An Efficient Method for Analysis of Horizontal Wire Antennas Placed Above a Ground Plane

The unknown current distribution (UCD) and input impedance of horizontal dipole antenna above a conducting half-space are determined in this paper. To solve this problem the system of integral equations of two potentials (SIE-TP) and new simplified expressions for potentials (the Hertz's vector potential and electric scalar potential) are used. The point-matching method with polynomial current approximation is applied for numerical solving of this problem. The system of integral equations of Hallen's type (SIE-H), which is a special case of the SIE-TP, is also used in this paper for final solutions testing.