Rain Attenuation Study at Ku-Band over Earth-Space Path in South Korea

Abstract

Rain attenuation measurement techniques are studied with appropriate prediction of rain attenuation at Ku-band for Koreasat 6. This is accomplished by the establishment of experimental setup in Mokdong at 12.25 GHz link. The databases are analyzed for three years, 2013 till 2015. During observation period, rainfall rate of 50 mm/hr is obtained which is measured by OTT Parsivel showing the signal attenuated by 10.7 dB for 0.01% of the occurrence. Comparison with the measured data demonstrates that the proposed technique provides sufficiently accurate estimation for Ku-band signal attenuation in site specifically whose effectiveness is performed through the statistical analysis against the established rain attenuation models. The proposed technique is judged through the error matrices where relative error margins of 52.82, 4.11, and 23.64% are obtained for 0.1%, 0.01%, and 0.001% of the occurrence.