Norwegian participation in channel availability measurements

HF channel availability WG meeting

11.th Feb 2014, San Diego

Vivianne Jodalen

Background for Norwegian interest

• Arctic ice is melting: Increased political interest in the Arctic region

• The Norwegian Defence is upgrading stationary HF infrastructure in 2015-2017

- money is available for some studies at FFI

Possible measurements sites

Questions

• Remote control of equipment?

• To what extent are we collecting data?– A few days of campaign?– Over all seasons?– Over the sunspot cycle?

• Use of same type of antenna at all measurement sites?