Francis M. Edgington and Jeffrey L. Thomas — Digital Basics For Cable Television Systems

Prentice Hall PTR 1999 Hardback. 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. Heavy; Large; No DJ. Pencil annotations. (ISBN: 9780137439157). Good.