Book Description
Radio Frequency (RF) is the fundamental technology behind a huge range of modern consumer electronics and wireless communication devices, and this book provides a comprehensive and methodical guide to RF for engineers, technicians, enthusiasts and hobbyists with an interest in the electronics behind radio frequency communications.
In Practical RF Handbook, Ian Hickman draws upon his own radio engineering background to develop a hands-on guide to the difficulties and pitfalls of RF design with a minimum of maths. A broad coverage includes devices, circuits, equipment, systems, radio propagation and external noise to fully acquaint the reader with the necessary circuit technologies and techniques.
The fourth edition brings the book fully up-to-date with new advances in RF, including coverage of OFDM, UWB, WiFi and WiMax.- Practical coverage of the cutting-edge technology behind the fast-moving world of communications electronics
- Real-world design guide for engineers, technicians and students, covering key principles with a minimum of maths
- Updated throughout, including coverage of recent hot topics such as UWB, WiFi and WiMax
Table of Contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Passive components
- Resistance and resistors
- Capacitors
- Inductors and transformers
- Chapter 2: Passive circuits
- Chapter 3: RF transmission lines
- Transmission line operation at d.c.
- Transmission line operation at r.f.
- Practical transmission lines
- Chapter 4: RF transformers
- Introduction
- Transformer basics
- R.F. considerations
- Baluns
- Line transformers
- Chapter 5: Couplers, hybrids and directional couplers
- Chapter 6: Active components for RF uses
- Chapter 7: RF small-signal circuitry
- Chapter 8: Modulation and demodulation
- Chapter 9: Oscillators
- Chapter 10: RF power amplifiers
- Safety hazards to be considered
- First design decisions
- Levellers, VSWR protection, RF routing switches
- Starting the design
- Low-pass filter design
- Discrete PA stages
- Chapter 11: Transmitters and receivers
- Chapter 12: Advanced architectures
- Chapter 13: Propagation
- Chapter 14: Antennas
- Chapter 15: Attenuators and equalizers
- Chapter 16: Measurements
- Measurements on CW signals
- Modulation measurements
- Spectrum and network analysers
- Other instruments
- Useful relationships
- S-Parameters
- Attenuators (pads)
- Universal resonance curve
- RF cables
- Wire gauges and related information
- Manufacturers of soft-ferrite† and iron-powder** cores
- Types of modulation – classification
- Quartz crystals
- Elliptic filters
- Screening
- Worldwide minimum external noise levels
- Frequency allocations and designations
- SRDs (Short Range Devices)
- Index