Design / Customisation

The Cobham Antenna Systems, Microwave Antennas mission statement is

Delivering excellence in the design and manufacture of microwave antennas

Our key resource is our highly skilled and experienced engineering team.  With years of design and development of antennas, they will provide antenna solutions to meet specific requirements.  

These solutions can be achieved through one of three ways:

Standard Product Range
European Antennas have more than 1500 standard, off-the-shelf designs available to manufacture for customers.  
Our sales team can assist in the selection of the right standard product for your application.

Product Modification
Standard products may not always meet your exact specification and there may be the need for adjustments to the existing design, which may include connector type change, flying lead rather than connector, slight frequency retune, colour or ruggedness.
The European Antennas engineering team is available to make cost effective changes, in a short timescale, to meet requirements.

New Product Design
Where we do not have an antenna design that may be adapted, we are able to offer a full antenna design service.  
The European Antennas engineering team has a wide range of modeling software such as CST and Concerto, to assist their vast knowledge and experience in the development of new antennas.  This software allows us to predict the performance of the antennas at an early stage of development for use as a stand alone product, as part of a total system and predict how its mounting location can be effected by the surrounding environment. 
Our engineering team will work directly with customers’ technical teams to develop an antenna solution, quickly and cost effectively.  
Our PCB manufacturing and engineering workshops allows for the efficient production of antenna prototypes that can be tested in our near field anechoic test chamber.  At the end of the day, the theoretical antenna is not always guaranteed to perform as expected and it is European Antennas’ normal practice to manufacture a prototype as part of any antenna development programme.