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This portion of the Website is going to introduce concepts which are important to understand if you wish to do RF design.

I intend to add content to this portion of the site in the near future.

 

Topics	Tutorial Front page
Visualize how reflected waves develop on a transmission line. Understand VSWR and the Reflection Coefficient	Click here
Five flash programs to help understand the Smith chart:	Click here
A tutorial about decibels:	Click here
A tutorial about Thermal Noise and Thermal Noise Properties	Click here
A tutorial about Noise Figure, Noise Factor and Cascaded Noise Figure Calculations	click here

 

Future tutorials: Basic Oscillator Theory, Radio Theory, Phase Lock Loop

 

A little about me:

I am an Electrical Engineer and have worked at RF design engineering for 25 years. RF design requires knowledge across a wide range of Electrical Engineering topics. I was exposed to most of what I needed to know in college, however, I did not really learn what I needed to know in college. I have had to spend 25 years continually thinking about this subject. Sometimes I have gone several years without expanding my knowledge, and sometimes I spend 2 or 3 years in a row reviewing material and buying new books and studying new subjects. This is a field that you just keep learning a little at a time.

 

No book or website could possibly provide all the information you need to be a successful RF engineer or designer. It must really come from within yourself, and will require a passion that lasts a long time if you wish to master this subject. You need to be thinking about many concepts and constantly trying to tie these concepts together to become a good RF designer.

I hope to provide a few little pieces of insight on topics that I have found to be tricky to understand. Hopefully you can integrate some of these thoughts into your current knowledge base to become just a little stronger than you were before.