Abstract

For future direct broadcasting satellites in Japan, precisely contoured beam antennas will be required for onboard antennas. Single shaped-reflector antennas are suitable for that purpose, since they do not need complex feed networks. However, in a previous study, discontinuities in the reflector surface were observed. The problem of the discontinuity was circumvented in this work and the shaped reflectors were successfully designed to produce contoured beams for covering the Japanese islands for the downlink and feederlink antennas. The downlink antenna was fabricated, and the radiation pattern was verified by measurement. The radiation pattern meets the radio regulations imposed on the onboard antenna, such as sidelobe and cross-polarization characteristics.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

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