Wednesday, May 11, 2022

2m 5/8 over 1/4 wave vertical ground plane

Hustler CG-144 is one example of this type of antenna, I also had one of these from a different mfgr as my first 2m base station antenna, which worked ok.

Searching for information or a description of how this antenna works, how to build one, or a model turned up nothing. The only real unknown is the phasing coil, after sleuthing around the internet for a bit I found this phasing coil from Improving the Super-J. This appears to be fairly close to the CG-144 measurements, and does the trick. There is nearly 180 degrees of phase shift from one end to the other, and with a 1/4 wave element under it, and 5/8 above it close to 50 ohm match.

EZNEC model - 2m-58ovr14-wave-GP.

Issues: Bandwidth is narrow in the model (~2 MHz < 1.5:1), maybe because of 12 AWG wire to keep it simple.



EZNEC antenna view
Antenna view

EZNEC elevation plot
Elevation plot 2 meters height above average ground

EZNEC create helix
How to create the coil with EZNEC Create Helix function