An antenna installation for cellular radio has four antennas ANT 1A, ANT
1B, ANT 2 and ANT 3 mounted on respective sides of a rectangular support
48 and giving rise to four antenna coverage sectors 1A and 1B and sectors
2 and 3. A splitter/combiner unit (SCU) receives three signals (1, 2 and
3) from a base station, and splits signal 1 into two signals 1A and 1B of
equal power. The splitter/combiner 5C1 acts as a splitter in transmit
mode and a combiner in receive mode. The signals 1A, 1B, 2 and 3 are
connected to antennas ANT 1A, ANT 1B ANT 2 and ANT 3 respectively. Split
signal antennas ANT 1A, ANT 1B carrying the same transmit signal are not
adjacent to one another: they are separated from one another by another
sector associated with a different signal, and therefore do not overlap
sufficiently to affect communications significantly. This avoids creation
of signal interference regions in antenna coverage areas which would lead
to signals being partially unobtainable there.