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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2016.27.8.766

Design of a Spinning Direction-Finding Compact Offset-Parabolic-Reflector Antenna for Airborne Applications  

Park, Young-Ju (Agency for Defense Development)
Park, Dong-Chul (Department of Radio and Information Communications Engineering, Chungnam National University)
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Abstract
This paper proposes an aircraft-installed compact offset-parabolic-reflector antenna for the spinning direction-finding applications. The feeder of the reflector antenna is a LPDA antenna that has the ultra-wideband characteristics and the $45^{\circ}$ slant linear polarization. The reflector is designed to be slanted by $5^{\circ}$ in the elevation and to be small in size on the basis of the reference parabolic shape for the purpose of the high gain and mounting on the underside of aircraft fuselage. Over the ultra-wideband 20:1 bandwidth from S to Ka band, the measured average gain of the proposed antenna is 27.97 dBi, and the average half-power beam width is $4.55^{\circ}$ in the azimuth and $4.3^{\circ}$ in the elevation which is the pencil-beam radiation pattern. All the measured data are similar to the simulation results. The designed compact offset-parabolic-reflector antenna that is installed in the limited area has the ultra-wideband and high-gain characteristics. We expect that the newly designed antenna can be applied to the spinning direction-finding antenna system installed in an aircraft.
Keywords
Offset-Parabolic-Reflector Antenna; Spinning Direction-Finding Antenna; Airborne Antenna;
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