#666 Build Your Own Transistor Radios

Book notes: Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist’s Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits, by Ronald Quan. First published January 1, 2012.

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See also:

CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Calibration Tools and Generators for Testing
CHAPTER 3 Components and Hacking/Modifying Parts for Radio Circuits
CHAPTER 4 Building Simple Test Oscillators and Modulators
CHAPTER 5 Low-Power Tuned Radio-Frequency Radios
CHAPTER 6 Transistor Reflex Radios
CHAPTER 7 A Low-Power Regenerative Radio
CHAPTER 8 Superheterodyne Radios
CHAPTER 9 Low-Power Superheterodyne Radios
CHAPTER 10 Exotic or “Off the Wall” Superheterodyne Radios
CHAPTER 11 Inductor-less Circuits
CHAPTER 12 Introduction to Software-Defined Radios (SDRs)
CHAPTER 13 Oscillator Circuits
CHAPTER 14 Mixer Circuits and Harmonic Mixers
CHAPTER 15 Sampling Theory and Sampling Mixers
CHAPTER 16 In-Phase and Quadrature (IQ) Signals
CHAPTER 17 Intermediate-Frequency Circuits
CHAPTER 18 Detector/Automatic Volume Control Circuits
CHAPTER 19 Amplifier Circuits
CHAPTER 20 Resonant Circuits
CHAPTER 21 Image Rejection
CHAPTER 22 Noise
CHAPTER 23 Learning by Doing
APPENDIX 1 Parts Suppliers
APPENDIX 2 Inductance Values of Oscillator Coils and Intermediate-Frequency (IF) Transformers
APPENDIX 3 Short Alignment Procedure for Superheterodyne Radios

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#666 Build Your Own Transistor Radios

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