[Towertalk] Testing Equipment?

[K7LXC@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/12/02 5:31:35 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com writes:

> > 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.)

    Which manufacturer was this? Do they manufacture ham antennas?

Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC
TOWER TECH