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In free space, all electromagnetic waves (radio, light, X rays, etc) obey the law of inverse square that states that the power density of an electromagnetic wave is proportional to the inverse square of the distance from the source or:
Doubling the distance a transmitter means that the power density radiated wave to this new location is reduced to a quarter of its previous value.
The power density per unit area is proportional to the product of electric and magnetic field strength. Therefore, doubling the propagation distance from the transmitter reduces each of its forces the field was more than one path in free space by half.
Modes
Radio frequencies and their main mode of spread
Banda
Frequency
Wavelength
Propagation through
VLF
Very Low Frequency
330 kHz
10010 km
Guided between the earth and the ionosphere.
LF
Low frequency
30 300 kHz
101 km
Guided between the earth and the ionosphere's D layer.
Surface waves.
MF
Medium Frequency
3003000 kHz
1000100 m
Surface waves.
E, F layer ionospheric refraction at night, when the absorption of D tunica.
HF
High frequency (shortwave)
330 MHz
10010 m
E layer ionospheric refraction.
layer F1, F2 ionospheric refraction.
VHF
Very High Frequency
30300 MHz
101 m
E infrequent ionospheric refraction. Extremely rare refractive F1, F2 ionospheric layer during activity sunspot generally high as 80 MHz direct wave. Sometimes tropospheric ducts.
UHF
Ultra High Frequency
3003000 MHz
10 010 cm
Direct wave. Sometimes tropospheric ducts.
SHF
Super High Frequency
330 GHz
101 cm
Direct wave.
EHF
Often extremely high
30,300 GHz
101 mm
Direct wave limited by absorption.
Surface modes
Main article: Surface wave
Frequencies lower (between 30 and 3,000 kHz) have the property of following the curvature of the earth via ground wave propagation in most events.
In Thus, radio waves propagate through the interaction with the semi-conductor surface of the earth. The wave "cling" to the surface and thus follows the curvature land. vertical polarization is used to relieve the short-circuit the electric field through the conductivity of the ground. Since the ground is not an electrical conductor perfect ground waves are attenuated rapidly as do the surface of the earth. The attenuation is proportional to the frequency thus making especially useful for LF and VLF frequencies.
LF and VLF today are mostly used for time signals, and for military communications, especially with ships and submarines. In early commercial and professional radio services relied exclusively on long wave, low frequency and surface wave propagation. To avoid interference with these services, amateur and experimental transmitters is limited to the higher (HF) frequencies, considered that it would be useless since their ground-wave range was limited. Discovering modes of spread of other possible medium-wave frequencies and shortwave, the advantages of the IC business and military purposes became apparent. experimentation merely amateur then only the authorized frequency segment of the range.
Direct modes (line of sight)
Line of sight is the direct seeding of radio waves from antennas see each other. This is probably the most common modes of radio propagation in VHF and higher frequencies. Because radio signals can travel through many non-metallic objects, the radio can be picked up through walls. This remains the propagation line view. Examples include the spread between a satellite and an antenna with low or television reception from a local television station.
Effects flat floor of the reflection is an important factor in the VHF line of sight propagation. The interference between the direct beam line of sight and the ground reflects the beam often leads to an effective law of the inverse fourth power of the radiation level ground limited. [Need reference to the law of inverse fourth power + ground level. The drawings can clarify]
Ionospheric modes (Skywave)
Main article: Skywave
Skywave propagation, also referred jump as any of the modes that are based on the refraction of radio waves in the ionosphere, which consists of one or more ionized layers in the upper atmosphere. F2-layer ionospheric layer is most important for the propagation of HF, but F1, E and D-layers also play a role. These layers are directly affected by the sun daily cycle, the seasons and the sunspot cycle of 11 years to determine the usefulness of these modes. During solar maximum, the entire HF range up to 30 MHz can be used F2 and the spread up to 50 MHz are commonly seen in the light of the daily values of solar flux. During solar minimum, the propagation of higher frequencies is generally worse.
Forecasting the reflected wave modes is of great interest to amateur radio operators and commercial maritime communications and aircraft and also to broadcasters shortwave.
Meteor scatter
based dispersion of meteors to reflect radio waves intensely column ionized air generated by the meteors. While this mode is very short, often only a fraction of a second pair of seconds per case, digital communications blast Meteor allows remote stations to communicate with a station that can be hundreds of kilometers to more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) away, without the expenditure required for a satellite link. This mode is very useful in general in the VHF frequencies between 30 and 250 MHz
Auroral reflection
columns intense auroral ionization heights of 100 km in the auroral oval reflect radio waves, perhaps especially in HF and VHF. Angle reflection is sensitive - beam incident from the field line magnetic column must be very close angle. random movements of electrons spiraling around the field lines to create a Doppler-spread that extends emission spectra of more or less noise-likeepending on how high-frequency radio is used. The radio-auroras are most frequently observed at high latitudes and rarely extend to middle latitudes. The appearance of radio-aurora depends on solar activity (flares, coronal holes, CMEs) and annual events are more numerous highs during the solar cycle. Radio aurora pm includes calling radio aurora produces stronger but more distorted signals and after Harang-minimum the radio aurora night (sub-phase assault) returns with variable signal strength and reduced Doppler spread. The range of propagation of this mode mostly posterior scattering extends to about 2000 km flight from east to west, but strong signals are observed more frequently from the nearby northern latitudes sites same.
On rare occasions, a strong radio aurora is followed by Aurora-E, which resembles the two types of spread in some way.
Sporadic-E propagation
Sporadic E (Es) propagation can be seen in the HF and VHF bands. Not to be confused with the current HF E-layer propagation. Sporadic-E at mid-latitudes occurs mainly during the summer season from May to August in the northern hemisphere and November to February in the southern hemisphere. There is no single cause for this mysterious propagation mode. The reflection takes place in a thin sheet of ionisation around 90 km altitude. Ionization patches drifting westward at a speed of a few hundred kilometers per hour. There is a weak periodicity observed during the season and is usually seen 1 to 3 successive days and is absent for a few days back to appear again. It is not produced in the early morning hours, the events usually begin at dawn, and there is a peak in the afternoon and a second peak in the afternoon. Is the propagation usually disappears before local midnight.
Maximum observed frequency (MOF) to be located is lurking around 30 MHz in most days during the summer season, but sometimes MOF can shoot up to 100 MHz or more in ten minutes to decline slowly over the next few hours. The peak of the swing phase includes Ministry of Finance with a periodicity of about 5 ... 10 minutes. The propagation range is single-hop is typically 1000 and 2000 km, but with multi-hop, the range observed is twofold. The signals are very strong, but also with deep slow fading.
Thomas F. Giella, a retired meteorologist, space plasma physicist and an operator Amateur Radio (NZ4O), quotes the following from his research career [citation needed] [original research?]
Just as the E layer is the primary means for refractive medium frequency (3003000 kHz) signal propagation within about 5,000 km (3,000 miles), making it a sporadic-E (Es) cloud. Sporadic-E (Es) clouds occur at about 100 km (60 miles) in altitude and generally move from WNW to ESE. As the temperature warming and stratospheric level discontinuities troposphere and moisture level, sporadic-E (Es) clouds can absorb depending on the circumstances, the frequency block or refract medium, high and very high signals RF in an unpredictable manner.
The main source of "high latitude" clouds sporadic E (Es) is induced by geomagnetic activity dawn assault on the radio.
The main source of "mid-latitude" Sporadic-E (Es) clouds is wind shear produced by internal momentum / gravity waves (IBGW's) that create traveling ionosphere disturbances (TID), most of which are produced by severe thunderstorm cell complexes with the overrun of the covers that penetrate into the stratosphere. Another tie between Sporadic-E (Es) and a severe thunderstorm is the Elve.
The main sources of "low latitude" Sporadic-E (Es) clouds is wind shear produced by internal momentum / gravity waves (IBGW's), that create traveling ionosphere disturbances, most of which are produced severe storm cell complexes related to tropical cyclones. The high content of electrons in the ring Equatorial Current also plays an important role.
The forecasting of Sporadic-E (Es) clouds have been considered impossible. However, it is possible to identify certain conditions of the troposphere level meteorological may lead to the formation of sporadic E (Es) clouds. One is as mentioned above in the severe thunderstorm cell complex.
Sporadic-E (Es) clouds have been observed to occur initially at about 150 km (90 miles) to the right of a severe thunderstorm complex in the cell the northern hemisphere, with the opposite is seen in the southern hemisphere. Complicating matters is the fact that Sporadic-E (Es) clouds that initially form on the right of a severe storm complex in the northern hemisphere, then move from ESE-WNW and end at the left of the complex of severe storms in the northern hemisphere. So one has to look Sporadic-E (Es) clouds on either side of a severe thunderstorm cell complex. Things are further complicated when two severe thunderstorm cell complexes are around from 10002000 miles away.
Not all thunderstorm cell complexes reach severe levels and not all severe thunderstorm cell complex produce sporadic-E (Es). Here is where the knowledge of the physics of the troposphere and weather analysis / forecasting is necessary.
Some of the items key in identifying the complex of cells that severe storm has the potential to produce Sporadic-E (Es) through wind shear, dynamic Indoor / gravity waves, ionospheric disturbances produced travel include:
1.) Negative inclined to middle and upper level long wave channel.
2.) Average 150 knots (170 mph, 280 km / h) jet stream jet maxes that produce divergence and therefore create a sucking vacuum effect above the storms, which help cells to reach storm and penetrate the tropopause into the stratosphere.
3.) 500 mb (50 kPa), temperatures of 20 ° C or colder, which produce numerous positive and negative rays and interrelated Sprites and Elves.
4.) Average 150 175 Knots (170200 mph) updrafts within the storm cells complexes that create overshooting tops penetrating the tropopause in the stratosphere (See definition # 20 stratospheric warming), the upward release propagating internal dynamism / gravitational waves that create traveling ionosphere disturbances and then wind shear.
Tropospheric modes
Dispersion tropospheric
At VHF and higher frequencies, a small variation (turbulence) in the density of the atmosphere at a height of about 6 miles (10 km) can disperse some of the beams normally line of sight of the radiofrequency energy into the ground, which allows communication beyond the horizon, between stations measuring up to 500 miles (800 km) away. The military developed the White Alice communications system covering all of Alaska, with this principle of tropospheric scatter.
Tropospheric ducts
Sudden changes in the moisture content profiles of vertical air temperature can sometimes make random microwave and UHF and VHF signals propagate hundreds of kilometers to 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles) nd for channeling mode even farthereyond the normal radio horizon. The inversion layer is observed in regions of high pressure, but no time tropospheric several conditions that create these modes of propagation that occur random. altitude of the inversion layer to the pipe is not normally found in the 100 meters (300 feet) to about 1 mile (3.000 feet) and through a 500 meters to 3 kilometers (1,600 to 10,000 ft), and duration of the events are typically several hours to several days. Higher frequencies experience the most dramatic increase of signal strengths, while low VHF and HF, the effect is negligible. attenuation of propagation path can be less than the loss of free space. Some of the types of investments related to the child is hot and cold soil moisture content of air are produced regularly at certain times of year and time of day. A typical example could be the end of summer, improvements tropospheric am bringing in the signals from distances up to hundreds of miles for a couple of hours to undo the effects of the sun warming.
Tropospheric delay
This is a source of error in radio ranging techniques such as GPS.
Scattered rain
rain dispersal is merely a microwave propagation mode and is best observed around 10 GHz, but extends to a limit of a few gigahertzhe be the size of the particle size of dispersion vs. wavelength. This mode of scattered signals mostly forward and backward when using horizontal polarization and vertical polarization lateral dispersion. Forward scattering typically yields propagation range of 800 km. The scattering of snowflakes and ice pellets is also produced, but the dispersion of ice without the watery surface is less effective. The most common application of this phenomenon is the microwave radar rain, but rain spreading the dispersion can be a nuisance they cause no signs desired that spread intermittently in which not provided or desired. Similar considerations may also occur from insects, although at a lower altitude and short range. The Rain also causes attenuation of point to point microwave and satellite links. Attenuation values to 30 dB were observed at 30 GHz in case of heavy tropical rain.
Scattering plane
dispersion plane (or more often the reflection) is observed at VHF through microwave and in addition to the backscatter momentary propagation yields up to 500 km, even in mountainous terrain type. The booking application is the most common dispersion of traffic air radar and bistatic scatter aircraft missiles and radar detection and radar trip wire U.S. space.
Ray scattering
dispersion ray sometimes observed in VHF and UHF in the distance of 500 km. The hot lightning channel scattered radio waves for a split second. The explosion of RF noise rays makes the initial part of the open channel unusable and ionization disappears quickly, because the combination of low altitude high atmospheric pressure. Although hot lightning channel is a brief observable microwave radar, this mode has no practical use for communications.
Other effects
Diffraction
knife-edge diffraction is the propagation of radio waves are bent around sharp edges. For example, this mode is used to send radio signals through of a mountain road when a line of sight is not available. However, the angle can not be too strong or the signal is not diffracted. Mode diffraction requires more signal strength, the power is higher or more antennas will be necessary for an equivalent line of sight path.
Bending depends on the relationship between wavelength and the size of the obstacle. In other words, the size of the obstacle at different wavelengths. Frequencies lower diffract around large smooth obstacles such as hills more easily. For example, in many cases VHF (or higher frequency) reporting no is possible because of the shadow of a hill, is it still possible to communicate with the top part of the band of HF surface wave is of little use.
The phenomena of diffraction by small obstacles are also important in the high frequencies. Cellular signals tend to be dominated urban the effects of ground-level as they travel over the rooftops of the urban environment. Then, bend over the edges of the roof on the street, where the spread multipath absorption and diffraction phenomena dominate.
Absorption
The waves of low frequency radio travel easily through brick and stone VLF even penetrate the sea water. With increasing frequency, absorption effects become more important. In microwave or higher frequencies, absorption molecular resonance in the atmosphere (mostly water, H2O and oxygen, O2) is an important factor in the spread of radio. For example, in the range of 5.860 GHz, there is a major absorption peak makes this band useless for long distance usage. This phenomenon was first discovered during the investigation of radar during the Second World War. Beyond about 400 GHz, the Earth's atmosphere blocks some segments of the spectra of time spent somehis is true to ultraviolet light, which is blocked by ozone, but visible light and some of the NIR is transmitted.
Heavy rain and snow also affects reception of microwaves.
See also
Radio portal
Main article: List of radio propagation conditions
Diversity scheme
Bulk land
Electromagnetic radiation
Fading
Fresnel Zone
Clearance
Investment (meteorology)
Kennellyeaviside layer
Near and far field
RF
Horizon Radio
Radio propagation model
Rayleigh fading
Ray tracing (physics)
Schumann Resonance
Skip (radio)
Skip zone
Skywave
Tropospheric propagation
TV and FM DX
References
HP ^ Westman et al., (Ed), reference data for Radio Engineers, fifth edition, 1968, Howard W. Sams & Co., no ISBN, Library of Congress card No. 43-14665 Page 26-1
^ T Demetrius Paris and F. Kenneth Hurd, Basic Electromagnetic Theory, McGraw Hill, New York 1969 ISBN 048470-8 -0 Chapter 8
^ Reference Data Westman Page 26-19
Larry D. Wolfgang et al., (Ed), The handbook of the ARRL Amateur Radio edition of sixty-eight, (1991), ARRL, Newington CT USA ISBN 0-87259-168-9
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Lucien Boithais: propagation of radio waves. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. 1987. ISBN 0-07-006433-4
Karl Cruder: im Propagatiom the Ionosphere.Kluwer Acad.Publ wave., Dordrecht, 1993. ISBN 0-7923-0775-5
External Links
Wikimedia Commons has media related radio propagation
Propagation tools, data Solar HF and HF Propagation tutorial
DXing.info - Propagation Links
Solar Cycle 24 and Web Site VHF Aurora (www.solarcycle24.com)
Ionospheric Prediction Service - Australia
Unusual Phenomena HF propagation. April 13, 2009 includes recordings useful each type. Retrieved on October 9, 2009.
High Frequency Radio Propagation Software for Firefox - Firefox plug Propfire to monitor the spread radio, web services display HF radio propagation status and article on understanding HF radio propagation prediction
RadioWorks The radio wave propagation and antenna length calculator
SWDXER The SWDXER - general information and advice SWL radio antenna.
Time and space Resource Center radio propagation data and live images of space weather and radio propagation.
Page spread ARRL American Radio Relay League page in the spread of radio.
The Basics of Radio Wave Propagation An appeal by Edwin C. Jones (AE4TM), MD, PhD, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee.
"Notes NZ4O 160 meters propagation theory." A website dedicated to the layman level explanations of "seemingly" Mysterious 160 meters (MF / HF) Propagation events. http://www.wcflunatall.com/nz4o5.htm.
Dynamic Radio Propagation constantly updated data radio propagation data taken from various sources.
External references below provide examples of concepts such as radio propagation demonstrates the use of model-based software VOACAP.
Propagation of high frequency radio demystify.
It's high frequency radio propagation reciprocal?
How does noise affect radio signals?
The external link below is designed to be used by mobile phones and devices phones that can display content using Wireless Markup Language and the Wireless Application Protocol:
WAP / WML Space Time Radio Propagation and Space Weather Resources and propagation of radio resources.
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Radio Spectrum
ELF
3 Hz
30 Hz
SLF
30 Hz
300 Hz
ULF
300 Hz
3 kHz
VLF
3 kHz
30 kHz
LF
30 kHz
300 kHz
MF
300 kHz
3 MHz
HF
3 MHz
30 MHz
VHF
30 MHz
300 MHz
UHF
300 MHz
3 GHz
SHF
3 GHz
30 GHz
EHF
30 GHz
300 GHz
EV
Electromagnetic spectrum
wavelengths longer wavelengths
Gamma rays X-ray ultraviolet visible, infrared Terahertz The radio microwave radiation
Visible (Optical)
Violet Blue Green Orange Red Yellow
Microwave
WV band Q band K band Ka band band Ku band X band S band C band L band
Radio
EHF SHF UHF VHF HF MF LF VLF ULF SLF ELF
Wavelength types
Microwave Shortwave Medium wave longwave
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