WARS2006 Proceedings

Proceedings of the WARS2006 Conference - Leura, NSW, Australia (15 - 17 February 2006)

WARS2006

(Workshop on the Applications of Radio Science)

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Hartnett J.G., Tobar M.E., Ivanov E.N., Anstie J.D., Locke C.R., Luiten A.N., McFerran J.J., Warrington R.B., Wouters M.J., Fisk P.T.H., Chambon D., Santarelli G.

GPS Carrier Phase and TWSTFT comparisons of clock ensembles based at UWA and NMI

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Tobar ME, Stanwix PL, Fowler AC, Ivanov EN, Wolf P, Hartnett JG, Locke CR

Testing Relativity with Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillators

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Trevor S. Bird, Christophe Granet, A. Ross Forsyth, Mark Sprey, Stephen J. Barker, Ken W. Smart, Stuart G. Hay, and Li Li

CSIRO 4.5m MultiBeam Antennas for the New Danish Radio Multimedia Building in Copenhagen

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Christophe Granet, Ian M. Davis, Trevor S. Bird, A. Ross Forsyth

Design of a Prime-Focus Dual-Band Feed for the Giant Metre-Wave Radio Telescope in India

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Yuehe Ge, Karu P. Esselle, and Trevor S. Bird

A Class of Multi-Arm Monopole Antennas for Multi-Band Wireless/Mobile Applications

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Greg Hislop and Andrew Hellicar

Phase retrieval of scattered fields

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Januar Janapsatya and Karu Esselle

Designing Printed Slot Antennas for Multi-band Applications

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Nasimuddin, Karu Esselle and A. K. Verma

Optimization of Stacked Microstrip Antenna for Circular Polarization

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Nasiha Nikolic and John S. Kot

Optimisation of a Luneburg Lens Fed by a Corrugated Horn Antenna

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Andrew R. Weily, Karu P. Esselle, Barry C. Sanders and Trevor S. Bird

Ku Band Electromagnetic Bandgap Antennas

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Peter S. Blockley, Jonathan B. Scott, Daniel Gunyan and Anthony E. Parker

Nonlinear Network Analysis and Measurement

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Yuehe Ge and Karu P. Esselle

GA-FDTD Based Design of Metamaterials

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Yading Li, Benjamin F. Johnston, Michael J. Withford, and Karu P.Esselle

Prototyping dual-band artificial magnetic conductors with laser micromachining

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Anthony E. Parker and James G. Rathmell

Characterising Microwave Transistor Dynamics With Small-Signal Measurements

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Saif Uz Zaman and Anthony Edward Parker

Modelling electron trapping effects on gate lag in Field Effect Devices

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James Brinkhoff, Anthony E. Parker, Simon J. Mahon and Gerry McCulloch

Symmetric Hemt Drain Current Model For Intermodulation Distortion Prediction

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Tharaka Dissanayake( and Karu P. Esselle

How do you select the best antenna for your UWB system?

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Tran. D. Dung , Huynh. T. Liem, and Le. N. Binh

Simulation of a Novel Photonic Transmission System using M-ary Amplitude - Phase Differential Shift Keying Modulation Format

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L.N. Binh, H.Q. Lam, T.L. Huynh and D.D. Tran

Phase and Amplitude Modulation Formats for Hybrid 40Gbps and 10Gbps DWDM Photonic Long-haul Transmission

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Jonathan Boan

Radio Propagation in Fire Environments

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Richard M. Hawkes, Troy A. Spencer, and Rodney A. Walker

Three Dimensional Model for Propagation in the Troposphere and Inverse Diffraction

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Phillip Maher

Development of Digital Terrain Model dependent VHF/UHF Radio Prediction Software employing Emperical and Semi Deterministic Propagation Models

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John Caruana, David Cole, and Les Barclay

Ionospheric Scatter Parameters from Digital Ionograms

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Chris Coleman

Radio Wave Propagation Algorithms Based on the Reciprocity Principle

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S. Dimitrov, P.L. Dyson and E. Yizengaw

Fedsat Observations of the Topside Ionospheric and Plasmaspheric Response to the Major Magnetic Storm Of 15 May 2005

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Peter Dyson

Space Physics Research at La Trobe University

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G.J. Frazer and T.J. Harris

Implications of O-X mode interference on large HF receive arrays

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Robert Gardiner-Garden

Ionospheric variability in sounding data from JORN

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R. I. Greenwood, M. L. Parkinson, H. Ye, and P. L. Dyson

SUPERDARN: A New Network of HF Radars For Oceanographic Research

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Trevor Harris

DSTO, ISRD and Over-the-Horizon Radar

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Michael Hyde

HF spectrum monitoring using a commercial PC-based scanning receiver

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Larisa Lindsay

Geolocation of HF signals using Time Difference of Arrival methods

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Ken Lynn

The dynamics of the low-latitude ionosphere

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R. A. Makarevich and P. L. Dyson

Identification and implication of multiple flow channels in the TIGER data

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D. Neudegg, M. Layoun, G. Patterson, and J. Caruana

Preliminary comparison of IPS HF skywave propagation model with observations

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R. J. Norman, M. L. Parkinson, and P. L. Dyson

Mapping the Ionosphere Using a HF Radar Backscatter Inversion Technique

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M. L. Parkinson, J. S. Whittington, and J. C. Devlin

Why Do We Need “DIGIDARN” – A Global Network Of Digital SUPERDARN Radars?

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Michael Terkildsen

Ionospheric TEC variability at sub-equatorial latitudes

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Mike D.E. Turley and Robert S. Gardiner-Garden

Spatial and Temporal Ionospheric Mapping with Outlier and Missing Samples

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Phil Wilkinson

Using STORM to support short-term ionospheric forecasts.

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Kin Shing Bobby Yau

Fading of High Frequency radio signals propagating in the ionosphere - Results from the Jindalee radar experiment

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Sean Ables and Brian Fraser

Cross-phase gradients in ULF magnetometer data from a small square array in Antarctica

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Iver H. Cairns, P.A. Robinson, Z. Kuncic, B. Li, X. Yuan, E.-H. Kim, J. Mitchell, A. Mohamed, A. Nulsen and D. Konkolewicz

Solar Terrestrial and Space Physics Research at the University Of Sydney

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M. S. Ford and F. W. Menk

Coupling of the Sun’s internal oscillations to the solar wind

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B. J. Fraser, H. J. Singer, J. Goldstein, D. L. Gallagher, M. Thomsen

The Measurement of Ion Density in Magnetospheric Plasma Plumes

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Brian Fraser

Research in the University of Newcastle Space Physics Group

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S.K. Morley, S.T. Ables and B.J. Fraser

Combined geostationary, low-Earth orbit and ground-based observations of electromagnetic ion-cyclotron waves.

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S.K. Morley and M.P. Freeman

Do substorms need a solar wind trigger?

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Andrew Parfitt and Brian Fraser

Fedsat: Three Years of Space Science and Technology

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P. V. Ponomarenko and C. L. Waters

On the spectral width of HF echoes from high latitudes

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M. D. Sciffer, C. L.Waters, and F. W. Menk

A Simple Model for the Deposition of ULF Wave Energy on the Ionosphere

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M. Terkildsen and B.Fraser

The effects of polar magnetic field aligned currents on the attitude control system of low earth orbit satellite FEDSAT

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C. L. Waters, R.A. Marshall, and R. Hoogsteyns

Telluric currents induced in a North Queensland gas pipeline by geomagnetic variations

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G. Carrad, P. Sykes, G. Moorey

A Cryogenically Cooled, Seven Beam, 21 Cm Wavelength Receiver for the Arecibo Radio Telescope

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Tim Cornwell

xNTD - A Parallel Radio Telescope (SKA discussion session paper)

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Alex Grancea

Receiver Design for the NTD Focal Plane Array

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Colin Jacka and Brian Boyle

Australian Roadmap from NTD to SKA

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Colin Jacka, John Kot, John Bunton, John O’Sullivan, Suzy Jackson, Tony Sweetnam, Michael Kesteven, Tim Cornwell, and Alex Grancea(

NTD and xNTD Technology Demonstrators for SKA

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Carol Jackson and Colin Jacka

Australian Industry Engagement in R&D for the xNTD

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Deanna Matthews, Lister Staveley-Smith, and Peter Dyson

High Resolution Observations of the Magellanic Stream

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G. Moorey, R. Bolton, A. Dunning, R. Gough, H. Kanoniuk and L. Reilly

A 77 – 117 Ghz Cryogenically Cooled Receiver for Radioastronomy

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G. Moorey, P. Axtens, M. Bowen, A. Dunning, R. Gough, G. Graves and H. Kanoniuk

A 77 - 117 Ghz Radioastronomy Receiver Frequency Conversion and Local Oscillator System

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Ray Norris, José Afonso, Phil Appleton, Brian Boyle, Paolo Ciliegi, Scott Croom, Minh Huynh, Carole Jackson, Anton Koekemoer, Carol Lonsdale, Enno Middelberg, Bahram Mobasher, Seb Oliver, Mari Polletta, Brian Siana, Ian Smail, Gene Smith, Jason Surace, and Maxim Voronkov

ATLAS: Deep radio observations of the CDFS-SWIRE field