• 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