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Bandwidth limitation of two-port fed and self-phased quadrifilar helix antennas

✍ Scribed by M. Amin; R. Cahill


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
194 KB
Volume
46
Category
Article
ISSN
0895-2477

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Abstract

The bandwidth of a resonant quadrifilar helix antenna (QHA) is shown to be strongly dependent on the design of the feed network. In this paper, we compare the impedance and radiation‐pattern performance of two QHAs driven by different feed arrangements. A qualitative explanation for the difference in the behaviour of the antenna is given by observing the amplitude and phase distribution of the current in the helices. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 46: 11–15, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20886