I am currently learning with this book. It has a very good practical and engineering oriented guide, I would recommend it!
Also the mentioned and covered hardware is cheap to get, I am currently using a RTL-SDR from nooelec and for learning the basics you have to invest like 50 euros, which is fair IMO.
RTL-SDR is not for beginners only, it is great cheap every day SDR with known parameters. If you know what you are doing, RTL-SDR solves 90% of your receiving tasks. It is noisy in some frequency range, it has spurious signals, it is only 8 bit, but professionals easily deal with all there things. As you learn more in radio world, RTL-SDR open new opportunities for you and will never die as a receiver. Later you will start writing your software for it to process I/Q samples.
This is an excellent resource. I'm not a DSP expert, but I work in the field, and this is usually the first resource I go to when I need to re-familiarize myself with some basics.
I am a dsp expert. I still find it's explanations delightful and useful perspectives. Also very good for new team members who are better at code than dsp, which is most of them.
I am currently learning with this book. It has a very good practical and engineering oriented guide, I would recommend it!
Also the mentioned and covered hardware is cheap to get, I am currently using a RTL-SDR from nooelec and for learning the basics you have to invest like 50 euros, which is fair IMO.
RTL-SDR is not for beginners only, it is great cheap every day SDR with known parameters. If you know what you are doing, RTL-SDR solves 90% of your receiving tasks. It is noisy in some frequency range, it has spurious signals, it is only 8 bit, but professionals easily deal with all there things. As you learn more in radio world, RTL-SDR open new opportunities for you and will never die as a receiver. Later you will start writing your software for it to process I/Q samples.
This is an excellent resource. I'm not a DSP expert, but I work in the field, and this is usually the first resource I go to when I need to re-familiarize myself with some basics.
I am a dsp expert. I still find it's explanations delightful and useful perspectives. Also very good for new team members who are better at code than dsp, which is most of them.