Wednesday, October 15, 2014

What You Should Know About Military Antennas

By Patty Goff


A radio antenna (or just aerial) is a transducer that can send and receive radio waves (electromagnetic waves) designed for radio, TV, cell phones, radar or satellite. A radio antenna is a transducer with a usable efficiency can perform one or both of these energy conversions: marketable alternating electrical energy for transmission of radio wave energy. Marketable radio wave energy to alternating electrical energy (military antennas).

Most radio aerials today is primarily designed to be able to send or receive radio waves in a narrow frequency band, for example. FM via VHF band II (87.5-108 MHz). Masts propagate / receives radio waves through coupling with the alternating magnetic field. These types of antenna are used for long-wave, medium-wave and short-wave up to about 6MHz. It is possible to realize antennas that operate according to this principle, up to 60 MHz.

Beamwidth: The angular range of directions in which the radiation of a beam takes a value 3 dB below the maximum. The direction in which the radiated power is halved. Ratio at the secondary main lobe (SLL): The ratio in dB between the maximum value of main lobe and the maximum value of secondary lobe. Front-back ratio (FBR): The ratio in dB between the value of maximum radiation and the same direction and opposite direction.

Loops are only effective at resonance, and must therefore be geared to operate, high q, very narrow bandwidth. All within about 10 wavelengths (near field) of an antenna may affect its radiation patterns. An antenna is the most "sensitive" in its main cones, there where it has "gain" in a free field radiation pattern.

If the antenna is replaced by the radiation resistance, this would do their job, ie, would produce the same amount of power that the antenna would radiate. The radiation resistance is equal to the ratio of the power radiated by the aerial divided by the square of the current in its feed point. One could obtain an mast efficiency, given that is the ratio of the radiated power and the dissipated power.

You can also define the beam width between zero, which is the angular range of the main beam of a radiation pattern between two adjacent zeros to maximum. Create antennas radiated electromagnetic fields. Polarized electromagnetic defined in a certain direction, as the geometric shape that traces the edge of electric field vector at a certain distance from the antenna, to change the time.

Every day use of aerials to transmit and receive signals (data) throughout the world by millions of people is ordinary. General: Everything is connected without cables using in some degree antennas for the exchange of information (data). An aerial is a (metal wire) device designed for the purpose of emitting or receiving electromagnetic waves into free space. A transmitter antenna transforms electrical energy into electromagnetic waves, and a receiver performs the inverse function.

The characteristics of an antenna depends on the relationship between the dimensions and the wavelength of a signal transmitted or received radio frequency. If the masts dimensions are much smaller than the wavelength are called elementary antennas, whether they have dimensions of order of a half wavelength resonating and if its size is much larger than the wavelength are directives.




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