RAIN ATTENUATION STATISTICS FROM A 19 AND 28 GHZ COMSTAR BEACON PROPAGATION EXPERIMENT - ONE YEAR CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE 2 FREQUENCIES

被引:15
作者
ARNOLD, HW
COX, DC
HOFFMAN, HH
LECK, RP
机构
[1] Crawford Hill Laboratory, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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D O I
10.1109/TCOM.1979.1094326
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Cumulative attenuation distributions for one year and relationships between attenuations at 19 GHz and 28 GHz are presented for an earth-space propagation path terminating at Crawford Hill, New Jersey. An example from the distributions indicates that 20 dB attenuation was exceeded for 0.012% of the year at 19.04 GHz and for 0.06% at 28.56 GHz. For both frequencies the polarization was linear and oriented 21 from vertical at the receiver. When the attenuation at 19 GHz was less than 20 dB, the attenuation in dB at 28 GHz averaged 2.1 times that at 19 GHz. This ratio was lower at higher attenuations. Copyright © 1979 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
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页码:1725 / 1728
页数:4
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