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Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, As Represented by the Minister of National Defence

Gilbert A Morin

Larry Ryan

Systems and devices relating to a biconical antenna. The antenna has a top cone assembly and a bottom cone assembly, each cone assembly being coupled to a dielectric spacer at its apex. Each cone assembly has a cone section and a truncated cone section. The cone section is a cone with an apex which forms the apex of the cone assembly. The truncated cone section is coupled to the cone of the cone section at the cone's rim. The cone has an opening angle which is larger than the opening angle of the truncated cone. The biconical antenna can be fed by way of a coaxial cable with the outer cable feeding the bottom cone assembly and the inner cable feeding the top cone assembly.

Ultra-wideband biconical antenna with excellent gain and impedance matching

A Circular Polarization Selective Surface (CPSS) for circular polarized electromagnetic waves is formed from a number of resonating elements arranged in a plane. This type of surface may be used in a wide range of reflector antennas. Each resonating element is formed from a number of electrically conductive segments connected end-to-end one to the other with each segment having a predetermined length and having a total approximate length of 1.lambda.. A central segment having a length about 1/4.lambda. determines the resonant frequency for the element. This central segment extends parallel to the z-axis of a right-hand set of three mutually perpendicular axes x, y and z wherein the circular polarized electromagnetic wave is directed along the z-axis. A second segment is connected to one end of the central segment and extends parallel to the x-axis with a third segment being connected to the other end of the central segment extending parallel to the y-axis. Shorter segments connected to outer ends of the second and third segments extend parallel to this z-axis and toward each other so that a free end of one shorter segment can be connected to a free end of a shorter segment of an adjacent resonating element forming a spiral which can be mechanically supported at its outer ends. This eliminates the need for having support structures in the active area of the surface.

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Gilbert A Morin