A Novel Conventional Vehicle-Mounted Broadband HF Ionospheric Vertical Sounding Antenna

Author

Bai, Bo ; Yao, Ming ; Deng, Xiaohua

Author_Institution

Inst. of Space Sci. & Technol., Nanchang Univ., Nanchang, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In ionospheric vertical sounding, an antenna with 1 ~ 20 MHz detection frequency range is enough because F2 layer critical frequency is usually lower than 20MHz, and the antenna gain requirements are relatively low because of the strong vertical sounding echoes. Besides, stable impedance, and vertical main lobe of radiation in the whole sounding frequency range are also required. This paper presents a new type of antenna structure for ionospheric measurements. According to FEKO software simulation, it is optimal designed for the vertical ionospheric measurements with the miniaturized size.

Keywords

HF antennas; broadband antennas; ionospheric techniques; F2 layer critical frequency; FEKO software simulation; antenna gain; antenna structure; detection frequency range; frequency 1 MHz to 20 MHz; vehicle-mounted broadband HF ionospheric vertical sounding antenna; vertical ionospheric measurements; vertical sounding echoes; Antenna measurements; Broadband antennas; Construction; Impedance; Ionosphere; Reflector antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040092

Filename

6040092