Thanks VE1BLL, replies appreciated. -i must admit i had thought that it would be a waste of time putting the amp on the receive side though, -since if the signal has "gone down into noise", then won't the amplifier just amplify all the noise between 0.5 and 2 GHz?....the amp will not be able to...
I am doing antenna pattern testing and wish to use an amplifier to increase the signal as the antenna pattern occasionally “goes down into noise”. –However, I do not know whether to put the amplifier on the receive side or the transmitter side.
The antenna patterns being acquired are those of...
