Base station antennas having field-enabled remote electronic tilt capabilities
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsMartin L. Zimmerman, Shirley Forsythe, Dale R. Moore, Deepali Limaye
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AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsMartin L. Zimmerman, Shirley Forsythe, Dale R. Moore, Deepali Limaye
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A method of configuring an antenna that includes a plurality of RET units that are associated with respective ones of a plurality of arrays of radiating elements is provided in which, for each array in a subset that includes at least one of the arrays, setting an output of the RET unit associated with the array to a position that corresponds to a pre-selected electronic downtilt for the array. A first RET unit configuration file is loaded into a memory of the antenna, where the first RET unit configuration file does not include configuration data for the RET units associated with the arrays that are included in the subset. A second RET unit configuration file is provided that includes configuration data for all of the RET units.
A method of configuring an antenna that includes a plurality of arrays of radiating elements and a plurality of remote electronic tilt (“RET”) units, where each RET unit is associated with a respective group of one or more of the arrays of radiating elements, the method comprising:
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