ALL ABOUT ANTENNAS Part 1 of a Series - （关于天线的一个系列的第1部分,）.pdf

ALL ABOUT ANTENNAS Part 1 of a Series By Bob Grove W8JHD, Publisher, Monitoring Times o subject is more widely discussed boundaries between air masses, and they can (that is, the lower the frequency), the more the in the radio field as antennas, and be diffracted (scattered) by a ground clutter of absorption. This explains why daytime recep- Nwith good reason; after you select reflective surfaces. tion below roughly 10 megahertz (MHz) is so your radio equipment, no accessory is more Radio and light waves travel through the poor. important. There are many myths surrounding vacuum of space approximately 186,000 miles But, the E layer also reflects shorter- antennas, and we’re going to put them to rest (300 million meters) per second, but when they wavelength (higher frequency) signals back in this series. pass through a dense medium, they slow down; to Earth; the higher the frequency, the more this velocity factor, is given as a specifica- the reflection. This is what provides distance Radio Waves: tion for transmission lines. When we specify (DX) on the higher shortwave frequencies. antenna and transmission line lengths, these Most DX, however, is produced by the next Some Basics are electrical wavelengths which are shorter region up, the F layer, which retains its elec- When we connect a wire between the two than free-space wavelen