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Ground Waves
Ground waves more or less follow the contour of earth and can propagate considerable distance, well over the visual horizon. Best known example of ground waves is AM radio. Suffers severe frequency dependent attenuation
Sky Waves
Signal reflected by ionized layer of the atmosphere. Signal can travel number of hops. Ionospheric propagation is responsible for inter continental broadcasting and communication. Long distance radio transmission is carried out on the HF bands (3 to 30MHz). This type of propagation utilizes the fact that the earths ionosphere acts as mirror. The actual phenomena is based on refraction in higher layers in the ionosphere. The radio mirror is produced by ionization of upper atmosphere.
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