Office of Telecommunications OT Report ITSRR 6

Attenuation of High-Frequency Ground Waves Over an Inhomogeneous Earth

December 1970

Rayner K. Rosich

Abstract

Keywords: electromagnetic waves; ground wave; integral equations; propagation; radio waves; Sommerfeld solution; surface waves

• Cover Page, Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Theory and Computer Program; Chapter 3: Calculations;
  Chapter 4: Recommendations and Conclusions; Chapter 5,:Acknowledgments; Chapter 6: References

• Chapter 7: Graphs and Tables, pages 28-63
• Chapter 7: Graphs and Tables, pages 64-87 (5.9 MB)

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