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6 - Arrays with unequal elements: parasitic and log-periodic antennas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2009

Ronold W. P. King
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
George J. Fikioris
Affiliation:
National Technical University of Athens
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The general theory of curtain arrays which is developed in the preceding chapter requires all N elements to be identical geometrically, but allows them to be driven by arbitrary voltages or loaded by arbitrary reactors at their centers. If some of these voltages are zero, the corresponding elements are parasitic and their currents are maintained entirely by mutual interaction. In arrays of the well-known Yagi–Uda type, only one element is driven, so that the importance of an accurate analytical treatment of the inter-element coupling is increased. In a long array the possible cumulative effect of a small error in the interaction between the currents in adjacent elements must not be overlooked. As an added complication, the tuning of the individual parasitic elements is accomplished by adjustments in their lengths and spacings. This introduces the important problem of arrays with elements that are different in length and that are separated by different distances. In the Yagi–Uda array the range of these differences is relatively small. On the other hand, in frequency-independent arrays of the log-periodic type the range of lengths and distances between adjacent elements is very great.

In this chapter the analytical treatment of arrays with elements that are different in length and unequally spaced is carried out successively for parasitic arrays of the conventional Yagi–Uda type and for driven log-periodic arrays. However, the formulation is sufficiently general to permit its extension to arrays of other types, both parasitic and driven, that involve geometrically different elements.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2002

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