Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Jason Lavoie]

Never mind the fact that the antenna is almost touching the truss and is certainly not performing as well as it should be
But is this amateur-hour or a useful trick to put an LPDA on a dish/reflector?

Jason

[Lyle Williams]

Amateur hour.  The active area of the ldpa can't be at the dish focal point for anything but a very small range of frequencies.  With found parts, that is unlikely to be at the frequency you want.  Better to stick with the ldpa if you want moderate gain and wideband response, or cut your own dipole for the dish if you need high gain at a fixed frequency.

[Scott Helmke]

Are you sure that it's a LDPA at UHF frequencies? Could be something else entirely.

[Jason Lavoie]

Are you sure that it's a LDPA at UHF frequencies? Could be something else entirely.

It is in a large store, and is aimed towards an adjacent building which is their head office, so a data link makes sense.

And after thinking about it I agree with Lyle. Frequencies aside, the dish is only useful at its focal point

maybe it is a plastic cover for an LDPA over top of something else?

Jason

[Lyle Williams]

... or the thing shaped like a ldpa is just a support for the driven element.  That would provide room for inbuilt electronics.

[Pete Erskine]

It is in a large store, and is aimed towards an adjacent building which is their head office, so a data link makes sense.

And after thinking about it I agree with Lyle. Frequencies aside, the dish is only useful at its focal point

maybe it is a plastic cover for an LDPA over top of something else?

Jason

'

LPDA are used with a reflector but sometimes point towards the reflector for added narrow band. 
This is true especially in the wifi band but this unit seems a little larger.  Without seeing inside the radome it is hard to tell.

UHF antennas often have rear reflector on a LPDA.

[Henry Cohen]

This is a Yagi-Uda antenna enclosed in a radome, and as with all yagi's there's a reflector behind the driven element. Some manufacturers use a large grid style reflector (rather than just a another rod set) for increasing directivity. I've actually seen this antenna product in a catalog, though I can't find it right now, and for some reason I suspect it's 900MHz ISM band; I'll continue to look for the OEM.

[Lyle Williams]

I don't recall seeing a lpda with a reflector.  Lots of vhf ldpa with a uhf yagi+reflector on roofs for tv though.

[ProSoundWeb Community]