Typical Ka band Satellite Beacon Receiver Design for Propagation Experimentation

Subject Areas : Circuits, Sensors and Devices

Reza Bahri ¹ , Hossein Yarmohammadi ² , Mohammad Reza keshavarzi ³ , Gholamreza Moradi ⁴

1 - Iran Telecommunication Research center
2 - Tehran University
3 - ITRC
4 - Amirkabir University

Received: 2015-01-23 Accepted : 2015-04-21 Published : 2015-05-01

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