INTELSAT Propagation Experiments: The Focus and Results of Recent Campaigns

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 856-864

  Allnutt, J E ^a  

^a INTELSAT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; EXPERIMENTS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

INTELSAT PROPAGATION EXPERIMENTS; KA BAND MEASUREMENTS; KU BAND MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0027607373     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.257683     Document Type: Article

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