GMC’s SATIMO ATS system spins a Denali right round to ensure proper antenna placement (video)

As a certain company knows quite well, finding the right place to put an antenna can be harder than it looks. Rather than just slap one on the roof and call it a day, General Motors has created the SATIMO ATS, a near-field antenna testing system of the sort we’re used to spying in all those FCC photos . This one, however, is SUV-sized, as you can see in the video below. Workers for the General can drive a GMC Yukon Denali onto a turntable and spin it all around while 103 sensors test antenna placement, creating a 3D rendering of the resulting performance. It was the first such system in the world and will be the perfect place for our next Faraday rave. Continue reading GMC’s SATIMO ATS system spins a Denali right round to ensure proper antenna placement (video) GMC’s SATIMO ATS system spins a Denali right round to ensure proper antenna placement (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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