Compact multimode horn with low sidelobes for global earth coverage

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1125-1133

  Granet, Christophe ^b   Bird, Trevor S ^a,b   James, Graeme L ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA LOBES; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

COMPACT MULTIMODE HORN; GLOBAL EARTH COVERAGE; MODE MATCHING SOFTWARE; RETURN LOSS; SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034217264     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.876332     Document Type: Article

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