CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Introduction
 2     General principle
 3     Usable frequency bands
 4     The NAVDAT system
        4.1     Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing parameters
        4.2     Channel bandwidth
        4.3     Modulation
 5     Components of the NAVDAT System
 6     Propagation channel
        6.1     Mode of propagation for MF frequency band
                  6.1.1     Surface wave propagation
                  6.1.2     Ionospheric or sky wave propagation
        6.2     Mode of propagation in HF frequency band
                  6.2.1     Surface wave propagation
                  6.2.2     Sky wave propagation
                  6.2.3     Near vertical incidence sky wave propagation
 7     Transmitter
        7.1     Crest factor
        7.2     Pre-correction
        7.3     NAVDAT transmitter performances and minimal specifications
                  7.3.1     Spectral occupancy of RF signal
 8     Transmitting antennas
                  8.1.1     MF antenna 500 kHz
                  8.1.2     Top-loaded antenna
                  8.1.3     Theoretical calculations
                  8.1.4     Environmental resistance
                  8.1.5     Impedance matching unit
                  8.1.6     Artificial ground plane
        8.2     HF transmitting antenna
                  8.2.1     Surface wave propagation
                  8.2.2     Sky wave propagation
                  8.2.3     Near vertical incident sky wave
 9     Radio noise
        9.1     Noise contribution
                  9.1.1     Estimated man-made noise
                  9.1.2     NOISEDAT OUTPUT 500 kHz examples
                  9.1.3     NOISEDAT OUTPUT 4.2 MHz
                  9.1.4     NOISEDAT OUTPUT 500 kHz
                  9.1.5     NOISEDAT OUTPUT 4.2 MHz
        9.2     Fa and En calculations
        9.3     Necessary RF field level at the receive antenna
        9.4     Example of observation in field test
                  9.4.1     Operation of the test system
                  9.4.2     Analysis of monitoring data
10     Receiving system on ships
       10.1     The receiving antenna
                  10.1.1      Field Antenna E
                  10.1.2     Field antenna H
       10.2     Environmental performances of receiving antenna (refer to IEC standard 60945)
       10.3     Technical specifications of a typical receiving antenna
       10.4     Connection to receiver
11     Receiver
       11.1     RF part
       11.2     Digital part
       11.3     Man – machine interface
       11.4     Sensitivity
       11.5     Calculations
       11.6     Necessary signal to noise ratio
       11.7     Signal to noise ratio values used for calculations
       11.8     Technical specifications
12     NAVDAT coverage calculations
       12.1     Parameters
       12.2     Factors affecting bit error rate
       12.3     Predictions coverage methods
                  12.3.1      Coverage calculation according ITU-R M.1467-1
                  12.3.2     GRWAVE OUPUT vertical polarization 1 kW radiated power
13     Conclusion