Antenna
Antenna
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Hi,
I need some suggestions. Well, I'm beginner in Antenna Design. The question is : the wave form of the input to the antenna, what is the effects or consequences of that ? Example, if my wave form is a square what is the output, or if is a sinoidale what is the consequences? And how can I modelling this wave form by Using a software "NEC4WIN95VM"? Where can I start, I'm confusing, I don't know where to get information or start with. Your help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mica
I need some suggestions. Well, I'm beginner in Antenna Design. The question is : the wave form of the input to the antenna, what is the effects or consequences of that ? Example, if my wave form is a square what is the output, or if is a sinoidale what is the consequences? And how can I modelling this wave form by Using a software "NEC4WIN95VM"? Where can I start, I'm confusing, I don't know where to get information or start with. Your help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mica
RE: Antenna
For your software, just change the operating frequency to the third harmonic and re-simulate. This should give you the radiation efficiency and matching characteristics at the harmonic. In principle you would need to do this with all the odd harmonics until the power level was low enough to ignore. In practice, if the third harmonic is ok then the rest will probably be ok as well.
The only possible exception is that some harmonics may fit nicely into the bandwidth of the antenna and therefore get radiated quite effectively. Consider this; a particular half wave dipole is resonant at 100MHz. It is therefore also full-wave resonant at 200MHz. Come to think of it, all harmonics may therefore be resonant as well, although I have never seen anything like that in print.
It seems to me that unless you have a low power transmitter, filtering is essential.
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Thanks again,
Mica.
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