Annex 1
1 Introduction
2 Propagation loss
2.1
Attenuation
due to atmospheric gases
2.2
Diffraction
fading
2.3
Fading
and enhancement due to multipath and related mechanisms
2.4
Attenuation due to hydrometeors
3 Variation in
angle-of-arrival/launch
4 Reduction of cross-polar
discrimination (XPD)
4.1
Prediction
of XPD outage due to clear-air effects
4.2
Prediction
of XPD outage due to precipitation effects
5 Distortion due to
propagation effects
5.1
Prediction
of outage in unprotected digital systems
6 Techniques for
alleviating the effects of multipath propagation
6.1
Techniques without diversity
6.2
Diversity
techniques
7 Prediction of total
outage
8 Propagation aspects of
bringing-into-service
Appendix 1 to
Annex 1 - Method for determining
the geoclimatic factor, K, from measured overland fading data