TABLE I-6 – Line-of-sight worst month multipath channel characteristics and outage times[+]

Path number______

Transmit station

TX site name______

TX country(1)__

TX latitude (–+90) (degrees) _______

TX longitude (0..360) (degrees) E _______

TX altitude amsl hgt (m)____

TX antenna height ag ht (m)____

TX 3 dB beamwidth t (degrees)_____

TX antenna diameter D (m)______

TX antenna tilt angle t (degrees)____

TX antenna first side-lobe level (dB)____

TX antenna first side-lobe angle(degrees)___

Receive station

RX site name______

RX country(1)__

RX latitude (–90..90) (degrees) _______

RX longitude (0..360) (degrees) E _______

RX altitude amsl hgr (m)____

RX antenna height ag hr (m)____

RX 3 dB beamwidth r (degrees)_____

RX antenna diameter D (m)______

RX antenna tilt angle r (degrees)____

RX antenna first side-lobe level (dB)____

RX antenna first side-lobe angle (degrees)___

Only for diversity: diversity type _____

RXd diversity antenna height (m)____

RXd 3 dB beamwidth r (degrees)_____

RXd diversity antenna diameter (m)______

RXd antenna tilt angle rd (degrees)____

RXd antenna first side-lobe level (dB)____

RXd antenna first side-lobe angle(degrees)___

Frequency separation (MHz)_____

RX antenna angle separation (degrees)(2)_____

RX antenna vertical spacing (m)_____

RX antenna horizontal spacing (m)_____

RX antenna gain difference(3) (dB)_____

Type of combiner______

Path length l (km)_____

Terrain type (land/sea/mixed)______

Path profile (file name)______

Classification (land, sea, coast)______

Measurement: Experiment No.___

Data sampling interval (s)_______

Data resolution (dB)______

IBAD frequency separation(4) (MHz)_____

Measurement bandwidth Bm (MHz)_____

Start date (yyyy.mm.dd)________

End date (yyyy.mm.dd)________

Duration d (days) (6)_______

Frequency f (GHz)______

Polarization (L/C)_

Polarization tilt angle p (degrees)____

Modulation ______

Data rate (Mbit/s)_____

Equalizer used (Analogue/Digital/None)(5)_

Flat fade margin (dB)_____

Signature width W (GHz)_____

Normalized signature depth a (GHz)_____

Reference delay for a , a (ns)____

Fading occurrence factor P0_______

Time percentage for| without diversity| with diversity

BER = 10–3 (%)| ______| ______
BER = 10–4 (%)| ______| ______
BER = 10–5 (%)| ______| ______

IBAD or IBPD measured (A/P)_

Table: (7)

In-band amplitude dispersion (IBAD) (or, if IBAD not available, in-band power difference (IBPD) – indicate above) and simultaneously measured fade depth (dB) exceeded for percentage of worst month

Percentage of worst month / 0.001
0.1 / 0.002
0.2 / 0.005
0.5 / 0.01
1 / 0.02
2 / 0.05
5 / 10
IBAD without
diversity(dB) / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– /

Fading without
diversity(dB) / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– /

IBAD with
diversity(dB) / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– /

Fading with
diversity (dB) / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– / –
– /

References:

Comments:

Notes to Table I-6:

(1)Use ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes.

(2)In case of sum and difference pattern antenna give angle between the two maxima of the difference pattern.

(3)Two beam antenna: enter difference between maximum gains. Sum and difference pattern: give difference between maximum gain in the sum-pattern and average gain for the two maxima of the difference pattern.

(4)IBAD frequency separation is the difference in MHz between two filters used for measuring the amplitude difference in the radio channel (preferably at equal distance from the centre of the radio channel). In case of IBPD the difference between the maximum and minimum frequency used should be given.

(5)If an equalizer is used, the “time percentage of BER=...” should be reported after removal of the equalizer improvement. Note that no FEC should be applied.

(6)Duration is the total time of valid measurements for this dataset, expressed as a real number (e.g. 339.888 days).
The ratio of duration to the period identified by the start and the end dates of this dataset is the availability (e.g. start=2001/1/1, end=2001/12/31, duration= 339.888 days corresponds to 93.12 % availability).

(7)Submissions should comply with the acceptance criteria specified in Rec. ITU-R P.311.

[+]In addition to the tables provided in this document the submitter is requested to provide the data files according to the instructions available on ITU-R SG 3 Web page: Study Group 3 databanks - DBSG3.