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ARRL VHF Digital Handbook
by Steve Ford, WB8IMY

Following on from the popular ARRL HF Digital Handbook Steve Ford WB8IMY has produced ARRL VHF Digital Handbook. This isn't complicated "owners manual" full of jargon but a unique how-to approach in friendly, conversational style.

Getting started often requires little more than a VHF radio and a computer to start using digital radio applications for fun, technical achievement, and public service. Readers will soon understand how to setup and operate their equipment and software, and make the best use of their VHF digital station. The book covers in detail packet radio fundamentals, APRS, Winlink 2000 and more. There is a section covering D-STAR and one on high speed multimedia - using amateur radio data network by modifying routers and access points. Readers are also treated to sections on "digital meteor scatter", "Moonbounce" and weak signal operating using "WSJT".

This book is a great read and the ideal introduction to VHF digital operation

ISBN: 9780-8725-9122-6

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ARRL HF Digital Handbook
by Steve Ford, WB8IMY

ARRL HF Digital Handbook is the 4th Edition of this great guide to understanding the most active HF digital communication modes in use today.

There is something here for every radio operator here be they beginners and the more experienced. Starting with the basics this book provides the reader with all it takes to get your sound-card-equipped computer and HF transceiver working together. As the technology advances, the understanding you gain here will also 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.

Readers will find sections including
* 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!

Size 184x227mm, 208 pages ISBN 0-87259-103-4

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VoIP: Internet Linking for Radio Amateurs

by Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD

This may be the first book ever written about ham radio applications of VoIP! Growing numbers of hams are using VoIP, or Voice Over Internet Protocol, in combination with their radios for long-distance communication spanning hundreds or thousands of miles. They're using the Internet as the relay between their base stations, handhelds and mobile transceivers.

This is a guide to the four primary VoIP systems used by hams: EchoLink, IRLP, eQSO and WIRES-II. The book is designed for beginners who need information on how to set up and use these systems, but it also provides plenty of technical “meat” for those who want to dig deeper and explore how the systems actually work.

Included are sections on * Connecting The World * Using A VoIP Link * Conference Servers, Reflectors and Nets * Other Linking Systems * Setting Up Your Own Node * Digital Audio and the Internet * Under The Hood: Echolink * Under The Hood: IRLP * Legal Issues In Linking * Web Resources & Glossary

Author Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD, is the creator of EchoLink and one of the top experts in Amateur Radio Voice Over Internet Protocol.

2004 Edition, The American Radio Relay League, Paperback, 144 pages, size 228x182mm ISBN : 0-87259-926-4

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APRS - Moving Hams on Radio and the Internet

by Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU

A Guide to the Automatic Position Reporting System:

APRS is among the most popular activities using personal computers in ham radio applications. Getting started often requires little more than a VHF radio and computer. With a portable Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, you have precise position information at your fingertips. Connect the GPS receiver to your APRS station, and you can transmit your location information even as you're moving!

* Track moving objects on maps (other stations, public service vehicles, marathon runners, etc.).
* Display weather statistics and storm warnings.
* Find a hidden transmitter or jammer.
* Access the APRS network on the Internet (even without a radio!)
* The future for APRS applications seems limitless!

In this book, you'll learn how to configure hardware and software to make the best use of your APRS station. Software examples include programs for Windows, Mac and Linux. Follow detailed discussions of APRS operation and technical support. To help you get stated, there's also a complete Glossary of Terms and a summary of APRS software commands.

2004 Edition, The American Radio Relay League, Inc. 160 pages, size 212x137mm. ISBN: 0-87259-916-7

APRS is a registered trademark of APRS Engineering LLC, which reserves all rights to its use for commercial products.

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Computers, Microcontrollers and DSP for the Radio Amateur

By: Andy Talbot, G4JNT

This book is for the radio amateur and home experimenter who wants to use modern digital and computer technology to make more use of his/her radio equipment. It is aimed at those who want to add additional hardware and try new signalling and communications methods, and to build hardware and systems for controlling existing equipment. The home computer is first covered, writing programmes and software, with much detail on how to interface the PC to external hardware via its various ports. Particular emphasis is placed on what can be done with the older computer, now very cheaply available. Software techniques for detecting signals in noise and for automatic beacon monitoring are described.
Then come Microcontrollers, covered in depth, particularly the PIC family of devices. From the basics of writing the first PIC programme and programming the device, many different types of hardware are described, such as A/D converters and relays. This includes simple arithmetic and coding issues for security and remote control. Finally, basic Digital Signal Processing is covered, with aspects such as digital filtering, time/frequency transformations and very narrow bandwidth working being described. How to start using DSP techniques at home is explained; evaluation modules and DSP routes using some simple additional hardware and a PC are covered. Programming in the Windows operating system, with particular emphasis on using the soundcard for DSP purposes, is then introduced.

Written for the experienced amateur, this book is aimed at the experimenter and home constructor who wants to get involved in the subject, and to understand how to take it further.

2003 Edn, RSGB, paperback,
240 x 173 mm, 232 pages, ISBN: 1-872309-94-1

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