Ask any radio monitor what information they consider important during any monitoring session, and usually two items will top their list: frequencies and call signs. If you can hear activity on a particular frequency, unless you can fully identify the participants transmitting on that frequency, you can’t fully appreciate or document the traffic you are hearing. With millions of radio stations furnishing a variety of communication services throughout the world, it is necessary that their transmissions carry distinctive call signs or identifiers.
To aid the radio monitor in their listening endeavors, the International Call Sign Handbook series of books/e-books has been published over the last few years.
Now Teak Publishing is pleased to announce their latest Kindle e-book -- The International Call Sign Handbook 5th edition. In this new edition the author presents the most comprehensive collection of military and government station identifications ever published for the radio listening hobby. It is the result of year’s research, study and monitoring the HF/VHF/UHF radio spectrum, by the author. Many different radio monitoring disciplines have been used to compile the listings in this book. If you monitor the HF, VHF or UHF radio spectrum anywhere in the world, there is something in this book for you.
In addition to thousands of international and military/government tactical call signs, other types of identifiers such as Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) addresses have been included in this new edition. There is also additional coverage of the latest craze in aircraft military monitoring - decoding Mode-S/ICAO24 radio signals. Our chapter on Mode-s address covers government / military aircraft and also has introductory material on Mode-S monitoring.
There are chapters devoted to call sign / words used by the Department of Defense Departments, their various Military Auxiliary Radio Services and the Civil Air Patrol auxiliary service. There is also a chapter that covers call signs and ALE identifiers used by the U.S. Coast Guard service. Another large chapter covers various U.S. Government departments and agency call signs / identifiers.
One of the larger chapters in this e-book is devoted to an international / worldwide call signs list. We have a large sampling of government and military call signs from 75 counties and international agencies.
The last chapter of this book contains a large list of resource information including Navy ship/squadron classifications; Coast Guard cutter designators; a massive list of abbreviations and acronyms that appear in the book; a comprehensive country abbreviation list; and the latest Table of Allocations of International Call signs from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
If you monitor the radio spectrum outside of the international shortwave broadcast bands or ham bands then this e-book is a must on your radio shack reference library bookshelf.
To aid the radio monitor in their listening endeavors, the International Call Sign Handbook series of books/e-books has been published over the last few years.
Now Teak Publishing is pleased to announce their latest Kindle e-book -- The International Call Sign Handbook 5th edition. In this new edition the author presents the most comprehensive collection of military and government station identifications ever published for the radio listening hobby. It is the result of year’s research, study and monitoring the HF/VHF/UHF radio spectrum, by the author. Many different radio monitoring disciplines have been used to compile the listings in this book. If you monitor the HF, VHF or UHF radio spectrum anywhere in the world, there is something in this book for you.
In addition to thousands of international and military/government tactical call signs, other types of identifiers such as Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) addresses have been included in this new edition. There is also additional coverage of the latest craze in aircraft military monitoring - decoding Mode-S/ICAO24 radio signals. Our chapter on Mode-s address covers government / military aircraft and also has introductory material on Mode-S monitoring.
There are chapters devoted to call sign / words used by the Department of Defense Departments, their various Military Auxiliary Radio Services and the Civil Air Patrol auxiliary service. There is also a chapter that covers call signs and ALE identifiers used by the U.S. Coast Guard service. Another large chapter covers various U.S. Government departments and agency call signs / identifiers.
One of the larger chapters in this e-book is devoted to an international / worldwide call signs list. We have a large sampling of government and military call signs from 75 counties and international agencies.
The last chapter of this book contains a large list of resource information including Navy ship/squadron classifications; Coast Guard cutter designators; a massive list of abbreviations and acronyms that appear in the book; a comprehensive country abbreviation list; and the latest Table of Allocations of International Call signs from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
If you monitor the radio spectrum outside of the international shortwave broadcast bands or ham bands then this e-book is a must on your radio shack reference library bookshelf.
