Another GREAT Book -- L.B. Cebik, W4RNL's "Seven Steps to Designing your Own Ham Equipment" - 1979 - FREE!

Thanks to Walter KA4KXX for alerting us to this gem of a book.  L.B. Cebik is best known as an antenna guru.  I did not know that he also did a book on the homebrewing of rigs.  

Here is the URL: https://archive.org/details/sevenstepstodesi0000cebi/page/n2/mode/1up  Just click on the "borrow" box and you can look at the whole thing.  Thanks too to the Internet Archive for preserving this important piece of ham literature. 

I was a bit apprehensive when I saw "designing" in the title.  We have talked about how, all too often, modern hams seem to challenge the homebrew nature of our rigs by asking if we had "designed" it ourself.  "Well," I answer,  "I did not invent the Colpitts oscillator, nor the common emitter amplifier, nor the superheterodyne receiver... But I did build this rig myself."  I worried that OM Cebik might have been plunging us into this design debate way back in 1979.  

But no need for worry.  His definition of "design" is quite expansive:  

I have not read the whole thing yet.  I hope that others will go through it and highlight for the group the parts that they find to be the best.  Please put your thoughts in the comments section below. 

Thanks again Walter.