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February, 1961
Vol. I, No. 5
Table of Contents
Rolling Your Own
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Differential Switching
Propaqation Charls
Wha t time to whe re on w hat b an d s
Stall:
Misc.:
Feble c f C onte nts
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Keeping pe oels fr om bei ng scretc hed
Mount ing feet
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C ryst al Grind ing Powder
C oil D<'It<'l for December Cec ectt v Mete r
List of Maritime Mo b i!e Statio ns
Acc urat e Crystalliza ti on
Subscripti o n Deoortm e nt
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Bootlegging
Cheating is a tried and proven method of
getting things that you don't want to bother
to work for, so why should I make a big fu ss
because a few of the guys "fix up" a Technician test for someone? \ Vh a t 's t he ha rm? \Vho
does it a ct uall y hur t ? Isn't it bet te r to forget
about it and not wash our dirty linen in public?
Nuts! If you'd give it a little thought you'd
see what a terrible long range effect thi s creeping prostitution of our hobby will have.
H a ve you ever stopped to think what it is
that makes ham radio so different from every
other hobby ? After you get through with a
lot of hemming a nd hawing you will recognize
that it is the frater na l spirit that makes it
so enjoyable. And where does this spirit come
from? I believe that it ste rn s from a common
love of radio . Perhaps "love" is a bit strong
for you, but how e lse can you describe the
driving force that makes you s pend a good
po rtion of your li fe in such a highly techn ical
pu r suit ?
I t takes "love" to keep you up all night
working DX or to get you to brave high winds
and freezing snow to operate from a mountaintop during a V HF contest. It takes "love" to
send 2000 messages a month over the nets.
H ow else do you explai n the thousands of unbelievable feats that make up am a teur h istor y
every month ?
\Vhen you meet someone el se who sh a r es
your love you feel a rapport . . . we call it
"fraternity:' After experiencing this a few
hundred times we get conditioned to accepting all amateurs a s members of our fraternity.
\ Ve acce pt them immediately as friends .
But what about the chap who doesn't h a ve
this love? H ow do we f eel when we meet someone who ha s never cared enough about our
hobby to learn the basics? We try to experi ence the u sual rapport and we meet a cold
rebuff. I wa s so shocked the first time that I
ran into this in quantity that I didn't know
what had happened . I felt shattered. \ Vh a t ha d
ha ppen ed to ha m radio ? I was among st rangers.
As you know, I get to almost every la r ge
ham fest and convention that is put on. [ go
to sell subscri pt ions, to talk with as many
people a s possible and thu s get ideas for the
magazine, to promote more good art icles, etc.
After seve r a l years of thi s I ha ve a pretty
good idea what it feel s like to talk and be with
fellow hams.
T he n recently I went to a VH F picnic. T her e
I was r udely introduced to a new breed of
"ham," the sm ir king Technician who arrogantly admits that he doesn't know anything about
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W ell , the F ea r less S urvey is now fou r
mo nths old and we ha ven 't lost a sc r image yet .
Every month since t he inception of 73 we have
had more pages of t echnical and consruetion
articles than eit he r of th e other two ham magaz ines. Let's review th e box score.
73 Jlagaz;n e Brand X
October 1960... .,16 pages 37 pages
November 1960. 38 pag-es
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December 1960. 33 pa ge s
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January 1961.. . 39 page"
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The P hoeni xia ns are hosti ng a major gathering of the clan th is Ma y. The event will be
held under the formal name of the Southwestern Division ARRL Convention. No wag-on
wheel (see photo) will be left unturned to
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T he p eo ple who design rigs fe atured her eand elsewhere-aren 't h igh-pa id engineers.
Mos t of them are hams just like you . Design ing any piece of radio equipment fr om a cr ys tal set to a kilowatt sideba nd r ig, is a sim ple
p r ocess whe n you break it dow n to f undamental s.
And by doing it yourself, all the way, you 'll
get more out of hamming. There's a s pecia l
feeling you g et when the fellow at the other
end tells you , " Best sig na l I' ve heard for a
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and at right, MARS fi na l tuning. MAR S pi-net
cap acitor is trimmer set fr om under ch assis.
Plug et left conn ects t o mcduletcr and p ower
supp ly. Phono ja d s at bottom are to rec eivers.
Coa x connectors a re for a ntennas . Three AC
sockets a t right are receiver muting . t o p ; control li ne (for accessories) a nd control switch,
b ottom. Ben e ath fus e plug is auxili ary 115volt outlet for receiv er, et c. Shie ld cover is
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C onstru ction
The Circuit
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Details
Grid dip your coil s to be su re they cover the
range desired. You can sa v e an awful lot of
time and fru stration thi s way. When you are
ready to tune up the riJ{ it is a good idea to
limit the voltag e to 150 v so th e tubes can't
be damaged. Tu ne the oscillat or, then the
36 me st a ge. The 72 me s t a g e has to be tuned
by squeezin g th e coil. A field s t r ength meter
comes in handy about this time . A voltmeter
will do a lot too. Ground the positive probe and
connect the negative probe through an rf
choke to the grid of the s t a g e following- the
one you're tuning. Thi s will mea sure the drive
to the foll owing' st a ge.
If you are impatient with a fixed fr equency
rig you can grid dip yourself a sl ug tuned
circuit for t he 72 me stage.
Now, about that trap to remove you from
any 72 me receivers. in the immediate neighborhood. Ten turns of #20 (or so ) on a half
inch f orm with a s m a ll variable conden ser
(15 mmfd) in ser ies with the coil s hould be
connected from the antenna terminal to
ground . Thi s can be built into the rig. Dip it
to frequency.
Oh, and about those extra crystals you got
ba ck in paragraph two. Thi s rtg can be reworked for six meters quite simply, a s you
should s us pect . It will a lso perk on 220 me,
which should come a s a surprise. Try a three
turn 3 /16 " diameter #20 bare wire coil for
the "tank." Connect antenna one turn from
B-plus. U se the dipper carefully on thi s a s
there are all sorts of frequ encies you can be
using with thi s arrangement. You will only get
about a half watt, but you'll be on 2201
Ha ve Fun
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op pos it ion head-on, wins o r loses without wastin g time on irrelevanci es and moves on to
another issue. But hi s blunt arguments
s houldn 't be resented eit her for there follow
upon s uch efforts all the progress we make
which cannot be laid to fortuitou s chance.
(W hat other ham magazine prints p hrase s like
"fortuitous chance"?) (It's redundant, but
sor t of Churchillian.)
\Ve have ou r marvel s of tran sportation and
communication because u s here-now common
folk's weren't sati sfied with running and shoutFEB RU A RY 1961
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Alli e C . Pe ed , J r. K2 DHA,
34 Ashle y Drive,
Rochester 20, N. Y.
The Heathkit
Hybrid
Phone Patch'
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a fundamental viewpoint a phone patch
unit has a formidable set of conditions to
satisfy. It must match the nominal GOO-ohm
balanced landl ine to the unbalanced high impedance input of the transm itter, and it must
match the very low impedance speaker line (3
to 8-ohms usually) to the same line. It must
do this using one line for both transmitting
and receiving witlunct swifching. And finally.
is mu st maintain isolation between the speaker
and microphone so that a feedbac k loop is not
formed. I n view of t hese considerations, a
good phone patch is a pretty neat trick.
Fortunately, a traditional technique of the
telephone industry is perfectly suitable to the
problem. This is the h yb ri d matching method
used in most phone patch designs. In essence,
transformers are utilized with their windings
wired into a bridge circuit in such a fashion
that sig nals coming in on the phone line will
appeal' at one set of transformer wind ings
(co nnected to the tra nsm itter in put. ) S igna ls
coming into another set of wi nd ings f rom the
receiver will appeal' across the land line terminal s while cancelling out in the winding
connected to the transmitter. And, since transformers are used a s the coupling devices, impedance t r a ns for ma tions ca n be accomp lish ed
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Soldering
Practically all articles written on the construction of trans istor circuits r ecommend
the use of long nose pliers as a heat sink. Very
few, unfortu nately, tell how this can be done.
There are two fairly easy and conven ient
methods. ( 1). Hold the pliers in one hand the
soldering iron in the other, and h old the s~l der
between your teeth. T his is not particularly
recommended for people who are s uscept ible
to lead poisoning. (2). The transistor lead and
the . lug or term inal are both pretin ned, then
a bit of solder on t he iron is applied carefully
and quickly. My preferred method of h ea tsi nki ng t he lead is to u se a small Mueller coil
clip, (type 88), or a flattened copper Minigator
clip. Effectiveness of the heat sink can be
checked by measuring IcO while soldering.
T he type and wattage of t he iron itself
makes a lot of d ifference. A big iron can actually radiate enough h ea t to ruin a diode or
transistor even though the connection being
worked on is not even electrically related to
the semiconductor. A very low wattage or improperly tinned iron, on t he other h a nd, may
take so long to solder a connection that heat
h a s time to travel up the leads and ru in a
tran sistor in spite of the use of a heat sink.
Some irons are not su ffi cientl y isolated from
the li ne to prevent a slig ht surge of current on
contact with the transi stor lead. For work
with VHF tran sistors an isolation transformer
of some kind on the ir on is h ighly recommended.
Most germanium transistors have iron
leads. This aid s in slowing down h eat conduction to the extent that a temperature of 240
degrees C is permitted for 10 seco nds as dose
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a s 1/16 in ch 1/32 inch from the base . Obviously there is no room here for a heat sink
of t he usual type. A little spacer is available
from some manufacturers to lift the transistor
off a printed cir cuit board to provid e a slight
safety factor when dip solder ing . Inexpensive
sili con diodes have copper leads. This sh ould
not be overlooked when solder ing them into a
circu it with very shor t leads. Th e higher temperature rating of silicon can be easily exceeded with a good h ot iron. Fortunately
perhap s, Zener diodes commonly are equipped
wi th iron leads, and in addition the Zener
breakdown point is not nearly a s sensit ive to
temperature as is l eO in tran sistors. That is,
Zener diodes may recover, but tran si stors seldam do.
To avoid solder in g the tran sistors into the
circuit, many wi se experimenters u se sock ets,
especially in their breadboard circuits. A
curiou s not e is that this too h as it's pitfalls.
A tra nsistor can easily be s poiled if you solder
to t he socket while it is plugged in. In addition, one t ext s ays that t he j u nct ion may be
fract ured unless precautions are taken when
clipping the leads with a shar p pair of cutters. Ever consider how fast and fa r t he
clipped lea d flies acr oss t he room? The old
sa ying "for every a ction there is an equ al a nd
opposite reaction" m ay well be a pplied here.
Of course some types of tra nsi stors have already been tested for shock re sistance. One
common test is 3 drops from a height of 30
inches to a maple block. Another is a vibrational test of 500 G's. After purchas ing a
transistor for a particular circuit it is wiser
to avoid any simila r tests.
Protection
Transistors and diodes can extinguish themse lves much fa ster than any known fu se of
sim ila r ratings. This naturally lead s to the
obv ious conclusion that it is useless to attempt
to fuse your t rans istor circu its. Th a nks to
the happy circumstance that power tra nsistors are becoming inexpen sive, this is not too
much of a problem. But a power transistor
can be protected with a fu se, provided it h a s
a h igh peak current rati ng and a ser ies resistor is used to limit current to t hi s peak
rating. Here again thi s is a partial truth, in
that a shor t circuit will blow the fu se, but
a s light ove rload may catch an occas iona l
transistor fi r st . I n any case, if t he transistor
is rated at 10 or 15 amps peak current, a L it tlefuse type SAG fu se of 1 or 2 amps rating
is often very helpful.
A ddi tiona l protectio n for power transistors
can be provided b y careful des ign of t he circuit, avoiding possibilities of generating h igh
transient peaks in case of overl oad sig n a ls or
amplifier tests using square waves, etc. Sharp
inverse spikes , such a s the k ickback voltage
from a relay, m a y not immediately ru in t he
transistor since even if it breaks down the current is limited by the circu it resistance. Since
these circu its gen erally reverse bias the baseem itter junct ion to cut off collector curre nt
and t hu s open the relay, t he collector to em itter current during breakdown may be concentrated in a very small area of the junction.
Eventual malfunct ion is almost a certainty,
d ue to an accumulative e ffect of this.
I n u sing power t ra nsistors to really hand le
lots of power, or where temperature derati ng
is necessary, the manufacturers spec sheet
shou ld be examined very carefully. Rather
t han trying to economize on the size of the
heat radi ator u s ed it is advi sable to m a k e i t
larger than recommended. This will help
make up for the fact that you didn't have
the right type of silicone coating for the aS
sembly, a nd the s lig ht errors in calculations
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Don't Panic
\ Vhen a transi stor accidently pops two conflicting emotions occur. One is the feeling of
dispair-what to do next. The other is the
tem ptation to say "it was a n accidenta l short,"
an d plug in or try a nothe r one . T hat type of
procedure invariably results in one or two
more "popped" transistors. These are occas iona lly useful a s diodes, but that doesn't help
solve the pr oblem. If a careful check of conn ections reveals nothi ng wro ng it is poss ible
to calculate the value of two or t hree resistors
to temporarily replace the transistor and make
voltage mea surements, unless the transistor
was expected to fur nish self-bias as in some
oscillators. Th e open ci rcu it voltages w it h t he
transi stor disconnected may also g ive some
clue a s to what went wrong.
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BEAT GENERATION
NoT too many years ago, C\ V reception was
a simple affair. You either adjusted th e
one-lunger until it broke into oscillation, or
turned on the BFO- and that was all there was
to it (except the small matter of copying the
code) .
In those ancient days, sideband hadn't been
heard of by most of the ham frat ernit y-and
reinserted carrier detection was just a group of
almos t-meaningless words .
Not so any more. \Vith the rise of SSB operation and th e similarity bet ween SSB aIHI C\ V
detection techniques, th e business of demodulati ng a currie-less (or intermpted-carrier ) slg-
Fig, I-Con version of th e BFO to an ad justable-injection ci rcuit al lows foolpr oof SSB and CW
reception , BFO compon ents and all power lea d s must be rf-t ight to prevent leakage of e ne rg y
and subsequent bird ies. The " g immick" shown at if g rid co nsists of two or three t urns of insulat e d
wire wra p pe d aro und t he grid le ad.
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carrier must be at least four times th e a mplitude of th e incoming signal. Distortion will
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Fi g . b-This cha nne l-sp litter (two cat hode follo wers with parall eled inputs) allows th e same
if strip to be used independently for sig nal
and fo r Ave. It is connected betwe en the last
if transformer and the detector inputs. Interaction between the detectors is minimized by
its isolati ng acti on .
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Fig. 7-Aud io hangi ng AVe g ives AaHest possible characteristic for sse and ew use.
Audio is amp lified in ha lf of 12AX7, rectified
to produ ce AVe voltage by I N34, and AVe
is g ated to contro l bus by o ther half of
12AX7, di od e-conn ected . Th e switch a llo ws use
of norm a l AVe circ uit ry o n AM si3 nals.
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complex ); you can install a twin -triode splitting amplifier ( see Fig. 6 ) at th e end of the
if strip , a head of the detectors; or vo u can
install audio A VC .
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Of the three, amlin AVC offe rs more ad vantages a nd fewer disad vantages. T he separate channel system has no advantages, and
its disadvantages have just been listed . The
splitter of F ig . 6 has the advan tage of comparative simplicity (a nd the A:\I detector ca n
he com bined w ith th e Ave channel) but is
still more co mplex th an aud io A " C .
Audio Ave offers the advantage of a fla tter
ga in-control characteristic, greatest simp licity
in construction, fewest number of parts, and
reliability. Its on ly major disadvantage,
which can be overcome hy ca reful desig n, is
that it makes it possible to overload the d ete ctor before Ave cuts gain back. However,
this effect is normall y present only wi th A:\l
signals of very low mod ulat ion percentage.
The circuit for an audio AVC circu it is
shown in F ig. 7. Included in thi s circuit are
the tim e-shapin g netw orks of Fig. 5, in
slightly different form . This ci rc uit is adapted
from one described by \V pBFL th ree years
ago. The origina l circuit used five tubes ( in
two envelopes) to accomp lish its purposes.
T he modified circuit uses a single 12AU7 and
one I N34 , allowing it to be added to almost
any receiver.
T ha t about wraps it up for now . There arc
countless other SSB or C \ V detector circu its,
but virtua lly a ll are modifica tion s of one or
another of these basic arrangements. If you
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Up-Dating the
Absorption Wavemeter
by Edwerd M. Noll W3FQJ
absorption wavem eter has had numerous applications around the station. Its
resonant cir cu it makes rather efficient u se of
radiated rf energy. An absorption wavemeter
r-an be calibrated rather clo sely freque ncywise and is not troubled with beats and harmon ics like t he more sensit ive frequency
meters. It is a fi ne devic e for checking-in t he
correct harmon ic and for chasing down p araHE
stttcs.
The average absorption wavemeter can be
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with a very low minimum. Wit h t he low mi nimum value, the mai n dia l ca libr a tion ho lds up
whe never the ba ndsp read capacitor is set to
mi nimum capacity.
Two multi-purpose b inding posts were connected across the r esonant tank of the wavemeter. These permit con venience in removing
rf energy for oscilloscopic di splays. They also
provide a facility for con nect ing a st iff wire
antenna and an a ssociated loading coil for
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The
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of the most annoying forms of interference-TV, Be, HA (hea r ing aid ) , or
a ny other k ind-is that ca used by a udio r ectification. It ann oys n ot only the list ener, who
hears unwanted sounds in his set , but the ham
- sin ce the ira t e TV fan ca n easily learn his
ca ll let ter s a nd bomba r d him with comp la ints !
Of course. curing a udio inter f erence is
simple. The ha ndbook s have carried complete
deta ils f or yea rs. All you have to do is conn ect a low-pass audio filter ah ea d of the fir st
a u dio st a ge of the affected set (see ARRL
H andbook, Ed itors and Engin eers Radio Handbook, etc.) an d t he interfer ence disa ppears.
T he trouble with this approach is equa lly
sim ple-few of u s like t o d ive beneath the
chass is of a commerc iall y-bu ilt r ecei ver. And
explaining to an unhappy n eighbor, in t erms
he ca n r elay to hi s r epairman, u su ally proves
to be a t a sk beyond the cap ability of the most
literate hams.
Here's a little gadget which you'Il be able
to wh ip t og eth er in h alf an ho ur or less which
does all t he work fo r you . T otal cost will be
less than $1. 50-and mo st TV fans will be
willing to pay for the p arts when t he gimmick
proves it s abilit y to cha se your voice fro m
thei r sets.
The Int erf er ence Ch a ser is a plug-in device
wh ich goes into the fi r s t audio tube socket of
t he affected set. The tube t hen plugs into the
Chaser , and presto, int erference is gone.
It's effect ive on ly against a udio r ectification.
If you're having trou ble with so u nd b ars,
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splatte red and char red. Even the resona nt fr eque ncy of t he antenna ha d shifted. Obv iously
we di scovered a new type of electronic heater
t hat did not have a good indu strial application on top of an antenna ma st. I n fact, it
certainly did not appear to have the makings
of a good antenna in thi s application.
I am sure that by now you may be ' onderin g JURt what a ll t his h a s to do w ith mob ile
work. W ell , the effects are similar bllt the
lower ])ou:er nor m all y used in mobile work
does not show If]} som-e of th e invisible forces
a,t play so eos ily . Come sum mer the KWM -2
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of salt water bu t too, maybe th ey've got somet h ing the re J If we ever get out of t his nav y
and back on the air, let's try it!"
And they did! The transition period was
relatively s low ; many " die-hard s" who had
only heard of the ma r velous perfor mance of
the tiny vacuum tube . .. they had not been
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this . . . still s wore by 'spark' an d st uck t o
thei r gun s. Ju st t he same, more a nd m or e of
the peculiar, h igh-p itched whistles began to a ppear in the regenerative receivers of that day.
T he r emar kable th ing was t hat such st a tions,
many a thousa nd or more miles d istan t, we re
con sistently heard st a t ing that they were using only 5, 7 % , 10 . . . only a very few were
r ep orting a s m uch a s fifty watts of power!
Remember too, t hat t he f requency or 'wavelengths' a s it was then r eferred to, was in the
neig hbor hood of 200 meters or 1500 ki locycles,
admitt edl y f a r less effect ive t han t he much
higher frequenc ies whic h we u se today. And,
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VHF Beam s
Cus hc ra f't has just announ ced a new lin e of
light weight, mechanically balanc ed 16 ele ment beam s for 144-220-4 20 me bands. These
are de sign ed so they can ea sily be g-anged for
larg-er a r r ays . Th ey mat ch any coaxia l or open
feed lin e and have a gai n of 13.2 db over a
dipol e. The booms are made of %" drawn
aluminum tubing, the ele men ts of 14" and the
s t acking bars of 3/ 16" heat treat ed solid aluminum rod. A lot of ca re has gone into the design
of thes e beam s. If yo u're bu zzing around th e
VHF's yo u'll want t o have all th e info on th ese
new bea ms. T he prices are very r easonable
(only $16 for th e Two met er 16 el ement beam) .
Cueherat t, 621 Hayward S t reet , Mal/chester,
New Hampsh re.
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Letters
Dea r w ev ne :
T hr ee cheers for Wg E AM (on p , 57) fur the boost
for CWo
According t o W<j>H KF (on page 6) 50 cycles is dead.
For t he r ecord I wou ld like to s ta te t ha t approx imat ely
h a l o f my s a la r y for the past year was earned modify inR' equipm ent &/ o r n rcvt ng it wou ld work properly
o n 50 cycles a s well as un . (;0 cycles. Yest e rda y wa s
really a 100100. T he equip me nt l ikes to have one side
of t he po wer line g rounded. but t he 50 cycl e zenera to r
has o ne side 40 volts and the other s ide 60 vo lt s a bove
g-ro u tt d , with a bout 118 volts betwix t he t wo leads.
A 5 cycle component is nlso im p ressed o n t he 50 cycle.
Doesn ' t he like to wo r k D X ? Japan uses 50 cyc les at
100 vol ts, Germany 50 cycles a t 220 vol t s, and others
use 25 cyc les and 4 :~ cycles.
Ro y A . McCart hy. K6EAW
F ullerton . Ca li fo r n ia
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Price for either design
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Approx. size 3314" Jt 9". Mailed
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producing your club Insignia.
FEBRUARY 1961
Letters
Dear
wa y ne :
Dea r w a vne :
I j us t finishe d r('~..linR" th e J anu8r,." 1961 is s ue co ver
to cove r . The r e r-eally j" a lot o f art icle- pages in side .
He r e i s a ru n-down 0 11 m )" t h o ugh t s o n the conte nts.
The roltowrne were. I t h oug h t, a bo ve o r d in a ry. T h ey
are li sted in o rde r o f n r e ference .
L P olari t y T ot (apH- W 2QC I.
This a r-tiele was
w orth the co s t. of t h e m aga e fne, I t is the cleve r es t
and mos t u se f u l idea I h a v e seen in R lon g time. H o wever. wh y no t u s e sod iu m ch lorid e inste ad of potassi u m
ch lo rid e ! I t w orks just a s WE'll an d m igh t be easie r
t o come by ( ta b le sa lt , you kn o w ) . Thi s system is really
se na itive.
2. 129 6 Me/ II- V e ry e ood artte tc.. Gl ad to s ee things
on the pioneering phas es of h amdon .
3. Lo st i n a Tunn el - S a m e th inR: l':'Ol"!l for t h is one.
4. Suvi stor Co nv(' r te rs f or Six & Tw o-e- Ve rv good
construct ion n r-ti clc. One t h iJl4r I don't u n dersta nd, tho.
'W hat if! a "eonve ntionnl tu r ned plate c ircuit" ( P . 10 ) ?
5. A-)I ()f'l ef'to rl< - V ery good t echical article.
6. Tran si stori zed . R ee etv er-c- Oc c d "sl'e what can
be done" art icle .
7. Dewn w ith DriCt - A n ot h ('r l':'flm! technical ns-ticle.
J would also like to 111M t h e u sc o f h ent d is sipa t in g tube
s h ields to h is list.
T h e rest o f t he ur t iclcs wer-e sn t.is f' act or-y , They n rc
n o t listed exce p t for t hr-ee wh ic h ,Ies e r ve s om e comment.
Goblin I'at rnl - Gn"d "puhlic se rv ic e" article but i t
paints a hor rihle p ict u r e of t ce n u e e rs.
Transi l'toril:t'd I"r Pqu -:-n cy S ta n d a r d -Gives the impre~ s i on t hat a 100 1\c/ .. oscilln t or is t he t r- ic k ies t circuit
in exis t ence.
6 N2 Compleh'd - Gu ,ls
I I
I s this a s ig n of the f utu re? W ill the tec hn ic a l m un n ai n e o f 1965 be a coflecti on of p ermutati ons o f com merc ial equ ipment ? 'Vi II
the amateur become Htc e t h e Hi-F'i Fan (a u d iophi le f ]
who " con st ru ct s " his own syst e m? ' U Z N could h ave a t
least bui lt and de st en ed his o w n pOWE'r su p p ly. T h is
o n e r E'all y shoo k m e u p .
All in a ll thi,. was a very good issue. J di d not
reafi ae that the re w a s so m u -h s pace de voted to ar ticles
u n t il I r-ead th e wh o le t h ing in o ne s itt in g. K ee p up
the good w o r k .
A r nold R einhold. K 2P:SK
Ha, ha, ha . . Ill' doon't knoiV tl'lra t a tUnlcd plate
cin: ll it IS.
Dear ,,'a yne :
K 3EBB ( Mac k) loa ned m e h is comes o f ) ' OU I' first
three issues a nd I w a s d e li gh t ed w it h what you a re
d oing. I pa rti c ul a r !)' li ke the prepo n dera nce o f eo n s t ruct io n a n d t ec hn ical articles nnd w a s further p leased
to n o te t hat so m an y o f you r wr-Iter-s were t op d r awer.
If you c a n continu e to e nt ice articles from men li ke
H e rb B rf er, J im K yle a n ti m y ver-y good friend J ohn
Specie lny , t h e n yOU reall y h a ve it made . Thanks t oo,
for the n ic e plug of t he AF.MARS Eas t er n Technica l
N e t Sunday a ft e r n oo n b rofld clls t S. m y p a rticula r Inte r est.
Quel'}' : wh o loW t nu mbe r I on the Xma s cov er, y ou
o r J im ?
Ea r l H ens on , W 3 ZSF
$39.95
Net to Amateurs,
Complete wilh Tube s.
Se e Your Deoler.
SE N D MO NEY
ORDER.
Prices Subject to
Chonge without
Nerice.
TUBE CO MPLEMENT
5763 Final Am plifier
6AQS Moduh.lor
6UB O scillator Multiplier
I2AX7 Speech Amplifier
EXCELLO ELECTRONICS PRESENTS
A New Lo w Pr ice V. H. F. Six MeIer Tro ns m itte r wired
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Tro nsm itler is th e lowesl priced six mete r tr a ns mitte r
o n the ma rke l today. This is not 0 kit, but 0 comple te
unit, ready 10 put o n t he ai r wi th any power supply
supplying 300 v , o t 100 m.e,
TRANSMITTER FEATURES
Meter Ind icato r- Pro vid ing monitoring of Final Tuni ng ,
Grid Dr ive ClOd Modula ti o n, o t a glance.
Tuning Controls- Tuning Ceetrols a re all on the Front
Ponel.
Acce n to Components-Removable Enclosure gives c ceess to 011 Components.
T. V.1. Supprenion - T.V .1. Suppression is a cco m plishe d
by shie lding ond d e sign.
Compact Size -Comple le si ze of un it is 4 " xS " x6 " mc k ing it one of the Smoltest Six Me te r Xmi tte rs ava ilable.
tow Po w er Ca n sum p ti o n - 2S0 -300 v , ot 7S m .o . 10
Wa tts on t he Ante nn a .
EXCELLO EXCITER
A Ne w t o w Pr ice V. F. H. Six Me te r Excit er wired
a nd te st e d wi th t ub e s. The Excello SPC 6 -6 Six Meter
Tra n sm itter Exciter is t he low e st priced si x meter
t ra nsm itter o n t he m arket to -d cr y. Thi s is n ot a kit,
hu t a co mp lete uni t, re od y 10 put o n the a ir with
any power su p p ly f ro m o n AC rec eiver.
P RIC E
$29.95
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TRANSMITTER FEATURES
Ne o n Indicators-Providing moni torinK of B plus,
Fino l Tuning, Grid Drive ond Modula tio n, a t a
Glance .
Tu n ing Controls - Tun ing conlrols are all 00 the Fro nt
Panel.
Access to Components-Removoble Enclosure g ives
occess to 011 Components.
T. V. I. Suppression- To V. I. Suppression is cccomplished by shielding and design.
Compact Size -Complele size of uni t is 4 " x S " x 6 "
moking it one of t he Smallest Six MeIe r Xmitters
e velleble,
tow Po w e r Cansumption-2S0-300 volts @ 60 MA,
6AQS Finol Amplifier, 12AT7 Oscillator Multiplie r,
6AQS Madulo tor, 6AU6 Speech Am p lifie r .
S .. n d
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To
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Alde n
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Allied Radio
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All t ro nics-Howard
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Ar ro'""
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Barker and W illiamson
Cal l-DCal
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Candee
. 61
Central
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Clegg
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C lark, J im
. 62
Columbia
. 51
Curta
. 63
DaIe
. 55
Eico ....,..... . . . . ... ... .... . . 10
Exce llo
. 53
Fulton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 59
Gi dgets & Gadge ts
. 63
G lobe Industries
59
Gonset
C over II
Graham
.. 54
54
Ha m-Swa p . .
Hi-Per
43
4, 5
Inte rnational Crysta l
Kaufman
55
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63
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Lafaye tte
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Nationa l
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Neil
45
Cover III
Pete rsen
Rad io Booksh op . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
60
RTTA
61
Rex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 54
Rider, John
8
Shorecrest
62
Spera
62
47
Stellar
58
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Telrex
51
Texas C rystal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 49
W este rn Ra dio [San Dieq o]
57
Western Ra dio (Neb ra ska)
62
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