Multiple band collinear dipole antenna

Abstract

A vertical dipole-style antenna operable over a wide range of predetermined frequencies that is made up of two collinear dipole antennas fed either in parallel through a single input connector or individually through two input connectors, contained within the same enclosure, where one dipole covers the VHF portion of the band from 30 MHz to 115 MHz and the other dipole covers the remainder of the band from 115 MHz to 512 MHz and together the two dipoles cover the very wide frequency band of 30 to 512 MHz through a single input connector. The VHF dipole is comprised of an existing vehicular dipole antenna design, while the UHF dipole antenna is comprised of radiating elements fed with a specially design coaxial transformer feedline with wide-band capacitive elements coupling the radiating elements to ground, providing variable loading to control the electrical length of the antenna.

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