Ham Radio Guide: Radio Science for Amateurs - Scientific Exploration & Discovery for Hobbyists | Perfect for Home Labs & Field Experiments

This is an Exciting Time to be Involved in Science and Technology!You can contribute to big science as a radio amateur! Regardless of your experience and resources, as a ham radio operator you have what it takes to make a meaningful contribution to science and technology. You have a window into the universe not available to most people--as every physical phenomenon, from the galactic to the microscopic, interacts with radio in some manner. Radio Science for the Radio Amateur will lead you to horizons of scientific exploration and discovery.Radio Science for the Radio Amateur explores and explains the often profound differences between science and technology, and dispels the notion that we know all there is to know about radio. Using a playful approach, Author Eric Nichols, KL7AJ, will guide you through some of the most fascinating “nooks and crannies” of the radio universe. Along the way, you’ll find out how solving long-standing mysteries of radio, of which there are still many, doesn’t require expensive hardware, but merely a scientific mindset and attention to detail.Includes:Review of the Scientific Method Fundamentals of Plasma Physics as these apply to radio propagationWeird phenomena such as Long Delayed Echoes (LDEs), Parametrically Amplified Radio Events (PARES), Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances (SIDs), and Stimulated Electromagnetic Emission (SEE)Amateur Radio detection of High Energy ParticlesUsing your computer sound card for data acquisitionSynthetic Aperture and other distributed methods for the radio amateurUsing APRS for Radio Science