II B.E. (Electronics & Communication)

VII SEMESTER

7 EC9 ANTENNA LAB

1. To study the characteristic of the following:

(a) End-fed vertical antennas.

(b) Altering the effective length of an antenna.

(c) Practical top loaded antennas.

(d) Directional antenna with driven elements.

(e) Parastic arrays.

(f) Folded antenna elements. 

2. Study the important characteristics of antenna and experimental measure the Radiation resistance, Radiation Pattern on polar plots and calculate the Beam width and gain of main lope and Band width for the following types of antenna.

(a) Half wave dipole

(b) Folded dipole

(c) Yagi UDA multiple element folded dipole

(d) Hertz Antenna

(e) End fire and broad side antenna

(f) Phase array antenna

(g) combined collinear array

(h) Loop antenna

(i) Ground plane antenna

(j) Log periodie aute.

(k.) Rhombus antenna.

(l) Slot antenna

3. Demonstration of modeling of wire antenna using appropriate design software.

4. Simulation of antenna arrays using appropriate Software.

5. Design and testing of microstrip rectangular patch antenna using appropriate Software.

6. (a)  To construct a basic transmitter, receiver and line of sight microwave radio link using microstrip components,

(b) To investigate the transmission characteristics of lie link and to measure the gain of the microstrip patch antennas using in the above setup. Draw the antenna radiation diagram.