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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