Active microstrip array for satellite communication applications

Author

Kabacik, Pawel

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telecommun. & Acoust., Tech. Univ. Wroclaw, Poland

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

24-27 Jul 1995

Firstpage

626

Abstract

In this paper two microstrip arrays designed manufactured and tested for the needs of DBS signal reception in the X-band are presented. The TPA-256 antenna was a passive array and the TPA-256A antenna was an active one. TPA-256 and TPA-256A differed in their beamforming networks (BFN)-BFN of the TPA-256A array contained two microwave low noise amplifiers (LNA) to increase antenna sensitivity. The contribution includes theoretical and experimental results. Consideration is also given to reduction of a feeding network spurious radiation in microstrip arrays

Keywords

MMIC amplifiers; active antenna arrays; antenna radiation patterns; antenna testing; direct broadcasting by satellite; microstrip antenna arrays; receiving antennas; 10.8 to 11.8 GHz; DBS reception; MMIC LNA; TPA-256 antenna; TPA-256A antenna; X-band; active microstrip antenna array; antenna sensitivity; beamforming networks; microwave low noise amplifiers; satellite communication applications; satellite signal reception; Antenna arrays; Array signal processing; Microstrip antenna arrays; Microwave amplifiers; Microwave antenna arrays; Pulp manufacturing; Satellite broadcasting; Satellite communication; Signal design; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2674-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBMOMO.1995.509691

Filename

509691