"Ed Price" wrote in message news:6wH4c.5720$uh.5339@fed1read02...


You don't need to pump power to measure antenna patterns. A simple signal
generator with a milliwatt or so will work fine. If you want to be really
serious about designing antennas, then you need to start acquiring serious
tools. See eBay; start bidding on a sig gen, some pads (attenuators), a
rotor, a field strength meter.

Ed


I've got an MFJ antenna analyzer, which is somewhere around 1 mW
or so.

If i calibrate my RF sniffer correctly, i think i can get a pretty
accurate plot, accurate enough for my purposes.


Slick