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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.

[edit] Contents

1. Part I - Basic Electronics
   1. Atoms
   2. Conductors and Insulators
   3. Sources of Current
   4. What is Current
   5. What is Voltage
   6. What is Resistance and Conductance
   7. Magnetism
   8. Ohm's Law and Resistors
      1. Resistors
      2. Practical Resistors
      3. Construction Techniques
      4. Ohm's Law
      5. Voltage Drops
      6. Power
   9. Direct and Alternating Current
   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

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

[edit] Further reading

• LPFM
• Radio astronomy
• Communication Networks/Radio Communications; Communication Networks/Analog and Digital Radio
• Scouting/Earning the Radio merit badge
• Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Vocational/Radio
• Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Vocational/Radio Electronics
• Wireless Mesh Networks -- the amateur packet-switched network is one of the first wireless mesh networks.