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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 electrical engineering, electrical length is a dimensionless parameter equal to the physical length of an electrical conductor such as a cable or wire, divided by the wavelength of alternating current at a given frequency traveling through the conductor. [1] [2] [3] In other words, it is the length of the conductor measured in wavelengths.
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 Numerical Electromagnetics Code, or NEC, is a popular antenna modeling computer program for wire and surface antennas. It was originally written in FORTRAN during the 1970s by Gerald Burke and Andrew Poggio of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The code was made publicly available for general use and has subsequently been ...
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]
A ferrite loopstick antenna, a small loop used for AM reception in a portable radio, consisting of a wire wound around a ferrite core; the most common type of loop antenna today. A loop antenna is a radio antenna consisting of a loop or coil of wire, tubing, or other electrical conductor , that for transmitting is usually fed by a balanced ...