Amateur Radio Manual

The purpose of this book is to provide a manual appropriate for a North American Amateur Radio Licensing 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.

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/
 * 9) /Direct and Alternating Current/
 * 10) /Sinusoidal Waveforms/
 * 11) /Capacitance/
 * 12) /Inductance/
 * 13) */Inductors/
 * 14) */Transformers/
 * 15) /Reactance/
 * 16) /Impedance/
 * 17) /Resonance/
 * 18) /Tuned Circuit/

Active Components

 * 1) /Diode/
 * 2) Transistors for Amplification
 * 3) */FET/
 * 4) /Tubes/ (Glassfet!)

Antennas and Antenna Theory

 * 1) /Dipoles/
 * 2) /Verticals/
 * 3) /Directional Arrays/
 * 4) /Antenna Software/
 * 5) /Towers and Safety/
 * 6) /Practical Antenna Projects/

Rules and Regulations

 * 1) /Canada/
 * 2) /United States/

Operating Procedures

 * 1) /Amateur Radio Bands/
 * 2) /Transmission Frequencies/