Open AccessFast measurement method for received array antenna
Author(s) -
Lingge Liu,
Qitao Zhang,
Ye Chen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the journal of engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2051-3305
DOI - 10.1049/joe.2019.0245
Subject(s) - antenna (radio) , weighting , antenna array , computer science , channel (broadcasting) , antenna measurement , radiation pattern , electronic engineering , acoustics , telecommunications , physics , engineering
The classic method of testing array antenna is measuring the beam pattern separately, which suffers from low efficiency. In this study, a fast measurement method used for received array antenna has been present. Firstly, the patterns of element antennas have been tested using multi‐channel receiver. Then the entire pattern could be computed by weighting the information of elements. The information contains amplitude and phase, which could be obtained by theory or measurement.