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"A fully revised and updated edition of the classic antenna reference Practical Antenna Handbook, Fifth Edition thoroughly covers the wide array of advances in the field that have occurred in the 10 years since the previous edition was published. These topics, all discussed in the book, include: High speed Internet access Wireless devices and WiFi networks The 160-meter band New RFI sources to keep pace with microprocessors and digital electronics...
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Based on a true story. This is how the biggest television event in history was almost not televised. Apollo 11 goes to the moon and the first step is to be televised around the globe. But right before the landing, the dish flatlines. Its up to the unconventional Aussie crew and the by-the-book NASA supervisor to work together to fix the dish before the landing occurs.
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As the Apollo 11 mission draws to a close there is a crisis at the tracking station on Guam: the antenna that will track the spacecraft during reentry, and allow mission control to communicate with the astronauts is stuck--and ten-year-old Marty is the only one small enough to reach in and grease the ball bearings that allow the antenna to move.
6) Stay tuned
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Couch potato Roy Knable (John Ritter) has entered a new dimension in TV viewing - on the other side of the screen. If he survives, he can return home. If not, like a show with no audience, he'll be cancelled ... for good! The out-of-this-world satellite dish Roy just bought on a free trial offer has sucked him and his wife Helen (Pam Dawber) into a hilariously bizarre TV world.
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Features two comedy-horror films from the mid-1980s: TerrorVision and The Video Dead. In TerrorVision, a family receives a new satellite TV system that beams signals from an alien planet. The aliens use the signal to get rid of their garbage, but trouble arrives on Earth when the signal sends a human-eating garbage monster! In The Video Dead, teenagers Jeff and Zoe must avert crisis when their TV starts spewing zombies into the world of the living!...
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Basic Radio reveals the key building blocks of radio: receivers; transmitters; antennas; propagation and their applications to telecommunications; radionavigation; and radiolocation. This book includes simple, build-it-yourself projects to turn theory into practice--helping reinforce key subject matter.
18) Full signal
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"Since 1997 and the onset of GSM telephony, more and more cellular antennas have been popping up in neighborhoods, near children's schools and on neighbor's rooftops all around the world to support an ever-growing number of cell phone users and people are feeling the effects...[The filmmaker] talks to a number of leading scientists that have been studying the effects of cellular technology on human beings for years; sheds light on the triumphs and...
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"What familiar force do the Big Bang, the expansion of the Universe, dark matter and dark energy, black holes, and gravitational waves all have in common? This dynamic book uncovers gravity as a key to understanding these fascinating phenomena that have so captivated public interest in recent years. Readers ... will explore the latest discoveries on how this ordinary force in our everyday lives powers the most colossal changes in the Universe. Written...