Talk:Directional antenna

Reworking

I am going to begin a slow reworking of this page, I don't feel the "directional antenna" is adequately defined here. Directional antennas are extremely important in RF communication and so this page should be able to rise from stub status. I was wondering about comments on a previous edit suggesting this article may not be able to be expanded without infringing on other referenced articles. Can someone explain that? I am a n00b so any advice or edits as I go would be appreciated. Edwardkerlin 20:03, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Certainly corner reflector could use some improvement. This article links there, but that page seems to have less to do with proper antenna design than with entirely-passive metal reflectors placed on small watercraft and harbour markers to make them easier to see on ship's radar.

There are plenty of antennas erected mostly as "82-channel TV antennas", which consist of a large dipole (about eight feet across on North America's TV channel 2) or log-periodic VHF antenna elements, surrounded by yagi directors and reflectors. Ahead of this VHF section is usually a small UHF corner reflector (which has little effect on VHF), and ahead of that a small UHF dipole (a half-wavelength is about one foot on channel 18) and a few director elements. The design was an odd compromise strongly favouring the longer-wavelength VHF signals, but many of these still remain in use in the countryside. The UHF-only version moves the corner reflector to the back, with the active element(s) directly ahead of it and a long series of passive yagi-style director elements in front - a long and narrow structure designed for a weaker signal on a shorter set of wavelengths. None of the text about corner reflectors here has much of anything to say about their use in antennae, it seems? --66.102.80.212 (talk) 19:35, 29 June 2008 (UTC)

Waarom niet in het Nederlands?77.171.78.130 (talk) 08:46, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Done merger

I have merged all content from articles

• High-gain antenna (used version)
• and Low-gain antenna (used version)
• into Directional antenna.

I removed all obvious redundancies and amended syntax accordingly. I also did my best to harmonize the lead paragraphs. -- Rfassbind -talk 13:16, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

Big improvement! --Chetvorno^TALK 14:10, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

"High gain" and "low gain" are not categories of antennas

I think the terms high gain antenna and low gain antenna should be removed from the article as categories of antenna. These are not used as categories in antenna technical literature so their definitions are unsourced; they have no fixed difinition. The use of these terms by the public originated with the US space program. In describing antennas on spacecraft on TV and publicity releases, NASA needed to distinguish between the small omnidirectional antennas used in Earth orbit, and the large parabolic antennas that needed to be aimed at the Earth, so they referred to one as a "low gain antenna" and the other as a "high gain antenna" respectively. The large use of these terms in the media led people to assume that they were technical terms rather than NASA jargon. --Chetvorno^TALK 14:40, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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