Existing and Proposed Antenna System Designs for U. S. Marine Corps Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Communications (LVTC7)

Abstract

Using 1/12- and 1/24-scale brass models, measurements of radiation patterns, isolation, and impedance are made on the existing antenna system of the U. S. Marine Corps Landing Vehicle, Tracked, Communications (LVTC7). (The present arrangement - eight antennas on a small platform - had resulted in a closely coupled system that degraded communications performance. A new antenna system design, consisting of a vhf broadband antenna and multicoupler combination to replace five vhf antennas, is proposed. This approach is studied using the 1/12-scale brass model. Calculations for the predicted range performance of each system are included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 11, 1973
Accession Number
AD0917055

Entities

People

  • L. M. Peters

Organizations

  • Navy Electronics Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antenna Configurations
  • Antenna Radiation Patterns
  • Antennas
  • Attenuation
  • Broadband
  • Broadband Antennas
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Gain
  • Insertion Loss
  • Losses
  • Marine Corps
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Scale Models
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transmitters

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.