Halo antenna

Sketched design of a typical modern-style halo antenna. The sizes of, and space between the round end-plates is adjusted to tune the antenna to resonance; for some halos they are omitted. The thick, black, vertical line is the feed cable, ending in a small black box that contains a trimmer capacitor that with the gamma arm length, impedance matches the antenna feedpoint.

A halo antenna, or halo, is a center-fed  1 /2 wavelength dipole antenna, which has been bent into a circle, with a break directly opposite the feed point. The dipole's ends are close, but do not touch, and their crossections may be broadened to form an air capacitor, whose spacing is used to adjust the antenna's resonant frequency. Most often mounted horizontally, this antenna's radiation is then approximately omnidirectional and horizontally polarized.