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    In radio engineering, an antenna (American English) or aerial (British English) is an electronic device that converts an alternating electric current...
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    Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There...
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    parabolic antenna is an antenna that uses a parabolic reflector, a curved surface with the cross-sectional shape of a parabola, to direct the radio waves...
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  • appendages used for sensing in arthropods Antenna (journal), the journal of the Royal Entomological Society Antenna (radio), also known as an aerial, a transducer...
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  • description of many of the different antenna types used for radio receiving or transmitting systems. Different types of antennas are made with properties especially...
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    antenna theory, a phased array usually means an electronically scanned array, a computer-controlled array of antennas which creates a beam of radio waves...
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    directional antenna or beam antenna is an antenna which radiates or receives greater radio wave power in specific directions. Directional antennas can radiate...
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    A horn antenna or microwave horn is an antenna that consists of a flaring metal waveguide shaped like a horn to direct radio waves in a beam. Horns are...
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  • An antenna tuner, a matchbox, transmatch, antenna tuning unit (ATU), antenna coupler, or feedline coupler is a device connected between a radio transmitter...
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    In radio and telecommunications a dipole antenna or doublet is one of the two simplest and most widely-used types of antenna; the other is the monopole...
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    A monopole antenna is a class of radio antenna consisting of a straight rod-shaped conductor, often mounted perpendicularly over some type of conductive...
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    A Yagi–Uda antenna, or simply Yagi antenna, is a directional antenna consisting of two or more parallel resonant antenna elements in an end-fire array;...
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    An antenna array (or array antenna) is a set of multiple connected antennas which work together as a single antenna, to transmit or receive radio waves...
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    radiator antenna of AM radio station Whip antenna on a walkie-talkie In radio communication, an omnidirectional antenna is a class of antenna which radiates...
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  • A radio transmitter or receiver is connected to an antenna which emits or receives the radio waves. The antenna feed system or antenna feed is the cable...
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    The Beverage antenna or "wave antenna" is a long-wire receiving antenna mainly used in the low frequency and medium frequency radio bands, invented by...
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    an antenna which radiates oscillating electrical energy, often characterized as a wave. They can be received by other antennas connected to a radio receiver;...
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    A television antenna, also called a television aerial (in British English), is an antenna specifically designed for use with a television receiver (TV)...
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    A whip antenna is an antenna consisting of a straight flexible wire or rod. The bottom end of the whip is connected to the radio receiver or transmitter...
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    In telecommunications and radar, a Cassegrain antenna is a parabolic antenna in which the feed antenna is mounted at or behind the surface of the concave...
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    A loop antenna is a radio antenna consisting of a loop or coil of wire, tubing, or other electrical conductor, that for transmitting is usually fed by...
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    an antenna, which radiates the waves. They are received by another antenna connected to a radio receiver, which processes the received signal. Radio waves...
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  • Thumbnail for Holmdel Horn Antenna
    The Holmdel Horn Antenna is a large microwave horn antenna that was used as a satellite communication antenna and radio telescope during the 1960s at the...
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    telecommunications and antenna design, an image antenna is an electrical mirror-image of an antenna element formed by the radio waves reflecting from a...
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  • Smart antennas (also known as adaptive array antennas, digital antenna arrays, multiple antennas and, recently, MIMO) are antenna arrays with smart signal...
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    transmitting antenna, the gain describes how well the antenna converts input power into radio waves headed in a specified direction. In a receiving antenna, the...
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    between two or more locations. In addition to broadcasting, antennas are also used in radar, radio astronomy and electronic warfare. One-way (e.g. television...
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  • Line-of-sight propagation means radio waves which travel in a straight line from the transmitting antenna to the receiving antenna. Line of sight transmission...
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    A turnstile antenna, or crossed-dipole antenna, is a radio antenna consisting of a set of two identical dipole antennas mounted at right angles to each...
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    an antenna by an applied radio frequency current, the slot radiates electromagnetic waves in a way similar to a dipole antenna. The shape and size of the...
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