Patent ID: 11923616
Assignee: KRATOS ANTENNA SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method for reflector tracking with a dual reflector earth station antenna (ESA) system for transmitting uplink in a first frequency band and receiving downlink in a second frequency band, the ESA system including a feed horn optimized for a near-constant phase center for both the first frequency band and the second frequency band and a subreflector tracking assembly supported proximate a focal point of a reflector and capable of tracking in the X, Y and Z-axes, the method comprising:
adjusting the subreflector tracking assembly along X, Y and Z axes of the reflector until a signal gain of the reflector is maximized in the second frequency band; and
whereby a signal gain of the reflector is also simultaneously maximized for the first frequency band due to the optimization of the feed horn for a near-constant phase center for both the first frequency band and the second frequency band.