Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering provides clear, comprehensive, and well-illustrated coverage of both DTV and DAB technologies.

Presenting the material within the context of established radio and television basics, this manual explains the underlying technologies of digital and analog transmission systems and bridges the gap between classic broadcast engineering principles and data with the latest digital technologies—including DTV, NTSC, and digital audio broadcasting.

Featuring:

• 57 chapters of today's need-to-know broadcast and engineering and technical information, data, and reference material
• Digital television and data broadcast standards and implementation guidelines
• Maintenance of RF systems
• All types of antennas and receivers
• Television and radio transmission systems
• Testing procedures and equipment for new (and older) technologies
• and much more!

Contents

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
• IBOC AM Digital Radio System
• IBOC FM Digital Radio System

Television Transmission Systems

• Television Transmission Standards
• Ghost Canceling Reference Signal
• The ATSC DTV System
• Longley-Rice Propagation Model
• Television Transmitters
• Multiple Transmitter Networks
• DTV Satellite Transmission
• The DVB Standard

Interconnection Devices and Systems

• Transmission Line
• RF Combiner and Diplexer Systems

Transmitting Antennas and Systems

• Radio Antenna Principles
• Television Antenna Principles
• Television Transmitting Antennas
• Tower Construction and Maintenance
• Tower Grounding
• Lightning Effects
• Transmitter Building Grounding Practices

Radio Receivers

• Receiver Characteristics
• The Radio Channel
• AM and FM Receivers

Television Receivers & Cable/Satellite Distribution Systems

• Television Reception Principles
• ATSC DTV Receiver Systems
• Receiver Antenna Systems
• Cable Television Systems
• Satellite Delivery Systems
• Content Distribution

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
• DTV Transmission Performance Issues

Index

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