Rain Showers Dampen Solar Centimetric Radio Waves
SEP 01, 1968
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035157
Robert W. Wilson of Bell Labs, Holmdel, is making measurements to see whether the useful radio spectrum for satellite and space‐probe communications can be extended to frequencies up to 30 GHz; the aim is to determine the effect of weather (particularly rain) on these high‐frequency signals. The sun is a convenient extraterrestrial radio source for these experiments; so Wilson has made a sun tracker that records solar emission at 16 and 30 GHz.
© 1968. American Institute of Physics
