Build Your Own AM Receiver with Practical SDR

2025-05-30

Chapter 4 of 'Practical SDR' guides you through building an AM receiver. Perfect for hobbyists, students learning wireless communications, or engineers prototyping RF designs, this book teaches you to build virtual radio receivers, extract audio from real AM and FM signals, understand amplitude modulation, and master IQ sampling using GNU Radio Companion. You'll learn to manipulate frequencies from 1MHz to 6GHz, filter noise, optimize SDR performance, and demodulate real radio signals. Bridging the gap between tutorials and advanced applications, this book provides a foundation for understanding modern wireless systems. Some projects require SDR hardware like a HackRF One and antenna.

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Beginner's Guide to Linux/Unix Programming

2025-03-30

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to programming on Linux and Unix systems, even for those without prior programming experience. The author's friendly, conversational style, backed by over 40 years of teaching experience, guides readers through programming techniques, efficient workflow strategies, and the underlying design of Unix. Numerous diagrams and hands-on projects reinforce key concepts, building upon each other throughout the book. While prior C/C++ experience is helpful, it's not required; however, access to a Linux system is necessary.

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