Field measurement on simple vehicle-mounted antenna system using a geostationary satellite

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 4248-4255

  Basari, ^a   Saito, Kazuyuki ^a   Takahashi, Masaharu ^a   Ito, Koichi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna system; bit error rate (BER); mobile satellite measurement; patch antennas; propagation characteristics

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SYSTEM; BIT ERROR RATE (BER); MOBILE SATELLITE MEASUREMENT; PATCH ANTENNA; PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VEHICLES;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 78149425814     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2066997     Document Type: Article

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