Radio from the Beginning

Information carried by waves nobody can see: the wave and the decibel, the circuits of a radio, the ways a voice or a bit rides on a carrier, the lines and antennas that launch it, the paths it takes and the noise it arrives in, the receivers, transmitters and software radios that make and catch it, and the systems built from all of it. See every signal on an analyser, and hear it.

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