Off-axis radiation-pattern calculation of a Cassegrain antenna system with an application to site shielding

Author

Van Dooren, G. A J ; Govaerts, H.J.F.G.

Author_Institution

Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1993

fDate

1993

Firstpage

631

Abstract

The authors have calculated the off-axis receiving pattern of a Cassegrain reflector antenna with a prescribed geometry as function of antenna azimuth in the absence as well as in the presence of a half-plane obstacle. The model used is based on GO and UTD and includes 21 wave contributions to calculate the total field at the feed. These contributions are individually traced through the antenna system and are spatially weighted by the feed pattern assumed. The ray analysis indicates that some of the individual contributions can be neglected to simplify the model. The model proposed analyses the combined problem of obstacle and antenna diffraction since in many cases the obstacle is in the near field of the earth-station antenna. Results of the additional attenuation caused by the presence of the obstacle on the propagation path of an interference source are given

Keywords

antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic wave propagation; interference (signal); magnetic shielding; reflector antennas; Cassegrain antenna system; antenna azimuth; antenna diffraction; antenna feed; attenuation; earth-station antenna; half-plane obstacle; interference source; near field; obstacle diffraction; off-axis receiving pattern; propagation path; radiation-pattern; reflector antenna; site shielding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 1993., Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Edinburgh

Print_ISBN

0-85296-572-9

Type

conf

Filename

224672