Build Your Own Transistor Radios A Hobbyists Guide to High Performance and Low Powered Radio Circuits
Writer: Ronald Quan
File Format: PDF
Language: English
Volume: 551 pages
File Size: 31.77 MB
About this Book:
Amplitude-modulation (AM) radio building has always been an interesting area amongest electronics hobbyists. This book can be used as a complement to textbooks for circuits classes and lab courses. From basic stuff to DIY projects the goal of this book was to design as many new or unconventional circuits as possible, along with some conventional examples. Any or some of these circuits can be used for teaching a laboratory electronics class in college and, to some degree, even in high school.
Content of this Book:
Introduction
- Tuned Radio-Frequency (TRF) Radios
- Block Diagram of a TRF Radio
- Circuit Description of a TRF Radio
- Regenerative Radio
- Block Diagram of a Regenerative Radio
- Circuit Description of a Regenerative Radio
- Reflex Radio
- Block Diagram of a Reflex Radio
- Circuit Description of a Reflex Radio
- Superheterodyne Radio
- Block Diagram of a Superheterodyne Radio
- Circuit Description of a Superheterodyne Radio
- Software-Defined Radio Front-End Circuits
- Block Diagram of a Software-Defined Radio Front End
- Description of Front-End Circuits for a Software-Defined Radio System
- Comparison of the Types of Radios
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 Refiex Radios
A Low-Power Regenerative Radio
Superheterodyne Radios
Low-Power Superheterodyne Radios
Exotic or “Off the Wall” Superheterodyne Radios
Inductor-Iess 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
Parts Suppliers
Inductance Values of Oscillator Coils and Intermediate-Frequency (IF)Transformers
Short Alignment Procedure for Superheterodyne Radios