Rain Effect

[justdream]

Could I know friends what’s the effect of raining on performance of cellular network?
Especially on Drive test Measurements

[dexterhaba]

usually around 2 db loss in radio,, Cheers

[rheyra]

Hi justdream,
Usually you will get more loss since signal has different propagation medium from air to water. Beside this loss, signal will also has a difraction, means there will be more possibility in bit/symbol decision error.

BR//Rheyra


Could I know friends what’s the effect of raining on performance of cellular network?
Especially on Drive test Measurements

[justdream]

Thanks could I also ask about the rain effect on Transmission?
could it be down or unstable due to rains?

Thanks :hug:

[oldie]

I have some documents on this topic
I will dl later in the dy

[oldie]

These are some of the documents I have in my library about Rain Effects
Others can add more

[erupikus]

hi,

heres few pages:

http://books.google.pl/books?id=hZX37jfF21EC&pg=PA217&lpg=PA217&dq=rain+effect+on+microwave+links&source=bl&ots=WAPHkwupuS&sig=aya9uRoNAgxXsYxOK2VVVPxRLrQ&hl=pl&ei=kqU3Stz2A52QjAfF39CmDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA217,M1