George Lane, Consultant is a sole proprietorship firm registered in the State of Maryland. The firm provides consultation in the design, planning and optimization of high frequency (HF) radio circuits. Services rendered by Mr. George Lane are provided at a basic rate of $65.00 per hour. Travel outside of the Washington DC metropolitan area is not included in the basic hourly rate and will be billed on an actual cost basis plus a per diem of not more than $5 per hour.

Mr. George Lane has over 30 years of experience in the operation and design of both strategic and tactical HF radio service. Beginning in 1967, he worked with the first US Army agency to use modern HF radio performance prediction computer programs and applied this technology to systems being built throughout Southeast Asia. In 1975, he led the effort to modernize the prediction techniques for application to low power, tactical HF operations. This work was funded by the US Army and was accomplished by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. Mr. Lane was instrumental in establishing the use of this program, IONCAP, as the standard for the Department of Defense. From 1978 until 1983, Mr. Lane worked closely with the Special Forces in the development of accurate prediction methodology for long distance burst communications.

For the twelve years before his retirement, Mr. Lane was employed as a senior HF propagation engineer for the Voice of America. He was intimately involved in the conversion of IONCAP to an area coverage prediction model, called VOACAP. In this process, he corrected numerous errors and devised several enhancements for the program. VOACAP is now widely used around the world by international broadcasters, the military, commercial enterprises and the amateur radio community. Mr. Lane is the author of 94 technical articles and reports. He also has been asked to serve as a technical advisor on several US Government committees and as an editor of a newsletter on HF propagation models.

If you have any questions concerning my services, please contact me.

George Lane
Lane Consultant
514-A Silver Spring Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910-4464
glane@erols.com