The Aldo Paraboni scientific experiment: Ka/Q band receiver station in Hungary

The Aldo Paraboni payload is the Ka/Q-band propagation experiment of the Alphasat satellite. In this paper we introduce the receiver station in Budapest, Hungary. After the system description the first time series of measured received signal will be shown. For the first months of operation a preliminary attenuation distribution is also presented. Because the receiver operates without a tracking system, we propose a new algorithm to compensate the small-scale diurnal signal level variation caused by the apparent satellite movement.