Electromagnetic ground-wave field of vertical antennas for communication at 1 to 30 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 40, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 337-342

  King, Ronold W P ^a,b   Harrison Jr , Charles W ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Analytical formulas; Ground wave field; Shipboard antennas; Spherical earth model; Vertical electric dipole

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC GROUND-WAVE FIELDS; SHIP-BOARD ANTENNAS; VERTICAL ELECTRIC DIPOLES;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032205685     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/15.736219     Document Type: Article

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