Antenna alignment

My hardware...
Cisco 1300 12.3
Cisco Command Referance states......
#dot dot11 antenna-alignment
Use the dot11 antenna-alignment privileged EXEC command to activate the antenna-alignment tool for an radio interface. Use this tool to test and align the access point antenna with another remote antenna.
dot11 interface-number antenna-alignment [timeout]
Examples
This example shows how to start the antenna-alignment test for radio interface 0:
AP# dot11 dot11radio 0 antenna-alignment
Issue:
AP1#dot dot11 0 ?
carrier Carrier detect test
linktest test the radio link
update-group-key Update Group Key
AP1#dot11 dot11Radio 0 antenna-alignment
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Why is the command not supported on my accesspoint?
Do i have to be in install mode?

I have my nonroot bridge in - wait for it - non root bridge mode, and when I run antenna-alignment I get the following:
NonRoot#dot11 dot11Radio 0 antenna-alignment
^
% Invalid input detected at '^' marker.
Can you shed any light on why I cant run the command? I am using Cisco 1200 G APs for root and nonroot. See below screenclips:
Message was edited by: Jonathan Hoffmann for clarification

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