I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

Alan Corey wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.


Forrest M. Mims III wrote a series of basic electronics paperback
books for Radio Shack.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aforrest+mims&keywords =forrest+mims&ie=UTF8&qid=1297170508&ajr=6


It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX


--
You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

Alan Corey wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

Perhaps
Electronic Circuits Cookbook by Harry L. Helms. ????

regards ............. Zim

"Alan Corey" wrote in message
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I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It was
orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was just
Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest Nims.

If you want to browse before buying ; )
Check out some of these (requires bittorrent client www.bittorrent.com)
http://torrents.thepiratebay.org/443...54.TPB.torrent

"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe
Forest Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different
types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the
advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters,
typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog
circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET
preamp is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the
smaller handbooks found in RS.


Cheers

Martin Riddle wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe
Forest Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different
types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the
advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters,
typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog
circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET
preamp is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the
smaller handbooks found in RS.


Cheers



Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably
pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's
name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is
the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking
for.

"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
Martin Riddle wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the
smaller handbooks found in RS.


Cheers

Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably
pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's
name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is
the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking
for.


There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6
vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one
volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry.

The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too.

"ian field" wrote in message
...
There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6
vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one
volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry.

The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too.

My recollection is that that collection is essentially the old-school version
of random schematics on the Internet today: Graf & Sheets collected them from
all over the place, but didn't actually analyze them personally, so the
quality tends to very from "really good" to "absolutely awful?"

Because just, "buyer beware..."

"Joel Koltner" wrote in message
...
"ian field" wrote in message
...
There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6
vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one
volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry.

The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too.

My recollection is that that collection is essentially the old-school
version of random schematics on the Internet today: Graf & Sheets
collected them from all over the place, but didn't actually analyze them
personally, so the quality tends to very from "really good" to "absolutely
awful?"

Because just, "buyer beware..."

Buyer?

ian field wrote:

"Joel Koltner" wrote in message
...
"ian field" wrote in message
...
There's always the Graf & Sheets Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits (6
vols) floating about in the world wide swamp, they're lousy scans and one
volume even has a page with the horizontal hold gone awry.

The accompanying text with each circuit is pretty minimal too.

My recollection is that that collection is essentially the old-school
version of random schematics on the Internet today: Graf & Sheets
collected them from all over the place, but didn't actually analyze them
personally, so the quality tends to very from "really good" to "absolutely
awful?"

Because just, "buyer beware..."

Buyer?


Of the book.


--
You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.

Alan Corey wrote:
Martin Riddle wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe
Forest Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different
types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the
advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters,
typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog
circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET
preamp is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the
smaller handbooks found in RS.


Cheers



Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably
pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's
name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is
the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking
for.

Was that the one with the aircraft-band crystal radio, one-transistor
carbon-mike megaphone, and tunnel-diode FM wireless mike? I've been
looking for a copy of that one for ages--I had it when I was about 10
(1969), but it fell apart and eventually got thrown out. No idea who
wrote it or what the title was.


Cheers

Phil Hobbs

--
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Principal
ElectroOptical Innovations
55 Orchard Rd
Briarcliff Manor NY 10510
845-480-2058

email: hobbs (atsign) electrooptical (period) net
http://electrooptical.net

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

Forrest Mims, maybe. He tended to call his stuff "scrapbook" or
"notebook".

Don Lancaster had a number of books with "cookbook" in the title.

And then there's Walt Jung's "IC Op-Amp Cookbook"
ISBN 0-13-889601-1


It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

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"ian field" wrote in message
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"Joel Koltner" wrote in message
Because just, "buyer beware..."
Buyer?

Yes. Sorry 'bout that...

Phil Hobbs wrote:
Alan Corey wrote:
Martin Riddle wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe
Forest Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different
types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the
advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters,
typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog
circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET
preamp is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the
smaller handbooks found in RS.


Cheers



Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably
pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's
name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is
the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking
for.

Was that the one with the aircraft-band crystal radio, one-transistor
carbon-mike megaphone, and tunnel-diode FM wireless mike? I've been
looking for a copy of that one for ages--I had it when I was about 10
(1969), but it fell apart and eventually got thrown out. No idea who
wrote it or what the title was.


Cheers

Phil Hobbs


I doubt it. There weren't many complete projects in this book. What
was unique about it was that it presented building blocks for different
circuits and told how to optimize make them work together. If you
wanted to build a receiver for instance you might look at amplifiers for
an RF amp, then oscillators for the first oscillator, then mixers for
the first mixer, amplifiers for IF amps, detectors for a detector, audio
power amps for driving a speaker. There were a few complete projects
toward the back but they weren't very interesting, I don't remember what
they were.

Alan

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

Forrest Mims, maybe. He tended to call his stuff "scrapbook" or
"notebook".

Don Lancaster had a number of books with "cookbook" in the title.

And then there's Walt Jung's "IC Op-Amp Cookbook"
ISBN 0-13-889601-1

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

...Jim Thompson


Don Lancaster rings a bell, I'll try that.

Alan

Alan Corey wrote:
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Alan Corey wrote:
Martin Riddle wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe
Forest Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different
types. There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the
advantages, disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters,
typical input and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog
circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET
preamp is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I do recall a Orange cookbook, Then they had shrunk it down to the
smaller handbooks found in RS.


Cheers



Thanks..I had worked at a Radio Shack in the late 70s and probably
pilfered it from their shelves. Are you sure of the title and author's
name? I don't see it at Amazon (at the moment). Mostly what I found is
the RSGB book, so I bought one of those. Nice, but not what I'm looking
for.

Was that the one with the aircraft-band crystal radio, one-transistor
carbon-mike megaphone, and tunnel-diode FM wireless mike? I've been
looking for a copy of that one for ages--I had it when I was about 10
(1969), but it fell apart and eventually got thrown out. No idea who
wrote it or what the title was.


Cheers

Phil Hobbs


I doubt it. There weren't many complete projects in this book. What
was unique about it was that it presented building blocks for different
circuits and told how to optimize make them work together. If you
wanted to build a receiver for instance you might look at amplifiers for
an RF amp, then oscillators for the first oscillator, then mixers for
the first mixer, amplifiers for IF amps, detectors for a detector, audio
power amps for driving a speaker. There were a few complete projects
toward the back but they weren't very interesting, I don't remember what
they were.

Alan


There's a Forrest Mims website with a list of books and it's not there.
http://www.forrestmims.org/publications.html It wasn't "Getting
Started in Electronics"

I remember Don Lancaster's CMOS cookbook and the cheap video books, but
that's not it. I don't think it was him.

Alan AB1JX

"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
Don Lancaster rings a bell, I'll try that.

Don has written a lot of good books, and I've only read a small sampling of
them, but I'd be rather surprised to learn that he had any that discuss
"building blocks" of radios or whatever all the way down to the small-signal
model level (i.e., providing equations for the input impedance of a grounded
base amplifier, as you mentioned).

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Alan Corey" wrote in message
...
Don Lancaster rings a bell, I'll try that.

Don has written a lot of good books, and I've only read a small sampling
of them, but I'd be rather surprised to learn that he had any that discuss
"building blocks" of radios or whatever all the way down to the
small-signal model level (i.e., providing equations for the input
impedance of a grounded base amplifier, as you mentioned).

I've owned a couple of Don's cookbooks, and it seems that he assumes you
already know enough basic electronics to get the stuff hooked up. I think
the two I had were "the TTL cookbook" and either an opamp cookbook or active
filter cookbook, but nothing about "this is a transistor," "how to solder,"
or any of the really basic stuff.

My recommendation would probably be to search the web for stuff like "basic
electronics tutorial," or whatever, the operative word being "tutorial."

Cheers!
Rich

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I have a copy of this book.
It was titled Engineers notebook II by Mims 1982 and this book from
Amazon looks like the latest revision.
Type this into Amazon search
Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook paperback

Regards James

"Jan" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX

I have a copy of this book.
It was titled Engineers notebook II by Mims 1982 and this book from
Amazon looks like the latest revision.
Type this into Amazon search
Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook paperback

Regards James


Wasn't that the Radio Shack offering?

Quite a different thing from anything you could describe as an electronics
cookbook I'd say.

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:34:35 -0500, Alan Corey
wrote:

I'm looking for a copy of a book I used to have back in the 1980s. It
was orange, paperback, maybe 6x8 x 1/2 inches. I think the title was
just Electronics Cookbook. I don't remember who wrote it, maybe Forest
Nims.

It had basic circuits: amplifiers, oscillators, etc. of different types.
There were 2 pages or so devoted to each circuit, the advantages,
disadvantages, how to optimize for different parameters, typical input
and output impedances. It was mostly linear/analog circuitry.

If I could find out the exact title and author's name, maybe an ISBN
number, I could look on eBay or Amazon or somwhere.

Anyone remember what the output impedance of a grounded-gate FET preamp
is? This book would have it.

Thanks,

Alan AB1JX
A free copy of the book I mentioned can be downloaded here
http://www.filesonic.com/file/217120...plications.rar
Use the free slow dl, takes about 5 min.

Regards
Jan