Antenna Line in Detail

Overview
We describe the parts used in Installation.
We calculate the cost , manpower , material in our installation.
We understand the tools and equipment used in installation.
We understand the procedures of installation.
We define quality checkpoints of installed material.
We understand the health and safety precautions.
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index
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Serial number Topic Page Number
0
overview
1
Hardware used
1 A Antenna
1 B Jumper Cable
1 C Feeder cable
1 D Weather proofing kit
1 E Earthing kit
1 F Surge Arrester
1 G Grounding Bar & grounding Cable
1 H Lug
1 I Cable tray
1 J Roxtec
1 k Clamp
2
Requirement
2 A Plan
2 B Material requirement
2 C Manpower equipment
2 D Test & Equipment
2 E Funds
Serial number Topic Page
number
3 Procedure
3 A Constructional view
3 B Connection of two ports
3 C Jumper Laying & Termination
3 D Routing of outdoor jumper
3 E Routing of indoor jumper
3 F Water proofing
3 G IGB , EGB & Grounding Cable
4 Quality
4 A Antenna
4 B Cables & Connectors
4 C Earthing kit & lugs
4 D Weather proofing kit
5 Health , Safety & Precautions
5 A Heath , Safety & PRecautions
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HARDWARE
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Antenna
Cross polarized antenna .
A panel antenna
There are two ports of antenna
One connected -45 and another is +45
Electrical tilt ranges 0-10
65 beam width
16.5dbi antenna gain
Mechanical tilt

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HARDWARE
Jumper Cable
Size of jumper cable is inch.
Normally it comes with predefined
sizes as
1m,1.5m,2.5m,3m,5m,7m,10m,12
m,15m.
On our BTS site normally we use
1.5m for indoor & 3m for outdoor.
It comes with connectors
embedded in it.
Some connectors are show

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Feeder Cable and
connectors
We use copper or
Aluminium wire feeder
cable.
Connectors comes separate
as according to the jumper
cable.
Here DIN male & DIN
female connector
Connector made up of
brass with nickel coating.
Size vary as 7/8 and 7/16.
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Weather proofing kit
Three tapes we use
1. PVC
2. Butyl
3. Rubber
The last thing used in weather
proofing kit is cable ties.
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Earthing kit
The upper one is copper wire strip.
There is lug on the end of grounding cable. 10sq.mm
Grounding cable & length is in between 1-1.5m.
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Surge Arrester
Its outer body is made up of brass.
It has 7/8 inch DIN-M connector and 7/8 inch DIN-F
connector embedded in it.
And the lug is placed at the position pointing
downwards.
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Grounding bar & grounding cable
Grounding bar placed internal called
IGB.
Grounding bar placed external called
EGB.
IGB & EGB are connected to each
other through yellow green cable as
seen. It is 35 sq.mm of cable.
Surge Arrester is connected to IGB
through green cable. It is 16 sq.mm of
cable.
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HARDWARE
LUG or THIMBLE
It is made up of copper , Aluminium & Tinned copper.
Sizes of lugs are 1 , 1.5 , 2 , 2.5 , 3 , 4 , 4.5 , 6 , 10 ,
16 , 25 , 35 , 50 , 70 , 90 and so on.
In some lugs screws are used.
Mainly we use three type of lugs
1. I type
2. Pin type
3. Ring type
There are more types but we explain them when we
need.

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HARDWARE

HCT & VCT
Horizontal & Vertical Cable
tray are shown in figure.
Yellow circle denotes
horizontal cable tray.
Red circle denotes Vertical
Cable tray.
The cables lay on these cable
trays.
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HARDWARE
Roxtec
It is made up of iron plate with
rubber coating.
There are many slots for 7/8
feeder cable & some are for
grounding cable

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HARDWARE
RF Clamp
Made up of steel or
stainless steel & Rubber.
Size if RF clamp hole is 7/8
or .
There are many types of RF
clamps we used some are
1. One way
2. Two way
3. Six way


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Requirement
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PLAN
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REQUIREMENT
Serial Number Specification Sector 1 Sector 2 Sector 3
1 Azimuth 50 140 250
2 Height 40m 35m 30m
3 Tilt 1 6 4
4 Mechanical Tilt 3 2 4
Material requirement
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REQUIREMENT
Serial no. Particular Specification Quantity
1 Antenna X-pole A panel 806-960 65 16.5dBi 0-10'T 3
2 Connector 7/8 DIN-M 12
3 Outdoor Jumper cable 3m*DIN-M to DIN-F JUMPER Cable 6
4 Indoor jumper cable 1.5m*DIN-F to DIN-M JUMPER Cable 6
5 Earthing kit Copper strip Earthing kit 12
6 Tapes PVC , Rubber , Butyl 10 Kits
7 Feeder Cable Copper wire feeder cable 210m
8 VCT Vertical cable tray 32m
9 HCT Horizontal cable tray 3m
10 Cable ties Black color & white color cable ties 1-1 packets each
11 Surge Arrester DIN F to DIN M S.A. 6
12 Lug Pin lug, Ring lug 12 & 6
13 Nuts and bolts 10 number and 13 number stainless steel 12 and 6 respectively
14 Grounding cable 1 16sq. mm green color grounding cable 9m
15 Grounding cable 2 35 sq. mm yellow-green grounding cable 6m
16 Roxtec 1
17 RF clamp Stainless steel 240
Manpower requirement
Requirement of 7 people.
2 engineers.
3 technician's
2 workers
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REQUIREMENT
TOOLS & TEST EQUIPMENT
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REQUIREMENT
Funds

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REQUIREMENT
PROCEDURE
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PROCEDURE
BTS
Indoor cable ray
Antenna port
female
connects to
jumper male
Outdoor
jumper
cable
Jumper
female to
feeder male
connector
Earthing kit
Feeder cable
Bending
Radius is
grater than
300mm
Antenna
HCT
Indoor
jumper
cable
Surge Arrester
BTS female to
Jumper male
connector
16 sq.mm
grounding
green color
grounding
cable
35sq.mm yellow
green color
grounding cable
IGB
EGB
CONNECTION OF TWO PORTS
Jumper to antenna port.
It has 7/8 connector.
Antenna has female port where as
jumper has male port.
Jumper male to BTS female.
Feeder Male to jumper Female
connector.
Feeder male to Surge Arrester
female.
Surge Arrester male to jumper
female.
Maximum are 7/8 connectors.
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PROCEDURE
Jumper Laying & Termination
Weather the jumper cable is
indoor or outdoor the jumper
cables terminates through
jumper connectors.
There are several jumper
connectors those are DIN-M,
DIN-F, N-M, N-F, DIN-LM, N-LM
Normally DIN-LM, N-LM are
always connected to BTS port
but vice versa is not true.

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PROCEDURE
Routing of outdoor jumper cable
Three ways through which
outdoor jumper cable route
1. Routing through u loop.
2. Routing through no loop.
3. Routing through closed loop.
As illustrated according to the
number
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PROCEDURE
U loop
No
loop
Closed
loop
Routing of indoor jumper cable
The indoor jumper cable route in
four ways:
1. Route through no loop.
2. Route through u loop.
3. Route through closed loop.
4. Route along with cable tray
with no loop.
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PROCEDURE
U loop
Route along with cable tray
with no loop
Weather proofing contains 5 layers
Layer 1 includes PVC tape
Layer 2 includes Butyl tape
Layer 3 includes Rubber tape
Layer 4 includes PVC tape
Layer 5 includes cable ties

We have to bind the tape against the
flow of water
Cable ties used are black in color
Layer 2 is smaller than layer 1 &
Layer 3 is smaller than layer 2 &
Layer 4 covers all the 3 layers
Layer 2 Butyl tape is a very sticky
tape very hard to remove thats why
we use PVC layer as level 1. It melts
in hot weather. PVC layer protects it
from deposition on connectors
Layer 3 is rubber tape generally
applied with pressure. It is non sticky
tape. We apply PVC tape to save
pressure of rubber tape.
Layer 4 is applied & covers all the
three layers.
Layer 5 is use to bind the all layers.
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PROCEDURE
Weather proofing
Feeder cable
Feeder cable is used because its cable
loss is very minimum according to
jumper cable.
Earthing kit is placed on Feeder cable
at every 30m from the 1
st
feeder
Earthing kit.
Clamps are mainly used to bind the
feeder cable.
The bending radius of Feeder cable
should be grater than 300mm
There are two points where we bend
the feeder cable at the joining of VCT
& HCT & at Roxtec.

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IGB , EGB and GROUNDING CABLE
IGB is Internal Grounding Bar.
EGB is External Grounding Bar.
Surge Arrester is connected to IGB and IGB is connected
to EGB and EGB is connected to Earthing Pit through
Grounding Cable.
There are two grounding cables used in it
1. 16 sq. mm green color grounding cable connected in
between IGB and Surge Arrester
2. 35 sq. mm yellow- green color grounding cable
connected in between IGB and EGB
There are two types of nuts and bolt used in the site 1
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10 number and 2
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is 13 number. 13 number is used to
connect the surge arrester to the grounding cable and rest
is 10 number used everywhere.
IGB & EGB is placed just 500mm-1m just below the WFT.
IGB is placed inside the shelter & EGB is placed outside
the shelter or at the tower

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Quality
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Antenna
Correct type of antenna not installed in one sector.
Azimuth is not according to RF Plan.
Antenna height is not according to RF plan.
Mechanical tilt of antenna is improper.
Electrical tilt is not proper.
Labelling at antenna is not properly done.
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QUALITY
Cables & Connectors
All cables are not fixed properly.
All connectors waterproofing outside the shelter is not properly done.
All cables are not labelled properly.
The bending radius of feeder cable is less than 300mm.
Z bend inside the shelter has steep bend.
There is too much bend in jumper cable.
The connectors has some amount of water & dust present in it.
Connection and positioning of grounding cables are not proper.
All connectors are not tightened properly.

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Earthing kit & Lugs
It is not installed at 1.5m from the feeder connector.
The lug with grounding cable installed in upward direction from the
kit.
The lug is placed at EGB with a loop.
There is joint in between Earthing kit and EGB.
The Earthing kit is not symmetric.
The lug is not attached with correct number of screw.
The lug is not properly tightened.


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Weather proofing kit
Butyl tape is slightly grater than PVC tape applied at bottom.
Rubber tape is slightly grater than Butyl tape.
PVC tape of final layer is not covering all layers.
PVC tape is not according to flow of water.
All cables are not tied properly with cable ties
White cable ties used outside
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Health , Safety & Precautions
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The medical kit must be there for all members.
The ropes used should check properly.
The labelling should be done from distance so we can view it from far.
All materials must be checked on arrival.
All materials should be handle properly.
When operating the device, obey the local safety instruction.
Dont wear any conductive material.
Beware of static electricity when the device is switched off.
All components should lift properly.


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Health , Safety & Precautions
Health precaution & Safety
Any Questions
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THANK YOU
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