CEPT HF Background

monitoring
(Automatic data collection in the HF range)

Update April 2019

Paul Dingenouts
Radio Agency The Netherlands
FM22#51 Copenhagen, April 2019
HF Background monitoring

1) History

2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019

3)

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1) History

• Initiated during the meeting in Riga,

September 2007;
• To actively use ‘unused’ equipment hours;
• Same principle/settings as monitoring campaigns
WRC;
• 200 kHz span /24 hours and 10 second revisit or
FFT´s and preprocessing.

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2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019 (1)

Monitoring
Austria Lithuania
Belgium Netherlands Antilles
Czech Republic Portugal
France Romania
Germany Spain
Hungary Switzerland
Italy United Kingdom
Processing, analysis & presentation
The Netherlands
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2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019 (3)

Data files
• Total over the years: 103 Giga bytes compressed
data ( > 518 Giga bytes uncompressed data)

Processed data (till March, 25th 2019)

• Total ~ 124,000 Plots on:

http://apps.cept.org/shortband/
(optimized for internet explorer, please allow popups for this site)

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2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019 (4)

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2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019 (5)

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2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019 (6)

Traffic/visits to
http://apps.cept.org/shortband/
Monitoring span:
November, 25th 2009 – March, 25th 2019
Total page views: 6071
Total visits: 4257
Total unique visitors: 3126
Busiest day: 29-10-2010 (79)
Busiest week: week 37, 2013 (102) , Autumn meeting

Busiest month: 10-2010 (217)

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2) Facts and figures over time 2007-2019 (7)

Months 2017
Page views 688

Months 2018
Page views 447

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Countries 2017

Countries 2018

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Traffic & countries 2018

Unique visitors: 234
Page views: 447
1 Duitsland 115 25.73% 17 België 3 0.67%
2 Nederland 78 17.45% 18 Noorwegen 3 0.67%
3 Italië 46 10.29% 19 Roemenië 3 0.67%
4 Verenigde Staten van Amerika 41 9.17% 20 Zweden 3 0.67%
5 Verenigd Koninkrijk 27 6.04% 21 Portugal 2 0.45%
6 Denemarken 25 5.59% 22 Quatar 2 0.45%
7 Zwitserland 22 4.92% 23 Finland 2 0.45%
8 Overig 15 3.36% 24 Iran 1 0.22%
9 Hongarije 10 2.24% 25 IJsland 1 0.22%
10 Litouwen 9 2.01% 26 Wit Rusland 1 0.22%
11 Spanje 8 1.79% 27 Canada 1 0.22%
12 Oostenrijk 8 1.79% 28 China 1 0.22%
13 Kroatië 5 1.12% 29 Letland 1 0.22%
14 Frankrijk 4 0.89% 30 Zuid Korea 1 0.22%
15 Ierland 4 0.89% 31 Schotland 1 0.22%
16 Estland 4 0.89% Totaal 447 100.00%

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3)

• Since July 2018 a decrease in input (CZ, D, UK)

• Suggestions for changes/improvements?
• Other ideas?

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 QUESTIONS ?

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