A pattern synthesis of circular arrays by phase adjustment

A problem of sidelobe suppression of a uniformly excited circular array of monopoles through the adjustment of the excitation phases is dealt with. For this purpose, the method of approximation programming (MAP) is used to determine the optimum excitation phases which minimize the sidelobe level. Galerkin\´s method is used to analyze the mutual coupling between array elements. The resulting radiation pattern has equal amplitude sidelobes that are lower than those obtained with a cophasal array. The resulting radiation pattern of a 32-element double-ring array, operating at -band, was measured and reasonable agreement with theory was obtained.