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Experiment No: 05: Department: Electronics & Telecommunication

This document describes an experiment to study and plot the radiation pattern of a log-periodic antenna. It provides background information on log-periodic antennas, including their construction, working principle, advantages, and applications. The experiment procedure involves connecting a log-periodic antenna to a receiver trainer kit and measuring the received power for each step angle as the antenna rotates through 360 degrees, in order to obtain and plot its radiation pattern. The conclusion is that the measured radiation pattern is similar to the ideal pattern for a log-periodic antenna, with some minor additional lobes.

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Experiment No: 05: Department: Electronics & Telecommunication

This document describes an experiment to study and plot the radiation pattern of a log-periodic antenna. It provides background information on log-periodic antennas, including their construction, working principle, advantages, and applications. The experiment procedure involves connecting a log-periodic antenna to a receiver trainer kit and measuring the received power for each step angle as the antenna rotates through 360 degrees, in order to obtain and plot its radiation pattern. The conclusion is that the measured radiation pattern is similar to the ideal pattern for a log-periodic antenna, with some minor additional lobes.

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Rizvi College of Engineering AWPL

Department: Electronics & Telecommunication

(Sem VI)

Class: Third Year (T.E.)

Subject: Antenna & Radio Wave Propagation lab


(AWPL)

Experiment No: 05

Title: To Study & Plot the Radiation pattern of Log-


Periodic Antenna .

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Aim: Study & Plot the Radiation pattern of Log-Periodic Antenna.

Apparatus: Antenna Trainer KIT , Printer , BNC connectors ,Log Periodic Antenna.
Theory: The Yagi-Uda antenna is mostly used for domestic purpose. However, for
commercial purpose and to tune over a range of frequencies, we need to have another
antenna known as the Log-periodic antenna. A Log-periodic antenna is that whose
impedance is a logarithmically periodic function of frequency.

Frequency range: The frequency range, in which the log-periodic antennas operate is
around 30 MHz to 3GHz which belong to the VHF and UHF-bands.

Construction & Working of Log-periodic Antenna:


The construction and operation of a log-periodic antenna is similar to that of a Yagi-Uda
antenna. The main advantage of this antenna is that it exhibits constant characteristics over a
desired frequency range of operation. It has the same radiation resistance and therefore the
same SWR. The gain and front-to-back ratio are also the same.

With the change in operation frequency, the active region shifts among the elements and
hence all the elements will not be active only on a single frequency. This is its special
characteristic.

There are several type of log-periodic antennas such as the planar, trapezoidal, zig-zag, V-
type, slot and the dipole. The mostly used one is log-periodic dipole array, in short, LPDA.

log-periodic array

The physical structure and electrical characteristics, when observed, are repetitive in nature.
The array consists of dipoles of different lengths and spacing, which are fed from a two-wire
transmission line. This line is transposed between each adjacent pair of dipoles.

The dipole lengths and separations are related by the formula:

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Where

 T is the design ratio and T < 1


 R is the distance between the feed and the dipole
 l is the length of the dipole.
The directive gains obtained are low to moderate. The radiation patterns may
be Unidirectional or Bi-directional.

Radiation Pattern
The Radiation pattern of log-periodic antenna can be of uni-directional or bi-directional,
depending upon the log periodic structures. For unidirectional Log-periodic antenna, the
radiation towards shorter element is of considerable amount, whereas in forward direction, it
is small or zero.

The radiational pattern for uni-directional log-periodic antenna is given above.

For bi-directional Log-periodic antenna, the maximum radiation is in broad side, which is
normal to the surface of the antenna.

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The figure given above shows the radiation pattern for a bi-directional log-periodic antenna.

Advantages

The following are the advantages of Log-periodic antennas −

 The antenna design is compact.


 Gain and radiation pattern are varied according to the requirements.

Disadvantages

The following are the disadvantages of Log-periodic antennas −

 External mount.
 Installation cost is high.

Applications

The following are the applications of Log-periodic antennas −

 Used for HF communications.


 Used for particular sort of TV receptions.
 Used for all round monitoring in higher frequency bands.

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PROCEDURE:
1) Connect the Antenna transmitter to the dipole antenna acting as a reference
antenna via BNC Connector and set the frequency to 800 MHz.
2) Connect the Log Periodic antenna to the antenna receiver trainer kit.
3) Select the Data array 1 or 2 for storing the readings and select step angle 5
degree for stepper motor movement and press ENTER.
4) Press POLAR print after the stepper motor has rotated for 360 degree & obtain
the final radiation pattern through the Printer along with the power received
for Each step angle.

Result: The radiation pattern of Log- Periodic antenna was plotted.


Conclusion: From this experiment we conclude that radiation pattern of practical Log-
Periodic antenna is almost similar to ideal radiation pattern of Log- Periodic antenna with
some minor lobes.

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