Hi David,

I've read through the rest of the posts, and in general I think you have a
decent selection of books. The couple I'd add:

"RF Oscillator Circuit Analysis and Design with Breadboard Experiments" by
John Plastonek -- Which is no longer in print, but I could probably scan it in
one of these days if you can't find a copy kicking around (I've made active
efforts to find this Plastonek guy to ask him about this, and he seems to have
dropped off the face of the planet). His oscillator circuits go up to
~100MHz, and he has some discussion as to why you might prefer one oscillator
topology over another.

"Build Your Own Low-Power Transmitters: Projects for the Electronics
Experimenter" by Graf & Sheets (you can preview it on-line at Amazon.com).
He has plans in there for transmitters at pretty much all frequency from
LF-SHF, and although I haven't build anything in it myself :-), I've heard
from other people that the transmitters really do work.

"Practical RF Design Manual" by DeMaw -- Probably overlaps a lot of the of
DeMaw books; now distributed by MFJ.

BTW, I wouldn't be so quick to give up on RF transformers and matching -- any
RF circuit with active components in it is going to require some amount of
matching, and while at times you can get away without formally considering it,
doing so often gives up power or robustness. (I know it's a little
disheartening to open up a commercial radio and see that they managed to
achileve something like a stereo FM receiver all in 7 transistors and no RF
transformers, but such designs are the evolutionary results of a lot of people
spending a lot of time trying to cost minimize a product that's produced in
the millions. And keep in mind that something like a cell phone today
requires over 100 man years to design...)

Finally, don't write off books such as "The Art and Science of Analog Circuit
Design" -- it's a great example of one of those books that has a lot of great
advice in it, but until you've hit your head on the wall a few thousand times
encountering the particular problems the authors have, its value isn't
apparent. The sort of "tweaking" advice you're looking for with RF circuits
is precisely what TAaSoACD is trying to provide... just more to folks building
op-amps & data converters than RF circuit.

---Joel Kolstad