The waveguide assembly may need to be tuned using an antenna range to obtain consistent results.

(The home stereo can play streaming broadcasts from radio stations far beyond antenna range because of the connection with the home computer.)

With software-defined radio, a base station could be 2G, 3G or 4G at the flick of a switch, and the antenna range can easily be tuned.

Antenna tuning is used to make adjustments that create the desired error signal when the antenna is calibrated on an antenna range.

The aerodrome is now utilised as precision ground-reflection antenna range operated by the University of Sydney, known as the Fleurs Radio Observatory.

Richard C. Johnson (died January 2010) was a researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) and the inventor of the Compact Antenna Range.

The station's expanded mission bolstered its traditional research strengths, resulting in work on projects that improved radar operation on the Saturn rocket and in the invention of the compact antenna range by Richard C. Johnson.

The far-field pattern of an antenna may be determined experimentally at an antenna range, or alternatively, the near-field pattern may be found using a near-field scanner, and the radiation pattern deduced from it by computation.