Multipath fading characteristics of a digital microwave link in Western India

In the present paper multipath fading affecting the performance of an oversea digital microwave link situated in Western India is investigated. The results show that the highest number of severely error seconds are observed in the early morning and late evening hours. The investigations reveal that ground based layers are responsible for the high bit error rate observed and, elevated layers have no effect. The observed probability of outage is compared with that deduced from Serizawa’s and Lavergnat’s prediction methods.