A new technique for analyzing spaced receiver measurements of equatorial scintillation is applied to VHF scintillation data. The technique is based on a model that includes both propagation effects and the statistical characteristics of scintillationproducing irregulatities. Nonlinear least squares fitting is used to fit the model to measured auto-and cross-correlation functions of the signal amplitude fading on spaced receivers. The results are compared with mean and "random" drift estimates obtained using the classical type of correlation analysis.
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