%0 Journal Article %T A load effect evaluation of a transmission line exciting chamber %A Santos Jr. %A Mario. A. %A Voyer %A Damien %A Perrussel %A Ronan %A Weinzierl %A Djonny %A Sartori %A Carlos. A. F. %A Kr£¿henb¨¹hl %A Laurent %A Vollaire %A Christian %A Cardoso %A Jos¨¦ R. %J Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications %D 2011 %I Brazilian Microwave and Optoelectronics Society and Brazilian Society of Electromagnetism %R 10.1590/S2179-10742011000100005 %X this paper presents an evaluation of the phase shifting excitation and load effects in a transmission line exciting chamber. this chamber is suggested as an alternative for immunity tests because of the restrictions related to canonical chambers. here, two methods are used to calculate the e-field: a semi-analytic approach and a numerical one. the semi-analytic method is based on the modal expansion while a software is used for numerical simulations. the results regarding the e-field profile and the related statistical indexes of merit are presented and used to evaluate the chamber performances. experiments were also conducted in order to evaluate the chamber. %K reverberation chamber %K random excitations and loads %K transmission lines. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S2179-10742011000100005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en