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PART ONE - FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICITY 1.1 Electricity 1.2 Voltage 1.3 Current 1.4 Resistance 1.5 Ohm’s law 1.6 Power 1.7 Prefixes 1.8 Voltages 1.9 UHF and satellite TV signal levels
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PART THREE – DIGITAL TV DISPLAYS 3.1 The home cinema 3.2 Picture displays 3.3 The cathode ray tube 3.4 Flat panel TV displays 3.5 High Definition TV 3.6 Analogue Interconnections 3.7 Digital interconnections 3.8 HDMI cables and connectors
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PART FOUR – MODULATION TECHNIQUES 4.1 Radio waves 4.2 Types of modulation
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PART TWO - DIGITAL TELEVISION 2.1 Analogue picture formats 2.2 Digital picture formats 2.3 Analogue to digital conversion 2.4 Digital compression 2.5 Programme multiplexing 2.6 System overload 2.7 Noise removal and error correction
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PART FIVE – UHF BROADCASTING AND RECEPTION 5.1 Broadcasting formats 5.2 Principles of radio and TV aerials 5.3 UHF signal measurements 5.4 TV amplifiers 5.5 Splitters, combiners, diplexers and filters 5.6 Mounting hardware 5.7 Installation techniques 5.8 Typical domestic systems 5.9 Troubleshooting
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