Rain fade is the attenuation of a radio signal by raindrops along its path, which grows with the rain rate and steeply with frequency. A link’s link availability is the fraction of time in which it carries traffic at its required error rate, usually stated per year.
fig_wireless.py; coefficients in code/firm/radiolink/data/p838_3.csv.| Frequency | Dish gain | Free-space loss | Received | Fade margin | , whole hop | , 10-km cell |
| (GHz) | (dBi) | (dB) | (dBm) | (dB) | (mm/h) | (mm/h) |
| 6 | 38.9 | 143.6 | 31.1 | 63.5 | 196.0 | |
| 11 | 44.1 | 148.8 | 36.4 | 18.4 | 80.4 | |
| 18 | 48.4 | 153.1 | 40.7 | 8.1 | 42.3 | |
| 80 | 61.4 | 166.1 | 53.6 | 0.7 | 8.5 |
nw_wireless.budget_rows().