Mathematical modeling of disprersive distortions of the wideband chirp signal during its propogation in the ionospheric radiochannel
Theoretical description of the chirp ionosonde operation has been made. Ionosonde registers spectrum sequence of window received-signal sampling. Mathematical modeling of dispersive distortions of spectra registered has been carried out.
Waveguide Approach to Modeling of the Ionosphere Radiochannel
A rigorous solution of the model problem of the transfer function construction of a stationary HF ionosphere radio channel formed by the receiving-transfer antenna-feeder paths and sphere-layer regular isotropic Earth-ionosphere waveguide is represented. A waveguide representation of electromagnetic field of HF signal was used in the form of a mormal wave series
A direction finding ionosonde for ionospheric propagation research
A direction finding ionosonde consisting of a seven-element, 50-m crossed baseline interferometer has been developed to provide group path delay, azimuth, and elevation of each resolved mode over the sounding frequency range. Direction finding (df) ionograms have been acquired automatically, using various noncooperative compatible sounder transmissions. A diurnal sequence of df ionograms obtained over a 2344-km mid-latitude path is reported, including plots of group delay, azimuth, and elevation versus frequency, as well as an azimuth/elevation scatterplot showing the distribution of angular occupancy for the path. The results show modes arriving closest to the great circle bearing (that is, with lowest azimuth error) arrive via the lowest elevation angles and with least group delay. Greatest bearing accuracy was observed on daytime sporadic E modes; measured at 0.85 MOF, the azimuth standard deviation was 0.3°. One-hop F region low-ray azimuth measured at 0.85 MOF showed standard deviations between 0.4° and 0.98°. Fractional degrees per megahertz linear azimuth gradients with frequency were also observed at various times of day. One-hop F region high rays showed smoothly varying elevation as a function of frequency, increasing with group path delay as expected. Variable lateral deviation from the great circle plane was observed for high rays up to 5° in azimuth equatorward at various times of day; azimuth standard deviation at 0.85 MOF varied from 0.91° to 1.7°.