Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering
by: Jerry C. Whitaker
Abstract: 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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Table of Contents
- A. Additional updates relating to broadcast engineering in general, and this book in particular, can be found at the Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering web site:
- B. Other books in the McGraw-Hill Video/Audio Series
- C. Preface
- 1. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
- 2. Propagation
- 3. Frequency Sources and References
- 4. Modulation Systems and Characteristics
- 5. Radio Broadcast Systems
- 6. Radio STL Systems
- 7. Digital Radio Systems
- 8. IBOC AM Digital Radio System
- 9. IBOC FM Digital Radio System
- 10. Television Transmission Standards
- 11. Ghost Canceling Reference Signal
- 12. The ATSC DTV System
- 13. Longley-Rice Propagation Model
- 14. Television Transmitters
- 15. Multiple Transmitter Networks
- 16. DTV Satellite Transmission
- 17. The DVB Standard
- 18. Transmission Line
- 19. RF Combiner and Diplexer Systems
- 20. Radio Antenna Principles
- 21. Television Antenna Principles
- 22. Television Transmitting Antennas
- 23. Tower Construction and Maintenance
- 24. Tower Grounding
- 25. Lightning Effects
- 26. Transmitter Building Grounding Practices
- 27. Receiver Characteristics
- 28. The Radio Channel
- 29. AM and FM Receivers
- 30. Television Reception Principles
- 31. ATSC DTV Receiver Systems
- 32. Receiver Antenna Systems
- 33. Cable Television Systems
- 34. Satellite Delivery Systems
- 35. Content Distribution
- 36. RF System Reliability Considerations
- 37. Preventing RF System Failures
- 38. Troubleshooting RF Equipment
- 39. Testing Coaxial Transmission Line
- 40. The Smith Chart
- 41. Standby Power Systems
- 42. Troubleshooting Digital Systems
- 43. Digital Test Instruments
- 44. Oscilloscopes
- 45. Spectrum Analysis
- 46. Reliability Engineering
- 47. Audio Measurement and Analysis
- 48. Audio Phase and Frequency Measurement
- 49. Nonlinear Audio Distortion
- 50. Time Domain Audio Measurements
- 51. Video Information Concepts
- 52. Measurement of Color Displays
- 53. Camera Performance Verification
- 54. Conventional Video Measurements
- 55. Application of the Zone Plate Signal
- 56. Picture Quality Measurement
- 57. DTV Transmission Performance Issues
- A. About the Editors
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Expanded Table of Contents
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A.
Additional updates relating to broadcast engineering in general, and this book in
particular, can be found at the Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering web site:
-
B.
Other books in the McGraw-Hill Video/Audio Series
- C. Preface
- 1. The Electromagnetic Spectrum
- 2. Propagation
- 3. Frequency Sources and References
- 4. Modulation Systems and Characteristics
- 5. Radio Broadcast Systems
- 6. Radio STL Systems
- 7. Digital Radio Systems
- 8. IBOC AM Digital Radio System
- 9. IBOC FM Digital Radio System
- 10. Television Transmission Standards
- 11. Ghost Canceling Reference Signal
- 12. The ATSC DTV System
- 13. Longley-Rice Propagation Model
- 14. Television Transmitters
- 15. Multiple Transmitter Networks
- 16. DTV Satellite Transmission
- 17. The DVB Standard
- 18. Transmission Line
- 19. RF Combiner and Diplexer Systems
- 20. Radio Antenna Principles
- 21. Television Antenna Principles
- 22. Television Transmitting Antennas
- 23. Tower Construction and Maintenance
- 24. Tower Grounding
- 25. Lightning Effects
- 26. Transmitter Building Grounding Practices
- 27. Receiver Characteristics
- 28. The Radio Channel
- 29. AM and FM Receivers
- 30. Television Reception Principles
- 31. ATSC DTV Receiver Systems
- 32. Receiver Antenna Systems
- 33. Cable Television Systems
- 34. Satellite Delivery Systems
- 35. Content Distribution
- 36. RF System Reliability Considerations
- 37. Preventing RF System Failures
- 38. Troubleshooting RF Equipment
- 39. Testing Coaxial Transmission Line
- 40. The Smith Chart
- 41. Standby Power Systems
- 42. Troubleshooting Digital Systems
- 43. Digital Test Instruments
- 44. Oscilloscopes
- 45. Spectrum Analysis
- 46. Reliability Engineering
- 47. Audio Measurement and Analysis
- 48. Audio Phase and Frequency Measurement
- 49. Nonlinear Audio Distortion
- 50. Time Domain Audio Measurements
- 51. Video Information Concepts
- 52. Measurement of Color Displays
- 53. Camera Performance Verification
- 54. Conventional Video Measurements
- 55. Application of the Zone Plate Signal
- 56. Picture Quality Measurement
- 57. DTV Transmission Performance Issues
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A.
About the Editors
Book Details
Title: Standard Handbook of Broadcast Engineering
Publisher: McGraw-Hill: New York, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Auckland, Bogotá, Caracas, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, Montreal, New Delhi, San Juan, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto
Copyright / Pub. Date: 2005 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
ISBN: 9780071451000
Authors:
Jerry C. Whitaker
is a well-known author is the field of video, TV, HDTV, and radio, and President of
Technical Press, Inc. Author and editor of numerous books on technical topics, he
wrote the leading technical manual in television, The Standard Handbook of Video and
Television Engineering. He is also the author of Video and Television Engineers’ Field
Manual; DTV: The Revolution in Digital Television; The Communications Facility Design
Handbook, as well as other standard references. In 2000, he was appointed Technical
Director of ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee), the international, non-profit
organization charged with developing voluntary standards for digital television. A
Fellow of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and of the Society of Motion Picture
and Television Engineers (SMPTE), he currently teaches a course at UCLA on power control
and distribution. He lives in Morgan Hill, California.
Description: 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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