TRANSLINE FINALS (Antenna)

ANTENNA It is a metallic conductor system capable of radiating

electromagnetic energy.
ANTENNA RECIPROCITY State that the transmit and receive characteristics and performance
of antenna are identical
ISOTROPIC RADIATOR Use as a measuring stick of comparing the properties of actual
antenna system
RADIATION PATTERN A polar diagram or graph representing field strength or power at
various angular positions relative to an antenna
SIDE LOBES Lobe adjacent to the front lobe
INDUCTION FIELD Other name of near field
RADIATION RESISTANCE It is hypothetical ac resistance which if replaced by an equivalent
resistor, would dissipate exactly the same of the power that the
antenna radiates
DC RESISTANCE Also called as loss resistance
ANTENNA EFFICIENCY Ratio of the power radiated by the antenna to the total input power
DIRECTIVE GAIN Ratio of the power density radiated to a particular direction to the
power density radiated to the same point by the reference antenna
ANTENNA BEAMWIDTH It is simply the angular separation between the two half power levels
(-3dB) on the major lobe of an antennas phase radiation pattern.
EFFECTIVE AREA Also known as capture area
CENTER-FED Signal is fed at one end
ELEMENTARY DOUBLET It is an electrically short dipole antenna compared to one-half
wavelength
HALFDIPOLE ANTENNA It is also referred to as Hertz antenna
MARCONI ANTENNA A monopole antenna one-quarter wavelength long mounted
vertically with the lower end either connected directly to the ground
or grounded through the antenna coupling network
ANTENNA LOADING A technique to increase the electrical length of the antenna
LOOP ANTENNA It may take the form of a metal wheel like hat structure attached to
the top of the antenna
DRIVEN ELEMENT An array connected to the output of the transmitter
PARABOLIC REFLECTOR Consists of a paraboloid reflector illuminated with microwave energy
ANTENNA radiated by the feed system located at the focus point
The ratio of the speed of light in free space to the speed in a given
material
Predicts the refraction that takes place when light is transmitted
between two materials
Devices used to convert the transmitted light back into an electrical
signal
DARK CURRENT This is the thermally generated reverse leakage current in the diode
ACCEPTANCE ANGLE The maximum angle between the axis of an optical fiber and a ray of
light entering the fiber
CORE Portion of the fiber strand that carries the light
GRADED-INDEX An optical fiber in which the index of refraction of the core decreases
gradually with increasing distance from the center
A fiber that allows light to travel along it in more thn one wavelength
mode at different velocities
An optical fiber that has one index of refraction for the core and a
second lower index for the cladding with a sharp transition between
them
REFRACTION The bending of a light ray the occurs when the light rays pass from
one medium to another.
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LONG WIRE GROUNDED An antenna which has an omnidirectional pattern is the
ANTENNA
GROUND IMAGE The Marconi antenna can still be resonated in spite of being
ANTENNA physically short by a quarter
ENDPOINT A half-wave dipole maximum voltage is at the
MAIN LOBE, MEAIN BEAM Of an antenna radiation pattern is the lobe containing the maximum
power
MINOR LOBES Represents undesired radiation or reception which includes side lobes
NEAR FIELD Refers to the field pattern that is close to the antenna and sometimes
called induction field
FAR FIELD Refers to the field pattern that is at great distance and sometimes
called radiation field
RADIATION RESISTANCE It is hypothetical ac resistance which if replaced by an equivalent
resistor, would dissipate exactly the same of the power that the
antenna radiates
OHMIC RESISTANCE, Represents actual losses caused by the conversion of electrical
LOSS RESISTANCE energy to heat as a result of the resistivity f the various conducting
elements of the antenna
ANTENNA EFFICIENCY Ratio of the power radiated by the antenna to the sum of the power
radiated and the power dissipated or the ratio of the power radiated
by the antenna to the total input power
DIRECTIVE GAIN Ratio of the power density radiated to a particular direction to the
power density radiated to the same point by the reference antenna
POWER GAIN Same as directive gain except that the total power fed to the
antenna is use.
EFFECTIVE ISOTROPIC EIRP or ERP is the equivalent power that an isotropic antenna would
RADIATED POWER have to radiate to achieve the same power density in the chosen
direction

The product of power input and the antenna gain measured with
respect to a half wave dipole
ANTENNA POWER LOSSES Difference between the power delivered to the antenna to the
actual power it radiates
BANDWIDTH Range of frequency over which an antenna will radiate effectively
BEAMWIDTH It is simply the angular separation between the two half power levels
(-3dB) on the major lobe of an antennas phase radiation pattern.
POLARIZATION Orientation of E of the radio wave with respect to earths surface
CAPTURE AREA Effective area upon which antenna collects electromag energy from
incident wave
CAPTURE POWER Is the power available at the antennas output terminals (in watts)
CENTER-FED Signal fed at the center, simplest type of antenna feeding
END FED, ZEPP-FED Straight wire antenna is fed at one end by a two-wire line, the length
is /2
CURRENT-FED The feed point is at a current loop or antinode, which always occurs
at the midpoint of a /2 section of the antenna.
VOLTAGE-FED Determined by not by the physical position of the transmission line
connection to the antenna, but by the fact that voltage loop occurs
ISOTROPIC ANTENNA OR Theoretical omnidirectional antenna
RADIATOR
Point source in free space and can radiate equally in all directions
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ELEMENTARY DOUBLET, Electrically short/linear dipole antenna compared to one-half
SHORT DIPOLE, wavelength
ELEMANTARY DIPOLE,
HERTZIAN DIPOLE Antenna must be connected to a 72 ohm transline
Has uniform current throughout its length
HALF WAVE DIPOLE, LINEAR HALF WAVE DIPOLE is one of the must widely used antenna,
HERTZ ANTENNA freq above 2Mhz
Hertz antenna is a resonant antenna
A dipole with a total length of 2 wires as a half wavelength
GROUNDED ANTENNA, Monopole antenna one-quarter wavelength long
MARCONI ANTENNA
ANTENNA ARRAY Radiating system consisting of individual radiators or elements placed
close together so as to be within each others induction
DRIVEN ELEMENT Array connected to the output of the transmitter
PARASITIC ELEMENT Radiation not directly connected to the output
of the transmitter
REFLECTOR Parasitic element longer than the driven element acts as a concave
mirror
DIRECTOR Shorter than the driven element and increases field strength
BROADSIDE ARRAY Simplest type of antenna array
Simply placing several resonant dipoles of equal size (both length
and diameter)
END-FIRE ARRAY Essentially the same element configuration as the broadside array
except that the transmission line is not crisscrossed between element
RHOMBIC ANTENNA Not resonant antenna that is capable of operating in wide
bandwidth, for HF (3MHZ-30MHz), made up of 4 non-resonant
element, unidirectional
FOLDED DIPOLE Single antenna made up to 2 elements (INPUT IMPEDANCE=72 OMHS)
YAGI-UDA ANTENNA Commonly uses a folded dipole as the driven element
SPACING-between 0.1 and 02 wavelength
REFLECTOR 5% longer than driven element
DIRECTOR 5% shorter than driven element
TURNSTILE ANTENNA Formed by placing2 dipoles at right angle to each other, produces
nearly omnidirectional pattern
PARABOLIC ANTENNA High gain reflector used for radio, tv, consists of paraboloid reflector
illuminated with microwave energy
PARABOLIC REFLECTOR ANTENNA- provide high gain and directivity
PARABOLIC ANTENNA BEAM WIDTH- 3 dimensional radiation from
parabolic reflector has a main lobe shape of fat cigar
PARABOLIC ANTENNA GAIN-for transmit parabolic antenna
HELICAL ANTENNA Broadband VHF or UHF antenna ideally suited for application for
which radiating circular
Can be used as a single-element antenna or stacked horizontally or
vertically array
LONG-PERIODIC Broadband, multielement, unidirectional, narrow-beam antenna that
ANTENNA has impedance and radiation char that are regularly repetitive as a
logarithmic function