Reduced-Height Wideband Conical Antennas in the VHF/UHF Bands

Conference: EuCAP 2009 - 3rd European Conference on Antennas and Propagation
03/23/2009 - 03/27/2009 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: EuCAP 2009

Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF

Personal VDE Members are entitled to a 10% discount on this title

Authors:
Palud, Sébastien; Colombel, Franck; Himdi, Mohamed (Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications of Rennes (IETR), University of Rennes I, Av. du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France)
Meins, Cyrille Le (Thales Communications, 110 Av. du M Leclerc, 49300 Cholet, France)

Abstract:
This paper presents two compact wideband omnidirectional antennas for applications in the VHF and UHF bands. These antennas are based on new shapes which allow a reduction of the height of the monopole without any deterioration of the radiation properties over at least one octave bandwidth.