Abstract
The testing of 7.5 m S/X band LEO satellite tracking antenna require a bore sight facility for the RF characterization. The boresight facility consists of 1.2 m parabolic reflector antenna with simultaneous transmission of S and X frequencies. This requires the feed to operate at optimum efficiency and generate concentric beam over the dual band. In this paper a dual band feed system which is simple to manufacture and having common phase center, concentric beam is discussed.
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I would like to acknowledge my sincere thanks to D Srinivasan, ECIL for providing the final approval for design/fabrication and V. SubbaRao, ECIL for testing the antenna in the CATF facility.
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Rahul, G. (2020). Design Concepts of S/X Band Feed System for 1.2 m Prime Focus Antenna. 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_6
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