CONTENTS

 1     Sources of radio noise
 2     Terms for the specification of noise intensity and their interrelationship
        2.1     Noise representations
        2.2     White Gaussian noise statistics
        2.3     WGN on the amplitude probability graph (APD) graph
        2.4     Impulsive noise statistics
        2.5     Noise measurement parameter extraction
                  2.5.1     WGN parameter extraction
                  2.5.2     IN parameter extraction
                  2.5.3     Influence of receiver bandwidth
 3     An approximate alternative procedure for determining the APD in the presence of impulsive noise.