Antennas for non-specialists

Author

Iizuka, Kunihiko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

46

Issue

1

fYear

2004

fDate

2/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

84

Abstract

The article reports the experience of giving a hands-on antenna course to a group of participants who were not antenna specialists. The discussion of the results is presented in the format of a student-instructor dialog. The questions asked by the participants were sometimes very challenging to answer, especially without resorting to mathematical formulas. For the benefit of those antenna instructors who are interested in imitating this course, a set of instructions for performing the experiments is presented at the beginning of each experiment; these can be used as worksheets to hand out to the participants.

Keywords

antenna arrays; dipole antennas; electrical engineering education; student experiments; Poynting vector; antenna array; antenna instructors; antenna theory; balun; charge measurement; coaxial cables; current measurement; dipole antenna; displacement current; hands-on antenna course; mobile antennas; radiation pattern; radio wave reflection; student-instructor dialog; wave emission; Antenna accessories; Antenna arrays; Antenna measurements; Antenna radiation patterns; Antenna theory; Dipole antennas; Impedance measurement; Mobile antennas; Reflector antennas; Transmission line antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1045-9243

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAP.2004.1296146

Filename

1296146