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hotvette, Thanks for the answer. However, it doesn't seem to me that the problem can be easily linearized. My problem is to find the values of A, phi and alpha. If I used a Taylor series expansion I would end up dividing my problem in many linear interpolators, each one working over a subset...

Fitting points to "skewed" sinusoids Hello, I have a problem related to least square fit of data. Let me start from a step back. I have a set of points, given as x-y coordinates. x represents an angle and y the corresponding value of a function. I am fitting sinusoids to those data points...

Hello, I have a question related to coordinate transform. If this is not the right section please feel free to move this thread. My problem is the following: I have a positioning system to move an antenna, that allows me to perform scans according to a great circle coordinate system. Check...

I understand the antenna factor relationship, but I don't think it's what I'm looking for. First of all, that relation involves AF (suppose I know it from the manufacturer), E (what I want to find) and V (voltage at the output of the antenna). So none of that information is something that I...

Thanks everybody for your answers. Addressing them one by one: sophiecentaur: what do you mean with caracterize/calibrate the antennas? I can calibrate the cables up to the last connection before the antenna, but I don't think that's what you mean. Can you be more specific? what: I have a...

Hello, This is my problem: I have a network analyzer, that is capable of measuring the S-parameters of a 2 ports network. Let's say that I connect antenna #1 (a standard half-wavelength dipole) to port #1 of the NA, and antenna #2 (same type of dipole) to port #2 of the network analyzer...

I'm sorry, when you mentioned 3dB beamwidth I thought you knew already everything :) Long story story short: I have an array with N elements. If you try to plot that function (1/N sin(Nx)/sin(x)), for x going from 0 to 2pi in polar coordinates (or cartesian, for what matters), you see that...

In order to use low order approximation I must suppose that the argument of the sine is low (Jason mentioned somewhere between 0 and pi/N). But the argument of the sine is not small, can be anything from 0 to 2pi

Jason, You are right, I have an antenna array type of problem. I also feared that there wasn't an analytical solution. I'm basically interested in knowing where the main beams are. Without making any assumption I can have one or more, and oriented in any direction. What I'd like to have is...

Hello, I have been an avid reader of the physics forum, and now I think I finally have something worth asking. The problem is engineering-related, but it all comes down to a trigonometric equation, so I'm posting in general math. The problem is the following: \frac{1}{N^2}...