The standard international reference book for COMINT ELINT MASINT SIGINT. Used worldwide by intelligence and radio monitoring services for training and operation - see our list of references. Brandnew 18th edition May 2008, totally revised and updated! Now includes more than 130 new graphics and screenshots.

The Radio Data Code Manual has 604 pages. Table of contents:

Digital data transmission on HF: innovative and state-of-the-art analysis / classification / decoding / display equipment, with dozens of sample screenshots and full manufacturer's details.

• Current digital data transmission modes: ACARS ALE ALF-RDS ALIS ALIS-2 ARQ-E ARQ-E3 ARQ-M ASCII BULG-ASCII Chirp Sounders CIS-36 MFSK Clover Clover-2 Clover-2000 CODAN Coquelet DGPS DSC DUP-ARQ DUP-ARQ-2 DUP-FEC-2 FAX FEC-A G-TOR GW-CLOVER GW-PACTOR HFDL ICAO-SELCAL ITA2 MFSK-8 MFSK-16 MSI NAVTEX Packet Radio PACTOR PACTOR-2 PACTOR-2-FEC PACTOR-3 Piccolo POL-ARQ PSK-31 PSK-63F PSK-125F RUM-FEC SITOR SP-14 T-PLEX TWINPLEX
• Military modem standards: MIL-STD-188-110A MIL-STD-188-110B (Appendix B) MIL-STD-188-110B (Appendix C) MIL-STD-188-110B (Appendix F) MIL-STD-188-141A MIL-STD-188-141B (Appendix C) MIL-STD-188-203A-1 MIL-STD-188-203-3 MIL-STD-188-212 STANAG 4285 STANAG 4415 STANAG 4481 STANAG 4529 STANAG 4538 STANAG 4539 STANAG 4591 STANAG 5031 STANAG 5035 STANAG 5066 TADIL-A TADIL-B TADIL-C
• Teleprinter alphabets: Arabic + ATU-80 Arabic + Chinese + Cyrillic + Latin + Third-shift Cyrillic + Third-shift Ethiopic + Third-shift Greek + Third-shift Hebrew + Third-shift 6-element Japanese + Third-shift Korean

Meteorological telecommunication: New alternate heading / product category AWIPS identifier in GTS messages, plus updated MTN and RMTN charts. Latest versions of AIREP AMDAR ARFOR BATHY METAR PILOT ROFOR SHIP SPECI SYNOP TAF TEMP TESAC TRACKOB WINTEM codes with detailed explanations and decoding of sample messages, incorporating considerable modifications particularly to AMDAR, METAR, SPECI, and TAF. Index numbers of 11,494 land observing stations worldwide. Thousands of new WMO index numbers particularly in Australia Bahrain Canada Denmark Finland Georgia Germany Italy Moldavia Norway Pakistan Romania Russian Federation South Africa (Republic of) Swaziland Switzerland Thailand.

Aeronautical telecommunication: Worldwide air traffic control beyond 2010 by means of ACARS and CPDLC. 940 aeronautical and meteorological abbreviations. Location indicators of 13,726 aeronautical fixed stations worldwide, now including additionally hundreds of offshore oil platforms and thousands of new locators particularly in Alaska Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria China Croatia Cuba Denmark Germany Georgia Greenland Guatemala Guyana Iceland Indonesia Iraq Italy Kazahstan Kenya Mexico Mongolia Namibia Netherlands Nicaragua Norway Paraguay Peru Russian Federation Solomon Islands South Africa (Republic of) Spain Sudan Tanzania Ukraine United States of America Zambia.

These comprehensive lists are much more correct than the original ICAO and WMO publications that have many errors and omissions!

Unicode: the realization of a revolutionary idea. The new 18th edition features the very latest script tables, e.g. Arabic with 41 new character codes and Cyrillic with 27 new ones. Standard code tables for all major scripts worldwide within a truly universal and simple system for global electronic information exchange. 33 national alphabets are covered with script samples and screenshots: Arabic Armenian Assamese Azerbaijani Bengali Bopomofo Burmese Chinese Cyrillic Ethiopic Farsi Georgian Greek Gujarati Gurmukhi Hebrew Hindi Japanese Kannada Khmer Korean Lao Latin Malayalam Mongolian Oriya Punjabi Sinhalese Tamil Telugu Thai Tibetan Vietnamese.

For years, this standard international reference book has been cited by independent authors on several Wikipedia pages.

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