Development of a dual-frequency base station antenna for cellular mobile radios

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E82-B, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 636-643

  Kijima, Makoto ^a   Ebine, Yoshio ^a   Yamada, Yoshihide ^b  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Base station antenna; Beam tilt; Dual frequency; Low sidelobe; Mobile communication; Sector beam

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNA LOBES; MOBILE ANTENNAS; RADIO INTERFERENCE;

DUAL-FREQUENCY BASE STATION ANTENNA; ELECTRICAL BEAM TILT;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032659030     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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