A Broadband Vertical Polarized Antenna for Wireless Communications

A folded metal dipole is of considerable interest as a broadband antenna element, and has good potential for use in low cost wireless base station antenna applications. In this paper, experimental and simulation results are presented which include a metal vertical polarized dipole alone and arranged in a staggered six element array. The results show that this dipole element and the six staggered dipole array have excellent gain performance and radiation pattern profile. The measured and simulated results for both the element and the array are in good agreement.