Stub-Loaded Folded Dipole Antenna for Digital Terrestrial TV Reception

A stub-loaded folded dipole antenna is proposed for digital terrestrial TV reception. The antenna has a pair of lines as stubs inside a folded dipole. The prototype antenna printed on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film has dimensions of 20 by 240mm with a line width of 1 mm. The antenna exhibits a relatively flat gain characteristic from 0.6 to 1.9 dBi with a stable figure-of-eight radiation pattern in the frequency range from 470 to 710 MHz. The voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is less than 2.6 in the frequency range