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Features of HF Radio Wave Attenuation in the Midlatitude Ionosphere Near the Skip Zone Boundary

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We briefly describe the history of studying the decameter radio wave attenuation by different methods in the midlatitude ionosphere. A new method of estimating the attenuation of HF radio waves in the ionospheric F region near the skip zone boundary is presented. This method is based on an analysis of the time structure of the interference field generated by highly stable monochromatic X-mode radio waves at the observation point. The main parameter is the effective electron collision frequency νeff, which allows for all energy losses in the form of equivalent heat loss. The frequency νeff is estimated by matching the assumed (model) and the experimentally observed structures. Model calculations are performed using the geometrical-optics approximation. The spatial attenuation caused by the influence of the medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances is taken into account. Spherical shape of the ionosphere and the Earth’s magnetic field are roughly allowed for. The results of recording of the level of signals from the RWM (Moscow) station at a frequency of 9.996 MHz at point Rostov are used.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 1–12, January 2017.

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Denisenko, P.F., Skazik, A.I. Features of HF Radio Wave Attenuation in the Midlatitude Ionosphere Near the Skip Zone Boundary. Radiophys Quantum El 60, 1–11 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-017-9771-5

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