I have seen K1WA's excellent article in the Antenna Handbook for years
regarding sloping half-wave dipole arrays. His design switches both
the center conductor and braid for each feedline.
Is it really important to switch the braid?
73, Steve, K4FJ
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YES.
The K8UR sloper array design, and the variants upon that, require
that the
reflectors not be connected to the driven element. If you use a
switch which
ties all shields together, you'll have half of your reflectors and
your driven element
fed together. God knows what pattern will result. Or, knowing
this audience,
only an adept NEC user with a lot of time will know what the
resulting pattern
will be.
The technique of feeding each dipole via 3/8 lambda coax from the switch
is a particularly neat way to assure that the undriven elements
function as
reflectors.
N2EA
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