A new C-band (5091-5150 MHz) airport communications system designated as Aeronautical Mobile Airport Communications System (AeroMACS) is being planned under the Federal Aviation Administration s NextGen program. It is necessary to establish practical limits on AeroMACS transmission power from airports so that the threshold of interference into the Mobile Satellite Service (Globalstar) feeder uplinks is not exceeded. To help provide guidelines for these limits, interference models have been created with the commercial software Visualyse Professional. In this presentation, simulation results were shown for the aggregate interference power at low earth orbit from AeroMACS transmitters at each of up to 757 airports in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the surrounding area. Both omni-directional and sectoral antenna configurations were modeled. Effects of antenna height, beamwidth, and tilt were presented.


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    Title :

    AeroMACS C-Band Interference Modeling and Simulation Results


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Joint Meeting of RTCA SC-223 and EUROCAE WG-82 ; 2010 ; Brussels, Belgium


    Publication date :

    2010-09-28


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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