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Conical beam monopole antenna design for Chinese area positioning system
  This article describes the operational principle of the satellite-based Chinese Area Positioning System (CAPS) and proposes a monopole antenna for a large anchored buoy platform in harsh marine environment. The proposed antenna is highly omnidirectional with sufficiently wide half-power beamwidth (HPBW) greater than 40˚ (i.e., not less than ±20° swing) by using a conical ground plane, taking into account the geostationary satellite position, link budget, sea conditions, volume and cost. The impedance bandwidth defined by 10 dB return loss is 750 MHz (5.60-6.35 GHz), and the main lobe direction and the half-power beamwidth are about 46° and 43° at the operating frequency 5.885 GHz, respectively. The antenna prototype has been installed on-site to test its performance in sea. The results confirm that the proposed antenna is a suitable candidate for a variety of CAPS applications in China.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    21 October 2016

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    EMW Publishing

  • DOI:

    10.2528/pierc16083005

  • Cross Ref:

    10.2528/PIERC16083005

  • ISSN:

    1937-8718

  • Library of Congress:

    TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    621.384 Radio & Radar

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Pang, F., Ai, G., Yin, J., Ma, Y., Hu, C., Cui, J., …Abd-Alhameed, R. A. (2016). Conical beam monopole antenna design for Chinese area positioning system. Progress in Electromagnetics Research C: PIER C, 68, 193-200. https://doi.org/10.2528/pierc16083005

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Keywords

Chinese Area Positioning System (CAPS), monopole antenna,

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