Determine antenna factors at different heights by standard site method with calculable dipole antenna

Author

Lao, Ray-Rong ; Hong, Wei-Ping

Author_Institution

Center for Meas. Stand., Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

1-6 July 2012

Firstpage

630

Lastpage

631

Abstract

In this paper, a calculable dipole antenna is introduced into the conventional standard site method (SSM) to overcome the problem caused by the variation in the antenna factors for an antenna located at different heights above a conducting ground plane and to improve the accuracy of the antenna measurement. The variation of antenna factors at different heights is calculated and adopted in the antenna measurement to minimize the ground-plane effect. Measurement results show the improvement in the accuracy of antenna factors obtained by the SSM with a calculated dipole antenna.

Keywords

dipole antennas; measurement standards; measurement systems; SSM; antenna factor; antenna height location; antenna measurement; calculable dipole antenna; conducting ground plane effect; standard site method; Antenna measurements; Dipole antennas; Open area test sites; Receiving antennas; Standards; Transmitting antennas; Antenna factor; dipole antenna; open area test site (OATS); site attenuation; standard site method (SSM); three-antenna method (TAM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM), 2012 Conference on

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0589-1485

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0439-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2012.6251087

Filename

6251087