Radiowave Propagation: Physics and Applications

INDEX

Air-to-air communications, 7, 12

Amateur radio, 2, 9, 12, 236

Ampere's law, 31, 32

Anisotropy, 21, 27, 54, 247

Antenna, 56

aperture, 64

dissipated power, 58

effective aperture, 65

effective length, 63

efficiency, 58

gain, 61, 62

impedance, 57, 63

isotropic, 61, 62, 77

loss resistance, 58

omnidirectional, 77

parameters, 57

pattern measurements, 60

polarization, 59, 65

power pattern, 59

radiation resistance, 58

receive properties, 62

temperature, 70

wire, 62, 64

Antenna-to-medium coupling factor, 79, 285

Appleton-Hartree equation, 241, 246, 247

Atmosferics, 73

Atmosphere, 4, 7, 10, 11

density, 217

gas attenuation, 80

loss, 78

nomenclature, 227

path attenuation, 82, 84

slant, 83

vertical, 82

properties, 217

standard refractive conditions, 127

Attachment, 224, 225

Bandwidth

coherence, 185

correlation, 186

of a medium, 41

signal, 185

Barometric law, 82, 215, 219

Basic maximum usable frequency (BMUF), 263

Blackbody, 70

Boltzmann's constant, 66, 216

Bottom-side sounder, 228, 250

Boundary conditions, 18, 108, 111

Breit and Tuve's theorem, 260

Brewster angle, 117

Brightness, 68, 70

temperature, 70

sky, 75

Cellular communications, 1, 8, 161

Channel equalization, 42, 185

adaptive, 185

Channel sounding, 185

Chapman's theory, 214, 218

Characteristic impedance, 240

Characteristic polarizations, 241, 246, 248

Characteristic times, 22

Charge conservation, 19

Charge continuity equations, 17–19

Coherence bandwidth, 185

Coherence time, 186

Committee on Space Research, 229

Common volume, ...