How To Stack FM Broadcast Antenna | RF Circuits

Friday, January 14, 2011

How To Stack FM Broadcast Antenna

Stacking your broadcast antenna will make your antenna have more gain. If your antenna have more gain, more ERP (Emmittion Radiating Power).

What do you need for stacking antenna?

- More antennas that identical each others.
- Power divider to distribute your RF power to each antenna.
- Jumper cables to connect antennas

Stacking for 4 Antennas

Antenna :
Prepare 4 identical antenna. Tune the antenna for Matching on the working frequency.


Power Divider :
Prepare 1 power divider with 1 port input and 4 ports output.

Jumper Cables :
any length of coax cable with 2 N connectors to connect between power divider and antennas.

Determine Range between Antennas

When you install the antennas in collinear system, you must observe the distant “D” (see drawing of follow page) between two antennas.
The formula for calculate “D” is :

D = 0.75 x λ

Where :
0.75 = is the multiplicative coefficient;

300
λ = -----------
F(MHz)

SWR reading on the frequency 94.4 Mhz <1.25

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