A transmitter operating at 869.525 MHz was twice carried by a stratospheric balloon to an altitude of about 40 km. A motor vehicle was driven within the line-of-sight from the transmitter. Measurements of the received signal strength were made every 1/8 wavelength for an overall travelling distance of about seven hundred kilometers. This scenario was to simulate a satellite system providing mobile communications to rural areas. The statistics of the sampled field, consisting of a combination of direct wave, specular reflection and diffuse components, are presented as a function of elevation angle. Parameters such as type of road driven (mostly 2 lane) or type of landscape (rolling to flat) and vegetation (pine and mixed forest) encountered are described where possible. The power distribution function for all the data, at elevation angles from 10 to 35 degrees, is 1 dB below the free space mean at the 50% level, 7 dB below at the 90% level, and 18 dB below at the 99% level. In the elevation angle range of 30 to 35 degrees the corresponding values were found to be .5, 1.2, and 4.5 dB. The conditional fade duration and level crossing rate distribution functions are also presented. The former shows some dependence on the threshold level, the latter almost none.


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    Title :

    Measurement results from a balloon experiment simulating land mobile satellite transmissions


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    Publication date :

    1984-04-01


    Type of media :

    Report


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    Language :

    English




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