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Analysis of Tropospheric Scintillation and Rain Attenuation in Ku Band


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1 Department of ECE, KL University, Guntur, India
2 Department of ECE, JNTUK, Kakinada, India
3 Department of ECE, UCEV, JNTU Kakinada, India
     

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There are many phenomena that lead to signal loss on transmission through the earth's atmosphere in satellite communications. These include: Atmospheric Absorption, Cloud attenuation, Tropospheric Scintillation and Rain attenuation. Rain attenuation is by far most important of these losses for frequencies above 10 GHZ, because it cause largest attenuation. In this paper, the effects of the tropospheric scintillation and rain attenuation on Ku band signal is studied and analyzed at Kondapalli, Vijayawada. A real time data logger in this aspect has been developed to study the influence of weather conditions and thereby to log the variation of RF signal strength from satellite. Novel software is developed to calculate and analyze rain attenuation which is formulated based on ITU-R model.

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Tropospheric Scintillation, Rain Attenuation, Ku Band, Fade Level
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Authors

M. Sridhar
Department of ECE, KL University, Guntur, India
K. Padma Raju
Department of ECE, JNTUK, Kakinada, India
Ch. Srinivasa Rao
Department of ECE, UCEV, JNTU Kakinada, India
D. Venkata Ratnam
Department of ECE, KL University, Guntur, India

Abstract


There are many phenomena that lead to signal loss on transmission through the earth's atmosphere in satellite communications. These include: Atmospheric Absorption, Cloud attenuation, Tropospheric Scintillation and Rain attenuation. Rain attenuation is by far most important of these losses for frequencies above 10 GHZ, because it cause largest attenuation. In this paper, the effects of the tropospheric scintillation and rain attenuation on Ku band signal is studied and analyzed at Kondapalli, Vijayawada. A real time data logger in this aspect has been developed to study the influence of weather conditions and thereby to log the variation of RF signal strength from satellite. Novel software is developed to calculate and analyze rain attenuation which is formulated based on ITU-R model.

Keywords


Tropospheric Scintillation, Rain Attenuation, Ku Band, Fade Level

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