Electronics Portable Handbook

Imagine an easy-access electronics database that weighs a mere 19 oz.-- yet delivers pounds of must-know standards, formulas, techniques, and more! Electronics Portable Handbook, by Stan Gibilisco, packs literally hundreds of answers-at-a-glance tables, checklists, schematics and drawings that help you solve showstopping problems and get back to work. Turn to this guide to get the answers you need to: *Design circuits, oscillators, amplifiers and antenna systems *Set up a satellite television receiving system *Interface computers with electronic devices *Choose a communications frequency and mode *Install a home entertainment system *Work with transistors, microwaves, satellites, or HDTV *Reference the principles behind television, cell phones, pagers, and beepers *Optimize shortwave, CB and ham radio rigs *Implement privacy and security devices -- from data encryption to tone squelching and scrambling *Understand robotics, motion detectors,and other sensor-based technologies *And much, much more