VHF suspended plate transmitter antenna design for DVB-T and DAB-T
Date
2018Source Title
Microwave and Optical Technology Letters
Print ISSN
0895-2477
Electronic ISSN
1098-2760
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Volume
60
Issue
6
Pages
1536 - 1546
Language
English
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Abstract
This paper presents the design of stacked suspended plate transmitter antenna for digital video and audio broadcasting. Contrary to conventional dipole structures, we have designed the antenna in VHF band (174-254 MHz) with two plates for wideband matching and design flexibility. Radiating primary plate has been excited by novel wideband modified inverted L-type probe. Parasitic secondary plate, and vertical wall between primary plate, and ground plane have been used for further matching and beamwidth adjustment. A bandwidth of 42% and gain of 8.5 dBi is obtained at center frequency. Together with equivalent lumped element circuit model of designed antenna and experimental results for S11, gain, and radiation pattern are presented. To the best of authors knowledge this is the first stacked suspended plate antenna achieving a record bandwidth of 42% in VHF band.