Novel ultra-wideband discone antenna

A double-discone antenna for an ultra-wideband fre- quency scan is presented. An exquisite assembly of two inverse-feeding discone antennas shows a 30:1 broad bandwidth with VSWR below 2.5 and an omnidirectional radiation pattern. These features make the pro- posed antenna very suitable for both the UWB system antenna and the wideband scan antenna. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 42: 113-115, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.20224