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Component Sourcing
DigiKey
(Almost everything)
Richardson Electronics
(The AG603 and other fine RF parts)
Component Manufacturers
Mini-Circuits
(RF/uWave designers)
Micronetics
(VCOs and other)
Analog Devices
(Nicely designed parts)
Antenna Design
EDN's discussion of embedded antennas
A paper on
printed microstrip antennas
RF Design
Sites:
Philips' RF design guide
covers RF design basics
RF Avenue
, for almost everything you could possibly want to know
AVX has an amazing
capacitor specification system
that generates datagraphs on the fly based on their spice models
Books:
The ARRL UHF/Microwave Experimenters Manual
- recommended to me but I didn't get much out of it.
RF Circuit Design
by Christopher Bowick - good basic stuff if you've never done RF
PCB Manufacture
AP Circuits
Advanced Circuits
VCO Design
Maxim's
VCO design guide
Minicircuits'
VCO concept
Alpha Inc's (now
SkyWorks
) excellent
Wideband VCO
design,
Differential Wideband VCO
and
Low-phase VCO for PCS
Jammer Design Considerations
The
FCC code section 15
which covers interference
Presentation on
how the cellphone network functions
Technical
requirements for cell jamming