1 Introduction
2 Wave-hop propagation
theory
2.1
General
description
2.2
Calculating
the ray-path field strength
2.3
Numerical
method for calculating resultant field strength and phase
3 Calculating field
strength by waveguide modes: full wave solution
3.1
The
ionospheric reflection matrix, R(θ)
3.2
The
ground reflection matrix, (θ)
3.3
The
mode finding method (“MODESRCH”)
4 Calculation of field
strength
4.1
Required
parameters
4.2
WKB
and horizontally homogeneous mode sums
4.3
Mode sums using mode conversion
4.4
Ionospheric
parameters
4.5
Geomagnetic
and geophysical parameters
5 Discussion
Annex 1 - Example of a complete calculation of
field in amplitude and phase using the wave‑hop method of § 2
Annex 2 -
Accuracy of the methods
Annex 3 - Some example calculations using the
waveguide mode method