Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering - Rilegato

Whitaker, Jerry C.

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ISBN 10: 0071451005 ISBN 13: 9780071451000

Casa editrice: McGraw Hill, 2005

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This comprehensive engineering handbook provides basic principles, key equations, and voluminous reference data on the design, specification, installation, and maintenance of broadcast transmission systems. Explicating the underlying technologies of digital and analog transmission systems, the handbook deals with both the fundamental workings of such systems, and, in context, the ‘hot-topic’ new approaches driving industry growth – DTV, NTSC, and Digital Audio Broadcasting.

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L'autore:

Jerry Whitaker is Vice President of Standards Development at the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), Washington, D.C. He was previously President of Technical Press, a consulting company based in the San Jose area. Whitaker has been involved in various aspects of the electronics industry for over 30 years, with specialization in communications. He has lectured extensively on the topic of electronic systems design, installation, and maintenance. He is the former editorial director and associate publisher of Broadcast Engineering and Video Systems magazines, and a former radio station chief engineer and television news producer. Mr. Whitaker is a Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers and an SBE-certified professional broadcast engineer. He is also a fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Contenuti:

Frequency Bands, Propagation, and Modulation

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Propagation

Frequency Sources and References

Modulation Systems and Characteristics

Radio Transmission Systems

Radio Broadcast Systems

Radio STL Systems

Digital Radio Systems

Television Transmission Systems

Television Transmission Standards

DTV Transmission Issues

DTV Satellite Transmission

Television Transmitters

Ghost Canceling Reference Signal

Interconnection Devices and Systems

Transmission Lines

RF Combiner and Diplexer Systems

Transmitting Antennas and Systems

Radio Transmitting Antennas

Television Antenna Principles

Television Transmitting Antennas

Tower Construction and Maintenance

Tower Grounding

Radio Receivers

Receiver Characteristics

The Radio Channel

AM and FM Receivers

Television Receivers & Cable/Satellite Distribution Systems

Television Reception Principles

ATSC DTV Receiver Systems

Consumer Video and Networking Issues

Cable Television Systems

Satellite Delivery Systems

Content Distribution

Stereo Television

Receiver Antenna Systems

Adaptive Receiver Processing

RF System Maintenance

RF System Reliability Considerations

Preventing RF System Failures

Troubleshooting RF Equipment

Testing Coaxial Transmission Lines

The Smith Chart

Standby Power Systems

Test Equipment

Troubleshooting Digital Systems

Digital Test Instruments

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum Analysis

Reliability Engineering

Audio Test & Measurement

Audio Measurement & Analysis

Audio Phase and Frequency Measurement

Nonlinear Audio Distortion

Time Domain Audio Measurements

Video Signal Measurement and Analysis

Video Information Concepts

Measurement of Color Displays

Camera Performance Verification

Conventional Video Measurements

Applications of the Zone Plate Signal

Picture Quality Measurement

Digital Bit Stream Analysis

DTV Transmission Performance Issues

Appendices

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• Editore: McGraw Hill
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071451005
• ISBN 13: 9780071451000
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 1104