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Isotron is the trade name for a shortwave antenna marketed by Bilal Co. for use as an amateur radio transmitting antenna for restricted spaces. [1] It is physically short as compared to a dipole antenna for a given frequency. It consists of a coil placed between two angled sheet metal plates.
The ground rods create a ground plane under the antenna which increases the gain. The ground rods may extend horizontally from the base, but in antennas fed by coaxial cable as shown here they are usually sloped downward to increase the radiation resistance of the antenna from the 36 ohms of a quarter wave monopole closer to 50 ohms, so the ...
A radio transmitter or just transmitter is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves with frequencies between about 30 Hz and 300 GHz. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the antenna. When excited by this alternating current, the ...
The J-pole antenna is an end-fed omnidirectional half-wave antenna that is matched to the feedline by a shorted quarter-wave parallel transmission line stub. [5] [1] [6] For a transmitting antenna to operate efficiently, absorbing all the power provided by its feedline, the antenna must be impedance matched to the line; it must have a resistance equal to the feedline's characteristic impedance.
The rhombic antenna is a directional wire antenna used on MF and HF bands for shortwave reception. The antenna consists of a wire suspended above the ground in the shape of a rhombus , terminated at one end by a resistor equal the the wire's characteristic impedance, about 400 to 600 ohms, and at the other end connected to the feedline to the ...
[40] [36] He credited Prof. Moisè Ascoli of Rome with first calculating in 1897 that the antenna radiated at a wavelength of four times its height. [38] An integral equation for the current in wire antennas was derived by Henry Pocklington in 1897, [38] [41] who showed the current was approximately a sinusoidal standing wave.
The second antenna is a reference antenna, which points rigidly at the first antenna. Each antenna is alternately connected to a transmitter having a particular source impedance, and a receiver having the same input impedance (the impedance may differ between the two antennas).
Antenna directivity is the ratio of maximum radiation intensity (power per unit surface) radiated by the antenna in the maximum direction divided by the intensity radiated by a hypothetical isotropic antenna radiating the same total power as that antenna. For example, a hypothetical antenna which had a radiated pattern of a hemisphere (1/2 ...