Analysis of Wet Antenna Losses on 11.843 GHz Slant Path in Nigeria and Comparison with Some Tropical Climates

Abstract The amount of water deposits on the receiving dish antenna can cause additional losses and consequently contaminate the actual slant-path attenuation. Only a few research works have been reported in the literature on the measurement of wet antenna attenuation (WAA) and the technique(s) of extracting the losses from the total attenuation in tropical and equatorial climates, characterized with heavy rainfall intensities of convective kind. Therefore, the adverse effects of antenna losses due to rain on a 11. 843 GHz satellite link and the methodology of extracting the losses from the me...

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