Saturday 11 July 2020

VHF/UHF logper antenna

This week I finished a dualband logper antenna.

It is a design according to Gunter, DL9HCG.
Construction details can be downloaded here: https://dl9hcg.a36.de/

Logper antennas are also called LPDAs (Log Periodic Dipole Antenna).

The advantage of a logper (logaritmic periodic) antenna is its  large bandwidth combined with relative small dimensions.

I selected a 7-elements logper with following dimensions:




One starts with the construction of a dual boom

7 element logper



Measured SWRs:

430 MHz  1 : 1.4
145 MHz  1 : 1.6

First QSOs with the repeater in Goes 145.775 MHz and 438.400 MHz  PI1ZLD are promising.
http://www.pi3goe.nl


Logper pointing in the direction of the Zierikzee repeater

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