This is a student supplement associated with: Electronic Communications: A System Approach, 1/e Jeffrey S. Beasley Jonathan D. Hymer Gary M. Miller ISBN: 0132988631

Now in its second edition, Electronic Communications Systems provides electronics technologists with an extraordinarily complete, accurate, and timely introduction to all of the state-of-the-art technologies used in the communications field today. Comprehensive coverage includes traditional analog systems, as well as modern digital techniques. Extensive discussion of today's modern wireless systems - including cellular, radio, paging systems, and wireless data networks - is also included. In addition, sections on data communication and the internet, high-definition television, and fiber optics have been updated in this edition to enable readers to keep pace with the latest technological advancements. A block-diagram approach is emphasized throughout the book, with circuits included when helpful to lead readers to an understanding of fundamental principles. Instructive, step-by-step examples using MultiSIM.

For courses in Electronic Communications Technology (one or two-semester sequence), Microwave Communications, Wireless Communications, Communications Maintenance Technology, and Introduction to Telecommunications. Electronic Communications: A Systems Approach provides a comprehensive overview of wireless, wired, analog, and digital electronic communications technologies at the systems level. The authors' carefully crafted narrative structure helps readers put the many facts and concepts encountered in the study of communications technologies into a larger, coherent whole. Topics covered include modulation, communications circuits, transmitters and receivers, digital communications techniques (including digital modulation and demodulation), telephone and wired computer networks, wireless communications systems (both short range and wide area), transmission lines, wave propagation, antennas, waveguides and radar, and fiber-optic systems. The math analysis strikes a middle ground between the calculus-intensive communications texts intended for four-year BSEE programs and the math-avoidance path followed by some texts intended for two-year programs.

Contains laboratory experiments to reinforce concepts which are critical for a sound understanding of electronic communications. New experiments have been added on Fiber Optic Cabling Splicing and Fiber Optic Cable Connectorization.