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    Tropospheric scatter, also known as troposcatter, is a method of communicating with microwave radio signals over considerable distances – often up to 500...
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  • These radios utilize active repeaters, groundwave propagation, tropospheric scatter links, and ionospheric propagation to extend communication ranges...
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  • less common radio propagation mechanisms, such as tropospheric scattering (troposcatter), tropospheric ducting (ducting) at VHF frequencies and near vertical...
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    link system constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It featured tropospheric scatter links and line-of-sight microwave radio links. These sites were part...
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    during the Cold War, as a Rotor station and then, finally, as a USAF Tropospheric scatter station. The first of these functions commenced in 1942; the last...
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    North Atlantic Radio System (category Tropospheric scatter systems)
    The North Atlantic Radio System (NARS) was a chain of 5 tropospheric scatter communication sites. It was an expansion of the former Distant Early Warning...
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    to use microwave signals in over-the-horizon communications using tropospheric scatter, but such systems are expensive and generally used only in specialist...
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  • constructed with plumbing made out of rubber, and outfitted with tropospheric scatter antennas. The Big Hole Project Office was located on 191 acres of...
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    Allied Command Europe Highband (category Tropospheric scatter systems)
    relay. Radio propagation Tropospheric scatter Microwave White Alice Communications System - Cold war era Alaskan tropospheric communications link List...
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    ground-based communications, naval signalling, terrestrial microwave, tropospheric scatter, satellite communications systems and equipment, surveillance and...
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    White Alice Communications System (category Tropospheric scatter systems)
    radio stations constructed in Alaska during the Cold War. It used tropospheric scatter for over-the-horizon links and microwave relay for shorter line-of-sight...
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    cable, but this was eventually rejected as too costly; the AN/FRC-56 tropospheric scatter microwave link was installed instead, with an array of three parabolic...
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  • system: modern system centered in Doha domestic: NA international: tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and UAE; submarine...
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  • connection at 250 MHz and 400 MHz to the tower at Gartow. The other used tropospheric scatter at 2 GHz to establish a non-line-of-sight link to Torfhaus. To that...
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    Tropospheric propagation describes electromagnetic propagation in relation to the troposphere. The service area from a VHF or UHF radio transmitter extends...
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    Pole Vault (communications system) (category Tropospheric scatter systems)
    Pole Vault was the first operational tropospheric scatter communications system. It linked radar sites and military airfields in Greenland and eastern...
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  • anomalous enhancement. Less frequently used anomalous modes are tropospheric scatter and Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). Moon bounce and satellite...
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    using a traveling wave tube amplifier, or 96 miles (154 km) in tropospheric scatter at up to 1 kilowatt, using a tunable klystron amplifier, at a frequency...
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    Radio Station a few miles west of Kekaha provided ionospheric and tropospheric scatter communications as part of a line of stations from California to Vietnam...
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    account elevation angles as well. Meteor burst communications Tropospheric scatter "Aircraft Scatter on 10 and 24 GHz using JT65c and ISCAT-A" (PDF). w3sz.com...
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    site as part of the ACE High programme, which involved adding four tropospheric scatter dishes. The site was decommissioned in the late 1980s and was mostly...
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    communications networks that employ single and multi-channel satellite, tropospheric scatter, terrestrial microwave, switching, messaging, video-teleconferencing...
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    independently in face of the enemy onslaught, with pilots quickly taking off and scattering to avoid incoming missiles, ground crews being hastily evacuated and start...
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  • lines (2007). Telephone system: excellent international service, tropospheric scatter to Barbados and Guyana; good local service; combined fixed-line and...
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    Signal Company, 37th Signal Brigade in Danang. The latest microwave/tropospheric scatter technology enabled them to maintain communications at all times....
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  • - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries Radio broadcast stations: AM 208, FM 715, shortwave...
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  • Multi-channel Wideband Transmission Equipment Operator (NMOS) – Sgt–Pvt 0623 Tropospheric Scatter Transmissions System Operator (NMOS) – Sgt–Pvt 0626 Fleet SATCOM...
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  • mobile-cellular teledensity is about 83 per 100 persons (2019). International: Tropospheric scatter to Trinidad (2011). Satellite earth station: One Intelsat (Atlantic...
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    Bluegrass, the White Alice Communications System provided a vital tropospheric scatter communications link to the mainland during the early-1960s to late-1970s...
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    station and with view of Hopedale from the highest point in town Tropospheric scatter antennas and concrete base of former Radome Hopedale has a subarctic...
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