A-sandwich radome structure with Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) was designed based on a mutual admittance approach
and the experimental objects of planar and conical radome were manufactured
which verified the integral technique of composite structures. Tests on the planar sample and FSS conical radome were carried out in an anechoic chamber
and some of which were compared with computation results. The results show that the dual-layer FSS loaded by A-sandwich structure has a small loss of in-band transmission with flat-peak characteristics
and the incidence angle and polarization of the bandwidth show a good stability. At a large incidence angle of 60°
the difference of -3 dB bandwidth between TE and TM polarizations of a dual-layer FSS is 1.3 GHz less than that of sigle-layer FSS. When the thickness of honeycomb sandwich layer is large (about 1/4λ)
the coupling between the two side FSS layers is little
so dual and single layer FSSs have the same resonant frequency. Furthermore
the transmission properties of the curved FSS radome are related to both antenna polarization and incident direction
and the experimental results of the radome in the main polarization plane are consistent with that of the planar objects. These results indicate that the influence of curvature is quite small in a test of local near-field
so the local planar approximation can be used in the design stage.