A millimeterwave mobile satellite communication system for personal use

Author

Shimada, Masanobu ; Suzuki, Yuya ; Arimoto, Y. ; Shiomi, T.

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., Minist. of Posts & Telecommun., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1988

fDate

17-19 Oct 1988

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

56

Abstract

Presents a land mobile satellite communication system operating in the millimeterwave (51/40 GHz) as a representative system of a personal communication service using satellites. Intermittent communication is recommended to make the mobile Earth terminal compact, from the communication perspective and rain attenuation in this band. The mobile Earth terminal with a 5 cm diameter antenna and a receiver/transmitter (output power of 1.5 W) on a gimbal platform can communicate at 64 kbit/s via a satellite, utilizing state-of-the-art millimeterwave devices. An outline of the mobile communication experiment using a millimeterwave (43/38 GHz) transponder of the ETS-VI satellite is also described

Keywords

microwave links; mobile radio systems; radio receivers; radio transmitters; satellite ground stations; satellite relay systems; transponders; 1.5 W; 38 GHz; 40 GHz; 43 GHz; 5 cm; 51 GHz; 64 kbit/s; ETS-VI satellite; SHF; compact mobile ground terminal; intermittent communication; land mobile satellite communication system; millimeterwave mobile satellite communication; personal use; rain attenuation; receiver/transmitter; transponder;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Satellite Systems for Mobile Communications and Navigation, 1988., Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

0-85296-367-X

Type

conf

Filename

10401