Microwave path engineering
Microwave path engineering
(OP)
I have encountered a consultants design that uses different diameter antenna on a single path with one end having a 6 foot antenna and the other having an 8 foot antenna. I have been doing this for 10 years and have never come across this before, usually, both antennas are the same size for each path. Can anyone out there let me know why/what the application for this mismatchmight be???
From the highlands, MacCloed





RE: Microwave path engineering
RE: Microwave path engineering
Perhaps a better (possible) explanation is that the consultant carefully calculated that the link required roughly 7 foot dishes at each end. He then checked his dish catalogue and found that such dishes are available only in 6 or 8 foot diameters, but not in 7 foot diameters. For a few seconds he frowned, then his face brightened. Smiling at his own cleverness, he assigned the smaller 6 foot dish up in the windy highlands and the larger 8 foot in the calm lowlands next to the pub.
MacJ. MacHarvey
MacVE1BLL
MacOttawa
RE: Microwave path engineering
Imagine an exaggeration: a 1" diameter antenna versus 96" diameter antenna.