• DocumentCode
    1137688
  • Title

    Impedance stability and bandwidth considerations for elevated-radial antenna systems

  • Author

    Christman, Al ; Radcliff, Roger

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Grove City Coll., PA, USA
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    6/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    167
  • Lastpage
    171
  • Abstract
    An examination is made of the variations in feed-point impedance that occur in an elevated antenna system due to changes in the electrical characteristics of the underlying soil. The bandwidth of such antennas is also investigated by looking at deviations in the input impedance as the operating frequency is varied about its nominal value. In all cases, results for the elevated antenna are compared with those of the conventional ground-mounted system. The computer program used for this work was NEC (Numerical Electromagnetics Code), a method-of-moments software package
  • Keywords
    dipole antennas; radio transmitters; Numerical Electromagnetics Code; bandwidth; computer program; elevated-radial antenna systems; feed-point impedance; method-of-moments software package; radio transmitters; soil; Antenna feeds; Bandwidth; Electric variables; Electromagnetics; Frequency; Impedance; Moment methods; National electric code; Soil; Stability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Broadcasting, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9316
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/11.30829
  • Filename
    30829