MATLAB: Need help trying to plot power beam patterns in dB

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Hello,
I am getting extremely confused trying to plot a power beam pattern in Matlab with a dB scale for the y-axis.
Basically, I have a function, G = 10log10(norm((Y(x)/M)^2) that needs to be plotted. The x-axis should be in values of theta, between -90 and 90 degrees, and the y-axis should be in dB scale. The Y(x) function, with is contained in the G function, is then evaluated at certain values of theta (-75, 0, 30, and 60), and the results are then plotted.
As shown above, I have already converted the values of the G function to dBs, however, when I try to manually change the y-axis scale and tics to shown dB scale, my plot is gibberish.
Any advice or tips would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

Best Answer

My pleasure.
The reason your plot is not working out as you want it is that you are using semilogy to plot a signal you have already log-transformed into dB.
Just use plot, or perhaps polarplot.
Also, I noticed that ‘theta’ appears to be in degrees. Either convert it to radians by multiplying it by pi/180 or use the sind function instead of sin.
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