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Meanwhile, the traditional leaky coaxial cables are expensive to deploy, inconvenient to operate, and difficult to maintain, leading to many problems in practical use. To solve the abovementioned problems, a low-profile printed dipole array operating at 3.5 GHz with bidirectional endfire radiation is designed based on the method of maximum power transmission efficiency (MMPTE). By setting two virtual test receiving dipoles at the two opposite endfire directions and then maximizing the power transmission efficiency between the printed dipole array to be designed and the test receiving antennas, the optimal amplitudes and phases for the array elements are obtained. Based on the optimal distributions of excitations, the simulation results show that the proposed eight-element printed dipole array can simultaneously generate two mirrored endfire beams towards opposite directions. Furthermore, the corresponding normalized cross-polarization levels are lower than \u221222.3 dBi both in the azimuth and elevation planes. 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