Antenna tilt recommendations through antenna footprint analysis and containment

A system for determining antenna tilt in a network, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• one or more computer storage hardware devices storing computer-usable instructions that, when used by the processor, cause the processor to:
• determine an inter-site distance for at least one adjacent cell site within a beam width of an antenna of at least one cell site;
• calculate the inter-site distance at a predetermined overlap with at least one adjacent antenna of an adjacent cell site;
• tilt the antenna to move the calculated inter-site distance to be within a half-power beam width of the antenna;
• calculate a latitude and longitude within a half-power point of the beam width of the antenna;
• calculate a tilt angle of the antenna;
• refine the tilt angle of the antenna based on terrain features;
• and
• modify the tilt angle of the antenna based on the calculated tilt angle and the refined tilt angle.

A non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more processors, cause the processors to:

• determine an inter-site distance for at least one adjacent cell site within a beam width of an antenna of at least one cell site;
• calculate the inter-site distance at a predetermined overlap with at least one adjacent antenna of an adjacent cell site;
• tilt the antenna to move the calculated inter-site distance to be within a half-power beam width of the antenna;
• calculate a latitude and longitude within a half-power point of the beam width of the antenna;
• and
• calculate a tilt angle of the antenna;
• wherein the predetermined overlap with the at least one adjacent antenna of the adjacent cell site occurs at a predetermined percentage of the inter-site distance.