Main Beam Alignment Verification For Tracking Antennas

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Patent No.
6,937,186
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Method or Process

A method for main beam alignment verification includes providing data pertaining to one or more patterns associated with an antenna, measuring power levels of a signal acquired by the antenna, and comparing the measured power levels with the data to determine whether a direction of the signal is incident upon a main beam of the antenna.

Keywords: beam, antenna, signal processing
International Class: G01S3/22, H01Q1/12, H01Q19/19, G01S7/40