scholarly journals High‐Frequency Communications Response to Solar Activity in September 2017 as Observed by Amateur Radio Networks

Space Weather ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathaniel A. Frissell ◽  
Joshua S. Vega ◽  
Evan Markowitz ◽  
Andrew J. Gerrard ◽  
William D. Engelke ◽  
...  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-91
Author(s):  
Husni Husni ◽  
Ali Warsito ◽  
Asnawi Husin

ABSTRAK Variasi perubahan frekuensi kritis lapisan F2 (foF2) dan ketinggian lapisan F2 (h'F2) di atas Kupang selama tahun 2014 mengalami perubahan yang bervariasi dimana hal ini bergantung pada aktivitas matahari, semakin tinggi tingkat aktivitas matahari semakin tinggi pula tingkat variasi pada foF2 dan h'F2, sebaliknya semakin rendah tingkat aktivitas matahari semakin berkurang pula tingkat variasi foF2 dan h'F2 variasi perubahan terhadap lapisan F diindikasikan dengan penurunan dan peningkatan nilai foF2 dan h'F2. Peningkatan nilai foF2 rata-rata terjadi pada pukul  07.00 WITA mencapai maksimumnya pada pukul 12.00-14.00 WITA siang hari dan dikuti dengan penurunan nilai foF2 pada malam hari yang mencapai minimumnya pada pukul 05.00-06.00 WITA pagi. Selama tahun 2014, ketinggian lapisan F2 memiliki tiga pola peningkatan yang berbeda, (1) peningkatan ketinggian pada jam tengah hari seperti yang terjadi pada bulan Januari – April, (2) peningkatan pada jam tengah malam hingga menjelang matahari terbit, jam-jam tengah hari dan  sore hingga malam hari terjadi pada bulan Mei – Agustus (3) peningkatan pada pada jam tengah malam hingga menjelang matahari terbit dan jam-jam tengah hari seperti pada bulan September – Desember. Dalam pemanfaatannya sebagai media pantul gelombang komunikasi radio frekuensi tinggi (HF), karakteristik ionosfer di atas Kupang selama tahun 2014, memiliki kemampuan memantulkan gelombang frekuensi tinggi berada pada rentang 2-19.2 MHz dengan ketinggian yang berada pada rentang 179 – 550 Km. Akan mengakibatkan gagalnya komunikasi radio frekuensi tinggi, apabila menggunakan frekuensi lebih besar atau lebih kecil dari frekuensi yang dapat bekerja tersebut. Kata Kunci : Aktivitas matahari, Frekuensi kritis F2, ketinggian lapisan F2, komunikasi radio, frekuensi tinggi. ABSTRACT The ionospheric critical frequency (foF2) and the F2 layer height (h'F2) variation over Kupang during 2014 period unchanged varied where it is dependent on solar activity, the higher the level of solar activity the higher the level of variation in foF2 and h'F2, conversely the lower level of sun activity diminishing the level of variation foF2 and h'F2 variation changes to the F layer is indicated by a decrease and an increase in the value of foF2 and h'F2. Increasing the value of the average foF2 occurred at 07:00 pm reaching it's maximum at noon and 12:00 to 14:00 pm followed by impairment foF2 at night, which reached it's minimum at morning 5:00 to 6:00 pm. During 2014, the altitude of the F2 has three patterns different upgrade, (1) an increase in height on the hour midday as happened in January-April, (2) an increase in the hours of midnight until before sunrise, hours noon and afternoon until the evening occurred in May-August (3) an increase in the hours of midnight until near sunrise and midday hours as in September-December. In the media utilization as reflected waves of high frequency radio communications (HF), characteristics of the ionosphere above Kupang during 2014, has the ability to reflect high frequency waves that are in the range of 2 - 19.2 MHz with a height that is in the range 179-550 Km. Will lead to high frequency radio communication failure, when using a frequency of greater or smaller than the frequency that can work. Keywords: solar activity, the critical frequency of F2, F2 layer heights, radio communications, high frequency.


Author(s):  
Miroslav Škoric

Computer programs that radio amateurs use in their packet radio networks give various opportunities in simulating real data communication systems. Such systems include radio-relay networks of digital repeaters that operate in cities or in rural and remote locations, email servers that handle amateur radio messaging and file exchange, and a variety of end-user stations at home or work. This chapter summarizes the results of recent experiments in network simulations by using amateur radio software in a local area network. We tested the main features of those amateur radio programs and their repercussions to the functionality of simulated networks and to the comfort and satisfaction in average network participants. Described tests help practitioners, students, and teachers in computer science and communication technologies, in implementing amateur radio within the existing computer networks and in planning and using telecommunication systems without making any investment in hardware infrastructure.


Eos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wald ◽  
Vincent Quitoriano ◽  
Oliver Dully

Ham radio networks gear up to provide real-time, on-the-ground information about earthquake shaking and damage when other communication pathways are knocked out of commission.


Eos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Collins ◽  
David Kazdan ◽  
Nathaniel Frissell

For researchers who monitor the effects of solar activity on Earth’s atmosphere, telecommunications, and electrical utilities, amateur radio signals a golden age of crowdsourced science.


Author(s):  
Marcus Dansarie

The SoDark cipher is used to protect transmitted frames in the second and third generation automatic link establishment (ALE) standards for high frequency (HF) radios. The cipher is primarily meant to prevent unauthorized linking and attacks on the availability of HF radio networks. This paper represents the first known security analysis of the cipher used by the second generation ALE protocol—the de facto world standard—and presents a related-tweak attack on the full eight round version of the algorithm. Under certain conditions, collisions of intermediate states several rounds into the cipher can be detected from the ciphertext with high probability. This enables testing against the intermediate states using only parts of the key. The best attack is a chosen-ciphertext attack which can recover the secret key in about an hour with 100% probability, using 29 chosen ciphertexts.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. Volvach ◽  
A. Stanislavsky ◽  
A. Konovalenko ◽  
A. Koval ◽  
V. Dorovskyy

We report about new observations of solar 'drift pair' (DP) bursts by means of the UTR-2 radio telescope at frequencies 10-30 MHz. Our experimental data include both 'forward' and 'reverse' bursts with high frequency and time resolution. The records of 301 bursts, observed in 10-12 July of 2015, are investigated. The main properties of these bursts (frequency bandwidth, central frequency and others) have been analysed. In this report our main attention is paid to the comparison of our observations with the similar observations of decametre DPs performed earlier during 13-15 July of 2002 in the same frequency range. Common features of DPs in the two different pieces of data samples have been found. This may indicate the possible presence of stability in the frequency-time properties of decametre DPs from one cycle of solar activity to another.


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