• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.91-96
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• 2017

In this paper, we proposed a meander sleeve monopole antenna for low earth orbit satellite communications. The antenna has broadband property with the planar monopole and ground of meander sleeve. Monopole and ground conductors of the antenna are on the same plane, and exited through coaxial cable feeding. In order to confirm the property of antenna parameters, it was used a commercial software, HFSS, For the antenna fabrication, a FR4 dielectric substrate has a dielectric constant of 4.4 was used. The size of the antenna was $600mm{\times}20mm{\times}1.6mm$. Frequency band of the fabricated antenna was 130MHz~151MHz, and the bandwidth was 20MHz. Measurement results of the fabricated antenna, the return loss is more than -10dB return loss in the band could be obtained. Radiation pattern has a maximum gain of 2.64dBi value.