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This continues a series of blog posts on David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio”, that I am studying while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the each chapter that aid …
QUERY: Here are the results of a quick 49:1 [14:2 turn ratio] toroid transformer test. 1) Does it matter to transformer performance if the windings of the secondary change directions halfway through? [Answer: Yes]2) Does it matter to transformer performance if bare copper wire shorts to a ferrite toroid? [Answer: No]3) Does it matter to …
This is a continuation of my solutions to the problems contained within “The Electronics of Radio” text by David B. Rutledge. These posts are probably only useful if you also are following along with the book and building the transceiver. [Update: The links to all problem solutions as I go through them will be posted here.] …
…Wrong! AI is written by my blog…
This is a continuation of my solutions to the problems contained within “The Electronics of Radio” text by David B. Rutledge. These posts are probably only useful if you also are following along with the book and building the transceiver. [Update: The links to all problem solutions as I go through them will be posted …
I ran into a roadblock. I am systematically going through “The Electronics of Radio” text by David Rutledge and answering the presented problems. Aside from buying the NorCal 40B transceiver kit, I have been able to use only equipment and components I have previously acquired for the first three problems. I hit a wall on …
This is a list of links to each blog on the problems presented in “The Electronics of Radio” by David B. Rutledge (1999, 2008), a textbook that uses the NorCal 40B Transceiver kit as a backdrop for learning electronics. Keep in mind that I am a novice and these solutions may be, and in many …
This continues a series of blog posts on David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio”, that I am studying while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the each chapter that aid …
…hunting the hidden RF transmitter hiding somewhere under something, over something, and around something else…
This may be a series of blog posts you choose to skip over. I am following David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio” while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the …