Boxes on: Dayton Hamvention (P 24), Hamfests and places (P 28), The story of Hamfest Official Gavel (P 28), Maidenhead Grid Square (P 30), Community radio Station (P 36), ‘Courage HANDI-HAM System’ (P 45), Amateur Radio promotional schemes in India (P 57), What all can and cannot be legally monitored? (P 86), History of Q codes (P 96), Line voltages in other countries (P 100), Simplex, Half Duplex and Full Duplex (P 110), Conversion table (134), Television standards (P 141), LCDs OLEDs (P 147), Azimuthal equidistant projection (P 164), WPC ruling (full) on online applications (P 183), Experimental Cross Band Repeater (ECBR) (P 202)..... + 150 model questions and answers.
Part 1 The first Amateur Radio clubs, Origin of the word Ham, the formation of ARRL, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose and electromagnetic waves, the first radio in Kolkata, growth of Ham Radio in India, ARSI (p 22), Dayton Hamvention (P 24), Hamfests in India (P 25), HFIs and places (P 28)
Part 2 Amateur Radio - hobby or service (P 32), radio pilgrimage Sabarimala (P 33), over to space shuttle Columbia, Idukki bus accident (P 34), with love from Milan (P 35), Community Radio (p 36), the French alliance (p 37), VHF event management? (P 38), Hams in Velankanni (P 39), a new transmitter for Rs. 200/- (P 40) Night Owl’s Net, Hammed all the way (P 42), saving a Swedish pilot, hands of God (P 44), Courage HANDI-HAM System (P 45), Perumon train disaster, where ever Hams are... (P 47), Charminar Net (P 48), Air Net India (P 49), the Lamakaan march, abductors be aware (P 50), a long lost connection (P 51), Ham awareness strides, Zero Beat (P 52), the Latur tragedy (P 53), disaster traffics (P 54), the best SWL (P 55), Queen’s choice, the Kerala flood (p 57), the North East wind, the story of a German short film (P 58), on hold in tears (P 59),
ASOC topics at a glance (P 60)
Part 3 (P-61) Basic Electronics
Chapter 1 (P 62) General instructions, shack management – all about PC Board making, soldering/desoldering, measuring units (P 69) measure- ment units and people, LCD and OLED (P 71),
Chapter 2 (P 72) Radio communication and propagation, cycles, frequency range chart (LF, HF etc.), band chart (P 73), harmonics, ionosphere, and radio propagation (P 74)
Chapter 3 (P 78) Morse code (P 79), keying, modulation (P 81), analogue and digital (P 83), SSB (P 84), bandwidth and channels (P 85)
Chapter 4 (P 86) Becoming SWLs, tuned receiver antenna, BFO (P 89)
Chapter 5 (P 90) BC DXing, QSL Cards, signal reports, SWL/Ham logbook, + Q codes (P 97)
Chapter 6 (P 99) Electricity, cells, resistors, capacitors, inductors (P 103),
lead Inductance, transformers (P 109),
Chapter 7 (P 111) Semiconductors, covalent bonding, diodes, doping, valves (P 113), transistors, bipolar/FET, ‘ft’, Beta (β) and ‘hfe’, dB (P 117)
Chapter 8 (P 119) Qualities of a receiver, sensitivity, selectivity, Q factor, filters, narrow band, broad band, attenuation, crystal filter, IF stage, high fidelity + S meter (P 122)
Chapter 9 (P 123) Crystal radio, tuned radio frequency receivers, DC receivers, SHR, dynamic range
Chapter 10 (P 128) Making coils, Q factor, toroids, reactances on set frequencies, reactances chart, toroid coding, product detector, squelch, conversion tables (P 134)
Chapter 11 (P 135) Dip oscillator, field strength meter, frequency multiplier, VXO, VCO (7 MHz VCO circuit), VFO, PLL, coherent CW. RF probe circuit and VFO assembling, simplex/half duplex/full duplex (P 141)
Chapter 12 (P 142) Classes of amplification, interstage isolation, intermodulation distortion, parasitic suppressor, amplifiers, modulation, level control, push-pull configuration,
Chapter 13 (P 148) SSB transmission, crystal filters, balanced modulators, side band switching + AM-SSB: comparative performance report
Chapter 14 (P 154) VSWR, reflected wave detector, simple ATU, QRO ATU, SWR meter, power transfer, power transistors
Chapter 15 (P 156) Antennas, dipoles, circular azimuthal equidistant projection (P 164)
Chapter 16 (P 165) EchoLInk, Peanut, Hamsphere communication, VHF/UHF Communication, AM/CW QRP, SDR
Chapter 17 (P 172) Power supplies,
Part 4 (P-179) (P-178) Rules and regulations, sample questions
Chapter 1 (P 179) Wireless Telegraph Rules - Amateur Service (1978) with recent amendments, online Application (P 183) how to establish a contact (P 210)
Chapter 2 (P 212) ASOC Exam. syllabus, documents required (P 219)
Chapter 3 (P 221) How to prepare for the exam, 150 model questions and answers (P 222), list of all Wireless Monitoring Stations in India (P 237)
