Wikipedia:Federal Standard 1037C terms/antenna terms

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This is a glossary of antenna-related terms, derived from the Glossary of Telecommunication Terms published as Federal Standard 1037C. Please see the Federal Standard article for copyright-related issues, as not all parts of the source document are in the public domain.

acceptance pattern antenna aperiodic antenna aperture (antenna) aperture illumination aperture-to-medium coupling loss beam beam diameter beam divergence beam steering beamwidth biconical antenna billboard antenna boresight Cassegrain antenna collinear antenna array corner reflector counterpoise departure angle despun antenna diplex operation dipole antenna directional antenna direct ray driven element effective antenna gain contour (of a steerable satellite beam) effective boresight area (of a steerable satellite beam) effective height effective isotropically radiated power (e.i.r.p.) effective monopole radiated power (e.m.r.p.) (in a given direction) effective radiated power (e.r.p.) (in a given direction) fan-beam antenna far-field radiation pattern far-field region feed Fractal antenna Fresnel zone front-to-back ratio ground plane helical antenna heterodyne repeater horn hybrid coupler image antenna intermediate-field region isotropic antenna lobe log-periodic antenna (LP) loop main lobe multicoupler multi-element dipole antenna

natural frequency near-field region null omnidirectional antenna orthomode transducer parabolic antenna parasitic element periodic antenna periscope antenna phased array planar array plural of antenna propagation mode radiation pattern radiation resistance radio beam radio horizon radio horizon range (RHR) radio range reference antenna reflective array antenna rhombic antenna shadow loss side lobe single-polarized antenna skip zone sky wave slewing slot antenna slotted waveguide space diversity spillover spot beam T2FD antenna test antenna uniform linear array waveguide antenna whip antenna Yagi antenna