VHF suspended plate transmitter antenna design for DVB-T and DAB-T

Date

2018-06-01

Author

Ali, Abdul
Ciydem, Mehmet
ALTINTAŞ, AYHAN
Koç, Seyit Sencer

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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 (174-254MHz) 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 8.5dBi is obtained at center frequency. Together with equivalent lumped element circuit model of designed antenna and experimental results for S-11, 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.

Subject Keywords

DAB-T, DVB-T, Equivalent circuit model, Inverted L-type probe, SSPA

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/33006

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Article