Estimates of the mutual interference expected to occur between the ground terminals of space communications systems and surface point-to-point systems are presented in a fashion suitable for engineering applications. These estimates are obtained from recently developed methods for predicting the transmission loss over tropospheric paths in terms of parameters such as a geographic separation, elevation angle of the antenna, antenna patterns, and frequency. It is concluded that these systems can share the same frequency assignment under suitable conditions.

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