tested. The measured and simulated results for the prototype are presented in Figure 2, and satisfactory agreements between them are observed. It has to be mentioned that the antenna structures of ␣ ϭ 90°and 270°cases are symmetrical to x-axis so the right-hand and left-hand CP radiations have the same performances. For brevity, only the results of ␣ ϭ 90°are shown. For the results shown in Figure 2(a), the axial ratio and cross polarization level (XPL) are measured at the broadside direction, and they indicate that the prototype can offer good CP and LP radiations when ␣ ϭ 90°and 0°, respectively. For the case of ␣ ϭ 90°, the 3 dB-axialratio CP operating bandwidth centered at 3310 MHz is about 21%, and the whole CP operating frequencies have the input impedance of less than 10 dB return loss, as shown in Figure 2(b). For the case of ␣ ϭ 0°, the XPL of less than Ϫ20 dB can be found within the 10 dB-return-loss impedance bandwidth which is about 39% and has the same center frequency as the CP operating bandwidth. The CP and LP radiation patterns were also measured at 3300 MHz, and the results are respectively plotted in Figures 3 and 4. Broadside radiation patterns with a front-to-back ratio of more than 12 dB are seen for the two different polarizations. Also, the gain variations against frequency are shown in Figure 5, and the peak gains of the CP and LP radiations are found to be about 10.6 and 10 dBi, respectively.