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NAB Engineering Handbook
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Tenth Edition
By
Graham Jones, Director of Communications Engineering, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington DC
Edmund Williams
David Layer, David Layer is Director, Advanced Engineering in the Science & Technology Department of NAB, located in Washington, DC. David has
been with NAB since 1995, and has been very active in the radio standards setting area. He is also involved in NAB's technical conference
planning and technical publication activities, and has been an author and contributing author for numerous technical publications, including
IEEE Spectrum magazine (a leading journal of the Electrical Engineering profession) and the McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology.
Thomas Osenkowsky, Tom Osenkowsky is a Senior Member of IEEE, NARTE and SBE. He has been practicing broadcast engineering since 1976. He has designed, constructed
and maintained radio broadcast facilities in the United States and Caribbean Islands, written software for engineering applications and
is a freqquent contributor to Radio World magazine.
Description
The NAB Engineering Handbook provides detailed information on virtually every aspect of the broadcast chain, from news gathering, program
production and postproduction through master control and distribution links to transmission, antennas, RF propagation, cable and satellite.
Hot topics covered include HD Radio, HDTV, 2 GHz broadcast auxiliary services, EAS, workflow, metadata, digital asset management, advanced
video and audio compression, audio and video over IP, and Internet broadcasting. A wide range of related topics that engineers and managers
need to understand are also covered, including broadcast administration, FCC practices, technical standards, security, safety, disaster
planning, facility planning, project management, and engineering management.
Basic principles and the latest technologies and issues
are all addressed by respected professionals with first-hand experience in the broadcast industry and manufacturing. This edition has
been fully revised and updated, with 104 chapters and over 2000 pages. The Engineering Handbook provides the single most comprehensive
and accessible resource available for engineers and others working in production, postproduction, networks, local stations, equipment
manufacturing or any of the associated areas of radio and television.
Audience
Broadcast engineers in all aspects of engineering including television, radio, sound and video.
Contents
1. Broadcast Standards and Practices
1.1 Electromagnetic Spectrum
1.2 Frequency Allocations for Broadcast Services
1.3 FCC Organization
and Administrative Practices
1.4 FCC Compliance and Information Bureau
1.5 Frequency Coordination
1.6 Distance and Bearing Calculations
1.7 Broadcast Standards and Practices
1.8 Digital Audio Standards
1.9 NTSC Standard
1.10 Worldwide Standards for Conventional Television
1.11 EAS
2. Broadcast Towers and Systems
2.1 Propagation Characteristics
2.2 Design, Erection, and Maintenance of Towers
2.3 Lightning
Protection for Tower Structures
2.4 Coaxial Transmission Line
3. Audio Production Facilities
3.1 Planning an Audio Production Center
3.2 Principles of Acoustics
3.3 Microphones
3.4 Audio Recording Systems
3.5 Studio Audio Equipment
3.6 Station Networking and Automation
3.7 Digital Audio Data Compression Technologies
3.8 Transmission Audio Processing
3.9 Remote News and Production
3.10 Telephone Network
Interfacing
3.11 Common Carrier Audio Program Services
4. Radio Transmission Facilities
4.1 AM Transmitters
4.2 AM Stereo
4.3 FM
Transmitters
4.4 FM Stereo and SCA Systems
4.5 STL Systems
4.6 Radio Data Broadcasting
4.7 AM IBOC System
4.8 FM IBOC System
4.9
Transmission System Control and Monitoring
4.10 AM Antenna Systems
4.11 AM Antenna Coupling and Phasing Systems
4.12 Computer Simulation
of Radio Antenna Systems
4.13 AM Antenna System Maintenance
4.14 FM Broadcast Antennas
4.15 FM Combining Systems
4.16 FM Translators
and Boosters
4.17 AM and FM Field Strength Measurements
5. Video Production Facilities
5.1. Planning a Video Production Center
5.2.
Principles of Light, Vision, and Photometry
5.3. Video Pickup Devices and Systems
5.4. Video Signal Switching, Timing, and Distribution
5.5. Magnetic and Optical Recording Media
5.6. Video Compression
5.7. Video Recording Principles
5.8. Video Server Storage Systems
5.9. Video Special Effects Systems
5.10. Station Automation and Networking
5.11. Intercom and IFB Systems
5.12. Weather Radar Systems
5.13. Closed Captioning and Extended Services
5.14. Film for Television
5.15. Television Camera Robotics
5.16. Lighting for Television
5.17. Remote Video Production
6. Television Transmission Facilities
6.1 Microwave and STL Systems
6.2 Television Transmitters
6.3
Multichannel Television Sound
6.4 Television Data Broadcasting Systems
6.5 Transmission System Control and Monitoring
6.6 Waveguide
6.7 Diplexers, Combiners, and Filters
6.8 Television Antenna Systems
6.9 Television Field Strength Measurement
6.10 Fiber Optic Transmission
Systems
6.11 Satellite Earth Stations and Systems
6.12 Low Power Television
7. Digital Television
7.1. The ATSC DTV System
7.2. Service
Multiplex and Transport Systems
7.3. Audio Encoding and Decoding
7.4. Program and System Information Protocol
7.5. Closed Captioning
7.6. Data Broadcasting
7.7. Media and Metadata Management
7.8. Interactive Television
7.9. The DVB Standard
8. Signal Measurement
and Testing
8.1. Audio Signal Analysis
8.2. Video Signal Analysis
8.3. Radio Frequency Signal Analysis
9. Ancillary Broadcast Systems
9.1 Broadcast Facility Planning and Construction
9.2 AC Power Conditioning
9.3 Facility Grounding Practices
9.4 Standby Power Systems
10. Technical Management and Safety
10.1 Managing a Technical Facility
10.2 Engineering Documentation
10.3 Systems Engineering Concepts
10.4 Non-Ionizing Radiation
10.5 PCBs and Other Hazardous Substances
10.6 Electrical Shock
10.7 Tower Safety, Fall Arrest Systems,
and OSHA
10.8 Disaster Planning and Recovery
10. Index
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 2120 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-80751-5
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS
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