Sidelobe Level Reduction by Improvement of Strut Shape

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1984, Pages 698-705

  Satoh, Toshio ^a   Endo, Shizuo ^a   Matsunaka, Naoto ^a   Betsudan, Shinichi ^b   Katagi, Takashi ^b   Ebisui, Takashi ^b  

^a Kosukai Denshin Denwa Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

^b Mutsubishi Electric Corporation ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, SATELLITE RELAY;

GEOMETRIC THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; GEOSTATIONARY ORBIT; STRUT SHAPE;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0021463445     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1984.1143394     Document Type: Article

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