Quickstart¶

Get from a fresh install to a rendered radiation pattern in under five minutes.

1. Pick a scan type¶

Launch RFlect. The opening screen asks: Active, Passive, or VNA.

You measured…	Pick
TRP / total radiated power over the sphere	Active
HPOL + VPOL patterns (gain reference)	Passive
S-parameters (S11, S21, group delay)	VNA

Settings are scan-type-specific. Reasonable defaults:

Setting	Default	Notes
Cable loss	0.0 dB	Adds back loss between DUT and chamber receiver
Conducted power	4 dBm	Active only — needed for efficiency
Limit lines	off	VNA — show pass/fail bands
3D Z-scale	auto	Or fix to a manual dB floor for batch comparison

Ctrl+O or File → Import. For passive scans pick the HPOL file; RFlect locates the matching VPOL by filename suffix.

Plots render automatically. Ctrl+R (or F5) reprocesses with current settings — handy after tweaking cable loss.

File → Save Plots — PNG export of every visible figure (300 DPI)
File → Generate Report (DOCX) — embeds plots, gain tables, and optional AI executive summary

Once the MCP server is registered (see MCP installation):

Process every passive pair in /home/me/lab/wifi_antenna and generate a report.

The agent will call process_folder(folder_path, intent='passive', report=True) and respond with the DOCX path plus a summary.

See Recipes for more standard procedures.