Measurement and Evaluation of Tx/ Rx Antennas for X-Band Radar System

Folin Oktafiani (Research Center for Electronic and Telecommunication, Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
Yuyu Wahyu (Research Center for Electronic and Telecommunication, Indonesian Institute of Sciences)
Yusuf Nur Wijayanto (Research Center for Electronic and Telecommunication, Indonesian Institute of Sciences)

TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 14, No 2: June 2016

This paper presents the performance evaluation of antennas for microwave transmission and reception in X-band radar systems. The transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) antennas are fabricated on microstrip array structures. The antennas are connected to microwave circuits with transmission lines, coaxial cables, and microwave combiners and splitters. The designed antennas in X-band microwave operation for Tx and Rx parts were fabricated identically by 4x64 microstrip patch antennasin an array structure. The fabricated antennas were measured for return loss (S11), VSWR, radiation pattern, and Gain. The detail methods for the measurements are reported and their results are also discussed. The measured antenna gain of ~20dBi, and beam-width of ~20degreecan be obtained using the fabricated antennas at 9.4GHz microwave operation.