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

A DIY guide to designing and building transistor radiosCreate 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 generatorsTRF, regenerative, and reflex radiosBasic and advanced superheterodyne radiosCoil-less and software-defined radiosTransistor and differential-pair oscillatorsFilter and amplifier design techniquesSampling theory and sampling mixersIn-phase, quadrature, and AM broadcast signalsResonant, detector, and AVC circuitsImage rejection and noise analysis methodsThis is the perfect guide for electronics hobbyists and students who want to delve deeper into the topic of radio.Make Great Stuff!TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists. Read more