Hi.
What is the right spacing between the passive and the active elements? My antenna has a lot wider spacing as the antenna I saw here in the SatNogs project. Ok. My antenna was build in 2008 or 2009 and I can’t find the site for this again 
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Where can I find the building instruction for a very good turnstile antenna?
Hi,
I use this type of antenna: https://www.diegorispoli.it/images/articles/antenna-turnstile-noaa.jpg
I don’t have build it myself, but the dimensions are nearly the same,
it’s from the small but nice “Winkler Antennenbau”.
Alex
Also the dimensions of the l/4-50Ohm-delay-line and the 2x75 Ohm // matching-line are nearly the same as in in the link. The distance between reflector and radiator is 45cm.
Hi Alex.
Thank you. Ok. There’s a 45cm spacing. Lot less as at my antenna. Is there a calculation formula for this spacing out there?
Or: Has @satnogs a building scheme for a turnstile?
https://wiki.satnogs.org/Antennas does not show build instructions for a non-rotator-antenna. There’s a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnstile_antenna.
I don’t think, there is a formula for calculating the space between reflector and radiator.
It’s experience, with this spacing of lambda/5 you get a lifted diagram in the vertical.
You get the most gain for satellites with low elevation, the higher the elevation of the satellite becomes, the lower the antenna-gain becomes, but this compensated because the satellite get’s nearer.
The lowest gain of the antenna is, when the satellite is direct above you.
Sorry about my english, i hope it’s clear what I mean.
Alex
