Amateur Radio Manual

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A typical shack

Purpose The purpose of this book is to provide a manual appropriate for a North American Amateur Radio Licencing course with added information so that beginning amateurs will have a good reference source to continue their hobby. One of the goals is to make this a practical rather than a theoretical manual and to keep the language simple and understandable.

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  1. Part I - Basic Electronics
    1. Atoms 75% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
    2. Conductors and Insulators 50% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
    3. Sources of Current 75% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
    4. What is Current 50% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
    5. What is Voltage 50% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
    6. What is Resistance and Conductance 50% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
    7. Magnetism
    8. Ohm's Law and Resistors 100% developed  as of Feb 10, 2005
      1. Resistors
      2. Practical Resistors
      3. Construction Techniques
      4. Ohm's Law
      5. Voltage Drops
      6. Power
    9. Direct and Alternating Current 25% developed  as of March 11, 2007
    10. Sinusoidal Waveforms
    11. How do we make Alternating Current
    12. Capacitance
    13. Inductance
      1. Inductors
      2. Transformers
    14. Reactance
    15. Impedance
    16. Resonance
    17. Tuned Circuit
  2. Basic Part II - Active Components
    1. Diode
    2. Transistor - amplification
      1. FET
    3. Tubes (Glassfet!)
  3. Power Supplies
  4. Propagation
  5. Feed Lines and Theory
An antenna
  1. Antennas and Antenna Theory
    1. Dipoles
    2. Verticals
    3. Directional Arrays
    4. Antenna Software
    5. Towers and Safety
    6. Practical Antenna Projects
  2. Rules and Regulations
    1. Canadian
    2. United States
  3. Practical Suggestions for Operating Procedures
  4. Amateur Radio Bands
  5. Table of transmission frequencies

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