K
David/KB3NAI 
Megan/KB3RGW