V.H.F.-turnstile-antenna performance as a function of antenna geometry on large cylindrical satellites
Abstract
Computer pattern-prediction programs pressed into VHF turnstile antenna design for a large cylindrical communications satellite system lead to a monopole base radius no greater than roughly 0.6 the satellite radius. The presence of booms or other satellite appendages associated with parasitic radiation will affect the assignment of monopole inclination. Ripple in the equatorial plane radiation pattern is to be minimized in the program, by judicious selection of inclination
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19770466
- Bibcode:
- 1977ElL....13..654K
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- Computer Aided Design;
- Cylindrical Antennas;
- Turnstile Antennas;
- Very High Frequencies;
- Antenna Design;
- Computer Programs;
- Monopole Antennas;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking