Research Article

Enhancing Parasitic Interference Directional Antennas with Multiple Director Elements

Table 2

Simulation results.

# Description Half Power Beamwidth (3 dB) Maximum Gain at 2.4525 GHz FTBR

1 One director129° 5.98 dBi -3.73 dB 21dB
2 Two consecutive directors 87° 7.70 dBi -7.73 dB 9 dB
3 Three consecutive directors 76° 8.35 dBi -11.25 dB 13 dB
4 Four consecutive directors 137° 6.42 dBi -11.94 dB 25 dB
5 Five consecutive directors 103° 5.65 dBi -8.39 dB -
6 Two opposed directors 70° 5.91 dBi -8.70 dB -
7 Four opposed directors 58° 7.40 dBi -12.20 dB -
8 Six directors (all) Omni 3.90 dBi -5.81 dB -