LOCAL RADIOWAVE CHECKING OF RADIO-TRANSPARENT ANTENNA COVERS

In this method of assessing the radio-engineering quality of radio-tra nsparent antenna covers (RACs) the absolute value and argument of the complex transfer coefficient, which are measured at the ''running poin t'' on the surface of the RAC. The method supplements existing methods of assessing the radio-engineering quality of RACs that involve measu rement of their integral transparency. The angular errors of the beari ng or the steepness of those errors in essence are methods of assessin g the radio-engineering quality of the antenna-RAC system. The propose d method can be used to estimate the radio-engineering quality of an i ndividual RAC and can significantly supplement the available technique s and hardware for such quality control.