Patent ID: 6911946

Claim:
A reception antenna arrangement for diversity reception for motor vehicles for the GHz frequency range, for disposal over a conductive, horizontally oriented base surface for the reception of circularly polarized waves and/or vertically polarized waves comprising: a plurality of dipole antennas extending spatially not more than ¾ of the wavelength; at least one reversing device ( 2 ) coupled to said dipole antennas for receiving at least two signals of different diversity, and alternatively coupling said signals to at least one antenna connection point ( 5 ) for diversity reception, so that a more favorable reception signal ( 4 ) or a plurality of receptions signals ( 4 ) can be selected by said reversing device ( 2 ) to substantially reduce interference and enhance the quality of the received signals; wherein said plurality of dipole antennas comprise: two dipole antennas (D 1 , D 2 ) oriented vertically in relation to each other, the azimuthal directional diagrams of which are cosine-shaped and have dipole reception signals ( 13 ) superimposed with a 90-degree phase angle; a satellite connection gate ( 6 ) allocated to satellite reception; a terrestrial connection gate ( 7 ) allocated to the terrestrial reception; and a vertically polarized dipole antenna M for receiving the terrestrially transmitted signals, and supplying those signals to said terrestrial connection gate ( 7 ).