Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Impedance matching; 3. Linear power amplifiers; 4. Basic filters; 5. Frequency converters; 6. Amplitude and frequency modulation; 7. Radio receivers; 8. Suppressed-carrier AM and quadrature AM (QAM); 9. Class-C, D, and E power RF amplifiers; 10. Transmission lines; 11. Oscillators; 12. Phase lock loops and synthesizers; 13. Coupled-resonator bandpass filters; 14. Transformers and baluns; 15. Hybrid couplers; 16. Waveguide circuits; 17. Small-signal RF amplifiers; 18. Demodulators and detectors; 19. Television systems; 20. Antennas and radio wave propagation; 21. Radar systems; 22. Digital modulation techniques; 23. Modulation, noise, and information; 24. Amplifier and oscillator noise analysis; 25. The GPS navigation system; 26. Radio and radar astronomy; 27. Radio spectrometry; 28. S-parameter circuit analysis; 29. Power supplies; 30. RF test equipment; Index.

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About the Author

Jon B. Hagen was awarded his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1972, where he went on to gain 30 years' experience as an electronic design engineer, as well as establishing and teaching a Cornell electrical engineering course on RF electronics. Now retired, he has held positions as Principal Engineer at Raytheon, Electronics Department Head at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, and Director of the NAIC Support Laboratory at Cornell.

Reviews

'This book is wonderfully informative, and refreshingly different from the usual rehash of standard engineering topics. Hagen has put his unique insights, gleaned from a lifetime of engineering and radio science, into this volume and it shows. There's an insight per page, at least for me, that makes it truly enjoyable reading, even for those of us who think we know something about the field!' Paul Horowitz, Harvard University