Customer Reviews

Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications [With CD-ROM] (Antennas & Propagation Library)

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The book is logically organized and well suited to the needs who want to be informed in areas of multipath propagation and antennas as they apply to modern personal communications. "Radiowave Propagation and Antennas for Personal Communications" is thorough and comprehensive enough to meet the needs of experienced practitioners, yet detailed and lucid enough to serve as a textbook for graduate students.

Some errors not withstanding, a book that will most certainly benefit a practicing engineer! All those who have not studied antennas in their course work, yet need to specify, test and deploy; all those who will never see an antenna, but must understand the path-loss mechanism in a fading environment will find it an invaluable resource. It describes the cellular/PCS propagation phenomena in down to earth terms, and ties them neatly to the handset/base-station requirements.

An interesting find - antennas and propagation from the point of view of the practioner, rather than a rehash of academic generalities.

Its not quite organized like a college text, but flows like the radio system design itself. From a base, rippling through a cluttered city, to a user, a person. This is an "only source" for the "radio model" of man, detailed if somewhat belabored, but available no where else. At this date [2002] perhaps pagers and paging are not timeless, but the udates from the original edition do touch on wireless telephony -- and always timeless: radios near the body. Worth a 5* for the unique content!

Excellent graduate course text; combines several areas: antennas, propagation and protocols, in a cohesive package that relates to engineering practice... well accepted by students.

The book is actually full of mistakes. One of the most fatal author mistakes is on Pg(6), when he states that Maxwell equations are valid over the range of velocities encountered by people. This is completely wrong, as Maxwell equations are invariant under Lorenz relativistic transformation.

The book also lack rigorous proves and explanations.

As a graduate student I was fortunate enough to fully experience this book in all its terrible glory. The book is FULL of errors and if you attempt the problems you will realize this. Moreover the conceptual content was very insufficient. Anyone who doesn't already know a lot about this subject, cannot hope this book will explain anything. The instructor told me that even the solution manual had errors. This is the worst textbook I have ever owned.