Introduction to Antenna Placement and Installation; Contents; About the Author; Preface; Series Preface; 1 Basic Antenna and Propagation Theory; 2 Aircraft Systems Using Antennas; 3 The Antenna Siting Process; 4 Frequency and Spatial Coverage Considerations; 5 Antennas Used on Aircraft; 6 RF Interoperability; 7 Computer Modelling Techniques; 8 Measurements; 9 Reference; Appendix: Abbreviations and Acronyms; Index
Summary
Introduction to Antenna Placement and Installation introduces the characteristics of antennas and their integration on aircraft. The book covers antenna siting and placement, computational antenna modelling on structures, measurement on sub-scale models of the airframe, full-scale ground measurements and in-flight measurements. . The author addresses the different stages in the process of developing an entire antenna layout, as well as covering individual retrofits on existing platforms. She explains the physics of antenna placement qualitatively, thus obviating the requirement to unders