Radio Frequency Transistors: Principles and Practical Applications (EDN Series for Design Engineers)

Pretty much a must-have text. If you understand who Dye and Granberg were and appreciate their experience, you really will want to have this text. Their tireless experimentation over the years is captured here. They give real practical reasons why certain things were done that will open your eyes. Especially if you use Wes Hayward's Experimental Methods for RF Design, you'll appreciate where he gets a lot of his knowledge. I go back again and again to those two texts together, trying to get the concepts through my skull. It's a great read between bench sessions for learning RF design. I highly recommend it for the serious self-taught student.

Excellent reference book for when I was still working on my vacuum FET project. I still have it and intend to keep it.

This book has been revised and updated in a second edition. I suggest that you either buy this book used or the second edition new depending upon your needs and finances. This book bridges the gap between school theory and practice in RF power amplifier design and construction. This is the best book on the subject that I have seen in 40 years.

Print quality is very bad. Apart from the general difficulty reading some of the graphs and schematics are simply useless due indecipherable numbers or symbols.

If you are wanting to learn about transistor RF amplifier design and theory then this is a must read.

Just what I was looking for. Very clean, for a used book. Useful in my line of work.

This book was EXACTLY what I was looking for, an introduction to the practical considerations for working with modern RF transistors.

Found semiconductor information not usually discussed in other so-called "standard RF" texts. Well worth the cost..

This is of more use to the design engineer than the electronics hobbyist. For the latter I would recommend books by Ray Marston or Ian Poole.