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Rain Outage

Loss of signal at any frequency, but in particular at Ku or Ka Band frequencies, due to absorption and increased sky-noise temperature caused by heavy rainfall.

Receiver (Rx)

An electronic device which enables a particular satellite signal to be separated from all others being received by an earth station, and converts the signal format into a format for video, voice or data.

Receiver Sensitivity

Expressed in dBm this tells how much power the detector must receive to achieve a specific baseband performance, such as a specified bit error rate or signal to noise ratio.

 

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