Design and Simulation of a Polygonal Discone Antenna for Simplified Fabrication and Reconfigurability

The antenna presented herein is formed as a hexagonal approximation of the traditional discone geometry. This design eliminates the curved surfaces of both the disk and the cone of the typical design, replacing them with flat trapezoidal panels. This greatly reduces the fabrication complexity, while maintaining the high bandwidth and symmetric radiation pattern of the canonical structure. The polygonal discone also introduces the possibility of post-fabrication reconfigurability, through articulation of the six panels.