Ship-to-ship broadband channel measurement at 5.2 GHz on North sea

A broadband channel sounder measurement campaign was conducted to investigate the ship-to-ship propagation channel in the C-band at 5.2 GHz with a signal of 120 MHz bandwidth. This paper presents details of the measurement campaign. Two scenarios with two vessels in rough sea conditions that either follow or drive towards each other are presented. First results in terms of power delay profile and delay-Doppler spectrum are presented.