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Language:enStatus: Standard
Term: capture area
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Definition: area associated with a terrestrial receiving station for a given radiocommunication service, within which a transmitting station must be located for radiocommunication of specified nature to be established under specified technical conditions

NOTE 1 – The technical conditions include, inter alia, the following: frequency, characteristics of the equipment used both at the transmitting and receiving stations, how is it installed, quality of transmission desired, e.g. protection ratios, and operating conditions.

NOTE 2 – The following may be distinguishable:

– the capture area in the absence of interference, i.e. that limited solely by natural or artificial noise;

– the actual capture area, i.e. with allowance made for the noise and interference which exist in practice.


Publication date:1998-04
SourceIUT-R Rec. 573 MOD
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