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T2FD Antenna Guide for Ham Radio

The document describes the T2FD (Terminated & Twisted Folded Dipole) antenna, an experimental NVIS antenna designed for 2-30 MHz. It is a folded dipole terminated with a low-inductance 800 ohm resistor for a high feed impedance requiring a 1:16 balun. It has a wide bandwidth with low SWR and optional tuner. Structural efficiency varies from 10-50% with the rest dissipated in the terminator resistor. It is a non-resonant traveling wave antenna relatively immune to local noise with high signal-to-noise ratio, suitable for digital modes. This inverted-V version was assembled at 5/9/5 meter heights for low

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T2FD Antenna Guide for Ham Radio

The document describes the T2FD (Terminated & Twisted Folded Dipole) antenna, an experimental NVIS antenna designed for 2-30 MHz. It is a folded dipole terminated with a low-inductance 800 ohm resistor for a high feed impedance requiring a 1:16 balun. It has a wide bandwidth with low SWR and optional tuner. Structural efficiency varies from 10-50% with the rest dissipated in the terminator resistor. It is a non-resonant traveling wave antenna relatively immune to local noise with high signal-to-noise ratio, suitable for digital modes. This inverted-V version was assembled at 5/9/5 meter heights for low

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T2FD, Terminated & Twisted Folded Dipole, NVIS

Experimental design, NVIS, 2 to 30 MHz


CC-BY OH1AYR Rev 7.0 Date 23.10.2019

Balun 1:16
Balun type is 50Ω to 800Ω (1:16) ferrite tube transformer.
Balun details on separate document on my web page.

About the T2FD antenna type Terminator 800 Ω 120W


T2FD is folded dipole, terminated with a low-inductance 800Ω Low-inductance TO-220 resistor set is fitted on a heavy heatsink,
resistor. Feed impedance is high; use 1:16 balun with coaxial feed. dimensions 40 x 66 x 100 mm. Thermal resistance 1,5 K/W. Serial
The terminator is low inductance type; power handling up to 90% connected resistors (4 pcs) are of type MP930-200, 200Ω 30W.
of transmitter power. The resistor must be cooled properly.
T2FD is a wide band antenna with low SWR over the full designed
frequency range; tuner is optional. Antenna length is not critical: it
works beyond the designed frequency range, with less radiation,
however. Typical total length is 30% to 50% of the wave length of
the lowest frequency to be used.
Structural Efficiency varies, in this case from 10% to 50%. The rest
of power is burned in the load resistor. Sophisticated dummy load ?
Yes... T2FD might not be the first choice for QRP operations on the
lowest frequencies.
T2FD is a non-resonant, traveling wave antenna, which is rather
immune to local wide band noise. T2FD is a extremely quiet RX
antenna with very high S/N ratio, worth to try with digital modes...
The antenna works like standard dipole. Radiation pattern is similar
to dipole with the similar dimensions. If you use vertical wire loop
and a flat top dipole assembly with high altitude (15-20m), you get
pattern similar to half wave dipole, with low takeoff angle... Measured SWR:
However, the T2FD might not be the best DX antenna...
Use the Force Luke...

This T2FD version


This omni-directional NVIS version was assembled as inverted-V at
5/9/5 m height. The low inverted-V configuration gives the best
results for low band NVIS. We try to get the main radiation up...
The cloud burner effect ... Antenna's full length abt. 40m was fine-
tuned to get some of high SWR slopes near some of common ham
frequencies. Radiation efficiency should be highest near SWR
peaks. Estimated input power range is now up to 100W using SSB/ Structural and Radiation Efficiency %, simulated with NEC:
CW and up to 70W using RTTY/PSK. SWR is from 1.1 to 2.0 (full
frequency range) with 30m feed line (RG213). We usually use this
60
antenna with automatic coaxial antenna tuner. Antenna's wire
50
spacing is now 700 mm. 5/700 mm glass fiber spacers were used
between the wires, distance between spacers is about 6 m. Nevada 40
Kevlar 32D flexible antenna wire is used as the radiator element. 30
Over dry grounds this antenna type may need counterpoise wires 20
below the antenna. We tested it over average ground type; only 10
minor changes were seen on simulations and SWR measurements. 0
2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30

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T2FD, Terminated & Twisted Folded Dipole, NVIS
Experimental design, NVIS, 2 to 30 MHz
CC-BY OH1AYR Rev 7.0 Date 23.10.2019

2 MHz 4 MHz 7 MHz

10 MHz 14 MHz 18 MHz

21 MHz 24 MHz 28 MHz

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