DocumentCode
3675568
Title
Using a radial, switchable, sector ground screen to produce azimuthal directivity for a monopole antenna
Author
Edmund K. Miller
Author_Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired), USA
fYear
2015
fDate
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
174
Lastpage
174
Abstract
Ground-mounted monopole antennas are usually driven against a radial-wire ground system to control the input impedance and to improve the radiation efficiency. This results in a radiation pattern that is uniform in azimuth angle with a front-to-back ratio of 1, or 0 dB.
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2015 USNC-URSI
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/USNC-URSI.2015.7303458
Filename
7303458
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