A radio wave is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, used in wireless communication to convey information from a
transmitting station to a receiving station. The Radio wave signal gets attenuated or faded during propagation due to the
variation of the channel parameters with time, several factors cause this attenuation especially the effects of the different
ionization densities of the atmosphere and other layers of the earth surface, atmospheric absorption, multipath propagation due
to reflection, diffraction and scattering by buildings, hills, etc. all contributed to the reduction of the radio wave signal strength
or power as such it gets attenuated or faded before reaching its destination, this lead to poor reception of the transmitted
information and at worst case may lead to communication breakage This paper reviewed some of the causes of this Radio wave
signal attenuation and their effects.
