Title :
Using a radial, switchable, sector ground screen to produce azimuthal directivity for a monopole antenna
Author :
Edmund K. Miller
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos National Laboratory (retired), USA
fDate :
7/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Ground-mounted monopole antennas are usually driven against a radial-wire ground system to control the input impedance and to improve the radiation efficiency. This results in a radiation pattern that is uniform in azimuth angle with a front-to-back ratio of 1, or 0 dB.
Conference_Titel :
Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), 2015 USNC-URSI
DOI :
10.1109/USNC-URSI.2015.7303458
