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We report on the results of observations of reflected SW signals by vertical sounding (VS) of the ionosphere in Zimenki, Nizhny Novgorod region, in the summers of 1994 and 1995. We discovered an anomalous increase in the multipath propagation of the received SW signals during ionospheric F-spread: The duration of a multipath reflected signal increased considerably when we used a highly directional antenna compared to the case of a weakly directional antenna. The fast amplitude fluctuation index increased with increasing delay of the reflected SW signals. The observations are interpreted in terms of a stochastic model of midlatitude F-spread as the phenomenon of multipath radio wave scattering (reflection) from large-scale electron density inhomogeneities under conditions of a strongly developed inhomogeneous structure of the ionosphere.
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Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, No. 10, pp. 1064–1070, October, 1995.
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Alimov, V.A., Vybornov, F.I. & Rakhlin, A.V. On one feature of the F-spread phenomenon in the midlatitude ionosphere. Radiophys Quantum Electron 38, 694–697 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01040372
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01040372