Microwave Engineering: Land & Space Radiocommunications

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author thanks the company for which he worked and that gave him the opportunity to develop his experience in this comprehensive field for nearly 40 years. Thanks are also due to the International Telecommunication Union for the recommendations cited in the text. The author is also grateful to Jean-Claude Boudenot and Emmanuel Desurvire for their encouragement to write this book. A special thanks goes to Yves Le Nevez, who provided invaluable information about microwave line-of-sight propagation. A final thanks goes to Jacques Ricroque and Jean-Luc Linder for their important contribution in the design and preparation of tests and recordings on a number of line-of-sight and troposcatter radio links, which allowed us to put into practice the famous saying of Auguste Comte: “To experiment means to know and to know means to can.” (1830).