I'm looking for a tutorial/introduction/book on wireless comm circuits. Not something advanced but not something for retards. Something like AOE for wirelss comm. I don't care really too much about all the theory at this point but just want the basics along with the basics of circuit design and antenna design. I'm not looking to be an expert but just have some confidence when designing simple wireless circuits and understand the major issues involved. I don't like to follow datasheet's circuit examples or other found on the internet unless I have a decent understanding of what is going on. Like why the balun or why did they use this value capacitor, etc... In that case I know it has something to do with impedence matching with the antenna and/or filtering.
I know the general idea of radiating power from an antenna but I need a bit more practical theory(but not something for hardcore as I won't be getting hard core into it) and a bit of how it actually works in the real world. (Again, like AOE but for wireless)
Ultimately I'll be using an IC that does almost all the stuff needed internally so it's not necessary but I'll feel more comfortable about it if I have some idea what is really going on.
What I don't want, for example, is where they solve maxwell's equations for a monopole antenna to show the electric field value at some arbitrary point. I could really careless at this point about that kinda stuff(not saying it's important but that is not my goal). I don't mind the result being shown but just care about a page of equations that really won't make me understand the real world application any better. The final equation might but I don't wanna wade through all of the intermediate steps to get there.