Principles of Broadcast Technologies Lesson 1 Bellevue Community College Bob Young, Instructor
1a. Electricity Voltage Current Resistance Power Formulas
1b. Electricity Voltmeter Ammeter Ohmmeter Multimeter Wattmeter
2a. Components Resistor Capacitor Inductor Diode (P-N junctions)
2b. Components Resonant (LC) Circuits Regenerative Feedback Sine Wave Phase Relationships
3a. Radio Wave / RF Energy FCC Frequency Allocations Radiation Propagation Path Loss (distance factors) Path Loss (environmental factors)
3b. Radio Wave / RF Energy Fading (multipath) Fading (Rayleigh) Fresnel Zone Wavelength Diversity Receivers
4. Decibels Power Voltage RF Applications Audio Applications
5a. Modulation Carrier (definition) Information (definition) Analog Modulation Amplitude Modulation (AM) Frequency Modulation (FM) Pulse Modulation (PM) (ICW)
5b. Amplitude Modulation
5c. Modulation Digital Modulation Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) Phase Shift Keying (PSK) Amplitude Shift Keying (ASK)
6. Transmitter Audio Processor Modulator RF Amplifier
7a. Receiver RF Amplifier (terminology note: misuse of term, “pre-amplifier”) Demodulator (Detector, Discriminator) Audio Processor Pre-emphasis and De-emphasis
7b. AM Receiver
8a. Interference Types of Interference Co-channel Adjacent Channel Intermodulation
8b. Interference Receiver Solutions to Interference Superheterodyne Receivers Image Frequency Dual Conversion Superheterodyne Receivers
8c. Interference Cavity and Filter Solutions to Interference Bandpass Cavities High Pass Filters Low Pass Filters Block Filters Notch Reject Filters LC Filters Crystal Filters
9. Antennas Types Polarization Bandwidth Gain
10. Transmission Line Types Loss Characteristics Bending Radius Pressurized Transmission Line
10a. Other Devices Transmitter Combiner Receiver Multicoupler Splitter Duplexer Leaky Coax Bi-directional Amplifier (BDA) Isolator
11a. Applications & Principles Broadcast Radio Television Microwave Networks Satellite Communications
11b. Applications & Principles RADAR Wireless LAN, Trunked Radio Systems Wireless Data and Internet Telemetry
12. Careers Job Types and Titles Companies That Need You Job Search Resources