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An Airborne Miniature Circularly Polarized Active Antenna for GPS and GLONASS Applications

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This article proposes miniature Circularly Polarized (CP) active antenna for GPS+GLONASS application. It consists of four corner unequal truncated Microstrip Patch Antenna (MSA) etched on top PCB, edge coupled compact Band Pass Filter (BPF) & high gain Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) etched on bottom PCB. The two PCBs are attached back to back with common ground plane & inserted in aluminum housing and RF connection provided to the antenna Vertical Interconnect Access (VIA) SMA female connector. This arrangement enhances SNR for detecting the inherently weaker GPS+GLONASS signals. Fabricated the antenna, validated its electrical performance in far field test range. The measured gain of the active antenna is >30 dBiC and Axial Ratio <4 dB over the band of 1.57 to 1.61 GHz and also conformed the performance in satellite live test detection. The hardware is qualified to use in air borne application.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the encouragement of Shri B.H.V.S NarayanaMurthy Director, RCI Hyderabad for granting permission to publish this work.

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  1. Research Center Imarat, Hyderabad, India

    Kumbha Sambasiva Rao, D. R. Jahagirdar & K. Durga Bhavani

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  1. Kumbha Sambasiva Rao
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Correspondence to Kumbha Sambasiva Rao .

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  1. School of Computer Engineering, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

    Suresh Chandra Satapathy

  2. Department of CSE, CMR Technical Campus, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    K. Srujan Raju

  3. Department of CSE, Osmania University, University College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    K. Shyamala

  4. Department of ECE, Osmania University, University College of Engineering, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    D. Rama Krishna

  5. Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

    Margarita N. Favorskaya

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Sambasiva Rao, K., Jahagirdar, D.R., Durga Bhavani, K. (2020). An Airborne Miniature Circularly Polarized Active Antenna for GPS and GLONASS Applications. In: Satapathy, S.C., Raju, K.S., Shyamala, K., Krishna, D.R., Favorskaya, M.N. (eds) Advances in Decision Sciences, Image Processing, Security and Computer Vision. ICETE 2019. Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24318-0_31

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