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Proceedings from the International Telemetering Conference are made available by the International Foundation for Telemetering and the University of Arizona Libraries. Visit http://www.telemetry.org/index.php/contact-us if you have questions about items in this collection.Abstract
A statistical error analysis is performed to determine the degree of uncertainty encountered when calibrating steerable receiving antennas with the solar calibration method. The analysis considers the propagation of precision error indexes. It is shown that a worst-case one-sigma (1σ) uncertainty of ±0.8 dB in system noise temperature occurs for a solar calibration at L-band. Somewhat better precision can be achieved by monitoring the antenna gain-to-noise temperature (G/T) ratio at a station; a worst-case uncertainty of ±0.5 dB (1σ) can be realized. An error analysis is made of a method to determine absolute antenna gain based upon solar flux density. The uncertainty in this type measurement is ±0.7 dB (1σ) at L- and S-band frequencies.Sponsors
International Foundation for TelemeteringISSN
0884-51230074-9079