The Properties Of DAGR Antenna

By Charles Hill


Conductors are an essential part of any electrical circuit. Their main role is the conversion of signals to waves. Additionally, they form an interlink of the transmitter, free space, and receiver. There are numerous types of conductors such as long periodic and wire transmitters. All these have specific characteristics which adopt them to their roles. Particularly, DAGR antenna has six varying features namely gain, directivity, aperture, polarization, effective length and polar diagram. Each of these has been described in details below.

The first aspect which every conductor must possess is gain. Basically, radiation of waves happens in a specific direction. Amount of directivity of a particular signal is called gain. As directivity increases, the effectiveness of a conductor also increases. However, this is influenced by several aspects namely material, radome, matching network as well as impedance. Material loss is brought about by what a transmitter is made of. This could be dielectric or non-metal materials. Either way, some heat is dissipated during transfer. The dissipated energy reduces magnetic field strength hence overall efficiency. Conversely, the radome is the innermost coating which protects transceivers. Similarly, it is likely to dispel a considerable amount of energy while transmitting.

Secondly, all electrodes are polarized. This is to say, signal electric field vector is aligned and sensed from a given point. The polarization of radiated signals happens elliptically. In elliptical polarization, electromagnetic field has two components. These elements lie on a similar plane. Additionally, elements may possess different strength as well as lie in varying angles to form circular or linear cryptic polarization. Circular polarization occurs if two electromagnetic field components have an equivalent magnitude and are aligned perpendicularly. Linear polarization happens if there is only one element.

Another parameter is aperture. Also known as the effective aperture of an electrode, it actively takes part in sending as well as receiving electromagnetic signals. It can be described as a joint area linked to a conductor where all power emanates.

Wavelength fields are concentrated in a particular direction at any given time. This aspect is described as directivity. Waves are stronger in the direction where concentration is more. In other cases, directivity could mean how possible it is for a conductor to send signals towards a given direction. Conversely, bandwidth is one aspect which should be considered while purchasing a projector. The range of frequencies over which conduction occurs is bandwidth. Definitely, the best projectors accept a wide range of frequencies.

Effective length is a feature which determines how well a projector sends and receives electromagnetic signals. It is defined as the ratio between the electromagnetic field at receiver end to intensity of projector electric field. That space is not occupied within a conductor as well as distribution of current across it creates an equal intensity within any radiation direction.

The radiation pattern for the transmitter describes radiation strength emitted from a conductor to various angular ways. It is represented in plots. Horizontal patterns are obtained if a plot is made on a parallel plane while vertical is obtained if the plot is on a perpendicular plane.

There are six features of conductors. Briefly, they are the gain, aperture, direction and bandwidth, polarization, effective length, as well as, polar diagram. Most important aspect is radiation pattern which tells how strong a wave field is.




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