Differential rain attenuation in converging links

Author

Mello, L. A R Silva ; Dhein, N.R. ; Costa, E. ; Einloft, C.M. ; Siqueira, G.L.

Author_Institution

Centre for Telecommun. Studies, CETUC-PU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

24-27 Jul 1995

Firstpage

536

Abstract

This paper presents results of differential attenuation measurements in 6 terrestrial line-of-sight microwave links with a common end at Sao Paulo, in the tropical region of Brazil. One link operates at 18 GHz and five links at 15 GHz. An empirical method used to estimate the differential attenuation exceeded at a given percentage of time as a function of the angle between links and their path length difference was developed based on the experimental results

Keywords

attenuation measurement; microwave links; microwave propagation; rain; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 15 GHz; 18 GHz; Brazil; SHF; Sao Paulo; angle; converging links; differential attenuation measurements; empirical method; experimental results; path length difference; terrestrial line-of-sight microwave links; tropical region; Attenuation measurement; Calibration; Data acquisition; Frequency; Interference; Prediction methods; Radio link; Rain fading; Statistical distributions; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 1995. Proceedings., 1995 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2674-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBMOMO.1995.509675

Filename

509675