A new low-cost active rod antenna for automotive reception of all terrestrial audio broadcast services

Author

Reiter, L. ; Boge, Alexander ; Negut, Alexandru ; Lindenmeier, S.

Author_Institution

Inst. of High Freq. Technol. & Mobile Commun., Univ. of the Bundeswehr Munich, Neubiberg, Germany

fYear

2014

fDate

6-11 April 2014

Firstpage

2981

Lastpage

2984

Abstract

For the existing terrestrial broadcast services AM, FM and DAB (VHF and L-Band), a active rod antenna with a new low-cost design and a height of only 14 cm is presented. A special high-impedance amplifier with low hardware effort based on only one HEMT for FM- and DAB services enables high performance of the ultra-short antenna structure which consists of a capacitive coupled helical structure. In combination with this amplifier, different helical structures are investigated. Measured results show the high performance of the active antenna, which yields a signal pick up and noise behavior fulfilling typical automotive requirements.

Keywords

UHF antennas; VHF antennas; active antennas; audio-frequency amplifiers; automotive electronics; digital audio broadcasting; helical antennas; high electron mobility transistors; AM; DAB-services; FM-services; HEMT; L-band; VHF-band; automotive reception; capacitive coupled helical structure; high-impedance amplifier; low-cost active rod antenna; terrestrial audio broadcast services; ultra-short antenna structure; Antenna measurements; Frequency measurement; Frequency modulation; Helical antennas; Transistors; AM; DAB-L-Band; DAB-VHF; FM; capacitive coupled helical antenna; high-impedance amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2014 8th European Conference on

Conference_Location

The Hague

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCAP.2014.6902454

Filename

6902454