jawod wrote:
Hi,

I am reading the ARRL Handbook on Receiver Design and frankly, I find
it's a bit out of my league. The writing assumes some knowledge of
circuitry that I am weak on. Eg., I think I can I can see from the
schematic that an RC circuit is shifting phase in a quadrature amplifier
stage but it's not mentioned in the text as such.

Hopefully, someone out there can get a sense of where I am on the
learning curve and can suggest an appropriate text (not TOO basic, I guess).

Those writing "popular" (including ARRL) tech books are told not to
include any equations for better or worse. The ARRL books are not bad
as cookbooks but they skip a lot of steps leading up to understanding
why all those parts are there :-).

If you are looking for good readable books that build up from basics
and do not shirk at all from equations/analysis/calculus, try:

The Art of Electronics, Horowitz&Hill, for general electronics and a
tiny bit of radio. Begins to do noise analysis, PLL's, etc.

Communication Circuit Analysis and Design, Clark&Hess, for excellent
RF/mixer/modulator/demodulator stuff.

Tim.