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Moxon Beams Design Building

Moxon Beams Design

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Moxon Beams Design Building

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    2. Moxon Beams Design & Building by WB5CXC 2006 Ham - Com

    3. Moxon Beam Invented by Les Moxon – G6XN Program Design by Dan Maguire AC6LA from formulas from L.B. Cebik W4RNL Download Moxon Generator program: www.moxonantennaproject.com/design.htm

    4. Moxon Beam cont’d Two Element Folded Beam Reduced size 50 Ohm Impedance (no matching required) Elevations above ˝ wavelengths have very little effect on SWR ~ 5.5 - 11 dB gain Front to Back Ratio - ~ 25 – 30 dB

    5. Moxon Beams cont’d Easy to Build Can be made from wire or alum. Tubing PVC, Wood, Fiberglass Design Program Put in the frequency & size of wire/tubing Dimensions will be calculated

    6. Moxon Beams cont’d Need to download MoxonGenerator.exe This is the design program Put in the center frequency you intend to operate and the wire or tubing size Hit calculate – program will calculate the dimensions and spacing

    8. Beams in General Beam antennas come in all different designs The most common is the straight element Yagi 2 – 4 element in HF bands Many elements in the VHF, UHF bands The length of the elements and the boom are inversely proportional to the frequency The lower the frequency the longer the elements and boom

    11. Building Moxon Beams Design your Moxon Beam Measurements are critical as well as the wire or tubing used. If you are using different wiring or tubing size – recalculate for the different size of wire/tubing. The Elements are isolated from ground and each other.

    12. Building Moxon Beams cont’d Design a Moxon Beam for 10 Meters Center frequency will be 28.5 Mhz We will use # 14 wire

    22. What does all this Mean? This data was generated using an Antenna modeling program (MultiNec & Eznec) Antenna is modeled at 20 feet above ground, with average Ground conditions, and copper wire. Modeled antenna is compared to ˝ dipole (usually) Can also be model in free space.

    23. What does all this Mean? cont’d Gain 10.9 dB dB = 10 log (Pout / Pin) Gain is the number that corresponds to a log10 of 1.09 Gain is 12.3 (compared to ˝ wave dipole) You get 12.3 time the power in the main direction as compared with a ˝ wave dipole

    24. dB numbers that you should know 3 dB Double Power or ˝ Power 10 dB – 10 times Power or 1/10 Power 20 dB – 100 times Power or 1/100 Power

    25. What does all this Mean? cont’d Fr/Rear is 10.5 dB This is a ratio of 11.22 Signals coming in from the rear has a reduction of 1/11.22 F/Back is ~ 23 dB Signals are reduced by 1/199.5

    34. Cost Material Cost for 2M Moxon #6 Bare Copper wire - $ 2.75 1/2” PVC Tees $ .83 10’ 1/2” PVC Pipe $ 1.29 Total $ 4.87

    44. Moxon Programs & Etc. Moxon Antenna Design Program http://www.moxonantennaproject.com/design.htm Transmission Line Analyzer Program – TLDetails (Freeware) http://www.ac6la.com/ Excel Based Antenna Modeling Program –MultiNec http://www.ac6la.com/

    45. Moxon Programs & Etc. Eznec Antenna Modeling Program http://www.eznec.com/

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