Research Article
Potential Benefits of Dynamic Beam Synthesis to Mobile Satellite Communication, Using the Inmarsat 4 Antenna Architecture as a Test Example
| Parameter | Value |
| Transmit | MHz | Receive | MHZ | Polarisation | RHCP | Number of antennas | Single Tx/Rx array fed reflector | Antenna type | Offset-fed paraboloidal reflector | Diameter | 9 metres | F/D | 0.53 | Feed | 120 helical elements, array diameter = 2.2 metres | Feed position | In front of focal plane | Beamformer | Digital Signal Processor, (DSP) with 15 multiport
amplifier () blocks on transmit | Beam alignment | Beams aligned with fixed geographic cells | Beam reconfiguration | Beams reconfigured throughout the day to compensate for
orbit inclination | Frequency reuse | Spatial diversity provides frequency reuse between beams |
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MPA blocks are used to distribute power more uniformly over the transmit amplifiers and hence increase their efficiency.
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