Antenna and Transmission Line Trainer ATC-5000

Antenna Trainer ATC-5000 is a low cost high performance antenna training system. It is designed to be used in two distinct ways; for teaching and demonstrating common antenna configurations at all levels of study especially for Technical Colleges and Engineering Universities for undergraduate and graduate courses., It is also used as a design tool for those engaged in research and development of projects in communication.

ATC-5000 is completely computerized antenna trainer that performs PC based automated rotation of receiving antennas at predefined angles and GUI-based polar plots of radiation patterns of each antenna. ATC-5000 comprises of C-Band microwave transmitter receiver and set of eight different type of antennas.ATC-5000 software provides signal level at receiver for each rotational step, azimuthal angle, polar plot of radiation pattern and beam width of each antenna.

FEATURES:

1. Stand alone, Low cost system
2. Motorized antenna rotation
3. GUI-based Antenna Pattern Measurement by RS-232 interface
4. Modulated 5.15GHz DRO source
5. No ancillary equipment required
6. Bench-top operation Safe low power output
7. Simple, robust stands for antenna mount
8. Conveniently packed for inventory control
9. More antennas can be added on the users course requirement
10. Safe low power output

SPECIFICATIONS:

 C-BandTransmitter:

• Center Frequency: 5150MHz
• Output Power: 10 dBm
• RF.source: RF.source: Dielectric Resonator Oscillator

 C-Band Receiver:

• Center Frequency: 5150MHz
• Band width: 50MHz
• Sensitivity: -30dBi
• Motor rotation: 0º to 180º with 5º step

Pyramidal Horn Antenna:

• Gain: 7.42dBi
• HP Beam width: 62
• Polarization: Linearº

Yagi-Uda Antenna:

• Driven elements: Four element array
• Polarization: Linear

Microstrip Patch Antenna:

• Gain: 6dBi
• Effective Angle: 125º

Microstrip Array Antenna:

• Gain: 12dBi
• Patch Elements: 4

Parabolic Reflector Antenna:

• Aperture efficiency: 50 %
• Diameter: 31 cm
• Directivity: 21.5dBi
• Feed: Dipole disk feed

Helical Antenna:

• AR: 1.1
• Directivity: 14.6
• HPBW:37.5º
• FNBW:83º

Di-pole Antenna:

• Directivity: 1.64
• Impedance: 50 Ohm
• Pattern: Omni directional
• Polarization: Linear

Double Di-pole Array Antenna:

• Directivity: 7.5 dBi
• Impedance: 50 Ohm
• Polarization: Linear

Double Stub Tuner:

• Length: 7cm

Attenuator:

• Attenuation: 30dB
• Tolerance: ± 0.5dB
• Peak Power: 2 watts

RELATED DOCUMENTS:

1. Datasheet.

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:

1. Familiarization with Antenna Trainer
2. Study of Antenna Polarization, Axial Ratio and Tilt Angle of a circularly polarized antenna.
3. Study of Dipole antenna and its radiation pattern
4. Study of Horn antenna and its radiation pattern
5. Measurement of the Gain of Horn Antenna
6. Study of Yagi antenna and its radiation pattern
7. Study of Helical antenna and its radiation pattern
8. Study of Microstrip Antenna and its radiation pattern
9. Study of Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna and its radiation pattern
10. Study of Four Element Rectangular Patch Array Antenna
11. Study of Double Dipole Array Antenna
12. Study of slotted line and measurement of Wavelength and Frequency
13. Measurement of VSWR using Slotted line
14. Measurement of Unknown Impedance
15. Study of Double Stub Tuner

PACKAGE INCLUDES:

Antenna and Transmission Line Trainer ATC-5000 Includes:

1. C-BandTransmitter
2. C-Band Receiver
3. Slotted Line
4. Dipole Antenna
5. Pyramidal HornAntenna
6. Yagi-UdaAntenna
7. Helical Antenna
8. Microstrip Antenna
9. Paraboloidal Reflector Antenna
10. 4 Element MicrostripArrayAntenna
11. CablesSMA(m) toSMA(m)
12. 30 dB Atenuattor
13. RS-232 interface with software CD