December 20, 2011
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Best QRP References
This being the 4th week, we had an online NJQRP
club gathering theme ... "Best QRP References: Favorite QRP and ham radio books,
magazines, reference web sites, old (tube) books, new (IC) books, you name it."
Everyone has their own favorites that we use all the time. But we bet that
someone hasn't heard of your most useful and most interesting one. And if
you are a designer yourself, you probably have a list a mile long! Fellow
designers Milt W8NUE, Dave AD7JT and Juha OH2NLT often drop in and share their
tips with us all too.
And of course this will be in addition to any specific questions one might have
about the NUE-PSK, SDR Cube, Micro908, HC908VFO, DDS-60, ...
Attendees:
George N2APB, Joe N2CX, Al VE3RRD, Chris W0ANM, Dave, AD7JT, Milt W8NUE,
Gerry N2GJ, Ray K2ULR, Rick K3IND,
Ted W2TAG, Frank N3PUU, Jim N2ADR, John KJ6CVB, Ken VA3KMD, Kevin KB3OMM, Juha
OH2NLT, Paul VA6PW, Phil VK6APH, Tom AA2VK
Online chat discussion log ... ...
<20:12:13>"George - N2APB": Familiar source is ARRL
http://www.arrl.org
<20:12:27>"George - N2APB": ARRL Radio Amateur Handbook
<20:12:32>"George - N2APB": ARRL Antenna Book
<20:13:04>"George - N2APB": Several QRP books (QRP Power, by Rich Arland, K7SZ)
<20:13:14>"George - N2APB": Antenna Compendium up to Vol 8
<20:13:27>"Rick K3IND": Question on "RF Design"...
<20:13:31>"George - N2APB": Experimental Methods in RF Design ... Wes Hayward
<20:14:04>"Rick K3IND": mine has a lot of words missing...
<20:14:13>"George - N2APB": ON4UN's Low Band DXing good reference for operating
on 80/40/160m
<20:19:10>"Joe - N2CX": WB4JFI
<20:21:22>"George - N2APB": Excellent books from RSGB very high quality content
… www.rsgb.shop RSGB Radiocommunication
Handbook, and several other books covering UHF/VHF, antennas, etc.
<20:22:27>"George - N2APB": GQRP has British and Australian books …
http://www.gqrp.com.sales.htm
<20:23:23>"Ray K2ULR": I have a book to add.
<20:27:45>"George - N2APB": ARRL Digital Signal Processing
<20:28:07>"George - N2APB": Oppenheim & Schaffer ... good ref for DSP algorithms
and theory
<20:28:33>"George - N2APB": Microchip has great tools and libraries for embedded
programming
<20:29:07>"Joe - N2CX": ARRL has a closout sale on Digital Signal Processing
Technology!
<20:29:33>"George - N2APB": Practical Digital Signal Processing for Engineers
and Technicians, on www.Amazon.com
... good as a used book. Gets into college level math, good for engineers, well
illustrated
<20:32:25>"George - N2APB": www.dspguide.com
<20:34:56>"Joe - N2CX": I was lucky enough to get that book as a doorprize at
the TAPR CC!
<20:35:30>"George - N2APB": Understanding Digital Signal processing, Second
Edition, by Richard G. Lyons ... #1 reference recommendation
<20:36:04>"George - N2APB": Radio Frequency Design, by Wes hayward, from the
ARRL Bookstore ... great for RF design material
<20:37:53>"Joe - N2CX": Education is expensive no matter how you get it!
<20:39:16>"George - N2APB": QRP Tech ... Yahoo group dealing with technical
topics, run by Chuck Adams, K7QO
<20:42:02>"Joe - N2CX": K7QO tech list groups.yahoo.com/group/qrp-tech
<20:43:25>"George - N2APB": Austin QRP Group, AQRP Yahoo Group ... join it! ...
Active projects: Morse Buddy, Digital Wattmeter, I2C/SPI interface for LCD
display, Temperature/Barameter Kits with RF link ... just doing it for
fun! Google for K5BCQ Kits
<20:44:29>"Jim - N2ADR": Digital Signal Processing in Communication
Systems, Marvin E. Frerking
<20:48:30>"Joe - N2CX": $130.31 on Amazon!
<20:49:50>"George - N2APB": HalfPriceBooks in Austin, TX
<20:49:53>"Joe - N2CX": Half Price books i this area has nearly no tch books...
<20:53:28>"George - N2APB": Boatanchor Manual Archive …
http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/
... but it's down right now
<20:53:50>"George - N2APB": Wes Hayward W7ZOI …
http://w7zoi.net
<20:54:15>"George - N2APB": Snow camping with Wes and son Roger
<20:54:42>"George - N2APB": Steve Yates AA5TB Homebrew, antennas, loops …
http://aa5tb.com
<20:55:21>"George - N2APB": Successful antennas, antenna calculator for
parameters of Mag Loops (STLs), hands-on info and usage of EFHW (end fed half
wave antennas)
<20:55:39>"George - N2APB": Harry Lythall Homebrew …
http://www.sm0vpo.com
<20:55:50>"oh2nlt": Thank you for interesting meeting. Unfortunately I have to
leave now.
<20:56:03>"George - N2APB": Hans Summers Homebrew …
http://www.hanssummers.com
<21:02:19>"George - N2APB": Here's my customized links ... "my favorites!" ...
http://www.amqrp.org/misc/links.html (N2APB)
<21:04:10>"Joe - N2CX":
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-16-Bit-PIC-Microcontrollers-Technology/dp/0750682922
<21:04:41>"George - N2APB": Basic programming information for 16-bit
microcontrollers by Lucio Di Jasio "Prgramming 16-bit Microcontrllers in
C" (aka: Learning to fly the PIC24) See Amazon.com link above.
<21:06:57>"George - N2APB": FPGA reference: Rapid Prototyping of Digital
Systems, using Altera Gate arrays ... Cypress line of gate arrays, Microchip
provides the IDE (development system), by Hanlon, Paul and Furman (spelling?)
<21:14:11>"George - N2APB": DSP "Short Course" frm TA{R Digital Communications
Conference 2010 ...
http://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2010-DSPcourse-session4-KN6KB.pdf
<21:18:46>"George - N2APB": "Wirebook V" by Press Jones, N8UG ... available from
The Wireman ...
http://thewireman.com/products.html
<21:19:26>"Ray K2ULR": Simple Test Equipment for the QRPer by G3MFJ & G4WIF.
<21:20:24>"George - N2APB": http://k7og.net/?p=69 Simple Equipment for the
QRPer
<21:24:19>"Joe - N2CX": Good for small club kit runs!
<21:24:33>"Ray K2ULR": http://www.myropcb.com/
<21:27:03>"George - N2APB": Reference site for Peter G3XJP ... His documents are
very good reference material, describing basic fabrication and includes
rationale for the development. Example: PIC-A-STAR series of articles from
RADCOM. Antojer; Automated antenna tuner: PIC-A-TUNE ... good insight to Q and
losses. see link to follow from Larry.
<21:28:09>"Larry-W2HHV": PicATUne and Pic-a-STAR II Projects by Peter, G3XJP
at http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/picaproject/files/