Gernsback Library #44

Basic Radio Course

by John T. Frye (1951)

180 pages in Adobe PDF format on CDROM

WHEN radio servicing started there was a wide knowledge-gap between the men who designed and built radios and the men who serviced them.

This book is intended to lie between these two extremes. It is written directly at the person whose primary interest in radio is of a practical nature, but it assumes that man wants to know why and how the apparatus with which he is dealing does its work.

Contents:

  • The Electron Theory
  • Ohm's Law and the Resistor
  • What is Induction ?
  • Capacitance
  • How Capacitors are Made
  • Reactance, Impedance and Phase
  • Resonant Circuits
  • Transformers - How They Work
  • The Diode Vacuum Tube
  • Triode and Tetrode Tubes
  • The Pentode Vacuum Tube
  • Vacuum Tube Characteristics
  • The Power Supply
  • Power Supply Types
  • Sound and Loudspeakers
  • The Power Output Stage
  • The Voltage Amplifier
  • Demodulating the RF
  • Receiver Selectivity
  • The Converter Stage
  • Some Oscillator Circuits
  • How to Trap a Signal
  • Signals in Space
  • Receiver Refinements
  • Instruments and Tools
  • Servicing Technique


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