ANTENNA FOR PROBING IONOSPHERE Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC H01Q3/00 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: antenna for probing the ionosphere is in form of two rhombi that cross in orthogonal planes, having side length of 58 m for one rhombus and 26 m for the other rhombus, said rhombi being suspended on a 32 m support mast made of composite material which acts as the main diagonal of the rhombi, and two pairs of auxiliary 9 m masts for suspending second corners of the rhombi, guylines for guying mechanical attachment of the mast made of polymer material and cores of current-carrying cables of the rhombi, located on the edge of a cylinder as radiators of the antenna, loaded by a common resistance which is matched for the traveling wave mode in radiators, connected to a multi-beam earthing conductor, made on a parallel circuit for the mirror counterweight mode.

EFFECT: making a broadband antenna which operates in the entire ionosphere probing frequency band.

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