Antenna pointing method and device
First Claim
1. - Method to point at least an antenna with respect to one or more other antennas, one of the antennas being a transmission antenna AE with an opening beam θ
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e associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and another antenna being a reception antenna AR with an opening beam θ
r associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, wherein it comprises at least the following steps select the parameters θ
e, θ
r, Rr, Re, such that;
θ
r/Rr≧
Tb, θ
e/Re≧
Tb, Rr greater than Re or Re greater than Rr determine at least a parameter representative of the best antenna reception for various positions of the transmission antenna or of the reception antenna, and deduce the optimum positioning value of the reception antenna with respect to the transmission antenna or of the transmission antenna with respect to the reception antenna.
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Abstract
Method and antenna system used to point at least an antenna with respect to one or more other antennas, one of the antennas being a transmission antenna with an opening beam θe associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and another antenna being a reception antenna with an opening beam θr associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, comprising at least the following steps
select the parameters
θr/Rr>Tb,
θe/Re>Tb,
Rr greater than Re or Re greater than Rr
determine the maximum power representative of the best antenna reception for various positions of the transmission antenna or of the reception antenna, and
deduce the optimum positioning angular value of the transmission antenna with respect to the reception antenna.
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16 Claims
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1. - Method to point at least an antenna with respect to one or more other antennas, one of the antennas being a transmission antenna AE with an opening beam θ
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e associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and another antenna being a reception antenna AR with an opening beam θ
r associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, wherein it comprises at least the following stepsselect the parameters θ
e, θ
r, Rr, Re, such that;
θ
r/Rr≧
Tb, θ
e/Re≧
Tb,Rr greater than Re or Re greater than Rr determine at least a parameter representative of the best antenna reception for various positions of the transmission antenna or of the reception antenna, and deduce the optimum positioning value of the reception antenna with respect to the transmission antenna or of the transmission antenna with respect to the reception antenna. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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e associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and another antenna being a reception antenna AR with an opening beam θ
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13. - System to position an antenna with respect to another antenna comprising at least a transmission antenna with an opening beam θ
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e associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se, the transmission antenna transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and a reception antenna with an opening beam θ
r associated with a rotation speed Rr to cover an angular sector Sr, said antennas being linked with a device designed to vary the beam rotation speeds, wherein it comprises at least;
a device connected to the transmission antenna and designed to generate a transmission signal, a device designed to acquire the various signals received by the reception antenna and to process the data to deduce the optimum positioning coordinates of the two antennas with respect to each other, a device to manage the rotation speed parameters of the beams, such that;
θ
r/Rr≧
Tb, θ
e/Re≧
Tb,Rr is greater than Re or Re is greater than Rr. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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e associated with a rotation speed Re, to cover an angular sector Se, the transmission antenna transmitting a signal every Tb seconds and a reception antenna with an opening beam θ
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