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Pioneer Award SCIENTIFIC-ORGANIZATIONAL WORK The second direction of my activities on SAT after 1970 was the work of explaining and popularizing the SAT concepts and results, as well as providing support for scientists from organizations of the USSR in their investigations on SAT. I gave a series of lectures at schools for young specialists and at meetings of Heads of chairs of the electromagnetic higher schools of the USSR, which were regularly held by the Moscow Institute of Communications. Primarily, I rendered help to different scientists in the publication of their works on SAT. I helped a group of antenna specialists from the Minsk Higher Antiaircraft-Rocket School with the preparation of 6 theses for candidate degree on issues of the reliability theory being close to SAT. I provided essential help in writing the monograph [29] and the thesis for Dr.Sci. degree of Lyubov M. Lobkova, the worker of the Leningrad Institute of Communications, who later became a Doctor of Technical Sciences and a Professor, Head of chair with the Sevastopol National Technical University. I also supported a team of researchers from the Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics (Samara, Russia) under the leadership of Dr.Sci., Professor Oleg N. Maslov. This team developed the new direction "random antenna theory," which was treated by them as one of the SAT directions [30]. By "random antennas" they mean the radiators of different types (wires, slots, holes in screens, etc.) such that functionally are not antennas but play their role when being radiated by electromagnetic waves. Radiation by such "parasitic" antennas leads to security leaks. Beside the scientists of the aforementioned higher schools, I rendered help to researchers of many other higher schools of Kharkov, Kazan, Taganrog, Dnepropetrovsk, Sevastopol, and Odessa. Partially in recognition of these activities I was elected an Honorary Professor of 4 higher schools in Russia and Ukraine, and made an Honorary Doctor of the V. N. Karazin Kharkov National University. MY INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES One of positive results of the collapse of the USSR was the opening to simple citizens of the former USSR the possibility to travel abroad. I took full advantage of this possibility. In 1992, I created the Ukrainian National Antenna Association (NAA) that united 60 organizations of Ukraine that were interested in antenna affairs to this or that extent. One goal of the creation of the association was the integration of the Ukrainian science into the world science. Later, with my active participation, two chapters of IEEE were created: the Eastern-Ukrainian Joint Chapter (Kharkov, 1995) and the Kharkov Joint Chapter (2000). In 1995, I initiated organization of International Conferences on Antenna Theory and Techniques (ICATT) as successors of similar antenna conferences that used to be held in the former USSR but discontinued after the USSR collapsed. Up to now, 10 ICATTs have been held. From 1990 to the present, I participated in many more international antenna conferences, presenting invited and regular papers on SAT or the ANE theory. In addition, until 2006, by invitation of a number of prominent scientists from different countries, I gave lectures on 34 Figure 10. Radio telescope RATAN-600 of 600m in diameter. SAT and the ANE theory over 20 times in a dozen countries around the world. PRACTICAL WORK ON SAT The third (practical) direction of my (to be correct, our) investigations in the area of SAT after 1970 was the numerous works ordered by different research institutes and design organizations. During the period 1970 to 1990 (until the USSR collapsed), we fulfilled about 30 such works lasting several years each. As a rule, the works were secret, since they were directed at elucidating the "harmful" role of various types of randomness emerging when manufacturing and exploiting antenna systems of concrete large early-detection RLSs. It was also important to take into account the influence of different kinds of randomness on characteristics of radio telescopes of different types. I repeatedly discussed these issues with national specialists, and with Japanese specialists during my visit to Japan in 1992 when I gave lectures on SAT at some of the large companies of Japan-Mitsubishi, NTT, etc. Long before this, in the 1960s, I happened to be a governmental expert of the project being developed for the unique radio telescope RATAN-600 (shown in Figure 10) on issues concerning the influence of the atmosphere on characteristics of this radio telescope. This was connected with assertions of the project opponents that the influence of the atmosphere would significantly decrease the RATAN efficiency. Results of my calculations appeared to be favorable for authors of the project. And at last, I would like to tell about my "ardor" concerning over-the-horizon radiolocation. For many years I had been interested in the issue of statistics of a wave impinging on the receiving antenna of over-the-horizon radar. This wave had crossed many thousands of kilometers on its complicated path between Earth and the ionosphere, and I wished to know how this would influence the character of the wave upon arrival. Probably, this issue aroused the interest of the Chief designer at the over-the-horizon radar too. This was one of the reasons that in the late 1970s I created at our chair the Problem Over-the-Horizon Radiolocation Laboratory. In the history of ARTA, it was the first laboratory that had a special status, which IEEE A&E SYSTEMS MAGAZINE AUGUST 2016

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