FEASIBILITY OF LOW DATA RATE MOBILE TROPOSCATTER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

Abstract

For a communications system with a low data rate requirement (i.e., 1 - 1000 bits/sec) one can use troposcatter links over a range interval beyond the distances commonly used. The range is limited by the requirement that the tropopause layer is to be included in the common volume of the beams. This effectively limits the range in most cases to about 450 miles. It is proposed to use frequencies in the interval 3 to 5 GHz. This enables one to specify a completely mobile troposcatter system since the antenna paraboloids have diameters of the order of 10 feet and the power requirement is a modest 10 kW.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 1969
Accession Number
AD0690995

Entities

People

  • David P. White

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Attenuation
  • Bandwidth
  • Communication Systems
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Data Rate
  • Diffraction
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Frequency Shift
  • Gain
  • Geometry
  • Losses
  • Mathematical Models
  • Radio Waves
  • Refraction
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Standards

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  • Electrical Engineering
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.