Basic Radio and RF Concepts

• RF Energy

• RF Generation, Transmission, and Reception

• Oscillators and Power Amplifiers

• dB and dBm power conversions

• Digital Modulation of RF Signals

• Amplitude, Frequency Modulation, QAM & QPSK

• Filtering

• Equalizers

• Multiple Access Techniques

• TDMA, FDMA, CDMA

• OFDM, W-OFDM, SOFDMA

• Duplexing, TDD vs. FDD

• Channel Coding

• Spread-Spectrum Modulation

RF Propagation Principles

• Path / Propagation Losses

• Fading

• Fade Margin and Fresnel Zone

• Link Budgets

• Receiver Sensitivity

• Noise Figure

• Guard Band

• BER vs. Noise

• Link Budget and High Level System Design

• Sample Link Budget Calculations

Antennas

• Antennas Basics