Antenna site management

With the increasing demand for two-way radio communications, the limited available spectrum, and the limited number of available sites for base stations and repeaters, spectrum pollution has resulted. Noise, desensitization, and intermodulation products have risen to such a level of interference that many systems have been driven off the better sites. Antenna site management can help the site owner and the user to overcome some of these problems. This paper will discuss the problems found on large antenna sites and then, through a case history, present an actual site and show how management concepts helped to improve its operation.