• DocumentCode
    1974895
  • Title

    Receiving Antennas for the Navstar Global Positioning System

  • Author

    Milne, R.M.T.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Communications, Communications Research Centre, Shirley Bay, P.O. Box 11490, Station H, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2H 8S2
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    17-20 Sept. 1979
  • Firstpage
    132
  • Lastpage
    136
  • Abstract
    Two new types of shaped beam antennas have been designed and developed for reception of signals from satellites operating in the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. The antennas are required, to provide a circularly polarized 2¿ steradian coverage. To achieve the required radiation pattern, arrays of scattering elements are used to shape the pattern of a cavity-backed planar spiral. This paper describes the antennas and their principles of operation, and presents their measured radiation patterns.
  • Keywords
    Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Directional antennas; Global Positioning System; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Satellites; Scattering; Signal design; Spirals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 1979. 9th European
  • Conference_Location
    Brighton, UK
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMA.1979.332687
  • Filename
    4131329
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1974895