[BC] So how did we miss this one?

[Glen Kippel]

Yup.  I had heard that the wavelength @ 23GHz is about the same as the
length of a falling raindrop.  Boys and girls, can you say, "rain fade?"

On 7/13/06, Scott Todd <stodd at kkms.com> wrote:
>
> I'd imagine it to be much worse, Willie.  I remember TV coverage of some
> big grass fires near here a few years ago and the 23GHz links from the
> news trucks couldn't penetrate the smoke.
>
> Scott Todd
>
> >>>
>
> At such high frequencies, doesn't rain fade (& other atmospheric issues)
> start to have an even more dramatic effect? How reliable can such a
> service truly
> be? What other technical hurdles need to be overcome to make it truly
> marketable? There are enough issues with the 11Ghz stuff, so I wonder
> about 17.
>
>
>
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