Articles, Education, And Tutorials

Articles, Education, And Tutorials

The following tutorial pages have been created to help our antenna testing service’s customers understand far field antenna evaluations at our facility. Please contact us with your test requirements or any other project questions.

Our Educational Articles:

• The Many Benefits of Testing Your Antenna
• Should I Choose a 2D or 3D Antenna Pattern ?
• About Circularly Polarized Antenna Testing
• What is Antenna Gain and dBi ?
• How is Antenna Gain Measured ?
• Is More Gain Better ?
• What is an Anechoic Chamber?
• Live Antenna or Transmitter Pattern Testing
• What Are Far Field testing and Near Field Tests
• The Basics of Return Loss and VSWR
• Pattern Resolution Examples
• The Spherical 3D Coordinate System
• 3D Plotting Software Downloads (this is also a great free wire-antenna simulator)
• Example Reports and Antenna Tests Results

We have lots of example RF antenna test results available on our examples page. To find out how we can help, just ask !

 

Our Published Articles

Providing antenna insights is our passion! Here is a collection of some of our published articles.

	How to Pre-Test Your Product’s Antenna, EDN June 2017
	The Many Benefits of Testing Your Antenna
	The Benefits of Antenna Testing
	Frequent Forum Contributions
	In the November 2017 Issue: The Top 10 Excuses For Not Testing Your Antenna!
	Our No-Math Whitepaper on Circularly Polarized Antennas.
	3D Printing Your Own Antennas

There lots of sample antenna test reports and patterns available.

To find out how we can help, just ask !