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Author Quan, Ronald, author.

Title Build your own transistor radios : a hobbyist's guide to high-performance and low-powered radio circuits / Ronald Quan
Published New York ; London : McGraw-Hill, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Series Build Your Own
Build Your Own
Contents Introduction -- Calibration tools and generators for testing -- Components and hacking/modifying parts for radio circuits -- Building simple test oscillators and modulators -- Low-power tuned radio-frequency radios -- Transistor reflex radios -- Low-power regenerative radio -- Transistor reflex radios -- A low-power regenerative radio -- Superheterodyne radios -- Low-power superheterodyne radios -- Exotic or "off the wall" superheterodyne radios -- Inductor-less circuits -- Introduction to software-defined radios (SDRS) -- Oscillator circuits -- Mixer circuits and harmonic mixers -- Sampling theory and sampling mixers -- In-phase and quadrature (IQ) signals -- Intermediate-frequency circuits -- Detector/automatic volume control circuits -- Amplifier circuits -- Resonant circuits -- Image rejection -- Noise -- Learning by doing
Summary A DIY guide to designing and building transistor radios Create sophisticated transistor radios that are inexpensive yet highly efficient. Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits offers complete projects with detailed schematics and insights on how the radios were designed. Learn how to choose components, construct the different types of radios, and troubleshoot your work. Digging deeper, this practical resource shows you how to engineer innovative devices by experimenting with and radically improving existing designs. Build You
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Transistor radios -- Design and construction -- Amateurs' manuals
Transistor radios -- Design and construction
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780071799713
0071799710
Other Titles Hobbyist's guide to high-performance and low-powered radio circuits