RF Training | Radio Frequency Training Fundamentals

RF systems come in a bewildering variety of forms and technologies, including satellite and terrestrial, mobile and fixed, microwave, trunked radio, HF/VHF, Blue-Tooth, and RF ID, to name a few.  While these systems are diverse in design and function, they all employ radio waves as a means of communication and thus utilize concepts and techniques that are fundamental to all RF systems.

In this RF Training Fundamentals or Radio Frequency Training Fundamentals course, you will learn how radio waves propagate and fade, the models that describe RF propagation and fading, how antennas work and are used, the basic traffic engineering models, the principles of RF design and optimization including traffic engineering, and the process of deploying an RF system.  At the end of the RF Training Fundamentals or Radio Frequency Training Fundamentals course, you will have a solid foundation in the concepts, principles, methods, and considerations common to all RF systems.  You will then be well prepared to embark on a more detailed study of your specialized interest in RF, whether  cellular/mobile, microwave, HF/VHF, satellite, or other

RF Training or Radio Frequency Training Fundamentals covers the following topics:

• RF | Radio Frequency Fundamentals: Introduction
• RF Training | Radio Frequency Fundamentals: RF Propagation and Fading
• RF Fundamentals: Antenna Concepts and Usage
• RF Fundamentals: Basics of Traffic Engineering
• RF Fundamentals: Design of RF Systems
• And more…

• RF Optimization Training
• RF Engineering Training
• RF Safety for Workers Training
• RF Systems Analysis and Design Training
• RF Propagation, Fading, and Link Budget Analysis Training
• RF For Technicians Training
• RF Signal Processing Training
• RF Systems Principles, Design, and Deployment Training

INTRODUCTION

• The electromagnetic spectrum
• History of RF
• Regulation of RF
• Types of RF systems
• RF applications

RF PROPAGATION AND FADING

• Principles of RF propagation
• RF modulation basics
• Reflection, refraction, diffraction
• Digital RF communications basics
• Propagation models: Okumura, HATA, Cost 231
• Free space loss
• Reflection scatting loss, Rayleigh fading, multipath
• Multipath cancellation

ANTENNA CONCEPTS AND USAGE

• How antennas work
• Antenna gain
• Antenna radiation patterns
• Isotropic and dipole radiators
• Collinear vertical antennas
• Horizontal arrays, yagis, log-periodic
• Effective radiated power
• Testing and measurements
• Performance testing

RF Training – Radio Frequency Training Fundamentals – BASICS OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

• Trunks, circuits, an overview of the T-Carrier System
• Erlang B, extended Erlang B, Erlang C
• Blocking probability, basic operational concepts towards the grade of service (GoS)
• Stochastic modeling of unknown variables
• Traffic simulation
• Using calculation tools

DESIGN OF RF SYSTEMS

• Tools available for design
• Design considerations
• Propagation losses
• Link budget
• System degradation
• Eb/No, SNR, BER, Noise
• Limitations of bandwidth
• Receiver sensitivity
• Intermodulation distortion
• RF performance and its optimization
• RF system management and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Practice link budget calculations

DEPLOYMENT OF RF SYSTEMS

• Planning to undertake RF deployment projects
• RF deployment process
• Successful and unsuccessful RF deployments
• Morphology zones
• Design Engineering
• Traffic engineering
• Mixers
• RF regulatory considerations
• Call processing
• Mobility management
• Soft versus Hard handover
• RF optimization and performance testing
• Indoor design considerations

CONCLUSION

• A survey of current and evolving technologies
• Directions for future study and specialization
• Course recap, Q/A, and Evaluations

RF Training | Radio Frequency Training Fundamentals Course Wrap-Up