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Two novel reduced-size, printed spiral antennas are proposed for use in personal communications mobile terminals exploiting the “big low earth orbit” (Big-LEO) satellite system (uplink 1.61–1.63 GHz; downlink 2.48–2.5 GHz). The two proposed antenna give 3.12―6.25% bandwidth at lower resonant mode of 1600MHz, while at the higher resonant mode of 2450MHz a bandwidth of around 6% is obtained. The experimental and simulated return losses of the proposed antennas show good agreement. The computed and measured gains, and axial ratios are presented, showing that the performance of the proposed two antennas meets typical specifications for the intended applications.
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Binmelha, M.S. et al. (2013). Two Miniaturized Printed Dual-Band Spiral Antenna Designs for Satellite Communication Systems. In: Pillai, P., Shorey, R., Ferro, E. (eds) Personal Satellite Services. PSATS 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_10
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