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Carbon fibre monopoles and towers have traditionally been too expensive but recent developments in the way the carbon fibre tow is spun have resulted in solutions that offer strengths exceeding steel (10 times) for a fraction of the weight (70% less [9]) which has allowed monopoles and towers to be built in locations that were too expensive or ...
The monopole antenna was invented in 1895 by radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi; for this reason it is sometimes called the Marconi antenna. [4] [5] [6] The load impedance of the quarter-wave monopole is half that of the dipole antenna or 37.5 ohms. Common types of monopole antenna are
The folded unipole antenna was first devised for broadcast use by John H. Mullaney, an American radio broadcast pioneer, and consulting engineer. [2] It was designed to solve some difficult problems with existing medium wave (MW), frequency modulation (FM), and amplitude modulation (AM) broadcast antenna installations.
[20] CBC Tower, Shawinigan, QC, Canada April 27, 2001: Guyed steel lattice mast 331.5 (307.1 + 24.4 (structure + antenna)) Controlled implosion after aircraft crash caused serious damage five days earlier Rebuilt in 2003, the new tower has almost the same height, i.e. 326.8 m (307.1 m for the structure, but the antenna is shorter (19.7 m)).
A fan monopole, or multi-monopole is a half of a fan dipole: It combines several different-sized monopole antennas, all sharing the same feedpoint, with each sized to transmit well on a different band or sub-band. Like all monopoles, it requires a ground system to function.
Amid an ongoing effort by some residents to halt any new construction of small cell wireless communication towers in town, an application to build a monopole communication tower on land owned by ...
A mast radiator (or radiating tower) is a radio mast or tower in which the metal structure itself is energized and functions as an antenna. This design, first used widely in the 1930s, is commonly used for transmitting antennas operating at low frequencies , in the LF and MF bands, in particular those used for AM radio broadcasting stations.
In this circumstance, a ‘T’-antenna is a capacitively top-loaded, electrically short, vertical monopole. [4]: 578–579 Despite its improvements over a short vertical, the typical ‘T’-antenna is still not as efficient as a full-height 1 / 4 λ [c] vertical monopole, [5] and has a higher Q and thus a narrower bandwidth.