Tropospheric Radio Propagation Assessment

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1985, Pages 265-283

  Hitney, Herbert V ^a   Richter, Juergen H ^a   Pappert, Richard A ^a   Anderson, Kenneth D ^a   Baumgartner, Gerald B ^a  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TROPOSPHERIC RADIO PROPAGATION ASSESSMENT;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0022013690     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1985.13138     Document Type: Letter

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