Rain fade slope model in satellite path based on data measured in heavy rain zone

• Main Authors: Dao, Hassan, Islam, Md. Rafiqul, Al-Khateeb, Khalid A. Saeed
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE Journal 2013
• Subjects: TK5101 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, radio, radar, television
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/32429/1/AWPL2013.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/32429/; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=6410325

Rain fade slope has been measured in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia, located in heavy rain zone. The data were collected from MEASAT3 with elevation angle of 77.4 at a frequency of 10.982 GHz with several time interval lengths. The measured fade slope was compared to the ITU-R P.1623 model. Tendency of prob...