gainOmni: Gain pattern of an omnidirectional antenna.

Description Usage Arguments Value Note Author(s) References

View source: R/gainOmni.R

Description

Calculate the one-way far-field power gain (relative to isotropic) for an omnidirectional (half-wave dipole) antenna, given the displacement angle to points in space.

Usage

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gainOmni(angle)

Arguments

angle

(radians) vector or matrix of direction angles in space. A vector is treated as an n x 1 matrix. The first column of this parameter is taken as a set of angles between the antenna axis and the desired direction. Any other columns are ignored, since this antenna pattern is symmetric around the antenna axis.

Value

one-way far-field power gain factor, in linear units, relative to the isotropic pattern.

Note

This gain factor is purely due to far-field antenna pattern, and does not consider distance to the remote point(s) or relative polarization of remote antenna.

Author(s)

John Brzustowski jbrzusto@REMOVE_THIS_PART_fastmail.fm

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipole_antenna#Half-wave_dipole


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