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ANTENNAS AND TRANSMISSION LINES · Impedance matching: matching antennas to feed lines; phasing lines; power dividers

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What is a use for a Wilkinson divider?

  1. ATo divide the operating frequency of a transmitter signal so it can be used on a lower frequency band
  2. BTo feed high-impedance antennas from a low-impedance source
  3. CTo divide power equally between two 50-ohm loads while maintaining 50-ohm input impedance
  4. DTo divide the frequency of the input to a counter to increase its frequency range
Why A Wilkinson divider is an RF power splitter built from two quarter-wavelength transmission line sections of about 70.7 ohms (the geometric mean of 50 and 100 ohms), with a 100-ohm isolation resistor bridging the two output ports. It takes one 50-ohm input and delivers half the power to each of two 50-ohm loads, while the input still looks like 50 ohms. It is commonly used to feed stacked or phased antenna arrays from a single feed line, and the bridging resistor keeps the two outputs isolated from each other.
Watch out The choices about dividing frequency confuse the word "divider" with a digital frequency divider or prescaler; a Wilkinson divides power, not frequency. Matching a low-impedance source to a high-impedance antenna is the job of a transformer or matching network, not a splitter.
Wilkinson = power splitter, not frequency divider. One 50-ohm in, two 50-ohm outs, quarter-wave 70.7-ohm arms.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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