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sag
 Post subject: Polarization in cellular propagation
Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 3:29 pm 
 
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Hay all,

Can some one point me to some papers about the best polarization for a base station? I mean what is the average polarization of a signal that came from a cellular phone?

10x
 
   
 
nubbage
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:49 pm 
 
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The polarization plane is randomly varying all the time.
many research papers have been written on this topic.

The optimum antenna arrangement seems to be two antennas inclined at 45 degrees to each other and fed through a combiner.

Do a google under "mobile" and "diversity" and "polarisation".
 
   
 
sag
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Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:58 am 
 
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10x,

can you send me some research papers that you have?
 
   
 
nubbage
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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 5:37 am 
 
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Hi sag
I didn't actually keep any as it is not my present field of involvement.
Did you do a Google Search under "mobile" and "diversity" and "polarisation"?

For me this threw up a lot of references. Many however are subscription-only research institutes I don't have a subscription on. But if you have access to a uni library they would be useful.





Posted  11/12/2012