ABOUT AMTA

The Antenna Measurement Techniques Association (AMTA) was formed in 1979, and incorporated in the state of Georgia, USA on March 10, 1989 as a non-profit professional organization open to individuals with an interest in antenna measurements.

Areas of interest include:

• Measurement facilities
• Unique or innovative measurement techniques
• Test instrumentation and systems
• Radar Cross Section (RCS) measurements
• Compact range design and evaluation
• Near-field techniques and their applications
• Practical aspects of measurement problems and their solutions

Members come from a variety of backgrounds including industry, government, and educational institutions, and from many countries around the world. Membership has steadily grown from 30 in 1979 to about 1000 members today.

The primary activity of AMTA is its annual symposium and business meeting. The symposium is generally one full week, usually held in October or November of each year, and attracts some 500 attendees. Approximately 100 technical papers are presented covering a wide range of antenna and RCS measurement techniques and technology advances.  The papers are available on CD and online in the archival database.  Tours of local measurement facilities also are arranged and are generally conducted on the last day of the symposium.  The symposium also offers vendors the opportunity to exhibit their latest offerings in hardware, systems, and services. 

Future AMTA Symposia include:

2009                            Salt Lake City, Utah          November 1-6 

2010                            Atlanta, Georgia                                

2011                            Boulder, Colorado    

2012                            Seattle, Washington 

                       

In addition to the annual symposium and exhibition, AMTA hosts smaller, regional events each year throughout the United States on various aspects of antenna measurement.

 

AMTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AMTA selects its board of directors via election from its body of membership at the Business Lunch of the Annual Meeting and Symposium.  Board members represent the cross section of Antenna Measurements including academia, government and industry and have a three-year term obligation.

The AMTA Board of Directors functions are:

President

Vice President

Secretary

Treasurer

Technical Coordinator

Meeting Coordinator

Current Year AMTA Host

The BoD is supported by a team of AMTA members with the following positions:

Past President

Senior Advisor

Meeting Coordinator Advisor

Postmaster/Web Administrator

Historian/Web Coordinator

Photographer

Newsletter Editor

European Liaison

Asian Liaison

The functions are assigned to elected members of the Board of Directors on a yearly basis. Click here for the current year Board of Directors.

 

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Distinguished Awards

Each year, AMTA recognizes individuals whose research or technical advances have contributed to the body of knowledge in antenna testing with its Distinguished Achievement Award. The organization also cites those members whose service to AMTA has had a profound and lasting effect with its Distinguished Service Award. 

Those honored for Distinguished Achievement include:

1988    J. Searcy Hollis

1989    Richard C. Johnson

1990    William Emerson

1991    Jesper Hansen & Paul Wacker

1992    Helmut Schrank

1993    George Sinclair

1994    Edmond S. Gillespie

1995    Dean Mensa

1996    Walter D. Burnside

1997    Doren Hess

1998    Leon Peters

1999    Ed Joy

2000    Yahya Rahmat-Samii & Joe Vokurka

2001    David Kerns and Allen Newell

2002    Jean-Charles Bolomy

2003    Ray Howland

2004    Ivan LaHaie

2005    Dietmar Fasold

2006    Brian Kent

2007    Jiti Gupta

2008    Eric Walton

 

Those honored for Distinguished Service include:

1994    Joe Pape

1996    Dick Flamm

1998    Joe Russum

2000    John Reddy

2002    Shantnu Mishra

2004    Mike Francis

2007    Janet O’Neil

2008    Jeff Way

 

Edmond S. Gillespie Fellowship

In 2007, AMTA created the Edmond S. Gillespie Fellowship to recognize those members for their outstanding and pioneering contributions to the theory, practice and art of antenna and RF measurements.   Membership in the Fellowship is to honor the memory of Dr. Edmond. S. “Stan” Gillespie who made many contributions to the antenna community as a professor at California State University Northridge and his activities in both the AMTA and the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.

Class of AMTA Edmond S. Gillespie Fellows in 2007

Jean Charles Bolomey,
Dr. W. Dennis Burnside
Dr. Dietmar Fashold
Michael Francis
Dr. Inder Gupta
Dr. Jesper Hanson
Dr. Doren Hess
Raymond Howland
Dr. Edward Joy
Dr. Brian Kent
Dr. Ivan LaHaie
Dr. Dean Mensa
Shantnu Mishra
Allen C. Newell
Joseph Pape
Dr. Leon Peters
Dr. Yahya Rahmat-Samii
John Reddy
Joe Vokurka
Paul Wacker
Dr. Eric Walton

Class of AMTA Edmond S. Gillespie Fellows in 2008

Greg Hindman,
Antti Raisanen
Joe Russum

         

Senior Member

Starting in 2007, to recognize members who have actively factored in the success of the Antenna Measurement Techniques Association with outstanding and lengthy contributions, the AMTA Board of Directors established the category of Senior Member.

Senior Class of 2007:

 

Senior Class of 2008

Al Torres Rich Wilson Marcel Boumans Leo Hemming Byron Welshl Ali Moghaddar Lars Foged Carlo Rizzo

Marion Baggett Chi-Chih Chen John Estrada Aksel Frandsen Gerald Fliss Dave Fooshe Per Iversen Frank Jensen

John Jones Katie MacReynolds Moshe Pinkasy Dan Slater Carl Stubenrauch Sam Wei