OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE LINK FOR ANTENNA EQUIPMENT

摘要

An operation and maintenance communications link (40) is established between an antenna near parts component (18) and transmitter and receiver (12) of a transceiver site assembly. The transmitter and receiver are connected to a remote antenna (14) by means of a radio frequency feeder (16) supporting a plurality of communications channels. A radio transceiver (42) is connected to the antenna near parts component. A communications connection comprising the operation and maintenance communications link (40 (1)) is established between the radio frequency transceiver and the transmitter and receiver over the radio frequency feeder connected to the antenna using a selected one of the supported communications channels. Another implementation further utilizes an air interface connection (40 (2)) supporting the selected communications channel to provide the operation and maintenance communications link.