The Ancient and Modern History of EM Ground-Wave Propagation

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 7-24

  Wait, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; HISTORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE WAVES; TESTING;

GROUND-WAVE FIELD;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032179317     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.735961     Document Type: Article

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