The Aldo Paraboni scientific experiment: Ka/Q band receiver station in Hungary

Author

Csurgai-Horvath, Laszlo ; Rieger, Istvan ; Kertesz, Jozsef

Author_Institution

Dept. of Broadband Infocommunications & Electromagn. Theor., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2015

fDate

13-17 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The Aldo Paraboni payload is the Ka/Q-band propagation experiment of the Alphasat satellite. In this paper we introduce the receiver station in Budapest, Hungary. After the system description the first time series of measured received signal will be shown. For the first months of operation a preliminary attenuation distribution is also presented. Because the receiver operates without a tracking system, we propose a new algorithm to compensate the small-scale diurnal signal level variation caused by the apparent satellite movement.

Keywords

millimetre wave receivers; radiowave propagation; satellite communication; satellite tracking; Aldo Paraboni payload; Alphasat satellite; Budapest; Hungary; Ka band propagation; Ka band receiver station; Q band receiver station; Q-band propagation; preliminary attenuation distribution; tracking system; Antenna measurements; Directive antennas; Receiving antennas; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; Time series analysis; Ka/Q band; beacon receiver; propagation measurement; tracking compensation algorithm;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2015 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Type

conf

Filename

7228241