EVALUATION OF EARTH PROBE ANTENNAS FOR VLF RECEPTION

Abstract

An evaluation was made of an earth probe antenna formed by connecting receiver input terminals to electrodes in the ground 343 meters apart. Reception of coherence and sferic signals on this antenna at frequencies below 50 kc was compared with that received on horizontal overhead antennas. Although the voltage output from the overhead antennas was consistently higher than the signal taken from the ground probe antenna, the higher signal to noise ratio of the ground probe antenna indicated its potential use in the VLF range.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 29, 1962
Accession Number
AD0282173

Entities

People

  • F. X. Bostick
  • Paul E. Martin

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analyzers
  • Antennas
  • Cathode Followers
  • Coaxial Cables
  • Detectors
  • Dipole Antennas
  • Dipoles
  • Electric Fields
  • Electrodes
  • Frequency
  • Impedance
  • Massachusetts
  • New York
  • Preamplifiers
  • United States
  • Wave Analyzers

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Plasma Physics.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.