AbstractWe present certain novel characteristics of the radiation pattern of a chirostrip dipole antenna which consists of a short horizontal dipole antenna on a grounded chiral substrate. Chiral materials are characterized by constitutive relationsD= ϵeE+ iϵcBandH=B/μc+ iϵeE. In our theoretical analysis we show that the radiation pattern of a simple chirostrip horizontal dipole undergoes a rotation around the axis normal to the substrate and that this rotation depends on the value of the chirality iϵe. Applications of this novel antenna are menti