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Why does frequency diversity not help against rain attenuation?

  • A.Rain changes the antenna match rather than the path loss
  • B.Rain attenuates the whole band nearly equally
  • C.Rain affects only one polarisation at a time
  • D.Rain fades are too short for a switch to operate in time

Answer: B

Attenuation by rain varies slowly with frequency, so two carriers a few per cent apart fade together and no independence exists to exploit. Route diversity, with a second path outside the rain cell, is the effective answer where availability demands it. Rain does depolarise but affects both polarisations, fades last minutes rather than milliseconds, and the antenna match is unaffected. Choosing a diversity dimension in which the impairment is actually independent is the whole art of applying the technique.

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