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News
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 Special Publication SP-22-560: 5G In-Air Field Strength Measurements for Radar Altimeter Research March 2022, Frank H. Sanders; Kenneth Tilley; Geoffrey A. Sanders. This brief video provides an overview of ITS's approach to taking RF measurements to provide data relevant to the topic of radio interference that might possibly occur from some U.S. 5G transmitters t...
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NTIA Technical Report TR-22-557: Tropospheric Scatter: Theory vs. Predictive Models February 2022, Roger A. Dalke. Circa 1960, the National Bureau of Standards intensively studied over-the-horizon radio propagation due to tropospheric (aka forward) scatter. The results of that effort, published in the form of grap...
This Month in ITS History
May 1965: CRPL Scientist Disappears in Antarctica
On the frigid morning of May 8, 1965, Carl Disch disappeared from Byrd Station in Antarctica. Disch was a Central Radio Propagation Laboratory employee researching forward scatter in the ionosphere. At 9:15 Disch left the Radio Noise Laboratory about a mile and a quarter from the main Byrd station, but apparently missed the hand line that led back to safety. A search party looked for Disch when he failed to return. Byrd station fired flares, and a human chain was formed to methodically search the snow-covered runway where Disch's tracks appeared to lead, but conditions were difficult. Thirty mile an hour winds covered the footprints with snow and threatened the safety of the searchers; the w ...