CD-ROM Included! Includes the fully-searchable book and new design software on CD-ROM.

System Requirements: Windows^® XP, Windows Vista^® or Windows^® 7, 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.

NEW Table of Contents: Electrical Fundamentals, Analog Basics, Digital Basics, RF Design Techniques, Computer-Aided Circuit Design, Power Supplies, Modulation, Oscillators and Synthesizers, Mixers, Modulators and Demodulators, RF and AF Filters, Receivers, Transmitters, Transceivers, DSP and Software Radio Design, Digital Modes, RF Power Amplifiers, Repeaters, Propagation of Radio Signals, Transmission Lines, Antennas, Component Data and References, Circuit Construction, Station Accessories, Test Equipment and Measurements, Troubleshooting and Repair, Electromagnetic Compatibility and Direction-Finding, Safety, Assembling a Station, Space Communications, Digital Communications, Image Communications

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Featuring a Collection of QSL Cards from W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station at ARRL Headquarters!

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BONUS! ** Includes one BONUS month-January 2011 **

Published by The American Radio Relay League, Inc.

Edited by Mike Dennison, G3XDV and John Fielding, ZS5JF

Since it was first published in 1938, the RSGB Radio Communication Handbook has been one of the largest and most comprehensive guides to the theory and practice of Amateur Radio communication. Once again, the RSGB has recruited experts on a wide variety of subjects. This edition is now better than ever before, packed with over 1,700 illustrations, 26 chapters and two appendices. An essential for every shack!

Now includes the practicalities of taking your radio station into the great outdoors, LF including the use of higher power limit on 500 kHz, radio astronomy, soldering SMT components, and Software Defined Radio. This guide covers the entire spectrum from basic to advanced projects, for 136 kHz to 76 GHz, including many classic circuits.

BONUS CD-ROM INCLUDED! Search every page of the book at the touch of a button. This makes the book incredibly easy to navigate. Finding that important page has never been easier. Also includes bonus chapters not in the book, an SDR video, audio files, a huge selection of the latest amateur radio software, and more.

864 pages. Tenth edition, © 2009, published by Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).

by Cathleen Shamieh, Gordon McComb

You can make all sorts of things, once you understand what electronics is and how it works. With Electronics for Dummies you'll explore the basic concepts of electronics and how electricity functions. You'll learn how to harness it and put it to work, what tools you need to build circuits, what you can make with them, and how to do it safely. Begin building your electronics workbench, creating cool projects, and having fun with electronics projects right away!

Discover how to:

Also available:
Ham Radio for Dummies
Two-Way Radios & Scanners for Dummies

432 pages. Second edition. © 2009, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

This guide covers the latest 2010 schedules of clandestine, domestic, and international broadcast stations worldwide. It was compiled by a new team of international top experts assisted by experienced collaborators and monitors from around the globe.

2010 Shortwave Frequency Guide features a gigantic broadcast frequency list with thousands of entries, and a superb alphabetical list of stations as well. Even more entries cover utility stations worldwide (Red Cross, United Nations and more).

With cearly arranged frequency and schedule tables, year after year, these famous databases are totally revised from scratch. This is the most up-to-date worldwide shortwave radio handbook available today!

Fourteenth edition. © 2009, by Klingenfuss Publications, Germany.

Use this CD-ROM to find shortwave broadcast stations worldwide, plus utility stations from 0 to 30 MHz!

Broadcast database: Thousands of entries with the latest schedules of clandestine, domestic and international broadcasting services on shortwave. Compiled by top experts in this field with the assistance experienced collaborators and monitors worldwide.

Utility database (Red Cross, United Nations and more): Thousands of special frequencies from the international bestseller "Guide to Utility Radio Stations." Plus abbreviations and formerly active frequencies, all on one CD-ROM. Browse through all that data in milliseconds, and search in next to no time -- even combined! -- for specific frequencies, countries, stations, languages, call signs and times. It can't get faster than this!

Easily connects to leading receiver control programs: Controlling your equipment by means of this frequency database is now only a mouse-click away! A powerful concurrent full text word search is included, too.

Great for the international radio listener, a businessperson or a tourist traveling worldwide, a professional monitoring service or a circumnavigator sailing around the globe. This is the way -- just a few keystrokes and you have it all!

CD-ROM for Windows. Sixteenth edition. © 2009, by Klingenfuss Publications, Germany.

Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering reflects the most recent developments in the field of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), noise reduction and their practical applications to the design of analog and digital circuits in computer, home entertainment, medical, telecom, industrial process control, automotive equipment, and military and aerospace systems. The concepts covered are applicable to analog and digital circuits operating from below audio frequencies to those in the GHz range, with an emphasis is placed on cost-effective EMC designs.

This comprehensive book equips readers with the knowledge needed to design electronic equipment that is compatible with the electromagnetic environment and compliant with national and international EMC regulations. It is an essential resource for practicing engineers who face EMC and regulatory compliance issues and an ideal textbook for EE courses at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.

Includes:

About the author: Henry W. Ott, WA2IRQ is President and Principal Consultant of an EMC/ESD training and consulting organization in Livingston, New Jersey and is considered by many to be the nation's leading EMC educator. He is a member of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL--The national association for AMATEUR RADIO).

Hardcover. 843 pages. © 2009, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Solly’s dream is for his son Teddy to one day become a concert violinist. Eventually he comes to understand and to endure the heartbreak of knowing that the dream never will be realized. As Solly watches, life takes Teddy from gifted violin student to adult engineer and scientist. In the end, there emerges the essence of redemption as Teddy returns to the violin late in life and fulfills his and his father’s vision.

Full Circle is a work of fiction based on real events, which will fascinate readers from ages ten to one hundred who are interested in radio, communications, and music. You'll see how it was to grow up in a family whose members trace their heritage to that great wave of immigrants that crashed onto America’s shores in the mid to late 1800s.

About the author: Theodore J. Cohen, N4XX, has been an engineer and scientist for more than 40 years. He received his first amateur radio license in 1952. He has published more than 350 papers, articles, columns, essays, and interviews in the technical, scientific, ham radio, and popular literature. Ted is a life member of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL--The national association for AMATEUR RADIO).

216 pages. © 2009, Theodore J. Cohen (published by Authorhouse)

The K5D Dxpedition video, entitled, "Desecheo---so near, yet so far" is full of exciting footage of helicopter trips, the island from the air, camp set-up and takedown, pileups, and an inside look into the logistics of a big DXpedition.

DVD. Produced by Bob Allphin, K4UEE.

Travel along with the team as they move 2,000 pounds of equipment 600 miles overland with two AK-47-toting guards. Watch them put up eight antennas for the CQ World-wide CW contest in November 2000, hear their massive pileups, and more.

DVD. Produced by Bob Allphin, K4UEE.

Published since 1920. More than 1,600,000 licensed radio amateurs! Includes United States and International call sign listings covering more than 250 countries, islands and dependencies.

Winter 2010 edition. © 2009, by Radio Amateur Callbook

by Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD

Where Radio Meets the Internet!

This second edition of VoIP: Internet Linking for Radio Amateurs is your complete guide to several of the most widely-used VoIP systems used by hams, with particular attention to EchoLink and the Internet Radio Linking Project, or IRLP. The book is designed for beginners who need information on how to get started, set-up, and use these systems. For the more advanced, it provides plenty of technical “meat” for those who want to dig deeper into VoIP applications and discover how they actually work.

Contents:

Jonathan Taylor, K1RFD, is the creator of EchoLink and one of the top experts in Amateur Radio Voice Over Internet Protocol. He is a member of the American Radio Relay League.

Second edition. © 2009, The American Radio Relay League, Inc.

Quick access to utilities, applications and information:

The content on this CD-ROM is divided into folders which contain software for a variety of ham radio applications. You'll also find programs for APRS, packet radio and satellite tracking. Plus, handy software tools for calculating transmission line loss, creating custom DSP audio filters, and more. Bonus files include ARRL screensavers, audio samples, video files, and PowerPoint presentations.

Minimum System Requirements: A 400 MHz Pentium PC with 256 MBytes of RAM and Microsoft^® Windows^® XP or Windows Vista. (Note: The included CWDecoder application will not function under 64-bit versions of Windows XP, or on Windows Vista.) A sound card is required to listen to sound samples or use the sound-card-based digital communication software. Includes the free Microsoft^® PowerPoint^® viewer. Please note that ARRL does not support the software in this collection. For support questions, please contact the program authors directly.

CD-ROM. © 2009, The American Radio Relay League, Inc.

Celebrating 45 Years of the IOTA (Islands on the Air)

Special Feature: Take a look back at the last 45 years of IOTA. Plus, everything you need to enjoy collecting or operating from islands for this popular worldwide program!

The 45th Anniversary Edition of the IOTA Directory is your essential guide to participating in the Islands on the Air (IOTA) award program. Fully updated, it provides the complete, official listing of IOTA islands available, with the many recent changes. It includes details of the award rules, the IOTA contest, the IOTA honor roll, and fascinating reports of IOTA operations. A must-have for every island chaser!

128 pages. ©, 2009, published by Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).

Experience the excitement of D-STAR!

Using easy to understand explanations and illustrations, this book is an ideal resource for discovering the full range of operating modes and opportunities available to D-STAR users. You'll learn the background information and radio programming procedures needed to route calls to remote repeaters and reflectors. Includes detailed how-to information for digital text messaging, file transfers and DV Dongle operation. A must-have for both beginning and experienced D-STAR users!

Also available:
ARRL's VHF Digital Handbook
Nifty E-Z Guide to PSK31 Operation

104 pages. © 2009, by Nifty Ham Accessories

This book is designed for casual, serious and upcoming QRPers past, present and future. It's filled with details of today's popular QRP clubs, contents, rigs, kits, accessories and homebrew projects. In particular, the operating strategies and secrets for successful DXing is beneficial to high and low power operators alike. Get on top of the action!

88 pages. © 2009, Dave Ingram, K4TWJ

Mini-Manuals
Mini-Manuals are fully laminated and spiral bound booklets, 4.5 x 8 inches, providing simplified step-by-step set-up instructions for all your radio’s features. Easy to read and color-coded to quickly find the information you need. These short-form pocket guides are smaller, more durable and easier to use than manuals normally supplied with a radio.

Kenwood:

Pocket Reference Cards
HT Pocket Reference Radio Cards are professional quality three-page foldout cheat sheets the size of a credit card. They are easy to use and convenient for carrying in a wallet or purse.

Kenwood:

Easy Guide Series

• QST The official membership journal of ARRL
• NCJ National Contest Journal
• QEX Forum for Communications Experimenters

SEARCH the full text of every article by entering titles, call signs, names--almost any word.
SEE every word, photo (including color images), drawing and table in technical and general-interest features, columns and product reviews, plus all advertisements.
PRINT what you see, or copy it into other applications.

New 2008 Edition-only $24.95!

Additional sets....$19.95 each:

System Requirements: