Integrally-wound antenna helix-coilform
Abstract
Abstract This concerns the fabrication of an integrally-wound helixcoilform assembly for an antenna of, for example, the high voltage and high power tunable helix-cylinder (inductance/capacitance) monopole type. Preassembled on a collapsible, cylindrically-shaped mandrel are a wound helix of controlled pitch, an end coupling to which the helix is affixed at one end, and a binding post securing the other end of the helix wire. After the entire assembly is enclosed in a plastic covering such as teflon shrink tubing or adhesive-backed tape helically wound to a predetermined tension and pattern, cycloaliphatic epoxy resin-saturated glass fibers are wound in a carefully controlled manner over the entire assembly in a predetermined pattern and then cured. The tensioned plastic covering together with the controlled winding of glass fibers provides for the interlaminar shear faces of the coilform structure type to be formed as convolutions between the helix turns, thus giving rise to an integrally-constructed assembly far superior both structurally and electrically.
Inventors
- 👤 C Majkrzak
- 👤 M Polgar
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