Newnes Radio and RF Engineering Pocket Book

Steve Winder (Author), Joseph Carr (Author)

9780750656085

Hardback, published 31 July 2002

344 pages, Approx. 300 illustrations
18.7 x 11 x 2.4 cm, 0.47 kg

New material in the third edition includes mobile base station antennas, operation of cellular networks, SAW filters and ceramic resonators, modulation for stereo FM broadcasts, ADPCM, and vocoders.

Preface
Propagation of radio waves
The decibel scale
Transmission lines
Antennas
Resonant circuits
Oscillators
Piezo-electric devices
Bandwidth requirements and modulation
Frequency planning
Radio equipment
Microwave communication
Information privacy and encryption
Multiplexing
Speech digitization and synthesis
VHF and UHF mobile communication
Signalling
Mobile radio systems
Base station site management
Instrumentation
Batteries
Satellite communications
Connectors and interfaces
Broadcasting
Abbreviations adn symbols
Miscellaneous data
Index.

Subject Areas: Signal processing [UYS], Radio technology [TJKR]