20/11/15 Security Level:

Antenna & Feeder

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Content

• Antenna selection
 Parameter
 Principle
 Height & Azimuth & Down-tilt design
• Feeder
 Antenna
Parameters

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 Antenna

Type
 Urban  Highway
 Directional  Directional or special
 Cross polarization  Very high gain
 Medium gain (15~17 dBi)  30/65-degree H-BW
 65-degree H-BW  Mountain
 Electrical downtilt  Directional or special omni
 Rural  Medium gain
 Directional or Omni  Tunnel
 High gain  Directional
 90-degree H-BW  High gain
 Indoor  Narrow beamwidth
 Distributed Antenna System  Leak cable for long tunnel
 Small antennas with low gain  ……

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 Antenna
Height Design Principle

The height of antennas may differ in different cells in the same BTS,
depending on the installation space in a direction or the cell planning
requirements.

The effective antenna height is usually 30m or so in a flat urban area

The antenna height can be properly lengthened for a BTS in a suburb county,
usually 40m or so.

Too high an antenna will reduce the coverage level

near the antenna (“shadow under tower”),
and this phenomenon is especially obvious
for an omnidirectional antenna.

The over-high antenna will cause the serious

cross-cell coverage, which affects the network quality.
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 Antenna

Azimuth Design Principle

The azimuth angle should be designed in consideration of the entire network. On

condition that the coverage requirement is met, the azimuth of three sectors of each
BTS in the urban area should be consistent and only need partial tuning. The
azimuth can be adjusted according to the major coverage objects at the junction of
urban and suburb, along the arterial traffic and in suburb isolated island
The main beam of antenna should point to the dense traffic area, which can

intensify the signal strength in this area and improve the call quality.
The cross coverage depth of antennas between sectors in the urban area should

not exceed 10%.

The cross coverage depth between neighbor cells in suburb area and towns

should not be too high. The included angle between the antennas in neighbor sectors
in the same BTS should be greater than 90º.
To avoid cross-cell coverage, the main beam of antenna should not direct to

straight streets in a densely-populated urban area.

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 Antenna
Down-tilt design principle
The antenna down-tilt must be determined in such a way according to the specific
situation that it can not only reduce the interference between co-frequency cells, but
also meet the coverage requirement.
The antenna down-tilt should be designed in consideration of factors, such as BTS

transmit power, antenna height, cell coverage area and radio propagation
environment.
The beam tilt in the electrical and mechanical ways will generate different surface

radiations. The difference is little when the beam tilt is not large, but it will become
significant as the beam tilt increases:

10° electrical downtilt 6° electrical downtilt 10° mechanical downtilt

+ 4° mechanical downtilt
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Feeder
Feeder type 100-meter attenuation (dB) Standing wave
(Any length)
- 890MHz 1000MHz 1700MHz 2000MHz -
SYFY-50-22 (7/8") 4.03 - 5.87 6.46 1.15
LDF5-50A (7/8") 4.03 4.3 5.87 6.46 1.15
LDF6-50 (5/4") 2.98 3.17 4.31 4.77 1.15
M1474A (7/8") - 4.3 - 6.6 1.15
HFC22D-A (7/8") - 4.47 - 6.7 1.15
FSJ4-50B (1/2") 11.2 11.9 16.1 17.7 1.15

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