Câble coaxialLe câble coaxial ou ligne coaxiale désigne une ligne de transmission ou liaison asymétrique, utilisée en basses ou hautes fréquences, composée d'un câble à deux conducteurs (central et extérieur), dont le conducteur externe assure le plus souvent le blindage. L'invention en est attribuée à Oliver Heaviside (breveté en 1880). L'Américain Herman Affel a développé le câble coaxial moderne, dont le brevet a été accepté en 1931. En réception de signaux de télévision, le câble coaxial est le plus souvent associé à la prise d'antenne ou à la fiche F.
Antenna feedA radio transmitter or receiver is connected to an antenna which emits or receives the radio waves. The antenna feed system or antenna feed is the cable or conductor, and other associated equipment, which connects the transmitter or receiver with the antenna and makes the two devices compatible. In a radio transmitter, the transmitter generates an alternating current of radio frequency, and the feed system feeds the current to the antenna, which converts the power in the current to radio waves.
Filtre passe-basUn filtre passe-bas est un filtre qui laisse passer les basses fréquences et qui atténue les hautes fréquences, c'est-à-dire les fréquences supérieures à la fréquence de coupure. Il pourrait également être appelé filtre coupe-haut. Le filtre passe-bas est l'inverse du filtre passe-haut et ces deux filtres combinés forment un filtre passe-bande. Le concept de filtre passe-bas est une transformation mathématique appliquée à des données (un signal). L'implémentation d'un filtre passe-bas peut se faire numériquement ou avec des composants électroniques.
Umbrella antennaAn umbrella antenna is a capacitively top-loaded wire monopole antenna, consisting in most cases of a mast fed at the ground end, to which a number of radial wires are connected at the top, sloping downwards. They are used as transmitting antennas below 1 MHz, in the MF, LF and particularly the VLF bands, at frequencies sufficiently low that it is impractical or infeasible to build a full size quarter-wave monopole antenna.
Distributed-element modelIn electrical engineering, the distributed-element model or transmission-line model of electrical circuits assumes that the attributes of the circuit (resistance, capacitance, and inductance) are distributed continuously throughout the material of the circuit. This is in contrast to the more common lumped-element model, which assumes that these values are lumped into electrical components that are joined by perfectly conducting wires.
Mast radiatorA mast radiator (or radiating tower) is a radio mast or tower in which the metal structure itself is energized and functions as an antenna. This design, first used widely in the 1930s, is commonly used for transmitting antennas operating at low frequencies, in the LF and MF bands, in particular those used for AM radio broadcasting stations. The conductive steel mast is electrically connected to the transmitter. Its base is usually mounted on a nonconductive support to insulate it from the ground.
