A Link Budget puts into account all gains and losses a signal goes through in a system as it is transmitted. The calculator calculates the power of the received signal given amplifier and antenna gains, and medium loss.
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The Q, or quality, factor of a resonant circuit is a measure of the…
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This calculator allows you to solve for any of the six variables in the Friis formula for RF transmission: transmitter power, transmitter gain, receiver power, receiver gain, frequency, or distance.
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In very simple, qualitative terms, rate the impedance of capacitors…
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Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
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What voltage will you choose to use for each of the station batteries?
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A helpful tool for computing the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of an antenna
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Given three of the four input parameters (refractive indices, angles of incidence, and refraction) this tool calculates the missing variable based on Snell's law.
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This tool is designed to calculate the maximum distance (range) that a radar can detect
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This calculator will determine the correct antenna downtilt angle given the heights of the antennas and distance between them.
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This calculator helps you determine the values of the resistors R1 and R2 to be used for a bridged-tee attenuator.
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This balanced attenuator calculator helps you determine the resistor (R1) values for a balanced attenuator.
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to analyze digital…
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A demultiplexer, sometimes abbreviated dmux, is a circuit that has one…
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Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
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In essence, the IGFET controls the base current of a BJT, which…
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In an ideal case, an inductor acts as a purely reactive device. That…
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What is Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law (KVL)? The principle known as…
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“I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the…
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Calculate circuit parameters using Ohm's Law
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If we connect the output of an op-amp to its inverting input and apply…
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A third variation on the counter-DAC-based converter theme is, in my…
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Write an equation describing the precise mathematical relationship…
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Solid Copper Wire Table Size Diameter (inches) Cross-sectional area…
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Varicap or varactor diodes A variable capacitance diode is known as a…
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In this collection of hands-on electronics experiments, build and test mixed-signal analog and digital circuits using the versatile 555 timer IC. These projects will teach you about RC time constants, duty cycle, transistor current drive, LEDs, voltage doublers, and more.
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Any kind of switch contact can be designed so that the contacts…
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All entries arranged in alphabetical order of surname. Major…
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In any electrically conductive substance, what are charge carriers?…
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Since Thevenin’s theorem and Norton’s theorems are two…
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In the beam power tube, the basic four-element structure of the…
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Don’t just sit there! Build something!! Learning to mathematically…
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Inductors, like all electrical components, have limitations which must…
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In the common-emitter section of this chapter, we saw a SPICE analysis…
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Mercury Standard Cell Back in the early days of electrical measurement…
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We can take the same components from the series circuit and rearrange…
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Three-phase Wye(Y) Connection Initially, we explored the idea of…
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Since three-phase is used so often for power distribution systems, it…
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In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
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In addition to forward voltage drop (Vf) and peak inverse voltage…
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What do you think this logic buffer gate will do, with the output…
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Explain how an ohmmeter is able to measure the resistance of a…
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This calculator helps you compute the characteristic impedance of a broadside coupled stripline.
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These are the most common types of resistors available. Resistors…
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So far, we’ve explored tubes which are totally…
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In this hands-on AC electronics experiment, build a large AC permanent capacitor split-phase induction motor and learn the principles of AC induction motor function.
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Although transistor switching circuits operate without bias, it is…
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A wound rotor induction motor has a stator like a squirrel cage…
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The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
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It is sometimes useful in logic circuits to have a multivibrator which…
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In the last section, we learned what would happen in simple…
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