Overview:
This book gives a fascinating guide to the technology and applications of modern radio communications equipment. Whilst covering the technology and principles of radio, this book is written in an easy to understand style that provides a very useful foundation for anyone interested in understanding more about radio or wireless technology and its applications. This volume is equally applicable to college students, technicians, managers, sales staff, installation engineers or anyone seeking to update their knowledge about this exciting and rapidly expanding area of technology.

Contents:
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Radio.
Chapter 2: Radio Waves and Propagation. (Electromagnetic waves and their properties, radio spectrum, propagation via groundwave, ionospheric propagation, tropospheric propagation, other modes of propagation).
Chapter 3: Modulation. (Amplitude modulation, single sideband, frequency modulation, frequency shift keying, phase modulation, phase shift leying, pulse modulation, spread spectrum techniques).
Chapter 4: Antenna Systems. (Antenna fundamentals, feeders, standing waves, impedance, dipole, Yagi, log periodic array, verticals, discone, loop antennas, ferrite rod antennas).
Chapter 5: Receivers. (Crystal set, tuned radio frequency receivers, regenerative receivers, direct conversion receivers, superhet, multiple conversions, circuits, frequency synthesizers, filters, sensitivity performance, overload performance, selectivity, other specifications).
Chapter 6: Transmitters. (Transmitter configurations, transmitter circuits, class A, B, and C amplifiers, power output, transmitter specifications).
Chapter 7: Broadcasting. (Amplitude modulation broadcasting on long medium and short wave bands, FM broadcasting, stereo transmissions, RDS, DAB digital radio).
Chapter 8: Satellites. (Satellite basics, orbits, satellite block diagrams, applications including communications, direct broadcast, GPS).
Chapter 9: Private Mobile Radio (PMR). (Basic PMR systems, trunking MPT 1327, TETRA).
Chapter 10: Cellular Telecommunications (Cellular basics, analogue systems, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, cdmaOne (IS-95), CDMA2000 1X, 1xEV-DO, 1xEV-DV, W-CDMA (UMTS), TD-SCDMA).
Chapter 11: Short Range Wireless Data Communications, Bluetooth, IEEE 802.11, HomeRF).

Published by Newnes, 2003, Paperback, 138 by 216mm, 320 pages, ISBN 0750656123