My own wild guess:
Perhaps they are integrating the radiation pattern to obtain directivity.
There are also approximate formulas (such as in Kraus and Balanis) that
relate pattern beamwidth to directivity. I'll check in the IEEE antenna
measurement handbook later today.
Alexandre
At 12:04 03.10.96 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I came upon the term Precision beamwidth method for gain
>measurements (In a product specification). I have never heard of such a
>method and would like to find out exactly what it is. None of my books or
>colleages know it.
>
>If anyone has more information please tell me what it is or give a
>reference.
>
>Thanks
>
>Louis Botha
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 3 22:26 MET 1996
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