>>>When a manufacturer tests antennas on a range, what equipment is used?
>> > A field strength meter? A spectrum analyzer?
>> I expect they are all different, I visited one (out of doors) with a
>>receiver
>> and a chart recorder. (that rotated with the antenna, in either axis)
>> The transmit antenna was a frequency cut dipole about 6 miles away, and
>>it was
>> remotely controlled with a telephone connection from the receive site.
>> (Far field tests of the pattern.)
> Which manufacturer was this? Do they manufacture ham antennas?
Was Harris broadcast, now sold to Dielectric Communications.
No, TV and FM broadcast antennas only.
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