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IT is well known1,2 that fading patterns of short-wave signals as received on two or more aerials spaced a few wave-lengths apart are independent of each other; and this fact has been utilized in space-diversity reception, where the outputs from separate receivers connected to such aerials are mixed together in order to obtain a fairly constant signal level. It is generally assumed, however, that the variations of intensity of signal on a single aerial are of random nature caused by scattered waves from diffracting centres in the ionosphere3,4.
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BANERJEE, S., MUKERJEE, G. Space-diversity Reception and Fading of Short-wave Signals. Nature 158, 413–414 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158413b0
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