antpatt

Antenna radiation pattern plotting and analysis software.

Latest version: v1.1 (2023-01-14)

  • Windows:
    64-bit (build 2023-01-14)
    [sha256: c18e525a178a9924f2bc1a217604d6e09d277f741fd844c3d91f5c808ed2ebef]
    32-bit (build 2023-01-14)
    [sha256: 26d7b07632ab67d7973ddba6c2cdc96ec9e9cf02f04718a21b99aba3f62659a2]
  • GNU/Linux (and macOS – untested):

    Arch Linux AUR repository contains antpatt package.
    Other distributions: GitHub (source code).

Supported data import formats (click to download example):

  • Radiomobile – ANT
  • MMANA-GAL – CSV
  • Planet – MSI
  • XDR-GTK – XDRP

The whole project can be saved as .antp file (compressed .antp.gz) which is simply a JSON file with all settings included and data samples embedded. See an example for a reference.

Data export from MMANA-GAL:

Use the following settings in File → Table of Angle/Gain (*.csv) dialog:

 

Dark theme: To enable dark theme on Windows, run antpatt.exe with -d command line parameter. 

Interactive console mode:

Interactive console mode (-i command line option) can be used for data streaming from another application for real-time antenna radiation pattern plotting. Commands consist of a single word and are case insensitive:

  • START
    Create new measurement
  • STOP
    Close current measurement
  • PUSH <float>
    Add signal level sample
  • NAME <string>
    Set plot name
  • FREQ <int 0 … 99 999 999>
    Set plot frequency [kHz]
  • COLOR <string>
    Set plot color (#XXXXXX)
  • AVG <int 0 … 10>
    Set plot moving-average
  • FILL <int 0 … 1>
    Set plot fill
  • REV <int 0 … 1>
    Set plot reverse mode

Antpatt will send the following responses:

  • READY – after application startup
  • BYE – before application exit
  • OK – after a successful command
  • ERROR – after an incorrect  command

Changelog:

v1.1 (2023-01-14):

  • Migration from GTK+ 2 to GTK+ 3
  • Interactive console mode for real-time plotting
  • Support for SVG output format
  • Pattern data export (XDR-GTK and Radiomobile format)
  • Windows build improvements (incl. gtk3-classic)
  • Other minor fixes

v1.0.1 (2020-04-22):

  • Detached window bug fix

v1.0 (2019-03-16):

  • First public release