{"id":363482,"date":"2024-04-22T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/363482\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:04:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:04:18","slug":"363482","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/363482\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: What is the meaning of the negative theta degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 14pt;&#8221;&gt;Hello DRG,&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 14pt;&#8221;&gt;Thank you for reaching out to Ansys Learning Forum.&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 14pt;&#8221;&gt;Theta is the angle from Z axis. Negative theta values provide information (related to Elevation) for angles from 180 to 360 or in other words for the other &#8220;half&#8221; Elevation plane.&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 14pt;&#8221;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/22-04-2024-1713783281-mceclip1.png\" \/>&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 14pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;&#8221;&gt;Extracting data from 0 to180 degrees (for theta) does not provide any information for the whole Elevation Antenna behavior, but only for half of the Elevation plane.&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&#8221;font-size: 14pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;&#8221;&gt;In order to extract information for the whole Elevation plane, you need to scan theta from 0 to 360 (or from -180 to 180 degrees). For both options, you will get same results (as the Theta scan plane is equal to 360 degrees) which means that the extracted information is related to the whole Elevation plane.&nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Best regards,&nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Jason.&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-363482","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello DRG,Thank you for reaching out to Ansys Learning Forum. Theta is the angle from Z axis. Negative theta values provide information (related to Elevation) for angles from 180 to 360 or in other words for the other &quot;half&quot; Elevation plane. 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