Italsat-Olympus 20-GHz orbital diversity experiment at Spino d'Adda

This paper reports results of the 20 GHz orbital diversity experiment between the geostationary satellites Olympus (19/spl deg/W) and Italsat (13/spl deg/E), as viewed from Spino d'Adda, Po Valley, northern Italy. The results show that: (a) the statistical gain is significant; and (b) for a small angular separation in the geostationary orbit between the satellites (32/spl deg/ in our experiment) the gain, normalized to single link attenuation and expressed in percent, is, as a rule of thumb, of the order of magnitude of this angle expressed in degrees, 30% in our experiment.<
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