Measurements conducted in an operational GSM network antennas require considerable spacing to achieve dehave been used to evaluate the performance of two-branch polarisation diversity in terms of Branch Power Ratio and cross power envelope correlation of the branch signals [7].Correlation Coefficient. In an urban environment slanted (~k4.5") and V/H polarisation diversity have been compared to conventional space diversity. Similarly, in a rural environment slanted has been compared to space. The results indicate that the correlation and power in-balance between polarisation diversity branches are practically insignificant when the total effect of environment and mobile phone users is taken into account. Therefore, polarisation diversity performs at least as well as space diversity in both urban and rural environments. In the urban environment slanted and V/H diversity configurations can be used interchangeably, but the slanted configuration may be preferred due to practical considerations.
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