The Electronics of Radio
This fascinating book provides a stimulating introduction to analog electronics by analysing the design and construction of a radio transceiver. Essential theoretical background is given along with carefully designed laboratory and homework exercises. The author begins with a thorough description of basic electronic components and simple circuits and goes on to describe the key elements of radio electronics, including filters, amplifiers, oscillators, mixers, and antennas. Laboratory exercises lead the reader through the design, construction, and testing of a popular radio transceiver (the NorCal 40A). A diskette containing the widely known circuit simulation software, Puff, is included in the book. This was the first book to deal with elementary electronics in the context of radio. It can be used as a textbook for introductory analog electronics courses, for more advanced undergraduate classes on radio-frequency electronics, and will also be of great interest to electronics hobbyists and radio enthusiasts.
- Teaches introductory electronics in the framework of wireless communications
- Integrates theory and laboratory work
- Will appeal to electronics hobbyists and radio enthusiasts (over 600,000 in the US alone)
- Includes the circuit simulation software, Puff, on diskette
- Distinguished author - Fellow of the IEEE
Reviews & endorsements
"Overall, this text is worthy of serious study for the care with which it combines theory and practice, and for the scope of its development from lowly, Ohm's law beginnings to substantive radio design incorporating gain and frequency stabilization." Contemporary Physics
Product details
August 1999Paperback
9780521646451
452 pages
255 × 178 × 25 mm
0.795kg
261 b/w illus. 10 tables 202 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. The wireless world
- 2. Components
- 3. Phasors
- 4. Transmission lines
- 5. Filters
- 6. Transformers
- 7. Acoustics
- 8. Transistor switches
- 9. Transistor amplifiers
- 10. Power amplifiers
- 11. Oscillators
- 12. Mixers
- 13. Audio circuits
- 14. Noise and intermodulation
- 15. Antennas and propagation
- Appendices.