Evaluation of Radome Performance from Cylindrical Near-Field Measurements

Authors: W.C. Dixon, Daniël Janse Van Rensburg
Publication: AMTA 2003
Copyright Owner: NSI-MI Technologies

This paper describes the installation and implementation of a Cylindrical Near-field Test Facility at Chelton Radomes Ltd, Stevenage, (formerly British Aerospace Systems and Equipment Ltd.), in the UK for the testing of large radome/antenna combinations. Test site commissioning and validation activities to determine measurement accuracy & repeatability for the radome performance parameters of transmission loss and boresight error, are discussed. Test data from actual measurements are presented.

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