The application discloses a mesh antenna
metal mesh zero-constraint splicing method, which comprises the following steps: laying and hanging
metal meshes on a working tension applying device, applying working tension to the
metal meshes in the transverse and longitudinal directions; sewing
tension control belts along the length direction of the metal meshes on both sides in the working tension state; overlapping two metal meshes which need to be spliced and are sewn with the same
tension control belts, and overlapping the cross sections in the overlapping position according to the order of 'belt-mesh-mesh-belt'; sewing the two
layers of metal meshes along the two sides of the
tension control belts by using composite sewing threads; and repeating the above steps to sew all the
metal mesh pieces required by the whole antenna reflecting surface in sequence. The
metal mesh splicing is performed by using the lock edge needle method, the tension control belts can be removed after the splicing is completed, the splicing joint formed is in a'mesh-mesh' structure, the thickness is only 0.07-0.08 mm, the elasticity keeps the original elasticity of the
metal mesh, the mesh
surface tension is more uniform, and the risk that the antenna unfolding resistance is increased due to the slight shrinkage of the tension control belts under high temperature is effectively eliminated.