Authors Dante Del Corso, Roberto Quaglia, Vittorio Camarchia and Paolo Bardella describe the benefits of their book, Telecommunication Electronics, and the problems their book helps solve: The book describes various units and circuits of a telecommunication systems, from functional levels to the circuit details and examples. Emphasis is on functions which characterize such systems, such …
Artech House author, Francisco Saez De Adana, an author of Applications of Geographic Information Systems for Wireless Network Planning, explains how the computer tool referenced in his book enriches both the text and experience beyond reading: The idea of developing a computer tool like the one described in our book came up some years ago. We …
The economic impact of implementation loss on 5G – from the start Mind the Gap In the early 1980’s, engineers struggled to design and build low cost cellular phones at 800 and 900 MHz. Having sorted that out, they then had to design phones for 1800 and 1900 MHz and then 2.1 GHz, 2.6 GHz …
In this month’s technology topic/posting we look at how satellites in polar and near polar low earth orbits add value and review present cost and performance trends. The story starts 60 years ago with the launch of the first Transit satellite navigation system satellite into a 600 nautical mile polar orbit. Working at 150 MHz …
As technical authors, our job is to write and sometimes talk about technology and the ways in which other related disciplines, science, engineering and maths, make technology more efficient and effective. Our education system, professional institutions and the publishing industry place the four STEM disciplines, Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths, into separate silos but in …
Our task as technical and scientific writers is to talk about technically complex subjects in a way that informs and engages our readers. It is our job to inform not to entertain. On the other hand science and engineering does not need to be dull but can it be romantic? In our latest book, 5G …
The Monarch Who Measured and the Science of Millimetre Metrology. George 3, described in school textbooks as ‘the mad king who lost America’ was in practice a capable King with a particular passion for science. On June 3rd 1769 he observed and timed the transit of Venus from the Kew Observatory near Richmond, a measurement …
When we write a proposal for a technical book, there are five questions a publisher needs us to answer. What are we writing, why, who will read it, where do they live and when will the work be ready. Of these, ‘where’ is important to the publisher as it tells them where to market and …
We at Artech House encourage a spirit of collaboration, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have author Geoff Varrall review Telecommunication Electronics, by Dante Del Corso, Roberto Quaglia, Vittorio Camarchia, Paolo Bardella. Read on for his insights: Those of us still self-isolating have a once in a lifetime (hopefully longer) opportunity to catch up …
Zoom Teleconferencing Boom The impact of the corona virus on telecoms is one obvious starting point – in last month’s posting, The Zoom Boom, we discussed the demand side impact of Covid-19 on teleconferencing. Business is booming for Zoom Video, the remote conferencing services platform. Since the start of the year Zoom’s market value has risen …
