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    the vehicle as a ground plane. In hand-held devices usually no explicit ground plane is provided, and the ground side of the antenna's feed line is just...
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  • different meanings in separate areas of electrical engineering. In antenna theory, a ground plane is a conducting surface large in comparison to the wavelength...
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    conductive surface, called a ground plane. The driving signal from the transmitter is applied, or for receiving antennas the output signal to the receiver...
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    running parallel to a ground plane and grounded at one end. The antenna is fed from an intermediate point a distance from the grounded end. The design has...
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    flat ground plane is in the range 3–10° and it depends on the wire radius and antenna length. Telstar Kraus, J.D. (March 1949). "The Helical Antenna". Proceedings...
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  • large loop antenna. Ground dipoles should not be conflated with ground plane monopole antennas. With ground plane antennas, the word "ground" refers to...
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  • Thumbnail for Omnidirectional antenna
    omnidirectional antennas are the whip antenna, "Rubber Ducky" antenna, ground plane antenna, vertically oriented dipole antenna, discone antenna, mast radiator...
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    half-wave antenna, it provides a small gain of just under 1 dB over a quarter-wave ground-plane antenna. Primarily a dipole, the J-pole antenna exhibits...
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    applied (or in receiving antennas the received signal is produced) between the antenna and ground plane. Microstrip antennas have become very popular...
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  • Thumbnail for Discone antenna
    resemble a ground plane antenna or a coaxial dipole. Antenna types Very high frequency Kodoian, Armig G. "Patent application for a discone antenna" (PDF)...
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    practical installation is "lying flat", with the plane of the loop horizontal to the ground and the antenna wire supported at the same relatively low height...
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    feet). As is in general the case for all electric antennas, the height of the G5RV above the ground should be at least half of the longest wavelength...
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    The Moxon antenna or Moxon rectangle is a simple and mechanically rugged two-element parasitic array, single-frequency antenna. It takes its name from...
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  • transmitter or receiver is connected to an antenna which emits or receives the radio waves. The antenna feed system or antenna feed is the cable or conductor, and...
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    opposite phases, with the ground plane between them made "virtual" by the opposing monopole. The dipole is the simplest type of antenna from a theoretical point...
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  • Radial (radio) (redirect from Ground radial)
    incorporated into the structure of a small antenna it is called a ground plane antenna. For these antennas the radials slope off at an angle and are also...
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    called a ground plane, such as the surface of the earth. It is used as a geometrical technique in calculating the radiation pattern of the antenna. When...
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    classes floating ground ground constants ground loop (electricity) ground plane (radio antenna) ground wire (transmission line) isolated ground phantom circuit...
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    conductor of a monopole. Since monopole antennas rely on a conductive surface, they may be mounted with a ground plane to approximate the effect of being mounted...
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    mounted over a larger sheet of metal called a ground plane. They are the original type of microstrip antenna described by Howell in 1972. The two metal sheets...
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  • Near vertical incidence skywave (category Radio frequency antenna types)
    placing a ground wire, slightly longer than the antenna, parallel to and directly underneath the antenna. A single ground wire can provide antenna gain in...
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  • Thumbnail for Radiation pattern
    defined over a plane placed in front of the source, or over a cylindrical or spherical surface enclosing it. The far-field pattern of an antenna may be determined...
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    A horn antenna or microwave horn is an antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam. Horns are...
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    A turnstile antenna, or crossed-dipole antenna, is a radio antenna consisting of a set of two identical dipole antennas mounted at right angles to each...
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    The geometrical condition for radiating a collimated, plane wave beam is that the feed antenna is located at the far focus of the hyperboloid, while the...
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    ground-plane antenna. Handheld CBs may use either a telescoping center-loaded whip or a continuously loaded "rubber ducky" antenna. Base CB antennas may...
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    their use as antennas, fractals have also found application in other antenna system components, including loads, counterpoises, and ground planes. Fractal...
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    With a monopole antenna, the counterpoise functions as a ground plane, reflecting the radio waves radiated downward by the antenna.[citation needed]...
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    horizontal plane. As the fan antenna is rotated about a vertical axis, it can illuminate targets only if they are 70° or less from the horizontal plane. Above...
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  • of the antenna to a plane wave incident from a given direction or the relative power density of the wave transmitted by the antenna in a given direction...
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