The chamber, which is located in Room 329 E.E. East, provides a quiet, free-space like environment for testing the radiation patterns of antenna designs. The chamber houses an antenna modeling and measuring system which makes plots of the radiation pattern of the antenna under test. This is a software package that computes all the important parameters of an antenna when the geometry of the antenna is specified.
Radiation pattern is one of the more important parameters.
Once a suitable design has been arrived at that meets the given specifications, then it is further optimized by using another software package. The antenna is constructed and the actual pattern is measured with the antenna mounted in the chamber. So far, results have not been too bad. Measurement and theory do not always agree and the engineer must determine why and is the result acceptable for its intended application. This page is under construction.