INVESTIGADORES
HURTADO Martin
artículos
Título:
An In-situ method to measure the radiation pattern of a GPS receiving antenna
Autor/es:
M. HURTADO; H. LORENTE; C. MURAVCHIK
Revista:
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Editorial:
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
Referencias:
Año: 2001 vol. 50 p. 846 - 849
ISSN:
0018-9456
Resumen:
Abstract?This paper describes an inexpensive and simple alternative method to measure the radiation pattern of a 1,575.42 MHz global positioning system (GPS) receiving antenna. The results are compared with those derived from simulations and measurements using the extrapolation method. The agreement between the different techniques is acceptably good. Our method does not require the antenna to be taken out of operation, allowing in-situ measurements. Hence, it provides a means to measure the radiation pattern under real operating conditions and using only a GPS receiver connected to a personal computer (PC) to collect data.
