Land-mobile field experiments in Australia

Abstract

The Mobile Satellite Experiment/Australia Mobile Satellite Experiment (MSAT-X/AUSSAT) experiment offered the first true land-mobile satellite configuration to evaluate the MSAT-X technologies and equipment. Both quantitative data tests and qualitative voice link demonstrations were successfully conducted. From the collected data, system performance in typical land-mobile conditions was extracted. A set of propagation characteristics corresponding to the wide range of environments encountered was also obtained. A brief description is given of the MSAT-X/AUSSAT experiment and a summary of its results analyzed to date.