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Beginning Radio Communications pp 23–43Cite as

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Basic Radio Theory

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The purpose of this chapter is to give you a basic but intuitive understanding of what radio waves are and how radio waves propagate. We will walk through basics of the electromagnetic spectrum and properties of waves as they interact with matter.

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    Alex Wulff

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Wulff, A. (2019). Basic Radio Theory. In: Beginning Radio Communications. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5302-1_2

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