Electricity and electronics

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1. ben30Dec 2022
   "Electricity and Electronics" by Dale R. Patrick and Stephen W. Fardo
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2. mwilliaamsAug 2021
   The U.S. military has a lot of informative publications such as this. They’re usually pretty easy to read once you find the relevant section. Those interested in this one might also like Naval Telecommunications Procedures [1]. It has a lot of administrative and Navy-specific information, but chapter 5 covers radio communication, including satellite communication (unclassified of course).

   Edit: The Naval Electricity and Electronics Training Series (NEETS) [2] is good as well.

   1. https://info.publicintelligence.net/USNavy-NTP4E.pdf

   2. https://www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/2575-2/

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3. anthkApr 2025
   I've got "Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series" as a PDF from a gopher hole:

   gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/ia/details/neetsmodules_202003

   The whole directory it's amazing too: gopher://tilde.pink/1/~bencollver/links/

   Also, there's Usenet. Subscribe to to sci.electronics.repair and sci.electronics. Outdated? Delayed answers? ok, but you will get correct ones and if you set your learning at a slower but dedicated pace, with no distractions (turn the notifications off), with either PDF or Physical books and a electronic simulator like TkGate, you will get the theory at really fast speeds.

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4. mwattsunAug 2022
   In the Navy when I went to Electricians Mate School in 1979 before going on to Nuclear Power School, we studied Boolean Algebra with this manual:

   Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series: Module 13—Introduction to Number Systems and Logic

   http://www.tscm.com/NEETS-v13-Logic.pdf

   Boolean logic, or Boolean algebra as it is called today, was developed by an English mathematician, George Boole, in the 19th century. He based his concepts on the assumption that most quantities have two possible conditions  TRUE and FALSE... Boolean algebra is used primarily by design engineers.

   I became fascinated with it. Most of my buddies went to the nuclear industry when they got out but I got out as soon as I could and went into computers.

   Fun fact: Boole's youngest of five daughters Ethel [2] married Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired the Voynich Manuscript in Italy in 1912 [1].

   [1] The Voynich Manuscript is one of the world’s most mysterious books written in code. The manuscript gets its name from Wilfred Michail Voynich (1865-1930), George Boole’s son-in-law. Several attempts by world class codebreakers (including Alan Turing) have failed to definitively unravel its meanings.

   https://georgeboole.com/news/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscri...

   [2] Ethel Lilian (1864–1960), who married the Polish scientist and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of the novel The Gadfly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Voynich

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