A Low-Profile Ferrite Dipole VHF Antenna for Integrated Mast Applications
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Abstract
In this paper, an extremely low-profile ferrite dipole antenna operating on the VHF band (30–300 MHz) is proposed. The design antenna consists of 44 plate-type ferrite cells arranged into two stacked ferrite layers: a bottom ferrite layer with 2 × 12 grid cells and a top ferrite layer with 2 × 10 grid cells. The antenna is excited by an electric loop feeding structure and maximum gain performance is achieved when the loop feeding structure has five loops. To validate the performance of the proposed antenna, an antenna prototype is fabricated and tested at an outdoor range. The antenna weighs 1.45 kg and has electrical dimensions of approximately 0.0636 × 0.0112 × 0.0008 λ L 3 at the lowest operating frequency of 30 MHz. The measured realized gain varies from −31.48 to −2.44 dBi within the VHF band. Reasonable agreement is also obtained between the measurement and simulation results. To assess the performance of the proposed antenna, it was mounted on the integrated mast of an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) model. The antenna on the OPV was also simulated and the results discussed.
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OpenAlex topics: Antenna Design and Analysis · Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies · Microwave Engineering and Waveguides
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Affiliations
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 440-746, Korea
Tactical Communication. Team, Hanwha Systems, Seongnam 13524, Korea
Naval Systems. 1st Team, Hanwha Systems, Gumi 39376, Korea
Funding
Hanwha Systems
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