Your Gateway to Packet Radio

Packet Radio is fun- not since SSB in the early sixties or the repeater boom for the early seventies has there been so much excitement among radio amateurs! What is packet radio good for and what uses does it have for the "average ham"? How can I set up the necessary equipment? What is racket radio headed on VHF/UHF and HF? How has the "braaap" of a packet data sent to a radio teletype machine in the autostart mode? Why is packet great for message handling, especially in emergency situations? What uses can computer hobbyist, contester or DXer find for packet. This extensively updated second edition of Your Gateway to Packet Radio has the answers, including the latest on networking and space communications using packet radio!