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W5GI MYSTERY ANTENNA (Pdf)
W5GI Mystery Antenna A multi-band wire antenna that performs exceptionally well even though it confounds antenna modeling software Article by W5GI ( SK ) The design of the Mystery antenna was inspired by an article written by James E. Taylor, W2OZH, in which he described a low profile collinear coaxial array. This antenna covers 80 to 6 meters with low feed point impedance and will work with most radios, with or without an antenna tuner. It is approximately 100 feet long, can handle the legal limit, and is easy and inexpensive to build. It’s similar to a G5RV but a much better performer especially on 20 meters. The W5GI Mystery antenna, erected at various heights and configurations, is currently being used by thousands of amateurs throughout the world. Feedback from users indicates that the antenna has met or exceeded all performance criteria. The “mystery”! part of the antenna comes from the fact that it is difficult, if not impossible, to model and explain why the antenna works as well as it does. The antenna is especially well suited to hams who are unable to erect towers and rotating arrays. All that’s needed is two vertical supports (trees work well) about 130 feet apart to permit installation of wire antennas at about 25 feet above ground. The W5GI Multi-band Mystery Antenna is a fundamentally a collinear antenna comprising three half waves in-phase on 20 meters with a half-wave 20 meter line transformer. It may sound and look like a G5RV but it is a substantially different antenna on 20 meters. -
A Polarization Approach to Determining Rotational Angles of a Mortar
A POLARIZATION APPROACH TO DETERMINING ROTATIONAL ANGLES OF A MORTAR by Muhammad Hassan Chishti A thesis submitted to the Faculty of the University of Delaware in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Summer 2010 Copyright 2010 Muhammad Chishti All Rights Reserved A POLARIZATION APPROACH TO DETERMINING ROTATIONAL ANGLES OF A MORTAR by Muhammad Hassan Chishti Approved: __________________________________________________________ Daniel S. Weile, Ph.D Professor in charge of thesis on behalf of the Advisory Committee Approved: __________________________________________________________ Kenneth E. Barner, Ph.D Chair of the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering Approved: __________________________________________________________ Michael J. Chajes, Ph.D Dean of the College of Engineering Approved: __________________________________________________________ Debra Hess Norris, M.S Vice Provost for Graduate and Professional Education This thesis is dedicated to, My Sheikh Hazrat Maulana Mufti Muneer Ahmed Akhoon Damat Barakatuhum My Father Muhammad Hussain Chishti My Mother Shahida Chishti ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, my all praise and thanks be to the Almighty Allah, The Beneficent, Most Gracious, and Most Merciful. Without His mercy and favor I would have been an unrecognizable speck of dust. I am exceedingly thankful to my advisor Professor Daniel S. Weile. It is through his support, guidance, generous heart, and mentorship that steered me through this Masters Thesis. Definitely one of the smartest people I have ever had the fortune of knowing and working. I am really indebted to him for all that. I would like to thank the Army Research Labs (ARL) in Aberdeen, MD for providing me the funding support to perform the research herein. -
Smith Chart Calculations
The following material was extracted from earlier edi- tions. Figure and Equation sequence references are from the 21st edition of The ARRL Antenna Book Smith Chart Calculations The Smith Chart is a sophisticated graphic tool for specialized type of graph. Consider it as having curved, rather solving transmission line problems. One of the simpler ap- than rectangular, coordinate lines. The coordinate system plications is to determine the feed-point impedance of an consists simply of two families of circles—the resistance antenna, based on an impedance measurement at the input family, and the reactance family. The resistance circles, Fig of a random length of transmission line. By using the Smith 1, are centered on the resistance axis (the only straight line Chart, the impedance measurement can be made with the on the chart), and are tangent to the outer circle at the right antenna in place atop a tower or mast, and there is no need of the chart. Each circle is assigned a value of resistance, to cut the line to an exact multiple of half wavelengths. The which is indicated at the point where the circle crosses the Smith Chart may be used for other purposes, too, such as the resistance axis. All points along any one circle have the same design of impedance-matching networks. These matching resistance value. networks can take on any of several forms, such as L and pi The values assigned to these circles vary from zero at the networks, a stub matching system, a series-section match, and left of the chart to infinity at the right, and actually represent more. -
A Wide-Band RF Front-End with Linear Active Notch Filter for Mobile
RMO2B-5 A Wide-Band RF Front-End with Linear Active Notch Filter for Mobile TV Applications Seung Hwan Jung, Kang Hyuk Lee, Young Jae Lee1, Hyun Kyu Yu1, Yun Seong Eo Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems Laboratory Kwangwoon University, Seoul Korea 1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejeon Korea Abstract — This paper presents a wide-band RF front-end inductor has a poor linearity and cannot withstand the with linear active notch filter covering both T-DMB and strong GSM interferer even with the external GSM band DVB-H. A single to differential converter with the low amplitude/phase error and 6dB step RF VGA using the rejection SAW filter. To overcome these drawbacks, a capacitor are implemented. Also, highly linear and Q- newly proposed linear Q-enhanced active notch filter is enhanced tunable active inductor is proposed. The linear presented in this paper. In order to obtain a high linearity active notch filter rejects GSM band up to 23dB and achieves of the active inductor, the MGTR (Multiple Gated 20dB linearity improvement. The RF front-end is fabricated Transistor) topology is adopted to the gyrator’s trans- on 90nm CMOS technology and consumes 29.7mW. conductor cell and push-pull type negative resistor circuit is also used, which maintain the constant inductance and Index Terms — Wide-band LNA, Single to differential converter, High linear active inductor, Notch filter, CMOS. quality factor in spite of very strong GSM input interferer. I. INTRODUCTION II. THE PROPOSED ARCHITECTURE Nowadays, the mobile TV markets such as Terrestrial- Fig. 1 illustrates the proposed wide-band RF front-end Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (T-DMB) in Korea and with linear active notch filter. -
Design of Reconfigurable Radio Front-Ends
Design of Reconfigurable Radio Front-Ends Xiao Xiao Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2018-142 http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2018/EECS-2018-142.html December 1, 2018 Copyright © 2018, by the author(s). All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Design of Reconfigurable Radio Front-Ends by Xiao Xiao A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering - Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Borivoje Nikolic, Chair Professor Ali Niknejad Professor Paul Wright Spring 2016 Design of Reconfigurable Radio Front-Ends Copyright 2016 by Xiao Xiao 1 Abstract Design of Reconfigurable Radio Front-Ends by Xiao Xiao Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering - Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley Professor Borivoje Nikolic, Chair Modern and future mobile devices must support increasingly more wireless standards and bands. Currently, multi-band coexistence is enabled by a network of discrete, off-chip com- ponents that are bulky, expensive, and narrowband. As transceivers are required to accom- modate an increasing number of wireless bands, the required number of discrete components increases accordingly, resulting in greater bill of materials (BoM) cost and front-end module (FEM) area. -
The DBJ-1: a VHF-UHF Dual-Band J-Pole
By Edison Fong, WB6IQN The DBJ-1: A VHF-UHF Dual-Band J-Pole Searching for an inexpensive, high-performance dual-band base antenna for VHF and UHF? Build a simple antenna that uses a single feed line for less than $10. wo-meter antennas are small com- dipole because it is end fed; this results antenna on my roof since 1992 and it has pared to those for the lower fre- in virtually no disruption to the radiation been problem-free in the San Francisco Tquency bands, and the availability pattern by the feed line. fog. of repeaters on this band greatly extends The basic configuration of the ribbon the range of lightweight low power The Conventional J-Pole J-Pole is shown in Figure 1. The dimen- handhelds and mobile stations. One of the I was introduced to the twinlead ver- sions are shown for 2 meters. This design most popular VHF and UHF base station sion of the J-Pole in 1990 by my long-time was also discussed by KD6GLF in QST.1 antennas is the J-Pole. friend, Dennis Monticelli, AE6C, and I That antenna presented dual-band reso- The J-Pole has no ground radials and was intrigued by its simplicity and high nance, operating well at 2 meters but with it is easy to construct using inexpensive performance. One can scale this design to a 6-7 dB deficit in the horizontal plane at materials. For its simplicity and small size, one-third size and also use it on UHF. UHF when compared to a dipole. -
Design and Fabrication of a Micro-Strip Antenna for Wi-Max Applications
MEE08:29 DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF A MICRO-STRIP ANTENNA FOR WI-MAX APPLICATIONS Tulha Moaiz Yazdani Munawar Islam This thesis is presented as part of Degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology October 2008 Blekinge Institute of Technology School of Engineering Department: Signal Processing Supervisor: Dr. Mats Pettersson Examiner: Dr. Mats Pettersson - ii - UAbstract Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wi-Max) is a broadband technology enabling the delivery of last mile (final leg of delivering connectivity from a communication provider to customer) wireless broadband access (alternative to cable and DSL). It should be easy to deploy and cheaper to user compared to other technologies. Wi-Max could potentially erase the suburban and rural blackout areas with no broadband Internet access by using an antenna with high gain and reasonable bandwidth Microstrip patch antennas are very popular among Local Area Network (LAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), Wide Area Network (WAN) technologies due to their advantages such as light weight, low volume, low cost, compatibility with integrated circuits and easy to install on rigid surface. The aim is to design and fabricate a Microstrip antenna operating at 3.5GHz to achieve maximum bandwidth for Wi-Max applications. The transmission line model is used for analysis. S-parameters (S11 and S21) are measured for the fabricated Microstrip antenna using network analyzer in a lab environment. The fabricated single patch antenna brings out greater bandwidth than conventional high frequency patch antenna. The developed antenna also is found to have reasonable gain. - iii - - iv - UAcknowledgement It is a great pleasure to express our deep and sincere gratitude to our supervisor Dr. -
Electronic Science Electrodynamics and Microwaves 17. Stub Matching
1 Module 17 Stub Matching Technique in Transmission Lines 1. Introduction 2. Concept of matching stub 3. Mathematical Basis for Single shunt stub matching 4 .Designing of single stub using Smith chart 5. Series single stub 6. Concept of Double stub matching 7. Mathematical Basis for Double Stub Matching 8. Design of Double stub using Smith Chart: 9. Summary Objectives After completing this module, you will be able to 1. Understand the concept of matching stub and different types of it. 2. Understand the mathematical principle behind the stub matching technique. 3. Design single stub and double stub using Smith chart. 4. Know about advantages and limitations of stub matching technique. Electrodynamics and Microwaves Electronic Science 17. Stub Matching Technique in Transmission Lines 2 1. Introduction In the earlier modules , we have discussed about how matching networks and QWT can be used for matching the load impedance with the lossless transmission line. Both these techniques suffer from some drawbacks .Especially the losses like, insertion loss, mismatch loss are of much more prominent losses. There is another technique known as “Stub Matching Technique” to match the load impedance with the Characteristic impedance of the given transmission line so as to have zero reflection coefficient. The technique is marvelous and the designing can be done using Smith chart in a very simple way. Let us discuss it with adequate details rather qualitatively avoiding mathematical rigor in it. 2. Concept of Matching Stub A section of a transmission line having small length is called as a stub. Two types’ namely single stub and double stub comprising of one or two stubs are in common use. -
ANTENNA THEORY Analysis and Design CONSTANTINE A
ANTENNA THEORY Analysis and Design CONSTANTINE A. BALANIS Arizona State University JOHN WILEY & SONS New York • Chichester • Brisbane • Toronto • Singapore Contents Preface xv Chapter 1 Antennas 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Types of Antennas 1 Wire Antennas; Aperture Antennas; Array Antennas; Reflector Antennas; Lens Antennas 1.3 Radiation Mechanism 7 1.4 Current Distribution on a Thin Wire Antenna 11 1.5 Historical Advancement 15 References 15 Chapter 2 Fundamental Parameters of Antennas 17 2.1 Introduction 17 2.2 Radiation Pattern 17 Isotropic, Directional, and Omnidirectional Patterns; Principal Patterns; Radiation Pattern Lobes; Field Regions; Radian and Steradian vii viii CONTENTS 2.3 Radiation Power Density 25 2.4 Radiation Intensity 27 2.5 Directivity 29 2.6 Numerical Techniques 37 2.7 Gain 42 2.8 Antenna Efficiency 44 2.9 Half-Power Beamwidth 46 2.10 Beam Efficiency 46 2.11 Bandwidth 47 2.12 Polarization 48 Linear, Circular, and Elliptical Polarizations; Polarization Loss Factor 2.13 Input Impedance 53 2.14 Antenna Radiation Efficiency 57 2.15 Antenna as an Aperture: Effective Aperture 59 2.16 Directivity and Maximum Effective Aperture 61 2.17 Friis Transmission Equation and Radar Range Equation 63 Friis Transmission Equation; Radar Range Equation 2.18 Antenna Temperature 67 References 70 Problems 71 Computer Program—Polar Plot 75 Computer Program—Linear Plot 78 Computer Program—Directivity 80 Chapter 3 Radiation Integrals and Auxiliary Potential Functions 82 3.1 Introduction 82 3.2 The Vector Potential A for an Electric Current Source -
Values Along a Transmission Line
Values Along a Transmission Line Notes on Calculating Input Values from Load Values Along a Transmission Line L. B. Cebik, W4RNL Note: This is a version of a presentation to college student-hams in 1994. Due to limitations in both the drawing system and the HTML system, substitute characters have been used in places. Greek letters are usually spelled out in the text (but not in equations). "L-script" is simply "l" in the text. In places, the standard footed slash that introduces a phase angle has been replaced by "@". Meanings should generally be clear for all other symbols and abbreviations used in the text. The input values of voltage, voltage phase angle, current, current phase angle, resistance, and reactance (along with impedance and impedance phase angle, if desired) depend upon two properties: the load value of these parameters and the length and characteristics of the transmission line. The load may be an antenna, a junction with one or more other transmission lines, a dummy load, or anything similar. Those with little experience in dealing with these concepts and quantities may be interested in reading the following review of the relationships among the various transmission line properties. Everything begins by speaking the same language. Figure 1 schematically represents most of the elements of transmission lines, while Table 1 (at the end of the text) defines many of the abbreviations to be used in the text and the equations to follow. Since all calculations will be done in terms of degrees (or radians) along a wavelength of RF, let us note in passing the standard conversion equations: file:///E|/Perso/archive/w4rnl/w4rnl/www.cebik.com/trans/zcalc.html (1 sur 11)30/04/2008 14:09:32 Values Along a Transmission Line and where Lm is the initial length in meters and Lf is the initial length in feet. -
An Open Rf-Digital Interface for Software-Defined Radios
.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. AN OPEN RF-DIGITAL INTERFACE FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS AN OPEN, COMPLETE RF-DIGITAL INTERFACE APPROPRIATE FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS (SDRS). THE INTERFACE INCLUDES DATA AND METADATA (CONTROL AND CONTEXT) PACKETS.THE CONTROL AND CONTEXT PACKETS DESCRIBE THE ENTIRE RF FRONT END.THE PROPOSED DESCRIPTION HAS A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE AND IS A HARDWARE ABSTRACTION.THE INTERFACE SUPPORTS ADVANCED ARCHITECTURES SUCH AS SDR CLOUDS.THE METADATA PACKETS CAN BE REPRESENTED USING FORMAL, COMPUTER-PROCESSABLE SEMANTICS. ......Wireless signals are centered at a RF front-end details certain RF. The signal-processing operations— As Figure 1 shows, the RF front end is not synchronization, modulation, and so on—are entirely analog; it consists of an analog front implemented on baseband signals centered at end and a digital front end (DFE).1 The DFE zero frequency. Therefore, receivers must does interpolation or decimation to increase or down-convert from RF to baseband. Trans- decrease the sampling frequency. Furthermore, mitters perform the opposite process of the down-conversion and up-conversion can up-conversion. -
Multiband LNA Design and RF-Sampling Front-Ends for Flexible Wireless Receivers
Linköping Studies in Science and Technology Dissertation No. 1036 Multiband LNA Design and RF-Sampling Front-Ends for Flexible Wireless Receivers Stefan Andersson Electronic Devices Department of Electrical Engineering Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden Linköping 2006 ISBN 91-85523-22-4 ISSN 0345-7524 ii Multiband LNA Design and RF-Sampling Front-Ends for Flexible Wireless Receivers Stefan Andersson ISBN 91-85523-22-4 Copyright c Stefan Andersson, 2006 Linköping Studies in Science and Technology Dissertation No. 1036 ISSN 0345-7524 Electronic Devices Department of Electrical Engineering Linköping University SE-581 83 Linköping Sweden Author e-mail: [email protected] Cover Image Picture by the author illustrating an RF-sampling receiver on block level. The chip microphotograph represents a multiband direct RF-sampling receiver front-end for WLAN fabricated in 0.13 µm CMOS. Printed by LiU-Tryck, Linköping University Linköping, Sweden, 2006 I nådens år 2006! As my grandfather would have said. iii iv Abstract The wireless market is developing very fast today with a steadily increasing num- ber of users all around the world. An increasing number of users and the constant need for higher and higher data rates have led to an increasing number of emerging wireless communication standards. As a result there is a huge demand for flexible and low-cost radio architectures for portable applications. Moving towards multi- standard radio, a high level of integration becomes a necessity and can only be ac- complished by new improved radio architectures and full utilization of technology scaling. Modern nanometer CMOS technologies have the required performance for making high-performance RF circuits together with advanced digital signal processing.