Experimental investigation of rainfall effect on digital satellite television reception in Nigeria: Initial results

Author

Obiyemi, O.O. ; Ibiyemi, T.S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Osun State Univ., Osogbo, Nigeria

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of rainfall on the reception of digital satellite television in the Ku-band over Akure, Nigeria (latitude 7.17° N and longitude 5.18° E). The digital television signals is received downlink EUTELSAT W4/W7, which is geo-located at longitude 36° E. For digital television content reception at 12.245 GHz and at an elevation angle of 53.2°, preliminary results is presented on the 2-year attenuation measurement. Result shows that the rain rate exceeded at 0.01 % of the time is 120 mm/h. The prevailing impact of rainfall is evidenced in the squelching of the signal and its complete loss at rainfall intensities above 64 mm/h.

Keywords

digital signals; digital television; rain; television broadcasting; television reception; Ku-band; Nigeria; digital satellite television reception; digital television content reception; digital television signals; frequency 12.245 GHz; rainfall effect; Attenuation; Attenuation measurement; Digital TV; Rain; Satellite broadcasting; Satellites; attenuation measurement; digital satellite television; rain attenuation; rain rate;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Adaptive Science & Technology (ICAST), 2014 IEEE 6th International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASTECH.2014.7068147

Filename

7068147