ARRL's HF Digital Handbook [Paperback]

Steve Ford (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0872591034 | ISBN-13: 978-0872591035 | Publication Date: October 1, 2007 | Edition: 4

ARRL s HF Digital Handbook is your guide to understanding the most active HF digital communication modes in use today. There is something here for every radio operator beginners and more advanced operators alike. And, as this technology rapidly advances, your increased understanding of digital communication techniques will make certain that you stay in the race as new modes and methods unfold.

This fourth edition book includes expanded station setup information, discussion of PSKMail and other varieties of PSK, new content on Olivia, DominoEX, HF digital voice and image modes, and Automatic Link Establishment.

Just getting started? All it takes is your sound-card-equipped computer and your HF transceiver. ARRL s HF Digital Handbook will guide you through the rest!

Contents:

Assembling Your HF Digital Station
RTTY
PSK31
PACTOR
Winlink 2000
Clover
Hellschreiber
MFSK
G-TOR, MT-63, Throb, Olivia and DominoEX
HF Digital Contesting
HF Digital Voice and Image
Automatic Link Establishment ...and much more!

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Amer Radio Relay League; 4 edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0872591034
• ISBN-13: 978-0872591035
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,510 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY INFORMATIVE, January 3, 2009

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Gregory Sheppard "Greg" (Rockville, Md.) - See all my reviews

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This book answered all my question about PSK31 which is why I bought it. In fact it covered other ways to use my radio and computer that I did not know about. Very easy reading.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good entry level information, May 16, 2010

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D. du Rand "Deon" (South Africa) - See all my reviews
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This book provides a good overview of digital communcation protocols used by amateurs over HF. Due to the development of the part of amateur radio the reference section (ca 2007) is not worth much but a quick search on the internet would provide 'n updated list. Good introduction if your are new to this.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent backgrounder for new HF digital operators, January 7, 2009

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C. Swinney (Gainesville, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ARRL's HF Digital Handbook (Paperback)

Although some have complained that this book has little to offer grizzled veterans of digital operations on the HF bands, it is an excellent primer on:

1.) what's available,
2.) what each method can and can't do, and
3.) the requirements for operating each.

This is a "handbook" in the sense of "a guide" or "a quick reference." It is not an encyclopedia, like ARRL's "Handbook of Radio Communications" or CRC's "Handbook of Chemistry and Physics," neither of which, ironically, can really be held in the hand.