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Old 19th Feb 2018, 11:59 am   #1
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Default Radio Receiver Design - Marconi School of Wireless

I know that there are those on the forum who are keenly interested in the theory aspects of radio design, and the more maths that involves, the more enthused they are about it. It's well outside my sphere of competence or interest, but while browsing internet I came across this two-part treatise entitled 'Radio Receiver Design Part 1 & 2' by K. R. STURLEY Ph.D., B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E. Marconi School of Wireless, which I felt might be interest those who are rather further up the food chain than me. More maths than I thought existed on the face of the planet!:

PART 1 - 435 pages: RADIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFICATION AND DETECTION

http://keith-snook.info/Stuff-you-sh...%20Sturley.pdf

PART 2 - 480 pages: AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS, TELEVISION AND FREQUENCY MODULATED RECEIVER DESIGN:

http://keith-snook.info/Stuff-you-sh...%20Sturley.pdf

Goodness me!

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Old 19th Feb 2018, 12:19 pm   #2
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Default Re: Radio Receiver Design - Marconi School of Wireless

You need to keep the maths simple, try RDH4:

http://www.paleoelectronics.com/RDH4/



Despite the maths I always have that link on file as it's an excellent reference source once you read between the maths tutorials, one the first ports of call for me for a refresher on valve characteristics (chapter 2) along with stuff on this site:

www.valvewizard.co.uk/

For valve theory alone then it's John F. Rider, Inside the Vacuum Tube, a modest pace for the most part:

http://www.tubebooks.org/Books/rider_inside.pdf

For the avoidance of any doubt my maths is definitely not my strong point, log tables were my savior doing my City & Guilds for radio and tv servicing, english even less so....without any real effort woz consistently bottom of the class in englifh educashun.

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Default Re: Radio Receiver Design - Marconi School of Wireless

Not being able to follow the maths in those sort of articles and many others over the years in Wireless World has always been a source of frustration for me. Unfortunately my education didn't allow for such understanding. I took an HNC in electrical engineering when I was in my 50s. The course had a maths module covering calculus and the like but most of those sort of mathematical argument still remain largely beyond my poor brain.

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Old 19th Feb 2018, 12:42 pm   #4
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Thanks for those, David. All good stuff, and commensurate in mathematical explanation to E. K. Sandeman's 'Radio Engineering'.

Sturley was one-time head of the BBC Engineering Training Dept, and it is upon such works that the BBC A, B and C courses were based (and the expectation that such books would be used for reference beyond training!). Backe in ye daye, the SME would expect underlings to sit and study such tomes in between wave-changing transmitters and doing maintenance, on evening shifts and night shifts.

One of Sturley's less-mathematical books is 'Sound and Television Broadcasting General Principles' (a Wireless World publication, 1961).
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