ADCOCK ANTENNA
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Information on Adcock Antenna
An Adcock antenna is made up of four
antenna elements (each of which is usually a monopole antenna),
each of which is mounted at a corner of a
square.
The most common application of the Adcock antenna
is in electronic warfare, where it is used for direction
finding (DF).
An Adcock antenna receives vertically polarised radiation,
and is directional in the vertical plane. This is often
useful in static DF applications, where surface wave and skywave
propagation can be mixed. This directionality is counter-productive in situations
where radiation with a high elevation angle must be received,
including DF on a ship rolling on the surface of
the sea and automatic direction finding (ADF) in aircraft. In
such applications, the Adcock antenna is rarely used.
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