A method for configuring the radiation diagram of an antenna, the method comprising the steps of: - including in said antenna a plurality of radiating elements, - associating to each of said radiating elements at least a respective signal processing chain, including in said respective chain: - at least one module for weighting digital signals (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d) capable of applying to a digital signal at least a respective weighting coefficient, and - at least one antenna conversion set (14 to 20; 20 to 26) interposed between said module for weighting digital signals and one of the radiating elements of the antenna, said antenna conversion set being configured to operate on digital signals on the side of said respective weighting module and on analogue signals on the side of the antenna element, and - causing the propagation of a signal distributed on the processing chains associated to said plurality of radiating elements of the antenna, by applying respective weighting coefficients to said digital signal weighting modules (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d), said weighting coefficients determining the radiation diagram of the antenna, characterised in that the method further comprises the steps of: - incorporating in said distributed signal the information pertaining to said weighting coefficients, and - extracting said weighting coefficients starting from said signal in view of their application to said weighting modules (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d). - including in said antenna a plurality of radiating elements, - associating to each of said radiating elements at least a respective signal processing chain, including in said respective chain: - at least one module for weighting digital signals (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d) capable of applying to a digital signal at least a respective weighting coefficient, and - at least one antenna conversion set (14 to 20; 20 to 26) interposed between said module for weighting digital signals and one of the radiating elements of the antenna, said antenna conversion set being configured to operate on digital signals on the side of said respective weighting module and on analogue signals on the side of the antenna element, and - at least one module for weighting digital signals (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d) capable of applying to a digital signal at least a respective weighting coefficient, and - at least one antenna conversion set (14 to 20; 20 to 26) interposed between said module for weighting digital signals and one of the radiating elements of the antenna, said antenna conversion set being configured to operate on digital signals on the side of said respective weighting module and on analogue signals on the side of the antenna element, and - causing the propagation of a signal distributed on the processing chains associated to said plurality of radiating elements of the antenna, by applying respective weighting coefficients to said digital signal weighting modules (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d), said weighting coefficients determining the radiation diagram of the antenna, characterised in that the method further comprises the steps of: - incorporating in said distributed signal the information pertaining to said weighting coefficients, and - extracting said weighting coefficients starting from said signal in view of their application to said weighting modules (34a, 34b, 34c, 34d; 36a, 36b, 36c, 36d).