Title :
Principle of rear windscreen car antenna
Author :
Maclean, T.S.M. ; Dinnis, A.R.
Author_Institution :
Edinburgh Univ., UK
Abstract :
The heated rear windscreen car antenna is being increasingly used for reception purposes, as a means of avoiding the mechanical problems which may arise with rod antennas. The objective in its design is not, however, to find an optimum geometric shape for printing on the rear windscreen, but rather to use the existing heater-demister as an antenna. Two problems arise in such a design. One is the matching problem over the wide frequency range from long waves to VHF, and the other is the electromagnetic solution to the geometry of the heater-demister
Keywords :
VHF devices; antenna radiation patterns; automobiles; impedance matching; mobile antennas; radio reception; receiving antennas; VHF; antenna radiation patterns; electromagnetic solution; heated rear windscreen car antenna; heater-demister geometry; long waves; matching problem; radio reception; receiving antenna; wide frequency range;
Conference_Titel :
Antennas and Propagation, 1995., Ninth International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 407)
Conference_Location :
Eindhoven
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-637-7
DOI :
10.1049/cp:19950338
