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US 6,650,300 B2Granted
Common aperture UHF/horizontally polarized low-and mid-band VHF antenna
AssigneeSPX Corporation
InventorsAndre Skalina, John Schadler
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Abstract
A common aperture UHF/horizontally polarized low- and mid-band VHF antenna is disclosed that includes a coaxial antenna that has an inner conductor, an outer conductor, a batwing assembly mounted to the outer conductor of the coaxial antenna, and a feed line for feeding the batwing assembly separate from the coaxial antenna. The disclosed slotted coaxial antenna accomplishes simultaneous UHF and VHF broadcast.
Claims19
An antenna for simultaneous UHF and VHF broadcast, comprising:
- a slotted UHF coaxial antenna having an inner conductor and an outer conductor;
- a VHF batwing radiator assembly mounted to the outer conductor of the coaxial antenna;
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- a feed line for feeding the batwing radiator assembly separately from the coaxial antenna.
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An antenna for simultaneous UHF and VHF broadcast, comprising:
- slot means for transmitting a UHF signal;
- wire means mounted to the UHF signal transmitting slot means for transmitting a VHF signal;
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- feed means for feeding the UHF signal transmitting slot means separate from the VHF signal transmitting wire means.
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A method of constructing a UHF and VHF broadcast antenna, comprising:
- forming a UHF slotted coaxial antenna having an inner and an outer conductor;
- mounting a VHF batwing radiator assembly to the outer conductor of the coaxial antenna;
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- connecting a feed line to the batwing radiator assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.