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A17.5.3 Attenuation due to diffraction

A17.5.3 Attenuation due to diffraction

According to ITU-R Rec. P.526-2, the diffraction loss  Lp (d) can be derived by the received field strength  E referred to the free space E0 :

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   (Eq. 220)

with:

 

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    is the normalized radio path between transmitter and receiver 
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  is the normalized antenna height of the transmitter  
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   is the normalized antenna height of the receiver


where:

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 is a parameter derived from the earth admittance factor K:  
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 =1 for 
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 > 20 MHz.

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 is the frequency in MHz

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 is the equivalent earth radius in km (definition see below)

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 is the distance in km

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 is the antenna height above ground in m with =1 or 2 for the transmitter or receiver, respectively

The distance-dependent term

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  is given by the semi-empirical formula:

                       

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 (Eq. 221)

The antenna height gain

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 is given by the formula set:

(Eq. 222)   

    

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 for 
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 for
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  for  
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 for  
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where

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 is the normalized earth surface admittance factor (see ITU-R Rec. P.526), default value 10e-5:

 

All frequencies used attenuation due to diffraction have the unit MHz in contrast to the attenuation due to atmosphere where GHz is applied.

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