Some second-order Ku-band site diversity results on a high elevation angle path in a rainy tropical region

Author

Pan, Q.W. ; Allnutt, J.E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Manukan Inst. of Technol., New Zealand

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

551

Abstract

In satellite transmissions at frequencies above 10 GHz, deep signal fading, and hence severe outage, is mainly attributed to rain. Site diversity is an effective form of fade countermeasure. Statistics of seasonal and diurnal variations, together with average event length and separation, are needed to give the detailed insight for system design of DTH/VSAT systems. This paper presents a year´s worth of site diversity data measured from an equatorial mountainous coastal location and concentrates on the duration aspects

Keywords

direct broadcasting by satellite; diversity reception; fading channels; microwave propagation; rain; satellite ground stations; statistical analysis; tropospheric electromagnetic wave propagation; 10 GHz; DTH/VSAT systems; SHF; average event length; average event separation; deep signal fading; diurnal variation statistics; equatorial mountainous coastal location; fade countermeasure; high elevation angle path; outage; rain; rainy tropical region; satellite transmissions; seasonal variation statistics; second-order Ku-band site diversity; site diversity data; system design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2001. Eleventh International Conference on (IEE Conf. Publ. No. 480)

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

0-85296-733-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:20010348

Filename

928073