--- product_id: 2051646 title: "Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits" price: "€ 107.27" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2051646-build-your-own-transistor-radios-a-hobbyists-guide-to-high store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits **Price:** € 107.27 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits - **How much does it cost?** € 107.27 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2051646-build-your-own-transistor-radios-a-hobbyists-guide-to-high) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A DIY guide to designing and building transistor radios Create sophisticated transistor radios that are inexpensive yet highly efficient. Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist’s Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits offers complete projects with detailed schematics and insights on how the radios were designed. Learn how to choose components, construct the different types of radios, and troubleshoot your work. Digging deeper, this practical resource shows you how to engineer innovative devices by experimenting with and radically improving existing designs. Build Your Own Transistor Radios covers: Calibration tools and test generators TRF, regenerative, and reflex radios Basic and advanced superheterodyne radios Coil-less and software-defined radios Transistor and differential-pair oscillators Filter and amplifier design techniques Sampling theory and sampling mixers In-phase, quadrature, and AM broadcast signals Resonant, detector, and AVC circuits Image rejection and noise analysis methods “This is the perfect guide for electronics hobbyists and students who want to delve deeper into the topic of radio. Overall, this extremely well written and comprehensively illustrated guide and reference deserves a place on the inquisitive radio amateur's bookshelf.” ― QST “I would definitely recommend this book to novices and all hobbyists and engineers who have not have much practical exposure to radio design and development.” ― EDN Make Great Stuff! TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists. Review: Analog electronics education in a hobbyist book on transistor radios - I must admit that I came to this book somewhat math challenged. I tend to be more interested in a historical perspective. But having said that, Mr. Quan has written a book that somehow manages to cover all bases here. Using the AM radio as a context, starting with the most basic simple circuits, then building upon each concept, he manages to cover the history and development of the major types of circuits used for AM radio reception, and the math and theory behind each circuit building block, show plans and schematics with detailed parts lists and sources to not only construct several types of AM radios, but also to make your own test oscillators and modulators for developing and testing circuits under construction. He also has a section covering the details of other equipment needed, and some inexpensive ways to obtain it, to equip your "radio electronics experimentation lab". He goes on to discuss improvements to circuits and trade-offs in further development between performance, cost and power consumption giving you the chance to improve designs previously constructed and measure the improvements. All this is presented in a well illustrated, intuitive, entertaining, easy to grasp form, that actually manages to give a reasonably complete analog electronics education by covering the various building blocks of the humble AM transistor radio including power supplies, oscillators and amplifiers as well as everything else specific to an AM radio. If you spend any time with this book you will not only learn to build and design your own AM radio circuits, but you will be well on your way to understanding a lot of the theory behind all analog electronic design. Well done ! Review: Good - Nice book ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,605,713 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #54 in Transistors Electrical Engineering (Books) #453 in Radio Operation #473 in Radio Communications | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 143 Reviews | ## Images ![Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61F+BMkekcL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Analog electronics education in a hobbyist book on transistor radios *by S***S on March 15, 2013* I must admit that I came to this book somewhat math challenged. I tend to be more interested in a historical perspective. But having said that, Mr. Quan has written a book that somehow manages to cover all bases here. Using the AM radio as a context, starting with the most basic simple circuits, then building upon each concept, he manages to cover the history and development of the major types of circuits used for AM radio reception, and the math and theory behind each circuit building block, show plans and schematics with detailed parts lists and sources to not only construct several types of AM radios, but also to make your own test oscillators and modulators for developing and testing circuits under construction. He also has a section covering the details of other equipment needed, and some inexpensive ways to obtain it, to equip your "radio electronics experimentation lab". He goes on to discuss improvements to circuits and trade-offs in further development between performance, cost and power consumption giving you the chance to improve designs previously constructed and measure the improvements. All this is presented in a well illustrated, intuitive, entertaining, easy to grasp form, that actually manages to give a reasonably complete analog electronics education by covering the various building blocks of the humble AM transistor radio including power supplies, oscillators and amplifiers as well as everything else specific to an AM radio. If you spend any time with this book you will not only learn to build and design your own AM radio circuits, but you will be well on your way to understanding a lot of the theory behind all analog electronic design. Well done ! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good *by J***A on March 11, 2026* Nice book ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A thrill ride ending badly. *by M***K on August 5, 2013* I was an electronic hobbyist in the 1950’s and spent a lot of time studying and building AM radios with vacuum tubes. I abandoned the hobby in the early 1960’s, but, watched the development of transistor radios with interest until the late 1970’s when phase lock loop (PLL) circuits entered the market. Nothing from my experience 20 years earlier helped me with PLL. Retired now I have taken up electronics as a hobby again so I was thrilled to see Ronald Quan’s book described, on the cover, as “A Hobbyists Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits”. Chapter by chapter he describes the theory and circuitry of Low-Power Tuned Radio-Frequency Radios, Transistor Reflex Radios, A Low-Power Regenerative Radio, Exotic or “Off the Wall” Superhetrodyne Radios and ends with an Introduction to Software-Defined Radios (SDRs). His description of SDRs is the best I have read and he includes circuits for SDR AM front ends. Emotionally the first 176 pages of the book were like watching Emeril do a cooking show. He gives you a circuit with some clever twists and a few pages later “Kicks it up a notch” again, again and again. It is a thrill ride. Unfortunately, it all ends, on page 176, less than half way through the book when he announces “Well, this ends the first part of this book, which is geared more for the hobbyist to just build or experiment with radio circuits.” The next 241 pages are filled with theory, formulas and trigonometric identities. On page 324 Mr. Quan reveals his perspective on what he has been writing since page 176 when he says “Analyzing the common-emitter amplifier in Figure 19-11 will be done a little bit differently from most college courses…” A college course. The cover says “A Hobbyist’s Guide…” Mr. Quan gets back to fun stuff in the last chapter titled “Learn by doing”. I wish he had skipped the college course and given us some PLL circuits. He could also have developed circuits around chips like the MK484 and TDA 1572 which are available from his list of suppliers. The first 176 pages are easily worth the price of the book, I only wish he had made better use of the rest of them. ## Frequently Bought Together - Build Your Own Transistor Radios: A Hobbyist's Guide to High-Performance and Low-Powered Radio Circuits - Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 2: LEDs, LCDs, Audio, Thyristors, Digital Logic, and Amplification - Encyclopedia of Electronic Components Volume 1: Resistors, Capacitors, Inductors, Switches, Encoders, Relays, Transistors --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2051646-build-your-own-transistor-radios-a-hobbyists-guide-to-high](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/2051646-build-your-own-transistor-radios-a-hobbyists-guide-to-high) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-05-13*