The IONCAP program enhancement

Abstract

The Ionospheric Communications Analysis and Prediction Program (IONCAP) is the most widely used HF transmission prediction program for US military and other applications. From the software applications viewpoint, however, the program is clumsy, slow, and complicated, as it allows only those users who have sufficient background in ionospheric physics and experience in computer data entry to operate the software. The authors discuss a new version of IONCAP that avoids those obvious user-unfriendly shortcomings and provides the further advantage of enhanced capability to the extent that a lay person can use it for various modern HF applications. The fundamental tool applied is the Microsoft-based Windows technology.<>