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Basic radio : principles and technology /
Basic Radio is a wide ranging introduction to the principles of radio waves, transmission and reception, and to the technologies of broadcasting, satellite and personal communications. As well as being a textbook for vocational courses such as City & Guilds and BTEC Ian Poole's book is esse...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford [U.K.] ; Woburn, MA :
Newnes,
1998.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Basic Radio: Principles and Technology; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Radio today, yesterday and tomorrow; The story of radio; Radio tomorrow; Chapter 2. Radio waves andpropagation; Radio waves; Frequency to wavelength conversion; Polorlzction; Radio spectrum; How radio signals travel; Levers above the earth; Ground wave; Skywaves; Distances and the angle of radiation; Multiple reflections; Chordal hop; Critical frequency; MUF; LUF; Skip zone; Stelte of the ionosphere; Propagation prediction; VHF and above; Tropo-scatter; Sporadic E; Meteor scatter.
- Frequencies above 3 GHzChapter 3. Ccpccltors, inductorsand filters; Capacitors; Inductors; Tuned circuits; Mutuel inductance and transformers; Q factor; Low pass and high pass filters; Band-pass filters; LC filters; Quartz crystals; Crystal filters; Monollthlc crystal filters; Mechanical filters; Ceramic filters; Frequency standards; Chapter 4. Modulation; Radio carrier; Morse; Amplitude modulation; Single sideband; Prequency modulation; Frequency shift keying; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Pulse modulation; Frequency hopping; Sprecd spectrum; Transmission codes; Chapter 5. Receivers.
- Crystal setTRF receiver; Direct conversion receiver; The superhet; Basic superhet receiver; Overcoming image response problems; IF breakthrough; Spurious signals; Autornotlc gain control; Multiple conversion sets; Synthesizers; Multi-loop synthesizers; Diirect digital synthesizers; Phose noise and reciprocal mixing; Filters; Selectivity and filters; Demodulator; Digital signal processing; Sensitivity and noise; Signal to noise ratio; SINAD; Noise factor and noise figure; Strong signal and overload; Intermodulation distortion; Third order intercept; Blocking; Cross-modulation; Dynamic range.
- Chapter 6. TransmittersTransmitter building blocks; Amplifiers; Mixers; Filters and matching networks; Simple Morse transmitter; Amplitude modulation transmitter; Sirlgle sideband transmitter; Frequency modulation transmitter; Speech processing; Chapter 7. Antenna systems; Resonance and bandwidth; Impedance; Gain and directivity; Arlgle of radiation; Height; Antenna system; Feeder; Feeder impedance; Standing waves; Loss; Velocity factor; Types of feeder; Matching unit; Types of antenna; Chapter 8. Broadcasting; AM broadcasts; VIHF FM; Stereo; C-QUAM; RDS; Di!gital audio broadcasting.
- Chapter 9. SatellitesSatellite orbits; Satellites; Placing a satellite in orbit; Path calculations; Comrrumlcotlons satellites; Navigational satellites; Oither uses; Chapter 10. Personal communications; Basic system; Base stations; Mobile phones; System control and call routeing; Control and signals; Digital systems; Private mobile radio (PMR) systems; Appendix: Basic calculations; Index.