Microwave radio tower installation

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Latest Tweets. Loading tweets Contact Us. About DragonWave. Leave this field blank. Wireless Internet service providers use microwave links to provide their clients with high-speed Internet access without the need for cable connections.

Telephone companies transmit calls between switching centers over microwave links, although fairly recently they have been largely supplanted by fiber-optic cables.

Companies and government agencies use them to provide communications networks between nearby facilities within an organization, such as a company with several buildings within a city. One of the reasons microwave links are so adaptable is that they are broadband. That means they can move large amounts of information at high speeds. Another important quality of microwave links is that they require no equipment or facilities between the two terminal points, so installing a microwave link is often faster and less costly than a cable connection.

Finally, they can be used almost anywhere, as long as the distance to be spanned is within the operating range of the equipment and there is clear path that is, no solid obstacles between the locations. A simple one-way microwave link includes four major elements: a transmitter, a receiver, transmission lines, and antennas. These basic components exist in every radio communications system, including cellular telephones, two-way radios, wireless networks, and commercial broadcasting.

But the technology used in microwave links differs markedly from that used at the lower frequencies longer wavelengths in the radio spectrum.

Techniques and components that work well at low frequencies are not useable at the higher frequencies shorter wavelengths used in microwave links. For example, ordinary wires and cables function poorly as conductors of microwave signals. On the other hand, microwave frequencies allow engineers to take advantage of certain principles that are impractical to apply at lower frequencies. Such antennas can be designed to operate at much lower frequencies, but they would be too large to be economical for most purposes.

In a microwave link the transmitter produces a microwave signal that carries the information to be communicated. That information—the input—can be anything capable of being sent by electronic means, such as a telephone call, television or radio programs, text, moving or still images, web pages, or a combination of those media. The transmitter has two fundamental jobs: generating microwave energy at the required frequency and power level, and modulating it with the input signal so that it conveys meaningful information.

Flashing a light to transmit a message in Morse Code is an example of modulation. The differing lengths of the flashes the dots and dashes , and the intervals of darkness between them, convey the information—in this case a text message. The second integral part of a microwave link is a transmission line. This line carries the signal from the transmitter to the antenna and, at the receiving end of the link, from the antenna to the receiver.

In electrical engineering, a transmission line is anything that conducts current from one point to another. Lamp cord, power lines, telephone wires and speaker cable are common transmission lines. But at microwave frequencies, those media excessively weaken the signal.