Smooth‐walled spline‐profile Ka‐band horn covering both the full commercial and military bands

As an alternative to the corrugated horn, a low-cost smooth-walled spline-profile horn has been designed to cover the complete Ka-band satellite bands. This new horn is used as a feed in a typical dual-reflector antenna to demonstrate the overall antenna system meets the usual performance requirements. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 50: 2119–2121, 2008; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.23551

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