{"id":1369,"date":"2011-09-13T21:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T02:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2011-09-13T21:18:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T02:18:24","slug":"qrp-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"QRP publications"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: 1.5 miles with wife and dog (run\/walk)]<\/p>\n

I am not an electronics expert.\u00a0 I did not study electrical engineering in college and I have never worked a job where such knowledge was required.\u00a0 So a lot of my self-education in electronics has come by reading books, web pages, magazines, and studying various circuits and projects either in schematic or constructed form.<\/p>\n

I have a pretty good library of electronics books.\u00a0 There are a few classics which I would still like to obtain, but I have plenty enough to learn and a good variety of sources to learn from.<\/p>\n

QRP is a morse code shorthand which means “low power”.\u00a0 It used to be a suggestion for action:\u00a0 please lower your power.\u00a0 But now it covers a whole area of amateur radio interests focused around lower power operation including the design and construction of unique radios.\u00a0 Morse code operation is uniquely suited for this type of equipment;\u00a0 all that is needed is a steady RF signal and way to turn it on and off (or detect it).<\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of three books that I have picked up over the years:<\/p>\n

QRP Classics<\/em><\/strong> is an anthology of small-radio construction projects and articles gathered from ARRL publications in the 1970s – 1980s.<\/p>\n

W1FB’s Design Notebook<\/strong><\/em> is a collection of ideas, rules of thumb, circuit pieces, etc.<\/p>\n

W1FB’s QRP Notebook<\/strong><\/em> covers some of the same ground.<\/p>\n

I think all of these came out around 1990.<\/p>\n

W1FB was Doug DeMaw, a technical expert at the ARRL and prolific author.\u00a0 He also was the co-author of a book which I would like to eventually acquire: Solid State Design for the Radio Amateur<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The three in this picture are pretty easy to find.\u00a0 SSDRA is not easy to find.\u00a0 The modern replacement for SSDRA is Expermental Methods in RF Design<\/em><\/strong>, which I have, and\u00a0 is still in print from the ARRL.<\/p>\n

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