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Fig 7.4 (a): Principal E plane pattern of an elementary dipole
Fig 7.4 (b): Principal H plane pattern of an elementary dipole

The bandwidth (3 dB beam width) can be found to be 900 in the E plane.

Effective Area of an Antenna:
An antenna operating as a receiving antenna extracts power from an incident electromagnetic wave. The incident wave on a receiving antenna may be assumed to be a uniform plane wave being intercepted by

Fundamentals of Antennas and Radiating systems