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Radiation from an antenna can be blocked by using a simple sheet of conducting material. Aluminum foil would work. But you'd have to set things up so whatever it is you are shielding is completely in the electromagnetic shadow of the antenna. Metal screen would work, too, but you'd have to make some calculations as regards the frequency of the radiation you wish to block and the size of the openings in the screen. You can see the items in your microwave heating up, but the radiation can't get out. Same principle.
The VOR works by allowing an aircraft receiver to compare a reference timing signal with a directionally phased difference signal. Originally, the difference signal was generated with a rotating antenna. Today, it is generated electronically, and there are no moving parts.
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This will be a map of the radiation pattern of an antenna.
Figure of Eight (8)
A smart antenna is used to identify signal signature and to track an antenna beam on the target. Some are for beamforming which is used to create the radiation pattern of the antenna.
Radiation pattern is just a map of how the strength of the signal varies around (transmitting) antennas. For some, like a simple whip antenna, the patttern too is quite simple. For directional antennas they can be quite complicated.
The isotropicantenna by definition has a radiation pattern that is a perfect sphere. The omni driectional antenna is characterized by a radiation pattern resembling a doughnut.
can transmit in all directions with a donut shaped radiation pattern.
A full-wave loop antenna can be interchanged with a folded dipole without much difference. The input impedance is similar and the only difference is in the directivity: a full wave loop radiates along the axis of the loop, while a vertical folded dipole is omnidirectional.
By definition, an isotropic radiator radiates equally well in all directions. A simple vertical whip would have such a pattern in the horizontal field.
There are two types of loop antenna used in radio, small and large. It is a loop of wire usually circular or square with the circuit (transmitter or receiver) connected at the two adjacent open ends. A large loop is one wavelength in circumference and radiates a wave along the axis of the loop. It can also be thought of as a folded half-wave dipole. A small loop also known as a magnetic loop is one tenth of a wavelength or less in circumference and radiates in the plane of the loop. Used as a receiver, a small loop gives an output signal voltage proportional to the magnetic component of the arriving radio wave. Small loops for receiving can be made from a coil of wire on a ferrite rod, and this type of loop is also called a loopstick antenna. Intermediate-sized loops have a rather unpredictable pattern so tend not be used.
The radio antenna converts electromagnetic radiation to electrical energy
The radiation resistance of quarter wave monopole is 36.5 ohms
Loop antenna generate the same field as electrical dipole, but E and H are exchanged (a proof can be obtained this way: you align an electrical dipole with an axis, say z, and a loop antenna with z - you have to define surface orientation - then you apply duality theorem, calculate far field and you got it). For instance, in spherical coordinates (r,phi,theta) you have el. dipole {Etheta,Hphi} loop ant. {Ephi,Htheta} So, you can superpose the two fields and see that you have gained polarization independency (if an electrical dipole is aligned with z-axis and has its gap at z=0, it will receive very well Etheta, not at all Ephi (plane z=0), if you put a loop antenna "around" electrical dipole - like a ring around dipole's gap, lying on z=0 plane - it will receive very well Ephi (plane z=0) ). This is the way to make triaxial sensor, which have to be polarization independent.