Vietnam 1.8GHz/2.

1GHz 30W ICS

Donor antenna use due to field environment

05/2019

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1. Antenna type and each characteristic

1.1 YAGI Antenna vs Array & Patch Antenna

YAGI Antenna Array & Patch Antenna

Form

Radiation
Pattern

• Most common form of printed antenna(printed

• Field strength to antenna forward direction, and
circuit board)
unidirectional directional antenna with large gain.
• Create metal pattern in square or circular shape on
Characteristic • Structure is simple and has large gain, but narrow
top of microstrip substrate, and then feed to various
band.
shapes, also called microstrip antenna.
• Used for RF repeater donor and service antenna
• Used for ICS Donor Antenna

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2. Why the problem disappeared after replacing Patch to Yagi in Hanoi

2.1 Why the problem disappeared after replacing ICS donor antenna to Yagi in Hanoi

- For urban area, there are many base station signals input to donor antenna, causing interference to
ICS repeater coverage.
- On order to minimize base station interference, replaced ICS donor antenna from Patch to Yagi, and
maintained Yagi antenna direction with adjacent base station and line of site.
- Inserted atten 20dB to ICS repeater donor port due to high donor antenna signal.
- Did not adjust or optimize ICS for quality improvement.

[Array & Patch Antenna] [YAGI Antenna]

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3. Antenna use due to ICS field environment

3.1 Urban area : YAGI Antenna usage recommendation

[YAGI Antenna ]
[urban YAGI Antenna installation]

3.2 Suburban area : Array & Patch Antenna usage recommendation

[Array & Patch Antenna] [Suburban Array & Patch Antenna Installation]
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