Hickman I. Practical Radio-Frequency Handbook

4th edition. — Elsevier Ltd., 2007, 299 p. — ISBN–13 978-0-7506-8039-4, ISBN–10 0-7506-8039-3.The Practical Radio-Frequency Handbook aims to live up to its title, as a useful vademecum and companion for all who wish to extend their familiarity with RF technology. It is hoped that it will prove of use to practising electronic engineers who wish to move into the RF design area, or who have recently done so, and to engineers, technicians, amateur radio enthusiasts, electronics hobbyists and all with an interest in electronics applied to radio frequency communications. From this, you will see that it is not intended to be a textbook in any shape or form. Nothing would have been easier than to fill it up with lengthy derivations of formulae, but readers requiring to find these should look elsewhere. Where required, formulae will be found simply stated: they are there to be used, not derived.Acknowledgements.
Passive components.
Resistance and resistors.
Capacitors.
Inductors and transformers.
Passive circuits.
RF transmission lines.
Transmission line operation at d.c.
Transmission line operation at r.f.
RF transformers.
Introduction.
Transformer basics.
R.F. considerations.
Baluns.
Line transformers.
Couplers, hybrids and directional couplers.
Active components for RF uses.
RF small-signal circuitry.
Modulation and demodulation.
Oscillators.
RF power amplifiers.
Safety hazards to be considered.
First design decisions.
Levellers, VSWR protection, RF routing switches.
Starting the design.
Low-pass filter design.
Discrete PA stages.
Transmitters and receivers.
Advanced architectures.
Propagation.
Antennas.
Attenuators and equalizers.
Measurements.
Measurements on CW signals.
Modulation measurements.
Spectrum and network analysers.
Other instruments.
Appendix. Useful relationships.
Appendix. S-Parameters.
Appendix. Attenuators (pads).
Appendix. Universal resonance curve.
Appendix. RF cables.
Appendix. Wire gauges and related information.
Appendix. Manufacturers of soft-ferrite and iron-powder cores.
Appendix. Types of modulation – classification.
Appendix. Quartz crystals.
Appendix. Elliptic filters.
Appendix. Screening.
Appendix. Worldwide minimum external noise levels.
Appendix. Frequency allocations and designations.
Appendix. SRDs (Short Range Devices).