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Hui et al. 2005
Hui, H.T., Aditya, S., Mohamed, F.B.S. and Hafiedz-Ul, A.B.T. (2005). A small hemispherical helical antenna array for two-dimensional GPS beam-forming. Radio Science 40: doi: 10.1029/2004RS003094. issn: 0048-6604.

A small hemispherical helical antenna array with multibeam output for GPS beam-forming is designed and characterized. A Butler matrix beam-forming network is designed to provide four spatial beams in a two-dimensional directional space. The original design of the hemispherical helical antenna elements is modified in order to match it to the system impedance. Our study shows that even after an ~30¿ scan from the normal direction, the maximum change in beam width is only 6¿, the maximum change in axial ratio is 1.4 dB, and the maximum change in power gain is 1.1 dB. These characteristics indicate that the array can be potentially used for GPS beam-forming.

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Keywords
Electromagnetics, Antenna arrays, Electromagnetics, Antennas, Radio Science, Space and satellite communication, Radio Science, Remote sensing, Electromagnetics, Signal processing and adaptive antennas, GPS, multibeam array, Butler matrix, two-dimensional beam-forming, hemispherical helical antenna
Journal
Radio Science
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
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