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Double Cross Dipole antenna for 437 MHz don't tune

Amateur Radio Asked by Carlo IU2KQB on September 27, 2021

I’m building a Double Cross Dipole antenna for 437 MHz to be used with a SDR receiver for CW cubesat.
The idea is to follow this “classic” paper from Gerald Martes, KD6JDJ.
I tuned every single dipole (8 mm aluminium bar + ferrite + coax cable) using a nanoVNA with – i think – good result(eg. here the return loss of first dipole)

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I use a coax cable to measure the SWR like this

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and the coax length is taken from end of the shield (as in this images :))

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but when I connect all the 4 dipole … craziest thing happened …and it seems to me that every dipole change the proper resonant frequency to a different one.

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Is the problem in the cabling between all the dipole ? Or (as I suppose) I followed a wrong apporoach tuning separately every dipole and the proper way is to tune all the arms after connect them together?

Can someone give me some hints on how to proceed?

Tks a lot

Carlo, IU2KQB

One Answer

I am sure the phasing and proper connection of the coax to the individual dipoles will get you a pretty good hemispherical CP pattern. It is easy to get confused when connecting the coax to the dipole.

Answered by Jerry Martes on September 27, 2021

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