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Originally Posted by 69harley
I saw an RFQ for this on Fedbizops this morning. Looks like 3rd SFG(A) is looking to prucure a bunch of them.
Just looked at the current design on the manufacturers website. Still appears to be the same basic low-gain and not radial polarized desighn.
Does anyone know if Shakespeare fixed the polarization and extremely low-gain issues?
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This is a simple center fed dipole antenna. If you look at the geometry of an X-blade, which provides right-hand circular polarization it is nothing more than two dipoles with some tricks in the feed network to obtain RHCP. Theoretical max gain for this antenna is 2dBi and is dependent on the ground plane to develop a good radiation pattern.
It's best advantages are the size, ease of deployment and the cost. If one was to use this in an area where you have a high look-angle WRT the satelite and no significcant obstructions the antenna should overcome the gain deficit and loses related to polarization mismatch and work fine. Outside of those conditions...
Maybe not so good.