The Technical Handbook for Radio Monitoring HF is aimed to shortwave listeners, who are interested in digital signals. On over 500 pages with many figures and tables most digital waveforms are described. The book shall help shortwave listener to identify these digital signals which can be heard today. Digital waveforms like FSK, PSK, DSSS aso. with the used protocols and alphabets are described with the help of spectrum and other pictures and the most important technical parameter. Additionally comprehensive tables are helping to identify the different user on shortwave.

Roland Proesch was born in 1960 in Kiel. He studied communication technology in Hamburg at the University of the German Army. Since 1977 he is a licensed radio amateur which has enabled him to pursue one of his most profound interests, namely all types of digital communication. He worked in the field of all different kinds of radio monitoring, electronic warfare and satellite communication for nearly 40 years.