A Highly Automated Approach to Obtaining Accurate Circularly Polarized Antenna Gain
Author: Marion C. Baggett
Publication: AMTA 2003
Copyright Owner: NSI-MI Technologies
At a Department of Defense antenna measurement laboratory, an important measurement is the accurate measurement of gain for circularly polarized antennas. An additional requirement is that a wide population of engineers and technicians that do not spend a significant amount of time using the facility make the measurements as they test the antennas for their projects. The objective was to create a highly automated, accurate test structure that was easily used by visiting engineers to make high quality measurements. Consistency of results across the user population was a paramount requirement. This paper describes the instrumentation and software used to meet this objective.