METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE HF BAND LINK ESTABLISHMENT USING A BROADBAND CAPABILITY

A method for improving the HF band link establishment in a communication system including one or more transmit terminals and one or more receive terminals, at least one of the terminals having a broadband capability, comprises the following steps: creating call bands and listening bands according to the broadband transmit and/or receive capabilities, the minimum number of bands being suitable for covering the entire frequency plan; minimizing the number of bands and then maximizing the number of frequencies in each of these bands of size B; distributing the bands Bi in time by arranging the bands in descending cardinal-value order, and allocating a frequency fj to each band Bi; transmitting/receiving in broadband mode, by checking that the selected transmit frequencies are not already in use.