Design and construction of helical antenna for weather satellite receiver

Saleh, Zakaria (2001) Design and construction of helical antenna for weather satellite receiver. [Student Project] (Unpublished)

Abstract

This report presents the theory, design, simulation and construction of a helical antenna for reception of orbiting weather Satellite signal from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This satellite transmits circular polarised AM-FM modulated signal at 137.5 MHz. The design and construction of this helical antenna was done with the aid of a computer program written in Turbo Pascal version 6. A program to simulate the radiation pattern of the helical antenna was also written in Turbo Pascal version 6. The constructed helical Antenna was tested and is perfectly matched. The gain of 13.01 dB, bandwidth of 23.5 MHz and half-power beamwidth of 36 degrees are achieved.

Metadata

Item Type:	Student Project
Creators:	Creators Email / ID Num. Saleh, Zakaria UNSPECIFIED
Contributors:	Contribution Name Email / ID Num. Advisor Mohd YusofT, Mohd Hanapiah UNSPECIFIED Advisor Ariffin, Rusnani UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > Telecommunication > Data transmission systems T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > Electronics > Applications of electronics
Divisions:	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam > Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Programme:	Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Honours)
Keywords:	Weather satellite ground station, Transionic propagation, Antenna
Date:	2001
URI:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/122308