Design and implementation of fast antenna tuners for HF radio systems

Author

Mileusnic, Mladen ; Petrovic, Dr Predrag ; Todorovic, Jasminka

Author_Institution

IRITEL Inst. for Telecommun. & Electron., Beograd, Yugoslavia

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Sep 1997

Firstpage

1722

Abstract

A description of fast HF antenna tuners from the functional and implementation standpoint is presented. The realized fast antenna tuner is specially useful for mobile or transportable HF radio system applications, including adaptive communications, frequency hopping and electronic countermeasures. This study comprises: the equipment design requirements, the basic configuration of the fast antenna tuner, the optimum matching network synthesis, the choice of the general tuning strategy, the implementation of the matching network with emphasis on components technology, and the advantageous monitoring scheme based on measurements in the reflection plane

Keywords

adaptive systems; antenna accessories; antenna testing; electronic countermeasures; frequency hop communication; impedance matching; land mobile radio; mobile antennas; tuning; wire antennas; adaptive communications; components technology; electronic countermeasures; fast antenna tuners; frequency hopping; mobile HF radio system; monitoring; optimum matching network synthesis; reflection plane measurements; transportable HF radio system; whip antenna; wire antenna; Adaptive arrays; Adaptive systems; Antenna accessories; Electronic countermeasures; Hafnium; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Reflector antennas; Spread spectrum communication; Tuners;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3676-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICS.1997.652290

Filename

652290