Radome design and measurements

Author

Audone, Bruno ; Delogu, Andrea ; Moriondo, Paola

Author_Institution

Aeritalia-Gruppo Equipaggiamenti, Caselle Torinese, Italy

Volume

37

Issue

2

fYear

1988

fDate

6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

292

Lastpage

295

Abstract

Radome performance (transmission loss and boresight error) is evaluated by means of a computer code the input data of which are the geometry (radome shape, layered structure configuration, and antenna/radome relative position) and the antenna aperture magnetic current distribution. The latter is measured directly, thus avoiding the difficulty of characterizing the antenna under test. The spherical near field (SNF) measuring technique is applied. A radome has been designed using this approach and then manufactured and tested by means of a compact range. The comparison between experimental and theoretical results is quite good

Keywords

CAD; antenna accessories; field strength measurement; telecommunications computing; antenna/radome relative position; boresight error; computer code; field strength measurement; layered structure configuration; magnetic current distribution; radome shape; spherical near field; transmission loss; Antenna measurements; Aperture antennas; Computational geometry; Computer errors; Distributed computing; Magnetic field measurement; Performance loss; Propagation losses; Testing; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/19.6069

Filename

6069