Re: CROSS-POLAR ANTENNAS.

On Tue, 02 Apr 96, "Miron, Douglas EE" <MironD_at_mg.sdstate.edu> wrote:
>>From my experience with designing crossed vertical receiving loops:
> If your package has two linearly polarized antennas at a right angle to
>each other, then driving them in phase will give a linearly polarized
>wave, which steers according to the relative amplitudes driving the two
>antennas. To get circular polarization, they need to be driven at equal
>amplitudes and 90 degrees out of phase. . . .

For quadrature-fed dipoles at least, you'll only get circular polarization
normal to the plane containing the dipoles. At other orientations, it will
be elliptical, becoming linear in the plane containing the dipoles.

Roy Lewallen
Received on Wed Apr 03 1996 - 04:00:00 EST