Antennas and propagation: a telecommunications systems subject

The design, construction, testing and utilisation of communication systems between a source and a sink physically well apart, i.e. telecommunications, involves a variety of signal processing stages. Two of these are the channel encoding and decoding which contain the fundamental aspects of modulation and demodulation with their wealth of varieties, particularly, since the expansion of digital communications. There are two other important elements of the channel encoding/decoding: the antennas or transducers between transmitter and receiver, and the channel or propagation medium. The telecommunications/microwave systems engineering course taught at Portsmouth Polytechnic is outlined