Antenna Near-Field Probe Station Scanner

A computer readable program stored in a tangible medium, said program comprising instructions for producing a grid work pattern of near-field signals radiated from a miniature antenna and for characterizing the far-field behavior of the antenna based upon the captured signals, comprising:

• a. A management software package having the keyed-in capability of controlling other embedded software packages;
• b. An embedded software package that is controlled by the management software package and that is useful in mathematically performing a near-field to far-field transform;
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• c. A visual software package that is controlled by the management software package and that has the capability of displaying near-field phase and magnitude plots and for showing three dimensional, contours, vertical cuts and horizontal cuts through the far-field pattern distribution of the antenna based upon the transforms performed by the mathematical software package.

A software system for capturing the near-field power performance characteristics of a miniature antenna, for transforming the near-field characteristics to far-field properties, and for displaying the near-field and far-field performance patterns, comprising:

• a. A management software package having the keyed-in capability of controlling other embedded software packages;
• b. An embedded software package that is controlled by the management software package and that is useful in mathematically performing a near-field to far-field transform;
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• c. A visual software package that is controlled by the management software package and that has the capability of displaying near-field phase and magnitude plots and for showing three dimensional, contours, vertical cuts and horizontal cuts through the far-field pattern distribution of the antenna based upon the transforms performed by the mathematical software package.