23.03.2017 Views

wilamowski-b-m-irwin-j-d-industrial-communication-systems-2011

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

Media 2-13<br />

G<br />

1<br />

Maximum intensity<br />

Average intensity<br />

FIGURE 2.11<br />

Antenna directional characteristics (2D equivalent).<br />

others. For planning a radio link, the most important parameter is the antenna’s gain: The gain is the<br />

ratio of the radiation intensity P rad (ϕ, ϑ) in the angular direction ϕ, ϑ to the antenna input power P n :<br />

Prad<br />

( φ, ϑ)<br />

G( φ, ϑ)<br />

= 4π<br />

P<br />

in<br />

(2.7)<br />

If the atenna gain is specified without an angular dependency, the maximum value G = max (G(ϕ, ϑ)) is<br />

meant. The gain G represents the maximum intensity compared to the average intensity (Figure 2.11).<br />

A theoretical antenna that emits the entire input power provided uniformly into all angular directions,<br />

a so called isotropic antenna, has a gain of 1. The physically feasible Hertzian dipole or short<br />

dipole has a gain of 1.76 dBi (dB relative to isotropic antenna). It consists of two wires with a total<br />

length

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!