Title :
Modeling an HF NVIS towel-bar antenna on a coast guard patrol boat: a comparison of WIPL-D and the numerical electromagnetics code (NEC)
Author :
Mora, Darla ; Weiser, Christopher ; McKaughan, Michael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., United States Coast Guard Acad., New London, CT, USA
Abstract :
A coast guard patrol boat high-frequency (HF) near-vertical incident skywave (NVIS) antenna is selected as a test case to compare the electromagnetic modeling programs numerical electromagnetics code, NEC and WIPL-D code. Differences between the models and program outputs are presented. The radiation pattern predictions are compared. Agreement between the results is found to be good. Minor adjustments of the two coordinate systems of the programs are necessary. A summary of the comparison is presents.
Keywords :
HF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; boats; HF NVIS towel-bar antenna; WIPL-D; antenna radiation pattern; coast guard patrol boat; coordinate systems; high-frequency near-vertical incident skywave antenna; numerical electromagnetics code; Antenna radiation patterns; Antennas and propagation; Boats; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic modeling; Electromagnetic radiation; Hafnium; Impedance; National electric code; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Applied Computational Electromagnetics, 2005. IEEE/ACES International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9068-7
DOI :
10.1109/WCACEM.2005.1469548
