[Towertalk] Testing Equipment?

[Ronald KA4INM Youvan]

>>>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?


   Was Harris broadcast, now sold to Dielectric Communications.

No, TV and FM broadcast antennas only.

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