Survey of developments in tropospheric communication apparatus

A new book was publiched by VOYENIZDAT at Moscow in 1984 Tropospheric Communication by L. T. Ykovlev, G. V. Dedyukin, P. I. Sututon and others. The book is based on material on this subject in foreign periodical and textbook literature. The book contains engineering and geographic data on worldwide existing and planned stationary tropospheric communication equipment. Tropospheric communication is compared with other modes of communication in terms of effectiveness, advantages and drawbacks. Particular attention is paid to tropospheric communication equipment needed in barely accessible polar, desert, and mountainous regions, to intercontinental tropospheric communication and to such communication between mainland and nearby islands. Much space is devoted to present development trends and projections for the future, including extensive bibliographic references.