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Digital Basics for Cable Television Systems
If you install, upgrade, or maintain digital or mixed digital/analog systems, Digital Basics for Cable Television Systems is your complete guide to this new world. Friendly and authoritative, it's all you need to know to deliver digital services with maximum quality and reliability. With this book's simple illustrations, definitions, and examples, you'll find it easy to master key digital CATV concepts such as signal coding/decoding digital modulation, and multiplexing. You'll learn how to measure digital signal average and burst power, and the impact of distortion, noise, and interference on digital signals. Digital Basics for Cable Television Systems is also a great reference, with a convenient glossary of digital terminology, a series of performance measurement maps, a test equipment survey, exercises with answers, and much more. Whether you're a technician or an engineer, this book will help you maximize your digital system's performance - and your own.
283 pages, Paperback
First published November 16, 1998
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October 15, 2017
An excellent introductory book describing the characteristics of digital transmission. I picked up this book based on the review from the Boston, MA reader with the expectation that it would provide me with the basics of digital transmission theory.
The topics are organized in logical order with the basics of signal transmission, conversion from analog to digital data streams, digital modulation, error correction, power measurements, and interference sources.
What really impressed me was the simple to understand descriptions and drawings used to convey the underlying theory without getting the reader bogged down in engineering type equations.
I definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in a general understanding of digital signal applications. Even though the book is geared towards cable TV, it provided me with a strong foundation in digital communications!
The topics are organized in logical order with the basics of signal transmission, conversion from analog to digital data streams, digital modulation, error correction, power measurements, and interference sources.
What really impressed me was the simple to understand descriptions and drawings used to convey the underlying theory without getting the reader bogged down in engineering type equations.
I definitely recommend this book for anyone interested in a general understanding of digital signal applications. Even though the book is geared towards cable TV, it provided me with a strong foundation in digital communications!
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