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.

Contents

A typical shack

A Yagi/Uda antenna

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
    • Inductors
    • Transformers
13. Reactance
14. Impedance
15. Resonance
16. Tuned Circuit

Active Components

1. Diode
2. Transistors for Amplification
   • FET
3. 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

Further reading

• 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.