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09/03/16

Antenna &
Feeder
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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

Electrical downtilt

Mountain

Rural

Directional or Omni

High gain

90-degree H-BW

Directional or special
omni

Indoor

Medium gain

Tunnel

Directional

High gain

Distributed Antenna System

Narrow beamwidth

Small antennas with low

Leak cable for long tunnel

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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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 90.
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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Down-tilt design principle

Antenna

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

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6 electrical downtilt
+ 4 mechanical downtilt

10 mechanical downtilt

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Feeder
Feeder type

100-meter attenuation (dB)

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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