Title :
Vehicle antenna for land mobile satellite communications: a diversity system approach
Author :
Clayton, Fraser M. ; McDonald, Noel A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun. & Electr. Eng., R. Melbourne Inst. of Technol., Vic., Australia
Abstract :
The planned introduction of land mobile satellite services to Australia in 1992 has posed several technological problems, not least of which is the design of a suitable mobile terminal antenna. Many solutions have been proposed but the technically best designs ignore the cost limitations set by comparable mobile telephone services. The authors propose a cost-effective system design that uses space diversity. This allows a simple antenna to be used by recovering part of the margin required in the link power budget for multipath and shadowing losses
Keywords :
diversity reception; microwave antennas; mobile antennas; satellite antennas; Australia; cost-effective system design; diversity system approach; land mobile satellite communications; mobile terminal antenna; space diversity; vehicle antenna; Australia; Costs; L-band; Land vehicles; Mobile antennas; Mobile communication; Satellite antennas; Satellite communication; Shadow mapping; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 1989, IEEE 39th
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
DOI :
10.1109/VETEC.1989.40159
