Design and implementation of a wideband HF channel simulator

The paper presents a wideband high frequency (HF) channel simulator. The simulation consists of a software simulation of a direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DSSS) HF system with RAKE receiver. The validity of the HF channel simulator is demonstrated by the analysis of the scattering function and example results of the simulator. The performance of DS system under HF channel and noise are also presented. The simulation results and theoretical analysis show that a straightforward DS system may properly mitigate the intersymbol interference (ISI) distortion of the HF channel while perform badly under the HF noise and interference.