Building a Transceiver

Home construction is alive and well among the ranks of today's radio amateurs—and "Building a Transceiver" brings to life how making something as complex as an HF transceiver can be achieved with very simple equipment and techniques. One of the benefits of building your own transceiver is that you'll understand how it works; and then you should be able to fix it or improve it in the future. This 176-page paperback is based on the relatively complicated HF transceiver project that's been broken down into smaller modules which can be built and tested individually. Each module is described in cookbook fashion so that the constructor understands how it works before starting the build. The constructor may choose to build a complete transceiver based closely on this design, add in some of your own modules—or you may prefer to mix and match by using parts of this design and integrating them into a completely different project. This modular approach means that you could, for example, take the VFO design and adapt it for use as a signal source in test equipment.

"Building a Transceiver" is based on the hugely popular 'Homebrew' column in RadCom written by Eamon Skelton, EI9GQ. Readers will find that the book covers the detailed electronic design process and practical constructional techniques necessary to build the transceiver. Most modules are in the dead-bug construction style, and this is fully detailed—along with a number of other useful techniques. Photographs are also provided to help the reader visualize the final layout of each section. Each element of the transceiver is described fully with details of components and any board layouts available. You may never build the complete transceiver described in this book, but the construction techniques and testing has been designed with the resources of an amateur radio shack in mind, so it will be useful no matter your level of experience and whatever you decide to build.

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