Comments on "Effect of wet antenna attenuation on propagation data statistics"

For original paper by Kharadly and Ross, see IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol.49, p.1183-91 (2001). They presented two ad hoc corrections for the effects of water on the receiver antenna for Ka-band beacon attenuation measurements made at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, British Columbia. While it is widely recognized that the attenuation statistics measured with the ACTS beacons require correction Crane and Rogers suggest that the corrections proposed in that paper appear to be based on unfounded assumptions. In a reply Kharadly and Ross address the comments made.