Evaluation of Polarization Diversity Antenna for Wireless Communication Applications

In this paper, polarization diversity antenna is evaluated as a solution to reduce the effect of fading on transmitted signal strength. Two experiments using different types of antennas orthogonally polarized, horns and wired dipoles, are made. The acquisition of the received signals is done by an Arduino board interfaced with Matlab and diversity results are illustrated by real time plots. The measured results obtained by the experiments show that the evaluation of such system, using polarization diversity, gives interesting results and proves its use as a good solution for fading problem.