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--- user:kurser:ham_vt2023_l7 [2023/04/22 19:52] – user
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 ... however, in practice there is nothing prohibiting an antenna array from being built using any antenna type.
-Very often, specific antennas are are combination of other antenna types. For example, the very common Yagi-Uda antenna, is a combination of three (or more) dipole antennas, and one magnetic loop antenna.
+Very often, specific antennas are are combination of other antenna types. For example, the very common Yagi-Uda antenna, is usually built using a combination of three (or more) dipole antennas, and one magnetic loop antenna.
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   * Polarisation and x-pol suppression
-Most of these parameters can be analysed using a vector network analyser or an antenna analyser. Let's do that at ETA.
+Many of these parameters can be analysed using a vector network analyser or an antenna analyser. (Let's do that at ETA?)
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 ==Direction==
-The most ideal antenna is a single charge floating in free space, radiating as a sphere in all directions. Such a single charge is known academically as an //isotropic radiator//. Practically, antennas are real objects and thus not single charges, meaning that the "radiation sphere" (made-up word) is very much not a sphere. Most antennas only //illuminate// (actual term) a smaller part of that hypothetic sphere, meaning that most of the EM field is sent/recieved from/to the antenna at that specific direction in space. The illuminated area is known as the //beam area// (SE: ??).
+The most ideal antenna is a single charge floating in free space, radiating as a sphere equally strongly in all directions. Such a single charge is known academically as an //isotropic radiator//. Practically, antennas are real objects and thus not single charges, meaning that the "radiation sphere" (made-up word) is very much not a sphere. Most antennas only //illuminate// (actual term) a smaller part of that hypothetic sphere, meaning that most of the EM field is sent/recieved from/to the antenna at that specific direction in space. The illuminated area is known as the //beam area// (SE: ??).
 How small that illuminated segment of the sphere is as opposed to size the entire sphere, is known as the //antenna directivity//. The directivity is often given in dB with respect to that ideal //isotropic radiator//. The unit is thus **dBi**. A very large part of an antenna's design specification, is its directivity. Different types of antennas have very different directivities.