Practical Radio-Frequency Handbook

Ian Hickman EUR.ING BSc Hons C. Eng MIEE MIEEE9780750653695, 0-7506-5369-8

Radio Frequency (RF) is the hot topic in electronics design, providing the technology for the wireless revolution, including mobile phones and Bluetooth, the system that is linking the wide range of electronic devices and control systems used in the home and workplace. RF engineers are at the forefront in radio, telecommunications, space technology, avionics, optical communications, radar, navigation, medical electronics and computers.Ian Hickman’s Practical RF Handbook is well established as a hands-on guide for engineers, technicians, students and enthusiasts working in RF design. The author’s own radio engineering background means that he really talks the language of an engineer, with an awareness of the difficulties and pitfalls faced in RF design, and using a minimum of maths to get his point across.The structure of the book is methodical and comprehensive, covering all the key topics in RF: analogue design principles, transmission lines, transformers, couplers, amplifiers, oscillators, modulation, transmitters and receivers, propagation and antennas.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 5
Preface……Page 7
Acknowledgements……Page 11
Resistance and resistors……Page 13
Capacitors……Page 14
Inductors and transformers……Page 18
Passive circuits……Page 21
2 RF transmission lines……Page 30
3 RF transformers……Page 35
4 Couplers, hybrids and directional couplers……Page 52
5 Active components for RF uses……Page 61
6 RF small- signal circuitry……Page 79
7 Modulation and demodulation……Page 90
8 Oscillators……Page 108
Safety hazards to be considered……Page 134
Levellers, VSWR protection, RF routing switches……Page 135
Low- pass filter design……Page 136
Discrete PA stages……Page 139
10 Transmitters and receivers……Page 160
11 Advanced architectures……Page 175
12 Propagation……Page 183
13 Antennas……Page 193
14 Attenuators and equalizers……Page 211
15 Measurements……Page 216
Spectrum and network analysers……Page 217
Other instruments……Page 219
( i) Series parallel equivalents……Page 226
( iv) Designing lumped component matching using the Smith Chart. ( Reproduced by courtesy of GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd)……Page 227
S- Parameters and Transformations……Page 232
Useful scattering parameters relationships……Page 233
( i) Design……Page 237
Reduction of VSWR by matched attenuators……Page 238
A4 Universal resonance curve……Page 239
A5 RF cables……Page 240
A6 Wire gauges and related information……Page 244
A7 Ferrite manufacturers……Page 247
A8 Types of modulation classification……Page 248
A9 Quartz crystals……Page 250
3 Pole……Page 252
5 Pole……Page 254
6 pole Loss = Ap at 0 Hz……Page 256
6 pole Loss = 0 dB at 0 Hz……Page 258
7 Pole……Page 260
9 pole……Page 262
Sources of EMC problems and their containment……Page 264
E- M wave hits metallic barrier……Page 265
Absorption loss……Page 266
Reflection loss in the near field……Page 267
Screen materials……Page 270
Gaps and holes in screens……Page 271
Seams and joints……Page 272
Annex 1: ITU- R Recommendations and Reports……Page 273
Annexe 1: Radio frequency spectrum management in the UK ( part of Region 1)……Page 276
Annexe 2: Radio frequency spectrum management in the US ( part of Region 2)……Page 277
A14 SRDs ( Short Range Devices)……Page 280
Index……Page 285