Analysis of the Electrical Performance of Multituned VLF Thirteen-Tower Umbrella Antennas

Table 1

Cutler antenna measurement and simulation results.

	Static capacitance (nF)	Radiation resistance (Ω)	Radiation reactance (Ω)	Self-resonance (kHz)
Measured results [13]	123.9	0.1984	−35.4	40.2
Simulation results	119.4	0.1996	−38	40.6
Error	−3.6%	0.6%	7.3%	1.0%