Looking at all the designs of 4 bay bowtie antennas on-line for sale and diy designs, Can someone explain why on the 4 bay bowties that the leads are crossed between the top 2 bowties and the bottom 2 bowties ?
What does this help or prevent ? Thanks Sid.
Google can. You just use these words: bowtie antenna wire crossover And not far down the search results is a reference to a page giving an explanation.
The AARL Antenna handbook has a good description of design of bow-tie antennas and why the cross over is done. Been a while but, IIRC, to ensure that the two signals are in phase at the feed point and add constructively J
I broke out my ARRL book and looked for BowTie, but there is no mention of it. I did find a part on a 'Fan Dipole', but very little info other than it broadens the frequency range.
From what I read other places, the objective of the design is to keep the feed-point the same distance to all the bowTie connections. Keeping that rule in mind, you could conceivable gang as many antennas together as you wanted, Right ?
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