This book chapter presents the high-frequency communication link design and establishment. The proceeding section provides a review of system design trade-off considerations and an overview of propagation and system performance predictions. Next, a design example showing how a radio link may be designed. And lastly, a new tool is introduced that provides automated assistance for HF skywave frequency selection and applications planning.

Chapter Contents:

• 3.1 Overview of the Link Establishment Process
• 3.2 System Planning Utilizing Propagation Predictions
• 3.3 Automatic Link Establishment
• 3.4 ALE Network Design
• References

Inspec keywords: HF radio propagation; radio links

Other keywords: radio link; high-frequency link establishment; HF skywave frequency selection; high-frequency communication link establishment; system performance prediction; high-frequency communication link design

Subjects: Radiowave propagation; Radio links and equipment