Measurement of Ku-band rain attenuation using several VSATs in Kyushu Island, Japan

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 116-119

  Hasanuddin, Zulfajri Basri ^a   Fujisaki, Kiyotaka ^a   Ishida, Kenichi ^b   Tateiba, Mitsuo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ku band; Rain attenuation; Rain intensity; Very small aperture terminal (VSAT)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; BIT ERROR RATE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RAIN;

KU-BAND; MULTISPOT BEAMS; RAIN ATTENUATION; RAIN INTENSITY; VERY SMALL APERTURE TERMINAL (VSAT);

SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748510587     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2002.806048     Document Type: Article

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