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CHAPTER 15
# 1) DEFINITIONS
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Transmission Lines
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A special type of transmission line that consists of a conducting metallic tube through which high-frequency electromagnetic energy is propagated.
Waveguide
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Electrical energy that has escaped into free space in the form of transverse electromagnetic waves
Radio Waves
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The plane parallel to the mutually perpendicular lines of the electric and magnetic fields.
Wavefront
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Radiation Efficiency
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Antenna wherein two conductors are spread out in a straight line to a total length of one quarter wavelength. Another name for quarter wave antenna. A half-wave dipole.
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A special coupling device that can be used to direct the transmit and receive signals and provide the necessary isolation.
Diplexer
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A polar diagram or graph representing field strengths or power densities at various angular positions relative to an antenna.
Radiation Pattern
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Radiation pattern plots field strength or power density with respect to the value at a reference
Relative Radiation
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Major Lobes
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The major lobes that propagates and receive the most energy.
Front Lobe
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Side lobes
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Minor Lobes
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Back Lobe
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The ratio of the front lobe power to the back lobe power.
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The line bisecting the major lobe, or pointing from the center of the antenna in the direction of maximum radiation.
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Omni-directional Antenna
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Isotropic Radiator
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Maximum Radiation
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It is defined as an equivalent transmit power. It stands for Effective Isotropic Radiated Power.
EIRP
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The equivalent power that an isotropic antenna would have to radiate to achieve the same power density in the chosen direction at a given point as another antenna.
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The power density in space and the actual power that a receive antenna produces at its output terminals.
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Capture Area
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Effective Area
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The relationship of captured power to the received power density and the effective capture area of the received antenna.
Directly Proportional
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It refers to the orientation of the electric field radiated from the antenna.
Polarization
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The angular separation between the two half-power (-3dB) points on the major lobe of an antenna's plane radiation pattern.
Antenna Beamwidth
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Antenna Bandwidth
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Feedpoint
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The simplest type of antenna. Another names for elementary doublet Short Dipole, Elementary Dipole Hertzian Dipole
Elementary Doublet
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Electrically Short
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Hertz antenna is name after him and he was the first to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves.
Heinrich Hertz
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A single pole antenna one quarter wavelength long, mounted vertically with the lower end either connected directly to ground or grounded through the antenna coupling network.
Marconi Antenna
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Loading
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A coil added in series with a dipole antenna which effectively increases antenna's electrical length.
Loading Coil
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5 Ohms
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An individual radiator, such as a half or quarter wave dipole. Two types of antenna elements Driven Parasitic Two Elements of a single antenna Two Wire Folded Dipole
Antenna Element
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Its purpose is to increase the directivity and concentrate the radiated power within a smaller geographic area.
Array
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Elements that are directly connected to the transmission line and receive power from the source.
Driven
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Elements are not connected to the transmission line; they receive energy only through mutual induction with a driven element.
Parasitic
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Director
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Driven
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Broadside Arrays
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A widely used antenna commonly uses a folded dipole as the driven element and named after two Japanese scientists.
Yagi Uda
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7 dB and 9 dB
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Turnstile Antenna
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Log Periodic
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A broadband VHF or UHF antenna that is ideally suited for applications for which radiating circular rather than horizontal or vertical polarized electromagnetic waves are required. Modes of propagation: Normal Axial
Helical Antenna
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Antennas having half power beamwidths on the order of 1o or less. Three important characteristics: Front-to Back Ratio, Side-toSide Coupling Back-to-Back Coupling
Microwave Antenna
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Antenna that provides extremely high gain and directivity and are very popular for microwave and satellite communications link. Two main part Parabolic Reflector Feed Mechanism Parabolic Reflector Antenna
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The effective area in a receiving parabolic antenna and is always less than the actual mouth area.
Capture Area
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