Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications

• The propagation characteristics associated with the FLEXT paging, GSM, IS-95 CDMA, Japan PHS telephony, and EUREKA-147 digital broadcasting protocols
  
• Expanded sections on multipath wave propagation including diversity reception, plus an all new section on PCS channel protocols
  
• New sections covering RF exposure standards and compliance, near-ground yagi antennas, and two- way messaging system design
  
• New problem-and-solution sets at the end of each chapter
  

Software Included! Accompanying software containing Mathcad version 6.0 and 7.0 Professional Edition templates guide you through chapter-end problems, and FORTRAN source code and executable code assist you in further study of loop and dipole antennas. One 3.5" IBM PC-compatible diskette; Mathcad templates compatible with IBM-PC and Macintosh versions of Mathcad.

Table of contents

Introduction
Fixed-Site Antennas
The Radio Communication Channel
The Radio Frequency Spectrum
Communications Using Earth-Orbiting Satellites
Radiowave Propagation -- Radio Test Sites
Radiowave Propagation -- The Urban and Suburban Paths
Waves in Multipath Propagation
Receiver Sensitivity and Transmitted Fields
Simulated Human Body Devices
Loop, Dipole, and Patch Antennas
A Radio Communication System