When I coined the term NAROD, I meant it to be Not A Reflector Or Director. I could have chosen NERD too, but that was way too corny IMO, heh.
Recently, upon googling on NAROD, I came upon this in the Oxford Dictionary Press:
"narod noun M20 Russian. In countries of the former USSR: the people; specifically the common people seen (in some ideologies) as the bearers of national culture.
The Narodnik movement was a type of socialism originating among the …
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Oddly yes, I am a person, born in the USA, of parents from an extremely oppressed former Soviet Republic. My aunt died in Siberia, found frozen eating a raw potato, when Stalin sent her there. 300ohm is anything but a Narodnik.
The NAROD is one of the best revelations that I've seen in these Digital antenna designing threads.
Not A Reflector Or Director [aka: narod] is intended to be placed in the same plane as the driven elements, therefore as mentioned by stampeder it would act as a resonator/re-resonator of the frequency range it is tuned to, rather than a director that is placed in front of the driven elements or a reflector which is placed behind the driven elements. IMO; NAROD is a perfect description.
The real mystery is ' HOW DOES IT WORK ' ?
Question: would it be correct to say that the driven elements in a GH then become phase lines for VHF reception resonated from the NARODS?
Somewhat like the Coupled-Resonator Dipole described in the ARRL antenna book chapter 7, but with a GH, it behaves differently than with a straight dipole, with its own unique quirks.
The Coupled-Resonator Dipole may be a good choice for a FM/VHF-Hi antenna. (not modeled yet)
I like that fact that when building it, it gives the GH a solid structure. A GH by itself suffers structurally from the floppy stubs. With the NARODs, the SBGH is a tuff little antenna.
It's probably BOTH....although in closely coupled Resonators, I've found that the closer it gets to the Active Element, the tighter the coupling and hence the Higher the Gain, such as in the fol.:
UHF 2-Square Centipede Inside a 2'x3' Metal Picture Frame [see first two Albums, Loop Size Constrained per OP Request] benefited from VERY Close Coupling of the Outer Hi-VHF Resonator Loop to the Inner 2-Square Centipede Antenna: Hi-VHF+UHF In 3-ftx2-ft Picture Frame - ImageEvent
Fortunately the OP's Metal Frame WIDTH = 24-in was fairly CLOSE to the OPTIMUM WIDTH, as discussed below.
OTOH:
4-Bay Bowtie + VHF Resonator Loops provided even HIGHER Hi-VHF GAIN and DID NOT REQUIRE Close Coupling to be effective (so go figure): H+U 4-Bay Loop RLH4 (10x14) - No Refl
Note that the Resonator Loop WIDTH was considerably LESS than 1/2-Wavelength in Hi-VHF Band (198 MHz = 29.8-in] and Total Loop Diameter was considerably LESS than a Full Wavelength....so much for "Intuitive" Resonator explanations.
Optimum Size for a Hi-VHF Square Loop Antenna was 20-in per side.....so the Hi-VHF Resonators used in the 2-Bay and 4-Bay above have about the same WIDTH, but are significantly TALLER [again, go figure.....and why different WIDTHS for 2-Bay and 4-Bay???]: http://imageevent.com/holl_ands/loops/hivhfsquarelooprefl
NOTE: Although Multi-Bay Bowties benefit from REFLECTOR RODS.....they do NOT improve by adding DIRECTOR RODS.....
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