-The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications -2012 -

NEW Hardcover Edition

The Comprehensive RF Engineering Reference

The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications has kept technologists—amateur, professional and students—immersed in the radio art for generations. As innovations in wireless communication march (and race!) ahead, The ARRL Handbook has maintained its place at the forefront—a single resource covering electronic fundamentals, radio design, and loads of practical treatments and projects. You’ll read it, study it, and turn to it…again and again.

Updated and Revised! This eighty-ninth edition of The Handbook includes something for every radio amateur and experimenter:

New Test Equipment and Measurements chapter
New projects, including High-Power RF Samplers, RF Current Meter, and a Two-Tone Audio Oscillator from the ARRL Lab
Updated Elsie™ filter design software
Expanded content on CD-ROM, including an operating supplement for Space Communications, Digital Communications, and Image Communications
New comprehensive treatment of Noise (chapter 5)
…and more!

CD-ROM Included! The CD-ROM includes all of the fully searchable text and illustrations in the printed book, as well as expanded supplemental content, software, PC board templates and other support files.

System Requirements: Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Windows® XP, as well as Macintosh® systems, using Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® software. The Acrobat Reader is a free download at www.adobe.com. PDF files are Linux readable. The Companion Software programs are known to have difficulty running on 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The programs were developed for and run on 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The Companion Software programs available with the ARRL 2012 Handbook have not been tested with 64-bit versions of Windows.

Product Details
Hardcover : 1320 pages.
Publisher: The American Radio Relay League, Inc.; Eighty-Ninth Edition/First Printing (October 2011)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-87259-663-4
Product Dimensions: 8 3/16 x 10 7/8 inches

Nostro riferimento numero: A 05

Hints & Kinks for the Radio Amateur-17th edition - ARRL EDITION -

QST‘s popular column, Hints & Kinks, brings together the best of Amateur Radio tips and techniques--antennas, weekend projects, shack accessories and operating. This 17th edition of Hints and Kinks for the Radio Amateur includes all of those contributions published from 2003 and 2004 QSTs. In addition, you’ll find articles included from the columns The Doctor is IN and Hands-On Radio. Use these items to learn more about a new mode, or to find your next construction project! 17th Edition. 160 pages ©2004 A.R.R.L.

Nostro riferimento numero: A 06

RADIO COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK - RSGB

NEW - 11th edition

Edited by Mike Dennison, G3XDV and John Fielding, ZS5JF

Fully updated and revised the RSGB Radio Communication Handbook is massive 864 pages of the very latest amateur radio technology. There is so much more material than before that some chapters have even been moved onto the accompanying CD

The Radio Communication Handbook has everything you need to build or understand amateur radio equipment. There is enough theory to give you a good grounding, but the main emphasis is learning by doing so the book includes a huge number of practical circuits. Receivers are explained from the simplest crystal set right up to ultra-modern DSP radios. There are practical antenna projects for all amateur bands, together with advice on erecting masts and measuring performance. For the portable operator there are details of light-weight equipment and power sources - even waterproof log books and walking sticks that double as an antenna mast. Projects are included that cover frequencies literally from audio to light, with an emphasis on the popular amateur bands. Computers are shack essentials nowadays and chapters deal with how to make the best use of them, and what data mode is most effective on what band.

This new edition of the Radio Communication Handbook contains significantly expanded chapters covering HF Transmitters and Receivers, LF, Microwaves, VHF/UHF Antennas, Computers and whole lot more. There is major new material covering transmitting SSB on light frequencies and long distance transmission and reception below 10kHz. It does not stop there either with more digital theory, IF amplifiers, back ground noise, ceramic filters, antennas and much more than can be listed here.

Free Bonus CD
As an extra a free CD is included packed with bonus material. There is a full PDF version of the RSGB Radio Communication Handbook allowing detailed searching and printing at the touch of a button. There more bonus chapters that not in the book, along with SDR video and audio files and other bonus material. There is even a huge selection of the latest amateur radio software.

* 864 A4 pages
* 25 chapters and two appendices
* 600,000 words!
* Over 1700 illustrations
* Bonus CD
* Projects for audio to light

If you only ever buy one book on amateur radio, this should be the one!

Size 297x210mm, 864 pages, ISBN: 9781-9050-8674-0

Nostro riferimento numero: E24

HANDS - ON RADIO EXPERIMENTS - ARRL EDITION

NEW

Here are 61 short electronics experiments, designed to increase your understanding of basic radio fundamentals, components, circuits and design:

* Radio and Electronic Fundamentals
* Semiconductor Basics
* Building Block Circuits
* Power Supplies
* Filters
* Oscillators and Buffers
* Transmission Lines & Impedance Matching
* Workshop & Design Techniques

Includes a complete parts list!

These experiments, devised by H. Ward Silver, N0AX, first appeared in QST magazine’s “Hands-On Radio” column from 2003-2008. The collection covers a wealth of topics designed to educate today’s radio experimenters, and inspire others who want to learn what makes their radios work. Even seasoned experts will encounter new approaches to practical methods, new explanations for familiar topics and new ideas that will enhance your understanding of the radio art. Step-by-step, Silver expertly leads you through each experiment—and you’ll make discoveries along the way!

Nostro riferimento numero: A 191

G-QRP CLUB ANTENNA HANDBOOK - R.S.G.B. EDITION -

NEW EDITION

If you are interested in QRP you will already know that an efficient antenna system is vital to getting the most out of 5W radio. Simply put this book provides a wealth of hints, tips and designs to help you get the most out of limited power operation. Culled from the pages of SPRAT the newsletter of the famous G-QRP club and other sources, the answer too many an antenna problem can be found here.

There are over a 100 articles included covering the ATUs, wave meters, SWR Meters as well as a wide variety of antennas. Well illustrated with helpful pictures and layouts the articles also provide the reader with many practical diagrams and circuits. The book is presented as annotated scans of the original SPRAT pages and although the quality of these is a little lacking this is more than made up for by the quality of the material itself. This book is a book a treasure-trove of information and if you are interested in getting the most out of 5W an absolute must have book.

Size: 210x210mm, 156pages

Nostro riferimento numero: E169

MORE QRP POWER - ARRL

By ARRL
In the spirit of the popular QRP Classics and QRP Power books published in the 1990s, More QRP Power is an anthology of articles from recent issues of QST and QEX magazines covering construction practices, transceivers, transmitters, receivers, accessories and antennas. Includes dozens of projects for your mobile or home QRP station. ©2006 A.R.R.L.

Nostro riferimento numero: A164

Low Power Communication - ARRL EDITION -

by Richard Arland, W3OSS.

Welcome to the world of QRP! Now you can explore the excitement of low-power radio operating with this third edition of ARRL’s Low Power Communication:
Equipment and Station Accessories - commercial gear, kit-building and home-brew
Antennas – wire beams, loops, dipoles, portable antennas and more
Operating Strategies – operating techniques, awards, and contesting

NEW! Emergency Communication – training, planning and other factors
NEW! Surplus Military Equipment - restoring and using this classic radio hardware.
Plus QRP calling frequencies, manufacturers…and much more!

3rd Edition, © 2007, The American Radio Relay League.

Nostro riferimento numero: A49