September 30, 2009

Communication Systems: Microwave Receivers


There are simply a variety of receivers out there that has many uses. One receiver type that comes to my mind that I think I need to discuss is the Microwave Receivers, it is a common receiver that is used to amplify weak signals that antennas, radios or any communication systems gather. So, basically Microwave Receivers is all about gathering weak signals or in some terms weak frequencies to make ends meet in broadcasting. Most people take a swing at it because they claim that the name itself confuses them. Microwave Receivers can be a funny name for a receiver because we have the common knowledge that a Microwave is an oven that we use at home to cook meals and mixing it with a technical term like receiver paints an awkward picture on people’s minds. So, I am here to further discuss some few things regarding Microwave Receivers.

First and foremost as I have defined in the early parts of this article, Microwave Receivers are receivers that amplify or modify signals that it gathers from basic communication and broadcasting systems or gadgets. It gives the reception a stronger impulse thus making the signal or frequency stronger. Some people might not understand this but it is really a device which makes your signals stronger.

Learning more about Microwave Receivers, you also need to know more about receiver terminologies such as baseband frequency, or when the receiver uses a mixer, you need to know something about RF, IF and LO frequencies etc. Well, to tell you the truth it isn’t really required to study most of them as long as you have an idea what they are. Microwave Receivers is commonly used these days because most technology or communication systems rely heavily on signals.

The internet technology for example uses broadband connection, in order to make the signals stronger and more reliable, microwave receivers come in to play to amplify it, WiFi signals and others also require microwave receivers to help them have a better distribution of frequency or signal. It is basically an important part of today’s communication engineering. Most microwave engineers tackle the importance of knowing more about these receivers in order for people to further have a broad understanding not only about microwave receivers and also how it operates. The distribution of signals to most locations can be limited, like in broadcasting for satellite dishes it doesn’t really gives you a big clear picture once the signal is relatively weak, so what happen is microwave receivers comes to the scene to give you a clearer picture.

We all need to be at least aware on what microwave receivers do, so that we would be knowledgeable on how things work around our communication systems. The realm of engineering can be really broad depending on what you need to know. Microwave Receivers should not be taken for granted and/or snubbed. We need to make our own understanding in certain terminologies that affect our everyday lives and technology such as microwave receivers¸ we need to be well informed so that we know what we are dealing with in our own communication systems.

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