• DocumentCode
    3568585
  • Title

    Recent investigations on the volcano smoke antenna

  • Author

    Paulsen, L. ; West, J.B. ; Perger, W.F. ; Kraus, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Michigan Technol. Univ., Houghton, MI, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2003
  • Firstpage
    845
  • Abstract
    We have demonstrated that the volcano smoke antenna has conservatively a 10 to 1 bandwidth for both VSWR and antenna far-field pattern. Simulations over the same frequency range show excellent agreement with the experimental data, supporting the original idea that the volcano smoke antenna is a potentially very wide-band device.
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; broadcast antennas; directive antennas; finite element analysis; monopole antennas; VSWR; antenna far-field pattern; broadband direction-finding antennas; finite-element modeling; monopole antenna; rapid prototyping; vertical radiation patterns; very wideband device; volcano smoke antenna; wax model; Aluminum; Bandwidth; Broadband antennas; Directive antennas; Frequency; Paints; Prototypes; Shape; Topology; Volcanoes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2003. IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7846-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APS.2003.1220042
  • Filename
    1220042