Egan William F. Practical RF system design

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., New York. — John Wiley & Sons, 2003. — 416 p.This book is about RF system analysis and design at the level that requires an understanding of the interaction between the modules of a system so the ultimate performance can be predicted. It describes concepts that are advanced, that is, beyond those that are more commonly taught, because these are necessary to the understanding of effects encountered in practice. It is about answering questions such as:
How will the gain of a cascade (a group of modules in series) be affected by the standing-wave ratio (SWR) specifications of its modules?
How will noise on a local oscillator affect receiver noise figure and desensitization?
How does the effective noise figure of a mixer depend on the filtering that precedes it?
How can we determine the linearity of a cascade from specifications on its modules?
How do we expect intermodulation products (IMs) to change with signal amplitude and why do they sometimes change differently?
How can modules be combined to reduce certain intermodulation products or to turn bad impedance matches into good matches?
How can the spurious responses in a conversion scheme be visualized and how can the magnitudes of the spurs be determined? How can this picture be used to ascertain filter requirements?