{"title":"Quadrifilar Helical Antenna","authors":"G. O'Neill","doi":"10.1109/IWAT.2016.7434818","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A Quadrifilar Helical Antenna (QHA) mounted on a Low Earth Orbiting Small Satellite with attitude control can provide a greater coverage area on Earth than simple linearly polarized monopole antennas or circularly polarized patch antennas. The larger coverage area implies a longer period to receive data with less concern about fading due to cross polarization.","PeriodicalId":228233,"journal":{"name":"2016 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2016 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (iWAT)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWAT.2016.7434818","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A Quadrifilar Helical Antenna (QHA) mounted on a Low Earth Orbiting Small Satellite with attitude control can provide a greater coverage area on Earth than simple linearly polarized monopole antennas or circularly polarized patch antennas. The larger coverage area implies a longer period to receive data with less concern about fading due to cross polarization.