Beam-Waveguide Antenna Performance Predictions with Comparisons to Experimental Results

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 1274-1285

  Bathker, Dan A ^a   Veruttipong, Watt ^a   Otoshi, Tom Y ^a   Cramer, Paul W ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS - PERFORMANCE; SPACE RESEARCH - EQUIPMENT;

BEAM WAVEGUIDE ANTENNAS; DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; NASA TRACKING ANTENNAS;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0026883888     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.141361     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. “IRE standards on electron tubes: Definitions of terms, 1962 (62 IRE 7.52),” in Proc. IEEE, vol. 51, p. 434, Mar. 1963.
2. T. Y. Otoshi, “RF properties of the 64-m diameter antenna mesh material as a function of frequency,” in The Deep Space Network Progress Report for September and October 1972, Technical Report 32–1526, vol. XII, pp. 26–31, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Dec. 15, 1972.
3. T. Y. Otoshi, “Precision reflectivity loss measurements of perforated-plate mesh materials by a waveguide technique,” IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas, Special Issue, vol. IM-21, no. 4, pp. 451–457, Nov. 1972.
4. T. Y. Otoshi and M. M. Franco, “Radiometric tests on wet and dry antenna reflector surface panels,” in The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42–100, pp. 111–130, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Feb. 15, 1990.
5. T. Y. Otoshi, M. M. Franco, and H. F. Reilly, Jr., “Measurements on the beam waveguide antenna shroud samples and other antenna reflector surface materials,” TDA Progress Report 42–108, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, Feb. 15, 1992.
6. R. G. Kouyoumjain and P. H. Pathak, “A uniform geometrical theory of diffraction for an edge in a perfectly conducting surface,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 62, pp. 1448–1461, Nov. 1974.
7. V. Galindo-Israel and R. Mittra, “A new series representation for the radiation integral with application to reflector antennas,” IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 25, pp. 631–641, Sept. 1977.
8. S. D. Slobin, T. Y. Otoshi, M. J. Britcliffe, L. S. Alvarez, S. R. Stewart, and M. M. Franco, “Efficiency measurement techniques for calibration of a prototype 34-m-diameter beam-waveguide antenna at 8.45 and 32 GHz,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 40, no. 6, June 1992.
9. T. Y. Otoshi, S. R. Stewart, and M. M. Franco, “Portable microwave test packages for beam-waveguide antenna performance evalu-ations,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 40, no. 6, June 1992.
10. D. J. Rochblatt and B. L. Seidel, “Microwave Antenna Holography,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory Tech., vol. 40, no. 6, June 1992.
11. D. A. Bathker, W. Veruttipong, P. W. Cramer, Jr., and T. Y. Otoshi, Ch. 3 in “DSS-13 beam waveguide antenna project: Phase 1 final report,” JPL Document D-8451 (internal document), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, May 15, 1991
12. S. D. Slobin, “Atmospheric and environmental effects,” Module TCI-40; Rev. C, in the DSN/Flight Project Interface Design Document 810-5; Rev. D, (internal document), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 1991.
13. T. Y. Otoshi, S. R. Stewart, and M. M. Franco, “A portable X-band front-end test package for beam-waveguide antenna performance evaluation part II: Tests on the antenna,” TDA Progress Report 42–105, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, pp. 54–68, May 15, 1991.