Abstract
The rain analyzer is an instrument with which the main part of the raindrop size spectrum can be determined. During measurements of the rain attenuation of millimeter waves, rainfall was recorded both with rain analyzers and with standard rain gages. The observed millimeter-wave attenuation is somewhat more directly related to rainfall rates obtained with the analyzer than to those measured with rain gages. The average drop-size distribution measured during the experiment is similar to that of Laws and Parsons.
