Understanding Troposcatter

This video provides a technical introduction to tropospheric scattering, or “troposcatter,” and how troposcatter is used for beyond line of sight communications at VHF and UHF. Software defined radios from Rohde & Schwarz: https://www.rohde-schwarz.com/us/prod... Understanding VHF Propagation:    • Understanding VHF Propagation   Test and Measurement Fundamentals Playlist:    • Test & Measurement Fundamentals   Timeline: 00:00 Introduction 00:17 Suggested viewing 00:38 Atmospheric layers and radio propagation 01:45 About tropospheric variations 02:46 About troposcatter 03:38 How troposcatter works 04:17 Dimensions of the common volume 05:16 Overcoming signal loss 06:04 Advantages of troposcatter 07:09 Achievable distances with troposcatter 08:09 Troposcatter antennas 09:03 Antenna placement / orientation 10:02 “Gain loss” 10:50 Troposcatter and frequencies 12:01 Fading in troposcatter 13:15 Antenna diversity in troposcatter 14:24 Space diversity 15:02 Angle diversity 15:34 About troposcatter systems 16:20 Throughput of troposcatter systems 17:07 Future of troposcatter 17:57 Summary