A portable antenna system including a reflector with a center axis, a feed at the center axis of the reflector, a post with a rotatable bracket on the post. The system also includes a skew drive mounted to the bracket and having a first output coupled to the reflector at the center axis thereof to adjust the skew angle of the reflector, an elevation motor configured to rotate the rotatable bracket to vary the elevation of the reflector, and an azimuth motor configured to rotate the post to vary the azimuth of the reflector.

A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for acquiring and tracking a satellite signal with an antenna. In one embodiment, the method comprises a) perturbing one or more of roll, pitch and yaw angles of an antenna orientation to create variant orientations associated with a first search pattern; b) computing new scan and polarization angles, in response to perturbed roll, pitch and yaw angles, for each of the variant orientations; c) receiving a radio-frequency (RF) signal from a satellite for each of the variant orientations; d) generating one or more receiver metrics representing a received RF signal associated with each of the variant orientations; e) selecting, as a new orientation, one of the variant orientations based on the one or more receiver metrics; and f) repeating a)-e) with the new orientation with a second search pattern narrower than the first search pattern.

The present disclosure relates to an un-manned aerial vehicle having a control unit, a body part and an antenna arrangement that includes an antenna element panel and at least one antenna port that is adapted to provide at least one antenna beam that is electrically steerable to at least two different directions. The aerial vehicle further has a direction unit that connects the antenna element panel to the body part, where the direction unit is adapted to set the antenna element panel in at least two different positions relative the body part.

A rotating unit for controlling an antenna to rotate includes an electromagnetic element and a rotating circuit. The rotating circuit is electrically coupled with the electromagnetic element. The rotating circuit controls the electromagnetic element to generate a magnetic force for controlling a rotation of the antenna.

The present disclosure aims to provide an antenna directivity adjustment apparatus and an antenna directivity adjustment method capable of preventing an antenna gain from being reduced and easily adjusting a direction of an antenna. An antenna directivity adjustment apparatus (1) includes: a second antenna (2) that is opposed to a radiation surface (100a) of a first antenna (100) and receives radio waves output from the first antenna (100); and an output unit (3) that is provided in the second antenna (2), converts a first beam width of the received radio waves into a second beam width wider than the first beam width, and outputs the radio waves having the second beam width.

The present disclosure relates to a device (140) adapted for aligning a first directive antenna (101) in an alignment direction D1 towards a second antenna (102). The device is adapted to acquire measurement data regarding: a first signal power (301) received from the second antenna (102) using a first effective antenna aperture (202) when the first directive antenna (101) is moved along an angular span (306) passing a desired alignment angle (307) along a certain direction (111, 112); anda second signal power (302) received from the second antenna (102) using a second effective antenna aperture (203) when the first directive antenna (101) is moved along an angular span (306) passing a desired alignment angle (307) along a certain direction, the second effective antenna aperture (203) being smaller than the first effective antenna aperture (202). The device (140) is furthermore adapted to determine the alignment direction D1 as an angle (307) in the angular span (306), at which angle (307) a local maximum value (304) for both the first signal power (301) and the second signal power (302) coincide.

The present disclosure relates to an antenna alignment guide device between pieces of communication equipment, the device comprising: a sensor unit for sensing an azimuth of the alignment guide device and information on the location thereof; a user interface unit for displaying the information on the location sensed by the sensor unit and for receiving an operation setting input and information on the location of another device; and a fixing device for mounting, in an aligned state, the alignment guide device in a preset part of communication equipment on the basis of a wireless signal radiation direction of the communication equipment.

The present invention relates to a system for the wireless coupling of a cellular radio end device to at least one first external antenna, in particular for coupling to an external vehicle antenna, having a coupling structure for the wireless coupling to an antenna structure of the cellular radio end device, wherein the coupling structure has at least two connections; and having a connection unit that connects the first external antenna to one of the at least two connections of the coupling structure in dependence on the coupling quality, wherein the connection unit evaluates the coupling quality between the antenna structure of the cellular radio end device and the at least two connections of the coupling structure during the normal communication operation of the cellular radio end device and/or continuously and/or for both connections simultaneously.

A method and computer for pointing a beam of a directional antenna located above ground is disclosed. A method includes receiving a beam width 2, and determining an angle .sub.max where .sub.max+ is an angle for a projection of maximum signal strength on the ground. .sub.max is based on the beam width 2 and tilt angle . The method also includes determining an effective ground beam width defined by a total relative gain of the directional antenna and the above the ground to ground range being at half the maximum signal strength on the ground at angles above and below .sub.max. The method further includes determining a ground footprint of the beam based at least on part on the determined effective ground beam width, and causing the antenna to be pointed based at least in part on the determined ground footprint of the beam.

Determining movement for alignment of a satellite antenna using accelerometer data and gyroscope data of the satellite antenna. Described techniques include receiving accelerometer data for a first time period from an accelerometer mounted on the antenna and analyzing the accelerometer data to determine a movement time window for a movement event of the antenna. The techniques may include receiving gyroscope data for the first time period from a gyroscope mounted on the antenna and analyzing the gyroscope data during the movement time window to determine an amount of movement of the antenna due to the movement event.