Adaptation of the ionospheric radio channel parameters to the current conditions using observations of the signals of reference radio stations

Abstract

A method of adaptation of the ionospheric channel parameters to the current conditions is proposed. The observational data on the temporal behavior of signals of radio stations with known location and set of working frequencies (the so-called reference stations) are used as information describing the current state of the channel. A facility that makes possible to determine by simple means the moments of radio rises and declines on the reference paths has been created. A technique that relates for these instants working frequencies of the stations with maximum usable frequencies of the paths has been developed. By means of an approximate solution of the inverse problem using the method of characteristics for the calculation of radiowave propagation and the monthly average semiempirical model of the ionosphere, the height profile of electron density in a certain spatial region is refined. The efficiency of the proposed method of adaptation of the ionospheric channel parameters using the data of vertical sounding is assessed and the expediency of practical application of such adaptation is shown.