Aluminium Feeds for Reflector for NadirSAR

Gray, D. and Le Kernec, J. (2018) Aluminium Feeds for Reflector for NadirSAR. In: 2018 IEEE EMC and APEMC Symposium, Singapore, 14-17 May 2018, ISBN 9781509039555 (doi: 10.1109/ISEMC.2018.8393966)

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Abstract

With the long term aim of developing a NadirSAR quadrotor UAV system specialized for monitoring broad acre grain fields, a large aperture load bearing antenna to use as the main structural element was sort. Here initial design work is presented on a candidate short f/D parabolic reflector antenna. An optimized splash plate feed and a dual mode coaxial horn were designed for the 10 to 10.5GHz experimenter’s band and were fed by aluminum waveguide. Both feeds gave better than 30% aperture efficiency on a low cost 11.6l0 diameter reflector that had a focal length of f/D=0.27.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Le Kernec, Dr Julien
Authors: Gray, D., and Le Kernec, J.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
ISBN:9781509039555
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2018 IEEE
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher
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