NPL has produced documents and reports that give guidance on the use of antennas and field probes. These include Good Practice Guides and Annexes to Calibration Certificates.

Good Practice Guides

A guide to power flux density and field strength measurement.
Merewood, P
Institute of Measurement and Control / NPL, 2004

Development of a pulse modulated microwave power flux density measurement system and the evaluation of field strength probes with pulse modulated fields.
Holland, K P
DEM-EM 013, January 2007

The use of GTEM cells for EMC measurements.
Nothofer, A, Alexander, M J, Bozec, D*, Marvin, A*, McCormack, L*
Measurement Good Practice Guide No. 65 , January 2003

Calibration and use of antennas, focusing on EMC applications.
Alexander, M J, Salter, M J, Gentle, D G, Knight, D A, Loader, B G, Holland, K P
Measurement Good Practice Guide No. 73 , December 2004

Annexes to Calibration Certificates

These annexes give information on measurement uncertainties under various conditions of use for particular antennas:

• Biconical  (72 KB)
   
• Biconical-log hybrid  (71 KB)
   
• Horn  (33 KB)
   
• Log  (64 KB)
   
• Mini Biconical  (69 KB)
   
• Short Dipole  (70 KB)
   
• Spiral  (56 KB)

More information can be found on our Microwave Antenna Calibrations area.