Re: NEC-LIST: Coil-loading.

Doug,

My first article on the subject was published in QST September 1953
issue, "Short Antennas for Mobile Operation", based on theory and
measurement. The most difficult measurement was to measure the
Q-factor of the inductor used to tune the antenna --- the self
resonant frequency of the coil has to be high, high compared with the
operating frequency. I finally fabricated an inductor that was
reasonably satisfactory --- but it was still a close wound coil!!

The analytical analysis method I used is I used is based on the
methodology described in Edmund Laport's classic book Radio Antenna
Engineering, McGraw Hill 1952 (Laport is now a silent key) ---
considering the antenna as an opened-out-transmission, but the
equations given were developed by me.

I did not devise the technique, but (in my view) I was first to
analytically analyze center-loaded whips --- developing equations to
calculate the inductor required to tune, and radiation resistance.
If you take a look at that paper I show a graph showing the optimum
location of the coil.

Many years later Bob Hansen (in 1975), see [1, 2], was, in my view,
the first to use numerical moment methods to model center-loaded
whips. Bob (a long time colleague) considered my methods sort of
"back-of-the-envelope techniques", but in his later paper that year
he had to admit that my method was on the right track --- in fact
not only the 'right-track" but numerically correct. But neither Bob
(and certainly not me) modelled the antenna in its operating
environment (on a vehicle). The antenna is fed against the metal
structure of the vehicle, and so the vehicle is a part of the antenna
system.

My latest article on the subject was written in 1993 [3] --- based
on rigorous numerical modelling techniques, NEC-4D, and (more)
rigorous field strength measurement.

73, Jack, VE2CV

1. Hansen, R.C., "Efficiency and matching trade-offs for inductively
loaded short monopole antennas", IEEE Trans. on Comm., COM-23, April
1975, pp. 430-435
2. Hansen, R.C., Optimum inductive loading of short whip antennas,
IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., VT-24, 1975, p. 21
3. Belrose, J.S. and L.Parker, "A tunable all-bands HF Camp/Mobile
Antenna", Communications Quarterly, Fall 1998, pp. 47-57.

>Good day,
>
>I recently read John Belrose's "Short Coil-Loaded HF Mobile
>Antennas..." in ARRL's "Vertical Antenna Classics". He
>claims the first analysis article in a 1953 issue of QST,
>which leads me to wonder who discovered or invented the idea
>and when?
>
>Thanks,
>Doug Miron
>
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