Antenna Test Lab Company services

Our base rate for antenna testing is $350 per antenna with a $175 lab setup fee for your project. Choose from either 2D polar plots (two cuts at 2 degree resolution) or 3D spherical plots (10 degree resolution) for your antenna. We recommend 3D plots for all new, unproven, and non-directional antennas. Not sure … you can get 2D vs. 3D help here. Our 3D plots allow unparalleled visibility into an antenna’s true radiation pattern, and often show features that are impossible to visualize with just 2D polar cuts. Because spherical data covers all directions, our test program will also calculate and include antenna radiation efficiency vs frequency. Spherical antenna patterns frequently surprise first time designers, and we expose deviations from expected or simulated results due to real-life disturbances such as feed line attachment. See all of the benefits here, and learn more with our Educational Pages.

Our base rate for antenna/transmitter testing is $350 per “run” with a $175 lab setup fee for your project. Choose from either 2D polar plots (two cuts at 2-degree resolution) or 3D spherical plots (10 degree resolution) for your transmitter/antenna combination. We recommend 3D plots for all new, unproven, and non-directional antennas (get 2D/3D help here). The 3D plot allows unparalleled visibility into a device’s true radiation pattern, and often shows features that are impossible to visualize with just 2D polar cuts. Because spherical data covers all directions, our test program will also calculate and include the device’s Total Radiated Power. Spherical antenna patterns frequently surprise first time designers, and deviations from expected or simulated results are due to real-life disturbances such as enclosures, batteries, and attached I/O cables. See all of the benefits here, and learn more with our Educational Pages.

Our antenna evaluation service gathers full “vector gain data” during testing, which means your antenna’s gain and phase are both measured. We do this in every test direction, and for every test frequency. Then we do the complex math for you, and report all standard circularly polarized (CP) parameters in easy to understand spreadsheets. Specialized post processing or graphing is made easy when your data is in our spreadsheet format. Virtually any plot can be created, including overlaying co-polarization and cross-polarization parameters on the same graph.

ATL is proud to be the first lab offering controlled temperature far field antenna testing. We can fully evaluate your antennas for gain/phase/efficiency patterns over the extended +25 to +125 degrees C (+75 to +257 F) range.