A compact poloidal array of ten receiving antennae has been installed on the high‐field wall (x=+30 cm) of the Texas Experimental Tokamak (TEXT) opposite the electron cyclotron heating (ECH) microwave launch port (x=−45 cm, 60 GHz, 200 kW). Both these antennae and the launching structure are oriented to couple to the ordinary mode in plasma. The array serves as a diagnostic of the unabsorbed, first‐pass ECH microwave power, which includes both power refracted by the equilibrium plasma density gradients and power scattered by density fluctuations. Each antenna has a &Dgr;&thgr;y=13° poloidal and &Dgr;&thgr;z=32° toroidal half‐power beam width, corresponding to 12‐dB gain. For refraction studies, interchannel and intrachannel poloidal resolutions are &Dgr;y=3.5 and 2.5 cm, respectively, at the array aperture surface. For scattering studies, the wave number selectivity extends fromk⊥=0±2.5 cm−1tok⊥=7±2.5 cm−1.