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BILLBOARD ANTENNA

Specialty Definition: Billboard antenna

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In telecommunication, a billboard antenna is an array of parallel dipole antennas with flat reflectors, usually positioned in a line or plane.

Note 1: The spacing and dimensions of the dipoles depend on the wavelength.

Note 2: The main lobe of a fixed billboard antenna may, within limits, be steered by appropriate phasing of the respective signals to individual elements of the array. Synonym broadside antenna.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C

Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Billboard antenna."

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