Dear friends,
See the article by Steven Best in the June 2003 IEEE Antennas and Propagation magazine. His analysis shows that they do not work any better than any other small antenna. I attended a presentation on his findings at an IEEE antennas society meeting and he makes a very persuasive case.
There are those who argue that his analysis is not perfectly fair (i.e. those trying to SELL these antennas) but I have yet to see any technical analysis that shows otherwise.
73, Tony AA2TX AMSAT VP Engineering
At 09:18 AM 3/14/2010, Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF wrote:
I beleive fractal antennas have been "ignored" because of patent issues.
On 13-Mar-10 22:26, Dave Marthouse wrote:
This seems almost too good to be true. Keep in mindthat I'm not an engineer. Maybe this technology could be used for future amateur satellites, wider bandwidth, more gain, less space, etc.
http://www.fractalantennas.com/
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