The invention relates to a method of using sum and difference channels of a radar antenna for restraining radar side lobe interception. According to the method, antenna patterns of the sum channel and the difference channel of the radar main antenna are optimized, self-correcting signals of a radar system are used for obtaining amplitude and phase errors with the sum channel as the datum, and the amplitude and phase errors are used for error correction of the sum channel and the difference channel; according to the target position in the sum channel, the corresponding position, in the difference channel, of a target is searched for, and amplitude and phase correction is carried out on the complex number value of the position, where the target is located, in the difference channel by means of the amplitude and phase errors of the sum channel; the complex number modulus value of the position, where the target is located, in the sum channel is compared with the corrected complex number modulus value of the target in the difference channel to judge whether target echoes enter from main lobes or side lobes of the main antenna. Therefore, the radar system using the method can directly use the main antenna for recognizing side lobe targets without depending on an auxiliary antenna, the design difficulty of the radar antenna is effectively lowered, the number of the channels of the antenna is effectively reduced, and the reliability of the antenna is improved.