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A technical reference site dedicated to RF chokes, ferrite cores, and related radio frequency electronics components used in amateur radio and RF engineering applications. Visitors will find practical information on choke design, impedance characteristics, and suppression of common-mode currents on antenna feedlines.

Electronics 2000, created by Simon Carter, is a comprehensive hobby electronics reference packed with online calculators for resistors, capacitors, inductors, Ohm's Law, and more, plus technical data articles, pin-outs, and a beginner's guide. The site also offers downloadable Windows software like Electronics Assistant and an EPE Index, making it a genuinely useful toolkit for hobbyists, students, and engineers alike.

Bill Beaty's Electronics Hobbyist page is a sprawling directory of resources for electronics enthusiasts, covering surplus suppliers, schematics archives, robotics, embedded processors, Tesla coils, and electrostatics projects. It also includes Bill's own articles on electricity fundamentals, common misconceptions, and hands-on science experiments, making it a rich hub for both beginners and seasoned hobbyists.

Giovannini Elettromeccanica is an Italian antenna manufacturing company specializing in HF antenna systems for both military and commercial applications, covering the RF spectrum from 1.5 to 30 MHz. Their product catalog includes log-periodic antennas, broadband wire dipoles, fiberglass masts, antenna rotators, and towers, with research, design, manufacturing, and support services all offered in-house.

Mostly DIY RF is a specialized resource for amateur radio builders, offering PCB kits and detailed documentation for RF circuits including IF amplifiers, low-pass filters, VFOs, crystal filters, and MMIC amplifiers. The site covers designs by well-known ham radio engineers like Hayward and Kopski, making high-performance transceiver building accessible to hobbyists.

Trevor Gale's comprehensive reference site covers vintage vacuum tubes and valves, offering pinout data, characteristics lists, military-to-commercial conversion tables, repair hints, substitution guides, and circuit diagrams for old receivers and amplifiers. Maintained as a companion to the rec.antiques.radio+phono newsgroup FAQ, it serves as a practical technical resource for both seasoned restorers and newcomers to valve/tube circuitry.

Phi's personal digital garden covers a range of technical and creative interests including electronics, music, DIY, mathematics, physics, and railways. A cozy old-web style homepage with an 88x31 button for linking, inviting visitors to explore whatever useful or interesting content Phi has cultivated here.

Peter's RF schematics page is a technical reference collection of radio frequency circuit diagrams spanning receivers, transmitters, and transceivers across a wide range of frequencies from 27MHz to 1GHz. Hobbyists and engineers will find schematics for superregenerative receivers, FM audio transmitters, walkie-talkies, SAW-based designs, and datasheets for chips from major manufacturers like Silicon Labs, HopeRF, and Texas Instruments.

CircuitsArchive is a free, web-based archive of electronic circuit schematics covering everything from audio gear and battery monitors to filters, telephone interfaces, and microprocessor circuits. Maintained by Nicola Asuni since 1998, it offers a well-organized collection of PCB designs and projects useful to hobbyists and engineers alike.

Created by Richard Torrens, founder of 4QD Ltd, this extensive archive covers a wide range of electronics circuits and design information, from audio and motor control to oscillators and power supplies. Built originally as a subscription club and now freely accessible, it emphasizes discrete component design for a solid grounding in fundamental electronic principles.