ARRL Handbook (2012 Softcover Edition)

The Comprehensive RF Engineering Reference

The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications has kept technologists—amateur, professional and students—immersed in the radio art for generations. As innovations in wireless communication march (and race!) ahead, The ARRL Handbook has maintained its place at the forefront—a single resource covering electronic fundamentals, radio design, and loads of practical treatments and projects. You’ll read it, study it, and turn to it…again and again.

Updated and Revised! This eighty-ninth edition of The Handbook includes something for every radio amateur and experimenter:

• New chapterTest Equipment and Measurements
• New projects, including High-Power RF Samplers, RF Current Meter, and a Two-Tone Audio Oscillator from the ARRL Lab
• Updated Elsie™ filter design software
• Expanded content on CD-ROM, including an operating supplement for Space Communications, Digital Communications, and Image Communications
• New comprehensive treatment of Noise (chapter 5)
  …and more!

CD-ROM Included!The CD-ROM includes all of the fully searchable text and illustrations in the printed book, as well as expanded supplemental content, software, PC board templates and other support files.

System Requirements: Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, or Windows® XP, as well as Macintosh® systems, using Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® software. The Acrobat Reader is a free download at www.adobe.com. PDF files are Linux readable. The Companion Software programs are known to have difficulty running on 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The programs were developed for and run on 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. The Companion Software programs available with the ARRL 2012 Handbook have not been tested with 64-bit versions of Windows.