Design and Simulation of 12 Elements Yagi-Uda Antenna For UHF Channel 14 (485 MHZ)
Design and Simulation of 12 Elements Yagi-Uda Antenna For UHF Channel 14 (485 MHZ)
Design and Simulation of 12 Elements Yagi-Uda Antenna For UHF Channel 14 (485 MHZ)
A Yagi-Uda antenna for UHF channel 14 (485 MHz) was The incident field will induce a current in the parasitic element
designed and simulated. The antenna has twelve elements: driver, that radiate electric field.
reflector, and ten directors. The effect of metallic boom was
observed. The obtained gain and directivity are presented. the E parasitic = −Edriver = −Eincident (2)
effect of fabrications errors is demonstrated.
Using the induced current we can calculate the array factor
Index Terms—Antenna, Yagi, Uda, UHF, Thin wire code, (AF) as in the following equation.
Simulation. N−1
AF = ∑ In e jβ nd cos θ (3)
n=0
I. I NTRODUCTION
N is the number of elements, β = 2πλ , θ is the azimuthal angle,
Fig. 2: Effect of metallic boom on the parasitic elements length The half power beam width (HP) was calculated from the
[6] Fig. 3 as 36◦ . and the side lobe levels was around -17 dB as
shown in Fig.5 The 3D filed pattern is shown in Fig.4
From the figure above it was found that the parasitic element
length has to be increased by a ratio of 0.0055λ to meet the
optimum gain.
A. Design Test
beam at θ = 90◦ . The side lobe levels is -17.82 dB. The -50
normalized E-plane field is shown in Fig. 3 below. The gain is
lower than expected gain and that could be a result of the exact -60
resonant length for the driver dipole which was assumed to be 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
This boom has some effects on the radiated field and antenna -2
characteristics. When the metallic boom was added to the an- -3
tenna, The resulted gain enhanced to 12.0581 dBd (directivity -4
20Log(E )
of 26.35 ). The effect of boom on field magnitude is depicted
-5
in Fig. 5.
-6
-7
-8
Without boom
-9
With boom
-10
60 70 80 90 100 110 120
For better analysis the log scale plot for power were plotted
to see the effect on the HP angle as shown in Fig. 6 and 7
below. 1
Without Boom
0.9 With Boom
0.8
0 0.7
Reflection coefficient
0.6
-5
0.5
-10
0.4
-15
20Log(E )
0.3
-20
0.2
-25 0.1
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
Frequency (MHz)
-30
-40
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
0
1200
100 Design Length
With Boom -0.5 Shorten Length
Without Boom
-1
1000
50 -1.5
-2
20Log(E )
800
)
-2.5
Input impedance (
0
400 450 500 550 -3
600
-3.5
-4
400
-4.5
-5
200 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110
0
Fig. 12: Shorten elements effect on HP
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
Frequency ( MHz )
-20
-25
-30
-35
Design Length
Shorten Length
-40
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350