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Colin Mitchell
Colin Mitchell
June 19, 2004
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14 FM Bugs to Build
$24.95
B-14FM

B 14FM

CONTENTS

  • All the kits produced by Talking Electronics
  • MAGAZINES and ORDER FORM
    Update of our most popular IBM Public Domain titles
  • HIKERS ALARM
    For use in emergencies. Has beep and audio Range 1km
  • VOX BUG MkIV
    Voice activated FM transmitter with 800m range and homing beep during “listening”
  • WALL BUG
    An FM bug that listens through glass etc Range 400m
  • PEN BUG MkIII
    An FM bug concealed in a pen Range 10 metres
  • VOYAGER MkIl
    An FM bug that fits on top of a 9v battery Range 800m
  • WAT ER BUG
    An FM bug that senses water and transmits up to 1km
  • THE CRICKET
    Transmits a constant tone Range 100m
  • VOX MkV
    Our Surface-Mount version of VOX
  • MkIV
  • FIELD STRENGTH METER
    Measures the output of our FM transmitters
    SECURITY DEVICES
    Full range of built-up Security Devices from TE
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

5 More FM Bugs
$5.40
B-5MFM

B 5MFM

CONTENTS

  • List of FM Transmitters
  • It’s magic
  • The Wasp
  • The ‘Q’ Factor
  • Crystal Beep Bug
  • Crystal Locked FM Bug
  • Beetle MkIll
  • Quotations
  • Car Tracker
  • Money Money Money
  • FM Radio
  • Price List
  • Order Form
  • Voyager MkII
  • VOX MkIV
  • VOX MkV
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

SIX BD679 Projects
$5.40
B-6BD

B 6BD

CONTENTS

  • Fixing A Project
  • Capacitor Discharge Unit MkIl
  • Automatic AA Nicad Charger
  • Screamer Siren
  • Battery Backed Siren
  • How A BD 679 Transistor Works
  • 20w Fluorescent Inverter
  • Iiving With 12v
  • 2-Amp Power Supply
  • Breakdown Beacon
  • RD 679 Output Module
  • Courtesy Light Extender
  • Micro-Comp Computer
  • Noughts & Crosses
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

CMOS Data Book
$9.20
B-CDB1

B CDB1


Cover Projects
$6.00 B-CP1

B CP1

CONTENTS

  • MINI FREQUENCY COUNTER
  • SQUARE WAVE OSCILLATOR
  • DIGITAL FREQUENCY METER
  • LOGIC DESIGNER
  • DUAL TRACKING POWER SUPPLY
  • HANGMAN
  • STEREO VU METER
  • LED VOLTMETER
  • TE CLOCK
  • LOTTO NUMBER SELECTOR
  • TE LOGIC PROBE
  • KEN’S DUAL POWER SUPPLY
  • FM BUG
  • LED DICE
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Digital Electronics Revealed
$7.20
B-DER1

B DER1


Electronics For Model Railways 1
$5.40
B-EMR1

B EMR1

CONTENTS

  • Air Horn
  • Capacitor Discharge
  • Computers
  • Crossing Boom Control
  • Crossing Expansion
  • Crossing Sound
  • Dedicated Microcomputer
  • Fluorescent Simulator
  • Hex Train Sensors
  • LED resistors
  • Level Crossing
  • Light Chasers & Shop Displays
  • Light Sequencer
  • Pedestrian Crossing
  • Power Supply
  • Remote Relay Unit
  • Rotating Lights**
  • Scale Fluorescent Lamps
  • Searchlight Adaptor
  • Shop Display Driver
  • Shop Display PC board
  • Street Signs
  • Three Colored LEDs
  • Throttle
  • Train Detector
  • Warning Lamp Unit
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Electronics For Model Railways 2
$5.75
B-EMR2

B EMR2

CONTENTS

  • Level Crossing Lights
  • Economy Power Supply
  • Signals
  • Tunnel Stretcher & Station Signal
  • Computers and Model Railways
  • Delay Module
  • Walk-Around Throttle
  • Servo Driver
  • Diesel Sound Generators
  • Simple PWM Throttle
  • Fibre Optics
  • Trees
  • Data
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Electronics Notebook 1
Starting in TTL
$7.20
B-EN1

B NB1

CONTENTS

  • BUILDING THE TRAINER
  • MODIFICATIONS TO PC
  • CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
  • HOW THE CIRCUIT WORKS
  • BEFORE YOU START
  • SUMMARY OF GATES
  • ALL THE COMBINATIONS
  • THE LED AS AN INDICATOR
  • FACTS ABOUT A LED
  • THE BUFFER
  • THE INVERTER
  • THE AND GATE
  • THE NAND GATE
  • THE INHIBITED NAND GATE
  • THE ENABLED NAND GATE
  • GATING A SIGNAL
  • THE OR GATE
  • THE NOR GATE
  • THE XOR GATE
  • THE DATA SELECTOR
  • THE LINE SELECTOR
  • SUMMARY OF GATES
  • SEQUENTIAL LOGIC
  • THE ASTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR
  • THE MONOSTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR
  • THE BISTABLE MULTIVIBRATOR
  • THE R-S FLIP FLOP
  • THE R-S FLIP FLOP AS A WAVE SHAPER
  • THE GATED (CLOCKED) FLIP FLOP
  • THE D FLIP FLOP
  • THE J-K FLIP FLOP
  • THE 4 FLIP FLOP MODES
  • THE 4 J-K FLIP FLOP MODES
  • THE RIPPLE COUNTER
  • MODULO-10 RIPPLE COUNTER
  • THE SHIFT REGISTER
  • INDEX

Electronics Notebook 2
$6.00
B-EN2

B NB2

CONTENTS

  • TALKING ELECTRONICS
  • 120 YEARS OF THE TELEPHONE
  • MAKING YOUR OWN PC BOARDS
  • CURRENT LIMIT RESISTOR
  • REPLACING PNP TRANSISTORS
  • TOUCH SWITCH
  • SUPER ALPHA PAIR
  • THE DRY CELL DECEPTION
  • MEL-12 PHOTO DARLINGTON
  • SPEEDING UP A MULTIVIBRATOR
  • TWO OSCILLATORS TO AVOID
  • A 90MHz TRANSMITTER
  • THE PHASE SHIFT OSCILLATOR
  • TOUCH SWITCH
  • DESIGN VALUES
  • THE COUPLING CAPACITOR
  • MOTOR BOATING
  • BATTERY DECOUPLING
  • THE LOAD RESISTOR
  • COMBINING STAGES
  • PUSH PULL
  • TURN-ON VOLTAGE
  • TOUCH FLIP-FLOP
  • SUPER ALPHA CIRCUITS
  • MAKING YOUR OWN ZENER DIODE
  • SUPER ZENER
  • GATING WITH DIODES
  • THE OR GATE
  • SIX DIODES GATES
  • CHIPS
  • PIN NAMES
  • GATES
  • USING GATES
  • THE AND GATE
  • INTERFACING
  • THE INPUT SIGNAL
  • THE TRANSISTOR STAGE
  • THE RESET LINE
  • MURPHY’S LAW
  • THE INVENTION OF NOTHING
  • TREE CARTOON
  • THE ELECTRET MICROPHONE
  • SIREN ARTICLE
  • HOW A MOBILE WORKS
  • THE TANK CIRCUIT
  • TEST
  • INDEX

Electronics Notebook 3
$6.00
B-EN3

B NB3

CONTENTS

  • ‘n’ VALUES, 1% RESISTORS
  • HOW TO SOLDER
  • HOW A TRANSISTOR WORKS
  • THE TRANSISTOR
  • TRANSISTOR STAIRCASE
  • SURFACE MOUNTING
  • THE BRIDGE RECTIFIER
  • POWER SUPPLY FACTS
  • VOLTAGE MULTIPLICATION
  • WHY DIODES FAIL
  • THE ZENER
  • HIGH IMPEDANCE LINES
  • AUTOMATIC RESET
  • THE SCHMITT TRIGGER
  • GATING THE SCHMITT TRIGGER
  • THE CRO
  • SETTING UP THE CRO
  • READING WAVEFORMS
  • THE TRIGGER PULSE
  • LOCATING A FAULT IN A DISPLAY
  • USING A LOGIC PROBE
  • IS IT HIGH?
  • EXPERIMENTING FURTHER
  • THE COMPUTER
  • WHAT A COMPUTER WILL DO
  • COMPUTER CIRCUIT
  • THE INPUT GATING TRANSISTOR
  • THE OUTPUT GATING TRANSISTOR
  • THE Z-80 CPU
  • WHAT’S INSIDE THE Z-80
  • Z-80 CPU
  • CPU REGISTER SET
  • THE ACCUMULATOR
  • Z-80 HOW IT WORKS
  • THE 2716 EPROM
  • Z-80 HOW IT WORKS
  • BITS, BITES & NIBBLES
  • WRITING A PROGRAM
  • TO BLINK THE DISPLAY
  • TO INCREMENT THE DISPLAY
  • 9 COUNTER
  • DJNZ
  • TEST
  • DICTIONARY OF TERMS
  • Z-80 MACHINE CODES for assembly
  • Z-80 MACHINE CODES for disassembly

Electronics Notebook 4
$6.00
B-EN4

B NB4

CONTENTS

  • IDENTIFYING SYMBOLS ETC
  • Quiz # 1
  • SOLDERING
  • PROTOTYPING
  • HEATSINKING
  • THE AIR GAP
  • HOW TO ‘READ’ A FUSE
  • DANGER!
  • THE CAPACITOR
  • ‘n’ VALUES
  • FREE ENERGY
  • USING A CRO
  • THE FIRST IC
  • OHMs LAW
  • EMERGENCY ALARM
  • THE INDUCTOR
  • CONSTANT CURRENT
  • THE THYRISTOR
  • QUIZMASTER
  • THE TRIAC
  • THE PHONE LINE
  • A BUG ON THE LINE
  • NEGATIVE LOGIC
  • HOW A DELAY CIRCUIT WORKS
  • HOW MANY MILLIAMPS?
  • HOW MANY AMPS?
  • HOW A ZENER DIODE WORKS
  • A LOW POWER 5v REGULATOR
  • CREATING A NEGATIVE RAIL
  • WHY THE REGULATOR GOT HOT
  • PRE-REGULATOR
  • MULTIPLEXING A DISPLAY
  • SCAN PROGRAM
  • BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
  • HOW A PEN WATCH WORKS
  • THE PIEZO DIAPHRAGM
  • A BRIDGE DRIVER
  • REPLACING A 556 WITH TWO 555’s
  • D FLIP-FLOP MULTIVIBRATOR
  • IS THIS TRANSISTOR TURNED ON?
  • MOTOR CONTROLLER
  • THE NON-INDUCTIVE LOAD
  • REDUCING INDUCTIVE SPIKES
  • THE CHAIN LETTER
  • INDEX

Electronics Notebook 5
$6.00
B-EN5

B NB5

CONTENTS

  • STARTING OUT
  • READING RESISTORS
  • RESISTOR COLOUR CODE
  • RESISTORS LESS THAN 10R
  • SURFACE MOUNT RESISTORS
  • CAPACITORS
  • SURFACE MOUNT CAPACITORS
  • THE ELECTROLYTIC
  • THE DIODE
  • DIODE PROBLEMS
  • TRANSISTORS
  • SUBSTITUTING A TRANSISTOR
  • THE FUSIBLE RESISTOR
  • HOW A TRANSISTOR WORKS
  • TESTING TRANSISTORS
  • STAGE GAIN
  • THE CRO
  • MAXIMUM FREQUENCY
  • COMPARING CRO’S
  • CRO HINTS
  • USING A CRO TO FIX A 27MHz TOY
  • GETTING YOUR BEC
  • ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES EXAM
  • ANSWERS
  • ANALOGUE ELECTRONICS EXAM
  • ANSWERS
  • DIGITAL ELECTRONICS EXAM
  • ANSWERS
  • INDEX
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Electronics Notebook 6
$6.00
B-EN6

B NB6

CONTENTS

  • COMBO-2 transistor Tester
  • Hfe
  • ADD ON CAPACITANCE METER
  • CAPACITOR CODES
  • COMPONENTS IN SERIES & PARALLEL
  • THE TIME HAS COME
  • FIELD STRENGTH METER MKI
  • GETTING INTO BUGGING
  • FIELD STRENGTH METER MkII
  • SUBSTITUTING TRANSISTORS
  • LOGIC PROBE MkIIB
  • CONTINUITY TESTER
  • A SHEEP IN WOLF’S CLOTHING
  • THE POSITIVE APPROACH
  • A HIGH GAIN STAGE
  • TRI-STATE
  • PHONE RING
  • USING A LOGIC PROBE
  • HOW A CAPACITOR WORKS
  • TRUTH TABLE QUIZ
  • TTL DICE
  • UNDERSTANDING A CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
  • STARTING IN TTL
  • SYMBOLS QUIZ
  • CROSSWORD NO 3
  • 10 TESTS
  • 10 TEST I
  • IMPROVING YOUR 10
  • MORE PUZZLES
  • GLOSSARY OF TERMS
  • INDEX: for Notebooks I * 6
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Learning Electronics Book 1
$5.40
B-LE1

B LE1

CONTENTS

  • BATTERIES
  • RESISTORS
  • THE LED
  • 3v - 15v TESTER
  • THE INFURIATOR
  • NIM
  • MINEFIELD
  • THE CAPACITOR
  • THE DIODE
  • 2-WAY SIGNAL PUZZLE
  • THE TRANSISTOR
  • THE FIRST TRANSISTOR
  • THE SUPER TRANSISTOR
  • CONTINUITY TESTER
  • LIE DETECTOR
  • TOUCH SWITCH
  • TILT ALARM
  • AUDIBLE CONTINUITY TESTER
  • ROBOT MAN
  • THE MULTIVIBRATOR
  • SIMPLE SIREN
  • 4 FLASHING LED
  • NOTES ON MATRIX BOARD
  • STRENGTH METER
  • REVISION CROSSWORD
  • TEMPERATURE METER
  • OHM’S LAW
  • Chap 7 THE PHOTO TRANSISTOR
  • 4-DIGIT COUNTER
  • Chap 8 THE AUDIO AMPLIFIER
  • EARWIG
  • DIGITAL ELECTRONICS
  • TTL TRAINER DECK
  • CO-ORDINATOR
  • FINAL TEST
  • INDEX
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Learning Electronics Book 2
$5.50
B-LE2

B LE2

CONTENTS

  • THE POWER SUPPLY
  • PLUG PACK REGULATOR
  • QUICK QUIZ I
  • BIASING
  • BOOK REVIEW
  • LOGIC PROBE MkIIB
  • ABOUT THE TEC-1C COMPUTER
  • CONTINUITY TESTER
  • THE ANTENNA
  • GLOW PLUG POWER SUPPLY
  • FAULT FINDING
  • INTERCOM
  • ANALYSIS of Continuity Tester
  • THE PANEL METER
  • THE VOLTAGE DIVIDER
  • POWER ELECTRONICS
  • LETTERS
  • THE 555
  • SQUARE WAVE OSCILLATOR
  • COIN FLIPPER
  • USING PROTOTYPE BOARDS
  • THE SCHMITT TRIGGER
  • OP-AMP TRAINER
  • More on POWER ELECTRONICS
  • VOX MK IV with BEEP
  • REPAIRING TRANSISTOR RADIOS
  • 2-CHIP AM RADIO
  • WHERE TO FROM HERE?
  • KITS KITS KITS
  • CIRCUIT SYMBOLS
  • TEST 1
  • SYMBOLS QUIZ
  • INDEX TO LEARNING ELECTRONICS # 1 and 2
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Security Devices
B-SD1

OUT OF PRINT

CONTENTS

  • EDITORIAL
  • SPY BUG
    Our fully surface-mount 100m bug.
  • MY COMMENT
  • FIELD STRENGTH METER
    A piece of test equipment to test the
    output power of a transmitter.
  • MORE FROM TOM
  • ULTIMA
    Our 1km bug.
  • PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE FM RADIO
    An FM radio using a TDA 7000 chip.
  • BEEPER BUG
    A beeping bug that helps you find things.
  • Kit price list
    Order Form and Magazine prices.
  • INSIDE TALKING ELECTRONICS
  • LETTERS
  • 10 MINUTE TIMER
    A timer to convert old-style alarms into
    10 minute alarms.
  • LIGHT ALARM
    Detects the first sign of light.
  • WOX
    A whistle-ON, whistle-OFF switch.
  • PHONE ALERT
    Detects one or two phones on the line.
  • EARWIG
    An FM bug in a matchbox.
  • MOTOR SPEED CONTROLLER
    Slows down any tape recorder
  • BUG NOTEBOOK
    Notes and ideas on bugs.
  • $1600 BUG NETS $68,000
    A cutting sent in by a reader. note the
    double adaptor. It looks very much like
    one of our double adaptor bugs!
  • PEN BUG MkIl
    Our improved Pen Bug.
  • SCORPION
    Promotional article on our Scorpion
    phone transmitter.
  • SECURITY DEVICES
    A description of all our Security Devices.
  • Price List of Security Devices.
  • THE MICRO CHIP SAGA
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

Smart Security Devices Book 1
$24.95
B-SSD1

B SSD1

CONTENTS

  • ALARM ORDER FORM

  • BATTERY BACKED POWER SUPPLY

  • A 700mA power supply with battery back-up

  • BATTERY BACKED SIREN
    Drives I horn speaker or up to 4 piezo tweeters with battery back-up feature

  • BUGGING HYPE
    Article

  • COMPLETE LIST OF TE KITS

  • CURRENT SENSOR
    connects tip to 6 smoke detectors to any alarm

  • DIGITAL ELECTRONICS CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
    Learn digital electronics at home with a 6 lesson course

  • OMNISOFT PUBLIC DOMAIN ORDER FORM

  • OVERALL VIEW OF ALARM MODULES
    2-page spread showing how to connect the modules together

  • REMOTE KEYPAD MODULE
    Connect this keypad module to your alarm

  • SECURITY DEVICES
    made up devices

  • VOYAGER MkIl
    An up-date article Has air trimmer to adjust the frequency of transmission

  • VOX MkV
    our surface-mount voice-operated bug

  • 3-INPUT ALARM MODULE
    This is the heart of our alarm system

  • 4-SECTOR INPUT MODULE
    Protect the wiring between the alarm panel and the sensors with this module

  • PROJECT TO BUILD


Talking Electronics Issue 1
$5.40
B-TE1

B TE1

CONTENTS

  • Art of Sweeping
    • Capacitor Discharge Unit
    • Car Tracker
    • Combo-2
  • Data Sheets
    • Experimenter Board
    • Experimenter Deck
    • Explorer MkII
  • History of Talking Electronics
    • LED Flasher
    • LED Zeppelin
    • Mini Piezo Siren
  • Order Form
  • Security Devices
  • Servicing
  • Test Yourself
  • Transistor Page
  • 10 Minute Digital Course
    (horn the book Digital Electronics REVEALED)
  • PROJECT TO BUILD

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