Standard gain horn waveguide antennas are used as precision test apparatus and high gain/directional antennas for a wide range of applications from satellite communications, test and measurement, radar, backhaul, and many others. The high directionality and gain...
Primer On Waveguide Standard Gain Horn Antennas & Accessories
Standard Gain Horn Waveguide Antennas are used throughout the RF industry as precise high gain antennas for test/measurement, radar, sensing, and communication. This type of gain horn is a four-sided pyramidal structure that is precisely designed to match with a...
What is a Trihedral Corner Reflector?
A type of passive radar target or reflector used in many applications, including radar systems, surveying, and communication is called a trihedral corner reflector. The ability to reflect electromagnetic waves, such as radio waves or radar signals, directly back...
What Makes a Military Antenna, Military-grade?
There is a growing use of military antenna in a wide range of applications, including aerospace, naval, land-mobile, manpack, and unmanned vehicles. These communications can be anything from critical voice or text communication between units/central command or a...
Demystifying GNSS (GPS) Antenna Type: Fixed Radiation Pattern Antenna (FRPA) and Controlled Radiation Pattern Antenna (CRPA)
GNSS antennas are either Fixed Radiation Pattern Antenna (FRPA) or Controlled Radiation Pattern Antenna (CRPA). For most applications, FRPAs are more than adequate, and CRPAs have only become legal for civilian use less than a decade ago. However, CRPAs do present...
What Makes A GPS/GNSS Antenna Suitable for On-Vehicle Applications?
The growing demand for data driven analysis for shipping and logistics is driving up the need for modern vehicle tracking, telematics, navigation systems, fleet management, and eventually, autonomous vehicles. All of these systems are intrinsically reliant on global...
What is an RF Connection?
Radio Frequency (RF) signals are merely any useful electromagnetic radiation within a portion of the spectrum that is compatible with available technology. These can be RF signals used for communication, sensing, or any other purpose, such as RF heating, RF plasma, or...
What Are Fixed RF Antennas?
RF Antennas are the primary method for RF communication and sensing systems to convert electrical signals to RF and vice versa. A subset of RF antennas is fixed antennas, which is mainly a description of how they are mounted, installed and generally used. A fixed...
RF Antennas: SISO Versus MIMO RF Antennas
There are a wide range of antenna technologies available today. A more recent option is to choose a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) antenna. Though newer, is a MIMO antenna better than a traditional single-input single-output SISO antenna? More is always better right?...
What are the Different Types of RF Amplifiers? Part-1
RF Amplifiers are used to add power to an RF signal. The type of RF amplifier used depends on where in the signal chain that a higher gain signal is needed. The input and output characteristics of an RF amplifier dictate the appropriate use of a given amplifier, and...