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What Is Omega  
User currently offlinenovice From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2012, 90 posts, RR: 0
Posted (9 months 2 weeks 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 1863 times:

"Omega is a long-range global navigation system that uses ground-based beacons and operates in the very low frequency (VLF, 3 to 30 kHz) band using surface-wave propagation"
Can anyone explain what surface-wave propagation is as trusty is of no avail

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User currently offlinetdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80
Reply 1, posted (9 months 2 weeks 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1831 times:

Quoting novice (Thread starter):
Can anyone explain what surface-wave propagation is

Everything you could ever care to know about Omega:
http://www.jproc.ca/hyperbolic/omega.html

With respect to surface-wave propagation, Omega works because, at its frequencies, the radio waves "see" the space between the earth surface and the ionosphere as a waveguide and propagate with very little loss or distortion over very large distances. Basically, Omega was tuned to use match the radio-transmission characteristics of the atmosphere so the waves would be contained between the surface and the ionosphere and propagate following the curvature of the earth.

Tom.

User currently offlinenovice From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2012, 90 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (9 months 2 weeks 4 days 11 hours ago) and read 1754 times:

Thanks Tom for that explaination
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