Title: Minutely detailed, yet highly readable
Product review: For a book on a fairly obscure topic, this is excellently organized and written. The author clearly has had intimate experience with minute aspects of many a tropo-link project, and he has been able to refine and crystallize his thoughts into this beautifully linear presentation.The only problem with Roda's "Troposcatter" is that it is a bit dated. He makes statements implying that bit-rates are limited due to the troposphere's Doppler spread and multi-path; in reality both these parameters of the troposphere are far less challenging than the corresponding parameters for a cell-phone channel. Clearly the book was written before the acronyms OFDM, LDPC and MIMO entered the communication engineer's parlance. So discount whatever Roda has to say about digital tropo-links.
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