Thursday, May 12,

2016

Microwave
Antenna
Alignment
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Wang Fuzhong
Transmission Engineering
Dept. TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
HUAWEI
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Tools and Resources for antenna Alignment

Riggers for antenna alignment: 4person, 2 for each site
Multimeter: 2pcs, one for each site

Laptop: 1, for Radio configuration and RSL check

Engineering Order Wire handset
Spanner (Wrench)
Binoscopic

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Antenna Radial Profile

>15dB

Simplified
to

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Antenna Radial Pattern Envelope (RPE)

Top or side View of the antenna (RPE)

Main Beam

1st Side Lobe

The theoretic difference of

the gains between main
beam with 1st side lobe:
15 to 20dB.
During panning, If the difference between RSL with objective is less than
15dB, it means the main beam already touched. Just do the fine-tuning.

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Antenna Radiation Patterns Envelope (RPE)

1st Side
Lobe

Main beam

Boresight View

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Antenna Radiation Patterns Envelope (RPE)

Main beam
Main beam
HPBW

Boresight
View

Side
View

1st Side
Lobe

Main beam

FNBW: First Null BeamWidth

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Top
View

Antenna Alignment
Pan the antenna by Multi-meter & LCT

+3.45V

ODU

Multi-Meter
RSSI or AGC
Voltage

IF
CABLE

RSSI/VAGC

1st Side
Lobe

IDU

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Azimuth
Main beam

Antenna panning (Horizontal)

Top
View
Main beam

Main beam

1st Side Lobe

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Antenna Panning (Vertical)

Main beam

Main beam

1st Side Lobe

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Side
View

Antenna Alignment (Horizontal)

Misaligned

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Proper Aligned

Antenna Alignment
Boresight View of Azimuth Tracking
Paths for Different Elevations

Signal Levels for Each Track

Line A-A represents the azimuth tracking path of a properly aligned antenna.
The main beam is at point 2, and the first side lobe at points 1 and 3.

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Antenna Alignment (Up and Down)

Up and Down Misaligned

Reflecting Ground or Specular Plane

Reflecting Ground or Specular Plane

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Antenna Alignment (Up and Down)

Aligned properly

Reflecting Ground or Specular Plane

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Special alignment to mitigate specular reflection

multipath fading for extremely long haul
Proper Aligned

Reflecting Ground or Specular Plane

A little up-tilt (0.35 to 0.5 degree, depending on the FNBW) of the
antennas so as to mitigate major ground specular refelection which
result in multi-path fading at long haul link which over water-body

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Steps for MW Installation

Check RFT (Ready for Telecom)

Safety check
Antenna and Outdoor works first under good weather condition
IF cabling or Elliptical waveguide laying
Indoor works (even in bad weather or night time)
Labelling all the cables and links
Grounding
Premises Cleaning after the works
Power Tapping
etc.

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Steps for antennas panning

Pointing both side antennas to each other by azimuth

Power on both sides radio

Panning by multi-meters as well as Laptop with LCT
Keep one antenna, i.e. Antenna #01 immobility (fixed temporary)
Panning antenna #02 (coordinate antenna) at azimuth first(Horizental),
achieve RSL(or RSSI) peak, then by up/down (or Vertically), achieve
the peak RSL (or RSSI) also, fix it temporary
Panning antenna #01 with the same way as above, then fix it
Panning both sides antennas alternately till to achieve expected RSL

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Thank You
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