DocumentCode
834748
Title
Assessment of vehicle-mounted antennas for NVIS applications
Author
Austin, B.A. ; Liu, W.-C.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Liverpool Univ., UK
Volume
149
Issue
3
fYear
2002
fDate
6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
147
Lastpage
152
Abstract
The special requirements to be met by vehicle-mounted antennas for use in near vertical incidence skywave (NVIS) applications are examined and the performance of both whip and loop antennas assessed. From these results it is apparent that the loop is the preferable configuration and an optimised, loaded loop antenna is presented. The loading is necessary to control the current distribution around the loop and a procedure for determining the value of that capacitive loading, using an equivalent transmission line, is presented and evaluated
Keywords
HF antennas; antenna radiation patterns; current distribution; loop antennas; mobile antennas; 2 to 10 MHz; NVIS applications; capacitive loading; current distribution; equivalent transmission line; loop antennas; radiation patterns; radio communications; vehicle-mounted antennas; whip antennas;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, IEE Proceedings
Publisher
iet
ISSN
1350-2417
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/ip-map:20020393
Filename
1039371
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