[SBE-89-Alaska] [EXTERNAL] Re: HARRP

Stephen Lockwood lockwood at hatdaw.com
Tue Aug 6 11:41:38 PDT 2024


Yes the magic of slugging.   Changing the characteristic impedance of 
the line to match the antenna impedance.  I had a little dos program 
that would help the process.  I have only watched and never had to do on 
my own.

Stephen S. Lockwood, P.E., PMP, President
Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers
9500 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
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On 8/6/2024 11:21 AM, Clyde Plunkett wrote:
> Once upon a time, ERI had some Clif notes on the ferrite cores in 
> rottertiller antennas. A little cloudy after 35 years…
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> On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 15:09 Pearson, Ron via SBE-89-alaska 
> <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org> wrote:
>
>     So for instance in a rototiller antenna with a hard wave guide
>     with a TE11 mode, how is the wave making it out of the rototiller,
>     the thing looks completely sealed off and that it would just
>     create a bunch of internal reflection.  OR are those nub ends non
>     metallic caps from with which the RF goes from contained RF to
>     free space RF?
>
>     Thank you 😊
>
>     Ron
>
>     *From:*SBE-89-alaska <sbe-89-alaska-bounces at sea.sbe16.org> *On
>     Behalf Of *Pearson, Ron via SBE-89-alaska
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2024 2:47 PM
>     *To:* Stephen Lockwood <lockwood at hatdaw.com>; Charles Sather
>     <CSather at knba.org>; SBE-89-Alaska <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [SBE-89-Alaska] [EXTERNAL] Re: HARRP
>
>     I have heard of these things talked about after my transition to
>     EE but never could find a great reference on how exactly they worked.
>
>     I get installing single stub series and parallel with either
>     capacitive resistive or inductive loads (or simply calculating the
>     coax length) in order to eliminate reactive power (which is your
>     imaginary reflected power).  I thought inductors had to be
>     connected into the coax and not just slid over the outside in
>     order to actually destructively interfere with reflected power.
>
>     Additionally, if an RF wave is generated inside of a transmitter
>     via electron change of motion and that wave is then guided in a
>     wave guide how is that wave dispersed and manipulated in say a
>     rototiller antenna.  The root of the radiation is the electron
>     manipulation in the transmitter itself.
>
>     *From:*Stephen Lockwood <lockwood at hatdaw.com>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:38 PM
>     *To:* Pearson, Ron <RonPearson at iheartmedia.com>; Charles Sather
>     <CSather at knba.org>; SBE-89-Alaska <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [SBE-89-Alaska] [EXTERNAL] Re: HARRP
>
>     Nautel insist on toroidal ferrites on the coax headed to the
>     antenna.  As this keeps Thor from killing the MOSFETS.  As the
>     HAARP Transmitters are tubes they are not quite a sensitive.  They
>     are designed to operate anywhere on the smith chart for load
>     impedance...  In fact off the smith chart as they can work with a
>     negative impedance (power being fed back).
>
>     Stephen S. Lockwood, P.E., PMP, President
>
>     Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers
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>     On 7/30/2024 1:14 PM, Pearson, Ron wrote:
>
>         What are you referring to with ferrites?
>
>         *From:*Stephen Lockwood <lockwood at hatdaw.com>
>         <mailto:lockwood at hatdaw.com>
>         *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2024 12:07 PM
>         *To:* Charles Sather <CSather at knba.org>
>         <mailto:CSather at knba.org>; Pearson, Ron
>         <RonPearson at iheartmedia.com>
>         <mailto:RonPearson at iheartmedia.com>; SBE-89-Alaska
>         <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org> <mailto:sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>         *Subject:* Re: [SBE-89-Alaska] [EXTERNAL] Re: HARRP
>
>         There are none!
>
>         Stephen S. Lockwood, P.E., PMP, President
>
>         Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers
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>         On 7/30/2024 1:04 PM, Charles Sather wrote:
>
>             Did you get a count of ferrites for Jeff?
>
>             *Charles Sather**
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>             *From:*SBE-89-alaska <sbe-89-alaska-bounces at sea.sbe16.org>
>             <mailto:sbe-89-alaska-bounces at sea.sbe16.org> *On Behalf Of
>             *Pearson, Ron via SBE-89-alaska
>             *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2024 10:30 AM
>             *To:* Stephen Lockwood <lockwood at hatdaw.com>
>             <mailto:lockwood at hatdaw.com>; SBE-89-Alaska
>             <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>             <mailto:sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>             *Subject:* Re: [SBE-89-Alaska] [EXTERNAL] Re: HARRP
>
>             Very cool thank you for the cliffs notes
>
>             *From:*Stephen Lockwood <lockwood at hatdaw.com>
>             *Sent:* Tuesday, July 30, 2024 10:20 AM
>             *To:* Pearson, Ron <RonPearson at iheartmedia.com>;
>             SBE-89-Alaska <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>             *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SBE-89-Alaska] HARRP
>
>             They did.   They use NEC4 (if I remember correctly).  It
>             is just classic array physics - just big at these
>             frequencies.  The physics is the same for the nifty flat
>             panel radar arrays or curtain dipole arrays like we use in
>             HF broadcasting.  They just have some very cool software
>             to change the transmitter exciters to provide beam
>             steering, circular polarization, and lots of other cool
>             stuff.  Each dipole has its own transmitter. 180 cross
>             dipoles with 360 10 kW transmitters.
>
>             Stephen S. Lockwood, P.E., PMP, President
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>             Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers
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>             On 7/30/2024 9:44 AM, Pearson, Ron wrote:
>
>                 Hello Stephen,
>
>                 Was it awesome, did they go over finite element (MOM)
>                 models and programming on how the array was built and
>                 modeled and the conceptual motivation for the design?
>
>                 Thank you 😊
>
>                 Ron
>
>                 *From:*SBE-89-alaska
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>                 <mailto:sbe-89-alaska-bounces at sea.sbe16.org> *On
>                 Behalf Of *Stephen Lockwood via SBE-89-alaska
>                 *Sent:* Wednesday, July 24, 2024 7:11 AM
>                 *To:* Pierre Lonewolf <lonewolf at otz.net>
>                 <mailto:lonewolf at otz.net>; SBE Chapter 89 Alaska
>                 <sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>                 <mailto:sbe-89-alaska at sea.sbe16.org>
>                 *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [SBE-89-Alaska] HARRP
>
>                 Did you find a ride?
>
>                 Stephen Lockwood
>
>                 On Jul 21, 2024, at 19:41, Pierre Lonewolf via
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>                     Is anyone from Anchorage driving to the HARRP tour? I finally looked at the map and why am I going to Fairbanks!?
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