[Towertalk] Testing Equipment?

Ronald KA4INM Youvan ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com
Fri, 13 Dec 2002 01:23:06 +0000


> When a manufacturer tests antennas on a range, what equipment is used?  
> A field strength meter?  A spectrum analyzer?


   I expect they are all different, I visited one (out of doors) with a receiver
and a chart recorder. (that rotated with the antenna, in either axis)
   The transmit antenna was a frequency cut dipole about 6 miles away, and it was
remotely controlled with a telephone connection from the receive site.
(Far field tests of the pattern.)
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