Troposcatter at the KU Band

Abstract

Troposcatter data were collected with a wideband measurement system for a period of five months spanning parts of the winter, spring, and summer seasons of 1991. The system provided multipath delay measurements with a 2.5 nsec resolution. Measurements of received signal level, Doppler frequency shift and multipath delay spread were obtained on the 161 km troposcatter path from Prospect Hill in Waltham, MA. to Mt. Tug in Lebanon, NH. These observations are the latest in a longer measurement program to characterize the propagation channel for tropospheric scatter communications systems operating at frequencies near 16 GHz (Ku band). Simultaneous observations at 5 GHz (C band) were made during the last month of the observing program to provide calibration and a statistical comparison with earlier observations made using a different Ku band transmission system. Troposcatter, Ku-Band, Rain attenuation, Multipath delay spread, Tactical communications

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1994
Accession Number
ADA281575

Entities

People

  • Magnus Wennemyr
  • Robert K. Crane

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Bandwidth
  • C Band
  • Clear Air Turbulence
  • Command And Control
  • Diffraction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Measurement
  • Microwave Frequency
  • Modulation
  • Radar
  • Radio Frequency
  • Scattering
  • Turbulence
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Microwave Engineering.
  • Oceanography.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.