NIZWA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

ANTENNA SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LAB

EXPERIMENT No. 1

PLOT OF RADIATION PATTERN OF DIPOLE ANTENNA

USING SCILAB

Name: Max : 10 Marks

Student ID: Section:

Date of Experiment :

OBJECTIVES:

To the radiation pattern of a dipole antenna

To understand variation of radiation pattern as function of length of the antenna

Background

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The dipole antenna is the simplest form of an antenna. Most commonly it consists of
two conductors of equal length oriented end-to-end with the feedline connected between
them. Dipoles are frequently used as resonant antennas.

lam = 1;

//Dipole Antenna

L =0.5*lam;
//Phase constant

B = 2*%pi/lam;

t = 0:0.1:2*%pi;

// Far-field pattern equation

E = abs((cos(B*L/2*cos(t))-cos(B*L/2))./sin(t));

//E = abs((sin(B*L/2*sin(t))-sin(B*L/2))./cos(t));

//figure()
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subplot(2,2,1)

title("Plot of electric field pattern as a function of theta")

polarplot(t,E)

E2 = abs((cos(B*L/2*cos(t))-cos(B*L/2))./sin(t)).^2;

//figure()

subplot(2,2,2)

title("Plot of power pattern as a function of theta")

polarplot(t,E2)

Radiation pattern of Electric field

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Radiation pattern of Power

IMPORTANT NOTE: write the conclusion on this basis:

1. WHAT: brief (overview) description about the experiment subject ( max. two lines).
2. HOW: brief description on the methodology, how did you get the results, ( small
paragraph).
WHY: discuss and analyze the obtained results (why the results produced like that).

CONCLUSION:

1. Design and draw a radiation pattern of a dipole antenna operating at

a frequency of 1GHz

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Questions:

1. The most common form of a dipole is ______________________.

2. The two rod elements in a dipole is approximately 1/2 wavelength long.
(True/False)
3. The radiation pattern of a vertical dipole is ___________________.
4. A half-wave dipole should be fed using a balanced transmission line
matching the input impedance of its typical its typical __________

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