Wideband HF Channel Availability Working Group

Actions Station, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard

Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK

September 9, 2014

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THIS INFORMATION IS APPROVED FOR RELEASE WITHOUT EXPORT RESTRICTIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A REVIEW OF THE  INTERNATIONAL TRAFFIC IN ARMS REGULATIONS (ITAR), 22CFR 120-130, AND THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION REGULATIONS (EAR) 15 CFR 730-774.

Agenda Introductions / sign in Review of last meeting Current Software Distribution Presentations

Processing of Results – Harris Channel availability Results preliminary statistics from the upper Midwest

USA – Randy Nelson - Rockwell Collins Channel availability Results – Western New York, USA- Harris German Participation in HF Channel Availability Measurements – Robert

Koch – Fraunhofer Channel availability Results Norway– Magnar Gaasland/Vivianne Jodalen–

FFI Thales results – Catherine Lamy-Bergot Results – Harald Wickenhaeuser – Rohde-Schwarz

General Discussion / Issues Plans moving forward

Review of February 2014 Meeting

Group will communicate via email Presentations will be on HFIA website Harris will provide data collection executable on request Harris will provide current analysis SW ( C ) on request Participants will begin preliminary experiments and

measurements

Current Software DistributionDistribution09042014

Collection Software WBHF_Channel_Availability_Measurement_09042014.exe

Channel Availability Processing Analysis/Availability/process09042014.c Analysis/Availability/r09042014.bat Analysis/Availability/run09042014.bat Analysis/Availability/WBHFCHAV_Template_09042014.XLS

Python Utility to plot individual collection files Analysis/Python/HFSpectrum09042014.py

Matlab (and C ) processing to create video Analysis/Matlab/convert09042014.c Analysis/Matlab/video09042014.m

Contact Bill Furman for software distribution zip file wfurman@harris.com

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Member Presentations

Processing of Results – Harris Channel availability Results preliminary statistics from the

upper Midwest USA – Randy Nelson - Rockwell Collins Channel availability Results – Western New York, USA- Harris German Participation in HF Channel Availability Measurements

– Robert Koch – Fraunhofer Channel availability Results Norway– Magnar

Gaasland/Vivianne Jodalen– FFI Thales results – Catherine Lamy-Bergot Results – Harald Wickenhaeuser – Rohde-Schwarz

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General Discussion / Issues

Plans Moving Forward

Next meeting:San Diego, Ca, USA

Tuesday February 10th, 2015