Satellite Communications, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition

Written by engineers, for engineers. Very dry and difficult to understand for a non-engineer taking a Masters class in satellite communications.

Great book. Gave a very good introduction to SATCOM.

Great reference text for new students on the topic.

This was a good book that lays comm out perfectly. They do spend some extra time on orbital mechanics initially, which seems out of place, but it doesn't detract from the book.

This is a good book. It served me well in the class and as a reference afterwards. Remember Shannon Capacity

For the undergraduate or graduate student in engineering, this is a very understandable text on the basic principles of using satellites to communicate. Many topics in the field are covered. Like a comprehensive listing of existing geostationary satellites, and their orbital assignments.For those of you who need a revision of Keplerian mechanics, Roddy supplies Chapter 2. Or if you need a quick cram on the propagation of radio waves, there is Chapter 4. And there is the all-important subject of antenna design. Whether this be for an antenna on the satellite or here on Earth.Given that communications are of interest, various analog and digital encoding schemes are bruited. By now very well understood. Which leads into a discussion of signal and noise interference on a channel.For all of the topics, like antenna design, or communications theory, there are certainly more indepth books. But the breadth here is a key utility of this book.

Mr. Dennis Roddy's book is an amazing introduction to the daunting field of Satellite communications. His layout and explainations are easy to understand, for both amateurs and experts alike. This is a great introductory book for any budding satellite engineering or someone interested into the "hows and whys" of satellites.The inclusion of problems and exercises also extends the flexibility of this book for use as a TEXTbook for undergraduate or graduate satellite engineers. Even if you're not a student, the problems will give your grey-matter a workout. Buy it, if the price suits you.

Roddy should be ashamed of this publication. As a third edition textbook, one would hope the that numerous typos and VERY NUMEROUS mathematical operation errors would have been corrected by now. Roddy switches symbols from example to example, sometimes even within the same example!!!! Mathematical constants such as the speed of light, circumfereance of the earth, etc... are very often wrong. After reading 10 chapter's of this book, I have learned not to take any of Roddy's published standards at face value and I google them all for accuracy. This is very hard text to learn from unless you already know the 3-4 synominous terms that Roddy might use to explain the principles he is trying to explain. There is also a lot of "poof" calculations, where everything is thrown into mathcad and a result pops out. Not a good textbook for beginers or intermediates.