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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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    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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    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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    the dipole antenna or 37.5 ohms. Common types of monopole antenna are whip rubber ducky helical random wire umbrella inverted-L and T-antenna folded unipole...
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    unimportant. An example of a low-gain antenna is the whip antenna found on portable radios and cordless phones. Antenna gain should not be confused with amplifier...
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  • small whip antennas and unplanned random wire types specifically are not sized for natural resonance. Loop antennas Loops are ring-like antennas made out...
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    base-loaded whip antenna. It consists of a springy wire in the shape of a narrow helix, sealed in a rubber or plastic jacket to protect the antenna. The rubber...
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  • Ground plane (category Antennas)
    plane antenna style whip antenna, the "plane" consists of several wires ⁠ 1 /4⁠ λ long radiating from the base of a quarter-wave whip antenna. The radio...
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  • animal training aid. Whip or whips or WHIP or The Whip may also refer to: Whip (musician), American folk singer-songwriter Whip Jones (1909–2001), American...
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    Omnidirectional antenna Shortwave listening T-antenna Whip antenna Dipole antenna: Any one of a class of antennas producing a radiation pattern approximating...
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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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    with the TVAS are more effective than those equipped with conventional whip antennas due to better concealment of the equipment and improved mobility of...
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  • restrictions on large outdoor antennas. Most active antennas consist of a short conventional antenna, such as a small whip antenna, connected to an active component...
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  • For example a quarter wave whip antenna for the SHF band is between 2.5 and 0.25 centimeters long. Omnidirectional antennas have been developed for applications...
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    A dual-band blade antenna is a type of blade antenna, which is a monopole whip antenna mounted on the outside of an aircraft in the form of a blade-shaped...
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    The Moxon antenna or Moxon rectangle is a simple and mechanically rugged two-element parasitic array, single-frequency antenna. It takes its name from...
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    this antenna in 1946. It is very popular in the United States. The antenna can be erected as horizontal dipole, as sloper, or an inverted-V antenna. With...
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    vee antennas are commonly used by amateur radio stations, and aboard sailing vessels requiring better HF performance than available with a short whip antenna...
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    A halo antenna, or halo, is a center-fed ⁠ 1 /2⁠ wavelength dipole antenna, which has been bent into a circle, with a break directly opposite the feed...
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    battery fitted. Antenna: flexible whip antenna 1.5 m high (Kulikov's pin type) with additional bends for extension up to 2.7 m. External antennas can also be...
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    Near and far field (category Antennas)
    transmitting antenna, or the result of radiation scattering off an object. Non-radiative near-field behaviors dominate close to the antenna or scatterer...
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    Operation Telic, the Saltire was seen to be flown from the communications whip antenna of vehicles belonging to these units. Funerals, conducted with full military...
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    which electrically matches the whip antenna length to the radio frequency in use. The ATU can also match any other wire antenna to the operating frequency...
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    that efficient transmitting antennas are short enough to mount on vehicles and handheld devices, a quarter wave whip antenna at VHF frequencies is 25 cm...
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    to 18 MHz. Antennas: 9-foot (2.7 m) whip antenna (receiver), 15-foot (4.6 m) whip antenna (transmitter). Optional 21 ft (6.4 m) whip antenna while stationary...
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  • The Whip-a-way was a type of folding whip antenna. It was popular with users of Citizens band radio, and also had military uses. The Whip-a-way is a seven-section...
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    was 10 inches (25 cm) high, not including its flexible "rubber duck" whip antenna. In addition to the typical 12-key telephone keypad, it had nine additional...
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    connected to an antenna which radiates oscillating electrical energy, often characterized as a wave. They can be received by other antennas connected to...
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    base-loaded whip antennas, in applications where a full sized quarter-wave monopole would be too big. As with other electrically short antennas, the gain...
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  • Near vertical incidence skywave (category Radio frequency antenna types)
    distinction arises solely from different desirable radiation patterns of the antennas (near vertical for NVIS, near horizontal for conventional long-range skywave...
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