Communications: radio wave antennas – Antennas – Buried underground or submerged under water
Patent
1982-06-23
1989-05-09
Blum, Theodore M.
Communications: radio wave antennas
Antennas
Buried underground or submerged under water
343847, H01Q 104
Patent
active
048293105
ABSTRACT:
A wireless communication system and method for employing underground or low profile surface deployed current drivers for inducing ground currents in the earth which define loop antennas for sending and receiving electromagnetic signals propagated through the atmosphere over a wide bandwidth. The system uses a current driver whose impedance is adjusted so that it matches the impedance of a transmitter/receiver connected thereto. The current driver is capacitively coupled to the surrounding ground 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 can be operated using either a single current driver or, where increased signal gain is desired, using an array of current drivers that are spaced in parallel. A undirectional vertically polarized signal may be produced by shortening the length of one current driver conductor with respect to the other arm. Unwanted cancellation currents may be substantially eliminated from the region surrounding the current driver by positioning low conductivity materials so as to extend into the flow paths of the cancellation currents.
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Blum Theodore M.
Eyring Research Institute, Inc.
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