PROPAGATION AND MODELLING

 (Bengt Lundborg) Tuesday 10 August, 08.30 – 09.45

Paper

Arne Ehrck and Albert Heuberger

Real-time channel simulator for the HF range

1.1

Knut Inge Hvidsten and Bodil Hvesser Farsund

The influence of mountainous and irregular terrain on HF ground wave propagation

1.2

Nikolay Y Zaalov, E M Warrington, A J Stocker and David R Siddle

The simulation of off-great circle HF propagation effects within the mid-latitude trough and polar cap ionosphere

1.3

SIGNAL ANALYSIS

 (Vivianne Jodalen) Tuesday 10 August, 10.15 – 11.30

Paper

William N Furman

Advanced listen before transmit capabilites

2.1

Roger Karlsson, Walter Puccio, Jan Bergman, Tobia D Carozzi
and Bo Thidé

Three-channel digital radio vector field sensor: Description and Demonstration

2.2

Jan Bergman,
Tobia D Carozzi
and Roger Karlsson

Present and future applications of the information dense antenna

2.3

SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS

(Pecka Eskelinen) Tuesday 10 August, 13.00 – 15.00

Paper

Eric Koski, William Batts Jr and Thomas Benedett

Effective communications for C3I applications using third-generation HF

3.1

George Robertson
and David Arcoraci

Secure digital telephony over HF

3.2

Ian D Taylor and Kenneth D Eddie

Multi-station HF network – Challenges and solution

3.3

David Gauld
and Nigel Arthur

Implementation of an integrated HF voice and data network

3.4

Vivianne Jodalen,
Bjørn Solberg
and Ove Grønnerud

On-air testing and comparison of 2G and 3G HF

3.5

SYSTEM COMPONENTS

(Karl-Arne Markström) Wednesday 11 August, 08.00 – 09.45

Paper

Heikki Heikkilä, Pekka Eskelinen, Jukka Ruoskanen, Pekka Hautala and Petri Kuosmanen

Installing HF systems on armoured vehicles

4.1

Frederick H Raab

HF/VHF 250-W class-E HF power amplifier

4.2

Steve Hubbard

A high dynamic range VLF to HF active receive whip antenna

4.3

Erwin Hirschmüller

The selective multicoupler – A highly efficient combiner for up to five 1 kW transmitters

4.4

Mike Underhill
and Marc Harper

The efficiency and effectiveness of small HF tuned loop antennas over real ground

4.5

LINK PROTOCOLS

(Andreas Ahrens) Wednesday 11 August, 10.15 – 11.30

Paper

Jochem Egle
and Ivan Perisa

Performance of the STANAG 4538 burst waveforms

5.1

Klaus Würde

STANAG 4444 – First implementation and current status of work

5.2

Håkan Bergzén

A software based ALE for the Swedish Home Guard

5.3

MODULATION AND CODING 1

(Bengt Lundborg) Wednesday 11 August, 13.00 – 14.00

Paper

Joseph H Taylor

Extracting weak radio signals from noise

6.1

MODULATION AND CODING 2

(Tim Giles) Wednesday 11 August, 14.10 – 15.00

Paper

Pascal Bourdon,
B Souhard, C Chatellier,  B Augereau and C Olivier

A content-based alternative to error correction for joint source/channel coding and transmission of still images through a noisy channel

6.2

Andreas Ahrens
and Christoph Lange

Equalizer design for multicarrier transmission systems

6.3

MODULATION AND CODING 3

(Tim Giles) Thursday 12 August, 08.00 – 09.45

Paper

Roald Otnes, Espen Slette and Espen Holmbakken

Ideas for new serial-tone HF waveforms, optimized for turbo equalization

6.4

Jürgen Escher and      Achim Brakemeier

A real time implementation of STANAG 4539 high data rate waveform using turbo equalization techniques

6.5

Olivier Florens,
D Roviras, N Thomas
and J Lanciaux

Effect of channel time variation on HF capacity

6.6

Nigel Davies
and Mark Richards

A radio frequency HF channel simulator employing software radio techniques

6.7

John W Nieto

Improving the performance of OFDM in HF multipath/fading channels by the addition of in-band frequency diversity

6.8

ELECTRONIC WARFARE

(William (Bill) Furman) Thursday 12 August, 10.15 – 11.30

Paper

Jukka Ruoskanen,
Pekka Eskelinen
and Heikki Heikkilä

HF radio as a way to synchronize a multistatic radar network

7.1

Leif Festin

Simulation of electronic warfare in HF communication

7.2

Niclas Appleby
and Erika Johansson

Realistic data/speech in radio communication    simulation

7.3

CURRENT AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

(Walter Reck) Thursday 12 August, 13.00 – 14.45

Paper

Karl-Arne Markström

100 years of aeronautical radio communications – A journey “from spark to space”

8.1

John W Nieto

Higher data rates over HF: Current issues and waveform design choices

8.2

William L Beamish

The evolution of HF into the JTRS architecture

8.3

James Kilgallen

A demography of worldwide HF communications

8.4