Preliminary rain attenuation studies for W/V-band wave propagation experiment

The need to investigate higher frequencies for satellite communication led to the W/V-band Terrestrial Link Experiment (WTLE) project. This project is assessing atmospheric propagation effects at W/V-band frequencies, particularly rain-fade. In this paper, two rain attenuation models (i.e., the ITU-R and the Silva-Mello model) are compared to experimental measurements. The step-by-step comparison, along with all the tools used, is described herein.