Challenges and opportunities
As mobile network operators continue to deploy larger and more numerous antenna systems to keep pace with new technologies, wind load is exerting increasingly high forces on crowded and top-heavy towers. Excessive wind load can misalign equipment and require expensive structural upgrades, elevating tower leasing costs and compromising signal performance.
Because wind direction is unpredictable, properly designed base station antennas must reduce wind loading from all directions. The lab-tested and field-proven ANDREW® 360-degree antenna design successfully resolves this challenge, leveraging advanced aerodynamics to significantly reduce wind loading from every direction while upholding superior RF performance.
The ANDREW difference
ANDREW aerodynamic antennas reduce wind loads by up to 30 percent compared to baseline antenna designs
Science-based design
Optimizes wind flow around, above and below the antenna
85+ years of experience
Solving the most difficult mobile network challenges
Proven performance
Through rigorous wind tunnel testing meet standards compliance
Featured resources
Reshaping wind load performance for base station antennas
ANDREW antennas are engineered for aerodynamic efficiency to reduce the total wind load imparted on a cellular tower or comparable mounting structure.
Overview: ANDREW 360-degree antennas
Wind is unpredictable, but science is not. Introducing ANDREW 360-degree aerodynamic antennas.
Chapter 7: “Under the Radome” training
Antenna wind loading significantly impacts cell site structure. Learn what it is, how it’s defined and measured, and how modern engineering is minimizing its impact.
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Fact sheet: Load requirements, identify them to design, understand them to win
TIA-5053 defines a standardized process for rating and classifying various antenna mounts
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White paper: Re-shaping wind load performance for base station antennas
Andrew's redesigned base station antennas are more aerodynamically efficient, reducing the total wind load on a cellular tower.
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White paper: Analysis and simulation for broadband and cross-band PIM base station antennas
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Fact sheet: Load requirements, identify them to design, understand them to win
TIA-5053 defines a standardized process for rating and classifying various antenna mounts
-
Download
White paper: Re-shaping wind load performance for base station antennas
Andrew's redesigned base station antennas are more aerodynamically efficient, reducing the total wind load on a cellular tower.
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Download
White paper: Analysis and simulation for broadband and cross-band PIM base station antennas