Radio System Design for Telecommunications (Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing)

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Summary: From 1 to 100 GHz, here's a landmark text!
Review: Freeman is perhaps my favorite technical author. He presents the subject clearly, backing it up with equations and examples that may be quickly applied to the problem at hand.

His derivations of equations are explicit, without the immense dropouts that require hours of puzzlement to finally see how intuitively obvious it was. The propagation section shows the profound effects of rainfall on higher frequencies (especially important to Floridians). Low angle propagation paths is part of the System Approach chapter, an important consideration.

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Summary: One of the best books I have read on the subject
Review: This is an extremely useful reference book for the practicing communications enginner. It provides insightful and simple examples.