An ideal first step for learning about ham radio. Beyond operating wirelessly, today's ham radio operators can transmit data and pictures; use the Internet, laser, and microwave transmitters; and travel to places high and low to make contact. This hands-on beginner guide reflect…
Before there was e-mail or Facebook, there was ham radio-- used to talk to people around the globe and to communicate during disasters and emergencies. Today they can also transmit images, use the Internet, and take advantage of the most powerful wireless communications capacity…
This guide reflects the operational and technical changes to amateur radio over the past decade and provides an updated licensing requirements and information, changes in digital communication (such as the Internet, social media, and GPS), and how to use e-mail via radio.
Before there was e-mail or Facebook, there was ham radio-- used to talk to people around the globe and to communicate during disasters and emergencies. Today they can also transmit images, use the Internet, and take advantage of the most powerful wireless communications capacity…
By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was why radio waves followed the c…
In this book the author chronicles the history of radio waves, the discovery of the ionosphere, and the impact this discovery had on atmospheric science as a field.