Vol.2 The Young Amateurs Guide to Radio Physics

Volume Two continues our introduction to radio-electronics, but expands the topics in depth and introduces vectors, matrices, linear algebra, and statistics to perform waveform analysis and construction of our GAIA signal (Global Amateur Interferometer Array). We follow up with data compression using the discrete cosine transform and deconstruct and reconstruct a JPEG digital image. Earth's geographical coordinates are projected into space as celestial coordinates and Mars is located for configuring our local "link function" to design our GAIA array. The MMARS is discussed (Mars Mission Amateur Radio System), and the coding effort for coordinating GAIA is assessed and examples are illustrated. We lay the foundation for the actual design and deployment of a GAIA supervised by a MMARS. Computing theory is introduced at length. Volumes One and Two provide most of the mathematical and physical theory and methods for the remaining six volumes that ultimately produce a functioning interplanetary radio station!