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Old 3-Dec-2011, 8:27 AM   #2
GroundUrMast
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A basic single Rhombic - 5 wavelength per leg. Gain > 16.6 dBi on all lower UHF CHs

The attached OpenOffice document includes screen shots of geometry, gain graph and plot, SWR and the 4NEC2 code used to produce the model.

The Rhombic has strong points and weak. It's cheap to build. It's big and difficult to turn.

The code is overly complex... I was using it to model a dual rhombic with dis-similar leg lengths. I love being able to use the SY cards to make code that can be adapted to variations of a geometry.

Credit to holl_ands for his input re. FR & RP cards.
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File Type: odt Single Rhombic Lamda 5 Ver 1.0.odt (181.7 KB, 1141 views)
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