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Propagation

This chapter and the succeeding one between them cover the topics of antennas and propagation. These topics are closely interlinked. Both are very wide ranging subjects, so it will only be possible to scratch the surface in these two chapters. There is a vast quantity of literature relating to each of these topics, and from it, a small selection of references has been included at the end of each chapter, for further reading. In addition to propagation, the topic of external noise (both naturally occurring and man-made) is, for convenience, also covered in this chapter since (together with antenna gains and propagation loss), it determines the transmitter power needed to communicate over any given path.

The topics of antennas and ...

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