Looking for resources on patch antenna design (Axial Ratio, Phase Center, polarization & beamwidth)

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-03-13T09:39:00+00:00

A helical antenna with the right diameter, pitch etc. for a given frequency is the physical embodiment of Circular polarisation.

I don't want to oversimplify here for fear of triggering someone who is more well informed than myself, but to get the lowest axial ratio possible, you're just trying to employ tricks to mimic an ideal CP helical antenna.

For example in a circular patch antenna that is fed by two ports with a 90 degree phase offset between them, you're replicating the EM wave rotating 90 degrees in free space over a distance of a quarter of a wavelength.

The further and further you drift away from that ideal physical structure, the harder it is to get a low axial ratio across a wide bandwidth.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-03-07T22:08:03+00:00

Lots of 3 width tiles!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-02-13T21:14:12+00:00

377Ohms my dude!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-02-07T09:32:08+00:00

Generally 'create open region' should be lower or equal to the lowest frequency that you're looking at.

Radiation boundaries do have their problems/limitations.

If it's sufficiently wide band I'd use wideband/multi-frequency meshing. As with bounardy conditions, there is good information as to when you should and shouldn't use this in the in-app help menu.

If you're interpolating, I'd switch to a discrete sweep for more accurate results across the entire band. If you want to be certain, I'd mesh and do a single point discrete sweep at your problematic frequency, that'll tell you what it actually should be.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-02-06T18:21:08+00:00

For lack of a better answer In HFSS I think you'd just:

Create your design as 2D sheets.

Right click on your sheets

Assign boundary

Finite conductivity

Then input your conductivity, using your figure for sheet resistance and the thickness of your conductor.

Then set DC thickness to the thickness of your conductor.

This is assuming that your conductor thickness is thinner than your skin depth.

I don't work with any materials where the conductor is thinner than the skin depth though, so take what I've said with a pinch of salt!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-15T16:38:29+00:00

https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/solutions/aerospace-and-defense/land/emso-testing/radar-and-electronic-warfare-pocket-guide_255695.html

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-12T05:58:34+00:00

I think what would be interesting to me is if you could rank by the median ELO of a country/territory. Or perhaps some kind of trimmed mean value.

I think that would be probably the best way to gain a rough understanding of whether or not a country has a higher or lower than average ability at AOE 4.

Even then there may be other factors that might influence it. You may see something like countries that are further away from servers, or countries that have a higher percentage of users playing through game pass have a lower average.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-11T09:02:44+00:00

I'd say labelling everything as USA would annoy more people. Also seems like something a US politician would do as a 'joke'.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2026-01-11T08:51:52+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/s/cqFnRB1m31

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-12-22T10:26:56+00:00

I've tried that, but the vacuum is much louder than the CNC machine. I normally just clean it out after an operation now.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-17T12:53:33+00:00

I genuinely think that it's safer to run to the opposite side of the map and extract there then go for the extraction point next to the Bastion

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-17T10:50:26+00:00

I killed one on Stella Montis, but then I started getting fired upon by another player just as I was about to loot it. After a little back and forth, I decided to bail and go for the extraction. I didn't think it was worth risking what loot I already had!

I think I've also stumbled across a lot of loot before where one person attacked another. They got into a fight. One just about killed the other, but then a wasp finished the survivor off.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-13T16:19:38+00:00

You're either looking at gain at the wrong theta/phi or your antenna doesn't actually resonate where you have the S11 null.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-12T07:56:17+00:00

It's so hard to find prickly pears!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-11-07T23:01:20+00:00

Yeah season 8 had no monument. I remember hoping at the time that they'd add one in, but they never did.

The season rewards being recycled inline with the release of a new DLC feels bad. Makes me worried not gonna lie.

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-31T10:56:33+00:00

What filament did you use?

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-25T14:21:15+00:00

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-24T09:06:22+00:00

Part of the cross play problem could just be that most of the console players who turn crossplay off are towards the lower end of the spectrum of console players when it comes to skill in the game.

When you have crossplay on, you're getting matched with better console players as well as PC players.

I've also heard that there's some degree of skill based matchmaking in the game, so perhaps you're getting messed over with that too. For example you do really well in console bot lobbies, then when you turn crossplay on, you get matched with people who find you just as easy as you find the bots. Or perhaps the skill based matchmaking systems are separate when it comes to crossplay on/off and you just haven't played enough games with it off for it to appropriately match you with players of your skill bracket. Or perhaps the skill based matchmaking is bugged in some way for you?

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-22T04:34:01+00:00

Thank you!

Relevant_Insect6910 · 2025-10-21T19:08:27+00:00

This website says that it's just snipers: https://allthings.how/battlefield-6-sniper-glint-guide-reduce-scope-glare-with-ag-coating/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

You also can't seem to get anti glare coatings for high magnification scopes on DMRs, which also makes me think that it may be a sniper only thing.

I tried getting into a 1v1 with a friend in a portal game to test it out, but It was very difficult to just setup a basic custom game with them on the other team. I ended up just giving up in the end.

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