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The spatial correlation properties of the group path and the group-delay time of a radio signal leaving a random plane-layered reflecting medium similar to the ionosphere are considered. The spatial-correlation distances for the group path lying in the incidence plane and oriented perpendicularly to this plane are obtained for various angles of propagation of a wave entering the medium. It is shown that, when a radio signal is scattered by isotropic irregularities of the medium’s permittivity, regular refraction results in anisotropic fluctuations of the signal’s characteristics and the degree of anisotropy grows with the sounding angle.
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Original Russian Text © A.G. Vologdin, O.K. Vlasova, L.I. Prikhod’ko, 2007, published in Radiotekhnia i Elektronika, 2007, Vol. 52, No. 10, pp. 1194–1198.
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Vologdin, A.G., Vlasova, O.K. & Prikhod’ko, L.I. Fluctuations of the group path and the group-delay time of waves obliquely reflected by a plane-layered medium. J. Commun. Technol. Electron. 52, 1100–1103 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226907100051
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064226907100051