Modern Electronic Communication [With CDROM]

This is a great book! I bought it for school but the informantion helped me in other things. i would recomend this bok to anyone who is an electroninc freak.

I made a living prototyping satellite receiver head for the Ku band dish, called LNB ,which converted 12GHz wave to 500MHz cable TV signal, in year 1998-1999 and got an MS in Computer Science in UML in year 2001. I didn't know about Multisim in year 1999. In year 1999, the simulators, such as Eagleware, that displayed simulated vector network analyzer screen (the smith chart) were strictly RF-only simulators. Today I went to MIT bookstore to read a book about cable Internet and browsed through this book by accident while standing in the crowd. In the last chapter, this book showed a map of fiber links in the US and another around the globe. It really caught my eyes. That was what I needed and no other books I have read showed any thing close to that. ISP's do research about unused, over built, fiber cables and use those to increase our capacity due to the FiOS competition. That map gave me a good sense of what the whole world's backbone fiber links look like. Then I came home and googled some key words and, boom, I found companies, such as NEF, providing database services about unused fibers for broadband ISP's. The only comment I have is that the 2 fiber maps were provided by KMI, a company located in Nashua NH years ago before the dot com bubble burst. I started working in Nashua in 2001 in the midst of the burst for a company near KMI's address. Wikipedia fiber optics page named KMI one of the marketing companies that over-forecast fiber optic market. All these contributed to the telecom bubble economy during 1995-2000, not mentioning scandals. After all, fiber is our life artery today. In conclusion, I think the minor irritant is quite entertaining. J. Curtis Gibson

For me this is a good book to own. Plenty of examples and problems to solve.

This book is likely not suited as a good text for a college-level communications course, however, I feel it is excellent as a reference for Modern Electronic Communication systems. It gives the reader a good basic overview of many, many communication systems without overwhelming the reader with too many details.

I believe the mistake that many schools make is using this book too soon with students, and that is why they are confused and complain that this is not for students of "basic" electronic communication. My school did not offer it until the 8th quarter (2 years after start date), so by then the students are be well-instructed in the subject-matter that is required to be known when you study from this book. Also, our instructors are well-educated on the subject, and have no problem explaining any area that the students find confusing.