I'm trying to help some associates in the Southeast who seem to have an
issue with ducting.
They have a number of 2.5ghz Telrad base stations. During the mornings
in the springtime they'll get an interfering signal on multiple base
stations at the same time. The strength of this signal is pretty
ridiculous whatever it is. Last spring they struggled to explain where
this was coming from, and initially were exploring things like return
loss on cables or self interference. They found an online map of
tropospheric ducting conditions and apparently they find that whenever
the issue pops up they can pull up this ducting map and see a big red
blob on top of their locations. This spring they're getting about the
same experience. The fact that it happens like clockwork every morning
and that it can be reliably predicted by this online tropospheric
ducting map has them pretty convinced.
The question is what can they do about it?
My first thought was increase down tilt until the sector can't see over
the horizon. They could try spatial diversity, but I don't know how far
apart the antennas would have to be to make a difference. Any thoughts
on that? Any thoughts on other solutions? The problem will go away in
mid may (until next year), so whatever they try has to be done in the
next couple of weeks.
-Adam
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