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Measurement of the Radiation Pattern of a Horn Antenna in a Vibrating Intrinsic Reverberation Chamber
1 : XLIM
(XLIM)
Université de Limoges : UMR7252, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR7252, Université de Limoges, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
123 Avenue Albert THOMAS 87060 LIMOGES CEDEX -
France
2 : Centre d'Ingénierie des Systèmes en Télécommunication, en ÉlectroMagnétisme et en Electronique
(CISTEME)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques, N
ESTER TECHNOPOLE 1 Av. d'ESTER 87069 LIMOGES -
France
3 : Jacques Dubois
(JD)
N
https://www.jacquesdubois.com/ -
France
4 : DGA - Techniques aéronautiques
Direction générale de l'Armement (DGA)
47, Rue Saint Jean, 31130 BALMA (Balma, France) -
France
5 : DGA
(DGA/ AID)
* : Auteur correspondant
N
Paris -
France
In this paper, we present promising results when determining the radiation pattern of an antenna within a fully stirred vibrating intrinsic reverberation chamber (VIRC). The aim is to separate the direct line-of-sight (LOS) path between the antenna under test and the measuring antenna from all other indirect paths within the VIRC. The proposed method uses a simple averaging technique based on multiple S21 measurements collected between two antennas for a given angle. The method is successfully tested on a broadband horn antenna at 11 GHz, using a recently installed VIRC at Cisteme.
