Commercial Ka and Ku bands reflector antennas

Author

Chang, Yueh-Chi ; Hanlin, John

Author_Institution

Raytheon Integrated Defense Syst., Sudbury

fYear

2007

fDate

9-15 June 2007

Firstpage

5175

Lastpage

5178

Abstract

In trhis paper, commercial Ku band ground terminal antennas for satellite reception, such as DirecTV´s, have played a major role in the digital revolution. Another step further, commercial Ka and Ku band Tx/Rx terminals are evolving around applications requiring data rates from 100Kbps to a few 100Mbps. Examples of these applications include high speed internet, telemedicine, entertainment on- demand, and remote video monitoring, just to name a few. To meet these requirements, Raytheon has developed a family of commercial Ka and Ku band dual-offset shaped reflector antennas with three diameters, including 65cm, 75cm, and 95 cm.

Keywords

multifrequency antennas; reflector antennas; DirecTV; Ka bands reflector antennas; Ku bands reflector antennas; Raytheon antennas; Tx-Rx terminals; bit rate 100 kbit/s to 100 Mbit/s; dual-offset shaped reflector antennas; entertainment on- demand; internet; remote video monitoring; satellite reception; size 65 cm; size 75 cm; size 95 cm; telemedicine; Antenna measurements; Apertures; Conductors; Costs; Dual band; Feeds; Probes; Production; Reflector antennas; Satellite antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2007 IEEE

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0877-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0878-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2007.4396712

Filename

4396712