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Abstract

This article presents a dipole antenna using an I-shapes adding technique on both sides of the antenna's body. To increase the using frequency range to be wider, with horn waveguide for gain enhancement and harvest energy by matching circuit. Which is compatible with the voltage multiplier circuit at RF frequency (510-790 MHz) in a TV digital system. When taken to measure the effect of the antenna, it was found that the antenna operates at a frequency range of 60.24% (450-838 MHz), a 67.79% increase from the base dipole antenna, which has the gain enhancement of 10.23 dB from adding the horn waveguide 60.99%. By has a pattern of energy radiating in a specific direction, and when the antenna is used with an energy harvesting circuit to get energy or power from the front direction of the TV digital antenna at a distance of 10 km, capable of harvesting energy up to 7.33 uW.

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