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Build your own transistor radios : a hobbyist's guide to high-performance and low-powered radio circuits /
Provides a guide to designing and constructing transistor radios, including such topics as choosing components, troubleshooting, and sampling.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Quan, Ronald, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Build your own transistor radios : |b a hobbyist's guide to high-performance and low-powered radio circuits / |c Ronald Quan. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, N.Y. : |b McGraw-Hill Education, |c [2013] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ?2013 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xv, 473 pages) : |b illustrations. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A. About the author -- B. Preface -- C. Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Tuned radio-frequency (TRF) radios -- Regenerative radio -- Reflex radio -- Superheterodyne radio -- Software-defined radio front-end circuits -- Comparison of the types of radios -- 2. Calibration tools and generators for testing -- Alignment tools -- Test generators -- Inductance meter -- Capacitance meter -- Oscilloscopes -- Radio frequency (RF) spectrum analyzers -- Where to buy the tools and test equipment -- 3. Components and hacking/modifying parts for radio circuits -- Antenna coils -- Variable capacitors -- Transistors -- Earphones -- Speakers -- Passive components -- Vector and perforated boards -- Hardware -- Parts suppliers -- 4. Building simple test oscillators and modulators -- The continuous-wave signal -- The amplitude-modulated signal -- First project: a CW RF test oscillator -- Modulator circuit for the CW generator -- Alternate circuits -- 5. Low-power tuned radio-frequency radios -- Design considerations for TRF radios -- Improving sensitivity and/or selectivity via antenna coils or circuits -- First design of TRF radio -- Variation of the design (alternate design of the TRF radio) -- Author's earlier TRF designs -- 6. Transistor reflex radios -- Motivation behind amplifying both radio-frequency and audio-frequency signals -- One-transistor TRF reflex radio -- Multiple-transistor reflex radio circuit -- 7. A low-power regenerative radio -- Improving sensitivity by regeneration -- Improving selectivity by Q multiplication via regeneration -- Design considerations for a regenerative radio -- 8. Superheterodyne radios -- Commercially made transistorized superheterodyne radios -- A four-transistor radio schematic -- An eight-transistor radio -- Alternative oscillator and antenna coil circuit -- An item to note -- 9. Low-power superheterodyne radios -- Design goals for low power -- Low-power oscillator, mixer, and intermediate-frequency circuits -- Low-power detector and audio circuits -- "First" design of a low-power superheterodyne radio -- Alternative low-power superheterodyne radio design -- Photos of low-power am superheterodyne radios -- 10. Exotic or "off the wall" superheterodyne radios -- A one-transistor superheterodyne radio -- Design considerations for a one-transistor superheterodyne radio -- A two-transistor superheterodyne radio -- 11. Inductor-less circuits -- Ceramic filters -- Gyrators (aka simulated or active inductors) -- Inductor-less (aka coil-less) superheterodyne radio -- 12. Introduction to software-defined radios (SDRS) -- Sdr front-end circuits, filters, and mixers -- Phasing circuits for 0- and 90-degree outputs for I and Q signals -- Multipliers for generating 0- and 90-degree phases -- Example radio circuits for software-defined radios -- Second SDR front-end circuit for the 40-meter amateur radio band. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 13. Oscillator circuits -- One-transistor oscillator -- Differential pair oscillator -- References -- 14. Mixer circuits and harmonic mixers -- Adding circuits versus mixing circuits -- Distortion can be a good thing (for mixing) -- Single-bipolar-transistor distortion -- Simple transistor mixer and its conversion transconductance -- Differential-pair mixer -- Harmonic mixer circuits -- Mixer oscillator circuits -- Conversion gain -- References -- 15. Sampling theory and sampling mixers -- Sampling signals as a form of muliplication or mixing -- Finite pulse-width signals -- Aliasing is a mixing effect -- Multiplexer circuits as balanced mixers -- Tradeoffs in performance of the mixers -- References -- 16. In-phase and quadrature (IQ) signals -- Introduction to suppressed-carrier amplitude modulation -- How i and q signals are generated -- Demodulating i and q signals -- I and q signals used in software-defined radios (SDRS) -- References -- 17. Intermediate-frequency circuits -- If amplifiers -- Gain-controlled if amplifiers -- Considerations of distortion effects on if amplifiers -- References -- 18. Detector/automatic volume control circuits -- Average envelope detectors -- Power detectors -- Synchronous detectors -- Iq detectors for am broadcast signals -- Measuring an average carrier or providing automatic volume control -- References -- 19. Amplifier circuits -- Introduction to operational amplifiers -- Amplifier characteristics -- Connecting multiple amplifiers for an amplifier system -- Practical considerations for using amplifiers -- References -- 20. Resonant circuits -- Simple parallel and series resonant circuits -- Resonant circuits in oscillators -- Examples of band-pass and band-reject filters -- References -- 21. Image rejection -- What is an image signal? -- Methods to reduce the amplitude of the image signal -- Analysis of an image-rejection mixer using i and q signals -- Analysis of the image-reject mixer -- Consequences of an imperfect 90-degree phase shifter on reducing the image signal -- References -- 22. Noise -- Sources of random electronic noise and some basic noise theory -- Paralleling transistors for lower noise -- Differential-pair amplifier noise -- Cascode amplifier noise -- Selecting op amps -- References -- 23. Learning by doing -- Update on the one-transistor superheterodyne radio -- Comments on sdr 40-meter front-end circuit -- Experimenting with mixers and using the spectran spectrum analyzer program -- Conducting experiments on op amps and amplifiers -- Experiments with a resonant circuit -- Thevenin-equivalent circuit -- Analyzing a bridge circuit -- Some final thoughts on the book -- References -- A. Appendix 1: parts suppliers -- Oscillator coils, intermediate-frequency (if) transformers, audio transformers -- Antenna coils -- Variable capacitors -- Crystal earphones -- Passive components, resistors, capacitors, fixed-valued inductors -- Crystals -- Ceramic resonators (~455 khz) -- Ceramic filters (~455 khz) -- Transistors, diodes, and integrated circuits -- Low-noise transistors and JFETs -- Loudspeakers -- B. Appendix 2: inductance values of oscillator coils and intermediate-frequency (if) transformers -- If transformer with internal capacitor removed -- C. Appendix 3: short alignment procedure for superheterodyne radios -- If transformer alignment -- Oscillator coil and trimmer capacitor adjustments. | |
| 520 | |a Provides a guide to designing and constructing transistor radios, including such topics as choosing components, troubleshooting, and sampling. | ||
| 530 | |a Also available in print edition. | ||
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. |b New York, N.Y. : |c McGraw Hill, |d 2013. |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Web browser. |n Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Mar. 13, 2015. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Transistor radios |x Design and construction |v Amateurs' manuals. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Transistor radios |x Design and construction. | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Electronic books. | |
| 776 | 0 | |i Print version: |t Build your own transistor radios : a hobbyist's guide to high-performance and low-powered radio circuits. |b First edition. |d New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education, 2013 |w (OCoLC)820107081 | |
| 830 | 0 | |a McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://accessengineeringlibrary.uam.elogim.com/content/book/9780071799706 |z Texto completo |