Ten-Tec 1253 Assembly And Instruction Manual page 62

LEARNING MORE . . .
One purpose of your Receiver and the details provided in this
instruction manual are to help you become better acquainted
with radio communications and electronics . . as a hobby, as a
possible profession, or both.
As suggested in the Introduction, this receiver design
incorporates many if not most of the basic circuit building blocks
used in communications equipment:
✔
RF amplifier
✔
RF oscillator
✔ Varactor tuning
✔ Resonant L-C circuits
✔
Buffer-amplifier
✔
Audio preamplifier
✔
Integrated audio amplifier
✔ Integrated voltage regulator
✔ Digital logic IC
So, the better you understand how this receiver works, the more
you learn about modern electronics!
Among the hundreds of publications available, We are pleased to
recommend the following as especially helpful for radio
newcomers and people of any age who are young at heart!
___Getting Started in Electronics
by Forest Mims III (Radio Shack™)
___Now You're Talking: Discovering the World of Ham Radio
(ARRL, Newington, CT 06111, also sold by Radio Shack™)
Or, if you just want to try a single copy of one magazine that's
all about ALL the signals you may hear on your T-KIT 1253, you
can find the latest issue of Popular Communications at many
magazine stands. It's an intriguing publication. Happy listening!
THANKS for your interest in T-KIT by TEN-TEC!
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