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MORE THAN JUST SLIGHTLY EVIL: SAFE, INEXPENSIVE, EDUCATIONAL . . . AND FUN!
22 Radio and Receiver Projects for the Evil Genius features a unique collection of projects that teach you radio and electronics essentials such as the radio spectrum, how to read schematics, and how to solder. After each project is completed, you can enjoy listening to and using their new receiver.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing...,
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This review is from: 22 Radio and Receiver Projects for the Evil Genius (Paperback)
My wife knew I was interested in getting into radio electronics as a hobby and bought this for me as a Christmas gift. While the initial chapters provide some interesting background material, the chapters describing the projects have some serious issues. For example, I started with Chapter 8 IC Shortwave Radio Receiver, because I wanted to build a shortwave radio from scratch. While the chapter included a schematic (courtesy of Ramsay electronics), there was no pictorial layout, or checklist of construction order which can be frustraing to a beginner in electronics. The real shock came when I figured out that I could order the project described in this chapter as a kit from Ramsay electronics. At no point in this chapter is it stated that this project could be ordered as a kit, which would save much time and frustration. I ended up ordering the kit from Ramsay, and when I read the kit manual, I noticed that the manual text was identical to some of the text in this chapter!!!
In summary: - some of the backgound information is interesting and useful - the lack of pictorial diagrams and checklists will make project building for the beginner difficult - the material for at least one of the chapters in this book has come from another source, which does not see to be properly acknowledged. Maybe the author, publisher and Ramsay electronics have an agreement, but if so why is it not stated that the project could be ordered in kit form?
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
22 radio and receiver projects for the evil genius,
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This review is from: 22 Radio and Receiver Projects for the Evil Genius (Paperback)
There are some interesting aspects of classical (antique) radio technology
found. I did not know, that whistlers were first time detected by Austrian scientists in 1886. The explanations from crystal detectors to wheather satellite receivers are well made and helpfull for beginners, but the book can NOT be used directly for undergraduate/freshman-courses because: part lists sometimes incomplete, sometimes wrong some parts obsolete since 2004 - the book is printed in 2008 you can save a lot of space if you print the ceramic, mylar and mica capacitor code only once (I found it more than 10 times) it would be nice to read the metric values of lengths, wire diameters, ... the circuit diagrams are much more readable if you use standard symbols or symbols as used in data sheets or application reports. Don't use rectangles with pin numbers. Finally, it would be helpfull for foreign people (non US people) to get information about time code receivers outside the USA (there is one in Germany - DCF77 or in Great Britain) Fine book for the basics of radio receivers
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth cover price, but some useful info,
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This review is from: 22 Radio and Receiver Projects for the Evil Genius (Paperback)
I agree with some other reviewers that stated that there was some useful background information in the beginning of the book, but any of the actual projects utilizing solid-state components are next to useless. First of all, it appears to me that the author(s) simply took several Ramsey kits and reprinted the directions in whole or part, without the benefit of PCBs. In many, many, places, sentences and paragraphs are duplicated in the text, and each project includes several pages of redundant information on how to read parts values and how to solder and so forth, an artifact --I suspect-- of having ripped off the instruction booklets of these kits. One might suppose it would still be possible to build these projects from the book's instructions, but unfortunately all of the solid-state projects require ICs that are obsolete by several years, and generally unavailable.
If you see this book in your local library, by all means check it out and give it a look, but don't pay for this.
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