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News
August 8, 2022
On August 2, 2022 at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity, one of...
October 1, 2021
Video streaming is a highly competitive market that dominates internet traffic. Video consumes 65% of worldwide mobile downstream traffic....
September 16, 2021
The Video Quality Research Program has launched an interactive web demo of ITS-developed software that estimates the quality of...
Recent Publications
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NTIA Technical Report TR-22-561: Outdoor Propagation Measurements in the 37–40 GHz Band in Boulder, Colorado August 2022, Jeffery A. Wepman; Linh P. Vu; Edward F. Drocella Jr.; John D. Ewan; Kenneth J. Brewster; Paul M. McKenna. Line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS), continuous-wave (CW), mobile outdoor propagation measurements were performed in the 37–40 GHz band in a small city downtown environment (Boulder, Colo...
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Conference Paper : Estimating the Local Mean Voltage of a Radio Signal in a Mobile Channel August 2022, Robert T. Johnk; John J. Lemmon. This paper examines the estimation of the local mean voltage of a radio signal in a Rayleigh fast-fading environment. We focus on the statistical uncertainties of local voltage averages obtained by bo...
This Month in ITS History
October 1925: First Radio Test Car Placed into Service
In October of 1925 the Department of Commerce’s first radio test car was put into operation by the National Bureau of Standards Radio Division. The test car was equipped with wavemeters, omnigraphs, sensitive receivers, a radio direction finder, a field intensity measurement system, and other equipment. It was also fitted out to act as an office, with a typewriter, desk, and a 50 watt transmitter for emergency communications. The test car quickly became an invaluable tool for testing radios on ships, administering tests for radio operators, and verifying the frequency and power of commercial stations. Before the radio tes ...
