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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2018
Commscope Technologies Llc, Hickory, NC (US);
Ronald J. Brandau, Homer Glen, IL (US);
Christopher D. Hills, Glenrothes, GB;
CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US);
Abstract
A method for illuminating a dish reflector of a reflector antenna, including providing a waveguide coupled to a vertex of a dish reflector at a proximal end, a sub-reflector supported by a dielectric block coupled to a distal end of the waveguide, the dielectric block provided with a dielectric radiator portion proximate the distal end of the waveguide. An RF signal passing through the waveguide and the dielectric block to reflect from the sub-reflector through the dielectric block and at least partially through the dielectric radiator portion to the dish reflector illuminates the dish reflector with a maximum signal intensity and/or signal intensity angular range that is spaced outward from the vertex area of the dish reflector.