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Radio Frequency Measurement

 

The fundamental physics that describe how radio waves propagate (travel in space) and how they can be made to carry information (sound, images, data) as they propagate has not changed since ITS first started researching radio waves more than 100 years ago. But both our ability to acquire information about the behavior of radio waves and our ability to predict their behavior have greatly expanded as the capability and sophistication of measurement and computing devices has increased.

Being able to accurately measure the power, frequency, and propagation of known and unknown signals is fundamental to understanding today’s radio frequency (RF) environment and essential to calculating whether different transmitters might feasibly coexist in the same or adjacent spectrum. The interrelated disciplines of propagation measurement and propagation modeling provide scientific data to analyze the feasibility of sharing and make the design decisions that will allow interference-free spectrum sharing.