Although the ubiquitous LM386 IC was designed to be used as an audio amplifier, it has a number of undocumented characteristics that can be exploited to create simple radio receiver circuits that ...

The TFF100xHN family of Ku-band RF PLLs has integrated VCO intended for low phase-noise local oscillator (LO) circuits in Ku-band VSAT transmitters and transceivers. Manufactured in a high-performance ...

There are plenty of hobbies around with huge price tags, and ham radio can certainly be one of them. Experienced hams might have radios that cost thousands of dollars, with huge, steerable antennas on ...

You don’t see them much anymore, but there was a time when any hobbyist who dealt with RF probably had a grid dip meter. The ...

For RF inductor selection, José Martos and Heinz Zenkner stress the importance of evaluating inductance, natural resonant frequency, quality, DC resistance and rated current for high-frequency ...

The FCC-required proof-of-performance was an annual ritual for broadcast engineers from the earliest days of radio up to deregulation in the 1980s. In the early 1970s, many engineers might have ...