This section displays antenna types recorded in our database. While we aim to provide a comprehensive overview of the most common design types, the list is not intended to be exhaustive.
| Image | Design | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Backfire | An antenna consisting of a radiating feed, a reflector element, and a reflecting surface such that the antenna functions as an open resonator, with radiation from the open end of the resonator. | |
| Batwing | ||
| Bi-Quad | ||
| Biconical | An antenna consisting of two conical conductors having a common axis and vertex. | |
| Bow-Tie | ||
| Cassegrain Reflector | A paraboloidal reflector antenna with a convex subreflector, usually hyperboloidal in shape, located between the vertex and the prime focus of the main reflector. | |
| Ceiling | Antenna design commonly consisting of a monocone suspended above a ground plane. In dual polarised designs the ground plane may take the form of an orthogonally polarised radiator. | |
| Cheese | A reflector antenna having a cylindrical reflector enclosed by two parallel conducting plates perpendicular to the cylinder, spaced more than one wavelength apart. | |
| Cloverleaf | Circularly polarised wire antenna with a radiation pattern similar to a dipole antenna. | |
| Collinear | A linear array of radiating elements, usually dipoles, with their axes lying in a straight line. | |
| Combination Planar | Type of complex, multi-element design consisting of two or more planar / PCB antennas housed in a single radome. | |
| Corner Reflector | An antenna consisting of a feed and a reflecting object consisting of two or three mutually intersecting conducting flat surfaces. | |
| Crossed Dipole | Antenna consisting of a set of two identical dipole antennas mounted at right angles to each other and fed in phase quadrature; the two currents applied to the dipoles are 90° out of phase. | |
| Cycloid Dipole | Omnidirectional, circularly polarised antenna used primarily in FM broadcasting applications. | |
| Cylindrical Dipole | A dipole, all of whose transverse cross-sections are the same, the shape being circular. |