Dear friends, I have read the book with great interest.
The book really captivates and I cannot tear myself away the book.
The book contains 16 very interesting chapters, and every chapter
says us a separately story about radio. I can strongly recommend
to you have read this book. Below you can see the Contents of
the book and path to load this one.
73! I.G.
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CRYSTAL SETS TO SIDEBAND
A Guide to Building an Amateur Radio Station
By Frank W. Harris, K0IYE
Copyright Frank W. Harris , 2003
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Chapter 1
THE FASCINATION OF
RADIO
- Exploring the shortwave bands
- Growing up in the Morse code era
- The joy of building it yourself
- A brief history of radio communication
- Henry, Maxwell, Hertz, Tesla and Marconi.
- Fessenden, Edison, Flemming, DeForest and Armstrong
- The sinking of the RMS Republic and the birth
of ham radio
- Ham radio in the last 80 years
- Becoming a radio amateur
Chapter 2
HOMEBUILDING AMATEUR
RADIO EQUIPMENT
- What qualifies as homebuilding?
- When homebrewing is not appropriate
- Barriers to modern homebuilding
- Time, frequency stability and lead inductance
- Basic electrical knowledge
- Magnets & static electricity
- Voltage, current, resistance, energy and power
- (Illustrated with drawings of water & mechanical
analogies)
- Conductors, Insulators and semiconductors
- Capacitors, inductors, transformers & alternators
- Home power distribution, transformers at low and
high frequencies
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Chapter 3
SETTING UP AN ELECTRONICS
WORKSHOP
- R&D as recreation
- How to build radios (or anything else) in your
basement
- Persistence, read books, keep a notebook, &
work in small increments
- Minimum tools needed
- The ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook
- Soldering irons and small tools
- Drills & thread taps
- Wood carving gouges for making PC boards
- >50 MHz Oscilloscope
- Frequency counter
- Quality multimeter
- Lab power supply
- Calculator
- Lab notebook
- Collection of electronic junk
- Parts catalogs
- Capacitance meter
- Test leads & socket boards
- Nice-to-have tools
- RF & audio generators, spice software &
spectrum analyzer
Chapter 4
HERTZIAN WAVES IN THE
BASEMENT
- The nature of radio waves
- Mechanical and LC electrical oscillators
- Antenna and transmission line theory
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