Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits

by Ronald Quan

Overview

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 Your Own Transistor Radios covers:

• Calibration tools and test generators
• TRF, regenerative, and reflex radios
• Basic and advanced superheterodyne radios
• Coil-less and software-defined radios
• Transistor and differential-pair oscillators
• Filter and amplifier design techniques
• Sampling theory and sampling mixers
• In-phase, quadrature, and AM broadcast signals
• Resonant, detector, and AVC circuits
• Image rejection and noise analysis methods

This is the perfect guide for electronics hobbyists and students who want to delve deeper into the topic of radio.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071799713
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/22/2012
Series:	Build Your Own
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	41 MB
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About the Author

Ronald Quan

is a member of SMPTE, IEEE, and the AES. He worked on the design of wideband FM detectors for an HDTV tape recorder at Sony Corporation, and a twice-color subcarrier frequency (7.16 MHz) NTSC vector-scope for measuring differential phase and gain for Macrovision, where he was a Principal Engineer. Ronald currently holds at least 65 US patents in the areas of analog video processing, low noise audio and video amplifier design, low distortion voltage controlled amplifiers, wide band crystal VCOs, video monitors, audio and video IQ modulation, audio and video scrambling, bar code reader products, audio test equipment, and video copy protection.

Table of Contents

Ch 1. Overview of Various Radio Circuits Ch 2. Calibration Tools and Generators for Testing Ch 3. Parts and Improvised/Hacked Parts for building the radios Ch 4. Building Simple Test Oscillators and Modulators Ch 5. A Low Power TRF radio Ch 6. Reflex radios Ch 7. Low Power Regenerative Radios Ch 8. Superhet Radios Ch 9. A Low Power Superhet Radio Ch 10. Exotic Superhet Radios Ch 11. Inductorless Radios Ch 12. Software Defined Radio Circuits Ch 13. Oscillator Circuits Ch 14. Mixer Circuits and Harmonic Mixers Ch 15. Sampling Theory and Sampling Mixers Ch 16. IQ signals Ch 17. IF Circuits Ch 18. Detector/AVC circuits Ch 19. Amplifier Circuits Ch 20. Resonant Circuits and Band Pass Filters Ch 21. Image Rejection Ch 22. Noise Ch 23. Learning by doing