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20220217 - Spacecraft Instrumentation - Choosing a feed for HF

A good design 10-15 from arrl book.

We need to choose a feed for the anntena.


Other designs

LOFAR antenna

Low Band Antenna (LBA) works for 10-80 MHz. It consist in a double inverted V dipole. The antenna is centered in 52 Mhz.

Long Wavelength Array

LWA antennas are cross dipole.

Arecibo

VHF and UHF feed

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Source

VHF is a yagi 11-element log-periodic antenna with 45-55 MHz bandwidth and 8 dB gain.