Reuse of the mobile communication antenna for FM reception

Author

Picher, C. ; Anguera, J. ; Andújar, A. ; Borja, C. ; Puente, C. ; Kahng, S.

Author_Institution

Technol. & Intellectual Property Rights Dept., Fractus, Barcelona, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

11-15 April 2011

Firstpage

324

Lastpage

327

Abstract

A conventional monopole antenna (λ/4) operating at FM frequencies is too long for being integrated in a mobile phone. In order to avoid big external antennas or using the wire of the headsets, a new solution is proposed. It consists in reusing an existing mobile phone antenna usually operating at the communication standards (ex: GSM, CDMA, UMTS) with the aim of achieving operation also at FM band. Impedance, received power and audio quality measurements have been carried out demonstrating that a mobile handset antenna operating at GSM 900/1800 also allows users to listen to FM satisfactorily.

Keywords

mobile antennas; mobile handsets; mobile radio; monopole antennas; radio reception; CDMA; FM frequencies; GSM 900-1800; UMTS; audio quality measurements; communication standards; mobile communication antenna reuse; mobile handset antenna; mobile phone antenna; monopole antenna; power quality measurements; Antenna measurements; Frequency modulation; GSM; Mobile antennas; Mobile handsets;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EUCAP), Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Rome

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0250-1

Type

conf

Filename

5782275