The Fast Track to Understanding Amateur Radio Mathematics

by Michael Burnette, AF7KB

Overview

Electrons dance to the music of mathematics.

True understanding (and enjoyment) of the electronic arts depends
on possessing at least a familiarity with the math behind the
electricity. Everything else is just an imprecise metaphor.

However, the language of mathematics can be challenging.

This book presents all the essential equations of amateur radio in
plain language with clarity and even good humor.

Practical applications are also illustrated. Complicated calculations
include keystroke-by-keystroke instructions that show exactly how
to complete the calculations. (Illustrations are for the easily
available TI-30XS calculator but are adaptable to any scientific
calculator.)

The book begins with a review of the most basic math fundamentals
and then proceeds through Ohm’s Law and continues clear through
a layman’s look at Maxwell’s Equations. There’s even a chapter on
how to avoid calculation by using the Smith Chart!

Every formula included on ham exams worldwide is included.

The goal is for the reader to go beyond rote learning to truly
understanding and - dare we say it? - enjoying the mathematics of
amateur radio.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167741157
Publisher:	Michael Burnette, AF7KB
Publication date:	11/13/2024
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Michael Burnette, AF7KB, started playing with radios at age 8 when he found the plans for a crystal radio set in a comic book and wasted a half roll of toilet paper to get the cardboard tube for a coil form. That radio failed as a practical appliance when it proved to only receive high-power stations that were less than one city block away.

This promising beginning blossomed into an equally auspicious 25 year career annoying the public as a commercial broadcaster where he did a bit of everything from being a DJ to serving as a vice president and general manager with Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS/Infinity.)

By 1989 he owned his own stations in Bend, Oregon, which afforded him abundant opportunities to repair those stations, often in the middle of the night in a snowstorm.

In 1992, Burnette left the radio business behind, despite absolutely no clamor for him to stay, and took to traveling the world designing and delivering experiential learning seminars on leadership, management, communications, and building relationships.

He has trained people across the US and in Indonesia, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Mexico, Finland, Greece, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Russia. In addition to his public and corporate trainings, he has been a National Ski Patroller, a Certified Professional Ski Instructor, a Certified In-Line Skating Instructor, a big-rig driving instructor, and a Certified Firewalk Instructor. (Yes, he can teach you how to walk on fire. Really.)

These days he makes his home in the Seattle, WA area with his wife, Kerry (KG7NVJ) and a singularly unproductive cat.

He is still playing with radios.