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mjoycemilburn
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Investigator

Why does an ee antenna have two cables?

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bristolian
EE Community Star
EE Community Star

Hi @mjoycemilburn 

 

Welcome to the EE community

 

Which antenna are you asking about?

Hi, thanks for getting in touch. My antenna will be a 4G LTE and pictures I've seen suggest that this offers a pair of connection cables. If so, I'm curious to know why not just one?

Can you post a link to the pictures/antenna you're looking at?

 

"LTE" is the technical description for "4G", so I'm afraid this reference could be to almost any current antenna. I'm not sure if you're referring to, for example, an EE 4G-mobile router.

EssexBoyEE
Ace Contributor
Ace Contributor

The EE LTE Router Antennas have 2 Coax Feeders because there are 2 antennas inside the Housing, reason for this is for 2x2 Mimo.

 

Without getting too techy 2x2 Mimo will pick up and transmit two Signals on the same frequency from the Cell Site, although it's the same frequency the 2 Signals differ in there Data Transmission content as they are Transmitted out of Phase from each other, the benefits means Data Speed will almost double in this case whilst only using one Frequency Channel or Band so it's also Spectrum Effective.

 

Most LTE Routers now use 4x4 Mimo Internal Antennas within the Router itself, so you are effectively degrading the Routers Spec when using a 2x2 External Mimo Antenna in using one but it's a good compromise for Signal Strength increase in poor Signal Areas.

 

4 and 5G Networks currently use 4x4 Mimo, as 5G develops to the next stage it will use more than 4x4 or commonly known as Multi Mimo.