Rain attenuation measurement on Ku-band satellite TV downlink in small island countries

Electronics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-50

  Ramachandran, V ^a   Kumar, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES; RAIN; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SCINTILLATION;

RAIN ATTENUATION MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL STRENGTH;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0347130089     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20040019     Document Type: Article

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