Innovative Antenna Chamber Characterization

Author

Lam, Tak-Wah

fYear

2014

fDate

14-16 May 2014

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

21

Abstract

This paper describes an innovative test approach to validate an anechoic Compact Range antenna indoor chamber. It documents the antenna chamber mmW characterization efforts and results for the Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Training (MST) antenna chamber CR1 in Owego NY. The mmW characterization results indicate that the chamber amplitude performance is better than 0.8 dB RMS, and the chamber phase performance is better than 5 degree RMS. These errors are reasonably small compared with typical Electronic Support Measure (ESM) antenna calibration residual errors. Based on these characterization results, it is concluded that the Owego chamber CR1 is sufficient for mmW ESM antenna calibrations.

Keywords

antenna testing; calibration; error analysis; millimetre wave antennas; MST antenna chamber CR1; Martin Mission Systems & Training; Owego chamber CR1; anechoic compact range antenna indoor chamber; antenna chamber mmW characterization; chamber amplitude performance; chamber phase performance; electronic support measure; innovative test approach; mmW ESM antenna calibration residual error; Antenna measurements; Antennas; Azimuth; Calibration; Frequency measurement; Measurement uncertainty; Phase measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Workshop (NATW), 2014 IEEE 23rd North Atlantic

Conference_Location

Johnson City, NY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5134-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NATW.2014.13

Filename

6875443