[time-nuts] Important parameters for a GPS/GNSS antenna

[Bob Camp]

Hi

At least according to:

ftp://geodesy.noaa.gov/pub/abilich/oldPC/Documents/antcal/calibPapers/Schmitz2002.pdf

There are others doing the same thing.

Bob


> On May 9, 2015, at 2:37 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <FC02A5E8-5396-4474-A307-546E10909846 at n1k.org>, Bob Camp writes:
> 
>> The “put the antenna up and rotate it to see what happens” experiment
>> has indeed been done. The objective was not correcting the antenna’s
>> issues, but validating that their model of the antenna’s phase
>> center was correct. They were trying to see if anechoic chamber
>> data really gave correct answers in free space. 
> 
> So this could be a realistic way for us to calibrate the phase-center
> of an antenna ?
> 
> 
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