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Microwave horn antennas on the roof of a telephone switching center near Madison St. and 17th Ave, Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington state, USA. This is part of the TD-2 AT&T Long Lines microwave relay system, created in 1955 to relay telephone calls, television shows, and other data from point to point in the US. The system uses C-band frequencies in two bands at 4 and 6 GHz. This type of antenna is called a Hogg or horn-reflector antenna, invented by Albert Beck and Harald Friis in 1941 and developed at Bell Labs in the 1950s. They consist of a vertical flaring metal horn fed with a 2.8 in. circular waveguide, with a reflector mounted in the mouth at a 45° angle, so the beam of microwaves is emitted horizontally (the aperture of these antennas, facing right, is covered by a plastic sheet to keep out rain). The reflector is a segment of a parabolic reflector, so the antenna is equivalent to a parabolic antenna fed off-axis. The advantage of this type of antenna over an ordinary parabolic (dish) antenna is that it has very small sidelobes; that is it picks up very little radiation from directions outside its main beam axis. This allows the same microwave frequencies to be used by several nearby antennas without interfering with each other. These AT&T model KS-15676 L9 antennas have a gain of about 43 dBi and produce a beamwidth (HPBW) of about 1° at 6 GHz. Backlobe sensitivity is -60 to -80 dBi. (From KS-15676 Horn Reflector Antenna Description, Bell System standards, AT&T Also: Bell Labs Record Nov 1955)
Microwave links like this use 2 antennas (one transmitting and one receiving) to send a beam of microwaves of a few watts power to a similar station about 30 miles away. Each antenna can carry tens of thousands of telephone calls. |
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