ADCOCK ANTENNA

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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.


Other topics in our resources on Antennas related to Adcock Antenna include: 
 
  • Loop antenna
  • DF antenna (Direction finding antenna)
  • HF Adcock antenna
  • VHF Adcock antenna
  • UHF Adcock antenna
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