The book provides the casual listener, amateur radios DXer and the professional radio monitor with an essential reference work designed to guide him around even more complex radio bands. It is also an invaluable aid in helping all those who have a radio receiver to obtain the maximum entertainment and enjoyment from their sets. There are numerous Communications Satellites in orbit around the world, they can be tracked and their signals received with relatively inexpensive equipment. This book describes several currently available systems and connection to an appropriate computer.
Amateur radio is a unique and fascinating hobby.
This book remains an essential reference volume to be used time and again. Brief reminders and technical explanations of those facets of electronics important for an appreciation of microwaves are followed by chapters on microwave generators and amplifiers. This book has been written with the average electronic hobbyist in mind. Technical language and mathematics have been kept to a minimum. The radio amateur as well as the short-wave listener, will find explanations of the propagation phenomena.