Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception

Many resources in the internet guide user to build an easy to construct and simple homemade TV and FM antenna. The antenna are just using some recycle materials and just two conductor such as copper wire as a dipole antenna. Since TV channel and FM is still in Very High Frequency (VHF) frequency ban...

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Main Author: Ong, Hui Niang
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Published: 2013
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spelling uthm-47372014-01-12T07:01:39Z Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception Ong, Hui Niang TK6540-6571 Radio Many resources in the internet guide user to build an easy to construct and simple homemade TV and FM antenna. The antenna are just using some recycle materials and just two conductor such as copper wire as a dipole antenna. Since TV channel and FM is still in Very High Frequency (VHF) frequency band from 47MHz to 230MHz and Ultra High Frequency (UHF) frequency band from 470MHz to 798MHz, the maximum antenna height will be very long around 3 meters. Hence, half wavelength dipole antenna using Fractal Koch Curve technique was designed in order to miniaturize the antenna height with a given total surface area or volume. The standard dipole, Koch Curve Dipole Antenna with one iteration and 2 iteration was analysed and optimized at VHF and UHF using 3D simulator software Computer Simulation Technology (CST). Dipole with the Koch Curve iteration 1 and 2 has shown at least 11.87% and 16.1% reduction in size as compared to the standard dipole which have the same resonant frequency with a return loss magnitude less than -10dB. 2013 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4737/1/Ong_Hui_Niang.pdf Ong, Hui Niang (2013) Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception. Masters thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia. http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4737/
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Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception
description Many resources in the internet guide user to build an easy to construct and simple homemade TV and FM antenna. The antenna are just using some recycle materials and just two conductor such as copper wire as a dipole antenna. Since TV channel and FM is still in Very High Frequency (VHF) frequency band from 47MHz to 230MHz and Ultra High Frequency (UHF) frequency band from 470MHz to 798MHz, the maximum antenna height will be very long around 3 meters. Hence, half wavelength dipole antenna using Fractal Koch Curve technique was designed in order to miniaturize the antenna height with a given total surface area or volume. The standard dipole, Koch Curve Dipole Antenna with one iteration and 2 iteration was analysed and optimized at VHF and UHF using 3D simulator software Computer Simulation Technology (CST). Dipole with the Koch Curve iteration 1 and 2 has shown at least 11.87% and 16.1% reduction in size as compared to the standard dipole which have the same resonant frequency with a return loss magnitude less than -10dB.
format Thesis
author Ong, Hui Niang
author_facet Ong, Hui Niang
author_sort Ong, Hui Niang
title Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception
title_short Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception
title_full Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception
title_fullStr Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception
title_full_unstemmed Fractal koch antenna for indoor TV and FM reception
title_sort fractal koch antenna for indoor tv and fm reception
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4737/
http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4737/1/Ong_Hui_Niang.pdf
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