Yagi-Uda antenna

English

Etymology

Named after Japanese engineers Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.

Noun

Yagi-Uda antenna (plural Yagi-Uda antennas)

1. (radio) A type of directional antenna with one driven element and one or more parasitic elements; a directional radio or TV antenna consisting of two or more dipoles in the same plane with all dipoles parallel to each other.

Synonyms

• Yagi antenna
• yagi

Translations

type of directional antenna

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 八木天線／八木天线 (Bāmù tiānxiàn)

• Dutch: Yagi-Uda-antenne f, Yagi-antenne f
• Polish: antena Yagi f, antena Yagi-Uda f

Further reading

• Ward Silver, The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, second edition, The American Radio Relay League Inc →ISBN, 2010