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Any opinions on "Experimental Methods in RF Design"?

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Greysky

Jan 1, 1970
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I am hoping someone who has this ARRL book can care to comment on it - is it
any good? I am looking for RF design books, ones that also stress oscillator
theory, and low noise design. If you have any other sugggestions I would
appreciate hearing about them. Thanks.
 
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Rick

Jan 1, 1970
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Greysky said:
I am hoping someone who has this ARRL book can care to comment on it - is it
any good? I am looking for RF design books, ones that also stress oscillator
theory, and low noise design. If you have any other sugggestions I would
appreciate hearing about them. Thanks.

These are my favourites:

"Microwave Transistor Amplifiers: Analysis & Design" - Guillermo Gonzalez
"RF Circuit Design" - Chris Bowick
"Microwave Circuit Design: Using Linear and Nonlinear Techniques" - Vendelin, Pavio, Rhode
"RF Design Guide" - Peter Vizmuller
 
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Luhan Monat

Jan 1, 1970
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Greysky said:
I am hoping someone who has this ARRL book can care to comment on it - is it
any good? I am looking for RF design books, ones that also stress oscillator
theory, and low noise design. If you have any other sugggestions I would
appreciate hearing about them. Thanks.
I first learned from the ARRL handbook (1953 edition). It is a very
good primer on all of electronics. After that, I found it easier to
study other, more advanced, materials.
 
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bandopening

Jan 1, 1970
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Experimental Methods in RF Design is EXCELLENT! Read it and it will make you
want to be an RF jock. But, it is very heavy in the practical and light on
the math and complex theory. If you want a deep, fundamental treatment with
all the complex math, this is not the book. But if you want to good basic
understand of RF circuits and especially practical applications, this is
about as good as it gets. Also, it is as up to date.
 
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Michael Black

Jan 1, 1970
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Luhan said:
I first learned from the ARRL handbook (1953 edition). It is a very
good primer on all of electronics. After that, I found it easier to
study other, more advanced, materials.
Things have changed since 1953. They seem to have put effort into
tackling things in more detail, or maybe that they've enlarged coverage
to cover more complicated matters

I've yet to see the book in question, because of cost. I suppose if
it showed up at the local bookstore I'd grab it, but mail orders likely
the means I will have to use to get it, and it's easy to put that off.

It's labelled as a descendent of a previous ARRL book, "Solid State
Design for the Radio Amateur", from 1977 or 78. I wouldn't say that
book was theory intensive, but it dealt with more advanced matters than
the ARRL Handbook, to complement it rather than supercede it, and whereas
the Handbook was more like a cookbook of circuits (and outright constructiona
articles), "Solid State" went more in the direction of giving formulas
so people could compute values. It helped, I think, that the pocket
calculator was pretty common by the time of printing, which I think
did let formulas flow into hobby books and magazines where they were
rarely seen before that.

So from the blurb, I expect the new book to be covering things that
the ARRL Handbook doesn't, yet not dealing with common electronic concepts.
(Ie, it goes into mixer theory well, but won't ohms law). But it's also
a practical book, with actual circuits.

Whether or not it's the book the original poster wants, it likely is
a good book on practical matters (without being too much for the beginner)
and would complement a textbook on the subject areas covered.

One of the authors of "Experimental Methods" is Wes Hayward, who
was co-author of "Solid State Design" and also wrote a book "Introduction
to Radio Frequency Design". This was published by Prentice-Hall back
in 1982, and it was intended for the engineer. The ARRL reprinted it
in 1994, with little change, though I don't know if they sell it.
http://www.arrl.org The ARRL printing included a disk of simple programs
to complement the book. It is far less a practical book than the others,
which is an advantage and disadvantage, depending on what someone is looking
for. And it really is about basic radio concepts, mixers, amplifiers, filters
etc, rather than design of overall systems. It's the sort of thing one
would need if designing receivers (or transmitters), but one it doesn't
cover recent developments and one would still need a book like Rohde's
on communciation receiver design.

Michael
 
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Active8

Jan 1, 1970
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On 14 Jan 2004 17:48:48 GMT, [email protected] said...
would need if designing receivers (or transmitters), but one it doesn't
cover recent developments and one would still need a book like Rohde's
on communciation receiver design.

Michael

The Rhode's book is excellent.
 
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Luhan Monat

Jan 1, 1970
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Michael Black wrote:

Things have changed since 1953. They seem to have put effort into
tackling things in more detail, or maybe that they've enlarged coverage
to cover more complicated matters

I'm not recommending the 1953 addition (this is not a wine ng), it was
just the one I found lying around.
 
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Tan Peng Khiang

Jan 1, 1970
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bandopening said:
Experimental Methods in RF Design is EXCELLENT! Read it and it will make you
want to be an RF jock. But, it is very heavy in the practical and light on
the math and complex theory. If you want a deep, fundamental treatment with
all the complex math, this is not the book. But if you want to good basic
understand of RF circuits and especially practical applications, this is
about as good as it gets. Also, it is as up to date.

hello , everyone , can anyone suggest a book that can help me design any
type of antenna , from Mhz to Ghz range ? or maybe a guide start from
which book to the next book ?

I have started on Antenna theory by balanis , and i don't the maths
inside this book. I have read chapters 1,2.

Thanks in advance to all.
 
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Steve Roberts

Jan 1, 1970
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bandopening said:
Experimental Methods in RF Design is EXCELLENT! Read it and it will make you
want to be an RF jock. But, it is very heavy in the practical and light on
the math and complex theory. If you want a deep, fundamental treatment with
all the complex math, this is not the book. But if you want to good basic
understand of RF circuits and especially practical applications, this is
about as good as it gets. Also, it is as up to date.

what frequency ranges does it cover? HF VHF Microwave, or is it
another 2-14 Mhz ARRl wonder.

Steve Roberts
 
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Jan 1, 1970
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Steve said:
what frequency ranges does it cover? HF VHF Microwave, or is it
another 2-14 Mhz ARRl wonder.

Steve Roberts
Hello steve , sorry for lack of specific requirements , actually i was
thinking , why all the complex maths when a simple needle could also
become a microwave antenna , while a portion of coaxial cable stripped
of it's sheath could also become a monopole antenna. So may question is
, are there any books(mathematics , antenna) that will lead me to
designing an antenna from a simple monopole to complex slot or patch
antenna. ??

BTW: the book by balanis is nice , but i think i have to pick up vector
calculus , so any books on that?

Thanks in advance.
 
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