Contents
Volume One
Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter • D-C Voltmeter Circuit • A-C Voltmeter Circuit • Ohmmeter Circuit • Current Meter Circuit • Multimeter Circuit Summary and Review Questions
Vacuum Tube Voltmeters-Basic VTVM • Bridge Type VTVM • Differential Amplifier VTVM • VTVM as a D-C Voltmeter• VTVM as an A-C Voltmeter • VTVM as an Ohmmeter • VTVM Circuit Summary and Review Questions
R-F Signal Generator • Tube Testers • Tube Tester Circuit Summary and Review Questions
Cathode Ray Oscilloscope-Cathode Ray Tube • CRO-Control Volt ages • CRO-Signal Display • CRO-Sawtooth Oscillator • CRO Sweep Display • CRO-Diagram • CRO-Controls • Signal Tracer • Grid Dip Meter Summary and Review Questions
Resistors • Controls • Tubes and Transistors • Capacitors • Electrolytic Capacitors • Power Transformers • Output Transformers • I-F Transformers • Coils • Loop Antennas • Loudspeakers Summary and Review Questions
Servicing Technique • Servicing Methods • Voltage Readings • Resistance Readings • Signal Injection • Signal Tracing • Isolation of Trouble Summary and Review Questions
SERVICING SUPERHETERODYNE RECEIVERS
A-C Power Supply• AC-DC Power Supply • Audio Power Output Stage
• Push-Pull Power Output Stage • Audio Amplifier • Phase Inverter
• Detector and A VC Stage • I-F Amplifier Stage • Converter Stage • R-F Amplifier Stage • Alignment of Superheterodynes Summary and Review Questions
Servicing Portable Receivers • Battery Operated Portables • Battery, AC-DC (Three-Way) Portables Summary and Review Questions
SERVICING AUTOMOBILE RECEIVERS
Servicing Automobile Receivers • R-F Amplifier Stage • Power Supply
• Signal Seeker • Ignition Interference Summary and Review Questions
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Volume Two
Servicing FM Receivers • FM Discriminator • Ratio Detector • Gated Beam Detector • FM Receiver Alignment Summary and Review Questions
SERVICING TRANSISTOR RECEIVERS
Handling Transistors • Transistor Testing • Transistor Operating Voltages • Powers Sources Summary and Review Questions
Servicing Techniques • Servicing Printed Circuits • Printed Circuit Component Testing • Single-Ended, Audio Power Output Stage • Push Pull, Audio Power Output Stage • Audio Driver or Audio Amplifier Stage Summary and Review Questions
Power Detector and A VC Stage • Diode Detector and A VC Stage • I-F Amplifier Stage • Reflexed IF-AF Amplifier Stage • Converter Stage Summary and Review Questions
Local Oscillator-Mixer Stage • R-F Amplifier Stage • Hybrid Auto Receiver • Hybrid Auto Receiver Schematic • All Transistor Auto Receiver Summary and Review Questions
General Symptoms • Meter Readings • Neutralization • Parasitic Oscillations Summary and Review Questions
Checking Transmitter Output • Frequency Stability Frequency Measurement • Variable Frequency Oscillator • Crystal Oscillator Summary and Review Questions
Buffer Amplifier • Frequency Multiplier • R-F Power Amplifier • Transmission Line and Antenna • Speech Amplifier Summary and Review Questions
Driver • Modulator • Reactance Tube Frequency Modulator • Single Sideband Circuit Checks Summary and Review Questions
PREFACE (Vol. 1)
Knowledge of radio receiver and transmitter circuits is one part of the job.
An equally important part is to be able to apply this knowledge to the maintenance and repair of defective receivers or transmitters.
These books are a logical extension of Basic Radio, and are presented in a manner calculated to best instill a common-sense approach to servicing.
Too often the author has observed good knowledge of circuits being wasted by a complete lack of an approach, or a poor approach to circuit troubleshooting and repair.
The context of these books reflects an application of practical servicing procedures. The approach is to illustrate by a combination of words and pertinent artwork, as close an approximation as possible of repair techniques as they would actually be done on a workbench.
Starting as a single volume, it soon became apparent that there was more to say than could be covered in a single book. Rather than weaken its value the contents were expanded and placed in two volumes, allowing coverage of all phases of radio receiver and transmitter servicing.
The contents are carefully laid out. Beginning with an exhaustive discussion of the test equipment used in servicing, it goes into a complete discourse on significant aspects of different components. The next section thoroughly covers a most important subject, servicing procedures. No one servicing technique is favored--all are covered equally. The approach to superheterodyne receiver servicing was carefully set up to closely approximate the approach taken when actually serving a receiver. Servicing of each circuit is taken in the order most likely to be followed during actual receiver repairs. This also holds true for the chapters on portable, auto mobile, and FM receivers.
It was felt that to try and combine discussions of equivalent tube and transistor circuits side by side would be confusing. Accordingly a completely separate discussion is used on transistor receivers, allowing full concentration on servicing procedures peculiar to these receivers. The final section, transmitter servicing, covers a neglected area. Previously very little has been written on this subject. The approach and coverage has been unstinting, covering all types of circuits, including FM and single sideband.
Those of you with extracurricular work activities will appreciate the long enduring patience of my wife Celia, and my daughters Ruth and Shirley, who waited for mhz to compile and write these books, and then finally to rejoin the family.
Milton, Mass.
June 1963 MARVIN TEPPER
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PREFACE (Vol. 2)
Knowledge of radio receiver and transmitter circuits is one part of the job.
An equally important part is to be able to apply this knowledge to the maintenance and repair of defective receivers or transmitters.
These books are a logical extension of Basic Radio, and are presented in a manner calculated to best instill a common-sense approach to servicing.
Too often the author has observed good knowledge of circuits being wasted by a complete lack of an approach, or a poor approach to circuit trouble shooting and repair.
The context of these books reflects an application of practical servicing procedures. The approach is to illustrate by a combination of words and pertinent artwork, as close an approximation as possible of repair techniques as they would actually be done on a workbench.
Starting as a single volume, it soon became apparent that there was more to say than could be covered in a single book. Rather than weaken its value the contents were expanded and placed in two volumes, allowing coverage of all phases of radio receiver and transmitter servicing.
The contents are carefully laid out. Beginning with an exhaustive discussion of the test equipment used in servicing, it goes into a complete discourse on significant aspects of different components. The next section thoroughly covers a most important subject, servicing procedures. No one servicing technique is favored-all are covered equally. The approach to superheterodyne receiver servicing was carefully set up to closely approximate the approach taken when actually serving a receiver. Servicing of each circuit is taken in the order most likely to be followed during actual receiver repairs. This also holds true for the chapters on portable, auto mobile, and FM receivers.
It was felt that to try and combine discussions of equivalent tube and transistor circuits side by side would be confusing. Accordingly a completely separate discussion is used on transistor receivers, allowing full concentration on servicing procedures peculiar to these receivers.
The final section, transmitter servicing, covers a neglected area. Previously very little has been written on this subject. The approach and coverage has been unstinting, covering all types of circuits, including FM and single sideband.
Those of you with extracurricular work activities will appreciate the long enduring patience of my wife Celia, and my daughters Ruth and Shirley, who waited for mhz to compile and write these books, and then finally to rejoin the family.
Milton, Mass. June 1963
MARVIN TEPPER
Also see:
How to Troubleshoot and Repair Electronic Circuits