As manufacturers of antennas and SAR equipment, the company has always believed it of great importance to provide supporting equipment to these products. Over the years, this has resulted in a range of Test Sets being manufactured by Techtest.

Our range of VSWR Test Sets is known throughout the aviation community as the industry standard products for testing aircraft antennas. They are all available with ruggedized cases and models are available to cover all the frequencies commonly found in avionic equipment. These VSWR Test Sets allow antennas to be checked for correct operation and can be used whilst the antenna is still on the airframe thus saving costly removal of the antenna when it is not necessary.

It is vital that an Emergency Locator Transmitter works correctly, if it is used, so Techtest supply a range of test equipment to check correct operation of this type of equipment. These Test Sets can be used with all types and makes of ELTs and EPIRBs.

12-406 Homing Test Set (PDF, 436Kb)
12-500-5 PLB / ELT Test Set (PDF, 60Kb)
12-503-1 PLB / ELT Test Set (PDF, 60Kb)
12-503-2 Screened Box (PDF, 52Kb)
12-503-5 Programming Test Set (PDF, 84Kb)
12-602-3 Antenna Test Set (PDF, 1.6Mb)
12-602-7/8/9 Portable Signal Generator (PDF, 848Kb)
12-612 Electrostatic Discharger Test Set (PDF, 840Kb)
631-012 Antenna Test Set (PDF, 824Kb)
613-013 MLS Antenna Test Set (PDF, 832Kb)
310 Precision WBCO Attenuator (PDF, 580Kb)

The need for Search and Rescue (SAR) services to accurately detect and locate the distress signals from emergency beacons resulted in Techtest developing its range of Homing Systems.

These use a phase comparison method to provide left-right steering information, to the SAR pilot enabling him to locate emergency beacons operating on all the standard distress frequencies (121.5 MHz, 156.8 MHz, 243 MHz and 406 MHz). This type of system requires only two antennas and offers a more compact, lower cost solution to the more complex DF systems available.

 Techtest now manufactures a range of Homer/Decoder systems which decode the unique data included in the COSPAS-SARSAT 406 MHz distress signal. This includes the position information from Location Protocol Beacons and gives the user real time information to help minimise rescue times. A number of integrated airborne systems are available as well as the unique Portable 406 SAR Decoder which is a fully self contained unit which can be carried on to any aircraft, boat or land vehicle. This unit is ideal for a SAR force which already has Homing/DF systems fitted but wishes to extend its capability to include 406 MHz decoding in a cost effective way.

12-406-7 Portable 406 SAR Decoder (PDF, 160Kb)
12-406 Homing Test Set (PDF, 436Kb)
406-2-053 Full NVIS Compatibility SAR Homing System (PDF, 284Kb)
406-407 Delivering real-time SAR 406 decode and position (PDF, 520Kb)