Radiation pattern of a dipole antenna

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The dipole antenna is a simple and widely used antenna. Such an antenna emits a well known torus-like omnidirectional radiation pattern.

This representation displays a normalised pattern for an ideal dipole antenna. It shows that the radiation in the direction of the antenna axis is effectively zero (coloured blue) and produces its maximum in the direction perpendicular to the dipole axis (coloured red).

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