Title : 
Design of cost effective antennas for instrumentation radars
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Defence Peace Safety & Security, Council for Sci. & Ind. Res., Pretoria, South Africa
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The cost of antennas for instrumentation radars are determined by the development cost. By re-use of the reflector system cost effective antennas can be designed. The factors governing the design of such antennas are described here.
         
        
            Keywords : 
design; radar antennas; reflector antennas; cost effective antennas; design; instrumentation radars; reflector system; Antenna feeds; Radar antennas; Radar tracking; Reflector antennas;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC), 2012 IEEE-APS Topical Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Cape Town
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-0404-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/APWC.2012.6324975