The paper is intended to explore the possibility of using near-field acoustic holography methods for determining the far field radiation profile of a sound source. An experiment was carried out in an anechoic chamber for this purpose. First, the acoustic pressures on a plane in the near-field of a source were recorded as a profile. The measured signals were then used to reconstruct the far field profile using the said algorithms, respectively. Second, the acoustic pressures in the far field were directly measured and the results were compared with the predicted ones. Of the four methods used in the study, the one that yields the best result was the so-called “Far plane series” method, yielding 12% error upon comparison with the directly measured values. In addition to that a research on possible reduction of the microphone array size was carried out. A significant reduction of the measurement facility was realized with the use of a linear array instead of the planar array that was made possible using the studied far-field prediction algorithms.