Communications: radio wave antennas – Antennas – Buried underground or submerged under water
Patent
1982-06-23
1989-02-28
Blum, Theodore M.
Communications: radio wave antennas
Antennas
Buried underground or submerged under water
343847, 343877, H01Q 104
Patent
active
048090107
ABSTRACT:
A transportable wireless communication system and method for employing lightweight, compact, low profile surface deployed current drivers which are capable of rapid deployment and quick retrieval and which are used for inducing ground currents in the earth so as to send and receive electromagnetic signals propagated through the atmosphere over a wide bandwidth. The impedance of the current driver and earth is adjusted to match the impedance of a transmitter/receiver connected thereto. The current driver is capacitively coupled to the earth so that the current driver and the earth effectively function together as a vertical plane polarized antenna which propagates a vertically polarized electromagnetic signal. The system utilizes either a single current driver or, where increased signal gain is desired, an array of current drivers spaced in parallel. A unidirectional vertically polarized signal may be produced by shortening the length of one current driver conducting arm with respect to the other arm. Unwanted cancellation currents may be substantially eliminated from the region surrounding the current driver by elevating portions of the current drivr or by positioning low conductivity materials so as to extend into the flow paths of the cancellation currents.
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Blum Theodore M.
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
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