Radiation Patterns of Antennas Installed on Aircraft.

Abstract

This thesis presents a study of radiation patterns for low-gain antennas installed on aircraft. With the aid of the computer program APATCH, a simulation of the radian on patterns for a given antenna located at various points on an aircraft structure can he evaluated. The program uses a technique referred. to as Shooting and Bouncing Rays (SBR), which is valid for structures that have typical dimensions of ten wavelengths or more. A Cessna 172 aircraft with a quarter-wavelength monopole antenna and an F-18 aircraft with a telemetry antenna are analyzed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA359562

Entities

People

  • James Calusdian

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Altitude
  • Antennas
  • C Programming Language
  • Communication Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Gain
  • Geometry
  • Measurement
  • Radar
  • Radiation
  • Radiation Patterns
  • Scattering

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering