Monopole elements on circular ground planes
Abstract
Analytical techniques for predicting the electrical properties of a monopole antenna element at the center of a circular ground plane of finite radius are presented in a practical introduction. Chapters are devoted to circuit representation, models with known and unknown element current distribution, and comparisons with experimental data. Extensive graphs and tables of numerical data are provided, and listings of computer programs (for integral equations, the method of moments, oblate spheroid wavefunctions, the variational method, and the method of moments combined with the geometrical theory of diffraction) are included. The applicability of the methods developed to the design of optimally efficient electronically tunable antennas for airborne radio communication is indicated.
- Publication:
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Norwood
- Pub Date:
- 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987ah...bookQ....W
- Keywords:
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- Antenna Design;
- Antenna Radiation Patterns;
- Current Distribution;
- Monopole Antennas;
- Aircraft Antennas;
- Computer Programs;
- Equivalent Circuits;
- Geometrical Theory Of Diffraction;
- Integral Equations;
- Method Of Moments;
- Radio Communication;
- Wave Functions;
- Communications and Radar