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Special antennas are required to meet electromagnetic requirements such as high gain, low sidelobe level, and high bandwidth. Another requirement is a small size and good manufacturability of the antenna. One promising solution is the use of microstrip antennas for tank-level measurements. This paper presents a special microstrip antenna, that meets the main requirements in addition to a circular antenna layout, which fills optimally the tank hatch. To do this, we created a special antenna layout with a suitable feeding network and added an optimized ring around the antenna system, which significantly reduces the sidelobe level. 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