Friday, March 17,

2017

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 Side

View
HPBW

Boresight 1st Side

Lobe
View

Main beam Top

View

FNBW: First Null BeamWidth

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Antenna Alignment
Pan the antenna by Multi-meter & LCT

+3.45V
Multi-Meter
RSSI or AGC
ODU Voltage

RSSI/VAGC
CABLE
IF

1st Side Azimuth

Lobe
Main beam

IDU

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Antenna panning (Horizontal)

Top
View

Main beam Main beam

1st Side Lobe

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Antenna Panning (Vertical)

Main beam Main beam Side

View

1st Side Lobe

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Antenna Alignment (Horizontal)

Misaligned Proper Aligned

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 Antenna Alignment
Boresight View of Azimuth Tracking
Signal Levels for Each Track
Paths for Different Elevations

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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