Simple switched-beam array antenna system for mobile Satellite communications

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E92-B, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3861-3868

  Basari, ^a   Purnomo, M Fauzan E ^a   Saito, Kazuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna system; ETS VIII; Microstrippatch array antenna; Outdoor measurement; Satellite tracking

Indexed keywords

ANECHOIC CHAMBERS; ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; DATA ACQUISITION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SLOT ANTENNAS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TRACKING (POSITION); VEHICLES;

ANTENNA SYSTEM; ARRAY ANTENNAS; ETS-VIII; OUTDOOR MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE TRACKING;

SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

EID: 77952631273     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.3861     Document Type: Article

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