Keywords: Monopole and image antenna.svg monopole antenna has the same radiation pattern as a dipole antenna with twice the radiated power When a monopole antenna a is mounted over a perfectly conducting ground plane such as the Earth the radio waves can reach a given point P by two paths either propagating directly in a straight line to P or reaching P after first reflecting from the plane <font color blue > blue </font> it has the same radiation pattern as it would if the ground plane were replaced with a virtual image antenna b located under the ground The monopole and its image together are equivalent to a dipole antenna driven with a voltage twice as large as the monopole's 2V but with the same element currents as the monopole So the gain of the monopole will be twice that of the dipole own Chetvorno 2013-05-07 Cc-zero Uncategorized 2013 May 8 |