Radio Circuits: A Step By Step Survey (1966, 244 pages). This popular book explains in simple language and in easy stages all the varieties of circuits that are found in radio receivers. It does this by taking separately each stage of the receiver, piece by piece, and explaining it without the complication of all the associated circuits around it. In this manner every detail can be absorbed easily by the reader, who is not obliged to cope with more than can be assimilated at any one time. As the reader acquires familiarity with several parts, however, he is introduced to their mutual association with one another, and he is finally led to an understanding of the complete circuit of a receiver.

The first 31 chapters provide the basic description and understanding of how each circuit in a vacuum tube based radio works. Those chapters are then followed by chapters 32-36 which cover vacuum tube based FM and AM/FM circuits. Chapter 36 and on then cover transistorized circuits and car radio. Any reader who understands what a resistor, a capacitor, a coil and a vacuum tube are can learn from this book about how these components are combined to make radio receivers perform their function. The book does not delve into a scientific explanation radio theory. It covers the practical explanation of the theory of radio operation without delving into the mathematics behind it.

CONTENTS

Preface

Abbreviations

1 Superhet Principles

2 Aerial Input Circuits

3 Tuned Input Stage

4 Band-pass Coupling

5 R.F. Amplifier Stage

6 Frequency-Changing

7 Oscillator Arrangements

8 Early F.C. Circuits

9 Later F.C. Circuits

10 Oscillator Tracking

11 I.F. Amplifiers

12 Variable Selectivity

13 Demodulation Circuits

14 A.G.C. Principles

15 Delayed A.G.C.

16 A.G.C. Circuit Variations and A Note on A.F.C.

17 A.F. Amplification

18 Practical A.F. Circuits

19 Second A.F. Stages

20 Push-Pull Circuits

21 Push-Pull R.C. Stages

22 Q.P.P. A.F. Output

23 Class B A.F. Output

24 Loudspeaker Arrangements

25 A.C. Power Supplies

26 A.C./D.C. Power Supplies

27 Mains/Battery Portables

28 Tone Control Circuits

29 Negative Feedback

30 Gramophone Reproduction

31 Special Tuning Devices

32 F.M. Receivers

33 F.M. I.F. Stages

34 F.M. Detector Stage

35 Combined A.M./F.M. Receivers

36 Transistor Circuits

37 Transistored Receivers

38 Transistored Tuning Circuits

39 Transistor Audio Stages

40 Transistored A.M./F.M. Receivers

41 Hybrid Circuits

42 Car Radio

Appendix

Index

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