© Alex Wulff 2019
A. WulffBeginning Radio Communicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5302-1_1

1. Introduction and Materials

Alex Wulff1 
(1)
Cambridge, MA, USA
 

Communication is perhaps the most import tool in humanity’s toolbox. Without it, the scope and depth of the human race’s ambition would be vastly limited. New means of communication precipitated important milestones in our time on this planet. Radio waves allowed for the first wireless communications, then gave us broadcasting of news, music, and entertainment. It is radio communications that carry us into a new age of global connectivity, allowing billions of devices to communicate with one another.

Without radio technologies, space travel, cell phones, satellite Internet, and many other ...

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