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What happens to a Yagi's driving point impedance as directors are added?

  • A.It stays close to the seventy three ohms of an isolated dipole
  • B.It becomes purely reactive and cannot be matched to a feeder at all
  • C.It falls, often to twenty ohms or less
  • D.It rises steadily towards several hundred ohms as coupling increases

Answer: C

Mutual coupling from the closely spaced parasites loads the driven element heavily and pulls its resistance down, sometimes to ten or twenty ohms on a long array. That is why a folded dipole, with its four to one step up, is so often used as the driven element, or a gamma or T match is fitted. The impedance remains resistive at the design frequency once the element is trimmed. Coupling that improves the pattern also complicates the match, which is the recurring tension in parasitic arrays.

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