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Title: Build Your Own Intelligent Amateur Radio Transceiver by Randy Lee Henderson ISBN: 0-07-028264-1 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/TAB Electronics Pub. Date: 03 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.57 (7 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Disappointed in the lack of DSP
Comment: I was hoping for a discussion of a truly modern transceiver, with digital signal processing. It isn't. It's a computer-controlled analog transceiver. It doesn't even have a good quantitative discussion of the noise floor of the receiver, or any discussion, at all, of computer-controlled modulations.

The organization and writing isn't that good either. The ARRL yearbook has better projects, more clearly written, with better assembly instructions.

Rating: 5
Summary: Hardest book I've ever read!
Comment: Well actually that was War and Peace, with The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich coming in a close second. But if those had building instructions...... Excellent read, I was warming up the soldering iron before I got out of chap. 1. Needs more info on FM bands and the upper microwaves for reception though!

Rating: 3
Summary: A half decent book
Comment: A good book, but not for beginners. I purchased the Circuit Boards from FAR Circuits and went gang busters. Found numerous mistakes throught the book. Some components are also very hard to find. The RF power transistors alone cost 100.00 US. Had to debug main oscillators and SSB oscillators as well. My friend and I have also redesigned various components to add stability. Randy's web site is gone ? So the updates and corrections are no longer available. If you know what you are doing and have access to RF generators, Scopes and the like, then this may be for you. Otherwise for a first timer there are some other kits that will be much better. (VE3SLJ). Reach me through RAC, or the Call Sign Database for questions.