Research on circularly polarized conical-beam antennas

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 27-38

  Kawakami, Haruo ^a,c,d,e,f   Sato, Gentei ^a   Wakabayashi, Ryoji ^b  

^a Antenna Giken Co Ltd Laboratory   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c MEIJI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HITACHI KOKUSAI ELECTRIC INC   (Japan)

^f SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circularly polarized antenna; Land mobile radio communication antenna; Satellite communication

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; CALCULATIONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PHASE SHIFTERS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED ANTENNA; FOUR MONOPOLE ANTENNAS; LAND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATION ANTENNAS;

MOBILE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031165487     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.598558     Document Type: Article

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