[.ca] Microwave Radio Transmission Design Guide (ISBN 1580530311)

The Why and How of practical microwaves:
Trevor Manning's Microwave Radio Transmission Design Guide is a comprehensive guide to the practical design and deployment of digital microwave links of small to medium capacity, of the kind now used so widely in mobile telephone and wireless systems. The author, in clear and economical English, begins with an overview of modern microwave equipment and typical applications and moves on to discuss every aspect of microwave link planning including scoping, path planning and surveying, site selection and testing, selection of equipment and antennas, including passive reflectors. For those with mostly analogue experience, Chapter 9 gives an overview of the PDH and SDH payloads carried by most present-day systems. There are detailed chapters on microwave link design, propagation, fading, frequency planning and a discussion of ITU reliability standards as applied to microwave links, including practical advice on when to employ hot-standby or ring-main protection. This book will be valuable to both engineers and technicians involved in almost any aspect of microwave link design and construction. Highly recommended.

Good technical reference:
Starts with the basics. The first section is titled "What is Microwave?" It moves along very quickly to path planning, site surveys, performance objectives, design criteria, descriptions of various equipment components and configurations and then to propagation phenomena and some real world examples. Some helpful references to the software package that the author uses. The introduction for the book was even written by the head software engineer that wrote the program. If I had to recommend one general reference on microwave, this would be it.

Excelent to start in the wireless design Business:
Trevor, gives an excelent description on wireless design focusing on the microwave sector, giving formulas and the proper adjustments for the best results . THESE BOOK IS THE BIBLE OF THE MICROWAVE WIRELESS DESIGNER MANUEL DE LA ROCHA SR. WIRELESS ENGINEER

A complete and comprehensive guide for the link planner:
This book is, so-to-speak, an absolute must for the Transmission Planner. The planner's successful implimentation of any point-to-point PDH or SDH radio network depends on his ability to select fit-for-purpose equipment, to understand the important issues regarding careful antenna selection, to understand the quality objectives he is designing for, to understand the mechanics of link design at the hand of ITU standards, to understand some of the most significant propagation effects, to understand the issues w.r.t. site selection and to be able to do proper frequency planning when needed - This book covers it all and more. Trevor is a true expert in his field. The insights shared in his book and his practical advice throughout is backed up with his enormous experience and well researched knowledge.