A top-loaded, inductively-coupled small antenna for HF ground wave transmission

Author

Lim, S. ; Choo, H. ; Rogers, R.L. ; Ling, H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

20-25 June 2004

Firstpage

3187

Abstract

An electrically small, top-loaded, inductively coupled antenna is proposed for HF ground wave transmission. An inductively coupled feed structure is used to step up the input resistance. The top loading is used to achieve small size and self resonance. The dimensions of the inductive coupling structure and the multi-armed, spherical helix top loading are designed using a genetic algorithm to ensure maximum coupling to HF ground waves. An antenna with a kr of 0.2 has been designed, built and tested at 30 MHz. The transmission performance shows improvements over a previous-generation antenna.

Keywords

HF antennas; HF radio propagation; antenna feeds; antenna testing; electromagnetic coupling; electromagnetic wave transmission; genetic algorithms; helical antennas; impedance matching; 30 MHz; HF ground wave transmission; antenna testing; electrically small antenna; genetic algorithm; inductively coupled feed structure; input resistance; multi-armed top loading; spherical helix top loading; top-loaded antenna; Algorithm design and analysis; Couplings; Electric resistance; Feeds; Genetic algorithms; Hafnium; Helical antennas; Resonance; Testing; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2004. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8302-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APS.2004.1332056

Filename

1332056