Experimental studies on the reflecting system for short radio waves were made in the Tohoku Imperial University. Some results of which have been published in the previous numbers of this journal.
The present paper describes further experiments in directional radio transmission on a wave length of 4.4 metres. According to the author's experience, a parabolic reflector in not necessary. A reflector consisting of vertical metallic rods arranged along a polygonal base line drawn on the ground is equally effective. Each of these rods is tuned to a half wave length (2.2m) and spaced 1.1m apart.
The effects of varying the number of the reflector rods and of varying the aperture of the reflector were experimentally studied. Some experiments were also made of the effects of detuning the reflector rods. Good directional characteristic could be obtained when 19 reflector rods were used and the aperture of the reflector was nearly equal to 2.7 wave length. The radiated power was almost confined to an angle of 30°.
For the convenience of future references, the reflecting system above described will hereafter be called a "Polygonal reflector". When the polygonal reflector is employed at a receiving station, it may be called a "Polygonal collector".
The field due to a parabolic reflector was also determined under the same conditions as for the polygonal reflector. Nineteen reflector rods were erected along a parabolic curve with intervals equal to 1.1m and the aperture of the reflector was made again equal to 2.7 wave length. The radiation polar curves for both the parabolic and the polygonal reflectors show that these reflectors give the directional characteristics of nearly equal sharpness.
The paper also gives various types of directive antennae, such as "L type" "inverted L type" "U type" and "rectangular type" etc; for all of which the field-measurements were carried out.
Measurements of received currents were made with a receiving apparatus comprising a crystal detector and a microammeter. It has been very carefully ascertained that this crystal system gives the most consis ent results throughout the long time of experiments.
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