LOG PERIODIC DIPOLE ARRAY

BALUIS, KATHLEEN ANNE ROSE

PODA, JOY GRACE
VILLANUEVA, CARMELA
 HISTORY
was invented by Dwight E. Isbell, Raymond
DuHamel and variants by Paul Mayes.
had been patented by The University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and licensed
the design as a package exclusively to JFD
electronics in New York.
RECALL....
Log Periodic Antennas are
a class of frequency-
independent antennas.
LPAs have bandwidth ratio
of 10:1 and higher.
Log Periodic Dipole
Antenna is one of the
mainly used types
 WHAT IS LPDA?
consists of a number of half-wave dipole driven
elements of gradually increasing length, each
consisting of a pair of metal rods.
may be designed for any single amateur band or
for adjacent bands, HF to UHF
can be built to meet the amateur's requirements
at nominal cost: high forward gain, good fornt-
to-back ratio, low SWR
 APPLICATIONS
UHF Terrestrial TV
HF communications
EMC measurements
Other applications
 6.5 dBi Directivity (Gain)
11 dBi
50 Input Impedance 300
Input Reactance 0
Bandwidth: fhigh / flow 30
Transmission line feeds:
Coaxial (with infinite balun) or
Twin-lead
 The lengths ln, locations Rn from apex, diameters
dn, and gap spacings Sn, of the dipole elements
increase logarithmically as 1/, where is a
LPDA design parameter called the SCALE FACTOR.
 Another LPDA design parameter is
the spacing factor .
 The LPDA is a endfire array. i.e., the maximum
radiation occurs at the feed side (small end) of
the antenna.
 For a compact LPDA, larger values of
(smaller ) are used. This leads
to fewer dipole elements.
 Smaller values of (larger ) LPDA
designs have more elements that are spaced
more closely. This yields a larger LPDA.
DESIGN FACTORS
 DESIGN
PROCEDURE
 STEP 1.
Decide on an operating bandwidth B,
between f1, lowest frequency and fn,
highest frequency,
using the equation,
 STEP 2.
Choose and to give a desired gain
0.8 0.98
0.05 opt

opt = 0.243 0.051

 STEP 3.
Determine the value for the cotangent
of the apex half-angle from
 STEP 4.
Determine the bandwidth of the active
region Bar
 STEP 5.
Determine the structure (array)
bandwidth, Bs from
 STEP 6.
Determine the boom length L, number
of elements N, and longest element
length 1.
 STEP 7.
Determine the terminating stub, Zt.

For VHF and UHF arrays use:

Z = max/8
 STEP 8.
Solve for the remaining element
lengths
 STEP 9.
Determine the element spacing, d12 from d12
= 1/2( 1 2)cot and the remaining
element-to-element spacings using eq.
 STEP
10.
Choose R0, the desired feed-point
resistance from the following
equation, determine the necessary
antenna feeder impedance, Z0,
 STEP
Once Z0
11.
has been determined, select a
combination of conductor size and
spacing to provide that impedance from