Title :
Electrical performance of a 10 meter inflatable reflector for land mobile communications
Author :
Savini, D. ; Besso, P. ; Tatalias, P. ; Klooster, Kv T. ; Ritz, W.
Author_Institution :
CSELT-Centro Studi e Lab. Telecommun. SpA, Torino, Italy
Abstract :
As a development step towards the implementation of the Inflatable Space Rigidized Antenna Reflector (ISRS) technology for antenna reflectors, a 10 meter Large Offset Antenna Demonstrator (LOAD 10) ISRS antenna reflector was designed, built, tested and evaluated. The authors present the electrical performance of the antenna evaluated on the basis of the measured parabolic surface of the built reflector. The influence of the surface accuracy on gain, side lobe level, cross-polar level and interference level between isofrequency beams is described
Keywords :
antenna radiation patterns; antenna reflectors; mobile radio systems; satellite antennas; satellite relay systems; 10 m; ISRS; Inflatable Space Rigidized Antenna Reflector; LOAD 10; Large Offset Antenna Demonstrator; antenna gain; cross-polar level; electrical performance; inflatable reflector; interference level; isofrequency beams; land mobile communications; measured parabolic surface; side lobe level;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation, 1991. ICAP 91., Seventh International Conference on (IEE)
Conference_Location :
York
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-508-7
