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[jagan316]

Hello ,

I am a new member to your Forum. As an experienced Antenna Engineer,I find this site very intuitive.

I am working on a project for a Transmitting Phased Array Antenna for X Band. My problem is how to Calibrate the Antenna with Transmitters ( Transmitter Out Put Power at Each Element is 300 W) .

Are there any books or papers that discuss in detail with this specific Topic.

[admin]

I'm not sure what you mean....you're trying to figure out how to get power to the array or how to vary the phases between the elements or ?

X-band, I guess 10 GHz? Are you working with a slotted waveguide array? 300W is pretty high. That's related to military applications probably?

[jagan316]

Hello ,

Thanks for your reply .

Yes you are right . Its for a military application ( Radar ) . The Antenna would be used as a transmit mode .

For initial calibration ( vary the phases of each element so as to get beam in a desired direction ), The Antenna would be tested in a receive mode in anechoic chamber.

When we finally use the Antenna as a Transmit mode , I intend to use the phase values of the receiving Antenna as the starting point . However the phase values would not be the same for final calibration (With Power amplifiers, Cables ) . We probably then have to do another round of tuning the phase values at the final customer site .

What i am looking for is a literature ( probably Radar Books ) which deals with how to calibrate the Antenna ( Vary the Phases ) when used as an transmit mode.

Thanks
Jagan