This book is a needed break from the certification exam books I've been writing. These amateur radio exam-related books have a necessarily confining syllabus with a defined purpose: prepare the student to successful pass certification exams so they may enter this fascinatingly vast world of amateur radio. This book you are reading is different since I am guided by what interests me personally. Most of these topics are related to some arcane aspect of amateur radio while other topics come from seemingly unrelated material gleaned during my university studies and 26-year university professor day job.
The topics presented in this book include:
A Strategy for LC Filter Design
FT8 Under the Hood
The McIntyre-Schumacher-Woodhouse Music Synthesis Model
Morse Code Generation
Estimating Propagation Distances
Cats Cradle Antenna
Intermediate Frequency Filters
Motional Parameters
RF Mixers
Matching Networks
NanoVNA and Smith Charts
Data Flip Flops