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Often random wire antennas are also (inaccurately) referred to as long-wire antennas.There is no accepted minimum size, but actual long-wire antennas must be greater than at least a quarter-wavelength ( 1 / 4 λ) or perhaps greater than a half ( 1 / 2 λ) at the frequency the long wire antenna is used for, and even a half-wave may only be considered "long-ish" rather than "truly ...
Inverted-L antenna with counterpoise, in a powerful amateur radio station, Colorado, 1920. The counterpoise is the lower grid of horizontal wires, suspended below the antenna. The largest use of counterpoises is in transmitters on the low frequency (LF) and very low frequency (VLF) bands, as they are very sensitive to ground resistance. [2]
Assuming the building is about 20 feet tall, the length of wire seems to be on the order of 100 feet long – too short to be an HF Beverage antenna. Random wire antenna Moxon (1993) describes the random-wire antenna as an "odd bit of wire". [14] [page needed] It is the typical informal antenna erected for receiving shortwave and AM radio.
In antennas built for frequencies near or below 600 kHz [b], the length of an antenna's wire segments is usually shorter than a quarter wavelength [c] [ 1 / 4 λ ≈ 125 m (410 feet) [c] at 600 kHz [b]], the shortest length of unloaded straight wire that achieves resonance. [5]
The following table lists equivalent radii for various conductor cross-sections derived assuming 1) all dimensions are much less than , 2) for cross-sections composed of multiple conductors, the distances between conductors are much greater than any single conductor dimension. . Formulas for the square and triangular cross-sections follow from ...
The AT&T receiving Beverage antenna (left) and radio receiver (right) at Houlton, Maine, used for transatlantic telephone calls, from a 1920s magazine. The Beverage antenna or "wave antenna" is a long-wire receiving antenna mainly used in the low frequency and medium frequency radio bands, invented by Harold H. Beverage in 1921. [1]
Since the length of the waves used with crystal radios is very long (AM broadcast band waves are 182–566 metres or 597–1,857 feet long) [56] the antenna is made as long as possible, [57] from a long wire, in contrast to the whip antennas or ferrite loopstick antennas used in modern radios.
The log-periodic is commonly used as a transmitting antenna in high power shortwave broadcasting [15] stations because its broad bandwidth allows a single antenna to transmit on frequencies in multiple bands. The log-periodic zig-zag design with up to 16 sections has been used.