Chapter 4Radio Frequency Components, Measurements, and Mathematics
IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:
Components of RF communications
- Transmitter
- Antenna
- Receiver
- Intentional radiator
- Equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP)
- Units of power and comparison
- Watt (W)
- Milliwatt (mW)
- Decibel (dB)
- Decibels relative to an isotropic radiator (dBi)
- Decibels relative to a half-wave dipole antenna (dBd)
- Decibels relative to 1 milliwatt (dBm)
- Inverse square law
- RF mathematics
- Rule of 10s and 3s
- Noise floor
- Signal-to-noise ...
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