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Small rhombic UHF television antenna from 1952. Its broad bandwidth allowed it to cover the 470 to 890 MHz UHF television band. A rhombic antenna is made of four sections of wire suspended parallel to the ground in a diamond or "rhombus" shape. Each of the four sides is the same length – about a quarter-wavelength to one wavelength per ...
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 receiver. The rhombic is a travelling wave antenna, Each segment of the rhombus has a radiation ...
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The category of simple antennas consists of dipoles, monopoles, and loop antennas. Nearly all can be made with a single segment of wire (ignoring the break made in the wire for the feedline connection). [citation needed] Dipoles and monopoles called linear antennas (or straight wire antennas) since their radiating parts lie along a single ...
Rhombic antenna, a broadband directional antenna most commonly used on shortwave frequencies; polyhedra formed from rhombuses, such as the rhombic dodecahedron or the rhombic triacontahedron or the rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb or the rhombic icosahedron or the rhombic hexecontahedron or the rhombic enneacontahedron or the trapezo-rhombic ...
The antenna is simply plugged into the television receiver and placed conveniently, often on the top of the receiver ("set-top"). Sometimes, the position needs to be experimented with to get the best picture. Indoor antennas can also benefit from RF amplification, commonly called a TV booster.
The AT&T receiving Beverage antenna (left) and radio receiver (right) at Houlton, Maine, used for transatlantic telephone calls, from a 1920s magazine. The Beverage antenna or "wave antenna" is a long-wire receiving antenna mainly used in the low frequency and medium frequency radio bands, invented by Harold H. Beverage in 1921. [1]
Edmond Bruce (September 28, 1899 – November 28, 1973) was an American radio pioneer best known for creating the rhombic antenna and Bruce array.. Bruce was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C.