Georgi S. Kirov, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria; Hristo D. Hristov and Rodolfo Feick, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso, C

This article describes a handy design method for a long backfire antenna, called for short a backfire antenna (BFA). It consists of the following basic elements: A feed F (dipole or assembly of crossed dipoles), a surface wave (SW) structure S (dipole array, metal disk-on-rod, dielectric rod, dielectric-covered metal...