Compact USB stick with integrated antenna diversity for digital terrestrial TV reception

An USB key like digital Terrestrial TV receiver with built in antenna diversity is designed, realized and tested. It allows a free to air reception of Digital Terrestrial TV on a PC or a laptop. The housing of the compact receiver is used as part of antennas. The design is optimized to cover the whole UHF European frequency bandwidth (470MHz- 862MHz) with good antenna efficiency taking into account the size and the form factor of the USB-key. The obtained results are compliant with simulations. A propagation study confirms the coverage improvement of this solution.