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Books

Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, ISBN 978-3-642-13195-0 (order from Amazon) Tune In The Universe! ISBN 0-87259-854-3 (order from ARRL) Near Midair Collisions as an Indicator of General Aviation Collision Risk Winging It! With Dr. Paul Conquering Communications, ISBN 0-8273-7507-7 (order from Amazon) Ask Dr. SETI The SETI League Technical Manual, ISBN 0-9650707-2-7 The ARRL UHF/Microwave Experimenter's Manual, ISBN 0-87259-312-6 (order from Amazon)

Memoirs

• Prologue To SETI
• Occam's Rusty Blades
• Boy Scoots Off Chair
• The Moon Is A Harsh Mirror
• Colliding With A Superconductor
• Ask Dr. SETI
• My Favorite Year
• Unfinished Symphony
• The Radicalization of Ned Nerdy
• War Stories
  • Confessions of a Draft Dodger
  • Spook's Honor
  • Belle of the Ball
  • Fire Engine Red
  • From Weasel Wannabe to Weasel Keeper
  • Ballad of the Pueblo
  • Barbershop Quartet
• From Orbit to Airstrip
• Four Point Oh
• Stealing the Key
• The Last Honest Cabbie
• Confidential Questionnaire
• "Never In My Lifetime"

The Avalon Eden Stories

• Powder Blue Champ
• Skypark
• And Those Who Will
• Dwight in the Afternoon
• Odessa at Dawn
• Evening Over Evanston
• Grounded in Lock Haven
• Light Sport Near Lancaster
• SportStar Summer
• Silicon Valley Airport
• Circling the Smoke
• Cloud Vaporizing
• Reconnecting

Short Fiction

• Silver Bullet
• Poor Eliza!
• Marketing Hell
• I Cannot Tell a Lie

Articles

Note: Many of the following papers are provided in Portable Document Format. You are welcome to download the free Adobe Acrobat ® reader to allow you to view PDF files.

• Transportation Engineering
  1. General Aviation Collision Avoidance Alternatives
  2. Near Midair Collisions: How Many Really Occur?
  3. Manned vs. Unmanned Space Flight
  4. Ned Nerdy Buys a Bike

• Satellites, Radio Astronomy, and EME
  1. A Cost-Effective Modular Downconverter for S-Band WEFAX Reception
  2. Calculating Antenna Bearings for Geostationary Satellites
  3. Orbital Analysis by Sleight of Hand
  4. Demonstrating Celestial Mechanics Through Measured Doppler Shift
  5. A Weather-Facsimile Display Board for the IBM PC
     • Feedback
  6. A Low-Noise Preamp for Weather Satellite VISSR Reception
     • Feedback
  7. Measuring the Mass of the Earth: The Ultimate Moonbounce Experiment
     • Corrigendum
     • Comments
     • Corrigendum
  8. 2001: A Moonbounce Odyssey
  9. Calibrating the Signal Generator in the Sky
     • Feedback
  10. The World that Passed Us By

• Optics
  1. Wavelength Division Multiplexing Without Filters or Fuss
  2. An excellent article, but...
  3. Fiber Optics: Waveguide of the Future

• RF and Microwave Design
  1. Easy-to-Build SSB Transceiver for 1296 MHz
  2. Microstripline Preamplifiers for 1296 MHz
     • Missing page
     • Comments
  3. How to Use Double-Balanced Mixers on 1296 MHz
  4. Rat-Race Balanced Mixer for 1296 MHz
  5. Low-Cost 1296-MHz Preamplifier
  6. Microstripline Bandpass Filters for 1296 MHz
     • Improved Grounding for the 1296 MHz Microstrip Filter
  7. Vestigal Sideband Microtransmitter for Amateur Television
     • Short Circuit
  8. Solid-State Microwave Amplifier Design
     • Comments
  9. Circuit Packaging for UHF Double-Balanced Mixers
  10. Interstage 50-ohm Terminator for VHF Converters
  11. Low-Cost Microwave Specrum Analyzer
      • Pseudo-Logarithmic Display for the Microwave Spectrum Analyzer
  12. Calculating Preamplifier Gain from Noise Figure Measurements
  13. UHF Local-Oscillator Chain for the Purist
  14. Compact and Clean L-Band Local-Oscillators
  15. Quiet! Preamp At Work
  16. State-of-the-art Electromagnetic Jargon Generator
  17. Wideband Microwave Amplifier Design
  18. MMICs Mimic Mixer
      • Feedback
  19. Maxwell Without Tears: A Fresh Look at his Infamous Equations
      • Corrigendum
  20. Gaining on the deciBel
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
      • Part 3
  21. Technical Correspondence: Microstrip Design Calculations
  22. Interstage Coupling with an Edge-Coupled Line
  23. Combless Generator Tests Radar Warning Receivers

• Antenna Design
  1. Parabolic Paradox
  2. Far Field Fallacy (also available in Japanese)
  3. Calculating Antenna Bearings for Geostationary Satellites
  4. The Very Small Array
  5. SETI Horn of Plenty: an Argus Antenna Alternative
  6. Multiband Reconfigurable Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna
  7. Updating the Multiband Reconfigurable Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna
  8. Built from Unobtanium: an ATDM Multiband Reconfigurable Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna

• SETI
  1. Searching for Life Among the Stars
  2. SETI Made Simple: What Can We Do?
  3. SETI Horn of Plenty: an Argus Antenna Alternative
  4. Correspondence: Arecibo and SETI
  5. Technical Conversations: Cosmic Cousins
  6. SETI: the Role of the Dedicated Amateur
  7. Quantifying SETI
  8. link to many more SETI Articles

• Dr. SETI's Starship (Quarterly Column, CQ-VHF Magazine)
  1. Spring 2002: Star Voyager
  2. Summer 2002: In The Beginning
  3. Fall 2002: A Fork in the Road
  4. Winter 2003: Does SETI Theory Hold Water?
  5. Spring 2003: A Marriage Made in Heaven
  6. Summer 2003: Testing the Null Hypothesis
  7. Fall 2003: The Night That Elvis Died
  8. Winter 2004: 'Then I'd Have To Kill You.'
  9. Spring 2004: Postcards from Beyond
  10. Summer 2004: Worked All Worlds
  11. Fall 2004: Remembering John Kraus, W8JK
  12. Winter 2005: Quantifying our Ignorance
  13. Spring 2005: Blame It On Rio
  14. Summer 2005: Remembering W8FIS, the Father of SETI
  15. Fall 2005: Shouting in the Jungle
  16. Winter 2006: When did we become obsolete?
  17. Spring 2006: The Listeners
  18. Summer 2006: This I believe
  19. Fall 2006: Testing a dubious claim
  20. Winter 2007: Journalistic exuberance
  21. Spring 2007: Their past, our future
  22. Summer 2007: Light Speed
  23. Fall 2007: When Will We Reach India?
  24. Winter 2008: Millimeter Magic
  25. Spring 2008: Remembering Sir Arthur C. Clarke
  26. Summer 2008: Light Speed
  27. Fall 2008: Beckoning Beacons
  28. Winter 2009: Beckoning Beacons, Part 2
  29. Spring 2009: Betting on SETI Success
  30. Summer 2009: The Bet is Already Won
  31. Fall 2009: The Day The Earth Called Out
  32. Winter 2010: Watching Terrestrial Television at Alpha Centauri
  33. Spring 2010: To Venus and Back
  34. Summer 2010: Big Enough
  35. Fall 2010: Remembering Project Ozma
  36. Winter 2011: Remembering Malcolm Raff, WA2UNP
  37. Spring 2011: Six Degrees of SETI Separation
  38. Summer 2011: Allen Telescope Disarray
  39. Fall 2011: The Strange Case of the Oscillating Amplifier
  40. Winter 2012: The Politics of Protocols
  41. Spring 2012: This Lousy T-Shirt
  42. Summer 2012: Remembering Allen Tough
  43. Fall 2012: Larry the Dad
  44. Winter 2013: What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

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