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76 A Brasspounder Improves Heath's Portables
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Editorial Offices.
PI... 51"" GETTING ORIENTED issue of 73, pointing out that il thing but a big plus which would
Pelerbo<oullh NH 03458 A trip to Korea, Taiwan, Hong our ham clubs did not get busy force more inventing and
P!'lone: 1!103-92~7J , 924-387. Kong , Guam, and Japan in OC- and get the amateur radio ranks pioneering on us.
Advectislng Offices. tober helped put things into growing again (growth had II you, the readers of 73
sobering perspective as lar as stopped for a six-year period at Magazine, make it your busi-
p "", St,"t ness to see that your ham club
Pele<lX>roullh NH l)3.t511 the US leadership i n tec hnology that time as a result of the FCC
Phone: 603·924·7138, 924-7139 is concerned. Oh, the evidence handling of the so-caned "ln- gets busy and starts filling up
was the re without the trip - on centtve li censing" proposalS), tho se Novice classes with high
Circulation Offices, my wrist in th e form of a digital the US domi nance 01 the elec- school kids, we'll start having
watc h with built -in calcula tor tro nic indust ry world wide cou ld some good techni cians and en-
Pine SI'Nt be lost within t wenty years. I gineers flowing into our elec-
Peterborougn NH 03458 from Japan, two or three more
Phone: 603-924 ·7296 caste calculators always at missed my guess; we lost it tronics industry within ten
hand, a Sansui hi-f system at within ten years. years. We want to get the kids at
Subscription Rates home, Icom, Kenwood, Tem po, If amateur radio had been this time of their lives and infect
In 11\1I Un ited SI.'ee end PoasessiOns: and Yaesu ham gear at every permitted to continue to grow at them with one ot the most vtru-
One YNr(12 Iss.-) $18.00 turn, Hitachi and Sanyo televi- the rate it had established dur- lent of viruses ... amateur ra-
T'/WO Years 124 i _ ,) S30.00 sions, VTR systems made in .re- ing the years after WWII until dio. If you get their attention at
Three Yurs (36 ;HultS) SotS.OO pan, etc. Even my new recharge- 1963, at which time it was pro- 14 and 15 years of age. you 'll
Ulet'me subscription S2.a.OO
able pencil sharpener says posed that we go back to the have most of them lor lite.
Elsewherel Sanyo. pre-war Class A and Class B li- But we need a 20% growth
CAnede-add 12,00 pel' y......n less While traveling through the censing system and all growth rate or better. not a puny 1t %
~id "'llh U.S. <;",nency. Orient visiting consumer elec- stopped, we would today have that we had for the years prior to
tronic shows in Seoul , Osaka, we ll over 1,500,000 l icensed 1963 and the licensing debacle.
All olhe. fO'eign -One y..' only- Taipei, and Hong Kong, I got the amateurs and I sincerely believe We have to catch up so we can
526 ,00 payable in U.S . e .....eney that the US would be making eventually get back our high
th.ough a U.S bank, lS .... tace maUl. full brunt of the com petition the
US faces from thi s area. It is no 80% of the elec tronic equtp- t ech no lo g y industries, Thi s
To subscr ibe. wonder tha t these countries ment i nstead o f Japan and t heir means th at your club must find
have taken over 80-90% of the o tt-shore workshops in Hong some way to get into the nearby
renew or chonge Kong, etc. high schools and put on demon-
production of high t echnology
an address. electronics equipment being l et's look at the situation strations of the wonders of
W"'e to 73 W~e~'''', S...llSe,ipt,on sold in our country . . . they're carefully and think about it. amateur radio _.. repeaters,
Oe~"ment, PO 80. 931 , Farming. ahead of us in just about every Statistics (ARRL) show that satellite communications, DX-
dille NY 11737. FOI" ,.,,,,,,,,,.,Is and ing, emergency service ... the
<;henges of add.en. include tIW Old- field except computers and mi- about 50% of the new licensees
dlen IebeI lrom }'OU' ITlO$t 'Kenl crowaves. are either 14 or 15 years old. We dozens 01 facets of our hobby
,u.,. of 13. FOI" g,1t IlUl)KnptfOna, ,n- Can anything be done to re- also know that about 80% 01 which have made it one of the
elude)'Ol.l' ""me end add'_ as well verse this worsening situation? these newcomers to amateur most important in the world.
es lhose of gill .ec,p,ents, Post-
maste.; Send fo.m '3S7g 10 73
I think it can, and I think that radio get involved enough with With only about 30% of the
W., gu me , S ...bselipt,on S.lVlees, you , the readers of 73 Magazine, electronics so they choose it for licensed amateurs belonging to
P O. 80. 931 , Fe,mingdale NY 11737. can have a profound effect on their career. This means that If clubs, we need to have some
the position of the US in etec- our ham growth had not been vigorous club promotions. It 's
Subscript ion tronrcs over the next few years. I brought to a halt in 1963 by the been some time since I have run
don't think this is a si tuation FCC failure t o immediately dis- articles in 73 on how t o build up
problem or which can be helped by setting m iss th e "incentive licensing" clubs, so perhaps it is time fo r
quest ion. up trade barrie rs. I do th ink it is proposals, we mig ht expect to you to write about this aspect of
high time the US did get vigor- have 166,000 new hams j ust in the hobby. There are some rete-
W. ite 10 73 Meglline, sccecncncn
Depertmen" PO 80' 93 1, Ferming. ously to work to break down the 1980. This would also resul t in t tvety simple rules for oro-
(181" NY 11737 Plee,. include en ad· one-way Japanese trade barri- abou t 133,000 of these new peo- moting club growth which I can
d.",.lebel. ers . , , in essence, forcing them ple entering the electronics in- pass on .. _such as making
73 Wegllm" (ISSN 0096-go10l is pub- to fight us on more equal terms. dustry within about five years. sure that your club meetings are
lished monthly by 73, Inc .• PIne Sl'e'll.
Pete.bOrough NH 03"se, Se<;ond
My visits to the electronic Now, look here, don't come fun to attend. That may sound
el&u postege is ~id al PelerbOrough shows and Japanese electronic whining to me about how too simple an idea, but unfor-
NH OJ,658 end el add,t~1 ....il'''G firms had me in cont act with crowded the ham bands would tunately, I have been to far too
off~s. Cop'fJighl eel 1979 by 73, I"'C. Asian amateurs at every turn. be with 2,000,000 or more hams many club meetings which were
All rights .eserved. No pert of this
publi<;ellon ....y be 'ep.inleCI 01" other-
While this was no surprise, it trying to use them. W€ have so anything but fun. long battles
"'iSe 'ep«)ClV<;Od ""thOu' ",nil"" peI'- did back up what I have been damned many UHF and micro- over buying paint to spruce up
million from Ille pubhshe< . M,crof,lm writing in my editorials for many wave bands that we aren't even the clubhouse will not bring the
Edition _ University M,<; .o f,lm, Ann years . Byron Kretzman W2JTP using and so many techniques membership back to the next
ArbO< 10'1 148106.
recently dropped me a letter for getting more use out of the meeting.
remi nding me of an editorial I low bands that I don't th in k a big Let me provide some basic
published in the June, 1969, ham population would be any- rules for getting clubs to grow. I

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Digital Frequency Control*
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Ke n wood's TS-ISOS wi th DFC Is an all solld- • Built-in microprocessor-<:ontrolled larg<.> digital • Full line o f matching accessories. including
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w
the con lest o paa to r, and aU athel" Amateu", Ierence between VFO and MMl memo ry ternal speaker with selectable audio filters,
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The following featuretl prove. beyond do ubt, "out of band." Mo no scale dial. 100. SWR and power meier, DF-1BO digita lfrequency
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OUf new crop o f tone equipmen t is the freshest thing growing
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SS-32 Encoder
• Size: .9" x 1.3" x AD"
• Availa ble wit h eit her G ro up A o r G rou p B tones
Frequencies Available'•
G ro up A
67.0 XZ 9 1.5 ZZ 118.8 2B 156.7 SA
7 1.9 XA 94.8 ZA 123.0 32 162.2 5B
74.4 WA 97.4 2B 127.3 3A 167.9 6Z
77.0 XB 100.0 IZ 13 1.8 3B 173.8 6A
79.7 SP 103.5 IA 136.5 42 179.9 6B
82.5 YZ 107.2 IB 141.3 4A 186.2 72
85.4 VA 11 0.9 22 146.2 4B 192.8 7A
88.5 VB 11 4.8 2A 151.4 52 203.5 MI

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Gr oup B
TEST-TONES : TOUC H-TONES : BURST-TONES:
600 697 1209 1600 1850 21 50 2400
lQOO 770 1336 1650 1900 2200 2450
1500 852 1477 1700 1950 2250 2500
2175 941 1633 1750 2QOO 2300 2550
2805 1800 2100 2350
.
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MOflaghen W0HSK phot o·
graphed the DaVinci trans-
ameri can balloon on September
30, 1979. While they c ircled at
2500 feet about 30 m iles north·
west 01 Topeka, they used 2m to
speak with the craft.

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pair/service manual with sene- anyone who o wns a TR5-80.
- ~. mane s for a Micro Match swr
wattmeter, model NBR 263.11 .
The meter was manufactured by
Sam Martinez N3SMIHK1CWB
PO Bo x 8814
Baltimore MD 21 224
M. C. Jones Electronics Co.,
Bristol CT.
I will pay for the manual or I have just purchased an
coptes of the manual and any order-type de supply manutac.
sh ipping. tu reo by Universal Elect ronics
Nick Marsala AB5M of Santa Mon ica, Cali fornia. It Is
5339 East 97th Street South a Transistorized Power Supply,
Tulsa OK 74136 Model LQ35, 15 Amps, 0 to 35
volts.
If anyone has a schemati c or
I need a manual for an Elco service manual to sell or copy,
model 324 signal generato r. I please con tact me. Any hel p will
will pay for copies. be greatly appreciated.
Bill Allsopp W5TJI and his XYL, Mary WB5DVA , headed up the Bill Morehouse John Pisarski
CAREN radio club (Little Rock AR) team at the annual Arkansas PO Box 214 114 Evans Rd.
Sta te Fair in OCtober. (Photo by Paul J. Kirsch WA8A SQ15) Waukesha WI 53187 Norrlslown PA 19403

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mid-month, the long-awaited
operation from the West care-
c laims on t he islands already
made by Vietnam, China, and
Taiwan. The main Spratly is land
is occupied by Vie tnamese
The new month, new year, FPa, 302, YJ8, FOB, FC, TF, lines group came to pass: troops, while Taiwan uses three
and new decade get off to a H Btl, KC6, 3C1, and CO Zone 23. JE1 J KL and JA7FFN stayed 01 the islands and t he Philip-
rousing start if all goes as Here's a rundown 01 this ex- lour days on Yap Island and pines six.
planned: one major nxoeotnon travaganza of a month. made 5278 contacts ... 3738 Those who have attended a
in progress and one commenc- DK6XR and DK7XN operated ware an CWon HF, with another convention and seen the slide
ing the first week of January. from the New Hebrides as 1540 on 6 meters! They must presentation by one of last
David SChoen N2KK should YJ8XR the first week 01 OCto- have had a 5O-MHz pipeline year's 1S1DX operators can
presently be operating from the ber, then activat ed Tahiti for home t o Japan. JE1JKL has his vouch for the uninviting nature
Indian Ocean, on Juan de Nova, fou r more days. T hey were aSL·handling chores cut out for of t his "country." If you worked
through about January 8; then joined in the Pac ific by Darrell him. it, be glad. If not, you are in good
he's on to Mauritius, an un- Bevan N6DX, who finished a Finally, after weeks of rumors company.
named (at this time) island in venture beg un in September op- and counter-rumors, Equa torial Franz Josef land of the USSR
the 3B group, the Malagasy Re- erating from t he Fiji Islands. Guinea came on the air 10 the is a much-needed DXCC coun-
public 5R8 on the 20th, and t he Darrell treated many DXers t o de light of many. A Spanish DX t ry, and activity there has
piece de resistance, t he So mali contacts from t he various is- con ti ng en t opened up wi th picked up. Look for UK1PAA,
Repu bli c , arou nd Jan uary 30. lands on 6 meter s. 3C1AA on October 13 and oper- UK1PGO, and UA1PAL on 20
Dave is mai nly in te rested i n In North America , K2RW and ated l or several days. Their meter s, both ph one and CWo
operation on t he " low band s," W2BHM vac ationed on St. PI· plans t o proceed to Annaban Othe r than the Ja pan ese,
bu t he p lan s to be wherever the erre Island and put FP8AA and Island fan into some snags, but who reg ularl y make bu sin ess
d e m a nd is, 160· 10 meters . FP0VI on all ba nds. Mea nw hile, persistence prevai led. Alter a t rip s into China, t he bes t bet for
N2KK is a professional pnotoe- d uring the fi rst week of October, fl y-over the is la nd, du ri ng which someone's foot getting in the
ra o he r on assign me nt and Lloyd and Iris Colvin, W6KG and the pilot ruled out landing on BY door for amateur radio ap-
should have an incredible slide W6Q l, we re plotting t he next t he overgrown runw ay, t he oper- pears to be Tho mas Wong
show to present when he re- YAS M E F o u n d at i o n jaunt ators reg rouped on the conti- VE7BC. He was In China In Oc-
turns. through t he Caribbean, with nent, hired a boat, and took the tober for his twice-yearly bus-
Since "beco ming a country" help deciding provided by at- waterway to 3Cfl. iness visit and stopped off 10
in 1974, Kingman Reef has host- tendees of the Housto n Com- Annobon finally showed up see JA6HOZ en route. JA6HOZ.
ed two operations: the first in Con convention. on the bands on Saturday, OC- you may recall, put BYon the air
1974 and another in June, 1977. Boston hosted the annual tober 27, during the CO Phone for an hour in August as part of
At today's rates of amateur New England DXCC meeting, Contest. The operators wisely a demonstration to City offi-
population growth, three years featuring K1MM , KP4AM (01 stuck close to CW during the cials. VE7BC is scouting the ter-
is enough time for a country to Deeecnec fame), and former weekend. A full two weeks had ritory and testing the waters,
pass from not-needed status by West Coast DX Bulletin editor passed between opening gun but the word from Chinese ctn-
most DXers into a slot on the WA6AUO . About 80 OXers from 3C1 and starting mark for crate and from JA6HOZ is that it
"mo st-needed" lists again. In showed up for this event . 3Cfl. Never say die! aSls for will "be a long time" before
the case of Kingman, this may In Europe , while HB9N L was 3C1AA t o EA4MY, and for amateur radio comes to fruition
be rectilied in the next couple of accommodati ng 40- and 80- 3G0AB to EA4 lH. in China.
weeks, with Palmyra as a bo- meter country chasers looking Politic s often rears it s head in J im Bull in gton N4HX may be
nus . for Liechtenstein (HB0), Dl1 AK the world of OX, especially on active Irom Chad (IT) by the
January 4, 1980, is the start- operated CW on all bands fro m t he con tinents of Africa and time yo u read this. J im works
ing date for operation from Corsica (FC). Mea nw hi le , a Asia. last sp ring's expedition t o fo r the US government. Do n
K i ng man and Pal my ra by large group of Ukranian opera- Spratly Is la nd (1S1DX) satisfied Riebhoff of XV5AC, XU1 DX, and
WA2FI J, W2TDQ, W A6 YQW, t ors were en route to Sibe ria, to mu ch of t he demand fo r that CT4 AT fame has h i s ba gs
K6lPl , and K2H FX. The opera- Tan a Tuva . which is i n CQ Zone coun t ry and may have been t he pac ked lor Czec hoslovak ia. He
ttons will be simultaneous, w ith 23. They appea red on th e ban ds last hammi ng t o be done fro m visi ted Pr a g ue i n october,
one group signing a KH 5 cau- mid ·Octo ber fo r a one-month t he re fo r so me t ime. In its showed so me slides to the OX
sign fro m Palmyra and another stay, and, by pulling that zone September 25 issue, The DX crowd at OK1ADM, and ho pes
using a KH5K ca llsign from o n lor the CO Wo rldwi de Pho ne Bulletin out of Vernon, Con- lor an OK8 call sign.
Kingman. Five days 0 1 opera- Contest, made it possible for necticut, presented material Ba ngladesh came back on
tion are planned . contestants to work al1 40zones demonstrating the tensions su r- the air in early aut umn, after a
October, 1979, was a wild 31 during t he contest. Zone 23 rounding Sp ratly and the South short hiatus; S2BTF was fou nd
days of OX by several well- turned ou t to be a snap; the China Sea area in general. late on 20 meters at various times
known individuals and groups. toughies were 34 and 37. last winter, the Philippines qui-
Expeditions were mounted to As if all this wasn't enough to etly annexed the major parts of Conrinued on /»fIe 156

JRIAIB. JA3MNP.

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and station wo rked. tou ghest award o f all to obtain
Do not send QSL cards, as is the Coral Award, which is

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As an alt ernative, you may have
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issued to amateurs who visit
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Aqaba. Simple, huh? Anyone for
Bill Gosney WB7BFK THE ARABIAN KNIGHTS amateurs, a local radio club a charter trip this winter?
2665 North 1250 East AWARD secretary, or a notary public. As with all awards sponsored
Wh idbey Is/and This award is issued by the Enclose this list along with by our Jordanian friends, ap-
Oek Harbor WA 98277 Arab Radio Amateur League an award fee of ten lACs and plicants must prepare a li st 01
(ARAL) members and presented send to the attention o f; JYl claimed contacts made citing
The hol iday season has come by His Majesty King Hussein Award Manager, PO Box 1055, the usual logbook information
again. Now that you found that (JY1) of Jordan. Amman, Jordan. including RS(T).
new radio o r antenna packed To qual ify for this recogni tion Forward this list, s t ati ng
THE ROYAL JORDANIAN which award it is you are apply-
under the Christmas tree, it' s of achievement, ama teurs must AWARDS
about t ime you got it oul and have prool of having cont act ed ing for, along with an award fee
To amateurs throughout the of ten (10) IRCs to : JY l Award
gave it the old smoke test. How at least ten (10) Arab countries, wo rld who qual ify, JY 1. Hi s Maj-
about a contact or two with our and one con t act m ust be with Manager, PO Box 1055, Amman,
esty King Hussein I of Jord an, Jordan.
Midd le Eastern friends where either JY1 or JY2. All contacts will issue a very elegant award
some boo min g signals have must be ma de on or after Jan- While you have your beam in
of achievement to reco gnize that direction, why not turn it a
been originating lately? uary 1, 1971 , on any aut horized one o f two levels of accomplish-
Just this week I received a ret- m o d e o f co m m unications . few more degrees and see if
ment. perhaps propa gation doesn't
te r from Br uc e Black burn There are no speci al endorse- Fir st, the Silver Award is o t-
JY9BB, who is the Commun ica- men ts. allow a few con tacts with our
fered in recognit ion of havin g fr iend s in Switzerland. Here
t io ns Ad visor tor H is Majest y worked six different JY prefixes.
King Hussein of Jordan. As JYI King Hussein would be your chance t o qualify
JY2 Royal Jordanian Fam ily There are no band or mode reo for the very attrac tive award be-
maybe you know, King Hussein stnctrons: however, all contac ts
and the Roya l Jordanian Fam ily A4X Oman in g offered by the union of
A6X United Arab Emirates must be on or after January 1, Swiss Short Wave Am ateurs
are avid amateur radi o oper-
ators. Perhaps you have heard A7X Qatar 1971 , t o coun t.
their calls on the air, JY1 and
A9X Bahrain The second and probably the Conrinued on page 145
JY2.
eN Morocco
Mr. Blackburn wr ites to share HZ,7Z Saudi Arabia
J2 Djibouti
three very spectacu lar awards
being sponsored personally by JY Jordan
005 Lebanon
King Hussein and the Arab Ra·
dio Amateur League. Of course, ST Sudan
upon receipt 01 this letter, the SU Egypt
very first thing I did was go YK Syria
YI Iraq
through my own card lile to see
if I qualified. Much to my dtsao- 3V8 Tunisia
4W Yemen
pointment, I still neect one more
5A Li bya
contact, that being with either
JYl or JY2. Perh aps, just per- 5T5 Mauritania
haps, if they read my column 60 Somali
this month , they'll sympathize 70 South Yemen
with my need and arrange a tu- 7X Algeria
9K2 Kuwait
tu re skeo.
As you can see by the re- To apply for the Ar abia n
quirement s of the three Jordan- Kni ghts Award , the applicant
Ian awards, none was meant to must prepare a list of claimed
be accomplished in one si tti ng. contacts in prefix order. Each
Naturally, that crea tes an even en try m ust also include the date
greater incentive fo r those of us and time i n GMT, the band and
wis hing to pursue their goals. mode of operation, and the

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Jonathan A. Titus q uant it ies that va ry greatly in user s' groups. O. The content of the memory
Christopher A. Titus mag nit ude. The term floating- Int eger , or trxea -ootm, location addressed by reg ister
David G. Larsen poi nt number refers to a com. m a t he m at ic al programs are pair H is then added to the con-
puter quantity that is usually relat ive ly easy to write. For tent of the A regis ter, and the
Mo st e ight·b it micropro- com posed of two parts, a man- 808OA·based microcomputers, result of t h is addition is copied
cessors such as the 808OA, ti s sa an d an exponent. For the add (ADD) and add-with- in to the memory location ad·
z-eo, 6800, 6502, and F-8 can eight ·bit m icroprocesses , a c arry (AOe) instructions are dressed by register pair H. Both
add and subtract only eight-bit fl oating-po int number is oft en used to w rite integer addition register pai rs, 0 a nd H, are then
numbers, which can represent represented by a t e-bt t man- s u b rou ti n e s and p rograms . incremented by one w it h th e aid
only decimal quantities be- tissa and an eight-bit exponent. These instruc tions are used not of t he INXC and INXH tns truc-
t ween 0 and 255. Th is is not Since the exponent and man- only t o add eight-bit numbers, t io ns , respect ive ly. The byte
enough resolution o r d yna mic t is sa may be either positive or but also 16-bil , 24-bil, and targer count, which is co ntai ned In the
range for many appl ications. negative, one bit in each is used numbers. The add-with-carry in- C regi ster, is then decremented
Consequently, multiple-preci- as a sign bit. This means t hat st ruc t ions are pa rt icularl y use- by o ne.
sion and floa ting -point numbers t he three-byte troattna-po tnt fu l in this regard, since t hey add When the conte nt o f th e C
are used. number (15-bit ma ntissa pl us the co ntent of the carry bit to register is dec remented to zero,
The term multiple precision sign bit , 7·bit exponent plus the sum of t wo eig ht-bit bytes. the 8080A ret urns from the sub-
refe rs t o the use of two or mo re sign bit) c an represent numbers The carry bit is also ei t her set or rout in e. If the conte nt of the C
computer words 10 represen t a between 32 ,767 x 2·127 and c leared as a result of this eon- reg ist er is not zero, the 8080A
numeric quantity. In the above- 32,767 x 2 + 127, which co rre- tion . jumps back to ADDAGN and
ment ion ed mi croprocessor spo nd to the decimal number A typ ical t r tpre-precrst on adds the next t wo bytes in se-
chips. a c omputer word is range, 1.93 x 10-127 to 5.58 x inteqer-eocnucn subroutine for quence. Note that the XAAA in-
c alled a byte, and is eight bits 10+ 4 2. It is quite co mmo n for a n 8080A microcomputer is struction is used to clear t he
long. A double precis ion n um- the mantissa to co ntai n an im- sho w n in Fig 1. The subrout ine carry to a logic zero o nly when
ber, therefore, cont ain s two plied bi nary decimal point, and add s two three-byte (24·b it) the subroutine is fir st called.
bytes, or 16 ens, and can repre- thus to repre sent bi nary num. nu m be rs that are stored i n Subroutine ADD3 can be easi-
sen t any uns igned int eger num- bers between 0 and 1.000 or be- memory and returns the su m ly modified to add a four, seven,
ber between 0 and 16,777,216_ tween 0.500 and 1.000.' back t o memory. When subrou- or even a 200-byte number stm-
Despite th is abi lity to represent Un f ortunately, a floating- tine ADD3 is c all ed, reg ister pair ply by changing the immediate
very large numbers, multiple- point p ackage. wh ich is a col- o mu st contain the memory ad - data byte of t he MVIC inst ruc-
prec ision numbers do have their tecuon o f subro uti nes that per- dress where the least sign ifi· tion. Of course, if fo ur-byte
li mi t a tions, e speciall y when form t he addition, subtraction, ca nt byte (LSBy) of one 0 1 the numbers are to be added, you
un its such as picograms, l iters! mu lt iplication, and divis ion of numbers is stored in memory. must provide a tour-byte integer
second, and kilograms all ap- fl oating-point numbers, is a The more significant bytes o f accumulator to store the accu-
pear in a s ing le equation. c omplex program . The Inte l the three-byte number must be mulated result.
Ffoatinq-point numbers are 8080 f loating-point packaqe.' stored in consecu tive memory A tripl e-preci s io n tnteeer-sub-
freq uent ly used for scientific which wa s written by O. C. lo cation s at t he nex t two higher t rac tion subro uti ne l or an 8080A
and engineering calculations Jencn and had its origin in an memory addresses. At location microcompute r is s how n in Fig .
ADD3, the C register is loaded 2. The p rogram is almo st iden-
with the number of bytes th at t ic al to the integer add ition pro-
A003 .
.. ,
HVI C

LXI II
II.OA O THE C REGI STlR W)TH THE
IN UMbER O f" s - u r r b YTl S TO I:U:: ADDED.
ILO AD REG IS T ER P k lR H iliTH THE
are to be ad ded, in this case,
three. Register pai r H is then
loaded wi th the memo ry ad-
g ram g iven in Fig. 1; the mstruc-
tl on ADCM in Fig. 1 is replaced
by S8 8 M in Fig . 2. Note t hat the
)ACC I MlllORY k DDRE S S il HliU. ON E OF THE d ress where t he other 24·bit con ten t of t he integer eccumu -
• XR Ak
I kRGU1E..'I/T S I S STO RE-D.
I CLEAR THE k R EG J S TUt A'l O CARRY
number is stored. The first of
the three memory loc at io ns
tat er is subt rac ted from t he con-
ten l 0 1 memo ry addressed by
AODAGN . 1.0A'(O IG t.T ON E ARGttl lll T I NTO A
used for th is storage is as- reg ister pair D, wi t h the result of
AOCM I AtlO THE O THER ARGUi[.'lT TO 1 T
HO Vlik ISAV E THE RESUL T " ACH I N HLH O RY
sign ed the symbolic address the subtraction stored in t he in-
I N'( O I I NCR El'l E:~ T O'lE 11El10RY ADDR E SS A.'1IO IACC (Integer ACCumulator). It teger accumulator.
I N'( K I TH E:'l IN CRENl:'H THE O THER . should be noted that it is always In the next column, we shall
lICR C 10 ECR L." 'lE:H THE. b YTE CO lNT I ,oj C possibl e to use a group of con- discuss integer multiplication
,I N 1- I IF THE COUiT I S NON -ZERO . secutive bytes in memory t o and division subroutines. A sub-
AOOAGN IP E RFORt1 THE ADDI TJ O:-l Ilo GAJ N create a mu lti-byte eccumute- seq uent column will describe
• R ET 10TH ERil I S £> RET U~ F RO ~ THE SU:tlROU T I 'I E
tor, which c ont ains o ne of the
o pe rands and in which the final
the application of these subrou-
tines to the smoothing or IiIter·
Fig . 1. resu lt o f an ar ithmetic or logical ing of data acq uired from an
ope rat ion is stored . anaroq- tc-dtqt ta r conve rte r
The next instruct ion that the (ADe).
8080A exec ut es, XAAA. c lea rs
SUU3 .
.. ,
H VIC I I.O AO THE C REGI STE R WI TH THE
I NU!1l:l ER O F 8-U lT UYTES TO b E SUBT RAC T ED the carry to a log ic zero. This in-


1.'0l!
l AC e

XR AA
I LO AD Rl:.G IS T I::R PAIR H WI TH THE
N IC10RY ADDRl:.SS \Il l ERE ON E O F THE.
IARG tlM E:JTS 1 5 S TORE D.
I CLl:.AR THE A Rl:.Q t S Tl.R A..., D CARRY
struct io n must be in c luded in
the su bro uti ne because you
have no way of knowing what
IJ
SUUAGN. I.LJAXI) IGLT ONE ARGUHNT UlTO A
su,," I S UUTRACT TilL O THER AR Gltn;'H FRO~ IT
I SAVL THE es.s u .r UA(;H HI MEM ORY

Ha m Help
HO VMA
I NXI) IJN CRUlE:1IT ONE t1EM O RY ADDRE SS AND
!N '(H I THEN HlC REJiE\lT THE O THER .
DC RC I DLCR Ui E:i T THE ..YTE. COlNT IN C
IN' I I F THE COU'l T IS NON- ZE RO. cervmc RTTY and Mor se code.
I P E.R I'"O R:1 THE SUbTRAC TIO N AGAIN
I would li ke to get i n to uc h
S U"AGN Thank yo u.

RET IO TIl l:.RWIS £> RET URN fROM THE S Ul:>ROUTl~E
with anyone who had had expe-
rie nce getting a computer (OSI Larry Herbert WB 3HEX
C1P, 4K) set up and running on 2315A 14th Street
Fig. 2. the ham bands sending and reo Ft. Eustis VA 23604

21
ly acrid odor which seemed to a good smoke detector ala rm.
Don't put it o ff _. . it may save
Leaky Lines_ _~ be wafting in from the radio
shack, about thirty feet down
the hall. I went to investigate
and found the room blanketed
you r li fe and the lives of your
loved ones.
•••
Dave Mann K2AGZ suggest that he use Hungarian in a vast, impenetrable cloud of If you have a st rong stomach
3 Daniel Lane Zither Player. It doesn't matter yellowish smoke. and can withstand disgusting
Kinnelon NJ 07405 that he's not of Magyar descent. The first thing I did was reach things, go down to 14.195 when
You can't have everything. for the convenient ctrcuf t- a rare DX operation is WOrking
Ouarters, Dimes, & Nickels breaker switch, just ins ide the split. I always tho ug ht that this
Phlu key phonetics are back
... Pints, Quarts, & Gallons ... doorway. Then I sl am med t he freq uen cy was ofl li mits for us,
wi th us again. For a brief while n but I was amazed to learn tha t it
April, May, & June", Jacks, door shut, went into the ba th,
appea red that the forces of Ali a, room, sa t urated a towel in cold is a gat hering place, not only for
Bravo, Cha rlie, and Delta had Queens, & Kings -al l friends of
mine, all instant ly rec ogn izable wat er, an d draped it over my a fl ock of sel f-appoi nted rnon f-
prevailed; one heard the pre- mo uth and nose, I took a very tors, but for one of the foulest -
ferred phonetics and only occa- on t he ham bands. So are Ugly
Lover, Hot Little Hand s, and deep breath, opened the door, mouthed groups of morons a nd
sio nally ran into those of the
Red Hot Electrons, not to men- ran over to the wi ndows and id iot s I've ever had the d isp lea-
humorou s (or not so humorous)
tion one of t he most well known threw t hem open (it was a Chilly sure of running into.
variety. But now they are all over
of all , Never say Die, who, I'm night and they had been The usual procedure followed
the place. The bands are full of
told, has something to do with closed), and turned on the ex- w hen DXpeditions operate sp lit
Hot Water Bottles, Soggy Ten-
this magazine. haust fan. I then reclosed the frequency Is for the operator to
nis Sneakers. Aunt Maggie's
We not only apply phonetics door and waited for about two announce his listening frequen-
Drawers, Jersey's Ugliest Quad,
to our caustans. but to many hours before venturing back in· cies. He will invariably do this,
Mississippi Pea Picker, and
things. Who has not heard a to the shack'. and for people to insist upon
Always Going Zigzag (you see,
thousand guys calling, "CO, CO, The surface of my operating calling him on his transmit fre-
I'm in there, too).
CO Dog x-Ray," and what ham desk was covered with an ugly, quency is bad enough, but for
I must confess that I like this dark brown tum of goop, vile,
is not familiar with Heathkit's fifteen or t wenty big mo uths t o
sort of thing. Granted, such fri- smell ing and extremely vis-
Hot Water series of eq uipment? feel t hat it is their preroga tive
volities shouldn't be used on cous, l ike mol ten tar. Evident ly,
Sometimes It's not very flatter- not only t o inform ot hers tha t
MA RS or RACES, where a cer-
ing; some AM enthusiasts sti ll all the po tting compoun d of a they are out of the US phone
t ain decorum and protocol must
ref er to s id eba nd as Slo p tra nsformer had melted and run band , but to call them vil e
be observed, bu t w hat's w ro ng
Bucket. And w ho among us has o ut thro ugh the apertures in t he names in th e bargain, is reall y
wi t h injecti ng a bit of informali -
not sometimes said of another bottom of my prop p it ch rotator too much. This gen erally occa-
ty where it isn't out of place? sions a reto rt by either t he of-
service, Criminal Band , Chicken control. But the worst o f it had
Some callsigns dely all ef-
Band, or Children's Band? been due to the burn-up of some fending station or by t he other
forts, however, As a wordsmith
Once in a while you will hear selenium diodes. The gas gen- filth peddler and the result is
of somewhat lengthy experi-
someone use trick phonetics to erated from these is noxious pretty chaotic.
ence, especially in the pop song enough to be used in the Cali - The OX station is not both-
field, Ithink that I'm pretty good clarify his name. I suppose that
almost all the Floyds have used fornia lethal death chamber! ered by the carrier throwers, the
at devising fairly clever
Funny Uttle Old Yellow Dog, I had been under the distinct tuner-uppers, and the occa-
phonetics. But when somebody
and all the Bobs spell out Bro- impression that this device was sional excitable aso seeker
hits me with those oe. Zs, and
ken Old Bottles. adequately protected against who forgets to flip his band-
Xs, I generally shrug my
short-circuit damage. It was switch ... he is listening up the
shoulders and give up. Good Please, I beg you , don't infer
designed with a power main band for callers. A ll these guys
ones seem to come eoontene- that just because I've done a ut- do is make it impossible for the
ous ly. The very first time 1 ever tie bragging here about my fa- fuse and with the appropriate
interlocks and so forth. It ran on station being recognized by the
worked To ny W2100, it didn't cility with phonetics, I'm ready,
110 V ac and its sole function OX operator.
take five seconds lor me to Willing, and able to dig one up Most of their voices are reo-
best ow upo n him the sobriquet, f or you, Don't as k me to ass ume was t o provide 36 V dc t o run t he
motor and to swi tch from clock- oq nfzabte by their fri ends and
Ita ly's Oi lies t Olive, W het her he t he bu rden, .. I've got enough
wise to counterclockwise rot a- associa tes. In all good con-
approved or not is an entirely troubles of my own. I once had
tion , , , a very simple device ln - sc ience, t hey should be told to
d ifferent ma tter. I never prom- the temerity (and stupidity) to knock it off. And their friends
ised hi m a rose garden! But it's offer to help someone select a deed. But its power supply con-
tained selenium diodes, and need no t t ake t he trouble to be
a heckuva lot easier to remem- name for a forthcoming blessed
these are not to be taken lightly. tac tful or diplomatic about tel l-
ber than India Oscar Oscar, isn't event, and I got into the middle
ing them. They are perfectly
it? And as for Ida Oboe Oboe, of a horrendous family argu- A tragedy was averted. But I aware of the trouble they cause,
forget it! ment that is still going on. The am chilled by the realization and if they persist in these sorts
On Christmas Day of 1964 or mother's family is sore because that I frequently used to leave of carryings-on, they ought to
1965, I've forgotten which, and they think the kid should have all my gear running on standby have their heads handed to
I'm lar too lazy to pull the ap- been named alter a maternal overnight, and if this malfunc- them.
propriate logbook from the drs- grandfather, and the father's tion had occurred while tne tern-
reputable looking pile of rubble family is sore because he was ily was asleep, we might all There's absolutely no excuse
in the bottom of the shack named after a wealthy uncle have been asphyxiated in our for it, and the sooner they are
closet to find out, I hooked up who promptly changed his will beds! exposed and give n what they
w ith a g uy who signed We Broke in favor of t he kid, thus cutting At nine o'clock on the very deserve, t he better. Imbeci les
4 Plat e Glass Windows. OSB them out of their ant icipat ed be- next morni ng, I drove ove r t o my who do this sort of thing de-
was c losing in fast, and we lost quests ... the kid got it all ! In handy-dandy lo cal ha rdwa re se rve no co ns ide ra t ion, be-
eac h ot her very quick ly, I point o f fact, he isn't even store and pu rchased a number cause th ey give none t o ot hers,
haven't heard him since, but I known by the name I helped to of smoke de tector alarms. One and t he very las t thing their
guarantee that I'l l know him at select, Every bo dy calls him of them was promptly installed fri ends should provide them
once if ever I hook up with him Red, since his hair is the color in the radio room. and others with is anonymity. This only en-
again. How in the world could of a ripe tomato. are placed in strategic loca- ables them to continue the mis-
anyone ever forget We Broke 4 But I resolved that I would tions all over the house. I do not behavior.
Plate Glass Windows? But I never get inveigled into such a intend to run the risk of a recur- I had occasion, even though I
don't think I'd be able to situation again, and I am just as rence. did not need it, to listen t o the
remember Whiskey Bravo 4 adamantly determined to avoid Every radio shack should be most recent operation on Mount
Papa Golf Whiskey. helping with callsign phonetics. equipped with certain basic Athos, and despite the fact that
I'll admit that there are times So please don't ask me for any items. We have been aware of I am a guy who's been around
when it can get confusing. I help . , , as I say. I've got enough the necessity of a dependable and who's been exposed to
u s~ to work a certain Horses , troubles of my own. fire extinguisher, a dummy load , some pretty filt hy ta lk in my day,
Ponies, & Zebras, I am now ac- ••• certain test equipment, and so I was appalled at the f oul talk
q ua ~ n ted wi th Horses, Zebras, & A serious note: Some weeks forth. But every ham should th at I heard. II's an intolerable
Pon ies. The latter happens t o be ago, while si lting in the living ma ke sure tha t he adds to t his
a musi cian, and I've decided to roo m, I became awa re of a fa int- li st of fun da menta l necess it ies Continued on page 156

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The objec t of th is con test is ble lor awards. Awards will be

Contests to work as many st ations world-


wide with special emphasis on
OXCC countries which are des-
ignated lOX Islands. A c omplete
issued to those quali fying high·
score entries for each operator
class and mode in each US
state, each DXCC country, and
Robert Baker WB2GFE have c ompleted their aS L list 01 lOX Islands is available each lOX Island.
15 Windsor Dr. cards. Make sure the other sta- from the contest committee. EN TRIES;
Ateo NJ 08004 tion is actually in the aSL Ex- Maximum operating time Is 36 All entries mu st be poet -
change Contest and is filling hours for single operators and marked no later than February
a SL EXCHANGE CONTEST out your card at the same t ime. 48 hours lor munt-co stations. 15th and mu st include a log-
Starts: 0000 GMT January 5 Only one aso per aSL c ard No crceemooe cont act s are at- sheet{s) for each band and Indi·
Ends: 2359 GMT Ja nuary 6 should be used to provide eas- lowed . Operating categories tn- cate stations worked, date and
Wh ile there are many etn- ier cou nting by the contest com- elude ph one only, CW only, or time in GMT, frequency, mode,
cren t. i nexpensive wa ys by m ittee. mixed mode. Entry classes tn- and points per aso. Each entry
which aSL cards can be ex- SCORING: elude si ngle o perat or/si ngle must include a multiplier li st lor
changed with OX stations, ex- Scoring is the count o f aSL tran smitter, multi -operatorl each band, a dupe sheet for
changing a SLs with in the US is cards wh ich are received lor you single transm itter, or multi- contacts of 100 or more, and a
an expen sive proposition. This at the contest address by Feb- operator/m uIti- transmitter. summary sheet wh ich is avail-
contest was proposed t o elimi- ruary 6th. Cards will be sorted EXCHANGE: able from the contest commit-
nate the high cost 0 1 aSUng and mailed to their new owners Al l stations gi ve RS(l) and tee. All entries or inquir ies con-
and to provi de an opport uni ty to by March 6th. For each c all dis- consecutive contact number. cerning the lOX Contest must
work tho se rare sta tes, coun- trict and for foreign countries DXCC countries wh ich are des- enclose a business-size SASE
ties, etc., knowing that you will w ith suffic ien t entrants , a ignated lOX Islands mu st also or 3 IRCs and be sent t o: Gary
actuall y receive a a SL card l or trophy will be awarded the hig h· give their island name. Pierson WA7GVM , Bo x C,
each cont ac t. In making a con- est scorer. For each state, prov- SCO RING: LaConner WA 98257.
tact in th is con tes t, you agree ince, or country , the highest· Score 1 point for contac ts
that you are actually filling out scoring station will also receive within your own DXCC country, HUNTING LIONS IN THE AIR
the o ther station's a SL c ard as a cert ificate. 2 points tor contac ts outsi de CONTEST
the con tact is being made. The ENTRIES your own DXec country. Score Starts: 1200 GMT January 12
obj ec tive is t o receive as many All aSL cards must be mailed 1 bonus point lor contacts with Ends: 1200 GMT January 13
a SLs as possib le for cont ac ts as described below to: H. W. stations located in a DXCC The contest is sponsored by
in the contest period. Barry Merrill W5GN , 10717 country which is a designated Lions Clubs International and is
The contest is open to all sin- Cromwell Drive, Dallas T X lOX Island. Hawaii and Alaska coordinated by Li ons Club Rio
gle-operato r stations. Cont ac ts 75229. The mailing must include are considered separate DXCC de Janeiro ARPOADOR, Brazil.
ma y be made with the same sta- an SASE which is at least as countries from the continental Participation in the contest is
tion more than once, provided large as your outgoing enve- US. A station may be worked on- open t o all duly licensed radio
that th ey are made only once on lope. You can use you r own out - ly once in the contest for point operators, Lion and ncn-tjon.
each band on each mode. All going mailing to determine the value, but may be worked on a except members 01 the Contest
modes are permitted. amount of postage on the return new band for multiplier credits. Comm ittee of the Lions Club
EXCHANGE: envelope, being careful if your The multiplier is th e number of Rio de Janeiro. There are two
The c ontest exchange is an aSL c ard s are t hin to add OXCC co un tri e s worked on operating modes: phone and
excnanqe of call signs and sig· enough postage. You must sort each band. Final score is total CWo Pa rticipation in both
nat reports, accompanied by th e your aSL cards in the same aso points times the total mut- modes is allowed, but points
statement "1 have c ompleted order that is used by the Cal/· trpner. are counted separately. All par-
your a SL card" (or "a SL DONE" book -by call district, then by FREQUENCIES; ticipating stations mu st op-
on CW), or it s equivalent. I suq- suffix, and then by prefix. Use Lower 50 k Hz of each phone erate with i n their licensing
gest on phone that you actually the station call sign , disregard· and CW segment of the US ama- regu lations. Categories include
read the time, date, band, etc ., ing any portable callsigns for t eur bands on 6 through 160 single operato r and radio clubs
as you fill In th e blanks on your th is sort . Finally, you mu st ac- meters. (mutn-op). Points of radio clubs
aSL as a part of the exc hange, company your en try with $1.00 AWARDS; and radio societies will be
but that is optional. On CW, a for every 100 aSL cards, prefer- Contestants must operate a
aRX can be used t o free the ably by check. minimum of 12 hours t o be eliqt- Continued on PBfJf! 144
hand to write the c ard, followed
by the "a SL DONE," but again INTERNATIONAL ISLAND OX
that is opt ion al. The a so CONTEST
should, in any event. be co m- Starts: 0000 GMT January 12
pleted only when both sta tions Ends: 2400 GMT January 13
Results
RESULTS OF THE 1979 RHODE ISLAND oso PARTY
COUNTY AWARD WINNERS

Calendar County
Sri .
Kent
Call
KA1BBY
W1GOG
OSOs Points Mult. Score
201
39
434
99
42
24
18,228
2,328
Jan 1 ARRL Straight Key Night Newport WA10SL 82 180 33 5,940
Jan 5-6 aSL Exchange Contest Providence WA1TAQ 268 536 51 27,336
Jan 12·13 Int ematlonal lsland OX Contest Washington Kl a FD 52 120 24 2,880
ARRL VHF Sweepst akes
Hunting lions In The Air Contest SECTION AWARD WINNERS
Jan 19-20 North and South Ame rica RnY Flash State Call asos Points Mull Score
Jan 26-27 French Contest -CW Conn. WA1HYN 5 10 3 30
Jan 27·28 Classic Radio Exchange Maine WA1WRI 9 40 4 160
Feb 1·10 ARRL Novice Rou ndup Penn. WA3ZGL 12 32 4 120
Feb 2·3 South Carol ina aso Party Georgia AI4X 7 22 2 44
Feb 9-1 0 a CWA oso Party- CW Ken. KA4AZT 33 99 5 495
Feb 16-17 ARRL OX Competition - CW Tenn. WB4WHE 4 8 2 16
Feb 23-24 French Contest - Phone Calif. WA6JGB 10 28 3 84
Mar 1·2 ARRL OX Competition - Phone Idaho WB7URE 14 39 5 195
Mar 8-9 a CWA aso Party-Phone Oregon KA7EOG/N 1 10 1 lD
Mar 9-10 Europe and Africa RnY Giant Flash Wash_ WB7Qn 17 53 5 265
Mar 22·24 BARTG Spring RnY Contes t WV WB8BMX 5 18 3 54
Mar 29-30 YL Interna tional SSBers aso Party-CW III. W9QWM 14 28 5 140
Apr 19-20 YL Int ern ational SSBers a so Party- Phone Colo. KAICLS 4 16 2 32

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,} 11 .:~ {) ()~ -; ~.; ~ t i·.(·· · ~ . ... ..' ; .~ L: ' :"; J!" : ' lowing: meters will be dead in a couple
• 1. There shall be no law of years anyway. It seems, to
passed or action taken to me, more productive to worry
abridge the citizen's right to about unlicensed operators on
receive transmissions of com- the bands that will be open.
munications or entertainment I have no statistics to support
-•
material which are broadcast, my belief that 7, 14, and 21 are

I _ . J ".,- ... by any means, through the c iti-


zen 's private property or
loaded with Novice operators
who c an't master code or who
+ - 1
... t.'.. • ;. p . 1
• " •. i
.... ., ..' t '. •
,-.: .!'. ,',
.. . through public property.
2. No means o f recepti on
haven't the engineering back-
ground to upgrade. Nor do I
shall cause interf erenc e with have any statistics to support
al so appeared in the September any other reception. my guess that as 11 meters
1 00 SOMETHING
1 issue. I have only been licensed
three years, and I am currently
3. Any broadcast material
s h a ll, during the re at-ttme
d ies, thousands o f CBers will
convert their ham rigs back to
an Advanced. I was not around broadcast, become public do- the ham bands. It' s either that or
I have just subscribed to 73 when the AA AL pushed for th is ma in 10 be disposed of at the j u n k some ve ry expensive
Magazine, but I only did so in dividing line at 14.275 MHz, but I disc retion of the citizen tecetv- equipment.
order to obtain some fine teen-
would have supported it , even ing the broadcast. No copyright Of course, ham ranks have
meat and operating articles as a General. What would be the shall exist for material which grown greatly as CBers upqrao-
which I have had the pleasure t o use of upgrading if I would have eo. I would expect this to co n-
has been broadcast.
read in the past. The editorials had the chance to operate on tinue, but not t o the exclusion of
In the forego ing, I would
are, however, anot her ite m. the elite part of 20 meters? Th is define broadcast t o mean t rans- unlicensed operators.
Now, I reali ze that our qovem-
li ne keeps SSTV for those who m ission by any means wh ich Hams now operating on 11
ment has it s problems, but it is have adequate knowledge of it are not shielded fro m rad iat ing . meters - some th ink it's more
ours. We elect it s represents.
trvee and it is our civi l right t o
u.e., Advanced and Extra). Using The proposal wo uld affect fun t han the typical signal reo
call signs as the only means of zoning, mobile scanner, satel- port - will go back to legal op-
improve it. The ARR L is our na-
incentive is all too foolish. You lite, MDS, un scrambler, and eration, but the amateur bands
tional amateur organization and
mentioned t hat this line was FuzzbusterTM restri ctions , will never be the same.
it is the right of its members to
also the cause of losing the old along with any other attempts I would expect the next step
improve it. My observations
manufacturers of amateur radio to co nceal from the public, de- to be, as ham frequencies be-
have shown that when it comes
suc h as Hamcratters. National , ceive the public, or profit from come vastly overloaded, hams
to ARA L decision making, 73 is and Hammarlund. These com- going o utside the bands. Won't
fiat restriction of the public . It
Quick to criticize, but lacks panies died because of a lack o f that be embarrassing?
would allow all present forms of
either the ability or the capa- distributors, not the dividing Old hams will battle against
com merce to continue, except
bility to do something about it. line. Local radio dealers o f the the new boys. Amateur radio
without the protection alforded
Mr. Green, if you are intelligent 1960s could not continue to c ut w ill never be the same - w het h-
by artificial law.
enough to discover a problem, their prices in order to beat the er that's for the better (vastl y ln.
In my opinion, transmiss ion
gather your band of followers dealer down the street. Prof it s creased use by c itizens of their
must be regulated t o ma inta in
and run for League president! were lost, and the local dealer airwaves) o r for the worse (pollu-
order, but reception must re-
Hams should not point fingers if was among a vanishing breed. tion of t hose airwaves).
main uncompromised.
t hey are incapable of trying to The manufacturers therefore I presently hold a ccmmer- It's a matter of opi nion, but
correct the problem. The ARAL lost their distributors, which one thing is for sure: It will be
eta! operator'S license which
is our organization and we caused their collapse. Another different! And tilting at wind·
would allow me to profit from
should do our best to improve it piece of evidence: The dividing mills is just as fruitless today
the restrictions of the public 's
rat her than belittle it. For my- line is still with us, yet names as it was in the days of Don
righ t to receive, but I am ap-
self, I am prcuo t o be an AAAL like Kenwood, Swan, Icom. Den- Quixote.
palled to think t hat a citizen
member. Tron, vaesu, Drake, and Ten- could be arrested and fi ned or Name withheld
My second point of fric t ion Tec have prospered. jailed fo r receiving transmts- by request
concerns a segment of you r In closing, Mr. Green, please storrs wh ic h are broadcast
September, 1979, edi torial con- get you r facts straight , do through his own private proper-
cerning "Spreadi ng the Word."
Mr. Green, this nation has had
enough economists and Ralp h
Nader s to keep our heads spin-
something rather t han nothing,
and keep up the great technical
and operating articles. I assure
ty. Compromise of the right to
receive opens the door to all
forms of censorship, greed, and
11....--_------'I
N ITPICKIN G

This letter is about the com-


you that I'll never say die. tyranny . By any reasonable
ning for the next century. Tat - ments in 73 Leiters concerning
Edward Middlebrook WDSBCI sense of ethics, section 605 is
tling on grocery store chains is the AAAL.
West TX out of line and MDS is out of
not our normal form of amateur It is likely that the things they
business. The airwaves are not
activity. Besides, many factors say are true, but I have yet to
for sale!
go into the price of differing hear of any of these characters
items , such as wholesale
prices, middleman prices, op-
1 NOT FOR SALE
1 Carl B. Raym an WAeRLY
Au stin TX
recommending an outstanding
ham for election to the ARRL
erating and maintenance costs, The FCC column in the OC· Board of Directors. Criticism
texes. wages, and, of course, a
profit which is usually less than
10% of the store's actual m-
come. If we are to develop a
tober. 1979, issue (p. 29) c lari-
fied a most irritating point for
me . Apparently the struggle be-
tween freedom of reception and
1_ _------'WINDMILLS

The conversations, editorials,


I without co nstruc t ive counter-
measures accompl ishes noth-
ing. seems more like the writers
are just jac kal s on an ego trip.
strong picture of amateur radio greedy c o m m erc i ali s m was letters, strong words, and anger I'd sort of like to see a good
to the public, let us continue to bent towards commercial ism in about CBers on 11 meters all " Bi sma rck" in AAAL neadquar-
do so as we have in the past: Section 605 of the comrnuntca- seem a little fruitless to me. The ters. They tell me the only good
teaching classes, speaking to ucne Act of 1934. It is hard to false premise is that something time to live in Europe was when
groups, giving school demon- believe that in this supposedly significant can be done about it. he ruled with an iron fist.
strations, appearing at local free country, artificial (flat) The FCC cho ices really are : The mass of hams in the US
fai rs, mo nit or ing t rac k events, restrictions would be leg islated Shall we waste $100,000 trying are too diversified a group to be
passing t raff ic , and, of course, against ci tizens entirely for the to enforce present regulations governed in such a manner that
working t o save lives in t he purpose o f creating a commer- or shall we legalize t he tt-meter all hands will be con ten t w ith
event o f natural disasters, and cial mar ket for a minority. f act s of lite? everyth ing. I have doubts th at a
allowing the med ia t o know of it. In order to correct the situa- Isn't it perfectly obv ious t hat good Bi s marc k will ever be
This will continue to deve lop the tion, I believe that a statement nothing of value is being gained found, so I guess hams w ill have
public relations we need. Sav- of the ideal for a rec ept ion law through present levels of en- to depend on the Board of Dtrec-
ing lives will always be more im- in a free country should be forcement? And isn't it equally tors.
portant than saving pennies! made and t he n possibly adopt- obvious that Congress isn't go- How many. more years are
Finally, I would like to ccm- ed as a new Constitutional ing to fund a vastly increased
ment on the " ARRL Une" which amendment. I propose the tot- enforcement effort? Besides, 1t ConriflUfldon page 154

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c ha pte r in t he Rad i o of hams is growing, it is been the ma instay for most
Amateur's Handbook were How It Works amateu r speech processors.
ha rd to criticize any pro-
devoted to NBVM. A pro- Na rrow Ba n d Voice The problem of a noisy
posal that wou ld red uce
to type was developed a nd Modulation is based on two waveform arises when com-
conges tio n in the " o ve r-
test ed, and now a commer- methods of audio process- pression goes beyond the
c rowded vo ice se gme nts of
cially-produced version of ing. The amplitude-com- first few decibels of im-
the high-frequency amateur
the system is in the hands of pandor portion of the sys- provement. Characteristi-
bands" -as one editor put
approx imately 300 ama- tem compresses the ampli- ca ll y. most hams using pro-
it.
teu rs. If you are curiou s tude of the signa l. Expan- cessors keep the level of
about the future in sto re for As a bon us, NBVM is sup- sio n of the audio takes co mpre ssio n low enough to
one of amateu r radio' s posed to increase your ca- place at the receiving end . avoid this problem . The
most publicized develop- pability per Watt and . re- The concept of amplitude NBVM system a llows a
ments, read on. du ce the bother of QRM! c o m p a n di n g has bee n greater le vel of compres-
However, it is impo rta nt to around for many years but sion since the receive sta-
At first glance, NBVM rem embe r that perfor- did not become economi-
proponents have prese nted tion ha s a n expander that
mance, not promotiona l ca lly feas ible unt il the de- red uces the noise level d ur-
a nu mber of high ly bene- tactics, will be the deciding velopment of large sca le in- ing the qu iet pa rt of the
ficia l reasons fo r a dopti ng fa ctor fo r the acceptance teg ra te d c irc u its. Th e
the system. Amo ng those voice passage .
by the a mate ur radio co m- signa l's bandwidth is com-
li sted a re: mu nity of any ne w comm u- pre ssed by us ing a fre quen- Many of the NBVM bene-
1) Sav ings in spectrum . This nicat ion system . cy com pa ndor. NBVM pio- fits re ly o n a red uct ion in
is accompl ished by red uc- This a rticle d iscusse s the nee r Dr. Ric hard W. Harr is bandwidth. No rmal single
ing the bandwidth of you r theory behind NBVM, eval- cla ims that this is a ne wly sideb and te ch niq ue s use
SSB signa l to o ne-half its uates the o nly commercia l deve loped te ch niqu e o f the voice informa tion be-
o rigina l size. unit available, and offers audio process ing. tween 350 and 2400 Hz. The
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lower a nd upper resp onses
are determined by the cha r-
acteristics of t he mi cro-
and 1600 Hz. Fig . 1 shows a
block d ia gram fo r a 1600
Hz freque ncy compa ndor.
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model is what cou nts. The
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aud io. Fig. l (a). 16QO.Hz frequency compandor used to transm it
I doubt if most audio- most important element of narrow band voice modula tion. ·2100-Hz low-pass fil ter is
ph il es would p rai se the the des ign is the need for used in the wider frequency expander m ode.
fidel ity of a typica l SSB extremely sha rp fil te rs. Dr.
signal, but the quality is
more tha n adequate for ev-
eryday amateur use. Since
Harris chose to use active-
type filter s for his p ro-
totype . Filter theory has
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method of rf modulation in previous amateu r a rticles,
fo r voice communica tion
presently in use, any co n-
so I will mention only the
most important character-
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servation of bandwidth istics.


must take place in the au- With the except ion of a Fig. l (b). 16QO.Hz frequency compandor used to receive
dio frequency ra nge. Ac- 7OQ-Hz high-pass devi ce, narrow band voice m odulation.
cordingly , NBVM is known the filter s in the comme r-
as a " base ba nd communi- cial model are of the low-
cat ions system ." This pa ss va riety. The QST "con- a re kept at around -10 dBm . used, the bandwidt h of a
a llows any required pro- st ruc ti o n" a rti cle sta tes Several sta nd a rd ICs a re no rma l SSB signa l is cut in
cessing sc heme to be inter- that they are based on incorporated in the VBC half. The broader 21()(}Hz
faced to th e mic rophone O.l -dB Chebyshev p roto- design . These incl ude a n m eth od (1 800- Hz band -
a nd speaker lines of you r types . The y must ex hibit a lM380 that gives one Watt width) give s only a 33%
rig, a mu ch more pleasa nt ve ry small delay yet remai n of audio output du ring re- sav ings. The sma lle r band-
concept tha n the a lteration select ive . Th e c ruc ial ce ive and an NE571 fo r the widt h ca n be interpreted as
needed for rf p rocessi ng . 1600- and 21ClO- Hz filters ampl itude com pa ndo r. The a n improvement in th e sig-
Analysis of speec h has have 16 poles eac h, while power supply uses two ga r- nal-to-no ise ratio. The tog
shown th at there a re se ve r- the rem ain ing t hree use den-variety regul ato r c hips. (base ten) of the bandwidth
al parts of the a ud io spec- e ither 6 o r 8 poles. Al l of the syste m's ac tive in kil ohertz is multiplied by
trum tha t ca rry the informa- The resul tin g ci rcuit ry in- co mpo ne nts reside o n a 10 to obta in a co mpa ra tive
tion neede d fo r acceptable vo lve s a p prox imate ly 20 4.5" x 5.5" c ircuit boa rd. A va lue. An un altered SSB
intell igib ili ty. Three suc h ope rat iona l amplifi ers, In 44-pin edge connec tor pro- signa l is computed to be 10
form ants lie below 2500 Hz. order to ensure low noise vides connectio n to th e in- x log 3.2 = 5.05 dB .
It is important to rem ember a nd un ifo rm gain , high puts a nd o ut puts as well as Ca lc u la t ing the band-
that these forman ts a re sep- quali ty Tl074 bi-FET quad to t he switc hes and ga in width factor for th e
ara t ed with non cr it ical op amps a re used . The resi s- co ntro ls . 21OQ.- Hz syste m gives 3.22
spec trum betw ee n them . to rs a nd ca paci tors use d in dB, a nd when the 16DO-Hz
By removing these ga ps, the the fil ters sho uld ha ve no Theoretical and Test setup is used , the va lue is
frequen cy compando r por- more t hen o ne perce nt Performance redu ced to 2.04 dB. The
tion of a n NBVM uni t is tolerance fo r best results. A The QST a rti cl e s o n NBVM numbers are sub-
a ble to reduce the req uired grea t deal of a ttention mu st NBVM st ressed t he idea of tracted from the SS B va lue
a ud io bandwidth. The vocal be pa id to el iminati ng po- ham e xpe rime nt a t io n to to give the improvement
chord sou nds between the tent ial audio and rf feed - eva luate a nd improve the resulting fr om frequen c y
400-Hz system rolloff a nd back as well as troub le- NBVM system . Prior to the co m p a ndi n g . W ith t he
600 Hz a re passed throug h so me ground loops. avai lability of the VBC-3000 16lX)-H z filter, a the oretical
unal tered . The second and Due to the complexity of unit, ve ry few high-freque n- improve me nt of 3 dB is
thi rd form ants a re co m- the frequen cy compandor cy tests were co nducted . a c h ie ve d. Dr. Harri s ' s
posed of voice so unds be- and the problems associat- Most of the performance d e scr ipt ion o f t he FCC
twee n 1000 and 2500 Hz. By ed with discrete layouts, Dr. data resu lted from a study results states o nly that a net
mixing this audio with a Ha rris and the VBC co r- by the FCC's land Commu- improve ment in t he SNR
31OQ-Hz sine wave a nd fil- p orati on d eveloped si x nications Office. Their tests was fo und . No num erical
te ri ng t he output , the hyb rid c hips that conta in we re o riented to wa rds figu re was given .
1000- a nd 2500-Hz se g- most of the necessary ci r- c ha nne lized SSB applica- FCC tests also showed a
ments are folded into the cu itry. In addition to the tions in the VHF commer- 12- to 15-d B inc rease when
600-to-21OQ-Hz spectrum . filters, the VBC chips con- cial rad io band s. The Com- only the a mpli tude com-
A furthe r savings in band- ta in the 31QO-Hz os cillator, missio n's findings give pandor is use d. Unli ke the
width ca n be achieved by balanced mixer, preampli- so me numerical indications freque ncy co m pando r
inve rt ing and translating fier, and buffers. Be ca use of the effective ness of mode, im prove me nt oc-
o nly t he 1500-to-500-Hz the filters become sa tura t- NBVM . cu rre d when the re cei ved
segment. This means the ed if the audio le ve l gets When a 16lX)-H z me th od s ig n a l wa s m e a s ur ed
output will fa ll between 600 too high, the voice signa ls (1300-Hz ba nd w id t h) is stra ight thro ug h, withou t
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expansio n. The Radio the NBVM, but it appears to air, I had to find another that this is a very com-
Amateu r's Handbook states be w ritten hastily and in- station with NBVM capa- promised sit uation. The lev-
t hat ampl itude compand- cl udes a number of spel ling b ilities. Since there were no el of intelligibil ity is low ,
in g b e c om e s effect ive mistakes. widely pub licized NBVM and the a dva ntages of
when t he signa l is severa l The re are two receive in- nets o r frequencies, I NBVM aren't be ing used. It
decibe ls above the noise puts, three receive audio resorted to u sing the tele- would be extremely awk-
level. Apparently, t he ex- outputs, two microphone phone to set up the first few ward t o conduct a QSO be-
pand er requ ires a signa l inputs, and two t ransm it contacts. Need less t o say, tween an NBVM and non-
t hat is strong enoug h t o ac t audio output lines. It is very NBVM is not in wide u se. NBVM station due to the
as a referenc e. important that the 3000 be The initia l QSOs were need to c hange sidebands
properly matched to the very unsatisfying since t he and turn the f reque ncy
The V Be Mode l 3000 microphone, speaker, and t ransm itter was not getting compand or on and off. The
There were a number o f transmit/receive apparatus ability to listen to NBVM
enoug h drive from the
co mme nts i n t he ea rly in your station. I found out without hav ing a compan-
NBVM transceiver. T h is
N BVM write-ups w hich sug- the hard way! Attention dor is of little p ractical con-
prob lem was so lved by
gested t hat m any amateurs must be paid to im ped ance sequence.
checking for and finding
co uld get i n v o l v ed i n matching if you want de- The 73 tests were carried
an impedance mismatch.
NBVM tests by b uild ing cent results. The amateur out under a variety of ac-
When the gain controls on
t heir own baseband unit . compatib le microphone in- tual operating conditions.
the 3000 and the transmit-
U nf ortu nate ly, the detailed put can be varied to match A lthough we did not per-
ter are properly adjusted,
tech nica l information dea lt a SOD-SDk-Ohm microphone form a laboratory-style
there shou ld be p lenty of
on ly with a system based on by clipp ing two jumpers in- evaluation, seve ral NBVM
drive. Th is can be checked
t he VBC hyb rid c hips. Since side the cabinet. The stereo claims were confi rmed. The
on most rigs by using t he
mo st hams lack t he ability phone jack was factory amp litude compa ndor p ro-
ale meter. I found that
or initiative to des ign and wired to be used with a vides at least 12 dB of im-
these adjustments were
buil d a project of th is mag- 60D-Ohm rig. By swapping provement, as long as the
somewhat critical, and it
nit ud e, t he on ly practical t he 6OQ-Ohm line with the signal-to -noise ra tio is
was easy to overd rive the
way t o get involved was by high impedance output at positive . The amp litude
system, causing d istortion .
p u rc hasing a commercial the circuit board connec- compressor offers a num-
NBVM t ransceiver. Only When receiving NBVM
tor, I was able to hook t he be r of advantages f or every-
one model is av ailab le, t he signals, it is important to ex-
VBC system to a Kenwood day use. Simple tests o n
VBC Model 3000 Baseband periment with different rf
TS-820 microphone input. bandwidth savings showed
Tran sc eiver. and af gain settings on the
An Astatic 0104 micro- that t he 1600-Hz mode
The 3000 is manufac- receiver as well as the vol-
phone was used during the (BOO-Hz bandw idth) p ro-
tu red by Or. H arr is' s com- ume control on the Model
73 tests. vided no noticeab le im-
pan y, VBC, and is ma rketed 3000 , The best copy was
Care must be taken to provement. This result was
to amateurs by H enry Ra- achieved when the rf gain
avoid applying de to the conf irmed by several other
dio . O ne o f t he f irst un its was substantially reduced,
Mode l 3000's audio con- NBVM users, and the gen-
av ailabl e (seria l nu mb er 12) although there was then
nections . For example, t he era l consensus is that the
was acq u ired by 73 early degradation of the age ac-
leom IC-701 t ransceiv er mi- 16OQ-Hz mode is the o nly
last spri ng. Since then sev- tion. If good performance is
crophone line has a nine- beneficia l one in terms of
eral cos metic c hanges hav e desi red, it is necessary to re-
volt potential used to pow- spectrum savings.
bee n m ad e in t he 3000's adjust the t hree receive and
er a p reamp in the micro- The most obvious be nef it
d esign, bu t ou r un it f u nc- two t ransmit audio controls
p hone . If you were not occurs du ring QSOs with
ti on s id en t ic all y to the constantly. This is not a "set
aware of this, serious dam- stations whic h are weak
newer o nes. it and forget it" system .
age m ight result to the and w here adjacent chan-
The 6.S"W x 2" H x 9.S"0 baseband t ransceiver' s pro- Early narrow band pub- nel interference (QRM) is
size is slightly smaller than tective capacitors when the l ic it y stressed that the fre- causing problems. Provided
a typica l two-meter rig, and 701 was turned on. quency-companded signals the ot her stat ion has
the Mode l 3000 weighs ap- cou ld be copied by a sta- NBVM, it may be possible
p rox imately two pounds . On the Air tion not equipped with to conduct a QSO w hen it
The two-p iece grey cabinet The operator's manual NBVM, Since the second would not be possible u sing
co nta ins t he ci rcu it board suggests that a Model 3000 and third formants of the conventional sideband. For
d esc ri bed p revio usly pl us owner fam iliarize himse lf voice are inverted, t hey wi l l day-to-day strong signa l
t he necessary controls and w ith t he NBVM functions be on the opposite side- amateur activity, the VBC
ja ck s t hat interf ace it to the by using a tape recorder, band compared to the con- Model 3000 does not offer
real world , The u ser m ust before going on the air. Fre- ventional signal. If the much in the way o f im-
su pp ly 1 2.5-20 volts de. quency-companded speech NBVM is t ransmitted on provement.
V BC o ffe rs an optional sounds fa r d ifferent than lower sideband, these for-
wa ll-plug tra nsformer t hat normal SSB when it has not mants can be understood Bells and Whistles
w ill m e et this need. A been expanded at the re- by tuning in the signa l o n One of the selli ng poi nts
4Q-page operator's m anu al ce iving end . I found the upper sideband. A more of the 3000 is it s multipur-
giv es a t horo ugh functional tape record er practice to be comp lete explanation is pose natu re, A number of
d escri pt ion and hook u p in- well worth the time. Once I given in t he "listening to uses besides N BVM are sug-
format ion. The manual pro- was fami lia r with the unit NBVM" box. gested . These include hav-
vides a num ber of ti p s for and was ready to go on the It is important to note ing t he unit serve as an

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audio amplifier o r perha ps ha ve nearl y as plea sing a
as the fi lter-power a mp lifie r quali ty as trad it iona l side- listening 10 NBVM
fo r a si mp le re ce ive r. At ba nd modes. As a result, I II you do not o wn a frequ ency compandor, It still is possi ble
o ne tim e, VBC was invest i- found it more diffic ult to t o listen to t he ga ng on NBVM . The resu lts will depend on the
gat ing the possibility of pro- fully compre hend the ot her rec eiver you use and yo ur ability t o comprehend less t han
vid ing hybrid c hips fo r such Ideal audio. The t wo for mants of speec h lying bet ween 1000
sta t ions. Any NBVM test
and 2500 Hz are Inverted Into t he spect ru m ly ing between 600
a rece ive r. If yo u experi- sho uld consider the facto rs and 2100 Hz. In the c ase of the narrow frequency compres-
ment with digitall y-based of opera to r fatig ue and en- si on, usable speech will be found between 600 and 1600 Hz.
voice communications, the joyment. l ike any ne w sys- By tuning you r rece iver 10 the opposite sideband, It Is pes-
fr e qu en c y c o m p a n d o r tem , it takes time to ad just sible to listen t o t hese two trans lated lorman ts. Tune slo wly; a
mig ht offe r so me interest- to NBVM. 2O-Hz d ifference in frequen cy c an be enough t o make t he si g.
ing possibil ities. Commer- nat unintellig ib le. If your rece iver has a tunable passband fil-
cia l owners a re using the A Commercial Gold Mine! ter, it may be possible to eli mi nate the fi rst formant, below 600
3000 to combi ne voi ce and Technologi ca l break - Hz. It is in the o t her sideband and acts as QRM when you are
data informa t io n on t he throug hs a re not a n ev- trying to tune in the 6O().to-21()().Hz segment. The 21()().Hz
same telepho ne line. mode is not too d ifficult to eavesdrop o n. The 16OlJ.Hz mode
eryday occ urre nce in ama-
requires you to have a good receiver and sharp ears. Remem -
A more practi cal ham teur radio . No matter what ber, use the o pposit e s ideband.
use of the 3000 co uld be as the result is for the a rt of The best result s for receiving NBVM obv iously occur when
an auxiliary filte r. Front- com munica tio ns, politics is you have a frequency compandor.lf possibl e, establ ish con-
panel switches a llow the us- sure to be involved . NBVM tact on conventional s ideband first . carefu lly tune your
e r to select this option for is no exception . The ci rcum- receiver for the most natural sounding audio. If the transmit-
re ce ive only. The high qual- sta nces surro und ing its ro le ting stencn is using an amplitude compandor and you have
ity of t he filte rs make them in the amateu r world has an expander, ad just the receiver af gain (volume) so that no
useful fo r nO!l-"NBVM use. bot h c urre nt a nd hi storical difference in the aud io o ut put level is heard when you switch
Howe ver, t hey a re not spe- implicat ions. the expander in and o ut. Then set the volume on your NBVM
un it to a pleasant level. If the signal seems t o blank out the ex-
cifica lly mea nt for this, a nd l o ng before t he first
pander, redu ce the drive.
provide a compromise in a ma te ur test of NBVM, the Now go to t he frequency-eompanded mode. It will be possi -
th is respe ct. The a lte rna te syste m received ca refu l ble to copy a co mpressed signal using ei t her the 1600- or
functions do e nhance the sc rut iny by the FCC. VBe. in 2100-Hz fitter in yo ur expander, but the best resu lts occur
Mode l 3(x)()'s va lue, bu t coope ra tio n with Stanford when your mode matches the transmitted signal. It may be
the y sho uld not be consid- Unive rsity a nd the FCC , necessary to ma ke slight adjustments in frequency. This Is
e re d w he n eval uat ing tested NBVM as a possible best accompl ished using RIT, a separate vto, or a receiv-
NBVM. means to red uce the size of er/t ransmi tter pai r. It is essential to be able t o tune w ithin 20
Pound fo r po un d, the c ha nnels needed fo r com- or 30 Hz of the ot her steucn'e freq uency. Older receivers and
VBe Baseband Transce iver mercia l VHF comm unica- some o f t he new syn thesized rigs may present pro blems.
is proba bly not one of the Readjust the rf and at g ain cont rols o n yo ur receiver to cb-
tio n. In th is scena rio, the
ta ln t he bes t so unding audio . It may be necessa ry t o turn off
bett er e lec t ro n ic b u ys present FM land mobil e sys-
the agc if t here Is a st rong sig na l on an adjacent c hannel. The
avail able . The Mod el 3000 tem s would be replaced by i-I filt er ing in di ffe rent rig s ca n Influence the quality of t he
costs $349 .00 . A ci rcu it SS B us ing narrow b an d NBVM. Rem em ber th at a frequ ency-companded syst em will
board c o nf ig u ra t io n is vo ice m odulation . Th is not otter th e sa me Intelli g ibilit y found on conventiona l SSB.
ava ila ble for $279.00. The wo uld all ow be tween three Exper imentat io n is the name of the game.
early model tested at 73 ha s a nd six times the c urren t Fo llowing are some frequ enc ies where NBVM act ivity is
poor qu ality switc hes whic h number of users . cen tered . The number of users is very small, so don 't be sur-
do not e nha nce the un it' s Co nf lict ing reports were prised if t here Isn't m uc h activity.
val ue. The later versio n us- presented to the Co mmis- 80 meters
es better pa rts, and as a sione rs. The o ne referred to 3.850 MHZ, Wed nesdays at ‫סס‬oo UTC (Tuesda y night). Th is net
resul t, it look s and handles in the QST articles sup- meets prior to the East Coast AM SAT net on the same tre-
better. The a mpl itude com- ported th e NBVM cla ims quency .
pandor is centered a round a n d s u gg e s t e d f u rt he r 40 meters
a n NE571 IC whic h has a st udy . A second repor t 7.175 MHz, Satu rdays at 0030 UTC (Friday night ). This Is an In-
si ngle u nit price of about raised a number of q ues- fo rmal net 01eastern stallons.
$5.00. The major reason fo r tions about the effective-
20 meters
the $349.00 price tag lies in ness of SSB/N BVM. It sa id
14.210 MHz- Internat ional calling frequ ency for NBVM.
the freq ue ncy-com pa nd or there wa s a need fo r fa r
14.235-1 4.242 MHz- Stateside NBVM QSOs c an somet imes
circ uitry. The overall dollar greater frequency stabil ity
be found between Ihese frequencies.
va lue of the 3000 is a sub- and t hat ma ny intermed
je c tive ma tter. I don't think problems may occ ur if a 15 meters
the price is right to encour- na rrow c ha nnel scheme is 21 .302 MHz-Several OX NBVM stat ions have reported us ing
a ge widesp read amateur used. Alth ough the re port this frequency.
use. did not to ta lly dismiss the
Another subjective a rea idea of SSB/N BVM, it raised
is the eval uation of the a number of objections. tem is not the final version . It shou ld be stresse d that
NBVM so und . I am certain- The industry re action to VBC is devel oping a p ilot this is a substantial im-
Iy not a high-fid e lity freak , NBVM has been cool. at c a rrie r system that will provement over what is
b ut the frequen cy-com- best. automatica lly take ca re of avai lable now, but it is not
panded speech does no t The cu rre nt NBVM svs- frequency and gain control. read ily applicable to HF
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amateur use . League staff had seen or e rators we contacted said the case of SSB, though, its
Ca ref u l re a d er s wi ll test ed a prototype. When they ha d fou nd an advan- cle ar superiority over AM
remember tha t VBC has a tests were finall y conduct- tage to usi ng NBVM under conv inced t he skept ics; the
system patent fo r parts of ed, the ina bility to ac hieve certai n conditions. Another be ne f its o bvio usly ou t-
the NBVM system. At least the claimed benefits a p- point to remember is that weighed the costs . Afte r
o ne ma jor corporation d is- parently left the ARRl in a t he spectrum-savi ng fre- ou r te sts, we at 73 do not
pu te d t he cla im that corner. No W1AW tests quency-compa nded mode bel ie ve t ha t NBVM, as ap-
Harr is's frequency compan- have been cond ucted fo r is useful o nly when the sta- plied in t he VBC Mode l
dar design was original. It is the membership, an d the tions at both e nds of the 3000, offe rs that same
easy to sympathize with l e ague has turned its atten- QSO a re equipped fo r clear superio rity over our
VBC in its David vs. Goliath tion to othe r spectrum- NBVM present modes of commu-
battle with the FCC and the saving techniques . Reception of frequency- nication.
big corporations, but the Despite the lack of in- companded signals on an Mo re experimentation
stakes are high. An FCC fo l- dependent supporting evi- ordinary receiver is possi- with re d uc e d-ba nd w id t h
low-up grant totalled dence, ads are appearing ble, as outlined in the ac- techniques is needed . Also ,
S54,OOO, while production which claim that NBVM is companying " Liste ning to it's important that ideas be
of 25 units a week for ama- the " mo st important in- NBVM" box, but the pro- shared among experiment-
teur use means a gross of novation in amateur rad io cess is cumbersome and the e rs. If you a re having suc-
S455,OOO a year if all the since SSB." Even though no fidelity is quite poor. A suc- cess with any reduced-
units are sold . The private concrete numbers showing cessful contact between an bandwidth system, includ-
land mobile industry repre- the actual benefits to an HF NBVM station and a non- ing VBe's Model 3000, be
sents a potential market on amateur user are available, NBVM station is a n ex- sure to document your
the order of S12 billion if we are assured that the sys- tremely unwieldy method wo rk, w rite it up, and send it
the FM gear currently in use tem is bound to succeed . of commu nication . It 's to us for publication in 73.
is re pla ced . Obviously, VBC Conflicting re ports are giv-doubtfu l that amateurs l e t's all work together to
is very interested in being en about the numbe r of without NBVM will have deve lop a viab le sys-
the sale supplier of NBVM Model 3OO0s ow ned by muc h interest in pa r- tem .•
ha rd ware. hams . It is clear that ma nyticipating in NBVM testing .
Although suc h pa rticipa-
of the units a re being tested Relerenees
NBVM Is Dead and the by non-amateur users. The t io n was suggested in the Baldwin, "Dawn of a New Era?" -
ARRl Slew It? a pp roac h by those people Septembe r, 1978, issue of QST, September, 1978.
It is easy to see ho w comme rcia lly in v ol ve d QS T, there is little useful in- Harris and Cleveland, "A Base-
NBVM differs from earlier with NBVM is character- fo r ma tion w hic h no n- band Communications System,
a mate u r ra d io deve lop- NBVM stations can gather
ize d by a lack of o rgan iza- Part I,"QST, November, 1978.
men ts like SSB a nd FM re- tio n, poor tec hnica l docu-by listenin g to freq uen cy- DeMaw, " Narrow Band Voice
pe a ter s . The Ame rican Modulation," The Radio Ama-
mentation, and, in some companded signa ls.
teur's Handbook, 1979 edition.
Rad io Relay Le ague 's in- cases, evas io n. It wo uld be shortsighted
volvement (or lack of it !) in Alt ho ug h ea rly NBVM si mp ly to d ism iss a te ch- Operato rs Manual, NBVM Base-
th e s e p revious b reak - band Transceiver VBC Model
pu blicity urged us to exer-nology tha t promi se s more
3000, VBC Inc.
throughs prov ides a n inter- cise the ham tr adi tion of ex-
efficient use of the am ateur
esting comparison to their Wil mo tte and l usi gnan, "Spec-
perimen tat ion , Model 3000ba nds. Howe ver, it is e q ua l-
trum-Efficient Technology for
NBVM affi liation. It was ow ne rs a re cautioned by ly shortsighted to jump a t Voice Communica tions," UHF
clea r in t he begi nning t ha t VBC no t to "attach impro- the first new tec hnique to Task Force Report, Fed eral
the AR RL wou ld be the ma- vised ci rcuitry a nywhere on
come a long an d begin pro- Communications Commission,
jo r backer of NBVM. Early the printed wiri ng board ."moting it as the most impor- February, 1978.
publ icity st ressed that this tant innova tion since single
Despite the appl iance o pe r- Spence and Hi g gi nbo t ham,
was an experimenta l sys- ator's a pproach take n by sideband . This te nds to "U HF Task Force Presentation
te m that could be built and VBC, the re is am ate ur in-discou rage exploration of on Spectrum Eff icient Teen-
tested by amateu rs. The vo lvement in base ban d other promising methods nology tor Voice Oommuntca-
muc h awaited QST " tec h- com mu nic atio ns expe ri- suc h as digitalized speec h, uons.'' Memo randum to th e
ni c a l" info rmation tar- mentation. At le ast one time multip lexing, and syn- Commissioners, Federal Com-
nished those claims. Since ha m has built an NBVM chronous detection . munications Commission, Feb-
ruary, 1978.
then, the Newington-based unit based on digital filters , Regard less of the meth-
spokesmen for ham radio and there a re severa l de- ods used to ac hieve a sav- Tall, " Sp e c t r u m -Eff i c i en t
Technolog y," Industrial Com -
h a ve quietly dropped signs bei ng tested that don't
ings in spectrum, the advan-
munications, February 3, 1978.
NBVM. re ly on single-source chips.tages of reduced band-
Rumors abound concern- width, power savings, and Harris and Cleveland, " Eff icient
Conclusions Bandwidth Communication Us-
ing the league's involve- signal -to-noise ratio im -
ing Audio Signal ProceSSing,"
ment. It is clear that the ini- During our on-the-air provement must be weighed Modern Design &. Concepts for
tial support was based on a testing with other amateur against the increased com- RF Communications. MF
VBC demonstration tape stations equipped with the plexity, loss in fidelity , and through Microwaves, 1979 Elec-
which was not necessarily VBC Model 3000, we did higher cost. When SSB was tro Professional Program , April,
the most unbiased source. not encounter a single situ- introduced, most amateu rs 1979.
The QST articles and the ation in which NBVM was were skeptical of the new Baldwin, "Another Opportunity
Handbook chapter were superior to o rdinary SSB, mode, much as the y a re for the Amateur Radio service,"
published before the although a few of the op- now skeptical of NBVM. In QST, March, 1978.

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Frequency Counter Survival Course


- use that gadget wisely

M y a rticle in 73. " DMM


Su rv iva l Co u rse, "
(Ma y, 1978, pag e 62), was
however, that m ay not be
the fault of an yone but th e
p e o pl e who write the
e ve r. So the manuals are
usually ve ry general , and
that doesn 't help out the
manufacturer.
Co unters are pretty easy
to use on the surface; just
so well rec ei ved that 1 e q u ip me n t op er ating average ham-radio user, an co nne ct power, a signa l to
thought a cont inuat ion of manu al s! This is true in the occas io na l test-equipment be measured , and read off
the a rt icles o n test equ ip- ind ust ry wh er e te st - user, ve ry mu ch! Anyhow, the frequen cy. Great! That
ment would be helpful to eq u ipment manufacturers that' s my impre ssion of is where your troubles c a n
the pub lic. I was (a nd st ill ass ume that th e u s er so me manual s I have se e n begin . First, let' s look at
am) surprised at how much a lre ady knows ho w to use, on new test equipment, your power supply. If the
ignoran ce the re is in us ing at least ba si call y, a DMM, plu s the general co nse ns us unit is battery-powered , a
mod ern test equipm en t ; counter, scope, o r wh at- of a lot of input from hob- s lig ht error can be in-
byist us e rs. Since those trodu ced by weak or over-
new test instruments cost cha rged batteries . Usua lly,
1 so much more than in the
old days, but do so much
this is o n the o rde r of a few
parts per million (ppm) or,
more for the money, it pays say, 1-2 Hz out of 1 MHz.
you to learn a bo ut your The counters using the In-
equipm ent! And that is te rs! l c hip se t, wide ly used
what thi s article is about. in ham co unte rs, are stab le
...... 6 J_..~ We will primarily deal with to within 1 ppm , but I have
the pitfalls se ld o m d is- evaluated other counters
c ussed in o pe ra t ing manu- with errors of 10 ppm (10
als and learn how to get the Hz /1 MHz) and worse. This
most in performance o ut of is e specially apparent with
our frequen cy c o unte r. weak batteries. Also , your
input sensitivity (sens itivity
If you are one of those to the input signa l being
who just bought a counter, measured) may drop with
congratulations! C o n- weak batteries. This can
gratulations, that is, for ca use errors in yo u r mea-
surviving all those adverti s- surement if you are mea-
ing blitzes for units with suring a weak signal. The
nearly every feature and input picks up only part of
for buying a device you'll the signal being measured;
wonder how you ever did your frequen cy reading
without. C o u nt e rs are will be Jow . Play it safe and
popular to make be cau se always keep your batteries
they are easy to build (In- fully charged! Or use the
ter sil makes a 2- chip c ha rge r to power your
c o unte r set) and easy to c o unte r. Ac-powered un its
calibrate. That means a are less prone to power
The s ha pe o f things to c o m e ... a pocke t-s ize d 135- relatively low overhead in- problem s, but there is one
MH z coun ter. vestme nt is pos sible for the type of counter that is se n-

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sitive to the line freq uency . they are sti ll too cost ly fo r ride o n top of the signa l. signa l would be present. If
You don' t see man y of ho me use . If you a re ex- Need less to say, a wea k you don't b lock o ut the dc
these cou nters a nymo re; per imenting with ci rcu itry signa l can foo l you. com pone nt, the counter in-
they a re cheap ies, but, for o n the ben c h, such as with The sec ret o f success is pu t stage may be biased o n
a t ime, He wle tt-Pack ard an osci llator c irc u it, you to be sure you have e noug h so hard tha t it won't co unt
and severa l surp lus dea lers may find the counter causes signal! On most counte rs, yo ur s ig n a l. Thi s is
offe red un its that derived drift when it is connected thi s is a le vel a bove 50 to e sp e ci all y imp or t an t as
t he ir cloc k timebase (deter- direc t ly to the circu it. In 100 mV rms. If you a ren't mo st service/ho bby g rade
mines the accu racy of yo ur th is c a se, coup le yo u r sure, inc rease the signa l (the o nes in the plasti c
counter) from th e po wer counte r to the outpu t of le vel to the cou nter by c ases) co u nte rs a re af-
line . These units are o nly the c irc u it with a smal l co up li ng bette r to the fec te d by de o ffset.
about ± 0.033% accurate va lue capacito r/ resi stor sou rce. If yo u a re meas ur- An are a th at mu st be e x-
when powe red from a wa ll combination (I found that ing a tra ns mitter and us ing plored is the re la tion be-
o utlet, a nd acc uracy is a 5-pF/100-0 hm co mb ina- a w hip a nte nna on yo ur tween co unters and radi o
z ilch if t he un it is powered tion is okay at VHF fre- cou nte r, mo ve t he wh ip t ra ns m itters. Usua lly, the
fro m a generator or in- quencies). O r, if your fre- c loser to the feed li ne o r o pe ra t ing fr equ en c y is
verter in the field . Need less q uency is below about 60 tran smi tter a ntenna . If yo u measured by sa m pling off
to say, if you have o ne of M Hz and your cou nte r has are ex per iment ing wit h a a s igna l in a low-powered
these units, power it off the a 1-meg input im pe da nce, ci rc u it, try a no ther p ick up stage in t he t ra nsm itter,
ac li ne o r bu ild a c rysta l- use a x10 osc illoscope point and compa re read- whic h is run in the CW
c o nt ro lle d cloc k ge nerator probe . Yo u' ll lose sensitivi- ings. You will fi nd that in- (t une-up) mod e. Since it
for it. ty, but you' ll m ak e a big c reas ing the signa l beyond us ua lly isn't pr a cti c a l to do
The signa l you apply to gain in stabi lity. The ide a a certa in point de te rmine d th is wit h exist ing tran s-
you r counte r is importa nt, he re is to coup le your c ir- by the counter will cause mitters, you mu st do the
too . In fact, I cou ld write a cuit as loosel y as possibl e no further c hange in your ne xt best t hing a nd use a
book on the sub ject. But to the cou nter (a du mmy readin gs. whip anten na on the cou nt-
I' ll c o ve r o nly t he mos t im- load) to re d uc e d rifty read- I can't e m phas ize too e r. This works well, bu t
portant areas t hat will af- ings. Coax ca b le be com e s a
st ro ngly ho w im po rta nt noise p ic kup can be a pr o b-
fe c t you in t his article. lo a d as t he freque ncy goes yo ur minim um sig na l le vel le m with high- impeda nce
up, so t ry to avoid using is; it p lays a big factor in
The type of signa l is very inputs . Th is prob lem shows
cab le between your oscil- the accu racy of your mea-
impo rtant. If you feed you r as ra ndo m cou nti ng with
lator and t he cou nter. In- su re ments! The sig na l le vel
counter a sig na l that is no signal, a nd t he cu re is to
stead, put the coupling mu st not be too great o r
va rying in a mp li tu de, or t ie a 1-mH rf c hoke across
ca p/res istor between the yo u w ill damage the fro nt-
co ntains some FM, you will the inpu t. W ith lo w-i m pe-
ci rcuit and your cou nter's e nd ci rc u it ry in yo u r
get a cha ng ing, often inac- dance inpu ts, t his is no
input cable. Lucki ly, this co unte r. This is very easy
curate reading , Tha t is p rob le m , howeve r. In
type of stab ility proble m
be ca use your counter me a- to do aro und transmi tters ope ration, t he counter/
doesn't come up often, but (mo re to foll o w).
sures or cou nts t he nu m- wh ip is placed near the
you should be aware of it.
ber of cycles in your un- Id e all y , t he o w ner's tra ns mitte r or its an te nna,
known signal in a given The a mp lit ude of your m anu al will spe ll o ut the if possi b le, a nd th e fre-
le ngth of t ime. The t ime is s igna l is impo rtant, too. It ma ximum signa l voltage to qu en c y is read off the
ca lled " ga te t ime" a nd is mu st no t be too low o r a pp ly to you r co unte r. You counter display when the
usuall y 1 second, 0.1 sec- your cou nter wilI count o n- sho uld f ind t ha t it is tra ns m itte r is ke ye d . This is
ond , and so on. Som e ly part of it, o r worse, noise related to frequency; 120 easy an d conven ient to do.
c o u nt e rs even ha v e a o n it, a nd give a fa lse volts ac, 60 Hz , and o n Ho we ver, so me o ne is su re
10-second gate time for reading. At the same time, do wn to 20 volts at 30 M Hz to co nnec t the counte r
audio signa l mea su rement. the s igna l must no t be too is a typ ica l spec. [f yo u direct ly to t he tra nsmitte r.
The point is, yo ur ac- great or you'l l run t he risk a re n't sure ho w mu ch the Don't!
curacy depends upon the of d a m aging t he input of ma ximum le vel is, use 10 Let me illu str ate w hat
stabilit y of yo ur signal to be you r cou nter. Si nce a sick vo lts rm s as a rul e of ha p pen s: Severa l yea rs ago
mea sured ! If your are counte r generally m ust be t hu mb . Also , a ny dc o ffset I was a n NCO in an in-
me asu ring t he freque ncy sent to t he fac tory, fixed, in th at s igna l m ust be st rument shop at an Army
of a transmi tter, you mu st and re turne d , you 'll be sav- tol er ated ; mo st coun ters post. O ne of t he troops
use th e CW position . No ing yourse lf a lo t of troub le are limi te d to a bout 100 co nnec ted a counter to a 1
AM, FM, or SSB a llowed. if yo u pa y attent ion to t he volts d c plu s the signal kW line a r and tr a nsc e ive r
Mod ulation ca uses changes leve l of the sig nal you ap- pe a k va lue. Check your u nde r rep a ir. Whe n he
in the signa l a nd a shifty ply to your counter! manu al for any info on d c pr e sse d t he m ike button,
reading on your cou nter. Weak signa l ca n be q u ite offsets; if t here is no men- bo t h the linear and t he
Al so, play it sa fe and use a a p robl e m, first in t he fact t ion tha t t he counter will counte r went up in a big
dummy loa d on your trans- t hat you must be awa re of ta ke dc voltages, put a 0.1 clou d o f smo ke. Need less
mitter to prevent QRM. I it . Most co u nte rs wi l l uF c a pac itor in series with to say, that was a very ex-
might add t ha t there a re display a frequenc y higher the input le ad whene ve r pensive a c ci de nt ! And the
special counters with t ha n t he t rue freq ue n- you me asure signa ls a t the Fort Hua c huc a instr ume nt
phas e locked loops t hat cy- if t hey re ad at a ll. Thi s co llector of a trans isto r, la b lo st a budd ing (but
will track FM signals, bu t is d ue to no ise sp ikes t hat o r a nyp lace e lse d e-pl us m isgu ide d) t e c hni cian !
37
Never make the costly mis- your timebase switch for have them , and better yet, sitive. Also, the osci llato r
take this guy did. And one longer gate time, which ma ny ha ve a method fo r circ uit used in conjunct io n
more t hing: Use a d ummy gives you more numbers. e ve n g reater accuracy wit h it is, as well. If you use
lo ad whenever poss ible . Genera lly, a 'l-second gate - period measurement. In the cou nter at a different
After yo u have power time will provide opt imum this mode, you measure te mpe ratu re tha n what is
and a signa l to be mea- accuracy in you r measure- freq uency in terms of ca libra ted at (hopefully 25°
sured, you a re set to rea d ments. Also, most no n- period, then convert fro m Cl, e rror wi ll c reep into
the freq uenc y off the dis- sw itchable counte rs have time back to frequency. If yo ur re ad ings. The a mount
play. To get the most ac- this gate t ime bu ilt in, so you r frequency is stab le, of e rro r ca n be as hi gh as 20
c urate read ing, yo u mu st you are all set. Howeve r, you can push out your ac- ppm, enoug h to affect you r
ta ke fu ll advantage of all this hold s true on ly fo r rf c uracy at least to 0.001 % . readin gs. And t he effects
d igits yo u have. Try to fill signa ls. If yo u are measur- If you have a counter-ti mer of t he e rror rea lly show up
up as mu ch of the di spl ay in g aud io or othe r low- wi th pe riod measu rement, when yo u are measu ring
as p o ssi b le ; a reado ut freq uency signa ls, you wi ll use it for speedy, acc urate low freq ue nc ies. Also, at
of, say, 60.0000 MHz is run into trou ble w ith a measurements of frequen- VHF freq uen cies, the error
much more accu rate t ha n t -second gate t ime . Why? cies be low 10 kHz . ca n th row yo u off . So t he
0060.00 MHz. Remember Suppose you a re measur- As an interest ing side- best thin g for yo u to do is
th at t he larger the num be r, ing 100 Hz. With a 'l -sec- Iight, I worked with an ope rate yo ur co unte r as
the more accurate your and gate t ime, you will interest in g a pp licat ion of close to 25° C as possib le. 1
readi ng w ill be . This is measu re "100". In real ity, ti me-period counters sev- might add that the mor e ex-
because yo u wil l have sev- you wi ll see read ings like e ra l yea rs ago . Digita l p en si ve co u nte rs have
era l for ms of e rror in the "099" , "100", "101", "100" , watc hes must be ca librat- tem perature-co mpensated
two rig ht-most digits; there and so on . This is the res ult ed afte r they a re assem- osc illa to rs (medi um-co st
isa ± 1 count e rror (or ± 1j of t he ± 1 count error men- bled. The watch is placed units) or tempe ra ture-con -
in th e right-most d ig it, and tioned earlier. That is a ove r an e lect rosta t ic t rolle d ovens (high-priced
any errors in you r timebase + 1 %e rro r! If you can live p ick up and e nerg ized . The units). The ove n-controlled
wi ll show up in th is a nd the with 1 %, fi ne! But if yo u " no is e" f rom t he LE D co unte rs a re no rmally left
next d ig it. So, if you refer a re fussy lik e me, yo u' ll d isplay (LCD watch in my plugged in with the oven
to t he freq uency ill ustra- sw itch yo ur counter to the case) is p icked up a nd and osci llator left runn ing
tio n just made, t he errors 1O-se con d t imebase posi - counted. It is th en at all ti mes, 50 acc uracy is
wo u ld show up in th e 1 k tion a nd read "100.0" Hz measu red on a pe riod o ptim ized. Rega rd less of
and 100 Hz pos itions, a nd a nd get a n error of on ly counter and converted to what ty pe of counter yo u
that is better than hav ing 0.1% . Of course, if you numbe rs showing % dev ia- ow n, it shou ld be turned o n
you r e rro rs show up in the don't ha ve a 10-se co nd tion from the cor rec t fre- for at least a half hour
100k and 10k pos itions. To timebase pos ition, you a re quency. The ope rato r ad- before use. This will allow
fill up t he d isplay, just set st uck. But mo re co unters just s the watc h so t hat t he the interna l te mperatu re to
read ing is 00. And the re- rise a nd stab ilize, allow ing
su lt is a ve ry accu rate th e best accuracy. If you
s quere-w eve Input Signal s and Your Cou nte r own a battery co unte r, thi s
watc h! This idea isn' t new;
Th is is one section that deserves special mention and
I be lieve it was used with is n't poss ible, of course,
that is why it is in a section of it s own . Sooner or later, most bu t using it at room te m-
counter users try to measure square-wave signals with a
ana log watc hes, but it is
st ill simp le and c lever. And perature will st ill give you
coun ter. The result is error in the readings, with a display of the best accu racy.
double the correct frequency being t yp ical. There are sever- fas t, too . We built a unit
al reasons for this, the most important being the fac t that lik e t his in 1973 thin king You shou ld know th at
most counters will trigger on both the positive and negative the id ea was o rigi na l, bu t it t he c rystal in your co unter
edge of each half cycle of the waveform, effectively giving a wasn't. is also sub ject to aging.
readi ng of double the correct value. Now t hat yo u have a That mean s t hat with time
Also, the harmonic-rich signal can cause ring ing in your good ide a of how to get th e and use its frequenc y will
cab les and, in some cases ringing in your input circuitry. The mo st acc uracy ou t of you r d rift. Also, c ha nges in th e
counter may trigger on t hese " rings" and give you a com- co u nte r and ha ve rea d osc illato r com po nents will
pletely false reading. about t he p itfa lls mo st probab ly result in the sa me
The solutions to these problems are fairly simple and cou nters ha ve, le t' s con- effect, in e ven greate r
straightforward . If your problem is cable ringing , connect ce ntrate on othe r areas magnitude. 50, if you are
(terminate) t he counter end of t he cable with a SO-7S·0hm that a ffect th e pe rfo r- go ing to b e m akin g a
resist or. The value is to match the characteristic impedance mance of yo ur counter. highl y-a ccu rate mea sure-
of the cable. Or use t he low-impedance input (often VHF Fi rst , the ope ra ti ng ment. cal ib rate the cou nter
prescaler inpu t) on your counter for best results. If the o n a frequ enc y sta nda rd
temperature yo ur co unte r
resistor drags down your signal too much, eliminate or
is used in affects acc uracy. first, th e n use it as soo n as
sharply reduce t he size of the cable; longer cables aggra-
vate ringing. If your counter front end is at faul t , and at HF Idea l ly, t hat cou nte r poss ib le (hopefu lly with-
frequencies this will often be the case, try to " so ft en" the should be used as close to o ut turning it off if the
edges of the wavefo rm you are measuring by using a xl0 t he te mperature it was co u nte r is ac- powered ).
scope probe between the counter inp ut and your signal. Thi s ca librated at as poss ib le. This o ne step ca n often
simple step will often wor k with high-impedance cou nter in- Why? The crysta l used to "buy" yo u a n ext ra 20 Hz
puts and TI L level signals . Try it! genera te the clock or t ime- of accu racy or 50. It's an
base is tem peratu re se n- importa nt ste p! This mag-
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methods o f c a li b ra t ing stack their equipment, and on you o r into a live p iece multi p lexed d isplays and
cou nte rs u sin g t he TV that may mean the co unte r of equipment. If the t he noise they ge nerate can
c h ro ma s u bc a rne r (" In goes on top o f a hot reo counter is dropped, always drive a rece iver up the
Se arch o f the Ulti ma te ceive r or transmitter. The recheck its accuracy, as wall !
Co u nt e r Ca lib rato r," R. result is a slow dr ift in the shock changes t he crysta l- let me sum this up by
Bloom , April, 1978, 73), and disp layed frequency as the frequency and oscillator- saying it is always worth
I ca n't thi nk of a better use cou nter case warms up . Try trimmer se tti ngs . Use a x10 you r time to use the sug-
for a TV. Pi ck a show you not to do t hisI probe, o r set the counter's ges t ions I ha ve made and
hate fo r best accu racy . There are a number of attenuator for x10 if it has to avo id the p itfall s I have
Note t hat it must be a Jive mi scell aneou s h int s fo r one, whe n me asuring la rge mentioned . By d o ing so,
network shawl yo u to remember in using signals over a few volts . you should be able to get
Surprisingly, the place in your co u nter. First, place And keep the counter dis- lon g er life a nd be tte r
whi ch you keep your the co unte r in a place play away from sensitive acc u racy fro m yo ur
counter can affe ct a c- where it can easily be seen, pie ces of equipme nt. cou nter. .
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DX with a Difference:
the Utility Stations
- when the ham bands get frustrating, give SWLing a try

A utility station is any cltement hiding between and frequency-standard


station (excluding ham the ham bands on the com- stations, aeronautical and
W. Page Pyne WA3EOP
PO Box 1062
radio) which does not mercial and military chan- weather stations, coastal
Hagerstown MD 21 740 beam its transmissions for nels , available on any sta tio ns, and fixed point-
the general public. These general-coverage trans- to-point stations .
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broadcasts are limited to cerver or receiver. Time- and Frequency-
W it h the recent emer-
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quency coverage added to
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One note of warning: Al-
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Standard Stations
Most of you are familiar
listen as you please, with the transmi ssions
high quality ham trans- enterprises .
Secrecy of Communication from WWV and CHU .
ceivers, we hams may find By now, we all know of laws generally prevent you These are the main North
ourselves drifting the dials public service broadcasts from reveal ing what you American time and fre-
beyond our band edges. In of fire, poli ce. and am-
have heard. quency stations. In the
fact , our ability to listen bulance services which, by
case of WWV, propagation
and our right to listen to nature, are best trapped In What can you hear?
and weather information
anything we please may the VHF and UHF world , There are at least four
to a degree is included with
bring us to stop the dial on where mostly they have mi- distinct types of services
the regular time informa-
what are known as utility grated. However, there is a which make up the utility
tion. There are, however,
stations. world of interest and ex- stations. These are time-
other stations, near and far,
Call and Location Frequency Air SChedule (GMT) which operate like " cl ock-
SPV Shanghai , China P.R. 9368 5 min. before 0600,1100,1300, work ." A list of some of the
1500, 1700,2100,2300 more interesting ones
eev Valparaiso, Chile 8558 5 min . before 2000, 0100 (some easy, some hard to
eHU Ottawa, Canada 3330, 7335, 14670 24 hours French & English hear) is included with this
FTK77 Pontoise, France 10775 5 mln. before 0800, 2000 article (see Table 1).
DAM Elmshorn , Germany F.R. 8638.5, 16980.4 1155·1206
NPN Mariana, Guam 4955,8150, 13380 5 min . before 0600, 1200, 1800,
The Aeronauticals
2400 The aeronautical sta-
PLe Jakarta, Indonesia 11440 5 min . before 0100 tions , espe cially the
vwe Calcutta, India 4286 5 min. before 1630 weather stations, utilize
12745 5 min. before 0830 announced frequencies on
NSS Annapolis, Maryland 5870,8090,12135 5 min . before 0500, 1100, 1700, a time-shared basis. It is
2300 quite possible, given the
Table 1. Interesting time stations. right propagation condi-
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lions. to hear several di f- Time Past the


fe re nt a viati on wea t he r Call and location Frequencies (kHz) Hour (mins.)
sta tio ns o n a sing le shared WSV70 New Vork, N.V. 300 1,5652, 8868,13272 00-20 & 30-50
freq uency w it hin an hour's VFG Gander, NFD, Canada 3001, 5652, 8868, 13272 2Q.30 & 5().6()

ti me. Gander, Newfound- KSF70 Oakland, Calif. 2980,551 9,8903,13344 05- 10 & 35-40
JMA Tokyo, Ja pan 2980,5519, 8903, 13344 10-1 5 & 40-45
land, and New York aero-
- - Hong Kong 2980, 5519, 8903,13344 15-20 & 45-50
radio share four common
KVM 70 Honolu lu, Haw aii 2980,5519,8903,13344 20-25 & 50-55
freq uen cies. Each signs o n K1S70 AnChor age, Alask a 2980,5519, 8903, 13344 25-30 & 55-60
im me dia te ly a fte r the
othe r signs off. (See Tab le Table 2. Aviatio n weather fo r Atlantic and Pacific areas.
2.)
In add it io n to th e easy Aga in, th ese are just some tions . So me of the more the military c oas ta l traffic.
ca tc hes, som e Africa n of thei r broadc as ts, but if readily he ard are CUl, The Guard regularly sched-
bro adcasts may be heard you stay tuned, you may Li sb on , Portugal ; DAN , ules broadcasts on 2670
on 8896 and 11279 kHz - he a r others at diff erent Germa n Federal Republ ic; kHz . Depending o n loca-
a nd try listening on 5561, t imes . W Sl , Ne w Yo r k; IAR . tion, you may hear weather
8819. or 1001 7 for a broad- Gett ing back to strict ly Rome, Ital y; WCC, Chat- a dv iso ries. incl ud ing ice
cast from Asia . These a re aeronautica l stations, we ha m, Mass; GK E, Great Br it- cond itions. Someti mes ves--
by no mea ns all the fre- find that most lo ng-ha ul in- ai n; and VCS, Ha lifax, N.S.. sel o pera tors a re told of
quencies used. but if fate is te rnational ai r traff ic is sti ll Canada. naval operations in specif-
kind, you ma y he ar Singe- cond ucted o n th e high fr e-- The CW band on 8 MHz ic ge ogr aphi c al area s .
pore o r Beiru t and a host of quenc ies . Airports, aircraft. is perhaps th e most a ctive. (li sten then for the Navy
ot hers. a nd beacons all ca n be Some times these sta t ions on 6723 kHz.)
O ne othe r fac t is that heard within ce rta in ban ds. will se nd marker tran s-
So me o f th e popular
most o f these stations will Some o f these stati on s, mi ssion s . Th ese mark er s
Co ast Gu ard frequencies
Q SL if a pproac hed polite- suc h as Sa n Juan o n 8945 take two or three re cogniz-
are 6506, 8710, 8765, and
ly a nd return postage is in- a nd Piarc o Tr inid ad o n able form s.
13113 kHz . Other types of
cluded w ith your report. 8847, have been known to l ook fir st for the V coas ta l stati on markers in-
Somet imes it is advisa ble QS l us ua lly by the pre-- m arker. A typi cal e xchange cl u d e the p op ular CQ
to include a prepa red fo rm pa id-form c a rd met hod . might give 3 Vs fo llowed when actua lly looking fo r a
QSl so that someone at the listen espec ially in t he by the ca ll of the stat ion. ca ll and t he simp le DE ide n-
station can simply fill in a bands 6525 -6765 a nd Som et ime s a c ha in of ca lls tification ma rker. The
few blanks, sign the card, 8815-9040 kHz fo r this ai r m ight be he ard . In this DE marker is used fo r t ra ns-
a nd drop it in the mail . traffic . case, several sta t ion s a re mitter ad ju stm ents and
It may be he lpful to in- hooked e lect ro nic a lly to a so meti mes is used inte r-
clu de return postage fro m The Coastal Stations master operator. human o r c hangea b ly as a V ma rke r.
th e cou nt ry he ard back to Co as ta l sta t io ns also a re o t he rw ise, a nd seve ra l O ft e n the CQ marker will
you. US sta mps a re not e ither comme rc ia l o r mil- tran smitter s are be ing sa y QSX and give reference
va li d for thi s purpose in itary. The co mme rc ial sta- keyed at once, on different to the band being tuned by
most co un tries . All is not tion s ma y relay tel ephone frequenci es. Usually, each the station for responding
lost fo r the QS l hunte rs, co m mu nic a ti o ns , t el e - frequen cy is licensed with c a lls. Some of the popular
howe ver. George Ro bert- grams, weathe r, o r othe r in- a d ifferent assi gned c a ll. It c oasta ls like WSl gen erate
son is a gentleman who fo rmat ion for the shi ps in is done this way so that sta- so much QRM on the re--
conducts a DX stamp ser- t he me rc ha nt fl e e ts, o r tion s with tra ff ic ma y tune turn c a lls that you would
vice fo r hams a nd SWls. even to pleasu re vessels into t he best signa l re-- so meti mes th ink the y are
For an SASE , George will still in harbor. Whereas ceiva ble for band co nd i- rare DX in a contest!
send you a listing of prices m a n y s ta tio ns of an tions . Often a V marker by
a nd countries fo r which he ae ronautical na ture use the same basic sta t ion may FPTP or Else
stocks stamps. His add ress pho ne only, the coasta l sta- be he ard o n seve ra l band s Ourf inal c a tegory of sta-
is DX Sta mp Se rvice, 7661 tio ns use phone and CW a t onc e. This also makes tion s a re those in the fix ed
Roder Parkwa y, O nta rio, fairl y e q u a lly . Lik e u s for more use of our radi o point -to -p oint se rv ic e .
Ne w York 1451 9. Tell him ham s, th eir bands have spect rum a nd is one of the These sta tions off er a real
th at 73 Maga z in e sent you. been divided into se pa ra te reason s that commercial variety of li stening and are
Whil e on the subject of CW and phone segm ents. interests will be attempting sometime s c ha lle nging be-
wea t he r broa dcasts , I The phone usage ma y be to sec ure more and more ca use it may be difficult
might mentio n that the US ei ther AM o r SSB. For CW, fr equ en ci es at f u t u re just to be a ble to co py suc h
Coast Guard a lso tra nsm its expec t speeds of 15 wpm World Adm inis trat ive Ra- a feed . These util ity sta-
b roadcasts of about 10 and up. Try list en ing in the d io Confe rences. Many of tions, as t he nam e impl ies ,
minutes duration several bands 63 45-6495 , 8 459- the coastal co m me rc ia l are d ire c ting t he ir trans-
times daily. The station at 8705 , a nd 1 2690·1 30 70 sta t ions will Q Sl if the missions to one particul ar
Portsmouth. Vi rginia. has kHz. For phone tra ns mis- pr epared-form ca rd meth- re cei ving site.
been known to use 6505, sions, t he best bets a re od is use d . These sta tions are oper-
8765 , a nd 13113 kHz (a p-- 6515-6525, 872 5-1181 5, a nd The military al so has its a ted by c ommerc ia l, aero-
proxi mate), and you should 13170-13200 kHz . sha re of the c oasta l sta- n a u t ica l, o r militar y
list e n a round 0400, 1130, Th e e n ti re w orld is tions . In the United States, s o u rces . (Eve n sp ies, 1
1600,1 730, and 2200 GMT. represented by coas ta l sta- the Co as t G ua rd handle s guessl) The vas t majority
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Selected Air Bases kHz Newark, New Jersey U7101, beacon stat ions, a nd, per-
Andrews -Forrestville, Maryland 6756,13247 whic h was founded over 50 ha ps most important for
Clark -Manila, Philippines 8993,11226 yea rs ago and c urre nt ly th e se rious utility DXer,
Mac Dill -Florida 8989,8993 de votes fo ur of its 36 pages stat ion add resses. Present
Yokota -Tokyo, Japan 8967, 11236 m onthl y excl us ive ly to cost is about $7.00 shipped
(Note: Above fr eq uencies mostly SSB , but some AM may be used
util ity DXi ng. The NNRC pre pa id.
yet on all frequencies. Some other USAF frequencies in general
Bulletin ofte n contai ns in- Anot he r refe re nce aid
worldwide use inc lude 6738, 6753,1 1179,13201 , and 1801 9.)
fo rmat ion on ot he r util ity (for those who ca n affo rd
Table 3. Aeronautical calling frequencies, USAF. referen ce wo rks a nd iden- it) is the IT U's In te rnati on al
tifies man y of t he popu lar- Freque ncy List. The list is in
of them don't app rec iate a fa ir amo unt of fun li sten- ly-he ard utility sta t ions by seve ra l vo lumes and the
o ur recept ion re ports, but ing fo r these stations in th e fr equ en c y, mod e , t yp e, cost is a modest $1500.00,
legall y they ca n't sto p you ran ge of 10-13 MHz. call , and, whe n ava ilable, or mor e by the tim e yo u
from liste ning. stat ion locat ion. rea d thi s. These rat he r
Help Is Nearby Ano t he r o rga n izatio n large books a re d ivided in-
Some of t he inte rna-
t io nal sho rtwave broad- If I have go t yo u to the with a n exce llent util ity t o fr e q ue nc y spec t ru m
casters use po int-to-poi nt po int of be in g in terested in section is SPEEDX, P.O. gro up ings, a nd t he firs t
feeders to give pro gra m- doing a li ttl e tu ning be- Box E, Lake Elsinore CA four vo lumes tak e you
m ing to thei r re lay stat ions tw een the h am b and s, 92330. Ut ility cove rage fro m 10 kHz a ll the way
aro und the wo rld. Some good! - as I'm sure you will could run as high as e ig ht thro ugh 28 MHz.
co mmunis t nati o ns m a y fin d it gre at li stening . pages mon thly with mil- The ITU has many othe r
refu se to ad mit they are on There is more informat ion itary station informat ion, publi cati ons fo r sa le at
the air on feeder freq ue n- availa b le for th e pe rso n publi c at ion no tes, QS L substa nt ia lly lower prices.
cies, yet t hey want th e who wants to get in to t he re por ts, and sta tion log- Some of these in clude li sts
worl d to hea r it all as se rious side of uti li ty li sten- gi ngs. It should be noted of coastal stations, lists of
relayed . (T he games people mg. th at SPEEDX is sho rtwave ship stat ions, The Telecom-
plavll Alt ho ug h t he re must At least 3 US radio c lu bs broadcast a nd utility cov- munica tion Jo urna l , a nd
be 30 spec ific ba nds a l- give fair coverage in thei r e rage on ly, w hi le t he mo re. If inte rested in fur-
located to the po int-to- bu lletins to th e util ity sta- NN RC Bulletin covers all the r infor ma t ion o n these,
point service, these bands tion s. The o ldest of these ma jor sho rtwave liste ning wri te d irectly to IT U, Pl ace
a re spread o ut ove r th e HF c lubs is the Newark News interes ts, includ ing ha m de Na t ions, Geneva 20,
rad io spect rum. I ha ve had Rad io Clu b, P.O. Box 539, rad io a nd TV/FM. Switze rlan d, aski ng for
O ne ot he r cl ub with thei r List of Publications
util ity stat ion cove rage is cata log.
the Ame rica n Sho rtwave The Superi nte ndent of
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TROPICAl. IIlIlII80REE Any of these cl ubs wi ll be Gua rd rad io stations. These
ha ppy to se nd yo u a sa m- a re divided into US geo-
ple bullet in fo r o ne dollar gra phica l areas a nd ma y be
s h ipp ing a nd ha ndl ing p ur c h a s ed sepa rate ly .
IlclgIo< Dot r..... c ha rge. Al l of these cl ubs Write the GOP for avail-

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How to W rite a RTTY Program


- machine language is easier than you think

A s a result of my article
publ ished in the April,
1977, issue of 73 ("CW f o r
t hat I was into ham RTTY.
Th is c aused me to wond er
if I was mis sing something.
running micros or discrete
logic gear for the genera-
tio n a n d reception of
d emand monitor/con trol-
ler (m illion s of Watts) and
have it running a BASIC
t he 6800"), one o f t he let- I was . A large percentage Baudot . Furthermore, very program .
t ers I received assumed of the RTTY operators are few of t hese operators are In writing any prog ram,
totally dedi cated to signal M/l. BASIC, or whatever, I
reports and QSL c ards. th ink it necessa ry as a fi rst
(0) ORlyER
~ £L A Y
SUPPLY
Most of them are hacking step to write out the pro-
APPRO' 13YOC
UNREGULATED away at the frontiers of gramm ing objectives, or a
micro computer applica - general de sc ription o f
tion s in general. So you what the program is to ac -
• • c o u ld learn quite a bit with comp lish . From the de-
a RTTY receiving set up, sc r i p t i o n, a flowc ha r t
~ USE
I .O A even if y ou d o not have a should b e dr awn n ext .
II ham license. From t he flowc ha rt, a pro-
ar c
12.6 y AC
Ma chine-language pro- gram can be w ritten. The
program must, of cou rse,
gramming is not as diffi cult
ad d ress spe ci f ic items of
~RO I,I ST·6 ~1TY TU
as it look s! In fact, i f you
Ib) I,I A ~' . -,~y
can program in BASI C, you hardware f or inpu t/output
SPACE " I' y PIN , . TO . ~ y ,yoe)
~S232 C PI N 1 TO ON O c an program in machine (I/O), so a brief description
), of my set u p follows:
language . There are two
",o a9 "
m ajor attributes of ma- 1. Old mode l ,WT Pe
chine language that make M6800 mainframe.
2. 16K of 21 L02 mem-
it immediately worthwhile:
TTl TO OOM- ory .
p UTER PIA.
er r 0, IN PUT
PLUG ON 1/6 l
'" ,
S<CNAl
IROI CATOR 1. It is more effi cient 3. One parallel inter-
l,I "'l ~.O O ~6011 in its usage of mem- face card (PI A) at lo-
ory sp ace because it cation 8000.
doesn't have to go 4. One serial inter-
2R2901
Ie) through a seri es of
• 2 "2222 (y ) face card (AClA) at lo-
---;). ,,::, . .aoo. "• ." ) lookup tables j u st to

...
,~ ~ao: cat io n 8004.
,e , "1 determine what you 5, MIKBUG has been
~OA PIN
TL FROI,I ,I
O I,l PUH~P IA. " ,;;; have co m m and ed it repl aced by SWTBUG.
• II 0 OUTPUT
uG ON I,Ip ·L
PINT ·G RO
to do .
" T~'S CIRCU IT 6. A ( -30 ca ssette in-
~O ~ SEND' NO
~ TTY OR WH AT E Y £ ~ ,,.
O-AO Il 2. Becau se o f reason
terface.
" ,,
I TElEPHONE O'AlE~PI
#1 , it can execute pro- 7. (T-1024 termina l
,r
,, ~ ~ ,
, ,"
grams with fant asti c
sp eed and accuracy.
sys te m , 16 l ines, 32
L_ -- - - - - 1--'
'NA I Aa
"
RElAY
characters.
No, I am not su ggest ing 8. 12-inch black and
ro 60"A
"
•"
OvDC
lTY l OOP that interprete r basic s wh ite Zen ith, mod i-
13 VOC
UNREGuLATED
should be junked . In fact, fied for compos ite
at my place of employ- video entry.
Fig. 1. Interface box with power supp ly. (a) Power sup p l y. ment, I have installed a 9. HAL 51-6 RTTY t er-
(b) Input sw itch ing. (c) Output sw itc hing. microcomputer as a plant minal unit {MODI

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DEMOD). 7. Keep count of the '""....., 'OIJ" ~' ... .. . .0 . .. ..

'r..-....'.'.._,
000 .

10 . Small interfa ce cha racters stored in ,.~


~ .,,"
box, RS232-C to TTL the buffer . Afte r , ou, ,~ ,

for i nput to c o m - (decimal) 67 c harac- I I'


''''''''-Ol'
puter, also co nt ains a ters, loo k for the next "'.'<1 .• ~ ' '', "<
<....." ..'".
00" " "
c o m p u t er-d riven re- incom ing space cha r-
lay wit h two paral-
leled sets of N C con-
acter, then st o re a
c a rriage retu rn line .'
• • C" ,.,>,,, ~
-'''.'
.
,,'""'._"........
'"c'"
..c_

tacts in se ries with feed im m e di a t e ly


the 6O-mA RTTY local foll ow ing the space ,'0.........00'
,.,
loop for output. (See in the buffer. "'..... '. 0
Fig. 1 .)
There are any number of ............
~
..0.' .,
11. Ancient Model 19
o the r goodies we cou ld ...
" .
reletvoet'e. -~
.,
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'"~
12 . Drak e TR4 -C
have thi s program do, but 0

trans cei v er (wi t h a


beyond thi s it wou ld tend ... '.'.
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muff in fan posi t ioned


to get lengthy. You will
note that we d on 't use any '.C."
..... ',.
I
" .' 00' ....Il .n
..-".•.,' '.........
..,..,<to to ..
"
d ir e ct l y ove r th e 00.'''' ~'"
of the com pu te r's resident
f inal s).
N ow let's defin e w ha t w e
m on it or rout ine s . Thi s ·""•• ••u '
<0,,' <OIJ ~'"
. . . ... " 0
...-'•,,.....,.....,
~
means the program should
want to d o :
1. The program is t o
run on an y 680D-b a sed
m achine, po ssibl y requ ir- C
J..
f.::,;"
OU
'I' ." 00 •
"'CA'
.-e,• • ... ,c."
.........
_ .. 'tD
..
ing a bit o f adju stment on •
~ ..l I ,,
accep t interrupt from
.. I

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the ASCII ke yboard the dela y s in th e " b it r
,,,
'."
• _ (NO
tt
I r
via t he A CIA inter- timer" and maybe rel ocat-
face. ing the IRQ vec to r. ( ~~,';':''':':i ' .0 Ott ....
,.", c..... 'I .
2. Convert the incom- This brings up a nother I
ing AS C II c ha rac te r
to Baudot and sto re
po int: You m ight have to
ad just the delays in any
....'
c.,,, .•
IU' " •

it in a " ci rcular buf- c ase, becau se the loop-


fer," that is, a page of ke ying re lay require s a " ..
,.,.,.,.,
.....
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m em o ry from XXOO sma ll, but finite , time fo r
th rough XXFF . By do- armature travel. Your re lay
ing this, when a c ha r- armature might be heavier Fig. 2. Flowchart.
acter is e ve nt u a ll y or lighte r tha n mine, the
sto re d at XXFF and contact gap might be more gea r, Unle ss I have let a of redu cing contac t bounce.
the storage pointer is or less, etc. No problem; drawi ng e rro r s lip by, they in addit ion to incre asing
in cr em e n t ed , t he c hange th e dela y constants wi ll work in yours. c u rre nt capacity.
storage p o int er t he n up until the printer garb les, If you can' t find a sm al l I d o not recomm en d
conta ins 00, a nd we then down unt il it garbl es, 1 2-volt rel a y that wi ll stand co nnect ing e it he r of the
a re back at the sta rt a nd then set the number be- int err upt ing 150 V dc at 60 RTTY loop lines to int er-
of th e buffe r a rea , tween these two va lues . mi ls, try o ne with a higher face board com mon. the
3. Get the Baudot I have insta lled a switch co il voltage. In most ca ses, goal being to keep that 150
cha racte r pointed to that a llows my CT-1024 to 12 o r 13 volts will ope rate a vo lts out of my comp uter!
by " Print next point- be switc hed to either 300 24-vo lt re la y. If you ha ve a My interface is assem-
e r" a nd send it out vi a or 1200 baud . This program S-volt re lay wit h suff icie nt b led o n pe rf board a nd
the PIA . runs equally well on either co nt a c t ra tin g, all you hou sed in a small Radio
4. Utilize the Baudot baud rate. If yo u wa nt your need c ha nge in this circuit S hack cab inet. Don 't
stop bit as a delay be- keyboa rd input to be d is- is the power transformer. forget a fuse i n the
tween c ha rac ters by played on your video d is- Change to a 6.3-V ac sec- tra nsformer primary . I
making it mu ch long- play, you sho u ld enable ond ary, and you will have a lways use sockets for all
er than normal. your data termina l's inter- approximately 9 volts de ICs, even on perfboard .
5. Enable IRQ only nal " ec ho ," as this program unregulated . Use a heat
during the stop bi t, does not co nta in routines sink on the voltage regula- Machine Code
allowing the delay to to accompl ish thi s. tor . The tran sistor pair is a The M6800 CPU , like
be interrupted, the in- Now let's do a flowchart circ u it that I have used other CPU chips. has what
co m ing ASCII c ha rac- t o a c comp lish all the quite a bit; I feed them with is called an instruction se t.
ter sto red , and then things we have described , supply voltages that have This is simply a list of com-
the delay fini shed . not necessaril y in the o rde r ranged from +5 to +15 mand s that the chip will
6. Print something at th ey were enumerated . volts. They are quite inex- recogn ize a nd execute. For
the end of each delay A few words about Fig. 1: pensive, 5/51 .00 at James most microp rocessors ,
period . If no c ha rac- Since I a m not an engineer, Electronics. t hese a re o ne-byte (8-bit)
ters remain t o be these c irc u its are probably Paralleling the two nor- numbers . The se commands
p rinted , p rint a so me wha t unorthodox, but mally-closed sec t io ns of are so me t imes called op
Baudot blank . they are work ing in my K-1 has the apparent effect codes. and t he instruction
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set fo r an M6800 chi p will 73 by T. H. Hun ter ca lled of thes e switches you ca n gins runmng. This mean s
not p roduce the same re- " Ba ck wa rd Branch t he exa mine (d isp lay contents that in a ddition to th e com-
su lts when input to an 8080 Easy Way" (Holiday, 1976, of) a ny memo ry add ress, puter, you mu st also have a
c hip . Howeve r, a ch ip pa ge 90). c hange t he contents there- terminal unit co nsisting of a
ca lled the Z-80 will proper- Machi ne code, when de- of, sta rt program execution keyboa rd that produces
ly execute all of the 8080 posited by hand , common- from the displayed ad- ASCII cha racte rs a nd a
instruction set, plus several ly utilizes one of two dress, examine the next se- display. If you have a video
more instructions that the methods, depending on the quential addres s, etc . disp lay , you must also
8080 cannot execute. configuration of the com- Co mputers similar to the have a di splay refresh
When writing machine puter. Computers simila r SWT Pe 6800 have no memory consi st ing of a
code for my SWTPC 6800, I to t he older model Imsa i switches fo r data entry. memory byte (usually less
make frequent use of two 8080 hav ing a complete Thei r front panel s usua lly than 8 bits) for each posi-
re fer e n c e listi ngs , the front pane l perm it d a ta en conta in only a power on- tion on t he sc reen that is to
Motorola M6800 Micro- try in bina ry fo rm a t by off sw itc h and a system be printed int o, plus logic
pro c essor Prog ramming ma nipul at io n of a row of reset button. This type of ci rcu itry to generate the
Manual, pages A-1 thro ugh toggle switc hes located o n co mpu te r ha s what is necessa ry t imin g, decod-
A-69, a nd a n a rt icle from th e front panel. By mean s ca lle d a " syste m moni tor" ing, and sync hronizing sig-
prog ra m sto red in perma- nal s. This disp lay refresh
nent memory (ROM). When co uld be acco mplis hed in-
ASCII " A" = 0100 000 1 (41 in hex) th e power is turned on or sid e t he compute r, bu t it
0100 0001 (ASCII " A" ) the reset button depressed, would use up a good b it of
Plus 0000 000 1 0000 0000 (hex 0100, start of decode t able)
the CPU's program counter the computer's time and
Equals 0000 0001 0100 0001 (hex 01 41) is a utomatica lly initialized mem o ry.
to th e beginni ng of this pro- The system monitor pro-
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yo ur c o m puter via the ke y- the stack. pro gra m at thei r point of How d oe s the co mputer
board a nd di spl a y. Inp ut is Lo ad c as se t te da ta use, you will a lso see se ve r- know the d ifference be-
in he xade cim al notat ion. th rou g h the control a l NO-D PS which, if ex- tween o p c odes a nd d ata ?
w hic h is a co nde nsed port. ec uted. ca use o nly the pro- It doesn't ! So. to avoid a
cousi n of b inary. Two he x Re co rd d ata o n cas- gra m c o unter to be incre- spectacul a r prog ram wipe-
dig it s ca n ex p res s any sette fro m specified me nte d . The se were pu t out. t he first byte in yo ur
num ber t hat you ca n write mem ory, e tc. there to re pla ce unne ce s- pro gra m had better be a
with e ight bina ry d igits. Severa l com pa nies no w sary code a nd could be va lid o p code fo llowed by
A system moni tor pro- offe r sys te m m o n it or use d a s ju m p-poi nt s to the num ber of byte s of
g ram co ntains s e ve r a l boards for S~100 systems, o the r rou t ines if you wa nt data that that pa rt icu lar op
sma ll programs (rout ines) wh ich great ly s im plifies to e xpand the program . We code re q u ire s. All subse-
t hat the designer t hinks the task of estab lis hing sta rt the program by typing q uent line s of c ode must
will be usef ul, suc h as: commun icat io n wit h a J 0008 (wit h 5WTBUG sys- follow the same gene ral
Exami ne (d isp la y) a c o m p u t e r o f the front tem monitor; a ll numbers pattern - op code fo l-
specified memory lo- panel type. in hex unle ss o therw ise lowed by enough data to
cation. stated). Re me mber that I sa tisfy the op c ode you
Cha nge the c o nte nts The RTTY Program spoke of an instru ction set have used . The fir st few
of t he displayed loca- Look ing at the program o r op code? At 0008. the op lines of c ode a re used as
tion, t hen d ispla y t he listing. you will see that t he code 86 means load accu- the flowcha rt sa ys. to clea r
ne xt seq uentia l loca- first few me mo ry locations mul a tor A with the next all pointers a nd counte rs,
t ion . c o nta in ze ros . The se loca- byte. The program counter to se t the PIA for out put.
Jum p to a specified t ions a re used by other is inc remented as eac h byte a nd to set the ACiA to gen-
location and start ex- pa rts of t he program as is pr oce ssed. t hereby keep- e rate a n interrupt request
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and receive FREE ter, converts it to Baudot, through alphanumeric
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The Baudot conversion tight-hand keys, so these
works in the following man- are also de coded as
ner: The binary value of the ftgs/ltrs, respectively. My
ASCII character, plus the keyboard prints these with-
binary value of the start of out shift ing.
the decoding table, pro- At this point, I won't
duces addresses where we bore you further with a
have stored Baudot transla- line-bv-Hne explanation of
tions . See example in Fig. 3. the program . You should
Get on with the Best! Hex 0141 is the address get into machine-language
at which this program con- programming; it's great fun
tains the Baudot equiv- and unlimited in its ap-
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ads com ing out f or
" au t o m at ic" M orse k ev-
tions w hi ch wi l l do both o n
a TV screen for o nly S6OO.
Th e item I am abou t to de-
a c o m p u te r -c o n t ro l l e d
Morse code st at io n. Thi s
prog ra m w as w ri tten wi t h
sign ifi cantly, but sti ll are
ba sed o n their algorithm s
The o rig ina l prog ram was
board s and readers with scr ibe can do all o f this and the M C6800 com pu ter in designed for u se w it h t he
o ne bi g a l p ha n u me r ic m ore, with m any poss ib le mind and was fathered b y o ld Mikbu g\!l eva luat ion
" eye" that gives you a o ptions, f or less t han $1 00. Don Jackson W 7G KU and m odu le, and u sed t he o n-
read out as so meone is Abou t t hree yea rs ago at Jim Bainter WA7VKZ . The board AC IA (A sync hronou s
sendi ng code? Th en t here t he Dayton Ham vent ion, I com p u ter and the p rogram Co m m unic at ions Interface
are t he " c o m plet e" ste- picked up a program for in o u r sto ry have cha nged Adapter) serial port f or
c o m m u n ic at io ns With a
TTY o r CRT termina l
We ll , after I finall y got
to the poin t w here I had a
li tt le know l edge of the
&800, I decided to t ry t o
make t his thing work Keep
in mind tha t a littl e
knowledge is dangerou s! I
had to do some w ork, but
a fte r a w h il e , a wi re -
wrapped ve rsion appea red
o n a c ard wi t hin my com -
puter. I didn't be li eve it ,
but it really w orked The
only problem I had With It

• • wa s t he wa y it cop ied
cod e. It wa s so perfect that
all of t hose with sorry f ists
w ould reall y m ess it up,
With all o f t he mean s avail-
ab le to generate decent
code, w hether kever or key-
boa rd , there is really no ex-
cu se for a poor fist.
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soapbox , W ith t his giz mo,
eve ry body ca n have per -
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dc to be led into the PIA. Vcc = pin 8(+12); Vee = pin 4(-12).

wrapped deep within the stve. a nd it had a switc h to 16-segm ent, a lpha numeric wo uld be requ ired to just
bowel s of my ma inframe, go from rece ive to trans- int elli gent di spl ay, whic h, lea ve it on the bus . Then I
worked, the next th ought mit, a nd so fo rth. The last when fed paralle l ASC II, remembered that only half
was to make it a fully se lf· time I saw one of those will display the most-used of PIA 2 was being used, so
contained system with a things was as a Novice with 64 characters of the ASCII the most logical choice
ded ica ted CPU to work my Globe Scout and 5100 r set. It is a five-volt-o nly was to put the 1416 o n the
with . The mo st lo gica l So, t he se little things had de vice, a nd by pl acing it peripheral data bus . By set-
choice wa s to use the to be fi xed . OK, the switc h dire ctly on t he CPU bu s, tin g th e contro l reg iste r
MC6802 - so n of 6800 . cou ld be repl aced wit h a will a ppea r as " wri te-o nly withi n the PIA fi rst to a
With clock and RAM a ll o n di ffe ren t po ll ing ro ut ine RAM ," Unfortu nately, the 534 a nd then to a 53C. the
s ilicon , a t leas t t h ree within the software. No slow setup times and the CB2 line wou ld go low and
packages could be saved sweat. but what about the need to have data valid come high again, all done
ove r th e o rigi nal 6800 termina l? Well, pluggi ng in before Re ad/Write comes while t he data was latc hed
design . The age of the a ke yb oard wo uld be no out present a few prob- o nto the output li ne.l,;,
sm a ll d e dica ted sys tem trouble, but somet hi ng to lem s. The f irst ve rs ion had C rea t-e- use this for the W
has ar rived. peer at was also required . the l EDs just hanging o n (write) line, and tie it to a
The follow ing evening Wh at to do? Well , Bur- the data bus and worked (chip enable). too! The tim-
was spent on wire-wrap- roughs makes some fine with some degree of re- ing of the 1416 specifies
ping a small board with the display panels which can liability . But when Rs that the falling edge of a
system. The program was, d isplay a bout 30 cha rac- sta rted comi ng out as Ps, I must be at least 500 ns
of course, stored in an ters on a li ne, but you knew t hat the t im ing speci- before the risi ng edge of
EPR OM fo r a u to ma tic might ha ve to fl oat a loan fi c at ion s w er e bei ng W. SO havi ng them both
" boot" a nd fo r more add i- to bu y one-and hav ing to vio lated. come in at the same time is
tio ns later. The two biggest use 250 vo lts d idn't appeal Afte r much ma nip u la- permissible. See the timing
d rawbacks that I could to me, anyway. tion of the clock and diagrams.
find were that it still re- Enter the Dl-1416. Li- stretching of the E pulse, I According to Appnote
quired a termina l which tronix has done it agai n. determined that too much 9A fro m Litronix , systems
was bot h lar ge and expen- The 141 6 is a fo u r-d igit, glue (peri p he ra l hardware) whic h u se o n ly a 6-b it
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ASCII co de ca n still utilize
th e 1416 by inve rt ing OS
and feed ing it into 06. By
do ing it thi s way , two
" spare" data li ne s on the
PIA are sa ved . These two
lin es a re used fo r add ress-
in g eithe r of the f our di gits
to be written to. All of the
work writing to t he LEDs is
now being accomplished in
so ftwa re .
Th e cl o c k w ithin the
680 2 is reall y a st ra nge
beast. It ca n acce pt any
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wh ile experiment in g wi th q u it e u ns ta b le , bu t it without a c rysta l, Motorol a hassle to use . Not so ! The
d iffe rent c rysta l types; the wo rked. Even after power won 't gu arantee it to work program takes the incom-
t hi ng o s c il lated eve n down a nd up , it co ntinue d without o ne, but, just for ing data or keyboard data
without a crysta l! The fre- to osci lla te. Since th e 6802 fun , why not try it out on and puts it in the right-hand
qu e ncy was rea lly slow a nd is not speci fi ed for use yours when yo u build it? display. As the next c ha rac-
Yo u might think that ter co mes in, it is shifted
having only four digits a lit- left one digit In stant
tle bigger than a ca lcu la tor " Times Sq ua re" di splay. I
POWER SUPPLY NOTES
di spl ay would be a real was a bit hesitant to use o n-
The total current requirement s for the readentatker are
given below . These fi gures are the absolut e maximu ms fo r
t he individual components, so don 't expect them to be t hat
high , but , just in case. go ahead a nd p lan f or it.

Current requ irements fo r t he reader/talker. All values are in


X O. ' V

milliamps and are absolute maxi mums. 2.'v


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+5V + 12 V - 12 V - 5V OAU BuS
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MC6802 240 - - - "ER'PHERAl
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As can be seen in the lotals, all c urrents can be handled 'cYCLES ' '~ S AT ' MH, BU S SPUlI

with the three-t er min al-st yle reg u la to rs. Th e fo llowi ng


calcul ations are to determi ne wh at t he pow er di ssipat ion fo r
each device is . For t he three-t erminal regulators, t he power
dissipation can be exp ressed by t he following eq uation:

Po = (l'>E IN) lOUT + EIN (10), w here: Po = Power cnsstpa-


' . n up (CE ) - •
tton . EIN = In-Ou t vol ta ge , lOUT = ou tput cu rrent, and 10 =
c urrent t hrou gh g round lug . I ,
For t he pos itive vcnece reg u la tors, the foll ow ing OUA ,.. ===:: I=XI.£fU l f-- - f~-='="~=O====
PIO
sc hematic is used. and the voltage s are labe led . These were
typical. using t he values o f t ra nsformer s and c apacil o rs {)l ''''/ ~ "'",,£ crccr W A V £ FOR M S

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CAPACIl ORS
, 1.6V
Fig. 3. PIA write-tim ing to displa ys, and Litronix-recom-
mended write-c ycles for the DL-1416.

By t aki ng the in put of the 7805 f rom th e output o f the 7812,


" ,6V
the power di ssipation of the 7812 was rai sed from about
v, Watt t o al most 6 Watts. But by taki ng t he 7805 i nput
d irectly at the capacitor o utput, its Po wo uld have been
7812 Po = (6.2 V) (.935 A) + 17.8 (.008) = 5.94 W 10.75 Watts! Th is w ou ld be very diffic ult t o heal sink, so by
(Note: .935 A = 846 A + .089 A) doing it as s how n, the l otal po wer d issipa tion is about the
7805PO = (6 5 Vl (.846 A) + 11,6 (.008) "" 5.34 W same, only di vided between two parts .
Accordi ng 10 the Motorola Linear tc Data Book , to
In the same light. the minus voltage reg ulators ca n be dissi pate the req uired powe r (5.9 and 5.3 WI, a heal s ink
also c alculated: wh ic h can di ssipat e 1S oC/Wall wi ll be requ ired. The mi nus
voltage regulators are not as c ritical, as the y have a lesser
current dem and on them . I recommend t he use of th e -K sur-
' B .H
'9 12
fix reg ulators (TO·3 case) , because their t herma l res istanc e
(junction·to-case vs . j unct io n.to-air in th e pl astic packaqeue
so much better. Heal sin k t hem w it h an ap propriate s ink,
preferably 10 a metal case , and no pro blems s hould be en-
co untered. The neg at ive regu lators ' requ irements ca n be
sa tis fied by simply bolt ing t hem t o t he c hassis . (Be sure t o
in sulat e t heir c ases!)
The vo ltage reg ulat ors show n in th e pictures are of the
plast ic style and get q ui te hot even with the heat si nk ing
79 12 Po = (6.9V)(. 114 A) + (18.6)(.008) = .935 W show n. W hen t he project is put inlo an enc losure, r o -a-etyte
7905 Po = (6.9 V) (.045 A) + 11 .7 (.008) = .404 W reg ul ators will repl ace t hem.
Iy fou r digits, but after us- tra nsfers fro m receive to it a uto ma t ic a lly se nses requires o nly a bout 2 cha r-
ing it, I find tha t 4 is really transm it a nd back agai n speed c ha nges a nd adju sts ac te rs to be lost, so it is
not too few, a nd the fa ster afte r a ll c ha rac te rs ha ve itse lf for the correct speed . quite effi cien t. Neat, e h?
t h e co de is se n t, th e been sent. The a lgorithm This ca n be a nywh ere be- Back befo re I bu ilt the
eas ier it is to read . The new used in the code conver- twee n a bout o ne-ha lf wpm ke yb o ard/read er, I thought
design now automati cally s ron is set up so t hat to 300 wpm. Cha nging speed that it wo uld be "c hea ting"
to use o ne; it had been
done manually for suc h a
( . U ET ) long time, who was I to
'U"A ..u t etO OA
I " - 0"' c ha nge a ny precon ceived
,0,r 'OL, n
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c• •c . COO£ OU'''''r
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found just th e oppos ite to
,,~ .. "0' ...0 ••Of'[. OUT.U' be true! Nu mber 1, th e
'NT' U U. '
com puter is not fo olproof.

.. It ca n be messed up by
"sET coo£ OU''''''
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ap pea r on the d isplay at
the sa me time yo u a re
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he arin g it. No better way
, c••• •• '. T"."
for associa tive le arnin g
tha n to ge t th e code into
sro•• c.u
,. ""' ... your eyes a nd ea rs simu lta-
ne ou sl y. I've found my
•• ,..r T. ' speed to be d ra mat ica lly
C• • U CT' .
increa sin g foll owing t he
use o f it for a coup le of
Fig. 4. Flowchart, part 1. wee ks. Also, you ha ve a
tend en c y to foll ow th e
, co nve rsat io n a long in yo u r
co" .u" hea d - the only way to do
ru. .... l .O OA
.... t "" " it for a bove 15 o r 20 wpm.
n 0.-

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The f in a l plu s is that yo u
CouATE. hea r perfec t code be ing
usn ".H....OL se nt by your keyboa rd, a nd
COU. ' U
r ----., it m ak es you wi sh th at
I '.H'Y~ e I
I cOU" ' U 1- - ". everyone had o ne o f these
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th ings! So, it's no t reall y
r - - - - ~

I '. T I
I COU"TE' 1- - ,"'- ". 'I.. c he ati ng, b ut only a no t he r
or .... -'I
L ____ 'ACA''' .Ar
'(.0 ' ATE.v ~e COUOTE" progressive learn in g device
'A C......'
provided by the computer.
,.n....Ae COU ATU As t his de sign recogni zes
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a c ha rac ter and a sin gle
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J.. '(.0 Baud o t o r ASC II t el e-
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your ear- look for so me
fur t he r program s in later
OfT .SC", " 0"
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a rt icles. Wo u ld n' t it be
nice to have a trul y po r-
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Construction
Fig. 5. Flowchart, part 2. As you can see in Fig. 1,
57 ~
the audio from a head- This aud io input is fed into also ca n plug yo ur head- ond to 40 Hz, and the thi rd
phone jack or spea ke r tie- an op amp preamp lifier, so pho nes into the jack on t he to processed audio - this is
In goe s into a filter-pro- not a whole lot of aud io is boa rd and use it for a filter. a really fun feature. After it
cesso r wh ere it I S co n- requ ired . You might want The fi rst switch pos ition is tuned in correct ly , all
verted from aud io tones to to pad it if you r receiver provides selectivity down you hea r IS a tone . No
TTL- compatible level s . overdrives the device. You to about 200 Hz. the sec- QRM , no stat ic, no ga r-
bage, only a pure represen-
tation of the se nt c ha rac-
, , , , ter . This is a really weird
" " " feeling, e specially if you
" 00
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have never used it before.
If you don't want to bu ild
o. o ~""""
D6

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O~

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the co mpute r, at le a s t
bui ld t he fi lter-it work s
great for CW by itself.
_U ILl / \/ Aft e r t his processe d
a ud io IS converted to a
l H l H
/ \ \ /1
-- I vo lta ge level, it is fed into a
\ / 1/\ I I single bit of a PI A (Periph-

,-, , , , , ,- -/
,
e ra l In t er f ac e Adapte r)
parallel port Two of these

U , "I , LI
PI As a re used on the boa rd.
one fo r Morse in a nd out,

l " " " U U, I \ --,, transmit speed timing, a nd


indicator l EDs. The second
PIA is for the keyboard a nd
/I I / \
lED display unit The 555
I ,-,
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, I-
,
r- circuit is set for the desired
speed at which you wish to
LU I /I , I transmit. In this design, a

"ll"
,--,
I , T I ,
'\/'I , \' 1\/ ,,-,I relay is provided fo r Morse
code output. Although my
_L 1/ I I HW-104 uses pos itive vo lt-
age keying and wo rked
I , great with just a single key-
U T /1 , / ing tra nsistor, a reed rel ay
I / / / /I 1/ \/ provides a more versa tile

"I. ""
\I \I / /
, \ , in terface for use with a ny
type of keying, from grid-
block to cathode.
1\ I I \ -' 1\
The EPRO M in the cir-
cuit is used to hol d the pro-
LOADIN G DATA

ADDRESS DATA INPUT DIGIT DIGIT DIGIT DIGIT


CE CU W A, A, D6 os 04 03 02 01 DO 3 2 1 o
H X X X X X X X X X X X N/C NIC N/e N /C
L H L L L H L L L L L H N/C NIC N/e A
L H L L H H L L L L H L NIC Nle B A
L H L H L H L L L L H H NIC C B A
L H L H H H L L L H L L o C B A
L H L L L H L L L H L H o C B E
L H L H L H L L H L H H o K A E
L H L SEE CHA RACTER SET
LOADING CURSOR

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ADDRESS
A, Ilo 06 05
DATA INPUT
04 03 02 01 DO
DIGIT
3
DIGIT
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DIGIT
1
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H X X X X X X X X X X X o K B E
L L L X X X X X L L L H D K B
L L L X X X X X L L L L D K B E
L L L X X X X X L L H L D K E
L L L X X X X X L H L L D B E
L L L X X X X X H L L L K B E
L L L X X X X X H H H H
L L L X X X X X L L L L D K B E

Fig. 6. Litronix OL-1416 character set and truth table. X=don 't care; N/C =no change.
ICOOls 551D is lrothe
6mtrDH Ia.
The IC·5510 is rhe high of white noise is no longer a Dimensions: 111mm (H )x
powered brother to rhe !COM IC· problem with ICO\I. Pass bond 241mm (w)x311mm (0 )
551. With an 80+ won output, you runing and VOX are included or Weight 6 .6I<g
have 011 the punch you need for no extra cost. sensitivity, SSO/CW/NA
rhor reolly good OX when the SPECIFICATIONS Less thon D.5,N for 1DdO S+N/N
Sunspots are working for you. The Frequency Coverage: 50 - 54MHz FM· toote than
5510 hos the some no-boddosh, 30dll S+N+O/N+O or 1,N
no-delay duol VFO light dhopper Power Suppty Requirements:
system. coupled to the 13.8VDC+15%, negoriveground Squelch sensltlviry, SSO/CW/NA 1~V
microprocessor for split frequency Current drain 18A max. FM' DAN
as well as corrolerety variable (or 20CN1 input). AC power selectivity, SSO/CW/NA
offsets. supply speaker console is CMJiI- More thon +1 .1 KHz or .6dO
For qUid-; access to OX oble for AC operation. L.,. thon ±2.2KHz or .6QdO
excrement. three memories are Emission Modes: Adjustoble to 1KHz or .6dO
provided for progrommed A3J 550 (USO/L50) FM'
beacon w arching, 'N'hid1 coo be A1 CW More thon ±7.5KHz or -6dO
scanned and programmed to stop A3H NA L.,. rhon +15KHz or -6QdO
on me firsr one heard. A room full F3' FM 'On~ when FM Unit is instolled.

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avail abl e from wholesale C AR reach the top of the buffer, displayed as an _ and an
houses for $20,00 and up. o SK the character you try to error (8 dots) will be an @ .
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fun ction ke ys whi ch ca n be A " spa ce" will insert a typed will appear as a # Motorola distributor, and
genera ted by the use of th e space in the buffer to be and will not get se nt. Any the 1416 co mes from a
CNTRL key. A li st of them transmitted along with the received c ha ra cte r which litronix di stributor. All of
fo llo ws: co de, thereby making per- the computer cann ot the parts sho u ld tally to
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less than $80-$90, including jack and se t the se lec t iv ity ba ck to you , yo u c o u ld and t h is will e xp la in so me
the d isplay, whi ch is $30 in to 40 H z. When yo u hear walk right up o r down the o f the problem s . Th e
quantitie s o f o ne. the sig na l, wat ch the lED, bmd ! o t he rs a re se lf-e xp la na tory.
a nd when it sta rts to blink The only drawback As I said earlier, the la ck of
Operation a t the incoming CW rate , have found is that when more digits on the board is
O pera t ion o f the re ader- sw itc h t he filter to the pro- copying at fa st spee ds. the not a hindran ce , a nd after
ta lker is q ui te sim ple. Hook ces se d mode and tun e for display will run words to- yo u use it a wh il e. you' ll
u p the required power su p- the cleanest sig na l. An RIT gether, since most opera- agree . Whether yo u me a
pl te s. t he co rds to t he co ntro l is almost a must a s tor s do not leave en ou gh PC board o r wire-wrap thi s
spea ker and ke y jacks, a nd the inpu t tuning is quite sp ac e between them. I project, it will be a grea t
go to town . The eas iest way sharp, and if you tun e the understand that most of addition to any ham shack
to tu ne in a signa l is to use o t her guy for the best sig- the keyboard kevers do not and do a lot for cleaning up
the o n-boa rd he adph one nal e ac h tim e he gives it have a spa ce key on them, the airways.•
~ 62
Microcomputers and Your
Satellite Station
- part 1: calculating orbital crossing data

computer and have been azines, AMSAT bu lleti ns, ming tasks when I had the
worki ng u p inn u me rabl e a nd othe r sou rces , bu t TRS-80 on line , was to
Dr. Ralph E. Toggort WB8DQT programs, some of which agai n you often a re faced develop a prog ram to pro-
602 S. Jefferson
invol ve th e satellite ope ra- with ca lcu lat ing c ross ings vi de o rb ita l c rossing data,
Mason M/48854
tion, for add it iona l passes, since given informa tion on a ny
There is little doubt th at most of these sources list single reference crossing.

I n c ase you haven't no-


ticed, microcompute rs
have really begu n to come
one of the most te d iou s on ly o ne or two refere nce
tasks facing satellite station c rossings for a given da y.
operators is keeping track My usua l situation is th a t
This pr ogram is shown in
Fig . 1 . The prog ram is wr it-
ten in Radio Shack level I
of age. Units suc h as the of equatoria l crossi ng data I will decide on short notice BAS IC a nd incorporates
Radio Shack TRS-80 a re for polar orbiting space- that I wa nt to copy a few the va rious abbreviations
available with built-in c raft. Such information is weather satellite passes. I that a re possible with that
BASIC language (in ROM) absolutely essentia l in then will root a round look- dialect -P for PRINT, for
and a reasonable amount of generating tracking data for ing for some old crossing examp le . With minimal
RAM workspace. The avail- the OSCAR communica- data, usually finding some- work, the program could
ability of such machines, tions satellites and the thing up to several weeks be modified to run in
with capability for later ex- various polar o rbiting old written on the back of a almost any of the small
pansion, has shifted the em- weather satellites. There matchbook cover or some- BAS IC dialects . As written,
phasis from small com put- are several ways to keep thi ng equally pretentious! I the program occupies 2062
ers as an e ngaging ho bby to track of this information. then sit down and quick ly bytes of memory and fits
their real utility as da ta The most di rect procedure project t he data with the comfortably within the 4K
processing te rmina ls in is to monitor the W1AW pocket calcu lator (some- capacity of t he most inex-
science. business, and a bu lleti ns on a daily basis to thi ng that u su al ly is pe nsive m e m be r of the
num b er of other areas o f get refere nce o rbit data fo r anythi ng bu t qu ick), o nly to TR S-80 fam ily. Even with
application. r purchased a the ne xt d ay. This is t ime- d iscover tha t I have just modifi cation s to run on
TRS-80 compu te r t o handl e cons u m ing a nd st ill re- missed th e best pass o r that a no t her system, it is sa fe to
a number of Im portantlobs qu ires t hat you calcu late I have ma de an e rror a nd say that th e program eas ily
in my researc h la b. with an c ross ing dates fo r passes none of the careful ly-gen- cou ld be accom modated
eye toward its possibil ities not covered with t he refer- e rated numbers mea ns any- in 4K of me mory and thus
in my weather satellite op- e nce orbit data. You can get t hing fo r t hat pa rtic u lar be usable o n virtually a ll
eration as well . I have been simi lar reference orbit data day. small systems .
completely happy with t he from the various mag- O ne of my first prog ram- let's look at the use of
63~
the program , and then we per iod in m inute s. You 1 ENTER when requ e sted.
can consider some high- should use the most ac- 23 ENTER The computer now will
lights of the program struc- c ura te figure you can ob- 78 ENTER request the hours, minutes,
ture for those of you who tain for the period as this The machine will a sk for and seconds of the ref-
ca n't resist making modifi- and the number of signifi- the reference orbit num- eren ce crossing. Like the
c at io ns. ca nt figure s the machine ber . Thi s tell s u s the date, these item s are e n-
c a n handle are the primary number of orbits since ini- tered se pa ra te ly a nd in se-
Using the Program limitations in the ac curacy tial insertion and is handy quence. If the c rossing is at
You can load the pro- of long-term predictions. for making long-distance 20:15:48, we would enter
gram at the keyboard using For the sa ke of example, OSCAR schedules (both 20, enter 1 5, and enter 48. A
Fig. 1 and then save it o n let's enter a period of stations can be assured note here: If the reference
c assette for later use after 11 5.16 minute s. that they are using the sa t- data are GMT times and
debugging the inevitabl e The compute r then will ellite during the proper date s, the printout will be
typos! Onc e the program is prin t: pass) and for cataloging so referen ced . If you want
loaded , s im p ly e n t e r ENTER MONTH, DAY, satellite pictures in the printout in local time s and
RUN (Rl, a nd the displ ay YEAR O F REFERENCE case of the weather birds. date, make the appropriate
should show the program CROSSING, If you don't care about or- conversions in the refer-
10 header (a h, va nity!} and ? bit numbers, simply enter ence data prior to e ntry.
request the name of the Each part of thi s data O. If you use them , then The compute r now will
spacec raft. Here , you sim- must be entered se pa ra te- simply enter the number of a sk for the c rossing point in
ply enter the name of the ly. For e xa mp le, if the date your referen ce orbit. Let's degrees W. If yo ur refer-
bird yo u are tra cking. let's of the ref erence crossing is say, for the sa ke of our ex- ence data has a crossing in
take a fictitiou s ex a mp le 1/2 3/78 , you would per- ample, that the reference degrees E longitude, con-
and enter NOAA 6. It then form the following input orbit number is 7248 -we vert this to degrees W using
will reque st the o rb it a l o pe rat io ns: would enter that number the formula :

1 CLS 351l IF Q ~K"I THEN T-3S6+T


Itl P. "ORBITAL CROSSING PROGRAM" 36~ IF TaO-l THEN GOSUB 9Se:GOTO 3Se

ts P. "BY OR. RALPH E. TAGGART" 371l IF T-D THEN GOSUB 940:GOTO 2tl~

Ztl P. 381l IF T)D+S THEN se8


ZS IN. "WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE SPACECRAFT"iA$ 385 IF O>T THEN D"Z:A-C:C-Y:N -X:GOTO 7S
3tl CLS:IN."ENTER THE ORBITAL PERIOD (IN MINUTES)";P:CLS 39~ GOSUB 94~:COTO 1Jl~

3S P."ENTER MONTH, DAY, AND YEAR OF REFERENCE CROSSING" 41l1l CLS: IN." ANOTHER SPACECRAFT"; R
4tl IN.L:IN.J:I~.K:GOSUB 9t!t!:D-W:Z -W:CLS 411l IF R-1 THEN CLS:GOTO ZS
4S IN. "REFERENCE ORBIT NUMBER"iN:X-N:CLS 421l END
se P."ENTER HR., MIN., SEC, OF REFERENCE CROSSING" Se~ DaZ:A"G:C-Y:N-X
SS IN.H:IN.M :tN.S:A -(6tl*H)+~+(S/6tl):G-A:CLS ses B-(T-1)-D: I-144.11*B:B-INT(I!P)"1
6.11 IN. "REFERENCE CROSSING POINT (DEG W)";C:Y-C:CLS SIll A"(B*P)-t
65 P."ENTER MONTH, DAY, YEAR FOR DISPLAY" 5 Z~ v- B* «P / 144 l'lP 368) : U ~ tNT (V !361l) : C ~V - (U*36tl)
1tl IN.L:IN.J:IN.Q:GOSUB 9tl/'l:T-W:CLS S3.11 D-T-l :N~N"B
7S IF (Q<K)+(T~D) THEN GOSUB 93t!:GOTO 65 S48 GOSUB 94':GOTO 1~1l

Sll IF Q-I\ .. r THEN T-36S"T 899 END


85 IF nD"S THEN see 91le W-Il
911 GOSUB 9U 911r IF L-1 THEN W ~J;RET.

liltl A-A"P:N -N"l 9l'lZ IF L-Z THEN W ~3t"J:RET.

11Ll IF Al144.1! THEN A-A·144.1! 9113 IF L"3 THEN W-59"J:RET.


1Z.I! C-((P/144.1!)*361l)"C 9.114 IF L-4 THEN W-ge"J:RET.
13tl IF 036.1! THEN C-C-361l 9l'lS IF L-S THEN W-121l"J:RET.
14.11 IF D-T THEN ZIlIl 986 IF L-6 THEN W-151"J:RET.
lS.I! IF D)T THEN 31l1l 9l'l1 IF L~7 THEN W ~181"J:RET.
1611 GOTO UI1 988 IF L ~8 THEN W~ZlZ"J:RET.

Z.I!I1 H-INT(A/611) 9119 IF L ~9 THEN W-Z43 ..J:RET.


2111 M-INT(A -(H*61l» 9Ill IF La18 THEN W-Z73"J:RET.
ZZI1 S-A- «H*61l) "M) : S- INT(S*61l) 911 IF L-1t THEN W-304 ..J:RET.
23tl E-C".lls:E -INT(E*lll)/ltl 9 IZ IF L-t2 THEN W,,334"J:RET.
24tl P.N,H; ":"iMi":";S ,E 930 P."SORRY - PROGRAM DOES NOT COMPUTE DATA"
ZS.I! GOTO UJl 931 P. "PRIOR TO REFERENCE CROSSING": RET.
31111 IN."DO YOU WANT ANOTHER DAY'S DATA (Y-l N-I1)";R 940 CLS:P."DATE ";L:"/";J;"/";Q;" "iA$
31.11 IF R-.11 THEN 4.1111 941 P. "ORBIT", "TIME". "DECREES W" :RET.
32.11 P. "ENTER MONTH, DAY, YEAR FOR 01 SPLAY" 9S0 CLS:P."YOU JUST PRINTED DATA FOR ";Li"!";J;"/";Q
33.11 IN.L: IN.J:IN.Q:GOSUB 9tll1:T-W:CLS 951 RET.
34p IF (Q~K)"{T(<:) THEN GOSi.lB 93~.GOTO :;;~ 999 END

Fig. 1. TRS-BOprogram for computation o f satellite equatorial crossings. Given a single reference crossing, the program
permits the com p uter to displa y crossings for an y subseq uent day for a period o f up to two years from the date o f the
reference crossing.

~ 64
DATE: 1/2 4/78 NOAA 6 the new date. Just for the nie nt-forrn-for-user input to
ORB IT TI ME DEGREES W fun of it, enter 12/31/78 a co nve nie nt-fo rm-for-ma-
725 e e :6 : 7 157.8 - a projection of almost a chine processing. One ex-
725 1 2: 1: 16 186.6 year! Notice that for all in- ample is line SO, where you
7252 3:56: 26 215.4 tents and purposes you get input data on the hour (Hl,
7253 5:5 1:3 5 2U.2 the readout right away, re- minute (M), and seco nds (S)
725 4 7: 46: 45 fo r the refere nce c rossing.
7255 9: 41:55 '"
31 I .8
gardless of the length of the
pro jection. The progr a m It is most convenient in
725 6 11 :3 7: 4 B e.5 will ha ndle dates up to one terms of orbita l calcula-
725 7 13 : 3 2 :1 4 359 .3 full yea r beyond the year of tions to keep track of the
72 58 1 5 : 21 : 23 28 . I the reference c ros si ng, to c urre nt cross ing time in
725 9 17 :22 :3 3 56.9 ha nd le the c ross-year tran si- total minutes (A). The math-
726 e 19 : 17 : 43 85. 7 tion. You can demonstrate ematica l ro uti nes in the re-
726 1 21: 12:5 2 114.5 this by requesting a print- ma inder of line 50 simp ly
7262 23:8: 2 143. 3 out fo r a ny date in 1979. conve rt t he time to total
DO YOU WANT ANOTHER DAYS DATA (r-I S -~)? Remember, however, that minutes.
although the ma chine will A similar situation is en-
Fig. 2. Sample printout for 1124/78, given a referen ce c ru nc h the numbers for counte red in line 35. where
c rossing for NO AA 6 o n 1123/78 at 20:15:48, c ross ing the you, the period must be yo u input the month (l), day
equator at 100.23° W (assum ing a period of 115.16 known with some precision (J), and year (K) of the
minutes). for lo ng-te rm projections! refere nce crossing . The
The program also per- month a nd day are con-
Numeric Variables verted to the day of the
A The current crossing ti me i n mi nutes.
m its you to back up in t ime.
Try e nte ring a da te of year using the subrouti ne
B Scratchpad varia ble In the 500 block routines.
C The current cros sing point (degrees W). 1/23/78 fo r exam ple. The th at runs from line 900 to
D The current numerical day. computer will print o ut the 912. A numerica l day of the
E Rounded value for the crossing point used for displ ay. single orbit (num ber 7249) year is fa r more convenie nt
F Not used. that will start on the day of tha n attempting to keep
G Not used. the reference c ro ssing. Fo r track of days of a certain
H Hours-u sed for Input and display. the sake of your own edifi- month. A similar situation
I scratc nped variable In the 500 block rou tines. cation, you might type in a exists in line 70. where the
J Day of the month (used for input). date prior to the reference identical co nve rs io n is
K Year of the reference crossing dale. made for the desired day
l Month of the year (used for i nput).
c rossing. The com pute r will
M Minutes -used for input and d isplay. politely inform you that it for printout.
N Current orbit number. won't respond to tha t a nd line 75 checks to ensu re
o Not used. will give yo u a chance to re- that t he requested date is
P The orbi ta l period. quest another date! actually on or after the date
a The year of th e displ ay date.
O K-enoug h wit h imag- of t he refere nce c ross ing,
R Interact ive question repl ies. while line 80 updates t he
S Seconds - used fo r Input and display . ina ry data . Enter 0 whe n
yo u a re asked if you want desi red disp lay day num be r
T Display day number. (T) if the year of the display
U Scratch pad variable in the 500 bloc k rout ines. anothe r day's data (NO = 0).
V SCratch pad variable in the 500 bloc k rout ines. The computer will as k if date (Q) is the year follow-
W Output value from the date conversion subroutine. you want another space- ing the year for the
X Orb it number for the reference crossi ng. c raft. Enter 1 (YES) and plug reference c rossing date (K).
Y Reference orbi t crossing point (degrees W). in some actual crossing in- line 85 requires some ad-
Z Day number of the rererence crossi ng. formation as requested , ditional explanation . The
String Variables and you will be off a nd run- basic approach to co m-
AS The name of the spacecraft. ning with real data. puting orbita l data is
as Not used. iterative, in t hat the orbital
Program Notes period is simply added to
Fig. 3. Variable assignments in the o rbital crossing p ro- The fo llowing is not a n the time of th e last o rbit to
gram. exha ustive ana lysis of th e dete rm ine th e time of the
progra m struc tu re, but does next c ros sing, with a sim ilar
longitude (OW) = 360 - print out the di spla y shown provide sufficient Informe- approac h taken fo r the
(longitude °E). in Fig. 2, showing all of the tion fo r yo u to d ive into the c rossing point. If we are
let us assume a crossing passes for 1/24 /78 . program - in co mpany with pro jecting forwa rd in time
point of 100.23° Wand It ce rtainly beats messing your level I BAS IC user's beyond a few days, this re-
enter it. The co mpute r will with the ca lcu lato r, doesn't manual- if you are in- quires an increasingly great-
ask for the month, day, and it? Note that you are not terested in how it works. er interval for the com pute r
yea r for display. This is necessarily finished, for at With a few exceptions, to repeat these ca lculatio ns
entered in three parts, as the bottom of the listing lines 1-65 are devoted to in- again and again until it ar-
before. let's take the next you a re asked if you want teractive data input. A few rives at the day for pri ntout.
day -1 /24/78-and e nter 1, a nother day's printout. If mat hemat ica l ope ra t ions If the desired day for print-
then 24, a nd then 78. Quick you do, simply e nter 1 and are incl uded he re to con- out is mor e than 5 days
as a wink the computer will the computer will request vert data from a conve- beyond the refere nce c ross-
65 ~
mg day, line 85 bypasses bit day (D) with the day fo r 21 IN. " REFERENCE ORBIT DATA ON FILE (Y = 1 N =O)M; R
the iterative mode (which d ispla y (T). If D is sma lle r 22 CLS: IF R = 1 THEN 600
begins' with line 1(0) and than T, we have n't a rrived 600 AS = insert name of spacecraft
610 P= insert orbital period i n minutes
jumps to a moderately- yet, a nd the computer shuf-
620 L = _.. insert refere nce month
complicated mathematical fles back to 100 to compute 621 J = _.. insert reference day
routine in lines SOO through data fo r the next o rbit. If D 622 K = ... insert reference year
540 that will quickly derive is la rger than T, we have 623 GOSUB900:D=W:Z =W:
data for an arbitrary single gone through all the o rbits 630 N = .. . insert referen ce orbit number
orbit on the day prior to the of intere st and we a re shuf- 640 H = • . . insert referen ce orbit hour
day requested. O nce this fl e d off to 300 for a dd i- 641 M= insert reference orbit minute
ha s be en do ne , the machine tional display o pt ions. If , 642 S= insert reference orbit seconds
jumps back to line 100 to howe ver, D =T, we want to 643 A = (60*H) + M + (8/60) : G = A
begin the ite ra tive calcu la- disp la y the data a nd thus 650 C = ... Insert reference crossing po int (degrees W)
651 Y= C
tions lead ing up to the fi rst mo ve a lo ng to the dis play
660 GOTO 65
o rbit of the desi red day . ro utine s in the 200 block .
You cou ld leave out 85 lines 200 thro ugh 220 Fig. 4. Program mod ificat io ns for repeated use of data for
and the routines in the 500 convert the o rbita l c rossing a single reference crossing. Depending upon the accuracy
block, but if you did, you time in minutes back to of the period (P). the data in fines 620-622, 630-642, and
would require lots of time hours (H), minutes (M), and 650 should be updated every few weeks or mon ths with
for long-term projections . seconds (S) for display . line new crossing data to maintain accuracy. If you update for
With the program as writ- 230 ro unds o ut the c rossi ng a new satellite, you should then change th e data in fines
ten, for example, a o ne- poi nt to one de ci mal plac e 600 and 610 as w ell. Be sure to save th e mod if ied program
month projection requires (to make a more ple asing o n cassette so that you don 't lose the reference data.
just two seconds to sta rt d ispla y), a nd then 240 prints
cra nking out data. This two- o ut the d ata. Line 250 then
second de lay is all that is re- plished in 385. the ha ssl e of inp utti ng
sends the compu ter back to
quired for any project ion The 900 block is devoted refe re nce data at t he start
the ite rative routi ne to
beyond reference day + 5. to subrout ines, incl udi ng of a run . Fig. 4 shows the ad-
compute the next o rbit.
If we eliminate 85 so that conversions of d ate s to ditions req uire d to accom-
These display ro utine s will
we don't use the routines in numerica l days of the year plis h this. Be sure, however,
be repeated as long as the
the 500 block, a one-month and various printi ng ro u- to d um p the modified ve r-
orbits fall on the target day,
projection would require tines . As a guide to under- sion ba ck o n to cassette so
after which it q uits and goes
about 30 seconds to initiate standing the progra m o r that you don't lose the re f-
to the 300 block to give you
printout, and a one-year mak ing creative mod ifica- e rence data .
the option of a nothe r day.
projection would require t ions, Fig. 3 is prov ided to
If you take the option, the Summary
six minutes to initiate print- su m ma rize t he va ria b le
date for the new day is pro- Over a period of yea rs, I
assi gnme nts used in the
out. The ite rative approac h cessed a nd c hec ked, just as
program . have tended to concentrate
is the surest way to avoid it was a t the beginning. on the ge ostati onary weath-
missing a n o rb it, but does There a re a few new Program Modifications e r satellites primarily, to
take time over a long ha ul. wrinkles, how ever. line 370 Aside from inspirations a voi d the o rbit-com pu ta-
The iterative sequence is is a specia l ro ut ing de- that ma y co me to you, t ion ha ssle associated with
fai rly straightforward . Line signed to avoid missi ng the there are two ma jor mod ifi- pola r o rbiters. This progra m
100 adds the period to the first orbit when the new cations that you may find was deve lo ped to minimize
previous time to get the day is the one immediately desirable to make at one the strain of dealing with
new time and also updates following the day for which time or another. The pro- the new TIROS N satell ite
the orbit number by 1 . Line you have displayed data. gram as w ritten does not ac- that became operational in
110 checks the new time line 360 takes care of the com modate lea p yea rs (29 1978. The program is so use-
against 1440 -the tota l situation in w hich you inad- days in February as o p- ful t hat I could probably
minutes in a day-and, if ve rtently ask fo r a new day posed to the normal 28). For justify the pu rchase of the
required, corrects the time which is identica l with the use d uring a leap yea r, e ach TRS-80 fo r t ha t a lo ne. The
to the new day and updates day fo r which you have just number in li nes 903 through beauty of a compute r, of
the cu rrent day nu mbe r (D). rece ived d ata, and 385 912 should be inc reased by course, is tha t it is a ge nera l-
li ne 120 computes the in- catches situa tio ns where 1. Thus, for exa mple, line pu rpose p roble m-solv ing
c rement of longitude fo r a we must backtrack. If D is 906 would re ad: mac hine , and ne ed not be
single orbit and adds th is to la rger tha n t he ne w da y you 906 IF l = 6 THE N W = limited to anyone task.
the last crossing point to request (T), it me a ns tha t we 152+ I: RE T. Pa rt 11 of this mini-serie s
derive the crossing point fo r must backtrack in o ur ca l- Another mod ificatio n is will demonstrate how to
the new orbit. culations - a clumsy pro- useful if you will be work- use the TR5--80 to calculate
Line 130 compares this cess. The easiest approach ing prima ri ly with just a antenna bea rings for geo-
value with 360 degrees and is simply to re a ssign the single satellite. If you know stationary spacec raft. W hy
corrects it if required . lines refe re nce crossing values to t he period with some preci- no t try a mic rocomputer?
100 through 130 thus gener- the orbit number (N), time sion, you may want to work Even if you hate computers,
ate the data for a new o rbit; (A), c rossing point (C), and with a sing le referenc e you soon will wonder ho w
line s 140 th rough 160 sim- d a y (D), and start ove r c ross ing ov e r a period of you e ver got a long without
ply compa re the c urrent o r- a ga in - some t hing accom- weeks o r months and avoid o ne! .
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.,

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4 BAND
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A tra p loaded antenna t hat performs lik e a monobanderl T hat 's th e charac teri st ic o f t h i s si x w it h an e le ct ric a l quarter
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A Brasspounder Improves
Heath's H R-1680
- add a crystal CW filter, bfo, noise blanker, and more

T he Heathk itw HR-1680


is a di stinct rarity: a
ham-band s-only receiver in
transmitter a nd low power
at that. The SSB capabili-
ties of the HR-l 680 are
for other products in their
line, and for a reasonable
price.
4OQ-H z crystal filter;
4) addition of a separate
bfo fo r CW; and
kit form for a tad more than good , but CW is sort of I hate modifications that 5) addition of an 56-104-1 ,
S200. It is a fine piece of tacked on . What the HR- wrec k the appearance of a no ise blanker.
equipment and is almost 1680 need s is a na rrow CW piece of gea r and reduce The c rystal filte r and
the answe r fo r a low - filter, and a bfo p laced cor- its resale value to zero. no ise bla nker a re hou se d in
budget station. Why a l- rectly fo r CW opera tion , Many mod ifi ca ti o ns not a s m all u t il ity cabi net
most? Low budget usuall y and maybe even a no ise only pr ove to be far less (Radio Shack 270-253 is an
means CW using a home- blanker. It so happen s t ha t usef u l than t he a ut ho r ide al size), o r the y could be
brew or swap-meet-special Hea t h mak es t hese ite ms pr omi ses, bu t unfort unate- f itted into t he HR-1681
ly, irre versible . This a rt icle spe a ke r cabinet if desire d .
de scribes how to add a The bfo bo ard is attac hed
c rys ta l CW filt er, bfo. no ise to the HR·1660's AU D/REG
bl anker, and a coup le of PCB. Total cost o f a ll mod s
o the r worthwhil e modifi ca- sho u ld be about $75.
tions to yo ur HR-1680 with-
o ut ha ving to a ttack th e set Pilot Lamps
with drill s, saws, a nd other At this writi ng, I ha ve
s ha r p ins t ru me nts . All been using my HR-l 680 for
mod ifica tions are reversi- over two years without any
ble, requi re a minimum of com ponent fail ures, a nd
re wirin g, and the drilling of t his mod ma y be due in
one little hole on one cir- part to something that an-
cuit board . Purists ca n at- noyed me no end when I
tach the bfo board to the discovered it. The pilot
AUD/REG board with silas- lamps in th e HR-1 680
tic ru bber. o perate from t he re gulated
supply. This re pr esents two
Modifications Watts of u nnecessary pow-
The modifica tio ns will e r fo r the regul a tor series
be presented in the fo llow- pass transistor (Q201) to
ing o rder; handle, and causes its hea t
1) c ha nging th e dial lamps sink to reach to over 100°C
to redu ce vo ltage re gul a- after onl y a few minutes of
tor heating; and to a typ e operation . Besid es, no body
more re adil y a vail a ble. see ms to stock type 181 3
2) modifi cation of t he spin- bulbs.
Photo A. Top interior view of the H R-1680 sh ows th e new ner knob fo r 1-kHz resol u- The solut ion is simp le:
bfo board (nea r middle of bottom boa rd) and new con- tion; Disconnect the red wire
necting wire to pilot lamps (upper righ t). 3) a dd ition of a n SBA-3Ol -2, supplyi ng 13 .8 vo lts to the
76
pilot lamps . Run a new wire prope rly adjus ted , the
a cross the top of the HR-1680's dial is reason-
chassis and co n ne c t it to ably linea r, but there a re
the ju nction of D1, D2, and c a lib ra t io n marks o nly at
C2 at one e nd a nd t he lamp every five kHz . It se e me d
sockets at t he ot her. Arch t hat the spi nne r knob
t he w ire u p a nd ove r and cou ld be inscribed to g ive
avoid getti ng it to o close to at least o ne-k Hz mark ers. 1
t he vfo (see Photo A). Re- spent a bout a week of foo l-
move t he two type 1813 ing a round a nd g lui ng
bu lbs and rep lace them pieces of c a rd bo a rd to the
with type 1819 bulbs (28 spinner . To spare you the
volts, 40 rnA). The new cussi n'. I found that each
lamps will provide just re vo lu t io n of t he spi nner
about t he same amou nt of was equivalent to 15.625
light, you wi ll save 120 mA k Hz o r 23 .04 deg rees of a rc
of to t a l c u rrent, a nd t he p er kH z . It d o e s no t ta ke a
re gul ator will now ope ra te m athema t ician to see t ha t
at a re a sona bl e t em per- t here is no wa y to ca lib rate
ature even whe n we bor- t he s pi n ner in a who le
row 50 rnA to operate t he nu mbe r of o ne-k Hz in-
c rys ta l filter amplifier and c re m e n ts. After spend ing Photo B. Front view of modified HR.1680 (with completed
the noise blanker. all that time, I was not filter-blanker o n top} sho ws details of modified spinner
A small drawback exists about to give up. I re- knob.
with t his mod ificat ion: The moved the ski rt from t he
lamps won't light w hen ex- sp inner and g lued a th in c rements wit h one .6 25- h a d t o keep t h e p rice
te rna l power is u se d . If you flat p la te (a 3Vi-inc h d i- kH z inc reme nt left ove r. d o wn . He ath m ake s two
u se ex terna l powe r ve ry a mete r d ia l p la te from a n T he co nst ru c t io n so u nds 400 ·Hz filt er s , th e
o fte n, you m ight wa nt to o ld stereo re ceiver) to t he ter ribl e , b u t it work s fine . SBA·301·2 a nd the newer
install some sort of switc h- back side of the spin ner See Pho to B. SBA-401·1 . As far as I can
ing a rrangement. My feel- knob. I the n sc ribed line s determ ine, t he filt ers a re
ing is that if you are re a lly on the p late to make pies Crystal Filter and Amplifier
on emergency power, can of 23 .04 degrees, and when Anyone who has ever op-
you afford those wasted I ra n out of plate , I erated CW must su re ly
Watts? Buy a flas h light. stopped . I then fi lled t he ha ve desi red " sing le-signa l
scribed line s wi t h b lack ink reception." Th e audio filte r
Spinner Dial a nd coated t he pl a te wi th of the HR-1 680 does not
A no t her t h i ng t ha t clea r n a il po lis h (ac ry lic h a v e a nyt hi ng li ke th e
bot he red me a bout the spray m a d e t he ink ru n). ne eded se lectiv ity. I feel "
HR-1680 wa s the d ial celt- Now the sp inner is ca li- sure t hat the peop le at
b ration . When t he vfo is b ra te d in o ne k Hz in- He a th know this, b u t they
Fig. 2. In a commcn-emnter

.,..,
bipola r amplifier, the volt-
age gain of a stage with an
• un-bypassed emitter resis.
• I,
-/0" ,
on TO sP",,", 010 M~ _ II"
EC,H-o tor is approximat el y the
1
I· F INPUT
,, , se. ->04·1 I,I rat io o f the collector re sis·
,, NOISE ___.. oEll
tor to the emitter resistor:
• • , .u. ."
SMO WN
·OUT · ""
POSIT 'O N
i " OT[ ' USE COU f Ol'l
WIIl'NO
SID
Cein » R2/R1 . This relation·
ship holds over one or two
1 1- , .,TCMU- ' ''AU. DI'OT QI ....0 Ot-
2.. S904
decades (sometimes more)
assuming that the gain of
e . ~elrO~ ,- tl:~ _ .. .c Dose
,
... ... ~ U ' S TOIl ' _ 1I4 . [lIQpr "
the transistor ;s adequate
for the bandwidth of in-

,"Ow" ,"
-t,
,, ... w I OI
1" ... ,~,
terest. As an example, con-
sid er a phase-sp litter circuit
where R1 = R2 and the
,,,
-OU T·
P OSITION
I"
1- " OUT
,,
L: "
" S6A - lO I· 2
rILT E ~

),
"
".
"
..
oc
gain is unit y. In the emoti-
fier used in this article, R1
= 470 O hms and R2 =
'" 410 11
2200 O h ms . R2/R l
U TO S1O£ TO..r 001 M"·IIIIO ("" 2200/470 = 4.68 or 4.68 x
" 20 log 10 = .6 70 x 20 =
13.4 dB. Naturally, when
1 1 10% components are used
Fig. 1. Filter-blanker interface schematic diagram. the ap proxima tion suffers.
77
t he sa me, a nd the diffe rent o rder to perfor m correct ly. R1. Details o n gai n c a lc u la- Mota-Toolw o r to score t he
pa rt n um bers re fle c t t he I used a ci rc uit that I foun d tion are shown in Fig. 2. fo il with a n x-actow knife
addit ional co ils, diodes , in Ama teur Radio Tech- Wi th the values indicated , a nd peel off the unwanted
e t c. . inclu de d in th e niques by the RSG B for the the first stage gain is ap- foil. ra ther than to do all
SBA-4Q1 -1 for use in the filter amplif ier. The ampli- proximately 13.4 dB (volt- the things invo lve d with
SBA-104A transceiver. I am fier has a gai n stage fo r in- age) and this re sults in uni- etching . I used a Moto-
sure that either one would put to the filte r and an ty gain through the filter- Toolan the board that I
work . Buy the cheaper emitter-follower output ampl ifier combination . built and it took less than
SBA·301·2 . (see Fig. 1). It does not use The nice thing about thi s an hour to produ ce a co m-
The crystal filter has any inductive com ponents, circuit is that there is pleted bfo.
some insertion loss w hich but it a llows fo r a proper no th ing to tune. The filter The crystal and the FET
must be made up, and it matc h into a nd o ut of the a nd its amplifie r are a re on t he component side
must be presented w ith the filter. The gain of the input mounted o n a piece of cop- of the board (Fig. 5) and
cor rect (2k Ohms) in put sta ge is set by selecti ng t he perclad boa rd using the holes are drilled for their
a nd o utput impedance in val ue of em itter re sistor boa rd fab ri cation me thod leads . All ot her co m po-
o ut line d in the bfo se c tio n. nents a re on the foil side

.., Rio
To o b ta in m a xi m um
a nd no hole s a re re q uire d .
Use a le fto ve r PCB pin
(He a th pa rt 432-1 21) for the
"' 1 cr
benefi t from the c rystal
filte r, the bfo ne ed s to pro-
13.8-vo lt co nne c t io n.
Th e completed bfo
~ Yl
-= " 1" vide a beat note of about boa rd is mounted to the
. " "I ,to J .....
750 Hz to be with in the
bandpass of the HR-1680's
AVO/REG board using 4-40
hardware and one v. -inch
..
cYOOM

r audio fil te r. The frequency


~l ll RZ~l
standoff . A sma ll cl e a r-
" 011I _ ''';6

r of the bfo should be 3395.4


kHz (filter center frequen-
c y), plus or minu s 750 Hz .
ance hole must be drilled
in the AUD/REG board just
to the right of the connec-
Fig. 3. Bfo schematic d iagram . Several solut ion s s u g- tor sockets (viewing c o m-
gested themselve s, but I ponent side) that are below
" wanted to re ta in full SSB the exi sting bfo crysta ls
c a p a b ilit ie s; so , fooling (see Photo C). The exact
w ith one of the ex isting loc a tio n of the hole de-
bfos was out. I built a ne w pends on you r board, but
bfo usi ng a 3395 .7-kHz the main ide a is to ha ve the
c rysta l (Heath p art n um be r new c rystal sn ug against
404-549, abou t $5.70 ) in a Y205 (a nd u psidedown ) so
s! ightlv modifi e d copy of as to crea te a compact pig-
the HR-1680 bf o c irc uit gy bac k fi t.
....
,,,
-0"
,,
" -' 0
(See Fig. 3). The tr im me r So lder a sma ll piece of
(C2) a llows the crystal to be bare wi re fro m the ne w
pul led upwa rd s in frequen- c rys ta l to Y20S in t he sa me
cy by as m uc h a s 700 Hz, so fas hio n as was done fo r
• you can p lace the bfo sig-
, ".
Fig. 4. PCB layou t.
nal fo r t he most plea sing
tone or to fit the peak of A
..... ._.
the audio filte r. The injec-
tion level is the same a s the
o riginal bfo's and the new
• " ... ,
bfo works as well as the , •
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Y203 a nd Y204 d uring the
o rigina l assemb ly of t he
HR-1 680 . Connect a n in-
sulated wi re be tween t he
ground fo il o n the new
board to connector socket
pin 1 3 of t he AUD/REG
boa rd. Make sure that you
do no t get solder in the
spring c lips. Solde r a n in-
su lated wire to the junc-
tion of R251 and R252 a nd
so lde r the other e nd to the
output la nd of C5 of the
bfo boa rd.
Mode Switch Wi ring
Cha nges
The MODE sw itch must
be re w ire d so t hat the new
bfo will be energized w hen
the switc h is p la ced into
the CW positio n. Fig. 6
show s t he o rigi nal a nd
mod ified connect ions .
Remove al l connections
to the MODE switch ex-
cept fo r R6 (pin 4). Solde r
the end of R5 whi c h was
Photo C. Component-side view of AVD/REG board with new CW bfo board attached.
connected to pin 2 to the
adjacent g round lug. So l-
der the red wire (originally Noise Bla nker
path in the re cei ve r mu st SIDE TONE jack. Solder the
connected to pins 6 and 8)
be broken in order to insert inner conductor to the in- The SBA-104-1 noise
to pin 7 and co nne ct a
the crysta l filter and the s ide te rmi na l and the blanker is very effective
sho rt insulated jumpe r
noi se blanker. The best and shie ld to the ground ter- for so me types of noise,
from pin 7 to pin 1 . So lder
most convenient place to minal of the SIDETONE notably automotive igni-
the white-orange w ire to
brea k t he path is between jack. tion noise and other types
pin 6. Solder t he wh ite-
the o utput of the FRONT The SPARE jack is now of sho rt duration impu lse
green w ire to p in 2.
END board and the AUD/ i-f out and the SIDETONE noise . It does not do much
Secure a p iece of #20 or
REG board's input. ja c k is i·f input. Thi s good with l o n g-t er m
#22 stranded in su lated " grind ing" noise like sum-
change disables the side-
wi re about two feet lo ng. Disconnect t he shie lded to ne feature of the re ce iv- mer static and some types
Solder one end of the w ire c a b le with violet co lor er. If you wa nt to retain the of power line noise . Si nce
to pin 8 of t he MODE cod ing from pin s D1 and side to ne c a pa bility, you the HR·1680 does not have
switc h and d ress the wi re D2 of the AUD/REG board will have to inst a ll another any no ise limiter at al l, the
along the harne ss branch c hassis so c ke t. Dress the connector somewhere . My SBA-104·1 is a worthwhile
which conta ins the white- c a b le to the SPARE phono- sidetone come s from my improvement.
orange a nd the white-green type connector at the rear keyer and the loss d id not Build the noise blanker
wi res to t he AUD/REG of the re ce ive r. Solder the bother me. I a ssure you ac cording to Heath's in-
boa rd . Pull the free end of inner c o nd ucto r to the in- that the filter is wo rth a lit- st ruct io ns, ex cept change
the wire thro ugh the ven- s ide terminal of the phono t le trouble . the valu e of R3 from 33
tilation ho le whic h is connector and the sh ie ld to
a lmo st d ire ct ly un d e r the ground terminal.
Q201 . Thi s wire is the
13 .8-vo lt source fo r t he CW Di s connect the 10k Parts List
resi stor from the SID E· Cl-47-pF silver mica
bfo. Cut t he free end to
C2-15-60·pF ceramic trimmer (Erie 528 type)
leave about three inc hes TON E phono c o nnec t o r
C3 -33·pF silver mica
above the c hassis, a nd In- and either remove it C4 - 330·pF silver mica
sta ll a leftover PCB con- altogether or se c ure it so C5-1().p F silver mica or ceramic
nector (Heath part 432·120) that it does not short to C6,7 -.01 ceramic disc, 100 volts
or a pin removed from an anything. Cut a piece of the Rl-47k, y, Watt
old miniatu re tube soc ke t sh ie ld e d c a b le su pp lie d R2-330 Ohms, '/4 Watt
at the free e nd of the w ire . with the blanker kit (or RC- R3 -1.5k, Y. Wall
174/Uj long enough t o Ql-2N3819 or similar Junction FET
Break ing the I·f Signal Path reach from D1 and D2 of Yl -3395.7·kHz Heath part 404·549
The norma l i-f s igna l the AUD/REC board to the
BO
With the c rysta l fi lter
sw itched out and the
receiver in the WIDE posi-
tion, an 5-9 signal can be
hea rd over three or four
kHz. With the c ryst a l f ilter
switc hed in , the same
signal can be hea rd over
le ss t han one kHz and the
signal fa lls off sharp ly o ut-
side th e passba nd of the
filter . The aud io filter is
he lpfu l in eliminating some
of t he hig he r freque ncy
no ise that the crystal filter
passes.
The normal SSB filter is
always in the signa l path
and this helps im pro ve the
overall sha pe of the pass-
band of the receiver . With
the ci rc uit shown , t he
c rystal fi lter is properly ter-
minated and does not have
the " ringing" often asso-
c iated with sharp fitte rs, In
fact , at first I did not t hink
that it was working correct-
ly becau se the a udio was
so natu ral sounding. I pur-
Photo D. Interior view of filter-blanker cab inet. Note globs of sila stic rubber used to posely mismat ched the
secure connector to PCB. filter and the typica l " ring-
ing" was there. With the
Oh ms to 390 O hms. The tor at the rear of the se t . switc h the blanker out for new bto and using only the
390-0 hm re sistor is in- This connecto r goes direct- " init ia l" readings. w ider SSB filter, you can
cluded in the kit for use in ly to se ri es pass tran sistor To c he ck out the crysta l now actuall y zero-beat a
the SB-104A a nd is not Q201 , and care sho uld be filter , switc h out t he signal. This is extremely
ne eded in the HR-1680. I exerci sed when using it be- blanker, switch the MODE ha ndy at times.
c o uld not see that the c a use the fuse is a head of sw itc h to USB, a nd switch
560-0hm resisto r a nd the the regu lator. The blanker the FUNCT ION switch to Conclu sion
2.2-uH co il were needed in is normally connected to CAL. Find one of the Wi th the modifications
the HR-1680, so I left them 11 vo lts, so I used o ne of 100-k Hz c a libra t io n signa ls that I have outlined, t he
ou t. severa l ECC -140s (1Q-volt) (any band) and switch to HR-1 680 becomes a superb
Th e He ath ma n u a l zener s that I had as a sim- CW to see if the new bfo is CW rece iver which out-
d isc usses the inc rease in ple shu nt regulator. The operating. The beat note classes a lmo st every sec-
t he IMD (intermod ulation bla nker a nd c rys ta l filter will c ha nge p itch when the ondhand se t and is equal to
distortion) when the bla nk- work well with a t o-volt new bf o is switc he d in. many new and much more
e r is ins ta lled , a nd I no- supply. Switch in the crystal filter expensive sets.•
ticed that a whol e flock of and verify that it is work-
" b ird ies" fly across the dial Checkout ing. Switch to W IDE and
Bibliography
when the blanker is in the C o n n e c t the filter - USB a nd find a st ro ng CW Hawker, Pat , Amateur Radio
signa l path . When you real - blanker combination to the signa l o r use the spot func- Techniques , Radio Society of
ly need the blanker, a ll thi s HR-1680 using RC-58 coax tion on your trans mitter. Great Britain, Let chworth, Hert-
does not matter, but it is with phono-tvpe connec- Switch to NA R a nd peak lordshire, G.B., page 63, 1978.
not to be lived with when tors at each end . The the signa l on the audio Waters, Mort W2NZ, " Improv-
there is no noise . The best length of the c a ble s is not fi lter of t he HR -1660 . ing CW Recept ion on the SB-
sol ution is to switc h the c rit ica l. but they should Switch in the crysta l filter 303," OST, Ju ly, 1972.
blanker complete ly o ut of not be too lo ng. My c a ble s and sw itch to CW and ad- Fra nkel, S. Henry WB2DOP, " A
are a bout 20 inc hes each just the bfo trimmer for a New-Look Noise Blanker That
the ci rcu it when it is not be-
and I could not mea sure beat note wh ich is peaked Works," OST, January, 1977.
ing used . The ci rcui t di a-
Davis, AI WA2KOC, "Still More
gram reflects this switc h- any lo ss through the c a bles at the a ud io filter center
on the SBA-104-1 No ise Blank-
mg. a nd sw itc h ing arrange - frequ ency. You should now er," OST, Augu st , 1977.
men t. be able to switc h the filter Clarke, C. P. EI3CP, "variable-
Filter-Blanker Power Use Heath's instru cti ons and blanker in and out Bandw idth Filter s- Iri sh
13.8 volts is ava ila ble at for c he ck ing and ad justing wit ho ut cha ng ing the Syt le," Tec h nica l c orresoon-
the exte rn a l power c o nnec- the blanker, except just S-meter reading. oence. QST, March, 1978.

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Gary McClelfafl
1500 N. H arbor Blvd.
Fulfer/on CA 91631

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- 3 V2 -digit unit features autopolarity,
auto-zero, and a $30 price tag

ha nks to a new inte- mu ch. you a re in fo r a right! The vo ltme te r is easy is, as a result. quite sim ple .
T grated c irc u it . there
has been a dramatic drop
plea san t su rprise with thi s
o ne! The parts will cost
to build , too . The bulk of
the co m pone nts are on a
And PC boa rd layouts are
included to make this proj-
in the cost of the d igital a bou t S30.00 o r less. and a 24-p in Ie from Motoro la . ect as easy to build as a
voltmeter. If you have held kit is a vaila b le to sa ve you All you have to add to this simple ki t! .
off buying or building a th e effort o f rounding up c hip is a display circu it. a So how about the fea-
simp le dig ital vo lt me te r all o f the co m ponents. voltage refe ren ce , and tu res? This voltmeter has at
beca use the parts cost too Needl e ss to sa y, the price is power supp lies . The ci rcuit least all t he feat ures of
dig ita l panel me ter s o n the
mark et, and , in fact, more
feat u r es th an seve ra l
mete rs t hat se ll for at least
tw ice the pr ice ! You get
features suc h as auto-zero
(no mo re ze ro-adjust-
Hoor avl I, auto-polarity
with min us sign display,
a nd ove rra nge indication.
You have your choice of a
o to 199.9 mV range or 0 to
1.999 V range by simply
c ha nging one re sisto r. As
you just might have
guessed , t his meter has a
3%-dig it d ispl a y of 0 .33"
lEDs , an d backi ng t he
disp lay up is a voltmeter
chip wit h ± 0 .05% ac-
curacy. Of co urse , t he ac-
cu racy yo u get de pend s
up on how well yo u ca li-
brate your instrum en t, but
it can be da rn good! Inp ut
impeda nce is greater t ha n
1000 megohms, min im izin g
ci rcuit loading and m a king
The completed DVM. the design of input at-
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sho rt , t h is voltmeter IS
bu il t a round a terrific Ie
chip, and o ne that rep-
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in the re ad ings. The dua l-
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This article will sho w measu reme nt , eli minating
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you how to b uild a simple, t he zero-ad ju st con tro l ""
su pe r low-cost voltmeter . foreve r! m ),
It' s so c he a p you ca n per-
Let' s look at some of the Fig. 1. Block diagram o f the DVM.
manently insta ll one in
circuitry inside the DVM
such equ ipment as power
Ie. Fig . 2 shows a simplif ied ting their o utput vo ltages rest o f the DVM c irc uit
supplies , etc. Pe rhaps in a
version of the A/D con- to ze ro . The capac itor (Fig . 3), now that t he
future ar t icle , we ca n show
verte r. The re are th ree ac ross op amp num ber two Moto rola IC has bee n
you how to add ac vo lts,
CMO S op amps, a s you can is also shorted . The seco nd dis cussed. Looking at the
O hms, and c u rre nt ra nge s
see, and they fu nction as step stores the nu m be r of inp ut , re s is t or R1 a nd
to your e xist ing instru ment.
follows : De signal s are ap- counts e qu iva le nt to the in- diodes D1 a nd D2 se rve as
None of these additions
p lied to the input of the put off set vo ltage (cor- in p u t protection , sav ing
are especia lly expen sive,
first op amp, whic h serves re cte d by ste p 1) for later you r DVM c hip in t he
but they w ill d ramatical ly
as a buffer, iso lating the in- use in t he auto-ze ro pro- event of a g ross overload.
incre a se the versatil ity of cess. Step 3 uses the info r-
fl uence s of the outs ide The hex inverter, IC1 , is
your voltmeter .
world from the se ns it ive ma t io n to ag ai n re-zero the wired a s an o sci llator/buf-
How II Works AID converter. It has a gain AID converter . Then in step fer . It produ ces a 900 Hz
o f one . The se cond op amp 4, t he switch across the sq ua re-wave signa l, wh ich
The he a rt of this digital
serves as a ramp generator. capacito r of the second IC is voltage-doubled by 03-
vo ltmeter p roje ct is a opens, the pl us inp u t is
It generates li near sweeps D4 and C2-C3, a nd that
sing le CMOS IC made by grounded, and a pos itive
upon command . The signa l provides the mi nus 5 volts
Motoro la . It contain s all ramp re su lts. This ramp is
app lied at the non inve rting requ ired by the DVM c hip.
the cri ti ca l c i rc u it ry fo r measu ring po sitive
inp ut ( + in p ut) and the T h e re is a 2 .000 -volt
necessa ry for a simp le
po sit ion of t he switch vo ltages . The ra m p starts reference voltage source
digita l voltmeter . Fig. 1 at the voltage be i ng
ac ross t he c a pa c ito r deter- con sisti ng of C5, 06, Q1,
sho ws a block diagram o f measu red , and then goes to
mine t he siz e of t he ramp . R5, and R6. FET Q1 se rves
the basi cs . All you ha ve to its lim it. This gene rates a
Th is is the part of the c ir- as a c o n s t a n t -c u rr e n t
add to it is a de-to-d e in-
cuit that does the a ctual ser ies of pu lses w hic h are sou r ce, making th e
verter, which convert s the
b ulk of the AID conversion . squa red by the third o p re fer e nc e vo ltage mo re
positive 5-vo lt powe r to
The t hird op amp serves as amp and go on to d rive a stable . Capaci tor C4 and
minus 5 vo lts, a z-vo lt 3'Y2 -d igit counter array, in-
a comparator and it resisto r R4 serve as t he in-
reference supply , a di sp lay d icat ing t he vo ltage. In
squa res up the signa l from tegrator com ponents in the
driver, and a di sp lay. This step 5, t he re f er e n c e
the se co nd op amp so that AI D sect ion o f the f C.
so und s like a lot of pa rts, voltage is substitu ted at
the remai ning d igital cir- Capac itor C6 a nd re sistor
but in reality the re a ren 't the plus inp ut of the sec- R7 set the clock fre q uen cy,
c uit ry can be d riven , The
that many. And t hey are
digita l sect io n co nsists o f ond op am p, resu lting in a o r the rate at wh ich eac h
cheap, anyhow . No te that
th ree decades of BCD ne g a tive ra m p fo r mea- AID conversion is mad e .
this voltmeter wi ll measu re suri ng ne ga t ive voltages. It
counte rs, latc hes , a nd t he The LE D d ispl ay is driven
de volts o nly . O ther func- wor ks t he same as t he
"1" d igit/ pol antv-sig n lo gic. by IC3, a BCD-to-7-se gme nt
tions re q uire a few more positive ram p. Finall y, in deco de r, w it h c ur re n t
The remai ning digita l cir-
parts which must be added the sixth step. the sig nals
c uitry con sists of a c lock limiting supp lied by R13
to this basic voltmeter , and a re squa red u p by the t hird
oscillator. mu ltip lex, and th ro ugh R1 9. Each digit is
that must wait for a nother IC a nd co unted by the
co ntrol lo g ic. Quite a few sw itc hed by Q2 throug h
article . dig ita l sectio n. This p ro-
IC c hips wou ld be requi red Q5, and t he nec e ssa ry c ur-
The Motorola IC is what
to bu ild this DVM cir cu it cess takes p lace a bout fo ur re nt limi ting is su pp lied by
is known a s a d ual -ramp times a second.
the ha rd way! re sisto rs R8 th ro ugh R12.
A/D converter . This is a Let's take a lo o k at t he And last, b u t not least, the
te c hn iq ue of c o nv e rt ing Now let's turn on the
ana log signa ls to dig ital powe r and t race the
lo gic and is probably the vo ltage to be measured
most wide ly used method th rough the IC c hip. The
o f AID conversion . Dual - com ple te analog-to-d igital CCI N • • .n, COUNTE R
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CONTR OL S'GNA l S
0 .05% is common) and This is done by correc ting
high res ista nce to noise the offset vo ltages on t he Fig. 2. Simplified schematic of the AID section of the
which might be o n t he first two op amps of Fig. 2, Motorola chip. The digital counter array is a standard
voltage you a re tryi ng to or in othe r words, by set- 3 V2-digit configuration .
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Fig. 3 . Schematic diagram of DVM. the tab from eac h ro w of
pin s. Next, a d d t he fou r
minus sign is d riven by Q6. set, it can be wired in an slt tve as t h is one . A poor ju m pers. You c a n use bare
eve ning by a moderately layout will re sult in noi se wire but be ca reful to
Co nst ru ct ion fast constructor . PC boards p ickup and , thu s, d imin- a llow a litt le clearance o n
The actual co nst ruc t io n are recommended for thi s ished ac cura cy . If you are the jumper that goes unde r
of thi s DVM p ro ject project becau se the rea sonab ly well -versed in IC1 . You don't want t his
shouldn't take too long ground conne ctions are DVM con struction , fine ! w ire to tou ch any IC pi ns.
a nd , if you use a PC boa rd c ritical in a DVM as sen- You can design your own Ins tall t rimmer pot R5 on
layout, and it will work f ine the bo a rd . Follow s u it w it h
as long as you are careful t he re st o f t he res istors. but
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• If you are not so knowl- when you add the d isplay
I- I I- I I- I I- I edgeab le in DVM c on struc- board . As you ins ta ll R12

•• I~ I ~I tio n, pl ay it sa fe. Either
co py your board s from our
and R8, you may want to
put spag hetti tubing o n
'-., / /
illu st ra t io ns, or buy the kit t hese re sistor le a d s to p re-
from the a utho r. ve n t th em from short-
Fig. 4. Front of disp lay board.
A good pl ace to start is ing aga in st the pin s of
LEADSTOD'SPLAY with the di splay board . Fig. IC2. When you fini sh w it h
4 shows t he front view of t he re sistors, install the
/ / / / / thi s board , which you c a n fi ve diodes. Diode DS is
wi re directly from thi s il - o pt io na l - it pr ovide s
lu stration . Ju st place t he re ve rse po larity protec t ion
boa rd in front of yo u so for t he DVM . It kills t he
that the row o f 8 hol e s power s u p p ly if the DVM is
a long the edge is to your imprope rly p o we re d , sa v-
left, then stic k in e ac h of ing the $1 5 DVM ch ip . If
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the "c" terminal and the boa rd. Inst a ll the resistors •
"5V" te rmin al. Do no t run in this o rder: c, d. e, a, b. f m OV"
the le a ds t hro ugh t hese and g. Leave extra le ad
holes, as wires will late r be length on each of these
co nnected he re. Inste ad , re sisto rs so they can be
so lder dire c tly to the fo il. positioned without touch- Fig. 7. DVM power supply.
Mak e sure th at the d iode ing . Add sho rt lengths
pol ar it ie s a re co rrect a nd of h o ok up w i re to input le a ds together and [0OPT ION AL
the n go on to the ca pac- t he holes ma rked "c" and the d isplay shou ld ligh t '"
itors. W he n you are done, "5V". These a re the power and re ad "000" with the
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the FET, Q1. No t ice ho w it cab le between the "c" a nd that you r o ve r r a n g e Fig. 8. Calibration setup.
is moun ted in the illustra- " f n" holes . This is the feature (blanked d isplay)
t ion . If you ha ve troub le signa l le a d . Finish up by and auto-ze ro feat ure, as b rate you r me ter agai nst
findin g a TI S-75, you may breaking t he tabs off t he IC well as t he rest of the unit it. Of course t he ac-
ge t it from S.D. Sa les of sockets a nd insert ing the a re worki ng prope rly . curacy you get fro m your
Dall a s, Te xa s. They call ICs. Fig. 6 shows IC p lace- Now you can ca librate mete r w il l be re fle cte d by
the m "FETS" by Te xa s In- ment. Be pat ient with IC2! your meter. Th e re a re the unit you cal ibrate
st ruments" and they have It may take severa l tries to severa l ways to do this and agai nst . Do not ca lib rate
sold at 5 for a $1.00. Add get all the pins in the one is shown in Fig. 8. The against any a nalog mete r,
tr ansisto rs Q2 through Q6, socket. best way is to use a com- even the best, if you expect
o rie nting t he m as shown. mercial mete r calib rato r, accuracy better than 1 to
Notice that the e mitter Calib ration suc h as the Datel, Fluke, 5% . The la st method is to
le a ds of t he se t ra nsisto rs After you have checked and other " low-c ost" un its . cali brate it against a mer-
a re bussed together. Finis h over your wiring, and have But these are com mercia l cury battery. If you build
up the boa rd by cutting up cor rected any p roblems, units and the cheapest is our kit, you can re turn it to
a piece of hoo ku p wi re into you a re all set to test your about $3oo.00! If you have us and we'l l ca lib rate it fo r
f ive o ne- inch pieces. Strip meter. Co nnect the supp ly access to one of these, a fee . So o ne way or
and t in each end, then leads to a source of fine! Just be su re that the anothe r, you can get your
so lder one each to the col- regulated 5 vo lts de . If you ca lib rato r is at le a st 5 times me ter ca librated!
le ctor pa ds of Q2 t hro ugh don't have a power supply more accurate than your The actua l ca lib ratio n
Q6. ha nd y, o r expec t to be meter is, or + 0 .01 % . proced ure is quite simp le.
Now it's time to insta ll needing o ne with t h is Nearly all comme rcial Remember, there is o nly
t he d isp lay boa rd and mete r, bu ild the simple one ca librators a re bette r t han one ad justme nt! If you are
clea n u p a few odds and of Fig. 7. Apply power and this. However, don't dis- us ing a comme rcial ca li-
en ds. The disp lay board you shou ld see a fla sh of pai r. There a re other ways brator, set it to 1 .99900
mou nts flu sh aga inst t ran- li gh t from the di spl ay and to cal ibrate your mete r. If vo lts, and adjust RS for a
sistors Q2 t hrough Q6. You then it should blank. This is you can get a hold of a re a d ing of 1.999 volts. If
ca n mou nt it wit h two normal with open-c ircu ited good 31,1i-d igit, o r better, you are calibrating aga inst
hom em ade " L" brackets, input leads. The n short the vo ltmeter you can call- a not her dig ita l mete r, ad-
or ju st e poxy it. We did
the la tte r after wi ri ng u p
the d is p lay. If yo u want to
do t he sa m e, sta rt by
w iring t he dr ive rs f irst.
Si m ply so lde r t he f ree
e nd of the w ire com ing
from Q2 to the ca thode of
t he d isp lay directly above
it. Follow with the o t her
tr a nsistors. Note t hat the
minu s s ign d rive r, Q6, le ad
goe s to the pad marke d
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wi th th e d rive rs, turn to the
segments. Seven 180 Ohm
re sistors se rve as the le a ds
here , so no more wire is
ne ce ssa ry. You will notice
that there a re pad s around
IC3 marke d "a" through
"g". The se a re the segment
le tt e rs , a nd they a re The display board may be held in place with epoxy.
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Parts list
C1, C4, C6-0.1 uF, so-vert mini at ure myl ar capacitors
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C5-0.1 uF to 0.2 uF, t c-vou d isc capacitor oc ",,"'.
C7-100 u F, 16-vo lt electrolytic c apac itor sc ..
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0 1, o 2- 1N4148 switChing diod es
03,04, 05 (oplional)-1 N4002 diodes
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D6-1N703 zener diode I'"
DIS 1 to DIS 4 -Lit ro nix DL·704 LED displays
IC1-Co 4049 hex inverter IC
IC2- Mot oro la MG-1 4433P DVM lC Fig. 9. Vol tage divider for add it iona l voltege ranges.
1C3-Motorola MG-1 4511CP display decoder IC th ese met ho d s, r e ver se ba tteries and m ake your
01-TIS·75 FET or equivalent your m eter' s inp ut le ad s. meter portab le. The poss i-
0 2 to QS-2N2222 transistors o r equivalen t
The m inu s sign w ill li ght bi liti es are endless !
A' - l OOk, '1.·Watt, carbon-fi lm resistor
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A2, A4-470k , '1.·Walt resi stors
A3-4.7k, 'I.-Watt res ist or reading, pl us o r minu s a probab ly want a decimal
A5-10k, rnultt-tum trimmer potentiom et er millivolt. point and pe rhaps a 0 to
RG, R13 t o R19-1 80 Ohm, 'I.-Watt resi st ors 199.9 m V range. To get that
R7-270k , V.·W att resistor O pe ratio n deci ma l po in t , it is rec om-
R8 to R1 2-1 0k , w-watt resi st ors There are ma ny uses for mended t hat you place a
R20 270 Ohm, w-w ett res isto r t his meter and it's up t o ser ies combi nat ion of any
Misc .: PC bo ard s. w ire , solder, etc. yo u to fi nd them . Do yo u sm all LED lam p and a 2.2k
A kit of all t he above parts is available from: Beckman Inst ru ments, ha ve a regulated power resistor betw een the ap-
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t he voltage sou rce and it you will be in t he ballp ark . be n c h v o lt m ete r. O r , t o 27 k and recalibr ate.
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Personalize Your Repeater
with a Voice ID
- low-cost design uses 8-track decks

involved with the bui lding 'lb-dig tt fun ction de coder pla yer deck .
and maintaining of these feeding an add ress field o f The fun cti on d e c od er
syste ms. gate s whi ch, in turn, drive u sed here is th e Data
Bob Heil K9EID Here is a vo ice iden- five relays that simply turn Signal TTD·226, but any
«n S. Main t if ication system u sin g o n o r off an 8-track tape- fun ction de c od er will
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c uit rv. and such ea sy co n- Ol61T •
W it h the g reat in-
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sy stem s on the air today
st ruc ti o n p ractices that
any repeate r group can
build it with a minimum of
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have come all kind s of


ideas for hardware to per-
so na lize eac h system and
prob lems .
Circuit Des cri ption a nd ..,
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projects offer ing ideas f or Pla nning


clubs to get new members The system consists of a
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Fig. 1. A multi-digit access board is incorporated, and can


be used whenever you de sire more than o ne or two entries.
This is the M.A. R.C. voice ID system. Two o f t he fou r tape The circuit described here is a 4-digit input, with an audio
deck s are shown, mounting into one chassis with access to clamp circuit that will turn o ff the audio fed to the
the tapes from the front. The underneath view of the elec- transmitter. During the digit-accessing, no audio is fed out
tronics sho ws the function decoder board on the right and over the air. When the fourth digit is accessed, the audio
the address field.mot or switching on the left. The audio clamp circuit is released and the transmitter is again fed
patch is o n the extreme right of the picture. audio .
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shou ld a ny problems arise. DI GI T OUTPU T S
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HOW IT WORKS The outputs of the fli p-
Audio from the receiver is fed to the lunction decoder. An flops drive an NPN tran- , ,
age circuit is used to feed the eight 567 tone decoders. Their sistor, whic h buffers the , ,
outputs leed various gates to g ive a total output 0 1 each 7402 output to control a • •
digit corresponding to a 16-digit pad. As a digit is sent, a low 12-volt re lay. This re la y • ,
signal appears at the corresponding pin 01 51. This signal is switches the 110 V to the no l<G • •
Fu NCTIO N
sent to the input 01 the address fie ld board, which c ont ai ns 8-track tape-deck motors . OECOOE~
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live SN7402 QUAD NOR gates wired as flip-flops . Applied The message tape ha s
low signals to the two inputs will cause the circuit to turn on
• •
silver foi l applied at the • •
and drive Q1 into conduction, which then turns the relay on.
Proper connection of low signals from the tone decoder to
end of each message. This , "
the address field board will give you all kinds of variety with foi l comes in contact with • "
respect to access c odes and types of operation . two metal finge rs whic h •
The relays turn 110 volts on and off to the series of a-track are con nec ted to the off "
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stereo tape-player decks which feed the repeater audio pin of the flip-f lop, t hereby
system. The relays can be used t o c ont ro l any number of la t c h ing the 7402 off ,
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functions needed for your particular repeater control. '" "
whic h re le ases the relay ," "
and turns t he ta pe-deck
motor off . One set of con- - ,u ooO .. " "
work . (The repeater hand- The function decoder then tacts is used to key t he PTT
book has an exce llent func- uses 5&7 Pll c hips to line of the t ra nsmitter, Fig. 2. Interface for the
tion decode r described decode two-tone audio also. TTO-226. Connect pins of
whic h will work well, a lso.) tones and gives a low or S1 -P1 to correspond with
The number of digits is up hig h signa l to dr ive the ad- Ti me Mac hine the particular access code
to you r group . C reat dress field. you desire. Program 1
The address field board One featu re some of our
t ho ught has to be put into needs two digits to turn the
can be thought of as a very membe rs really wanted
your input access codes, program on. The tape sen-
simple memory storage was a voice time machine
unless you des ire a com- sor wi" turn it off. Select
boa rd, us ing 7402 TTL that cou ld be punched up
pletely "open" system ac- the digits you prefer from
c hips . The decision was to give the time of day. Ou r
cessib le with one digit. 51 , to correspond with P1.
rural telephone system
If yo ur repeater has an made to use this method so Example: Connect term inals
that one can use inexpen- does not have the usua l
autopatch, it will be very 3 and 4 of 51 ( TTO-226) to
t i m e -and -tem p e r a tu re
important to disab le the sive chips (usua lly less than terminals 1 and 2 of P1 (ad.
50¢ each) which do not re- publ ic se rvice numbe r.
tape ID decoder system so dress field board). Connect
quire any special handling However, in c hecking out
that d ial ing phone num- terminal 3 of P1 to the tape-
or give ser ious vo ltage the ava ila ble time ma-
bers will not access any deck sensor switch. When
prob lems . c hines, it was fou nd that
tape messages. This can be digits 3 and 4 are sent in se-
the lowest-priced unit was
accomp lished very easily quence, U1 turns the pro-
by shorting the au d io input 7402 R-S Flip-Flops over $2,OOO!
gram 1 tape deck on. When
The 7402 is a two-i nput In check ing around, a
signa l feeding those de- the message is finished, the
quad NOR gate. It can be Panasonic " Ta lking Clock
code rs. At the same time aluminum tape sensor on
connected as a set-reset Radio" was found, how-
the patc h is b roug ht back the tape cartridge activates
flip-flop. A high to pin 5 ever. Thi s p roduct was
"down," this aud io short is the tape sensor switch,
will cause pin 4, the out- bui lt over five years ago. It
lifted and audio is allowed turning off pin 3 of P1,
put, to latch high. Send ing uses a series of magnetic
to feed the decoders once which reverses the U1 flip-
a low to pin 3 will reset pin discs that change position
agam . flop.
4 to a low state. We actua l- every minute a nd hou r. A
This system uses a three-
ly have a storage for recall remote keying jack and line on so that t he transmit-
digit input and a single-
of in fo rmation at any t ime . audio output a re a lready in- ter re mai ned keyed duri ng
digit cancel, o r an auto-
This has to be addressed sta lled. so interface was the six seconds t hat it ta kes
matic cance l fed by the for t he voice tape to an-
with another 7402 so that very easy . The biggest
tape deck. no unce t he t ime. This was
the clocking is uniform. problem was the addition
O perat ion of a t imer to hold the PTT accomplis hed with a 555
The signa l path starts at
t he re p e a t er receive r
Alte rnat ive IC
As with any electronic
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speaker. This aud io line c irc u it, there are many ", -, F " B ~ ' D GE

feeds the repeater trans- ways to achieve the same


mitter, and we bridge it to function . A 7472, 7407, or
747& J-K flip-flop latch Ie
feed the function decoder
aud io in put. An age (auto-
matic gain con t rol)
could replace the 7402 .
Our decision , however ,
r
amp lifier is used to limit favo red simplicity ; it
the a ud io coming into the a llows use of the same chip
decoder ICs, so that t he th roughout the entire proj-
a udio signals do not d istort ect, mak ing pa rts re place-
and ove rload the circuit. ment for se rvicing easier, Fig. 3. Power supply.

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We mounted the pl ayba c k Chassis Work board, incl udes a ll of the
he a d solid a nd e li mi nated The e nti re un it is bu ilt in- 7402 dev ices, fo u r tape-
ma ny prob lems. to tw o a lu minu m c hassis . player rel a ys, the b-second
•, One p la y er is pr o - O ne, 17" x 6" x 3", houses timer, a nd the ke yi ng re la y
gram me d fo r ID an- the e lectronic keying board, for the time machine. A
no un cem e nts. The other re gula ted supp lies, and re- zo-ot n edge connector in-
Fig, 4. p layer can be used for cl ub te rfac e s t he board to the
lays. The ot her, 17" x 12" x
t imer Ie t u rn ing on a reed me ssa ge s, a nno u ncements, 3", c o nta ins the tape play- ou tp u t te rminal strip
rel a y to grou nd the PTT and so on . We ha ve a third ers and associ ated 110-vol t mounted on the cha ssis
l ine. player t hat comes o n every switc hi ng . Nintee n-i nch and connects to the output
tenth time the CW iden- standard-rack front panels of the TTo.226 date signa l
Tape-Player Hardware tifier is called upon . This a re mou nted o n the front decoder board . A lot of
As with all re pe a te r produces a low level voice of each c ha ssis. The clock point-to-point wiring is
groups, our ca sh wa s in lD automatically. The other radio can be mounted on a done on the c irc uit board,
short supply, so the ac- tapes are acce ssed by she lf inside the repeater so that should you want
quisition of tape decks got tou chtonet pads only . ca binet. Proper shie ld ing different access codes at
to be expensive in the plan- Each message is about 6 to and sing le point rf ground- any time, you can sim p ly
ning stages. We ran across 8 se co nd s, average, with a ing sho uld, of course, be unsolder the various wire
an ad from Poly Pak s. piece of silve r foil sensing done to prevent any in- jumpers and re-connect at
however, for 6-track play- tape %" long at the end of terference. lE D indicators the desired spots. The relay
ers for $9.oo! They worked each message. Most of our are mounted on the front contacts a re hard-wired to
out g reat! It wa s in- tapes contain 15 different panel to show which pro- the edge connectors so
conceivable to use one of messages on a continuou s gram is on the left side of that 18-gauge wire can be
those players. with that loop. The sensing foi l sto ps the pane l, fo r the re gu la te d used to carry the c u rre nt.
head jumping up and the machine at the end of power supply. The relays are mounted
down, to select the various each. This e nsu res greater right on the PC board and
progra ms, so we used two tape life and g ives you PCB use the encased-type re-
pla yers a nd re moved a ll of much mo re p rogram The main add ress fie ld lays to keep contacts free of
t ha t so le noi d nonsense . so u rce. boa rd , a do ub le-s ide d d irt. This point-to-point wir-

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part s a re removed. The
moto rs are 110-vo lt a nd
a re wir e d with re g u lar
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e r bypa ss capaci tors are
u se d to m inim ize a ny
sp ikes o r ha sh injecte d into
the powe r lines. The pre-
a mp asse mblies rem a in
where they were o riginally
and are wired with + 12
volts dc fo r proper o pera-
tions. Two holes may be
d rilled o n the chassis bo t-
tom to give access to t he
a ud io le vel contro ls of the
pre amp ca rds .
Me n age Con le nt
The syste m de sc ribed
here ha s be en in use s ince The fron t view before rack-mo unting sho ws the Panaso nic RC 6800 Ta lking Clock Radio
November, 1977, on the used as the time mac hine. The stack on the rig ht consists of the logic control, au top atch,
Marissa (so uthweste rn Il- and two of the fou r tape machines.
lino is) 147.81 /147.21 repe at-
e r. Ed Bol ton WA3PU N c ut and a host of o the rs, giving ra dio station did seve ra l sta- ve ry popul ar system a nd
most of the voice tape s trave l, cl ub affiliation, fre- tion ID tapes, a lso. a llows visit ing o perato rs to
with some of his best imita- q uency, a nd o the r infor- Need less to say, the sys- ac q uire useful informat ion
tio ns of Amos ' n Andy, Jo hn mative messages. A lo ve ly- tem m akes the M arissa as well a s grea t e njoy ment
Wayne, Henry Kissinger, voiced lad y from a St . louis Mach ine (t he d oubl e M) a as they use it. .

95
The Nearly Perfect W E-800
- add an on-board charger, a TT pad, and. • •

charge occurs often assembly is 5/8" high and don't try to cha rge them-
enough without trying. The fits neatly into t he space se lves . I g ro u nded the
H. R. Worthington KJOTW
/7 Fremont SI. Wilson can still be charged next to the diode matrix cha rger by so lde red it to a
Oxford MA 01540 as the designer intended , if board as in Photo B. I epox- nearby sh ield pa rt itio n.
desired . ied t he stack together and Cha rging cu rrent is pu t into
to the board; a ll heat sinks an unused termi na l of the
Charger: The voltage-
A s it comes from the
factory, the Wilson
WE-800's battery-charging
doubling circuit shown in
Fig. 1 and Photo A is
are down toward the board
so that they p rovide t he ir
EXT- INT-CHG sw itc h. Th is
term inal is at t he top-
own e lectrical insu lation . viewing the termi nals with
provisions are lacking in adapted from K5PA's arti-
A blob of silicone ru bber the chassis up right. When
that it cannot be used cle in the Apri l, 1978, Ham
p revents rattles. road tested, I found that
w hi le its nicads are being Radio, p. 36. It charges at
As indicated in Fig. 2, 1 t he o rigina l 140D-H z note
charged. My solution is an 45 mA anytime the rig is on
tapped 12 V from the EXT was gett ing into the 10w-
on-board charger with no external power. The 555 is
PWR jack so that, in t he le ve l audio ci rcui ts o n
switching or holes re- in the standard astable
INT position, t he nicads re ce ive and trans m it, so I
quired. A shutoff switch mode and the 7805 is the
co uld be added by be- standard current-limiting
lie ve rs in deep ly cycling circuit as found in the
nicads; there is space at the Motorola Linear I.C. Data
9-volt battery connectors Book. I built it on 1" x
at the rear panel. With the 1-3/4" vectorboard. If the
current consumption of transistors and 7805 are
the synthesizer, full dis- stacked as shown , the

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crease the 555's frequency hump, the keyboard was e lec tric ians' tape . I stuck As shown in Photo D, I
to about 6400 Hz. That mounted o n top of the case the ci rc uit board o nto the epoxied two automotive
cured t his problem by be- symmet ri ca lly w ith the side o f the case with thin distributor cap tower nip-
ing above the audio fre- dummy speaker grille per foam tape so that it neat ly p les to the bottom surface
q uen cy re sponse of the rig Photo C. This lo cat ion is re sts beside the battery of the case toward the
(j ust my theory). R3 of 120 above the batte ry com part- enclosure . front to jack it up for a con-
O hms pr o d uc e d 45-mA men t, so a friend ly machin- I ran the tz-vort. ground, ve nien t ope rating angle.
cha rg ing c u rre nt. To ler- ist milled a 1/4" th rough and audi o-out lead s thru a They also prevent slippage
ances of com ponents ac- slo t for the 8~p i n term inal s .062" 3-pin Mo lex connec- on a desk. These are for
count for th is discrepan cy and a .030" deep X 1/4" to r so tha t the case can be sa le at $10 per pair in-
fr om th e formul a . Th e slo t inside the case to rem oved easi ly. As show n sta lled, but no cl ients so
c ha rge r dr aws 130 mA, guide t he e ight leads off in Fig. 2, r took 12 V fro m fa r; hi!
whi ch prod uces some heat, the side of t he battery com- t he H I-OFF·LO switc h, so l- Why just " nea rl y" per-
but ev ide nt ly th is is not p ar tm e nt. I d ri lled and dered the grou nd le ad to fec t? Th e th umb wh e el
detr imental . co untersunk 1/32" o n the pin 3, and solde red the switc hes should be li ghted,
TTP ; There is no factory- inside fou r holes fo r the audio lead to pin 5 of t he but I ca n't th ink of any-
installed Touc htoner pad p lastic mount ing pins and MIC/SPKR jack. thing tha t doesn't resemb le
av ai lab le so I d e c id e d me lted and fi led t hem The Data Signal tacto rv- a plum ber's nigh tm a re .
upon the Data Signa l SME flush. I cut the 8-pin ter- set audio leve l tu rned on Appreciat ion is due to
circu itry wit h the re li ab le mina ls flush, so ld ered the the local 99/39 autopatch K1 1CU fo r hi s photog-
Digi tran TM keyboard (type eight leads and secured first sho t. An unexpected ra phy, WA1VVS fo r his
" F" fr om Da t a Sig na l). them into their slo t with side benefit is t hat the machin ing, and WA1WPX
tones ca n be monitored In fo r use of her Wilson as the
the MIC/SPKR . guin ea p ig .•

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97
How to Make Your Own Crystal Filters
- requires considerable patience, but very few bucks

plica ted coupling net - crystals are dr iven from a trolled . The only exception
73 Magazine Staff works . low-impedan ce so urce by might be if one decides to
The c rysta l filter c ircu it the first-stage emitter - use o nly a single c rysta l to
of Fig. 1 has a number of fol lower . At the series- fo rm a simple CW filter .
resonant frequency of the Ho we ve r, even fo r CW
E v eryo ne knows t h at
goo d, htgh-frequ en cv
(3·9 Mhz) crysta l filters for
advantages. Fi rst of all , no
tu ned circu its are involved.
The crysta ls are simply par-
c rystals, the signa l voltage
will be developed a cross
recept ion , the ba ndwidth
provided by one c rysta l is
use in SSB exciters or ac- al leled, and from one to six the .001-uF capacitor and too sharp and provides un-
cessory CW fi lte rs for crysta ls can be used . de- drive the output amplifier. c o m fo rt a b le re c e p t ion .
t ransceivers are expensive. pending upon whether one At frequencie s other than Therefore, a contro lled
However. if one has a bit of wants to construct a simp le those where the c rysta ls ex- bandwidth of 200 to 500 Hz
test equipment and is short CW filter with a very sharp hibit series resonanc e, the should be used . Suc h a
on cash but long on pa- response or an SSB filter ca pa ci to r se rve s as a by- filter can be constructed
tience. it is possible to with a specific bandwidth . passing element and helps using at least two crystals
home-brew very good crys- The frequency spacing o f sha rpe n the skirts o f the space d in frequency by the
tal filters using relatively th e individual c rys t a ls filter response. So me slg- desired bandwidth and
si m p le circuitry and used is critical; thi s will be nalleak-through will occ ur ce nte re d on the i-f frequen-
without the need for com- cove red later in deta il. The because of stray c a pa c i- cy desired . For an SSB
tance across the c rys ta ls; filter, at le a st six c rysta ls
,-, - ,.1.- - - - - - r--r---·.. · Qv this is compensated for by
co upling so me signa l from
sho u ld be used . This is
because the indiv idua l
"
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OUT""T the collector of the first
amplifier around the c rys-
crystal series-resonant fre-
quencies shou ld not differ
".
tals via the 100-p F variable by more t ha n about 300
• capacitor. A number of gen- Hz. Otherwise, the pass-
•-1
, . ,
,
) e ral-purpose trans isto rs ca n
be used in the circuit. With
band of the filter will no t
be smooth, as it is just a
,I ,
H lf-',
>
,
''',1 '"r, r. those shown, the circuit will composi te of the highly se-
,'0 ' have about 1Q..d B gain. lect ive passba nd of eac h
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properly, the series reso- The type of overa ll
Fig. 1. Simple crystaf filter circuit does not require any nance of the crystals used response one might expect
tuned circuits. must be ca refully c o n- from this type of filter is
98
shown in Fig. 2. The ul ti- Usua lly a n osci lloscope is To go b a ck fo r a ing has to be done slowly
mate re je ct io n that o ne the most suita b le ins tru- mom ent, it shou ld be men- a nd patientl y. If o ne goe s
can ac hieve with t he ci r- ment . The " ba ndwid th" of t ioned that althoug h t he slight ly too far in the gri nd-
c uit depends o n how ca re- the osci lloscope may be FT-243 holders a re easy to ing pro cess, t he c rys ta l
fully the circuit is construct- fa r be low th a t o f the test disasse mble wit h ju st a freq uency ca n be lowered
ed to prevent st ray cou- fre q ue ncy b ei ng u sed , screwd river, the o peration slightly with a ve ry soft
pli ng a ro und t he c rystals, since only a n indication of shou ld be done carefu lly. le ad penci l. lightly rub the
and o n how ca refully the the voltage c hange ac ross The contact p lates and surface o f the c rysta l with
100-pF variab le is adjusted . the c rystal is ne c e ssary. A spring should be kept in the the pencil and t he n use a
Va lues of 40 dB can be " S-MHz osci lloscope, " fo r same order for re a sse mb ly. soft cloth a nd a d rop of
achieved before the skirts instance, will easi ly re- Also, the c rysta l shou ld be rubb ing a lcohol to distr ib-
of the filter respo nse start spond to signals up to 10 marked on one corner so ute t he coating . With a bit
to flare out. Admitted ly, MHz or more in frequency that it is set back in the of patience between grind -
this is nothing like the 80- (although, of course, it can- holder in its o riginal ing times and possible cor-
dB out-of-passband rejec- not be used to a nalyze the orientation. rections, one can easily
tion of an expensive 8-pole waveform of 1o-M Hz sig· The amount of grinding come " right on" with re ga rd
commercial crystal filter. nals). a c rystal needs to change to frequency.
It is sufficient, however, for As the test frequency is its frequency depends on
a simple SSB exciter, and va ried, there will be a sharp Although the acid ap-
the pressure used while proach is not really re co m-
more than adequate for an drop in the voltage ac ross grinding, the number of
accessory CW filte r in a the crystal when its series- mended, those amateu rs
passes while grindi ng, and who ha ve access to the
tra nsceiver when the SSB re s o n a n t frequency is so on . Ho we ver, it takes
filter is also left in opera- reached, producing a short chemicals re q u ire d a nd
very litt le practice to get who ca n be carefu l in the ir
tion to sharpen the skirts of circuit. The voltage d rop is some " f e e l" fo r the
the overall i-f response. very sudden, and o ne must application may want to
c hanges whic h take p lace try it. If so, one shou ld use
One may ask how t here vary the test frequency in t he crystal frequency as
slowly . The series-resonant a n am monium b iflouride
can be a nything inexpen- one grinds it. For inst anc e,
freq uency shou ld be wit hin sol ution di luted wit h two
sive about a circuit wh ic h with an 8-MHz c rysta l, o ne
a few kHz o f the freq ue ncy parts of water. The c rysta l
migh t require up to six ci rcu la r pass o n the a bra-
sta mped o n the c rysta l is simp ly pla ce d in the solu-
crystals. The answer is to sive pa per m ig ht c ha nge
holder. The FT-243 c rys ta ls tion (using a small pa ir o f
use t he old-style FT-243 the c rys ta l freq uency by
a re easy to disassemb le, twe ezers) for 30 to 60 sec-
c rysta ls. These crystals a re 150 Hz. One hundred pas-
and the rest of the job no w o nds at a time, rem o ved
ava ilab le fo r $1 .00 or less ses m igh t c ha nge it as
cons ists of t akin g the crys- a nd rinsed with water, a nd
each from va rious su p- m uch as 20 kHz. For lower- d ried. The c rys ta l freq uen-
pl iers (J AN Crysta ls, for in- tal apa rt, g rind ing it slo wly freq uen cy c rys ta ls, more
to raise its frequ ency, and cy is c hecke d a nd the pro-
sta nce), a nd they a llow pa sse s will be required for
then te stin g it ba ck in its cess repeat ed a s many
easy d isassem bly and ac- a given frequ en cy c ha nge.
holder until o ne co llects time s as ne c e ssary. The
cess to the crysta l it self. A 4·MH z c rysta l mi ght whole proc e s s is quite
Th e latter is im po rta nt the desired num ber of c rys- c ha nge 60 Hz in o ne pa ss
ta ls with t he pr oper series- easy, b ut it mu st be e m-
si nce there is no easy way a nd 7 kHz in 100 passes . ph asized that the c hem ica l
of speci fying the se ries- resonant frequen cies.
Obv ious ly, as o ne a p- solut io n is very corros ive
reson ant freq uency for t he Alt hough a cid s ca n be pro a che s the desired crvs- a nd mu st be use d and dis-
c rysta ls to be use d in the used to "grind" c rystals, it tal freq uen cie s, the g rind- posed o f c a refu lly.•
ci rcuit. So, one has to ob- is usu all y better to use a
tai n c rystals w hic h a re very slightly abras ive ma -
marked approximately fo r teria l such as 3M " Tnm it e"
.~.
~.

the i-f frequencies of in- silicon carb ide paper (wit h ~ ".
te rest, disassemb le them,
a nd g ri nd them to the exact
a f ineness o f 4 00 o r
r '
.
frequencies needed . This
operation, pa rticularly the
" g rind" part, is not as terri-
greate r). T his p ap er is
obta inable at large ha rd-
wa re stores and comes in
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ble as it sounds . In fact, the is taped to any flat surface,
whole operation is relative- and the crysta l held flat Fig. 3. A test setup fo r
ly simple. with a finge r and rubbed on measuring the series-reso-
The circuit of Fig. 3 is the paper with a ci rcula r nant frequency of a crystal.
used to find the series- motion . The g rinding Fig. 2. A typical response Capacitance effects across
resonant frequency of a should be done " we t." one could expect from the the crystal must be avoid-
crystal. A signal is applied That is, t he crystal shou ld crystal filter circuit shown ed, so short leads which go
from a signal generator o r be kept moistened with in Fig. 1. In this case, it directly to the plates of the
vfo. The voltage across the water . Afte r grinding, t he would be for a two-crystal oscilloscope must be used.
crystal is monitored by a ny crystal is carefully cleaned circuit with the crystals ' fre- A suitable tow-ceoeceence
h igh-im p e d a n c e ins t ru- with rubbi ng alcoho l a nd, quencies (series- resonant probe may also be used
ment which will respo nd at avoidi ng a ny finge r mark s, frequencies) separated by with the oscilfoscope or a
the frequency being used . put bac k in its ho lder. about 300 Hz. suitable VTVM.

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A Simple Six-Band Antenna
-this 10-160 endfed vee goes up in a jiffy

T here is really not hing


new about this type of
anten na. but I'm using it as
well, and they were o n the
ai r- never m ind the har-
monics a nd parasitics . Us-
Edi t ion , ca lled anten nas
without feed lines " ... the
simplest and probably least
was at one e nd . What to
do? No problem . The ham
sha c k was now in the base-
an i nverted vee. Many ing a capacitor at the tank effective mu ltiband anten- ment, so I pl anted my
years ago it was called a ci rc uit, in series with the na ." Untrue. Simple, yes. 40-foot t ele scop ing TV
Fuchs antenna (pro nounced aerial , kept anyone who Ineffective, no. pole out in the m idd le of
"Fooks"), but it's easy to see might touch the wire from Those graybeard s among the backyard, attached an
why that name didn't stick. getting fatally zapped with you who ca n re me m be r insulato r to the top, ran ap-
l ate r on. it was (and is) de. so the more prudent op- back to over 20 yea rs ago proximately 130 feet of
variously ca lled an endfed e rato rs o pted fo r that ap- may re c a ll an art icle writ- wire through the ins ula to r,
Hertz, a d ire c tl y-fe d, se lf- proach. ten by me and publ ished in hoisted up the mast, and
fed, voltage-fed, st ra ight- l ater o n, things became the Feb rua ry, 1956, issue of guyed it.
wi re, o r random-length an- more sop hist ica ted a nd, in CQ under the tit le, " The
I then exte nded ha lf of
te nna . That last name is ap- the late 1930s, somet hing Droopi ng Doub let." To the
the wire out to a 'to-foot
plicab le o nly when you know n as the Universal best of my know ledge a nd
pole (which I no lo nge r
rea lly don't know or care Anten na Co upler was de- researc h, that was the first
nee de d for not-touc hing-
what length it is . veloped . This enabled link- article to appear in an ama-
things-with) wh ich wa s
Pre-TV, some of t he coupling of a n a ntenna to teur publicat ion pertaining
located a t the rear fen ce
more daring hams would the amp lifier, thus elimi- to what we c a ll today the
and attached it with a large
simply clip one end of the nating the de shock hazard inverted vee . That antenna,
insulator. The o t he r e nd o f
antenna to the hot end of and minimizing spu rio us as was the one I am about
the wire drooped nicel y
the final .a mphf le r tank radiations. to describe, evolved out of
down to the eaves of the
coil at a point where t he The A R R l Antenna necessity.
house, w here I anchored it
fina l loaded up reasonab ly Manual , in its 1949 Fifth After many years of us-
with a nother insu lator and
ing the inve rted vee-
OV(ULL LE NGTN Of' " ' ~ ( , .. . 6 1--....... IN$VLAto~ the n brought it in through
1 20-I ~O H n . , ,/ 1f', us ua lly fed, in my ope ra-
a n access ho le in the wood
t io ns , wi th o pe n-wi re
just above the co nc rete
• fee de rs (or tuned, as ma ny
basement wa ll. Imide it
call t hem)- I foun d myself
was attached to a trans-
in a situation where it just
match with, of cou rse ,
was not too convenient to
coa xia l c a b le running from
bri ng the feed line from a
."
...Il1T
centerfed antenna into the
the re to my tran sceiver o r
TO U ANS " ATCN I N amplifier.
.ASl "U T VI A FHO· radio room . Having moved
---c=/,,J ' N.U IN1 U1. ATOOI
from Ca lifo rn ia to Mi s- Having gotten yo u thor-
• souri, I now had more land o ug hly enthu sed about this
but the sha pe of my God 's m iracle of modern science,
Fig. 1. Directly-fed inverted vee antenna, as installed at littl e Ha lf Ac re me ant that I must inje c t a note of cau-
W6 TKN0. Layou t and dimensions can be varied some- the o p tim um me an s of tion : A good grou nd system
what to suit individual installation requ irements. fe edin g the inverte d vee is most hel pf ul w hen using
106
CMA'II ' I
this anten na . Even if you in tota l length. All ground ~ ,n '
fUC( ~
have only a small back- rod and wire con nec tions ' A"( A,. , '---;:,
yard, the a ntenna a nd were ca refull y spliced and
ground syst em are still soldered . (See Fig. 2.)
fea sible. Among other This antenna was put up ,,
,,
things, I used a large q uan- in something of a hurry in ,,
tity of #18 copper wire the fall of 1977, just before ,,
u " ( U. ' ,,
,
(copperclad steel or a lumi- the weathe r turned nasty. ,,
num electric-fence wire ' is My main concern was to ,,
,,
cheap and "co mes in rolls ha ve a n a ll ba nd ra diator ,
,,
rangin g fro m sma ll to huge) up for the winte r; a classy, ,,
and si mply sliced t he lawn super-efficie nt install ation ,,,
,,
GROUIIO snn .. f Ol'l ALL·IUO
with-now, do n't laugh- a was seconda ry to me at "":::- V( IIT~A L AIIUIIIIA l NOT I
,-' O' ''C II' UO III T""AIITICH l
pizza-cutting wheel, poked tha t tim e . But, to my sur-
the wi re about an inch into prise, the t hing seems to
the soil with a large sc rew- rad iate as well as any in- Fig. 2. Ground system in use with directly-fed inverted vee
driver, then stomped the verted vee I have ever at W6 TKAIfJ, shown only as an example of how an eiii-
grass back in place. No one used and is still in use with cien t ground system can be installed. Many variations are
cou ld tell where I had only minor modifications . possible and accep table. ( The vertical antenna shown is
buried wires. I have three home-bui lt not desc ribed in the article- it is included only to il-
Somewhat like a grou nd- tra nsmatc hes, so I use o ne lus trate the total ground system being used.) Both hot and
plane anten na , the ground o n 160 me ters, another on cold water p ipe s in the basement also are included in the
system fo rms a reflecting, 80/75, and the t hird o n 40 ground sys tem.
c o n d u c t iv e p la ne- the t hrough 10 . (See Fig. 3.)
othe r ha lf o f the anten na O ne tr an sm a t ch mi ght that the a nte nna was- I've been ve ry -ple ased
system, as it were. This is work as well if you don 't e lect rica lly, a nyway - just with the results this anten-
especia lly im porta nt o n m ind retuning it eac h time over 1 29 fee t lo ng-a quar- na has pro vide d o n all
160 mete rs , whe re t he yo u c ha nge band s. The te r waveleng t h at 1.810 ba nds, es pecia lly 160, 75,
directly-fed inverted vee t ra nsmatches a re sepa rat- MHz . It is a bit lo ng for 75 a nd 40 meters . I feel that it
fun ctions as a quarter-wave ed from the rad io room by meters, re presen ting a half is a m uc h more versati le
or slightly longer radiator. a wall and are located in wavelength at 3.610 MHz . system than a convention-
A good ground helps on the unfinis hed fu rnace It is a full wavelength at al sing le ba nd, coaxial-fed
all band s to prevent " rf from a rea of the basement. A 7.220 MHz , two wave- inverted vee. Advantages
fl oating around the shack," re mote meter o n t he swr lengths at 14.440, t hree incl ude the convenience of
as the old expression goes. mete r a nd a remote tra ns- wavelengt hs at 21.660, and all band o peration, no cost
And it makes q uite a differ- mitter key ing ci rc uit en- fo u r wavelengths at 28.880 fo r feed li ne, and no worry
ence in the kind of signal a b le me to ad jus t th e t ran s- MHz. It provides some ga in a bout where to run th e
ot he rs, at di stan t places, matches from the furna ce in th ose bands ove r the feed line to keep it from
hear from yo ur station. room without having to be bas ic half-wave antenn a. getting too close to th e an-
Her e in t his pa rt of Mis- in two p laces at o nce. O bvio us ly, th e a nt e n na tenna o r ot he r struc tures . It
souri, so il cond uctivity is Just in case you happen presents a va riety o f input seems to work as we ll as
pretty good, accordi ng to a to be cu rious a bout the imped ances, and hence the any inverted vee I have
so il co nd uct ivity map is- resonant frequency o f your need fo r an antenna tu ner used in the past twenty-five
sued by the FCC for use by directl y-fed inverted vee, (o r tra nsmatch) to match years. It is inexpensive, and
broad cast station s. To here's a hint that may help the tr an sm itt er to the you ca n put it up in a few
make sure I had the best you . Just on a hunc h, I con- an tenna . ho urs.•
possible ground, I got a half nected the center cond uc -
dozen five-foot ground rods to r of the RG-8/A coax run-
(they rea lly shou ld have ning from my Kenwood
been eight feet long), spot- TS-820 S to t he end of the 2 ~ 0 ·~ . F
te d them at various places vee a nd th e shie ld to th e v AR I ABLE

around th e 100- x 100-foot ground sys tem. Switchin g


backya rd, and wired th em th e tr an scei ver to 160
togethe r with #1 2 co ppe r meter s and placing it in
wire . Tied to a ll o f this is t he " t une" mod e (a bout 10
the #18 wire I mentione d Wa tts of output), I care-
earlier and the radial sys- fully tu ned the band fo r a I I · VAlrlA r/Olt CI'"<!.)

tem employed fo r my all - dip in re fl e c ted power .


band vertical (that antenna Minimum swr occurred at
is yet another story). From 1.81 0 MHz . The swr was
this conglomeration, a cou- about 2.0:1, but it was a vAII,AILE r ~!oCH ~ '"

ple of stout copper wires prono unced dip, so I knew 0 ·0 M~ ""-"S .",, "" CI - YA"' A r lOJi Cl'"0

run to a cha in-link fe nce the antenna was quarter-


which borders t he back of wa ve resonant at that fre- Fig. 3. These transmatch circu its, or o ther varia tions of p i,
my lot (p lus seve ra l ot he r quency. Some sim ple ca l- p i L, L, T, et cetera, can be used with the dire ctl y-fed in-
lots) and is a bout 600 feet cu lat ions (234/f) told me verte d vee antenna.
107
They Don't Make 'Em
Like They Used To
- home-brewing a hard-to-find neutralizing cap

emiSSIon . .. o r something. The first clerk just did they once sold such items
Neil Johnson W20L U So I acc u m ulated a ll the not u nde rstand what a .. . only they hadn't seen
JO Harwich Road pa rts fo r a new PA . Parts neutraliz in g ca pacitor was. any for yea rs . I ref used to
South Orleans MA 01662 we re a ll ready to go, except Th e n e xt g u y loo ked be insulted fo r a fou rth
for the neutralizing c a paci- at me as if I had been re- ti me and returned home to

M y o id amp lifier was


getting tired; it had a
bad case of fl at feet. low
tor. So. down to th e big
city. Big App le. mayb e. but
big p arts suppl ier, no .
ce ntly turned loose fro m
the funn y farm . Fin ally, I
mad e it to a sho p where
recon sider .
Why not roll m y ow n? I
pondered thi s. O ld-t ime rs
used to do it . .. but now ?
As yo u know, the re are two
ma in classes of so-ca lled
neutrali zin g capac ito rs .
The first type has half-
round plates, the sa me as
a n ordina ry va riable capac-
ito r, a nd the s e c o n d
uti lizes a plunger-type of
mechanism . Some of the
older handbooks show ex-
amples of the first type,
but I have yet to see home-
brew examples of the in-
and-out sty le.
Eve n so, I c hose the sec-
ond type . This const ruction
roughl y fol lows the capaci-
tor s devel oped by Millen,
except that solid d ielectric
is used . This makes for a
more compact design . A
seco nd adv a ntage li es in
th e fact tha t the sc rew-i n
type of construction allows
fo r eas ier ca lib rat ion, if
suc h be des ired . Finally,
the procure me nt problem
108
3 / 8 0 .11. ' 1 718 LO'lG
is eas ily overcome . Please CO~~E~ TUB , NG . DI MENSIONS ARE IN I NCHES - 00 NOT SCALE
don 't laug h at that last
item . The f in al design
allow s for a nyone, a ny- rr '." (

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114- 20 BRASS BOLT"
where , to ma ke suc h a ca-
pacitor-even t hose ham s ~ - - - - - - - - - - -- - -
II I t
in fa r-off la nd s. All t hat is ....: 1/4 L HOLE (.44 D~ILL .08 61 u.
" 6- ~ 2 .. ACH INE SCR' '''SI~I
needed a re a brass nut and
bo lt, a few pie ces of sc ra p
LUCIH OIl
meta l, and a sma ll p iece of ~OLV 5TV " E NE _ ~~ : :
lucite or sim ilar insul a tion
app roxima te ly 5 inches - - - - _ 2 ~/4 _
long. " OU'I T' NG FOOT

The materia ls list for the


prototype follow s: Fig. 1. Neutralizing capacitor.
1 base o r p lastic support
form , 1" x 1!J X 5" ; /I
the plast ic base to a llow 3 each turn . 10 years later, without a
3 pieces , ri gh t-a n gl e rig ht-a ngle brackets to be Voltage br eakdown ? whimper, at 6500 volts.
dura l o r br ass, 1!J " x 1!J " X mounted . Forget it. A pal of mine So, try your hand at
1/16", 1 inch lon g; (4) Drill 3 hol es in the fa nned bac k t he b ra id one making such a capacitor,
6 5/8" 6-32 nickel-pl a ted brass 1 " x 1" pieces: two foot fro m each end of a whether it be fo r ne utra li z-
brass screws, with coppe r hol e s to meet wit h the samp le of RG-8 cab le and ing or for some other pur-
lox; holes in the righ t-angle then a pp lied a test vo ltage pose, perhaps as a high-
4 lJ,; 6-32 nickel-pl ated
/I
pieces, and one hole to ac- of 100 kV with no ill ef- p rec ision vernier capacitor
brass sc rews, with copper cept inser t s (w hic h are fects. Persona lly, I helped hav ing a sma ll c hange of
lox; so ldered in later). to insta ll a sect ion of RG-8 c a p a c it a nc e for e a c h
1 brass bo lt 2" long (US (5) Ca refu lly e nla rge one ca b le between t he power t urn - approximately 0 .103
lJ,; -20 th read or simi la r); ho le to accept coppe r tub- sup ply a nd t he visua l pF. And p le ase remember:
2 br ass nuts, to matc h ing. So lder it in (at righ t amplif ier of a commercia l All meta l shou ld be non-
above sc rew; a ng les) with about 5/16 inch TV rig. It's still work ing OK fe rrous . •
2 p ieces of brass (o r cop- protrud ing fro m o ne e nd.
per) 1" x 1" x .050" thick; (6) So lder o ne brass nut
1 p iece of copper t ubing, to t he prope r spot o n th e
2" lon g x lJ,; inside d iame-
JI
o ther 1" x1" piece of brass.
te r. (7) Remove lJ,; inc h of in-
You can see tha t a ll the
conductive parts sho u ld be
su la t ion f ro m a 3-inc h
p iece of inner sect ion of /-1'~
made from brass, copper,
or alumi num . Ce rta in pa rts
RG-8/U coaxia l cable.
(8) Drill a sma ll hol e in erRlanlD n
sho uld be made o nly from t he center of t he brass
sc rew, lJ,; deep at most. ftRlalea~ ~0v<".
brass o r co ppe r, since they
req uire solde ring . Oh,
/I

(9) Jo in t he br ass bo lt Sappll.- ', rJ,


yes- r a lmo st fo rgot! You
will req uire a short piece of
and the br ass nut to one
br ass 1" x 1" p la te. Jnll. .... G12

RG -8 /U c o a xia l cable , (10) Ca ref u lly inse rt a nd MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE


about 3 inc hes lo ng, for t he so lde r the exposed copper
rotor. wi re from RG-8/U ca b le in-
It is well to re me mber to the sma ll ho le in the
t hat a ll of the soldered
pieces must be f inished
brass sc rew .
(1 1) The balance of con-
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then drill and ta p to mee t sma ll c ha nges in ca pac ity
with t he base and the brass fo r eac h co mp lete tu rn of
Write: 3202 Summer Ave., Memphls, Tennesse e 38112
1" x 1" pieces . the feed screw. Capacity
(3) Dr ill holes throug h c ha nge was 0 .103 pF fo r
j / Reader SeflliCe-Sef! page 195 109
The Europa-B
Two Meter Transverter
-work OSCAR and 2m SSB with this British import

swer is, of course, the FM, AM, SSB, RTTY, CW, or FT-250. It can be used with
Briti sh-made Europa-B two any mode that you have an any rig having a 12-volt
Joe Kasser G3ZCZ meter transverter. This unit exciter for on ten meters . heater c hain. A transformer
11532 S te wart Lane
conve rts both received and The Europa-B co mes in a is available for rigs with a
Silver Spring MD 20910
tran smitted signals on ten pa ckage only nine inche s 6.3-volt heater chain . In
meters to the two meter wide, four and three-quar- fa ct, a whole power supply

W hat is smaller than a


six pack , will put
you on two meter side ba nd
band , with enough power
to work both OSCAR 7 and
OSCAR 8. You can also use
ters inch es high , and four
and a half inches deep. It
comes complete with a
in a pack age the same size
as the Europa-B is also
available, but it is not in-
or on OSCAR, and is not it to work up to about 200 power cable for the Yaesu cluded in thi s review .
made in the USA? The an- miles or so direct, using FT·l0l , FT·200, FT·277, or
Construction
The receive side of th e
Europa-B is all solid state.
There is a dual -gate MOS-
FET rf stage followed by a
dual-gate MOSFET mixer.
The converter is spec if ied
as having a noise figure of
2 dB and a gain of 30 dB.

The transmit side u ses


tubes. A maximum of 200
mW of ten meter drive is
applied to a 6360 mixer.
The resultant two meter
energy is amplified by a
second 6360 u sed as a
driver for the final (w hic h is
a 5894). The final amplifier
runs at about 200 Watts in-
put and is spec if ied as be-
ing at least 50% efficient.
This is more than enough
signal output to work
through both the O SCAR
The Europa-B two meter transverter. space craft.
110
The se lectiv ity of t he from t he tube filament s reports of t he same o rder It is so ld without the tubes
tuned ci rcu its is suc h tha t when I wa nt to use it in the a s I was getting. I com- to let long-t ime VHF n uts
both t he mixe r a nd the receive-only mode. These pared the converter to my w ho alre ad y ha ve a su pply
d river plate ci rcuits need fe a t ure s can and wi ll be " Roc he ste r" o ne and fou nd of the se tubes (6360s a nd
t un ing whe n a change of cu red by fitti ng a fan to the that signals were slightly 5894s, o r QQV-03-10s a nd
freq uency of more tha n top of t he un it. A suitab le better on the Europa-B. The QQV-06-40s as t hey a re
about 100 kH z ta kes p lace . o ne is that supp lied by OSCAR 7 B downlink is a lso cal le d over t here) to
The w ho le tu ning opera- Yaesu fo r t he FT·101 . A p re tty good . Later that upgrade to the Europa-B at
tion takes a bout five sec- smal l togg le switch can eve ning, us ing o nly the a minim um of expe nse. At
onds and is no bo the r to a lso be fitted to d iscon nect dipole o n the balcony, I the tim e of thi s w riting, t he
do. The na rrow pass band the tu be heate rs when re- worke d SSB st at io ns in Bri ti s h po u nd is wo rt h
also acts to supp ress un- quired . New Je rsey, Mary la nd, and about $2.00 a nd is ris ing.
wanted mixer prod uc ts. Pe n nsy lva nia, re c ei vi ng The cost fo r a ir pa rcel post
The unit is we ll bu ilt. A Results In Use exce llent a udio repo rts. is £ 7, an d US customs will
dou b le-sided printed ci r- On o pening t he package want a few dol lars. The post-
c u it boa rd is used as a that a rr ived by m ail , I How To Get One ma n will collect thei r sha re
chassis fo r bot h the t rans- fo und that although the The Euro pa- B is no t COD.
mit and re ce ive converters, Europa is adve rtised as re adi ly ava ila b le ove r the The Europa-B may be
ke e ping the rig nice and com ing w it h a ll c a b le s co unte r in t he USA. It ma y o rdered from So lid State
sma ll. ne c e ssary to put it on the be o rde red by mail fro m Mod u les , 63 Wood land
The ON/O FF sw itc h is a ir wi t h an FT·101, that the man ufac turer in Road , So lid, Lo ck wo o d ,
wi red such t hat w hen t he on ly app lies to dc power. England and . pai d for by Huddersfie ld, Engla nd .
switch is in the ON pos i- There were no rf cab les in- me a ns of your VISA card, The Europa-B is in use al l
tion, the unit is powere d cl uded in t he package. The ju st a s if you were o rdering over t he world. In some
and t he he a ter cha in to the Europa-B uses British tele- the u nit by mail from a places, the rece ive sectio n
excite r finals is broke n. vision -type coax con - dealer in the USA. I is ne ve r used beca use t here
Putti ng the switch in the nectors fo r t he rece iver orde red my u nit in this is o nly one active station
O FF positi on removes the output and transmitter in- ma nner and it ca me within on two me ters and he is
12 volts from the Europa put cables. These are com- ten days. working OSC AR. It is about
and reconnects the heater monly kno w n as Bell ing- The pr ice of the Europa- t ime that thi s fine piece of
c ha in to t he fina ls of t he Lee con ne cto rs afte r a B is £8 7.50 com p lete o r eq uipme nt was avai lab le
exc iter. Th is feat ure allows well -known ma nufact urer. £75 .00 wi t hout t he t ube s. a nd used in t he USA. •
the excite r to be used o n As I didn 't have a ny of
bot h HF a nd VH F w ithou t these conne cto rs, I. was
having to re m o ve the stuck . As luck wou ld have PREAMP
powe r cord to the tran s- it, a loc al friend did have FOR 2 METER TRANSCEIVERS
ve rter . An accessory soc ket some of th e m . Two nights
is prov ided o n the rea r of later, the Europa-B was on
t he Europa-B to supp ly t he ai r dr ive n by my FT-
voltages fo r a p reamp o r 101 .
an rf re lay fo r automat ic I worked a coup le of sta-
t io ns via OSCAR 6 and
MODEL aSA 5
switch ing of t he rf input to
the exci te r between HF a nd OSCAR 7 using a d ipo le Only $41.95
VHF. mounted o n my ba lcony. The QSA 5 prea mp is a high performance. lo w no is e
The ma nua l s upp lied Then, afte r that, I tu ned preamp for improving the receiving sensitivity o f 2 Meter
d own to the low e nd of two tran sceivers. This preamp feat ures easy ins ta ll atio n
with the Europa explains
with no modification to t he transceiver required . Can be
the ope ratio n of the unit to see what was do ing used with virtually al l 2 Meter t ra nsc eivers and on all
a nd is well written in a there. At about 144.1 M Hz , mo des - FM. SSB , CW or AM . Relays in the aSA 5 aut o-
stra ightfo rwa rd ma nner. It I he ard a wea k sta t io n in matically bypass the preamp when transmit power is
is a lso written in English. A QSO. Choosing my mo- sen sed . Avai la ble w ith BNC or 50-239 connect ors .
schematic is su pplied, as ment, I gave him a q uick
a re operating vo ltages, in c a ll. He ack now ledged my
t he eve nt that t roub le- break (the C3 gets them
shooti ng is requ ired . In every time) and to ld me
fact , the ope ratio n of t he that I was " lo ts of dB over
unit is so straightforwa rd nine. " I cou ld ha rdl y hear All pnces fOil Ho u st on . e. cept whe'e indicated Pric es sull)eCl fO chang e
withou t net ice, all Items lIua, anleed. Some ,Iem s sulllecl p'io' sa le, Send re t-
that it c a n and was put on him . le ,head fo' Deater once list Ta. as ' e sid enl s ad d 6 % ta. __ please ad d
po sta ge eSl lmale, $1 .00 mI nimum , W5GJ. W5MB B. K5AA D, N 5JJ. AG5K,
the air without re fere nce to Fu rt he r invest igat io ns W5WM , WD5EDE. K5l D, WA 5TG U, WB5AYF . K5RC. K5BGB. WB5USV
the manua l. showed that I was copy ing
signa ls even t ho ug h I had a MASTERCHARGE • VISA
Bad Points dead MOSFET in the rf
The o n ly un des irab le stage of the c o nve rte r. I re- MADISON ..... M 35

fea tu res that I ha ve found placed it w ith a ubiquitous


with the unit a re that it gets 40673. Now re ce ived sig-
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..... Reader Service - see page 195 111
Neil Johnson W20 L U
30 Harwich Rd.
So. Orteons MA 02662

Zero In on Zero Beat


- an easy-to-make vernier for your
tube-type oscillator

T he rece nt article' in 73.


with respect to high-ac-
curacy frequency measure-
tube-type affair. the pre-
cepts to be out lined apply
equally well to a ll config-
this req uire additional ap-
pa ratus.
The re lat ive ly simple
pea r on the lower o r " chas-
sis" side of the plast ic a rm,
next to the fixed indicator
ments. brought to m ind a urat ions. whet he r vac uum sol ution o utli ned will not st rip . Th is wi ll he lp to
method developed at tubes. tra nsistors. o r int e- co m p letely satis fy a ll avoid parallax and results
W20 lU which is mecha ni- grated circ uitry. p u r is t s, b ut it sho u ld in a hig he r order of accu-
ca l and somew hat simple r A rel at ively small tri m- en a ble any home brew a r- racy. See Fig. 1.
tha n the eRO technique. mer capaci tor with a shaf t tis t to improve frequen cy Unde rnea t h t he mov-
Wh ile the freq ue ncy stan- is used fo r the purpose of measurements by seve ra l a ble a rm , I mounted a
da rd desc ribed here is a "ze ro ing in" the loca l crys- orders of acc uracy. Fur- sho rt p iece of ruler which

...
:. SE r $C~ ,.
tal- controll ed osc ill ato r
with respect to th e WWV
e m issions. Since th e hu-
the rmo re, it does not re-
quir e a ny a d d it io ns o r
modifi cati on s to exist ing
is graduated in fine divi-
s ions. Genera l Hardw are
No. 616 is a n ideal ca n-
man ea r is unabl e to re- c ircu it ry. did ate for thi s role. It is
spo nd to a ud io ton es lower The sha ft of th e variabl e rel ativel y low in cost a nd
than 30 Hertz , we mu st ca paci to r, havin g to do graduated in fract ions of
• , , • co ncl ude th at th ere is a no- wi th shift ing th e c rysta l a n inch on o ne side and in
man 's-land, so to spea k, of osc illa tor frequ enc y, is fi t- hundredths o n the re verse.
so me 60 Her tz. To obtain ted with a fairl y long a rm Th e re w a s in suff ic ie nt
higher accu racy wi th re- made fro m so me kind of space on the chassis for th e
Fig. 1. Actual size of plastic spect to true zero beat, clea r p last ic. Near o ne e nd , enti re b-Inch ruler, so 1
arm in pro to type is 5/8 " some method mu st be em- a sma ll hole is d rilled . In chose to use the upper e nd
wide. 1/4" thick. and 4 " ployed to atta in this end . our pa rtic ular case, this was of the ruler, leaving the
lo ng. Most methods to obta in Yo inch in diamete r in first pa rt. zero to 3 inches,
order to fit the shaft of the ava ilable for other uses.
r.<IS r~I " " H
CApaclTOot SET t rimme r conde nse r in- Now to put the combina-
AT APP""" "AtEl<
n o'
volved . Adjacent thereto, t ion to work : With both
(
at right angles, a small hole the receiver and frequen cy
3'50.'
.,---- r- ot. OuTour
is d rilled so that a set screw standa rd suita bly warmed
ITO "uffE~
A" O 001
may be installed . Kindly up in the inte rests of
" u l Tl- ......,A"" no te that th is hole must be stability, the coa rse fre-
-y drilled undersized , and quency adjustment to zero
( ••
subsequently threaded for
the set screw . In our case, a
beat is made, preferably
with the ruler-del ineated
6/32 screw was used for this capacitor at the midpoint
T ~i~ ~ T,,€
. .E....E. " "' ''E. purpose. of the high accuracy rule r.
Next, I scribed a straight It then becomes a simple
line down the middle of the matter to move the marker
plastic a rm. This may be arm slow ly back and forth
lightly inked in o rder to over the ruler. If the fi rst
Fig. 2. Circuit o f W20L U. a crystal oscillator with vernier fo rm an indicator, or "cur- audible tone appears at 16
co ntrol for frequency variation. so r." This line sho uld ap- markers on one side of
11 2
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w hat appears to be center desired. This will enable the heading " Pla st ic s- tional components are sim-
frequency, and t he oppo- these measu rements to ob- Rods, Tubes, and Sheets." ple. A 6-32 nut and bolt, a
site d irectio n of t he sw ing ta in even greater accu racy. Othe r sources might be smal l piece of brass (or two
arm shows fir st audibility Several amateurs have found in the lo c al ho b by solder lugs), and a sma ll nai l
to c o me in at 18 units on asked me w here to obtain shop. Possibly the plastic o r brad, which is used for
the rul e r, then by averaging the plastic str ip which is might be sa lvaged from the pointer. This a lternate
the two, e .g., 16 plu s 18 used for the indicator a rm . va rious items found design c a n be put together
equals 34, which divided A thorough search of c a ta- a round the home, some of anywhere in the boo n-
by two, results in 17, a very logs generally avai lable to them broken. d ocks, so I have named it
close indication of abso- amateu rs and experiment- " The Robin son Crusoe Spe-
lute zero beat is obtained. ers showed nothing . The And finally , it is possib le cial.".
A small plastic magnifying be st all -around answer to come up with a bare-
glass, costing about half a probably will be found in bones type o f ind icator Reference
dollar, can be mounted the ye llow pages of your arm . This c a n be made 1. " A WWV Primer," Thurber,
ove r the p la stic a rm if te lephone di rectory, under from a piece of wood . Addi- 73, Augu st , 1978, p. 84.

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CB-to-10 FM
- best conversion yet?

W h il e in the final
stages of w riting this
a rtic le, we cou ld jus t heat
neli zed band comp lete with
repeater s. a national cal li ng
fre qu ency , be acons , and
manuf actu rers, so the FM
po rtio n of t he t u-meter
band from 29.0 to 29.7 MHz
ha s been e nti re ly o ver-
looked In the he -, te to make
ra pid co nve rsio ns of a m-
t he moans: "Not anot her long-di st an c e skip exi st s ha s long bee n occ upied by pli tud e-m odul a te d rad ios
C8-t0-10 conversion! When le ss than a rneg ah er tz a few hearty ind ivid ua ls to 28.965 MHz . This a rticle
will it end?" ab o ve th e pr op o s ed speci a lizi ng in surp lus com- will pre sent a simple meth-
t o-meier CB-t0-10 band . mercial 2-way FM c o nve r- od o f conve rting a phase-
But look again; this is C8- But wha t about e q uip- sio ns . loc ked loo p Ciuzens Ba nd
to-lO FM . Why not try men t for 10 FM ? The Yaesu ra dio to a state-of-the-a n
Man y wide band, tube -
so me thing different a s sug- FT -901 D and the newl y- f req uen c v-pro gr a m m a b Ie
type bo at a nc hors sti ll live
gested by Steve He rm a n introdu c ed C o m t ro n ix narrowband FM tran sc e ive r
o n. Wi thin the last few
WA7WYf in his a rticle, " Try FM-80 are the only ra d ios ha ving a 0 ,5 uV{20 dB
ye ar s, repea ters , remote
FM o n 29.6 MHz?" ! A c ha n- ava ila b le from a mateur q u ie t in g re ce iver and
bases, a nd beacons ha ve
S-Watt output power trans-
appea red a s ba nd occu-
mitter.
pancy ha s incre a sed . Un-
fo rtunate ly, 95% of this ac- The unit s c hosen fo r th is
tivity has fallen on the conve rsio n a re avai la b le
na tional ca lling freq uenc y fro m seve ra l manu fac turers
a t 29 6 MHz . Re cent ly, a but sha re the sa me printed
band plan ha s been ge n- c ircuit board . Fortunate ly,
e ral ly a ccepted by those these radios a re the $30 to
opera ting on the 10-me te r $40 " loss leaders" a t many
FM ba nd , The nat ion a l c a ll- discount hou ses, Re c en tly,
ing frequ ency at 29,6 MHz large qua ntities of Hy-C a in
is the pivotal simple x tre- PC bo ards for these trans-
quen c ~ . Another sim p le x ceive rs have come o n the
c ha nnel a t 29.5 MH z is in- surp lus ma rket'. ' . They of-
clud ed as a seco nda ry fer all the electronics for
direct c hanne l, a nd fo ur this c o nve rsio n minu s front-
repeater inputs fall at 29.52, pane l co ntro ls, e nclosure,
.54, .56, and .58 MHz . Thei r m icrophone, a nd spe a ke r.
respective o utputs a re 100 They are a vail a ble in the
kHz higher at 29,62 , ,64, .66, $5-to-$15 ran ge . A lis ting of
and .68 MHz . t he manufa ct u re rs an d
model nu m be rs a re in-
Front view of conve rted Lafayette rig. The CB channel You sa y, " Eno ugh ! I'm
cluded in Table 1.
sw itch has been replaced with a 10-position rotar y. A pair o f convinced to tr y 10 FM, but
7-segme nt LEOs ha ve been added for direct frequenc y reed- how do I ge t on the a ir?" Many CB c o nversio n a r-
out. Three toggle switc hes pro vide d ispla y on/o ff, sim- Until now, the c o nver..io n ticl e s apply to early, unob-
p lexirepeat, and add 10-kHz to o pe ra ting frequenc y. of CB radio s to jOmeter FM t a in able 2 3-c hannel
11 7
model s. An adva ntage of o pen position. The phase
thi s conve rsio n is the large detector compares the o ut-
nu mber of ra d ios fo u nd puts o f the two counter
ava ilable , The conversion is c ha nnels and provides a d c
basica lly th e same as o ut p ut which is propor-
desc ribed by Clay Walsh tion a l to the phase dit-
4
W1P1 • He gives an excel - ference of the d igita l input
lent set of instructions for signa ls . The phase d etector
converting these radios to is analogou s to a freq uenc y
AM operation, The addit ion discriminator in a n a na log
of an FM disc rim inator and c irc uit.
movement of a few w ires to
freque ncy- mod ula te t he During start-up operation
Pl l o sci llato r are all tha t is of the Pll Q101 , the volt-
ne eded to FM the radio . age-c ontrolled o scillator
(vee), is runn ing at so me
Phase-Locked Loop Fre- n o n -p h a s e- lo c k e d fr e -
quency Synthesizer qu en c y in the 40 -MH z
The following is a descrip- re gion . This signa l is mixed
tion for the existing Cit- w ith the 37.955-M Hz from
iz ens Ba nd programm ing. osc illa tor #1 a t Q102 (mixer
Under stan d ing th is o p - #1 ). Th e d iffe re nce fre -
e ration is not nece ssary to q uen cy (a pprox imate ly 2
accomplish the conversion, MHz ) is low-pass filtered
but may be helpful d uring and a m p lif ie d t o logi c
tu ne-up or trouble-shoot- leve ls by the Q103 stage.
ing. The hea rt of the CB The 2·MHz signa l is applied
t ransceiver , sho w n in a to the input of the divide-
block diagram in Fig . 1, is bv-N counter at pin 6 o f
the phase-locked loop fre- Pll02A (lC1 01). The fre-
quency synthe size r o r PU . quency is counted down by
It enables prec ise , m ult iple - the programmed divide-bv-
fre q uency genera tion a nd N ra tio, and the o utput of
can be aud io-modulated to this cou nter is fe d to the La fayette rig with bottom cover remo ved to show printed
produce high-qu alitv FM. inte rna l p ha se detector . circuit board moun ted. The speaker has been removed to
The co ntro l integrated This cou nted-down signal is make room.
ci rc u it (l C101) provides co m pa red in frequen cy a nd
three fun ctions. It contai ns phase with the 1D-kHz refer- the correct freq uency . The voltage would sho w up as
the frequ en cy divid er for e nce signa l. If the tw o de sig na l is filte red by a sid e ba nds on the ca rrier.
the ref eren ce oscill ator , a signa ls are not coinc ident, a pass ive , low-pass fil ter sec- This de e rror, plu s an o ffs e t
pro gr ammabl e frequ en cy d e e rro r signa l is ge nerated tion to re move the 10-k Hz voltage , is a pplied a s re-
di vide r, a nd the pha se-se n- at p in 5 o f IC101 by the com ponent on the o utput ve rse bia s to the va rac tor
sitive detector. The th ree pha se detec tor . This error of the phase detector. Any diode, 0 101 , whi ch is the
f un ct ion s of t he ch ip signa l w ill force the vco to rf le ak age on the d c control frequenc y-control e leme nt
operate a s fo llows . The
10.2 4-M Hz sig nal from 00.6"
oscillator #3 , the re ference ""
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IC101 through the program- ,," I RECE'VE
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of the volt age-controlled wi ll latch, causing the PLl frequency of 29 .6 MHz is output of the sy nt hesizer is
oscillator . Tr a n sf o r m er to lose lo ck, w h ic h also dis- shown for t he example. The mixed w ith a 10.695-MH z
T101 makes u p the induc- ab les the t rans m itter to p re- ex ist ing 1 1,B066 -MHz signal fro m osc illator #2
t ive pa rt o f t he vco pa rallel- vent ou t-of-ba nd t ransm is- crystal at o scillator #1 has (Q109). The difference fre-
resonant circu it and pro' sions . been rep laced with on e at quency is 29.6 M Hz. The
vide s coupl ing of the vco 12 .65167 MHz . The front - transmitter is enabled by
signal to the rest of the Tra nsceiver Descri ption panel chann e l se l e ct o r t he Pll " lo cked" output
t ra nsceiver. n01 is adju st- The transceiver has been switc h is set at channel 9. and key ed by a switch on
ed to keep the tun ing volt- de signed to obtain max- The output of t he voltage- t he mic rophone. H igh-lev el
age on t he va rac tor d iode. imum p erform ance at controlled osci llator in the amplitude modu lation is
as m easured at TPB. in the minimum co st. Fi g, 1 sho w s PLL is at 40 ,295 MHz . The app lied from the integrat ed
1 .5-t o-3.5-vo lt range across the f requen cy-generati on programming switch has a ci rc u it aud io ampl ifier to
the operati ng b and of in- schemes for the transmitter divid e-by rat io of 234 en- the d river and final tra ns-
te rest. If the voltage sw ings and the two rece ive r local te red t o t he PL l contro l, mitter transistors. The t rans-
bey ond t hese limits, the vco o sc ill at o rs. An operating 1(1 01 . D u ring t ransmit, t he mitter has four gain stages
and is cap ab le of a powe r
output in excess of 5 Watts
Parts List-Synthesizer Programmer into a 50Dhm load.
Th e receiver is a dua l-
Item Descript ion conver si on su p e r he te ro-
Cl O.Ol·uF disc ceramic dyne w ith intermediate f re-
C2,3 15-uF, 35 V dc tantal um, Mallory TDCl56M035GL or equivalent quencies o f 10.695 MHz
D1 l N270 germanium diode a nd 455 kHz . The recei ved
Dis. 1,2 r-secment common-cathode LED readout signa l at 29,6 MH z is mixed
IC l 74LS147 TTL 10-line·to·BCD decoder
74LS04 TTL hex inverter with the frequen cy-synthe-
IC2
IC3 74165 TTL brnary-to-ecn decoder size r output of 40.295 MH z
IC4 74LS46 TTL BCD-to-7-segment decoder at Q11 5, t he fi rst mixer, to
IC5 7605 a-oln monolithic, 5·V dc voltage regulator with g ive a difference frequency
small heat sink of 10.695 MH z, t he fir st i-f.
Rl·13 470.Qhm , w -watt composition resistor The output o f t h is stag e is
R14 10-0hm, 1-Walt composition resistor filt ered t o re move t he un-
R15 lk-Ohm, V. -Walt compositi on resistor w a nted sid eb and and ap-
R16 1.5k·Ohm , w -w ett composition resistor
plied to mixer #2, Q116,
51 a-pore. z-oeck, to-oostuon rotary switch, Grayhill
a lo ng with the 10.24-MHz
44D3S-Q2-2·AJN or equivalent (Rotate rear deck to facilitate
wiring.) signa l from osc il lator #3
S2-5 Miniature SPOT toggle switch, Alco MST·l050 or equivalent which w as previou sly men-
t io ned in the phase-lock ed
Parts L1st-455-kHz FM 1-' strip loop de scripti on . The di ffer-
Item Description enc e f req ue ncy is 455 kH z,
the second i-f . w h ic h is
C1 15·uF, 35 V de tantalum, Mallory TOC15SM035G L or equivalent
C2-5 0.47·uF monolithic, Centra lab CY20C474M or equ ivalent amplifi ed and di ode-detec t-
C6 O.OH},02 uF disc ceramic, selected for proper squelch action ed . The d etected o ut p ut is
C7 As required to resonate T1 to 455 kHz fed to the same audio am-
C8 22·pF disc ceramic plifier used for t ransm itter
C9, 10 O.OOl·uF ceramic mod ulation, but now the
Cll O.OO5-uF disc ceramic output is coupled to a loud-
C12·19 O.Ol-uF disc cerami c speaker.
C20 O.02-uF disc ceramic There are many acces-
C21 o.i-cr disc ceramic sory functions in t hese t rans-
01 ,2 lN270 germanium signal diode
ceivers, suc h as squelch,
IC1 LM3065 (National) limiter/discriminator, or MC1358P (Motorola)
limiter/discriminator, or CS063 (HEP) limiter/discriminator no ise limiter, noise blanker,
IC2 MC3403 (Motorola) quad op amp, or SK3594 (RCA) quad op rf gai n co nt ro ls, delta tu ne,
amp, or C6 129P (HEP) quad op amp and o t he rs. All u nits, no
01 2N3904 transistor or equivalent NPN switching type m atter who th e man u -
R1 51-Ohm, 1J2·Watt composition f acturer o r wh at the level of
R2, 3 5S0-0hm, V. -Watt composit ion so p hist ica t io n is, can be u p-
R4 1.8k-Ohm, 'I.-Watt compositi on dated to include these f u nc-
R5-8 2.2k-Ohm, V.-Watt composit ion tion s. A l l the printed c irc uit
R9 4.7k-Ohm, V.-Watt composition board s are identi cal , so the
Rl 0 8.2k-Ohm, V. -Watt composit ion
added func tion s can be
R11,12 12k-Ohm, V. W att compositi on
R13 15k-Ohm , V.·Watt composition wi red into exi stin g ho les on
R14 39k-Ohm, w -watt composition t he boa rd s and interfaced
R15 lOOk-Ohm, V. ·Watt composition to th e appropriate sw itc hes
R16 1 megohm, l/.·Watt composition and potentiom eters on t he
T1 4550kHz miniature i-f transformer f ront p anel. In FM opera-
t ion , the onl y two contro ls

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3. Senstnvny
Good occuroC)' o ve r tempf'mturf'. Cq'slal o 8dllator ~ drift with
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conversion is only slight ly meters.
more difficult than convert- 2) Modify the transmitter
Fig. 3. Block diagram, 455 kHz limiter, discriminator, and
ing a CB for 1G-meter AM for FM. squelch PC board.
o pera tion and can range in 3) Modify the receiver for
com plexi ty from a sim ple FM .
hare-bones modification to (a) Slo pe detect and segment LE D readouts. Model Manufaclurer
a d el uxe trea tm e nt with use the existing level- (d) Construct the fre- 2310B Kraco
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e r c a pab ility. The conver- (b) Add the 455-kHz board with LED read- 2320B Kraco
4020B Kraco
sion c a n be done in stages FM detector/squelch outs. Micro 223 Lafayette
starting with the basic mod- board . The above ste ps a re list- HB650 Lafayette
ification to whet you r appe- 4.) Se lect t he frequency ed in the order in which the HB 750 lafayette
tite a nd ad ding t he p rogramm ing scheme. fi rs t conve rsion wa s HB950 lafayette
addit ional feat ures as time (a) Use th e existing CB acco mp lished . The tran s- Hy·Gain
permits. A wa rning shou ld channe l-se lector switch.
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radios converted and op- switches . tion. Th e vco was then 13-8888 Midland
erating on 10 FM. you may (c) Construct the fre- 13-882C Midland
a ud io-modu lated to pro-
not be able to turn it off and quencv-progra mmmg duce FM in tra nsm it. The re- Table 1. CB transceivers
add the remaining mod - boa rd without the 7- ceiver was operated with suitable for this conversion.
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slo pe d etect ion o n rec ei ve; puts CB c hannel l o n 29.5 Vco Alignment power for the rem ai ning
however , thi s proved to be MH z . For exa m ple, 29.5 a ) Se t the freq ue ncy pro- ste ps .
un sat isfa ctory. A PC bo ard MH z is 2.535 MH z hi ghe r g ra m me r to 29 .5 MH z, o r g) Adj us t l1 06, l109 , a nd
w ith l im it in g am p lifie rs, FM t han c ha n ne l 1 (26. 965 c ha nne l l . l 110 for m aximum o u tput.
dete cti on , and noi se -ac- MHz), Thu s, Xl0l IS In- b) Monitor the vo ltage h) Repeat the above , tun -
tiva ted sque lch was devel- c reased from 11,8066 MH z between TP8 and gro u nd at ing for m aximum power
oped to pro vide i m p rove d by 2.535 MHz div ided by 3, the junc tion o f R114 and o u t.
FM rec ep t ion . Th e f in al or ,845 MHz , to 12 65167 R11 5. i) Che ck o ut p ut fre -
step was the evo lut io n of MHz . The tr ansceiver ca n c) Ad just n 01 to o btai n q ue ncy and power out at
f req ue ncy -p rog ra m m in g be o pe ra te d from 29 .5 1.5 vo lts . 29.5 MH z and 29 ,69 MH z
tec hniques, (cha nne l l ) to 29690 (c ha n- d) Set the frequ e ncy pro- (cha nne ls 1 and 16).
nel 16) w ith 29.6 MH z o n g ra m me r to 29 .69 MHz j) Set the e xact operati ng
Step 1. Change the Veo c han ne l9 w ithout c hanging (cha nne l 16). The voltage fre qu e nc y by a dj u sti n g
Offset Crystal t h e CB p ro gramm in g should be app rox imate ly 3 Cll Ol , a tri mme r capacitor
switch. volts . in the offset-osc illator c ir-
Crystal Selection
A crys tal in the 37.9-M Hz cuit.
Th e offset -crysta l fre- Transm itt er Alignme nt
range c a n also be used fo r Re ce iver Alig nment
quency is tripled and sub- a) Set the tr an smit fre-
tracted from the vco fre - the o ffs et crystal. A source quency to 29 .6 MHz . a) Set t he receiver fre-
quency . Thus, to ra ise the of such crys tals is o lder, b) Connec t the ou tpu t to q uency to 29.6 MHz .
vco operating frequency , c r v s t a I-sy nt h e s i z e d . a 5-Watt, 50-Ghm du m my b) Connect a 29.6-MHz
one can simply raise the off - 23-eha nne l CB sets . Ma ny load signal source to the input.
set-crystal frequency by 1/3 of them contai n six crystals c) Connect an oscillo- c) Adjust n04 and n05
of the vco frequency in- in the 37 .6-to-37 .9-M Hz scope o r re ce ive r tuned to fo r maximum signal.
crea se des ired looking range. This is an inexpen- 29.6 MHz to the junction of Alignment Hints
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off set crystal is Important . nel switch. n02 fo r maximum signal at tra nsformers . Make sure
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mitter for FM
a) Disa ble the a mplitude-
modu lated power-supply
li ne that feeds the d rive r
and rf power ampl ifier. This
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high e nd of the aud io ou t-
put transformer . Cut the cir-
cuit board cond uc to r co n-
ne c t ing the cat hode of
0105 to the junc t io n of
C150 a nd R131 . Next. co n-
ne ct the junction of C150
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fo r the transm itter.
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the transm it a udio ci rc uits Top vie w of com binatio n printed circu it board. The ;"1 strip is to the fe ft and the freq uen c y
as shown in Fig. 2. an d d rive programmer is to the right. The board can be di vided near the m iddle to separate fun ctions
TP6 wh ich will FM the vco o r to ma ke use 01 just one. The fin ished boards now have silk-screened co mponent and
and like wise the ou tpu t lead identification.
transm it frequency.
of two inte grated c ircuits the ma jor func t ions of the ze ro-c e nte r " fre q ue nc y"
Step 3. Modi fying the an d 40 disc rete co mpo ne nts FM i-f st rip. The sc hemat ic meter. This is use ful fo r ne t-
Receiver for FM was de si gne d to prov ide i-f diagram of the circuit is Fig. ting off-frequ en cy sta tio ns.
a ) Slo pe dete cti on ca n be li miting, FM d iscrimina tion, 4. The 455-kHz bandpa ss- Resi stor R17 co nnects to
ac compli shed by using the rec eive a ud io shap ing, a nd filter ed signa l from the last the positiv e side of the
ex isting re ceiver delta tune a noise-act ivated sq uelc h i-f a mp lifier in the rec eiv er meter . Resist ors R5 a nd R6
w hic h offsets the re ceiver co ntro l o ut put. is appli ed to the input of provid e a reference vo ltage
fre qu en c y . The e xis t ing A National LM 3065 inte - IC1 . The signa l is amplified at o ne-ha lf the supply volt-
le vel sq uelc h ca n a lso be grated c ircu it was used for by three differential limiter a ge . This point biases the
used. but neit her of these t he lim ite r/di scr im ina tor stages . The 3-cl B limiting negative side of t he mete r.
tec hniques ca n be re co m- sect io n of the ci rcu it. 'i This point is abou t 200 micro- The zero-freq uency output
mende d since a ll of the re a- t C wa s d e s ig n e d fo r volts. The FM signal is de- o f t he di scr imin a t or is
sons fo r operati ng o n FM 4.5-M Hz TV sound service. tec ted by the internal dif- nomina lly a t this potential.
a re lo st if no lim iters and but works we ll a t 455 kHz ferenti al pe ak de tect o r The meter should be a 100-
noise-ac tiva ted sq ue lch ci r- for NB FM . The IC has a n wh ich is se t to t he i-f fre- 0-100 uA mo vement. Poten-
cuits a re employed . The inte rnal temperat ure -c om- quency by a si ngle-tuned tiomete rs can be used in
limiter will improve the sig- pensated vo ltage re gula to r 455-kHz l C parall el net- pla ce of the fixed re sistors
na l-to-no ise rat io a nd mai n- which also is used to pro- work . Standard mini ature i-f to pro vide for ga in and
tain consta nt volume. The vide regul ated de to the re- t ra nsforme rs were used . ze ro-adjust in the meter c ir-
noise-activated sq uelc h will ma ining port io ns o f the c ir- The se co nda ry was rest s- cuits.
o pe ra te o nly o n re a l sig- cuit. A Motorol a MC3403 tivelv lo aded . We o btai ned The o utput of the de te c-
nals. muti ng the re ce iver quad o p amp is the second a bagful of tra nsformers tor is fed to section 2d of
for any noise bu rsts whic h inte grated c ircuit o n the fro m Pol y Pak s oll wh ic h the q uad o p a mp. This is an
do exist o n 10 meters. board . It is an excelle nt were unmarked. ' Two types a ctive bandpa ss filte r wit h
c hoice for thi s type of ser- we re usable. The IF·11 5 rer minus 3-dB poi nts of 500 Hz
b) The 455-kHz FM detec- vice si nce it is designed to o nates with 100 pF across a nd 2.5 kHz. The audio
to r/squelch boa rd re p laces o perate from a si ngle-e nd- the primary a nd the I F·1 16 level a t this sec tion's out-
the le ve l-a ct iva ted squelc h ed power supply. The op with 220 pF. Silve r-mi ca pu t was suffic ient to d rive
an d slope detection which a m ps a re fun cti on all y capacitors a re re commend- the ex ist ing a ud io a mplifier
were no t adequate fo r use- equ iva le nt to the sta ndard ed for temperature stability in the CB set to fu ll o utput.
fu l FM commu nication. To 741 types. in t he tu ned network. The output of the de te ctor
complete the FM conver- The block d iagram of the An o utput c a n be taken a lso is fed to a n internal
sio n, a PC boa rd consisting ci rcuit board, Fig. 3. sho ws from this sta ge to d rive a audio a m plifier with 20 dEt
12.
Channel 1# -;- N Ratio Frequency (MHz) is a no ise a mp li fier. The in- vo l u me -co ntrol poten-
1 224 26.965 put to t his stage is a t- t iome ter as shown in the
2 225 .975 tenuated by the sq uelch- block diagram , Fig . 3. In-
3 226 .985 leve l potentiometer on the d ividual preferences deter-
4 228 27.005 front pa ne l to provide the mine the placement of the
5 229 .015 prope r squelch level for the
6 230 .025
squelch switch in the circuit
7 231 .035
receiver. fo r the best liste ning com-
8 233 .055 The outpu t of section 2b fo rt.
9 234 .065 is fed to the noise detector To convert the receiver
10 235 .075 cons isting of diodes 0 1 and to FM detection , instal l the
11 236 .085 D2. The detector is con- FM i-f strip and run 13.8
12 238 .105 figured as a voltage - volts and common to the
13 239 .115 doub ler whose output is fil- board, Run a lead from the
14 240 .125 tered by R15 and C4 which base of Ql19 on the main
15 241 .135 also provides a time con- tra nsceiver to the " IF- IN"
16 243 .155
sta nt to d isc r im ina te con nect ion on the new i-f
17 244 .165
18 245 .175
aga inst nuisance trippi ng of strip. D isconnect the
19 246 .185 the squelc h circuit. The de- squelch pot from TP7 and
20 248 .205 tec ted and filtered no ise run it to "SQ-POT" on the
21 249 .215 signa l is fed to section 2c of new pc boa rd. Run a lead
22 250 .225 the quad op amp to be com- from "SQ-OUT" to TP7 on
23 253 .255 pared wit h the fixed refer- the main board. Remove
24 251 .235 ence voltage d e vel o ped the lead from the top of the
25 252 ,245 across the R5-R6 voltage volume control pot to TP19
26 254 .265 d ivider. As the receiver is and run the lead to the
27 255 .275 quieted by a n input signa l, "AO" (aud io ou t) port on
28 256 .285
29 257 .295
the detec te d-noise compo- the new i-f board. A zero-
30 258 .305 nents leve l fa lls be low the center mic roarnmeter can
31 259 .315 comparison le vel and the be connected between
32 260 .325 output of sect ion 2d fa lls to M-Plus a nd M-Minus on the
33 261 .335 grou nd leve l. The output of new board to monitor the
34 262 .345 2d is at nearl y supply volt- disc riminator ,
35 263 .355 age when the sq ue lch is o n.
36 264 .365 The squelch action is ad- Step 4. Select Freq uen cy
37 265 .375 justed by varyi ng the value Programmer
38 266 .385 of C6 50 a 2- to 3-microvolt a) Use the existing CB
39 267 .395
40 268 .405
signa l ca nnot be squelched cha nne l-se lection switch
out wit h the squelch con- with no changes to the
Table 2. Channel number, PLL divide-by-N ratio, and tro l pot set full y clockw ise. transcei ve r. This requires
original CB operating frequency using the CB programming A typica l va lue of C6 is 0,01 no effo rt at all, but has
switch. For both 23- and 40-channel models. uF . so me lim itations since the
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stage is high-pass fil tered by component of the input sig- new squelch line or a tran- sired . Fo r example, if the
section 2a of the quad op nal. The output of sect ion sistor can be switc hed to 1 2 .6 51 6 7-M Hz off set
amp, This signal pa th is 2a is fed to section 2b whic h grou nd potent ia l at the c rystal were to be installed ,
29.68 MHz would not be
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transm it. A toggle switc h is disabled by leaving it open {off] state. and -16 inputs to the PU le.
incl uded to add 10 kHz to o r ground ing it. A d ivide-by W ith 52 in the repe a t 53 will add 10 kHz to the
either freq ue ncy. Ste e ring ra tio of 224 is en tered to the position, the 9-volt tr ans- operating frequen cy. It pro-
d iodes a re used to logica lly PlL c hip with no input fro m m itter ke y line in the tr an s- grams the least-signifi cant
O R the o ut put s of th e the progra mme r. The trans- ceiver is mo nitored at the d igit (pin 15) of the contro l
switc hes to the PLl input. A ceive r o pe ra tes a t 29.5 MHz jun ction o f R1 63 a nd 01 06. Ie.
key line in the transc eiv e r is at this no-input sett ing. This po int is clamped to the The p lu s 10-kH z line
se ns e d to a lternate be - 51 is the front-panel pro- 5-volt supply through Rl from the wipe r of 53 and
tween re ceive a nd tr ansmit gramming switc h. It is a and 01 to make the signa l the fou r inverted o utputs of
while in the repeat mode . It z-dec k. to-oosnron ro tary TTl-compatible. The si gna l ICl a re run to 1( 3 and IC4.
will be descr ibed in more switc h whic h wa s modified is a logic high in re ce ive a nd The se a re the z-segrnent dis-
detai l in the fo llow ing sec- by rotating the rear deck by a low in transmit. The logic play decode rs. IC3 is a
tion . Thi s is the simplest 180 deg rees . This was done low signa l to ICl will now binary to BCD decod er . Its
co mp le te frequen cy -cov - to make t he wiring easier. togg le be twe en the two mo st-signif ic ant d igit a p-
e rage sc he me, but has a few Two single-de ck switc hes wipers of 51. de ck A on re- pea rs o n pin 4 This o utput.
probl em s. The non -dire ct co uld be used if re pe ate r ce ive, and dec k B on tran s- when in the high sta te, is
frequency-readi ng switc h- splits of other than 100 kHz mit . Ea ch switc h position equ al to an e nte red cou nt
es, with eac h BCD digit a re desired . 52 is the si m- add s 20 kHz, t here fore a of 100 kHz o r more from
equaling 20 kHz, leads to ple x/repe at switch . In the l OQ-kHz c hange is intro- the programmer, o r 29.6
co nfusio n. Repeater op- simplex po sition . 5 volts is duced with the 5-position MH z a nd a bove. O nly two
erat ion is not automati c. a ppl ied to se ction F o f IC2. switching in the repeater segments of the most-sig-
Both switches have to be This inverts the 5-volt signa l mode. 100 kHz is subtra ct- nificant digit 7-segm e nt
set. to a TT L logic lo w a nd a p- ed o n transmit while receiv- readout need to be c ha nged
c) Co nst ruct the fr e - pl ies it to the selected input ing above 29.6 MHz and to go from a 5 to 6. These
quency p rog ramm ing of ICl through dec k A of 51 . added on transmit while a re segments a and e . The
board without LED read o ut. This 74LS147 is a H)-line-to- listening below 29.6 MHz. switching to accomp lish
This step can be accom- BCD dec oder w hic h re - The o utput of 1C1 is inve rt- this c hange is done by sec-
p lished by o m itt ing t he sponds to a low-l evel signa l ed from the true high logic tio n E o f IC2. the [east-sig-
re a do uts and 7-segment de- o n o ne of its inputs. A zero needed to prog ram the PlL nificant digit (0-9) is de-
coder c hips from ste p 4d . co nd it io n is decoded w hen Ie. The 4 output lines a re coded by the 74lS48. a
d) Construc t the fre quen- the 9-input lines a re high. ru n through 4 sect io ns of BCD -to -7-line de coder.
cv-prog ra mmmg board with
LED readouts . We fina lly
bit the bu llet after going
through seve ra l gen erat ions
of sim p le prog ramme rs,
"
rc PlL Ie
a nd designed a digita l en- on , 5EG"ENT
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coder that included 10-k Hz
steps from 29.5 to 29.7
MHz, au toma tic coverage ."
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sp lits a nd their reverses,
one-switc h frequency selec -
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designed with low-po wer I , ""'\. ,1. Ie,
Schott ky TTl . Five inte- 14L$'O
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position , 2-deck rot ar y
switch, and 3 mini ature II • 4
I
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SPOT toggle switc hes a re I '0 • I '" L __ ...J
L_ ...J
needed fo r the design . To DECK ~ OECK B
'0 " " "
."
make use of t his prog ram -
S, l,lPLt x REPHT
1-1-1-- -( '
mer, a 37.955-MHz c rysta l e ."
is used in the off set osci l- '"
141&~ , '"
lator (12.65167 MHz X 3). I-t-- -< .
The 5 least-s ignificant '"
divide-by lines a re digita lly I" ."
programmed to t he PLL
cont ro l rc. The divide- Fig. 6. Frequency programmer.
128
Sin ce common-cathode spea ke r was unusabl e for state linear amplifiers to How a bo ut a CW Novi ce ri g
Z-segme nt readouts were mobil e work a nyway , du e good use in mobil e service using th e printed circ uit
used, pull-up resistors are to its direction ality. before the FCC took a dim boards? A zero-to-3G-MHz
needed on each segment view of the go ings-on at 11 general coverage receiver,
drive line to the displays . A Antennas, Amplifiers, meter s. These amplifi ers anyone?
OJ P resistor package con- and Such were all of excellent qu ali- Many tha nks to Denny
taining 13 resistors, with We placed many of t hese ty, a nd with the add it ion of Dittri ch WA1 VK S6 for t he
one s ide of each internally transcei vers in mobile se r- a low-pa ss sect ion on t he p rint e d cir cuit la you t s.
co nnected, could be used vic e , so ve rt ica l pol ar- output, met all the relevant Denny has co mbined the i-f
to save space on a printed ization is a ne cessi ty in our sp u rio us and harmoni c st ri p an d th e programm e r
c irc u it board. All of the local operating a rea. Any of specs. on one PC bo ard to save
logic is stati c, so there is no the CB antennas ca n be spac e a nd co st. The boa rd
digital no ise pickup in the used on 10 with so me judi- A Few Closing Comments is ava ilable for $7.00, which
receiver. Sw itc h 54 will d is- c ious pruning. A favorite of Since the spring of 1977, includes the pos tage. See
.able the display electron- ours is the Antenna Special- a pproximately 40 of th ese
.
IC S as a power-sa ving mea- ists' " Sta r Duster" se ries. It rigs ha ve bee n comp leted,
yo u on 29. 6 FM 1_
References
sure. is a 1;4 -wa ve verti cal ground- a nd we are just sc ratc hing 1. St eve Herman WA7WYF , " Try
IC5 is th e m onolithic plane type that resonates t he surface of conve rs ion FM on 29.6 MHz," 73 Mag azine,
a- ern. 5-vo lt vo ltage across the entire 1G-meter possibilities. Thi s is the first November, 1978, p. 184.
reg ula tor whic h powe rs this band by c hopp ing 6 inches tim e a mod ern so lid-state, 2. Surp lus Electro nics Corp .,
ci rc u it ry . It s ho u ld b e from the vertical radiator synt hesized tra nsce ive r ha s 7294 NW 54 St. , Miami FL 33166.
mounted on a sma ll heat and each of the ground- been a va ila ble for penn ies. 3. Pol y Paks, PO Box 942, South
sink. Resistor R2 is used for plane elements. Standard We hope this article will Lynnfield MA 01940.
dropp ing the unregulated 8-foot whips are used in the force a few dormant so lde r- 4. Clay Walsh W1 PI , " CB t o 10,
Part XII," 73 Magazine, October,
vo ltage to the regul ator to mobile installations. ing iron s out of retirem ent.
1978, pp. 254·255.
keep its power dissipation Five Watts of power was l et's get so me c lub pro- 5 . N a t i o nal Semicon d ucto r
down . The inte rna l spea ke r not adequ ate fo r mo bile [ects goin g using these rigs Corp., Lin ear Data Boo k, 1976,
in the transceiver was re- operation with o ur Ne w for e me rgency comm unica- pp . 10·1 38 and 10·1 39.
moved to make space for England hills, so we pu t t ion s. A split-s ite po rtab le 6. Dennis Dittric h WA1VKS ,
the two added printed cir- man y CB " trucke r special" repeater using a m icrowa ve RFD #3, Box 88, W illimant ic CT
cui t bo ards. The inte rna l 50- and 100-Watt, so lid- link looks like du ck sou p. 06226.

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to han g o n a st rap. ma ny
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units or portable units on
ma kes the units convenient
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Operating them as suc h is ca r seat because of its wide
diffi cult enough without base width and slanted
having them topple over
position. Anyone with even
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- add a handy repeater reverse
switch to your Memorizer

T he Yaesu FT-227R Mem-


orizer two-meter trans-
ceiver is fast be coming one
reverse switch, is very sim-
ple to install, requiri ng only
a DPDT switch and some
sim ply rev erses t he t ra ns-
m it and rece ive freq uen-
cies of the rig when used in
plai ned re a son , t he re-
pe ater fails to come back
on so you leave the switch
of the more popular rigs wire, yet it greatly enhances repeat er operation. For ex- in the reverse position and
hea rd on the band these the operational capabilities ample, when you are using t ra nsmit back to h im direc t
days . like many of its p re- of t he rig. t he local .34/.94 mac hi ne. o n his listen ing fr equen cy
decessors, it lend s itself to let me start by exp lai n- you are t ransmitting on and arrange to QSY. H e
many mo d if icat ions. Thi s in g w ha t th e rep e a t er 146.34 MHz an d rec eiv in g acknowledges. never real iz-
mod if ic ation, t he repea ter reve rse sw i tc h d o e s: It on 146.94 MH z. By t hro w - in g the machine is out. As
ing the repeater reverse y ou c an see, the repeater re-
BEFORE AFTER sw itc h, the rig w ould then v erse sw itc h c an be a grea t
t ra nsm it o n 146.94 MHz help to your everyd ay op-
an d re c ei v e on 146 .34 eratio n.
MH z. Bu t w ai t a mi nu t e. you
Im agine t he fo llow ing say; w hy no t just u se t he
situation : You are mo b ile m em ory function of t he
and have just contacted a Memorizer to work repeat-
friend on a long-range er rev erse? You ca n, of
repeat er, but wish to go to cou rse, and this would be
a different si m plex fre- fi ne i f you u se o n ly o ne re-
quencv to con t inue the peater. If you u se severa l
QSO so as not to tie u p t he repe aters as mo st o f u s d o,
m achine. Your fri en d is yo u mu st reprogram the
- - ----;0;. ~';-CU;;:-B-;;A-;;01 al so m obil e, so yo u t hrow mem ory eac h time you
,
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:
the rev erse sw it c h m om en-
t aril y to c heck hi s in p u t
change fr equen cies. Thi s is
not onl y time co nsum ing, it

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(direct) signa l to see if
sim plex ope rat ion is po ssi-
is ve ry d iff icult, i f not
d angerou s, w hen worki ng
~ . .. , RB

o-A'fG( -
l1iJ ble. You fin d t ha t he has a
good signal, b ut befo re you
mo bil e. With t he repeater
rev erse switc h insta lled ,
o-A..6 f -
can get back to him , you r you can change to any f re-
, long-winded buddy times quency and switch instant-
iER S l
out the repeater. So you ly t o t he reverse m od e.
o- A ~& E
ag am u se yo ur rev erse A lso, you have t he added
switc h and l isten di rect to bonus that the r ig's m em o-
Fig. 1. The top shows how to change your r ig schema tic to the rest o f h is t ran smission , ry is no w fr ee t o remem ber
conform to the modifica tion, and the bo ttom shows wir- ne ver mi ssing a w ord . y ou r fa vorit e c ha nnel.
109. Then , f or so m e un e x- The elec t ric al o perat ion

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of the switc h is ve ry simple . Start by wm ng up the c a b le harn e ss, working the re c e ive mode. Put t he
Th e Mem orizer ' s ph a se switc h: Con nect two sho rt toward the front of the re verse switch in e ithe r
lock loo p is contro lled by a jumper wires from the ter- printed ci rcuit board, unt il position and leave it. Put
c ryst a l that is se lec ted minals at one end to the you have fou r or fi ve inches the function switch to
e lect rica lly from six crys- terminal s a t the oth er o f loose w ire . Sho rte n simple x. Program one fre-
ta ls (X301-X30&) depend ing e nd - ma king sure to c ro ss these wires. if necessary, quency of your cho ice into
o n the pos ition of the 5 UP them a s shown in Fig . depending on where you the memory, and then man-
s w itc h, th e f un cti on 1- and so ld e r the ter- have decided to lo cate the ually dial up any different
switc h, a nd the T-R rela y. m inals at one end o nly. switch , and sold er the frequency , leaving the sec-
This modifi cation simp ly Ne xt, c ut a pa ir of wires ap- orange wire to one center ond freque ncy showing on
reverses the crystals se le c t- proximately 10 inc hes in terminal of the switc h. the readout. Now, turn the
e d fo r transm it a nd re- length and so lde r one each l ikewise , solder the function sw itch from
ce ive. It therefore reverses to the termina ls at the un- orange/white wire to the simplex to MEM. If the
all frequency combina- so ldered end . Now se t the other center terminal. It readout rema ins the same,
tions that ca n be selected, switc h aside for a moment, ma ke s no diffe ren ce w hich the reverse switch is in the
including any no n-st a n- and loc a te the re lay on the wire goes to which center norma l posit ion , but if the
dard repeate r pair that right re ar of the top pr inted te rmi na l. Now ta ke t he reado ut c hanges to the mem-
is prog rammed into the circ u it boa rd. Just to t he unu sed end s of th e two ory freq ue ncy, the switch
memory . Simp le x opera- rig ht of t he re lay a re new w ires prev ious ly so l- is in t he re verse posi tion .
t ion remain s unaffected . se ve ra l pins. two of which dered to the switch. cut Now you can cor rectly
Prior to wiring up the are ma rked Rx and Tx. them to the c o r r e c t labe l the switch . If you
modification, you sho uld Ea ch has two wires at- lengths, and solder one to wis h to reverse posit ions,
de c ide where to loca te the ta ched: Rx has an orange Rx and o ne to Tx. Again , simply re verse the switch
switc h. I mounted mine o n and o ra nge /w h it e w ire either wire to e ither pin . center terminal wires, or, if
the bottom c ove r jus t to whil e Tx has two orange The wiring is now com- you a re using a togg le
the right of the meter . In wire s, one marked with plete. sw it c h, s imply turn it
thi s locat ion it is out of pr inted numbers and one Next, you must deter- around .
sig ht a nd e asy to o pe ra te. with out . Un solder the mine which switc h position The modifi cation is now
The mod if icat ion is at de orange/white wire from Rx is normal and whi ch is complete. I think you will
leve l, so switc h and wire and the pla in orange wire re ver se . After br iefly find , as I have, that it
pla cem ent sho uld present (no numbers) from Tx. Pull c he ck ing your wiring, turn makes a good rig even bet-
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flop of IC1 , which turns off short o ut R3. tech nical crew ma y wa nt me ssage o n the 8-t rack
the RlY1, causing the e n- What this accomplishes eve rythi ng totally en- loop, ta pe wea r would be
tire tape system to stop is that if someone is talking closed, without access to excessive. By us ing seve ral
and begin counting those throug h the sys tem and the any functions o r the tapes.l mi nutes of tape, a va riety
ten pu lses produced by the logic brings u p the tape of messages can be used
CW identifier . message, the audio level of Tape Machine and the tape wear will be
This gives you a voice the tape will be 30 dB The tape deck used here greatly re d uce d .
identification once every below the user's own was pu rchased from Poly The system has been in
30 minutes, if the repeater audio. If someone releases Paks for $12 .95. These are use since the spring on the
remains in use . The length the system allowing the excellent units , built by massive Marissa, Illinois,
of the message is left up to COR to de-activate, the Motorola, which work very 81 /21 system and has been
you, since we use the se ns- tape message will come well. They have their own trouble free . The voices
ing foil to shut the tape through the system at full preamp audio boards with used to give the short
system off . deviation. level controls . idents were imitations of
I elected to remove all John Wayne, Amos and
CO R Controls Audio Level Co nstr uction of that head switching Andy, Henry Kissinger. and
One of the unique as- A simple method to solenoid bu sines s and many others . These voices
pects of this voice ident properly house the voice mounted the playback were done for the club by
system is that the audio fed ident system is to mount head so lid to the chassi s. Ed Bolton WA8PUN , host
from the tape head s is fed the tape player mechanism This ensures trouble-free of 3920 kHz each evening .
through R2 and R3 . A se t of and the small PC logic service and more reliable The voice idents add a
contacts of the COR are board in a 17" x 3" x 9" head alignment. lot of versatility to the re-
connected in such a man- chassis . Mount a 19" x 3" The tape can be a 3- or peater system and take
ner that should someone rack panel on the front of 4--minute loop with many some of the boredom out
be using the repeater the chassis . You have the different 5-second mes- of its operation . If you or
(meaning the COR would option of making a cutout sa ges. Use a piece of sens- your club are interested ,
be activated), both resis- in the front pane l so that ing foil at the end of each send a #10 SASE for infor-
tors are in series with the the tape cart ridge can be message. This will shut the mation on a complete kit
tape head . If the repeater is c hanged easi ly without re- system down as the foi l of pa rts available from
not in use (COR de-acti- moving the un it from the passes over the sense fin- Meleo, PO Box 26, Marissa
vated), the COR contacts rack. (In some systems, the ge rs. If you had only one IL 62257.•

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ch aracteristic. This proper- 4. Connec t Q1 co llector to ode, VR2 , from the ba se of power supply that went
ty will be helped along in the junction of the 10k and Q3, and connect it to the from 5-25 volts with ex-
the right direction by co n- 5600-0hm re sistors that ba se of Q6 (a no t h e r ce ll e nt results. The trip
necting 2 or 3 1 N4001 s (or used to be tied to Q2 co l- 2N3414, etc.). Connect one point co uld be se t any-
other cheap s ilico n di - lector. See Fig. 2. e n d of a 1500·0hm , where from B volts to 25
odes) in series with VR2 as At this point you are Y. -Watt resistor to B+ , volts and it would co n-
shown in Fig. 2. An alter- alm ost there. As it sta nds, and the other end of it to siste ntly fire at the trip
native solution would be to after co mple t ing the above the co ll ecto r of Q6 and the point ± O.25 volt.
use a 6.8- to g.z-volt zener operation , the fuse will base of Q3 . Connect the I do regret any dif-
for VR2. clear if the input voltage is Q6 emitter to ground. ficultie s that may have
below the intended set That's it! See Fig. 3. been en countered in the
If voltage is applied to point. I n order to co rrect The initial adjustment is constru ction and testing of
this circuit and slo w ly in-
that malady and finish the done in the sa me manner the circuit. Either version
creased from about 5 volts project, it is nec es sary (and as in the original , and it is (original or modified )
to whatever level wa s in-
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the final modification. tab le . This modifi cation reliab le mean s of pro-
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St. Clair near the US-Canad ia n EXCHANGE:

Contests
border. Operat ions will be from Messag es will consis t o f
2000 GMT January 19th t o 1500 AST, aso number, and the ste-
GMT January 20th using the non's contin ent.
callsig n AD8R. Operat in g fre- SCORING:
f,om~24 ENTRIES: quencies w il l p rinc ipa lly be Exchange poi nts are as fol-
One log s hould be kept for 7275 on sse plus 21380 if prc pa- lows: 80 and 40 meters = 1
counted separately. Multi-op- each mode. Each part icipant gation a llows. Also , 2-meter o p- point per OSO, 20 meters = 2
eratcrs may pa rticipate, but w ill note in his logs the cal1sign, erat ion w ill be o n 146.52, .55, points per OSO, 15 meters = 8
each prefix m ust be listed in the repo rt , and the sequential num. and .58. points per OSO, 10 meters = 12
log. Use all bands 80 th rough 10 ber o f the OSO. When contact s All aSLs will be acknowr- points per OSO. No points or
meters. The call should be are made with Lions or Leos, edged with an 8 x 10 certif icate multipliers are counted for con -
made as "CO TEST LION S." Par- th e name of the Li ons Club or commem orating this event. No tacts with one's own country.
ticipating lions or Leos should Leo Club contacted should be SASE necessary; just QSL to Only two-way AnY contact s
Identif y their clu b name. Onl y clearly identif ied in the log. Box 545, Sterling Heig hts MI are valid. Multipliers are given
one aso with the same station Confirmation of contacts will be 48078. for countries and continents
in eac h band will be counted. m ade by comparing the logs 01 worked . A multiplier is given
Phone an d CW are co unted sep- t he parti cipants. Participants NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA for each country worked on 20
arately as previously stated. should send their log sheets, RTTY FLASH CONTEST through 10 meters, but no coun -
SCORING: postmarked by air mail not later Operating Periods: try multipliers are g iven for 80-
SCore 1 point for asos within than 30 days after the contest, 1800 GMT January 19 to and 4O-meter cont acts. A sepa-
the same continent, 3 points be- t o: Lions Club of Rio de Janeiro 0200 GM T Janua ry 20 rate multlptler ma y be c laimed
tween d ifferent cont inents . ARPOADOR, Rua Souza Lima 1200 GMT to 2400 GMT for the same country if a enter-
SCore 1 extra bonus point for a #310, Apt. 802, Rio de Jane iro January 20 ent band is used (m ax . 3 t imes).
aso with a member 01 a Lions 22081 , Brazil, South America. The contest is sponsored by On ly count ries wh ich appear in
Club or leo Club and 5 extra Various medall ions, trophies, the IATG Rad ioc ommu ni ca - at least Sather contest logs w ill
bonus points for a aso w ith a nd cert ifica tes w ill be awarded trona and is open t o all RTTY be va lid as multipliers. The con-
a member of Aio de Janeiro winners in ea ch cl ass, etc. stat i on s o p e r a ti n g o n 80 tinents are also valid as mum-
A RPOADO R lions Club. Con- through 10 meters. The DXCC pliers. For contacts with North
tac ts between Brazil ian sta- FREEZE YOUR ARCTIC OFF list will be used tor count ry and South Ameri ca, the sender
tio ns and members of the EXPEDITION status except that the V ENO, and receiver will each be as-
Li o ns Clu b Rio de Ja nei ro On January 19th, the Ford Tin W/K, VK, PY, LU, JA , and UA0i9 signed 100 points as muttt-
ARPOADOR will count only 2 Ltzzy Club, No rt h M et ro Chap- call areas will be considered as pliers. 50 points will be as-
ex t ra points. Contacts between ter, will have the second annual separate count ries. Operating signed fo r each of the remain-
members of the ARPOADOR Freeze Your Arcti c Off Expedi- classes include single- or mult i- ing continent s as contacted. An
Club will not count any bonus t ion. The c lub will be o perating o perato r st ati ons using a sing le add it ional 100 points will be
poin ts. from the frozen wa stes of Lake transmitter and SWLs. given for each cont ac t with
North and South America on 15
or 10 mete rs. Final score is th e
totalaso poi nts tim es the nu m-

Results ber of countries ti me s the num.


ber of cont inent points plus the
tot al points for North and South
RESULTS OF THE 1979 FRENCH CONTEST Ameri can stations worked. Ex-
ample: 600 poi nts for total x 10
CANADA-CW W4UNO 66,654 98
3. _ count ries worked x 100 conn-
Call Points QSOs WB4YGL 25
nent points = 600,000 plus 20
VE1M X 159,238 157 N6AW 55,575 89
st at ions of North and South
VE1AIH 90,288 10. N6TW 2,002 15
America worked on 15 and 10
VE2WA 8,712 37 N60B 90 3
meters giving a great total of
VE3DAP 214,964 179 W8UVZ 284,994 210
602,000 points.
VE3KZ 59,092 89 N8DE 240,909 186
Two promotional periods are
VE6LU 30,618 77 W8DSO 55,815 96
inc luded in the contest: Satur-
V01KO 189,635 167 W8VSK 8.060 31
day, January 19th, from 1900 to
K8NM G 3.360 21
2000 GMT, and Sunday, January
CANADA-PHONE W90A 302,085 228
20th, fro m 21 00 t o 2200 GMT.
VE2RV 1,542,752 737 K9 FD 56,792 93
Stat ions o pe ratin g from Euro pe,
VE2AFC 145,137 149 WBeGOB 54,780 Il3
Afr ica, Au stralia-Ocean ia, and
VE2EML 30,078 61 WrwDW 10,730 37
A s ia co nt ac tin g N ort h and
VE3 KZ 1,592,730 605 Sout h Am erica d uring th ese
VE3BR 5.400 20 USA-PHONE
hours w ill double their points
VE4SW 8,100 30 WB1 CRG 25,080 57 for these periods.
VE7VP 35,345 68 W1BWS 3,570 21
log: VE1AIH F2YS/W2 501,835 304 RTTYer s entering logs in this
K2J FV 129,612 155 co nt est wh o have not partici-
USA-CW KB2DE 41 ,440 74 pated in previous co nt ests will
K1SA 343,360 2' 5 HI3DJP/W2 11,070 41 receive an additional 5% at t he
W1BWS 51,220 83 W2QKJ 7,752 33 fina l score as a handicap. The
WA1FCN 29,798 85 W2UL 1.680 14 contest is open to RTIY SWLs
W10PJ 2.040 17 N4N X 75,190 103 using the same scoring rules.
W1PWK 819 9 W4 KMS 39,200 70 LOGS AND ENTRIES:
W1CFZ ' 90 7 WA4AXT 27,280 68 Use one log for each band .
K2SX 323, 175 212 WB5MSU 1.200 12 Logs must con tain date and
W 2GKZ 41,528 73 W6H X 68.... 102 t ime in GMT, call sign, RST,
K2MO 31,878 78 N6TW 720 9 number o f OSO, cont inent sent
K2 PF 22,nO 52 N7DF 12,383 43 and received, country and conn-
W2NCG 22,386 54 KA8 BAC 52,780 91 nent multipliers, points, and
W3ARK 328,600 222 WA9FZO 109,736 129 f inal score. Each station may be
W3HDH 105,892 120 W90A 105,469 118 con t act ed only o nce on any
K3NR 29,100 61 K9 H DE 79,725 107 band ; additio nal contacts may
N3RL 640 8 W90WM 16,502 48 be made with the same station
WA40ML 104,960 128 WDCOC 13,200 .0 if a different band is used. In
WB4ENI 101,994 116 WDPKO 1,820 14 order to qualify, all logs must be
received no later than February

144
20th. Send logs 10: Pro f. Franco Score 3 poi nts per aso Fa, Rapa FO, Marg uises Fa, pleasantries.
Fanti, Via A. Dallolio n 19, within the same continent and Gambier Fa, To uamo to u Fa, FREOUENCIES:
Bologna 40139, Italy. For SW ls 10 points per asa with another Terre Adelie FIFBSY. Kerguelen CW-up 60 kHz from low
only, the same station is valid continent. Multiplier is the nurn- FBSX. St. Paul et Amsterdam band edges.
only one time on all bands. ber of Frenc h units from the list FB8Z, I. Crozet F BSW . Phone -3910, 7280, 14280,
A WA RDS: below on each band . Final score 21380,28580.
Grand prizes are reserved for is total aso points times the CLASSIC RADIO EXCHANGE Novlcerf ecn - 3720, 7120,
the four fi rst pl ace w inners. total multipl ier. St arts: 2100 GMT Sunday , 21120,28120.
Consolation prizes along w ith EN TRI ES: January 27 U sten on the half ho ur to 20
medals and ce rtifica tes will l og s mus t be sent w ith a End s: 0400 GMT Monday. for coast-to-coas t OX an d o n the
also be awarded . Remember rec ap s heet; a ll mu lti pliers January 28 three-quarter ho ur on 15.
th at t his co ntest Is v a lid should be listed for c hec king on The contes t is sponsored by
to wards the fi nal standing of each band . Entries should be the Southeast ARC of Cleve- SCORING:
the 5 Continent World Champi- ma iled to REF French Contest, land, Ohio, and is open to all Add t he numbers of different
onship. sq. Truda ine 2, 75009 Paris. amateurs. The object Is to re- transmitters, re ceivers, and
France. store, operate, and enjoy older s tat eslp rovi n ceslcou nt ries
FRENCH UNITS: equipment with like-minded worked on each band. Multiply
FRENCH CON TEST
95 Frenc h departments (2 fig. hams. A classic radio is any by total number o f asos on all
CW
ures). DA 1/2 station of F forces bands. Multiply that total by the
St arts: ‫סס‬oo GMT January 26 equipment built since t945 but
Ends: 2400 GMT January 27 in Dl. French overseas coun- at least 10 years old, an advan- classi c multiplier: t he total
tries- Mayotte FH , Reunion FR, t age but not required. The same years old of all t ransmitters and
Phone
rece ivers used with 3 QSOs
St arts: ‫סס‬oo GMT February 23 Europa FRlE, J uan de Nova station may be worked wi th dif-
FRIJ , Glorieu ses FRIG, Tro me- ferent equipment combinations minimum pe r unit. For t rans -
Ends: 2400 GMT February 24
Th is contes t Is o pen to sm. lin FRIT, Gu yane FY, St. Pierre and o n eac h mode on eac h ce ivers, m ult ip ly the years o ld
gle·operator sta tions o nly and et Miquelon FP, Martin iq ue FM , band. General call is "CO CX" by t wo .
all contacts must be made w it h Guadeloupe FG. St. Mart in FG, o n CW and "ca Exc hange" on ENTRIES:
F re nc h co unt ries (see list St. Ba rt helemy FG, Clipperton phone. No n-contesta nt s may be Send logs, comments, anec-
below). Fa , New Caledonia F K , I. worked for c redit. dotes. etc., to: Stu Stephans
EXCHANG E: loyaute FK, Chesterfield FK, EXCHANGE: KBSJ , 1407 Hollywood Rd., San -
RS(T) and sequential aso Wallis FW, Futuna FW. New Name, RS(T), state/provincel dusky OH 44870. Include an
number. Hebrides YJ, I. du Vent Fa, l. country, receiver and transmit- SASE for copies of the Classic
SCORING: sous Ie Vent FO, I. Australes ter type, and other interesting Radio Newsletter and results.

Capitals Award . Th is award is It is ho ped by the directors,


not to be coni used wi t h t he officers , and members of NN RC

Awards State Capi ta ls Award be ing o f-


fe red by t he 3.905 Century Club
Net.
th at amateurs every whe re wi ll
accept t he award as a gesture
on the part of t he sponsor to fur-
f,om ~ 18 the sta tion's callsign, d ate and ther promote and expand good-
lime in GMT, band and mode of STATE CAPITALS AWARD will and te tter understanding
IUSKAI. operation. and RS(T). The Newark News AadioClub among amateur operators and
Walter Blaltner HB9AlF of Newark, New Jersey, lakes s ho rtw ave listeners.
The 26 cantons are as tot- pleasure in announcing its The Slate Capitals Award is
writes to present us with their lows:
awards program in more detail . sponsorship of the SCA - State o ff ered in three (3) classes:
AG Aargau Capitals Award - which is avail- Class C - work 30 state capital
HElVETIA 26 AWARD AI Appenzell Inner Ahode n able to lice nsed a mate u rs cities; Cl ass B -work 40 stale
This awa rd has been In. AR Appenzell Outer Rhoden t hro ugho ut the world fo r work- capi tal c ities; Class A - work 50
stltuted by t he Union o f Sw iss BE Bern e ing stations located i n sta te state ca pital ci ties.
Short Wave Amat eurs (USKA) Bl Basle Coun t ry c apital ci t ies o f the Un ited There are no ba nd o r mode
with the obj ec t of fu rt he ri ng BS Basle City States on or after January 1, endorsements. Crossmode con -
friend ly relations and the com- FR Fr ibo urg 1960. Th is award is also ava il- t ac ts will not be valid.
pet itive spi rit between it s G E Geneva able to sho rtwave l istener s on a To apply , appl ic ants should
members and radio amateurs Gl Glarus " hea rd" basis. prepare a list of c o n t ac t s
abroad. GA Grisons The purpose of this award is claimed , listing them in alpha-
Foreign amateurs must sub- JU Jura to offer recognition for o pe rat- betical order by US state. m-
mit aSl c ards Showing evi- lU lucerne i ng achievements and to offer elude the usual logbook infor-
dence of contacts with stations NE Neucnatet still another worthwhile ccn- mation lor each contact. Have
in each of the 26 cantons and NW Nidwalden tribution to the field of compet- this list verified locally by two
ha lf -eant ons of the Swiss coo- OW Obwalden itive radio amateur operation. amateurs, a local rad io club
federation on any ba nds be- SG Saint Gall
tween 1.8 and 30 MHz. SH Schaffhausen
All con t ac ts c la imed mu st be SO So lot hurn
made o n o r afte r Ja nuary 1, SZ Sc hwyz
1979. crossmooe cont acts w ill TG Thurga u
not be valid. Award s will be 01· TI Tic ino
terec for all phone, all CW , UR Uri
phone/CW m ixed mode, radio- VD Vaud
VS Valais
teletype (ATTY), and slow-scan
ZG Zug
television (SST¥).
ZH Zuric h
aSl cards submitted must
clearly show t he location (can . Applications for the award
ton) of the Swiss stalion at the must have sufficient postage
ti me of con tact. Any a Sl c ard enclosed in t he form of IRCs t o
fro m a Sw iss station operating allow t he sa fe ret urn o f your
from a temporary o r port able e st, c ards.
location at t he time of the co n- Mai l yo ur application to t he
tact must show t he can ton o f at te ntion o f: Walter Blattner
suc h location in order to be HB9AlF, PO Bo x 450, 6601
recognized as a valid contact. l oca rno , Switzerland.
In addition t o aSl cards, ap- The awards custodian for the
plicant must submit a signed Newa rk N e w s Ra d io Cl u b ,
list of all contacts in alpha- W B2M RA, sent me inform ation
betical order by canton. Inc lud e re g ard i n g their new State

145
secretary, or a notary public. Do aged to utilize th is no-cost ser- you might consider to bring uves and be the fir st in your
not send a SL cards. Have your vice to publicize your aw ard s worldwide recognition for your area to prOUdly possess the
verified list sent along with the program. As you know, thou- fraternity and help build your beautiful awards being soon-
$1.00 aw ard fee to: S. J. Knox sands of am ateurs join ou r club's treasury . sored by the editors of 73 Mag·
W82M AA , 212 Nort h Jerome ranks annually and mo st are not azine.
Avenue, Margat e, New Jersey aware of the variou s o perating As yo u know , J anuary 1st
08402. incent ives avai lable to them . It marks a new year. Those pu rsu- We now have a supply of 73
is the intent of thi s column to ing the 73 Aw ard s Program real- Magaz ine Awa rds Program
Checking my files, t find t hat share the many ac hievement ize all contac ts claimed lor t he booklets o n hand. Send for your
information about foreign OX programs the amateur com- 73 OX Country Club and the copy today. Be sure to enclose a
award programs outnumbers munity has to offer. Why not Worked All USA Awa rd are large SASE with your i nquiry.
that of the domestic t ype fo ur to research your local area. Per- based on a single calendar year. See you next month. Continue
one. Stateside c lubs, societies, haps your club doesn' t sponsor Get in on the ground floor and to climb the ladder of recocnt-
and o rga nizations are encour- an award . Maybe t his is an area pursue t hese operating incen- tion.

tween U7 and U15 is A32. - ccnnect the top and bottom

Corrections
- R33 should be mounted in sides of the PCB together with
holes directly above pins 13 and pieces of wire, using 4 pieces on
11 of U15. Note that the "Z:·w ire each side.
placement in Fig. 7 shows <There are two unused pads:
Please note t he fo llowing cor- missing ; t h e y sho u ld be "Z" wi res here -this is incor- One is to the right of U12·16 and
rect ions to "The MICRQSIZEA: C04510s. CD4029s ca n be used rect. the other is just above the left
Comput erized Frequency Con - if power-up reset to 0000 is not «The heat-sink tab s on U17 pad f or jumper 9.
tro l," which appeared in the Oc- requi red . and U18 are shown on w rong - All dr illed ho les are #65.
tober, 1979, issue. - C24 was li sted as .47; it side. In and out leads are cor- Some may need to be slightly
should be 47 ,.F. rect. enlarged to accommodate vart-
Parts List: -r t re values tor U17 and U18 ettons in cert ain co mponent
Fig. 7: leads.
-C35 was listed as C31- were interchanged .
-rnaddit ion to the above
there is no C31. - Make sure there is a good
problem, nine " Z" wires were ground between MICAOSIZER
- A46, R26, and A33 are m iss- Fig . 6: omitted. The correct layout is
ing ; th ey should be 10k, 'I. Watt. «The unmarked IC in t he and t ra n sc e i ve r; othe rw ise ,
shown here. some rough ness of t he CW note
- A40 was listed as 4.7k; it lower right-hand corner is U14.
should be 1.5k, '/. Watt. erne unmarked resi sto r be- may occur.
Additional notes:
- CA10 was listed twice . - R43 should be adjusted to
tween U16 and U15 is A34. - Jumoer U16-4 to U1G-12 on
give vf o injection at the same
- U1O, U11, U12, and U13 are -rne unmarked resistor be- the back side.
level as the int ernal vto. Too
much level will cause spurious
response problems.
Fred Studenberg W48F
• Tampa FL

I wou ld like t o point out some


• items that need correc ting in
my article " Yes, You Can Bui ld
This Synthesizer !", which ap-
peared in the October. 1979,
• issue.

There are fou r parts on t he PC


board layout on page 6 1 which
have t he incorrect value s
marked on them. AS (18OQ) is
• correct ly listed in the schematic
and parts list, but is incorrectly
shown as 2702 on the pa rt s
• • layout. A22, located to t he left
• ••• • •• •• • of th e 4059, is marked as a 2.2k;
• • • • it should be a 1.8k. A19, located
• •
•• ••
to the righ t of the 4001 , is
• • • marked as a 270Q; it should be
• • •
18OQ. Finally , C42, located in
• •• •• • the lower right·hand side 01 the
• • • board, is marked as a 33 ,.F; it
• • • • should be a 2.2 ,.F.
• •
• • • • • • Z4 is inc orrectl y d raw n in t he
sc hematic as a quad NAN D
• gate; in reali ty, it is a quad NOR.
However, since all of the gates
• • • • are used as invert ers, a C04Q11
• • • • will also work as a pm-tor-otn
• • substitute.

• I have also received numer-


ous inquiries concerning t he
availab ilities of the PC board
• and Y3, the 26.667-kHz crystal.
Bo t h Items are available
through me for lifteen dollars
apiec e.
Michael 01Ju lio WB2BWJ
Revised Fig . 7, " Th e MICROS/ZER." Maplewood NJ
146
New Products
from~26 purposes. The operator need
on ly hit any keypad button or
first 10 offer "Sctt Partition- the key paddle to defeat the
ing"TM of the memory unlike the tune mode.
" hard partftlomnq" utilized in all Editing a memory loading
other keyers. "Soft Partitioning" mi stake is a simple task. If you
means no was ted memory are near the end of loading a
space. All of the memory can be message into memory and a
euotteo to one message loca- mistake Is made, it only takes
tion, or il can be divided up rnto seconds to erase the mistake OK 's new mini-shears.
as many as len locations. and then continue with an error-
The memory can be loaded in free message. to the standard " b ro adc ast" prec ision hardened and ground
automatic mode fo r perfect The Morse'aanc includes a Jaws for long life as well as com-
band (AM), the Mod el EP-8 re-
message formatting or it can be sophisticated Morse tra iner. It f ortable cushioned g ri ps t o
ceives shortwave frequenc ies
loaded in the real -time mode for is the only trainer that w ill auto- from 3.9 to 12 MHz (ideal for minimize operator fatigue. For
ind ivid ualizing a message. matically inc rease the speed of receiving WWV t ime signals o n further in formation, co nt ac t OK
Memory can also be loaded in the practice characters so that 5 and 10 MHz). Con t ro ls include Mach ine and Tool Corp., 3455
the automatic keye r mode (any yo ur brain is " f oo led" into t hin k- Conn er Stree t, Bronx N Y 10475.
a band-selec t switc h, tu nable
dol and dash ratio) or in the ing it is st ill copy ing the starting Reader Service number 05.
d ia l for AM and SW, and vo lume
semi-au to (bug) mode. Any mes- speed . cont rol coup led with an ON·
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really for amateur radio; this they were d irty. Anyone livi ng
was for CB. And ditto several near a CSer cou ld have told

W2NSD/i ot hers (Co bra, Midland, etc.)


which appeared at that time. I
was invi ted to visit Regency t o
them that ... but apparently no
o ne did.
Th is k il led the 5O-chan nel
preview t he 220 rig and the plan, but it was qu ickly rep laced

NEVER SAY DIE president of the firm was willing


to make a very substantial bet
with me that the FCC was going
with a 40-channel CB plan
w hich would not permit t wo CB
channels t o be 455 k Hz apart.
editorial by Wayne Green to okay the 220 CB pro posal
soon. He already had the ex-
Then came the blow which the
industry never co unted o n . . .
pen se of the 220 ham rig on the and the o ne which brought
from page 6 de cided to go about this line, so I decided not to venture down the multi-billion dollar m-
obl iquely. First I put together a any bets. dustry in fl ames. The commts-
When I heard about the EIA petition for a cod a-free ham Th ings cooled a little bit more ston, under great pressure from
plan to try to take the amateur band at 220 MHz and fi led that when the chairman of the FCC the EIA and the White Ho use
22O-M Hz band away and make it w ith the FCC. I figured that the left and went onto the Nixo n OTP, o kayed the ec -c tranner
a CB band , I cont ac ted Andy firms behind the 220 CB push White House staff. Then we plan ... but put off the sale of
and tal ked with him about it. I w ould et firsl reject this, but if r found p ressure build ing up the new rig s l or s ix months . . .
told him t thought it wa s pretty could bring enough pressure, shortly after that via t he White until January first.
crummy, him being an amateur perhaps they would support it Ho use Off ice of Teleco mmu ni- Up until that time, CB was go-
and t he head of one of the larg- and t his wou ld serve t he dual ca tions Policy. This obviously ing strong. We had CB movies
est of t he ham manufacturing purpose of saving the band for was pressu ring the FCC, so I one after the ot her CB te levi-
firms, t o ba nkroll the loss of a hams and also act as a nice en- called the OTP and said I would sion program s a whole
ham band. He said that busi- try level experience for new start making a big stink over the bunch of CB records ... th e
ness was bu siness a nd that , af- hams. And we c ert ainl y did White House con nection if they count ry wa s be ing CBed at ev·
ter all , amateurs were not using need new hams at this t ime did n't pul l back. I don't know ery turn and was responding by
t he ba nd, so it he d idn't get it (1969). whether that did any good o r buying CB sets as fast as Ja pan
away for C B, some ot her service Next, when the EIA proposal not, but the pressure did seem c o uld make them and shi p them
wo uld grab it. He po inted o ut for 220 CB was filed, I got after to abate at that time. over. CBers were gett ing on the
that we w ere weak becau se we my friends in Canada and Mexi· Well, getting back 10 the CB air by the millions . . . asking
had no lobby, such as the EIA, c o and got them to put on t he screw-up . The manufacturers, about sm okey and ge nerally rag
that money talked when it came pressure for a reject io n of the via t he Elec t ro nic Indust ries c hew ing. As one drove down the
to government, and that they plan on t he bas is that it would A ssociat io n, were putting on highway, just about every tenth
had support from peopl e at t he interfere with th eir am ateur op- the pressure for 50 CB chan- car had sprouted a CB whip.
highest level of the FCC fo r th is erations across t he border. This nels. It looked as il t hey were The announcement that there
move. was a key approach because goi ng to get it through . Then would be 40 channels, but that
I coun tered, suggesting that this band was designated as someone got to worrying about the new sets could not be pur-
we pus h for a c od a-free ham amateur with ITU and thus our poss ib le interference to any c hased l or si x months, put an
licen se for 220 MHz and thus government would have to be radio equipment using a 455- inst ant freeze o n sa les. Those
keep it a ham band , rather than sens it ive t o the com pla int s kHz i·f if two CB rigs happened shi ploads of 23-channel sets
lose it permanently to CB. He from ot her governments if we t o be 455 kHz apart in frequen-
were st ill coming in from J apan
fe lt that w ould be too restric- were propos ing a non-perm itted cy. Ooops. No o ne had co nsid- and the factor ies were t urning
tive, thai the y would sett le for use for the band. ered t hat before. them out by the hundreds of
nothing less than CB for 220 Despite the high level support The FCC ran some hasty thousands. Within days, the
MHz and thus be able to sell within the FCC c lai med by t est s and found two things. shelves of dealers in the US
mi llions 01 people another ra- And y, t he protests of Canada First, they verified t hat two CB became loaded and orders were
dio. With the amateurs having and Mexico did in fact cool the rigs 455 kHz apa rt would indeed fr ant ica lly being cancelled. It
virtually no c lo ut in Washing· CB proposal ... a bit. cause a mess w ith radios and took several months to shut
ton, he fe lt it was just a mailer The manufacturers who were other CB un its. They also cts- down the flood of eq uipment be·
o f time bef ore they got 220 MHz involved with this situation covered , t his apparently be ing ing made In Japan and get the
for CB. were convi nced that the EtA had the first time that t hey had ever ships un loaded into ware -
There was no way t o reall y it made. If you remember, Re- tested the CB rigs being so ld , houses all over o ur co untry. It
write about this plot and name gency came o ut with a 220-MHz that many were send ing out all was a disaster.
na mes, so I mu lled it over and transceiver. Wel l, this was not sort s o f spurious em ission s . " The bright si d e w as t hat

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come January, the industry es and these were fed by CBers low bands, we do run into more adaptable to compacting than
would be allowed by the FCC to and HFers, making recruitment signal packing than we like on others. Take the average OX
sell the new, cleaner 4{k:hannel of new hams easy . Then , when weekends and during contests, contact lor the purpose 0 1 get·
sets and then everything would CB went away, so did the re- but if you are even slightly ad- ting a new country ... the call-
be alright again. The manufac- cruits, and the result is that to- venturous, you know that we sign , report, and a confirmation
turers cheered each o ther up at day amateur radio newcomers have lots of open channels. are all that is needed. Now, ob-
meetings with plans for selting are few and our population is During much of the day and viously, that could be made a
the prices high at first in order agai n decreasing . . . and ham night, th e 2D-mete r band- at good deal more efficien t than it
to make up for the losses. Other dealers are hurting. least the Advanced portion of it is at present, list operations
firms kept telling each other Fortunately, I thi nk there are - has room for more signals. notwithstanding.
that it wasn't as bad as it some things which we can do to The General part is often filled It may be possible lor future
looked. I went to some of these get newcomers coming into am- with bunches of nets and pre- DXpeditions to conduct a two-
industry meetings and I have ateur radio again •. . and I think sents more of a problem in find· way contact with eager OXers,
tapes of the self-delusion which I have some ideas which will ing open channels. I defy you to all within two seconds per con-
was going on. bring amateurs back into build- find a time when 15 meters is tact. The bandwidth might be a
The manufacturers tried to ing gadgets and buying new open and you are unable to find bit more than we are using to-
get the FCC to move the dead- equipment. I will be discussing an empty channel . .. ditto ten day, but the goal is exchanging
line ahead so they could at least my plans fo r reviving amateur meters. Lo t s of 'em. information efficiently, and in
start selli ng their new sets dur- radio at th e January Aspen Ham But whe n we start t alki ng in this we want to take advantage
ing the Christmas rush, but the Industry Conference. I'll go into terms of getting more hams, we of every minute that the band is
FCC was not to be moved ..• more detai ls on this in future is- have to start thinking in terms ct open to a certain area. We can
nor were the CB sets. You could sues of 73. I can't do this eventually solving a crowded afford to expend frequency
now buy zs-cnanner sets for half alone ... but I can provide sup- band situation . To a large spectrum to buy time. If we are
their parts costs almost any- port for those who want to do degree, we can spread out our transmitting our causrans at a
where. I saw nice sets going for something. hamming, using the ott-hours speed of, say, one hundred
$10 and $20, and going begging. The FCC recently asked for for more interference-free con- words per minute, then it will
This was when I got started with comments on the proposed CB tacts. But if we are going t o take about one one-hundredth
the idea of hams buying them use 01900 MH z and I wrote up a thin k in te rms of doubling or o f a minute to send a callsign
and converting them fo r 10m lengt hy proposal for tha t band. I tripl ing (or more) the ham oopu- ... that's about a hatf second.
use. Unfortunately, only a few do thi nk th at it will be possible lation of our country, then we By automating these Oxpect-
thousand were converted. Pity; I to generate billions of dollars in have to start thinking in other tron contacts and contacts with
think hams missed out on a sales of CB equipment for this terms. rare countries, we could sal-
good and very inexpensive new band if it is established as I I do have some technical vage a good deal of the low end
band as a result. But this was at have proposed. I'll try to get my ideas which may forever change of 20 meters. This would provide
the bottom of the sunspot cycle proposal for this into 73 in the amateur radio. 1"11 be developing more channels and time lor
and ten was stinko, so the 10m near future for those interested these in conjunction with the hams to swap basic station in-
AM band did not catch on. in the concept. I have not pro- ham industry and I think you 'll formation . . . which seems to
January finally arrived and posed a service anything like like what I have in mind. l Ihink it take up a good deal of the ham
SUddenly the industry otscov- the present CB eleven-mete r may revolu tionize much o f our spectrum. Again, this could
ered that CB was no longer a mess. My idea is t o provide a operation. easily be automated and most
fad. The movies were forgotten communications service more Belore we get into serious of the station data communicat-
... the TV shows cancelled •.. like the one originally intended technical developments, I think ed within one second or two
even the hit CB songs were now by the FCC for CB. It would pro- we can look more carefully at with some encoding standards.
old ies and CB joined the hula vide personal communications amateur radio and the frequen- But what about the rag chew-
hoop in unpopularity. The great virtually anywhere at any time cies it requires. Of course, the ers, you may ask. Well, if we are
plans for making a killing on the wanted. It would interface with concept of frequency is decep- able to streamline the OX con-
new sets evaporated as prices the telephone, with computers, tive since we are actually talk- tacts, the hello-goodbye con-
skidded in a desperate effort to with beeper callers, etc. ing about a factor which might tacts, and contests, wouldn't
drum up sales. It didn't work and Well, I'm sort of sorry about be considered to be frequency x that leave a lot more time and
we then saw the major manu- the drop in imports, but not too time. II you look at amateur frequencies for rag chewing?
facturers folding up, one alter sorry. I do think that we should radio communications as using But, you may argue and I
the other. Pride collapsed. pester the hell out of our repre- a resource which is the product wouldn't blame you rag
Johnson suffered terribly, but sentatives in Washington to get of frequency channels and time chewers don't lalk about any-
their commercial radio sales rid of the capital gains tax so we ... what in computer terms is thing much anyway. Well ,
kept them in business. Hy-Gain will have investment money to called Mthroughput" . .. we can maybe you don't , but f do. The
disintegrated. with the ham end rebuild our high technology m- get a better grasp on what is fact is that I enjoy talking . I'm
of things being picked up by Tel- dustries. And we need to de this happening and what we may be not quite so good on listening,
ex ... and doing quite well, before we lose the last of them able to do to improve the sttua- but then neither are you. So I'll
thank you. . .. microwaves and microcom- non. put up with you t alk ing a lot as
Like mill ions of others, I have puters. There are sampl ing t e ch- long as you'll put up with me oo-
a CB set in my car, but I don't niques which remove about ing the same.
use it very much. It 's handy 80% or more of speech and you Ott, I enjoy OX contacts, too,
THAT BANDWIDTH PROBLEM
when there are traffic problems can't tell the difference. We may and I will get just as excited as
An eon or two ago we suf- eventually get into some sort of you when the day comes and
or I am gOing on a trip and want fered through a well-intentioned
to know if there are radar check- time multiplex system which my printer occasionally prints
effort by the FCC to fix up our would enable us to stack five to out a line to let me know that my
points ahead, but other than rules and permit some expen-
that it is just there in case of ten contacts all on one channel station has made another rare
mentation. But, as usual, there without serious interference be- OX contact. Perhaps I would
need. was more misery in the pro- tween them. like to have a bell which would
The greed of the industry posal than benefit, so amateurs announce every ten new coun-
brought about its collapse. un- overwhel mi ngly voted th e pro- Then there is the redundancy
of the Engl ish language. There tries contacted.
fortunately, this has had some posal down. Seriousness aside, I think we
effects upon amateur radio ... We do have some ham fre- are many techniques for com-
pacting Engl ish messages so are going to be able to accom-
and I've written about them quencies where we have coo- modate a lot more hams on our
recently. The CB craze also sup- gestion. Ask any Novice about they will take much less time to
transmit. But, speaking of re- bands if we start thinking more
ported the HF band sales of that. But, on the whole, we don't in terms of throughput and
ham gear, making hams have to have any serious problems with dundancy, how about the aver-
age ham contact? Think how automating those functions
wait to get equipment. Then, finding frequencies to use for which can best stand the gaff.
when CB sales ... and HF communications. We've built up much that could be compacted
sales , 100 ... faded away, hams something on the order of 4,000 with little, if any, loss of in-
bought a lot of HF equipment or more repeaters for VH F com- telligence. OBJECTIVE RADAR REVIEW
and this caused many ham deal- municat io ns ... with a bit of a We do have several different Last May, Judge Nesbitt of
ers to expand their business. tig ht fi t here and the re, but ac- basic types of ham communica- Miami apparently got fed up
Our ham clubs had set up crass- commodated overall. On the tions. Some are much more with the police assurances that

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radar evidence against a motor- the present use of rad ar is de- enough in the ir country or state a blast o f emotion, usually in
is t wa s u nimpeachable evi- feating th is c oncept. to offer their time ... usually for the wrong direction because
dence o f speed in g. He called in My thanks t o W2JTP for seno- one term. they have not been paying at-
both the proponents of radar ing in th is it em. One o f the resu lts of this was tention.
and the opponent s and heard that politicians of those days Senator Humphrey spoke on
nine days o f t estimony from SATELLITE TV FANS were not faced , immediately SALT and oil company orcuts.
engi neers. This is the f ir st -GOOD NEWS! upon being elected, with the In both cases. it was clear that
known t ime when both sides of Though many experimenters goal of getting reelected. This he had done a good deal 01 re-
th is field have had an oooortum- were not bothering t o get one, meant that they could be a lot search and had a very gooct un-
ty to put their evidence on the until recently the FCC required more objective and vote for derstanding of the situations. It
l ine. a license for rec eiving signals th ings which seemed in the best seems to me that this should be
The judge's op inion wa s from the TV satellite. The corn- interests of th eir consti tuents. the purpose of paying a sene-
clear: Police radar , as now used, mission moved recently to elim- Humphrey brought th is to tor .. . to get the facts on situa-
is unreliable and was not ad- inate this requirement, so the mind when one of the people tions and then represent us as
m issable in hi s court as evi- lid is off on receivi ng these present asked him how he was an expert and vote appropriate-
dence in speeding c ases. He signals. able to vote the way he thought ly. He should do that even if I am
went into considerable detail Consideri ng the popularity of best rather than follow popular sending him telegrams to do the
about this, ci tin g poor radar thi s we might call it a hob- emotions the way most sene- opposite. The time for my in put
equ ipmen t and poor o ffic er by I suspect we will be see- tors do. He said that he had run is when I have facts for him ...
tra ining as being the major ing better and better receivers for o ff ice because he wanted t o facts he has no way of getting
problems. He found that c ertain coming available for this ser- try to do something about the e lsewhere ... and when it
types of radar could be depend- vice ... and at lower and lower mess things were in and that comes time l or me to assess his
able if used by knowledgeable prices. I noticed an ad by Inter- since he didn 't rea lly care ability to see through the balon-
officers under li gh t traffic con. national Crystal (ICM) for a sat- whether he was reelec ted or ey and vote in the best interests
otttons. ellite rec eiver priced at $1995. It not, he was completely free to of those of us who elected him.
Testimony on the cos t o f does take a fair-sized di sh plus do what seemed best. The media .. . and I include
radar units surpri sed the judge a low noise receiver to pull in We get so swept up in the telev ision in particular ... are
(and me). He found that a $2,395 these signals. power of the vote that we tend out selling their proc:lucl. If you
lis t price unit could be had i n The rec eiver for the MDS sig- to forget that we have not yet are able t o get the facts through
quant ity for $375 .. . wit h the nals we published in the August decided to put all matters of all that emerdement, then you
man ufacturer sti ll maki ng a issue o f 73 created quite a publi c int erest t o a vote ... only are a surprising person. When I
gooct pro fit. That would mean a st ir ... and all sorts o f attacks the election 01 our reoresente- see acts of terrorism, I al so see
manufacturi ng cos t 01 around on us by the Common Carrier uves. Most of us are so busy money and power going to the
$100 _. . wh ich might exp lai n Association of Telec ommunica- with making a living, with prob- media, for they play to our emo-
why so many radar units are not tions (CCAT). They petitioned lems of loving , and with all the tions with their coverage. With-
dependabl e. It was found that the FCC to take away the ham other fact ors which make or ou t television and the press, I
perhaps 30% of the speeding licenses of everyone invol ved in break our day, that the rush of doubt if there could be terrorism
tickets go to the wrong per son , the publishing ... plu s asked major events is reduced to as we see it today. Terrorist
leading more and more people the FCC to go for crim inal ac- news - entertainment on televi- groups have studied our media
10 have less and less enthu- tio n and assorted fine s. I'll try to sia n or in the newspaper. and know how to take advan-
si asm for supporting our sys- publish th e publiCrecord on th is There is no practical way that tage of it to get the max imum
tem of police and justice. in fi ne print for those who enjoy all o f us ... or even most of play.
The jUdge suggest ed some legal matters. The whole th ing u s ... c an lind o ut enough Do you th ink that the Ira nians
changes which, if imp lemented, is nonsense. about what is going on - and would have taken US hostages
might make rad ar evidenc e of CCAT ba cked up the petition recognize the myriad of contrib- if the whole thing would have
more value. He said that the to the FCC with a sui t in a fed- uting factors - to be sure of been known only to our qcvem-
width of the rad ar signal should eral court, which is a big pain in c omi ng up with the best solu- ment? No, they knew that this
be narrowed considerably. Pres- the .. . er ... neck. I sure hope tion to these problems on every would be on television all over
ent unit s run to as much as 24°, that this attempt at what I thi nk occasion. If we are realistic the wor ld . . . in spec ial editions
which means that officers o ften of as legal terrorism backfires abou t this, it is a tough job even o f t he papers . .. i n who le
have to ju st guess whi ch car and ends up with a clear state- for the people we've chosen to special issues of news maga-
they ar e t rying to read . ment by the courts that there look ou t etter these interests. zines. We are in a time of the
Engineers test if ied that beam- are no restrict ions on receiving But what do we do? We elect media and we are a pri soner of
widths could be brought down satell ite or MDS signals ... someone to office and then we it. Oh, I'm watching the damned
to around 2° without great ex- which I know has to be the case. try to put on the pressure t o get television news, too ... cursing
pen se. Th is m ight turn hundreds of him (or her) to vote according to myself as I do it. I wonder it it is
Next, the judge suggested it firms loose with receivers for our emotions or according to much different from going to
was time t o get rid o f th e these sig nals and really gi ve our own far-from -well-informed the arena in Rome to watch the
buzzers, whi ch were very unde- them trouble. understand ing of what is going Christians get exercised by the
pendable, and use direct read- The FCC action on the eater- on. lio ns.
lite reception appears to open Congressmen, ever vigilant to No, I don't have any alterna-
i ng system s. All of the gadget s
up the possibility for experi- pressures from the voters who tive to offer. I'm not in favor of
which have been added make
the systems less reliable. He menters to not only receive the will reelect them, bend in the censorship of the press, as
said poli ce should stop using signals, but also to relay them wInds of publ ic emotion, trying much as I think their freedom is
m oving radar, phase locked via cable t o friends on a non- to outsnou t each other to agree causing great changes in the
loo p dete ct or s, a ut omati c profit basis. with the largest group. As a re- world ... and not necessarily
speed locks, and beam inter- sult, we are in one hell o f a for the better.
rupters. With the moving radar, POLITICIANS ••• UGH! mess. But perhaps, if we look at the
it was test if ied that no matter The other ni ght, wh i le li st en- Heck, I see this to some ex- TV news and recognize that
how we ll tra ined an officer is, a ing to a ta lk by New Hamp- tent even in the world of arne- each of the networks is battling
cert ain percentage o f the tick- sh ire's Senator Humphrey . . . teur radio. I've been around long lor a tenth of a poi nt increa se in
ets handed out will be incorrec t. one o f those things one gets in- enough and been in a position the rating s, we will better under-
He recommended that police t o as a member of the Chamber to know, probably better than stand that we are being used by
departments set up their own of Commerce . . . I got to think· anyone else, what has hap. them to make money. They
tra ining and not depend upon ing about pol iticians. Some- pened in the past to mold the know exceedingly well how our
man ufacturers for t his . .. or where, in an article published way th ings are no w ... and to emotions work and they are
h ire a c on su lt ant. Officers recently, there was a descrip- see how present emotions are hard at it to produce the most
should be tra ined to understand tion 01 the politicians we had molding the way things are turn - reaction ... and are succeed-
how the equi pment works and ba ck during the formative years ing. I've watched the great mao ing. There is probably no way to
its l imitations. of our country. It seem s that i n jori ty 01 amateurs take litt le in- keep us from turning on the
The judge felt that our judi- those days we did not have pro- terest i n what is happening until news and wat ching i n grOWing
cial system will only work when fess ional pontlctane .. . just somethi ng comes along wh ich horror as they interview the
people are treated fairl y ... and peop le wh o were interested hits home . .. and then there is relative of a victim, wondering if

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we should give in to terrorism nsneo which contain the pr inted
and do what they want ..• not record of these talks, bu t I
realizing that it is the media haven't seen any sign that these
which is making the terrorism are ever opened by anyone.
work ... and ou r watching The key here may be that
which feeds the media. We are these talks are for free and there
the ones who agree to be ter- is the concept that free things
rorized. are not usually worth much.
Getting back to our represen- One of the same papers, pub-
tatives and the ir obsession with lished in a magazine as an arti-
getting reelected ... I wonder cle, would get maybe a thou-
sand times the recognition. I Chuck Mart in WA 1KPS, here
what changes it would make if
all senato rs and reps were al- suspect th at a lot of talent and seen wi th Jud y Waterm an, our
work ha s been virtually th rown bulk sales manager, and Sherry
lowed j ust one term in ollice.
Sure, we might lose some good away on papers for th e tecnnt- Smyt he, ou r exec uti ve vice
cal talks at compute r shows presi dent , is e njoying a
talen t, bu t It would make a big massive amount of southern
change in the type of people such as NCC and the Faires.
fried chicken, b iscuit s, gravy,
running for office and it might Well, gelling back to Bill , take Smithfield ham, and all the ttx-
free us from the entrenched in- a good look at him here ..• be-
fore the telephone implant in's at Aunt Fanny's Cabin in
terests which have been run-
ning things for so many years. which is c ert ain to be made. Bill Atlanta. This is a yearly cu-
spends about 26 hours a day on grimage during the Atlanta
We might even be able to cut
the phone. Bell, I understand, is Hamfestival .
down on government. The few
good people who would be lost planning on dedicating the new
to us would be more than com- wing of their Oakland office to
pensated for by the garbage Bill. But, if you want to know
which would get th row n out. what is going on in the micro-
Senator Humphrey was per- computer field, ask Bill. He's
haps a bit more c andid th an he better than any newsletter. And
should have been wh en he if you want any hard-to-find IC, Yep, there I am, speaking at
spoke so ccnternptucueiy of the you can bet that he ei ther has a the ARRL New England Conven-
great majorit y of congress . .. ton of the m or knows where tion ! The announced t opic was
but he sure is in a spot t o know. the y are. He's been buildi ng up m icroc omput er s, but this was a
a dealer network handli ng h is thi nly otscureeo stratagem to
ICs by virtue of his in fallibili ty i n While Chuck is out eating, th wart the general manager.
WAYNE'S PICTURE ALBUM finding sources. we see Eric Williams WA 1HON There have been years when the
Every now and then, I look When Bill gets together with hold down the Tufts Elec tron- manager had enough clout to
through some of the piles of pic- George Morrow and Tom Mul· ics exhibit at the Hamtesnvat. prevent 73 MagaZine from even
tures I've taken down through len, hold onto your intellectual That's Eric pulling out a pair of exhibiting at an ARRL conven-
the years and I suspect that stirrups. The ideas flow thick cry st als for an HT. Eri c, by the tion ... and for years there was
some readers may be interested and fast ... enough to supply a way, is one o f the regulars at no way that a c onvention com-
in seeing some of them. I'll try to dozen companies with oroo- the yearly Aspen ham industry mittee would be perm itted to
put a few into the magazine now ucts. conference. put me on the speaking pro-
and then, covering events which gram.
are recent . . . or long ago. In this case I am, in the pic-
ture, showi ng one o f the l Q-GH z
transceivers which I used t o
make the contacts with Chuck
Mart in WA1KPS (of Tufts Etec -
trontcs) with se ven diffe ren t
states. The fact is th at Chuck
did most of the work ... getting
the rigs to work and repairing
them every few days as they
would break down. It does look
as if it is going to be a while
before we have dependable
lQ-GHz communications.
While I did manage to talk a
good deal about microcomput·
ers and the state of that hobby, I
also was able to answer some
questions about W ARC and
overcome, at least perhaps fo r
Thi s Is a picture o f Bill God- the group pre sen t, some of the
bou t (Godbou t El e ctro n i c s) propaganda whi ch has been
whic h I snapped at NCC in New The NCe panel was chai red pain ting me as a "purveyor of
York last year. I th ink they by Portia Isaacson (left), now of doom," as it says in so many
conned Bill into attending NCC tnnovtstcn and EDS. Th is may direc to r n e w s l ett er s . I 'm
by getting him to participate in a soon be the largest mail-order pragmatic abou t WARC, feeli ng
panel discussion on the fu ture and direct mai l fi rm in the that a prude nt person would do
of personal compu ting. untortu- microcomputing industry. Next everything possible to achieve
nately, the several important to her is Richard Kuzm ack, who success there, rather than just
things that came through as a did much of the work of organiz- rely on luck.
result of this panel seem to ing the personal computing
have been lost in the rush 01 aspect of NCC. Then we see Bill SEPTEMBER WINNER
wind from many other talks and Godbout, opining. Next is Larry Another regular at Aspen is It pays to be honest! "centes-
discussions. I get the impres- Stein, then Les Soloman of Steve Murray K1KEC, here seen srons of a Teenage HFer" was
sion that revealing anything im- Popular Electronics , who came (wit h beard) t ak i ng a meal voted by our readers the most
portant at an NCC session is a up with the Altair name fo r MITS break du ri ng the VHF con tes t popul ar art icle in our Sept em-
sure way of keepin g it a secret .. . and for whom the Proces sor atop Pack Monadnock moun- ber issue, so aut hor Han s Peter
from the world. Yes, I know Tech SOL was named. And last, ta in, about three m iles fro m wi ll be receiving th at month's
abou t the m ighty vol umes pub- but least, me, on the right . downtown Peterborough. $1 00 bonus check.

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equatorial descending longitude, subtract 166° from t he ascending

OSCAR 0 rbits'; ----------;c=:_!


longit ude. To f ind t he time OSCAR 7 passes the North Pole, add 29
minutes to t he time it passes the equator. You should be able to
hear OSCAR 7 when it is w ithin 45 degrees of you. The easiest way
Courtesy of AMSA T to determine if OSCAR is above the horizon (and thus within range)
at your location is to t ake a glObe and draw a circle with a radius of
Any satellite placed into a near-Earth orbit suffers from the 2450 miles (4000 kilometers) from your OTH. If OSCAR passes
cumulative effects of atmospheric drag. The much publicized de- above that circle, you should be able to hear it. If it passes right
scent of the Skylab space station was a graphic demonstration 01 overhead , you should hear it for about 24 minutes total. OSCAR 7
these effects. will pass an imaginary line drawn from San Francisco to Norfolk
The OSCAR satellites are subject to atmospheric drag, of course, about 12 minutes after passing the equator. Add about a minute for
and the present period of intense solar activity has accentuated the each 200 miles that you live north of this line. If OSCAR passes 15°
problem. During this period, our sun has been expelling huge east or west of you, add another minute: at 30° , three minutes; at
numbers of charged particles, some of which find their way into the 45° , ten minutes. Mode A: 145.85-.95 MHz uplink, 29.4·29.5 MHz
Eart h's upper atmosphere, increasing the density (and thus the downlink, beacon at 29.502 M Hz. Mode B: 432.125-.175 MHz uplink,
drag) there . It is through this region that the OSCARs must pass. 145.975-.925 MHz downlink, beacon at 145.972 MHz.
OSCAR 8, in a lower orbit than OSCAR 7, is t he more se riously at - At press time, OSCAR 7 was scheduled t o be in Mode A on odd
fected of the two. numbered days of t he year and in Mode B on even numbered days.
lf the drag rect or is not considered w hen OSC AR calculations are Mo nday is Q RP day on OSCAR 7, w hile Wednesdays are set aside
perfo rmed, long-range orbi ta l projections will be in erro r. For exam- for experiments and are not avai lable for use.
pie, by the end of 1979, OSCAR 8 was more t han 20 minutes ahead OSC AR 8 calculations are similar to t hose for OSCA R 7, with
of some publ ished sc hedules. The nat ure o f or bital mechanics is some im portan t exceptions. Instead o f making 13 orbits each day,
such th at exira drag on a sa te lli te causes it t o move into a lower or- OSCAR 8 makes 14 or bits during each za-t rour per iod. The orbital
bit , res ulting in a shorte r o rbit al period. Th us, the sat ellite arrives period o f OSCAR B Is th eref or e so mew hat shorte r: 103 mi nu tes.
above a given Eart hbound locati on earlier th an predi cted. To calculate successive OSCA R a orbits, make a li st o f t he f irst
Using data su pplied to us by Dr. Thomas A. Clark W31WI of AM · orbit nu mber (from the OSC AR a chart) and t he next thirteen orbi ts
SAT, the equatorial c rossing t ables shown here were generated for tha t day. list the tim e of the f irst orbit. Each successive orbit is
wi th t he aid o f a TRS-8QTM microcomputer. The t ables t ake into ac- 'th en 103 m inut es later. The chart gives t he longit ude of the day's
count the effects of atmospheric drag and should be in error by a fir st ascending equatorial c rossing. Add 26° for each succeeding
few seconds at most. orbit. To find the time OSCAR a passes t he Nort h Pole, add 26
The listed data tell s you the t ime and place that OSCAR 7 and minutes to the time it c rosses the equator. OSCAR 8 will cross the
OSCAR 8 cross the equator in an ascending orbit for the fi rst time imaginary San Franc isco-ta-Norfolk line about 11 minutes after
each day. To calculate successive OSCAR 7 orbits, make a list o f crossing the equator . Mode A: 145.85-.95 MHz uplink, 29.4-29.50
the first orbit number and the next twelve orbits for that day. List the MHz downlink, beacon at 29.40 MHz. Mode J : 145.90-146.00 MHz
time of the first orbit. Eac h successive orbit is 115 minutes later uplink, 435.20-435.10 MHz downlink, beacon on 435.090 MHz.
(t wo hours less live minutes). The chart gives the longitude 01 the OSCAR a is in Mode A on Mondays and Thursdays, Mode J on
day's first ascending (no rt hbound) equatorial crossing. Add 29° for saturdays and Sundays, and both modes simultaneously on Tues-
each succeeding orbit. When OSCAR is ascending on the ctner sroe days and Fridays. As with OSCAR 7, Wednesdays are reserved for
of the world from you , it will descend over you. To lind the experiments.

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a blind would-be ham in Cali- on the air, I am happy to hel p 265 Blackstone Blvd. same rig , if at all possible.
fornia (August, 1979, p. 168). He prospective hams if they ask Providence AI 02906 I will be glad to pay copying
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I need t o borrow fo r a few Dr. Richard Sanchez
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days t he o perating manual and 1805 Adeline
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AQI.NC't: Fe'deral Communi...,lwlW . 10flll with 1\1. A2.. A3. 1\4, AS. n . pz (Amll. leur Red,o Service) ope..-ton nature II.nd lOurt:II o lsucb Information ia
Colllllliuion. .nd ~ However, 11I1.e5(cJ requ!tel enjoy on the frtquency b'lndt above 144 plll.ced in the public liIe.•nd provided
~... betw~n 50.1 .nd 52.5 MIt&. the MHz~. ne IlF3 "mit.tiona does not that the fact of thot Comml..ion·.
ACTfOlIl: Notice of Propoaed Rule
b'l nd wldlh of an F3 emlilion {frequency apply to thele bandll.. SCRRBA alifO reliance on lI.uch information Is noled in
M"kitli· or ph..e modulatlon ] lhall not e"cef!'d clll.ims the ARRL pe lition would the Report and Order.
IUMMAIIY: The Commlnlor. i" uel" that of A3 emission baving the Hme ..... nol racilitate the o ptimum :l. In IIccordanca w llh the provisions
Nollee of Proposed Rule Making wtllch • udio ch.r.cteriltica . . .... Since an A3 utiliza llo n for this frequency ban d" • of Section 1.419 01 the Rule. and
proposes to allow frequency mod ulati no emreetcn (am plitude mod ulall on 6, We believe tba t deletion of the 6FJ Regulat lona. 47 CFR 1.419. formal
teleph ony (n) ope raUon wHh more than telephony), In this in. lance II notmany lim!lalio n from tbe 6 meter band would pa rt icip ll.nts shall file a n origina l an d 5
6 kllz ove r a gre ater legment of the 50 to con.idered to occupy a bandwidth of offer much mor e flexi bility for tbe copies of their commenla and other
54 MH% [6 meter) am ateur radio ba nd. a pproxlm.tely II kHz. F3 operallon ama teur rad io community. As material •. Pa rticipa nta wishing each
Deletlon of the 6F3 1imllat ion from the 6 be lween 50.1 and 52.5 Mfu IIUmlled to te<;:M ology and intere.l in the many Commi..ioller 10 hue a p"... onal copy
meIer ban d would offer much mote • n occu pied bandwidth of 1l1r.lb {1lP3). types of modulation ocbemes evolve.. 01 their commeots II.ho\lld liIe an original
fluibility for the ama teur rad io 3. In ....ppor1 of It. req...... t. SCRRBA resolving.haring an ll.ngement. by the aod 11 copies. Membe ... of the general
community. st.tn lh. t pemtittilljj occupied participanla lhemselves wo uld .....m to public wh o w i. h to exprell their Interett
DAna; Comm~t. mila' be I'Kehed 00 b.ndwidtlu greater than llF3 WOIIld be the mOlt expedillou. meanl for by participaling informally may do eo by
or before December 10, l m .lId Reply retull In Il'ICft!ao.ed occupancy bo.tween fulfilling tha purpOll'l of the ~rvice. submitting one copy, All comments are
Comments mill. be received on or 52 and 5Z.3 MHz by atD.I leW' sl atlont Apparently. such hal beeo the ca~ on given the same conaideretion.. reg.rdl....
before Deoember 28, 197'9. UOtna repea len. Moreover. they d aim il the 144 MIt&. 12:0 MHz. .nd 4ZO Mil>: 01 the nu.rnber of copi" lubmined. AU
It potslble lOme llOIH'qleatet opentioa atD.IleW' nodio frtq ....ncy b'lnda. Thll doaunenlll wiD be av.ilable lor public
AllOM.UI:S: F'edenll Commanlca tlortl uoillll 1llF3 (I ll Uiz occupied bandwidth Ihould alao be the cale lor the II mete!' inapection durlni regular busine.. houra
Commipion. W llhinalon. D.C. 20554. .landard) would occur between 51 and b'l nd. For tha mo.t part, SO MHz hill in the Commi..ion·. Public Relenmce
_ "-"""'Ul . . CF " .~ COWfACT: 52 MHz. SCRRBA ""lualll the llf'3 many of the chanctm.tiCi 01 lhe higher Room at ils headquarte... in
Ft'deral Communl.,.tI"", Commi"ion, limilation be slri cken enlire ly fn"m ~quency !HInd•. For theae reBlonl. Ihe Waohinglo n, DC.
Priva te Radio 8l.tnlall. hnoMI Rad io a pplicabHity 10 the II meier band. Comm l..lon propose. to amend 9. For further inrormation concerning
Branch, Roy C. HowIlll202J:lS1 e684. 4. NUlDero<Ul commenla were filed in 1 97.65(cl, . . .hown in the Append ix. to thi. rule making. contact Roy C. How ell.
In the mailer of amendment of .u pport of SCRRBA's petition by variou, delele lhe IlF3 limitation fro m the 6 Rule. Div fsfon, Private Radio Bureau.
• W.65(c) of the Commlnl on', rules and .mateur radio group'. However. the Si" meI er ba nd . Co mmen t. on the a mat eur Federa l Communica tion. CommiSlion.
regulation_governing the Amateur Meter lnternatlonal Radio Club tiled radio ope rato...· a bilily 10 efreclively W ashi ngt on. DC. 20554 , (MJ 254-6864.
Radlo Service. co mments cla iming the proponenl, of resolv e .hari ng afTa" Remenl•. in this Fede,.1 Communicalion. Commi..ion,
RM- 3Z07 ha ve overlooked the rapid inst ance. are pII. rticularl y invited. Th e W~Uam I, Trkarico.
Adopted: October U, 1978. expansion In single sideband ope raUon Commillion .1.0 proposes to del ete the
h leued: Oelobe'l' St, 1\179. &crefary.
{A31l 1n the sl" meier band. They phase ~ ... end tbe pun ty 01emillions
By the Comml..lon: qUPlllon the ne ed for additionll.l .hall comply with the requirements of
1. On September 11. 19"Tt. the repea ter operatio n. 1111.73" in thalnterett of elimina lil\fl Part 97 of Chapl... I o lTitle 47 of the
Southern c.lifomla Repeale!" and 5. In ,upport of it. ~ uetlt, ARRL alifO redundancy. n.e purity and .tability Code of Fede...l Regulations i. amended
RPTnote S..e ~oocla tion (SCRRBA) .Ia te, tha i pennittinJI oo::upled ""luiremenla wo...ld remain In effect. aa •• Icllcws:
petilioned for am endJnenl of PIIr1117 ill lModwldthl greater than llF3 wOllld Itated In 1111.73. In section 97.65, p.ragrll.ph Ie] il
RM-32U7 to aUow frequency modulltioo permit~••• the fullest pouLble 7. Aulhority for luull.ace of thi. Notice modified to re.d;
telephony [F3J operation havirli an U.III • • • of the repeater lubbllnd iU.O- i. contained in Sectiona 4{il and 303(rj of
occupied bandwidth with more thaD II 540 MH& .. .... ARRL requHl' the llF3 the Communi(:ationl Ad of 1!134••1
kH. over a grea ler H'gIIIflII of th. 50 10 lowe!' limil be moved only from sz.s amended. 47 U.s.C l54(iJ and 303(r}. • • • • •
$4 MI-U III metet] atD.Iteur nod io boInd. " AU 10 SUI MIU. Commenlll from Pursuant to placed..,..,. sel out in IcJ On frequentin below 29.0 Mlu
Subwquently, o n janlW') 16, 1m the ama leur rll.dio grou~ were . 1ao filed In Section 1.415 of the R...les aod the band width 01 II.n f'3 emi..Ion
American Rad io Rela y r... IARRLJ lopportof the ARRL petition, induding Regul. tio n.. 47 CFR 1.415, Interetted (frequently or phale modulation] shall
pelitioned for . lim.llu b t not comments from SCRRBA.llowever. penons ma y file comment. on or before nol exceed thlt of.n 1\3 eminion
Idenlical rule cballlle In RM-3313. SCRRBA lak " e"ception to the ARRL's December 10. 1979.•nd re ply commenl. ha ving the same audio ch.rll.clerislica.

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combinations of the tcuowrnq
three means of t esting radar
Posta l service t o come up with
a 31¢ airmail stamp commemo-
raling amateur radio?
This is the stamp that is used
speedometers: on most direct aSL mail and
frampage 28 thai? Sounds like a labor union. would be sent to every country
Keep hounding the ARRL- 1) A "run tnroucn'' in which in the world over a very short
you going to harp on incentive they need it . . . even if a 10101it another police car closes on the period 01 lime . It coul d be
licenSing? After being a ham looks like ni tp icking from out si te while holdi ng a give n themed , -Peace Over All The
dropo ut for many years, I here in the boondocks. speedomete r readin g (Query: World Through Amateur Radio
studied up a b it and go t my Ex· Dave Hardaeker W7TO How do we know the test ing Fell owship."
tra class back in 1963, long Sheri dan WY veh icl e has been cbeckedj): Loren Carlberg WB5WDG
before the days o f speci al ceu- 2) Use of calibra ted tuning Mu skogee OK
sig ns. I did this main ly because fork s intended t o produce fre·
I wanted to get permi ssi on t o try
ou t a couple o f special modes
01 operat ion and though t I
would have a better chance of
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quencles which will c ause the
machine, if accurate, to read
particular speeds;
3) Use of a sig nal generator
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UV·3 REVISITED

getting permission from t he October issue about illegal within the machine tor tne same 1 had to commen t on the
FCC. Another reason for the Ex- radar and hasten to write to cau- purpose. review of the Drake UV--3, as
tra was to be able to operate in a tion all hams not to jump to con- printed in the October, 1979 (p.
portion of at least a few bands elusions. Rad ar principles have I know tnet in Massachusetts 31), issue.
that would not be so full of sig- been well established, but the some foundation requirement is The two features that the
nals. I guessed right in both DC courts seem t o base deci- appropriate per a recent deci- author noted as "cc utd have
cases. sions on in trusion into the sion 01 the Supreme Judicial been left out" are, in my opinion,
So what's I he big ha ssle right s 01 privat e ci ti zens rather Court. most val uable. I th ink th at any
about? Too many fellows wan t- the n faulty radar. I do no t thi nk Dunc an Kreamer W1GAY serious amateur who has these
ing something for nothin g, and this is the best approach for a Attorne y al Law
qu it e will ing t o fight for just defense to a radar ticket. Vineyard Haven MA Continued on page 159

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ternattcnal Morse code require- books to send to deserving
ments; apparently, CW will end hams and hams-to-be around

DX up being a "recommendation"
above 30 MHz, that is, each
licensing authority (govern-
the world. 20 ARRL Handbooks
have gone to 9J2T J, another ten
to Eastern Europe via W6YY,
ment) will have the option of reo and N60X and N6ZV each took
from P<JfJf! 16 5N0DOG is a good catch this quiring or not requiring CW pro- a handful on DXpeditions. You
winter on 40 and 80 meters, now ficiency above 30 MHz. Talk can send your unneeded books
with help from several of the that the Nigerian rainy season continues 01 an additional band to N6AR and help another arne-
standard list-takers. A51PN and has passed. Dave's company, at 24 MHz. 40 meters will prob· teur.
9N1MM were welcome guests TICAS (Falls Church VA), pur- ably not survive unscathed, with
on both 20 and 15. YllBGD still chased a ticket lor Kunle Finally, the ARRl Interna-
HF broadcast interests and
comes and goes and remains 5N2NAS to attend WARC in tional OX Competition takes
their megabucks at work.
difficult for those strapped to a Geneva last fall. place next month. As we write
A reminder to contesters:
Monday·Friday work schedule. Rick Dorsch plans to move to this, there is talk 01 changing
Your CO WW CW logs must be
New officers of the Iowa OX the Galapagos (HC8) late in the format of this long.running
postmarked by January 15 and
Association are: KflJSY, presi- 1980 or early in 1981. He is just activity again. An editorial in
should be mailed to the new CO
dent; WrNVP, vice president; back from a visit there. Rick OSTs September "Operat i ng
address: CO Publications, 76
K0lUZ. secretary-treasurer. The hails from Michigan but has News" column hinted at chang·
North Broadway, Hicksville NY
National Capitol OX Associa- been signing HC5EE from es to come, and the admmtstre-
11801. Do not enclose any cor-
tion also elected new leaders: Ecuador tor several years. The tors in Newington are toying
respondence, requests, etc. ,
N4MM, president; N4RA, vice last American visitor to the with a new to-mat more closely
with your logs. This goes lor
president/activities manager; Galapagos was Chod Harris related to the CO Worldwide
sending contest logs to any or-
VP2ML in early 1979. style, i.e., everybody works
W3GG. secretary; and AA4M, ganization.
treasurer. KH61J continues to recover everybody. This would drasu-
HS1ABD out ot Thailand op-
The next team going 10 Mac- from a stroke suffered in early cally alter the ARRL ccmceu-
erates on 40and 80 meters; now
quarie will include VK~H, 10 1979; radio operating is still dif- tion from the standpoint of OX·
is the time 01 the year to look lor
continue the work on the bands ficult for him. He has resumed ing, not to mention what it
him, on 7005 and 3795 at 1300Z
by VKflPK during 1979. P29JS his column in the Honolulu Star· would doto the contest aspects
and 2200Z. respectively.
has done yeoman service run- Bulletin. of the activity. It hardly seems
The East Germans begin us-
ning the 14240 slot lor Ihese possible they could pull oft a
As this is written (early ing new prefixes this month; the
and others, around 0930l. Change this late, considering
November), WARC continues cal1sign block is Y21A to Y99Z.
the time required to pass the
More operations from De- with little news coming out of Careful about sending money
word around the globe, but one
secheo appear doomed; Geneva. A press gag by secre- overseas, please. Especially go-
would be well advised to watch
KP4AM's try lor a /0 tire-up tor tary-General Mili has inspired ing to Alrica and the Himalayan
closely for news belore Febru-
the CO Phone Contest in Oc- the American representatives to countries, your dollar bills may
tober was thwarted by the US keep the news to themselves, end up in some bureaucrat's ''Y-
government and the signs are and the amateur radio press pocket instead of in the pocket Please send your input for
thaI no one will be allowed on suffers accordingly, not only in of the ham you just worked. this column to 73. Photos are
the rock for amateur radio pur- the US, but around the world. FR7BP has mentioned this, as especially welcome. The mate-
poses. YASME's hopes were The main item of interest has well as A51 PN. rial for this column came from
similarly dashed in October. been Article 41, concerning in- N6AR still collects old radio The DX Bulletin, Vernon CT,

toward ridding ourselves of the necessary expertise to

Leaky Lines_ _----' these nuisances. The very reali- come up with the answers. If
zation that the possibility of so, I hope that they will consider
positive Identification exists investigating it and deve loping
might prove to be a deterrent, it to a practical level so that it
from page 22 be used to identify chronic man- and perhaps this would cause can be used .
crous interfe rers? It is sa id that them to think t w ice about ex-
situation, and that's the plain, such prints are as dependable posing themselves to discovery. After all, forty years ago, who
unvarnished truth. as fingerprints in establishing would have predicted the use of
••• individual identity, and if some I know very little about this radar to detect violators of the
Is there, I wonder, a oossrbm- means were devised to extrapo- branch of acoustical science, highway speed laws? Why not
ty that the relatively recent tech- late voice prints trom audio sig. but I imagine that there are voice prints to combat deliber-
niques of voice printing might nets. we could go a long way some amateurs who possess ate QRM?

order as requested and notes he Some more basics next


was pleased with the merchan- month for those of you who
RTTY Loop dise. I don't know it events
subsequent to his order have
changed things, but I am
have requested them, and reo
member to enclose that SASE if
you wish a reply directly from
from page 14 the type and description of your preparing all at the material I me or any other 73 author.
equipment and antenna should have been sent for forwarding
what, you may ask, is " spec ial·
ty communications"? Well, only
contacts made on AnY, SSTY,
or via EME (moonbounce)or OS-
also be included. This entire
package should then be verified
by two other amateurs, a local
radio club secretary, or a notary
to the proper authorities.
So as not to end this month
on a sour note, let me take a mo-
ment to highlight one of 7~s ~~~t
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CAR paths will be recogniZed.


Two levels of operating achieve-
public, and sent with $3.00 (or 8
IRCs) for each award to: Bill
advertisers who appears to be
doing a good job. serectromcs. ~~~~.,
ment will be recognized: Class Gosney WB7BFK, Awards Edi· in Philadelphia PA, has been jf.:..-
A will require working all fifty tor, 73 MagaZine, 2665 North running ads for years featuring "you have a
US states: Class A·1 requires 1250 East, Whidbey Island, Oak component parts useful in the serious problem
with a ham firm, send
working ten OX countries from HarborWA98277. construction of video terminals them a letter with all I
the 73 Magazine wrw list. The mail is continuing to and the like. A recent order from the 'acts in detail, plain·
Application should be made come in on Teleprinter Art, ltd., this aTH was filled promptly, ly and s imply •.• and
by submitting a list containing and one thing is for sure, the with receipt of the merchandise send a copy to Wayne
date, time, band, and mode of "dtdn'ts" far outnumber the via UPS in just a few days. One Green W2NS()(1 , d o 13
each contact. Class A lists "dtds." So far, as ot this writing, slight problem was handled MAGAZINE. 73 protects its
readers more than any o ther
should be arranged in alphabet- in OCtober, 1979, about a dozen Quickly and efficiently by phone magazine.
ical order by state, and Class of you report sending orders to following receipt of the mer-
A·1 lists in order of callsign Urbana and receiving nothing. chandise. A RnY Loop-de-loop
prefix. A signed declaration of One individual received his 10 serectrcnics.

'56
the necessary eq uipment i n loca l (Central) t ime at 3830 kHz

Looking West
their own area , with coorotna- every Sunday ni gh t.
t to n and technical support from I will be wa tching future
the state society, TIRS is a wide- issues of 73 for more on t hi s
open system, c arrier operated, subject. Thank you.
from page 8 you access it from the US side and any ham is invited and en- Ron Johnson WA5RON
of the border or have obtained a couraged to use it. TIRS had a 3524 Greystone #194
to travel through Baja; most Mexican amateur license to op- disaster communications ob- Austin TX 78731
listen to the advice and have the erate in Mexico. At present, no jective, and its readiness for
time of their lives amid the reciprocal licensing exists be- emergency use is best demon- Well, we cannot fulfill Ron's
splendor thai is Baja California. tween the US and Mexico, at- strated and practiced by fre- request to make the little-known
Some people don't listen and though it is hoped by amateurs quent recreational use. Tele- details about the famed CAC-
are lost in the wilderness. Each on both sides that someday it type signals, as well as voice, TUS Radio Network public un-
year, the local LA newspapers will. Meantime, to operate in are welcomed on the TIAS Ire- less there comes a day when
and TV stat ion s carry stories 01 Mex ico, you must pass a Mexi· cuency.u is not an "elit e group" CACTUS wants to go public .
vacationers who didn't follow can amateur exam, and Mexi- or by-subscript ioo-only system. They are a truly phenomenal or-
the ru les and found themselves can amateurs wishing to op- I had not thought in the past ganization, but they value their
lost in a territory they did not erate in the US must pass our that Texas was " west" enough privacy and we will always re-
know. Many have died before exam. Exceptions are madedur- t o catch your interest, but s ince spect that. Maybe some day,
would-be rescuers could l ind ing c erta in special events, su ch you asked for input on the inter- Ron . •.
them. as off-road rallies, but remem - tie subject, I am sending you TlRS, as you have already
Baja is not immune from the ber that these are exceptions this info about TIAS. If you l ike, learned, is quite public. Write to
rampages o f M other Nature rather than the rule. As already ru be glad to keep you posted Ron at the above address for
herself. Her annual ra infall stated, it is legal for US ama- o n future developments. more info rmation.
equa ls o r exceeds that o f teurs operating from US soil to I would enjoy reading about That's it this month on the
southern California, and in thi s talk with Mexican amateurs other su c ce ssful tntert te et- Nationtie project. If more input
type of area, il means that cern- th rough Mexican-based repeat- forts, either in your co lum n or as arrives before we write next
munities are easily cui off from ers. Many o f the systems that lie articles in good 01' 73 Magazine. month's column, we will in clude
one another. Overall communi- near the US-Mexican border are Why don't you d ig something up it. Meanwhile, it looks as if
cation in Baja is not the great- accessible from a vast portion o n the CACTUS network? I have things are beginning to take
est. It is for these reasons and of southern Cal ifornia . If you are enjoyed a aso or two on that shape.
others that the amateur com- planning a visit to southern system during trips west of EI Our closing story also comes
munity of Baja has undertaken California , especially the San Paso and have seen not one from an out -of-area amateur,
to tie the area together using Diego area, you might try saying techn ical publication on CAC- Jim Eagleson W86JNN of Wat-
many existing amateur repeat - hello o n one of the frequencies TUS, except for their user's sonville, California. Jim wrote to
ers . li sted previously, I suspect you manual. An article describing tell us about a new 23 em l inear
Phase one of the tnt ertte in- w ill find a warm welcome from the CACTUS hardware, co nt rol translator now in servi ce in
volves nve existing northern Ba- our neighbors to the south. c irc uit s, pictures of mountain- northern California. Jim writes:
ja repeat ers: .931.33 in Tijuana, Two final notes. Anyone inter- top sites, maps showing cov- " Projec t OSCAR, the northern
.34/.94 some 40 miles south of ested in contacting Alex about erage, would be very good. California group that put to-
Tijuana, .31/.91 in Mextca!t, the Baja intertie can do so Can 't you goad those fe llows in- gether the first OSCAR satel-
145.34/144.74 in Ensenada (re- through his Callbook add ress or t o letting go of t he soldering lites, just put a linear tra ns lato r
member that Mex ic an amateurs through l oo ki ng West. Also , we iron for a few minutes and sit- into service on Mt. Umun uhm in
have an advantage in that they will keep you posted on devel- t ing down to a typewriter? Sure- t he 23 cm band (1296). Addition-
are no t restricted by repeater opments in this Interne as t hey ly the network isn't considered ally, the N BC (Narrow Band
subbands as we are in the USA), occur. "sec ret " anymore, An article or Communicators) two-meter
and .37/.97, w hich si ts about Meanwhi le, stateside, we reo just a short description i n translator is nearly completed
8,000' above average terrai n and ceived a letter from Ron John- "looking West" would be nice, wit h only integ ration of moo-
can be worked from as far no rth so n WA5RO N which read s as Those of us working o n t he ules, si te evalua tions, duplexer
as Santa Barbara, California, follows: Texas Int erc ity Relay System tune-up, and re lated areas left
even t hough it' s better than 200 Dear Bi ll , would like to find out about t o do. It is an embryo system (as
miles sou th of the us-Mexfcan I always read you r interesti ng other systems being bui lt in is the 1296 system), but that's
border. What you are reading columns in 73 Magazine. I states surrounding Texas, par. where we all have to start. Some
about is not a dream. It already especially enjoyed the recent ticularly those who might be m- on-the-air tests will be run in a
exists, giving hand-held eaturat- October issue where you sue- terested i n linking to TIRS, It few weeks for the two-meter
ed coverage t hro ug ho ut north- gest "grOWing" regional, and you hear about anything like system. The 23 cm system has
ern Baja. eventually national, VHF mter- that within range, please let me been up for about three weeks."
Phase two invo lves linking tie systems by linking existing know or give them my address. More on this also as it
further south about 200 miles to repeaters on UHF. I, too, am in- Also note that we have a weekly develops. In the meantime, I
XE2ERD on 145.51144.9 and then terested in Interne and am par- meeting on 80 meters lSB for hope that Santa brought you
to Ced ros Island, where a new planning and d iscussion, 2130 your dream rig.
ticipating with others in a major
system will have to be estab- UHF linking project in Texas. I
lished using some form of "na- would like very much to join in
ture power," i.e., wind, solar,
etc. There is no place to j ust
" plug In " a repeater at that loca-
tion. Once accomplished, about
an information exchange pro-
gram with other intertie builders
around the country.
Since you quoted from the
Ham Help
31.1I of Baja will have linked co v- Texas VHF-FM Society News I am attempting to locate all summarize the ideas in a bulle-
erage and it won't end there. and W5OGz, you may already Ext ra class husband and wife tin and mail it to those eligible.
A lex also informed us that lo ng- be aware of our Texas Intercity teams. Any Extra who had a late Again, thanks to all including
range plans c all for link ing t o Relay System project. TIRS wil l Extra class s pouse is also e ligi. Chris AI6S , for helping me.
the Mexican mainland from eventually l ink VHF s implex or ble. Betty Baldo KB6P
someplace near Mazatlan and repeater ' uump" stations in mao We now have a nucleus of 3 Eton Court
that amateurs in Mexico City jor Texas c it ies. San Antonio names, so we can perhaps con- Berkeley CA 94705
are already at work creating and Austin are already connect- sider a name for the group, an
plans for a nationwide interlink. ed . Equipment is being installed occa sio na l news bulletin, a net,
What's truly amazing about the by l o c a l c l u b s in Dallas , a mini reunion in conjunction I need a schematic for a
Baja story is that what has thus Houston, and Beaumont at this with other ham gatherings, and, Heathkit model GA-91 receiver
far been accompl ished has t ime. Groups in other cities and perhaps, a c ha ritable donation. for use with our junior high
been the work of about s ix cen- towns have expressed interest Those who are qualified school amateur radio club.
cated amateurs. in linking up . This intertie sys- should drop me a line with your W. G. Schuchman W7YS
What about Americans using tem is a grass-roots effort, local thoughts regarding any activity 1400 N_ Wakonda Street
the interlink? Is it legal? Only if clubs or individuals providing that we should undertake. I will Flagstaff AZ. 86001

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from page 154 about your editorial is the con- W5FOE bui lt a demonstratio n " Blue print for Biofeedback
st ant reference t o yourself. It model for the entire cl ub's i n- Experimentation" (September,
two features can, w ith l ittle seems that you are co nst antly spection and it was well re- 1979) is a n ice rapid l our
trouble, see thai their value is making references t o what you ceived. through brain-wave app li ca-
one of the b iggest features of wou ld do had you been o ffered Two suggestions a re we ll tio ns.
the radi o. the top job at the ARRL If you worth incorporating for t he CW Please e nc ourage expert-
The scann ing feature is great have suc h good ideas, maybe pu rist: 1) Cha nge the ou t put to menters to follow safety ru les
when applied 10 the sit uation o f you should try to get the pro- si nusoid al rather than square when they connect electri cal
wanting t o monitor an other posed IRL formed. wa ve for a more plea sant t one devices t o the bod y. Obta in a
repealer for import ant DX news In concl usion, I would li ke t o and less t iresome liste ning. 2) book on med ical e lectro nic s
or an emergency c hannel. The say that I s upport your maga- Input and out pu t c an be fed from yo ur lib rary; ne ver con nect
ham li stening 10 an acti ve zin e to t he h ill because it doe s throu gh a fad er (one-knob con- eq uipment to t he ac l ine , any of
repeater lor socia l rea sons can provide more artic les for the tro l) to t he speaker for ease of it. II you want to see your name
be sure of not missing what money than a ny ot her ha m mag- operation. i n lig hts, d o it w ith LEOs !
might be o f interest 10 him, o r azine . Th is art icle, like ma ny ot hers , Tha nks.
her, o n another usual ly Quiet reo Mark L. Parrish WoeD XM is what makes 73 g row while Mitch Coh en WB4R XB
peater. Aurora CO ot hers dwind le. Margate FL
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d ifficult y 01 c han ging bands or THAN K YOU
The foll owing information In regard to the Datong FL 1
c hannels in the mobi le mode.
As the author explains, it is like ma y be o f use t o EME enthu- filter review (Oc to ber, 1979): un-
etests.
a c hec klist in an arrcratt. Being
able 10 simply turn o ne kn ob
The 1980 Nautical Almanac is
I thought thai you might be
interested t o k now that your :~~~~~:::Yind~~et~~~~ w::~ee~:
now available and may be ob- mag azin e is o ne 01the most im- we were obliged to inc rease
and be in a s pec ific channel,
tained by writing t o: US Govern- portant rea son s I stu d ied for pri ces, effective J uly 16th, 1979,
rather than having to set an 0 11·
se t freq ue nc y by removing ment , clo Superintendent of and pa ssed the lest l or my ham to $199.95 from $179.95. Also,
Documents, Wash ington DC t icket. 0 t E .
one's eyes from the road , is a 20402. Ask for t he 1980 Nautica l a o ng tec t ro r nc s ' address
most valuable feat ure and adds After thinking about il for was shown in the review as the
to safe mobile operation with Almanac, #008-054-00079-7. The years - even to the exten t of place t o write for information .
c urrent price is $8.75, whic h m- s u bsc ri b i ng t o QST seve ra l Readers who do write w ill , o f
this radio.
eludes postage. Yo ur check years ag o-I had decided that course, receive respo nses or be
The progra mming o f the
diode boards Is quite prone t o should be made payable to "Su- the AARL and ham radio were directed to my office here at AR
errors, bu t not impossible. As a perlntendent of Document s." oul. Tec h nic a l Products. Anyone
A s you may know, " H.O. 214 Th en I saw a copy of your e lse seek ing information
matter of fact, Drak e offers t o
- Tabl es of Computed Al t it ude magazine on the stand. I read it should contact us directly.
sen d you a diode p lacement & Azim uth" is no longer evan-
chart to use as a guide In ptac- ab le. How ever , this se ries has and I subscribed to It because it Roger L. Moss, President
ing the diodes in the proper been replac ed wi th a newer ver- made the hobby look interest- AR Technical Products Corp.
spaces. ing.
ston , "Pub. No. 229-Sight Re- PO Box 62
Wallace B. Shapiro N2WS du ct ton Tables for Mar ine Navl- On September 19th, I took Birmingham MI 48012
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editorials, I have come to the These vo lumes are available brew o r commerc iall y built. Any Raynet Committee
basic conclusion that yo u are by w riting to: Defense Mapping information would be grateful ly clo Tebra x limfled
trying to hel p the League realize Agenc y, Office of Distribution apprec iated. 63 Borough High Street
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pretty good stabs at il. Un ited States." The vol u me Can an yone supply me with a
Many times you make com- pr ices also inc lude postage. Ra ynet (Rad io Amateur s ' schematic or tech manual for a
ments about the League cubu- Brian M_Manns K3VG X Emergenc y Network) i n the Dage tube-type TV camera,
cation, OST. I agree that eigh· Seven Valleys PA United King d om - s ponso red model 101-AF?
teen do llars a year is a bit much by the Rad io Society of Great I w ill g lad ly reimburse for
for a magazine that has ha lf the Britain-needs help. A Sym po- ph otocopies , but I would prefer
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Empire NF205 No ise &Field Intensity Meter 250 .00
Empire TA-NF105 Plug In 150KHz to 30Mc 100.00
Empire TA-NFI05/MI26 Plug In 150KHz to 30Mc 150. 00
Emp i re TA- NF205 Plug In .1 5 to 30Mc 100. 00
Empire TX-NF105 Plug In 14KHz to 150KHz 100.00
Emp ire TX- NFI05/ MI26 Plug In 14KH z to 150KH z 150. 00
Empi re TI-N FI05 Plug In 20Mc to 200Mc 100. 00
Empire TI -MF I05/MI26 Plug In 20Mc to 200Mc 150. 00
Empi re T2- MM120 Pl ug In 50 to 1000Mc 150. 00
Empire T2- NFI05/ MI26 Pl ug In 200 to 400Mc 150. 00
Empire T2-NF1l2 Plug In 2 to 4Gc 150 .00
Empire T2-NF205 Pl ug In 200 to 400Mc 100 .00
Empire TJ-NFI05/MI26 Plug In 400 to 1000MC 150 .00
Empire T3-NF1l2 Plug In 3.9 to 7.2Gc 150.00
Empire T3-NF205 Plug In 400 to 700Mc 100.00
Fe tr-cht Id 76-01A Plug In For 766H and 767H Scope 100.00
FEL I33A Microwave Synchronizer 400.00
Ferris 22-05 Signal Generator lKc to 45Mc 100.00
Fluke 102 YAW Meter 150.00
General Microwave 454AR/N421 Microwave Power Meter with Mount 200.00
General Radio 546C Audio Frequency Microvolter 50.00
General Radio 740B Capacitance Test Bridge 100.00
General Radio 1203A Unit Power Supply 50.00
General Radio 12088 Unit Oscillator 65 to 500Mc 100.00
Genera 1 Rad i 0 1211C Unit Oscillator 0 .5 to 50Me 100.00
General Radio 1214A Unit Oscillator 400/100OHz 50 .00
General Radio 1214AS2 Unit Oscillator 400/100OHz 50.00
General Radio 12140 Unit Oscillator 400/100OHz 50.00
General Radi o 12158 Unit Oscillator 50 to 250Mc 100.00
General Radio 1215C Unit Oscillator 50 to 250Mc 100.00

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Genera1 Rain 0 1216A Unit IF Ampl ifier 50 .00
Gene ral Radio 1236 IF Amplifier 150 .00
Ge ne ra 1 Ra dio 1269A Unit Power Supp ly 100. 00
Gene ral Rad io 1363 Unit Osc i l lato r 50 t o SOOMc 200.00
Gene ra l Radio 1390A Random Noi se Genera tor 100.00
Gene ral Radio 1390B Random Noise Generato r 150. 00
Gene ra l Rad io 1391 B/1 392P 2 Pul se, Sweep and Ti me De l ay Generator and PIS 350 .00
Gene ra l Rad io 1570ALS 15Pl Li ne Vo ltage Regu l at or Cont ro l Un i t 75.00
Genera l Rad io 1570ALS1 5P2 Line Vo l tage Regu lato r Regu l ator Un it 75 .00
General Radio 1581A Automatic Vo ltage Regul at or 250.00
Gene ral Radio 1605A Imped ance Compa rator 250 .00
General Radio 1607P 3 Vai rab l e Capacitor For 1607A 50 .00
Gene ral Radi o 16S2A Res is ta nce li mi t Br i dge 200.00
Gene ral Rad io 1932A Dis tor tion Meter 125. 00
Ger tsch S8-4C- 4R Sy nch ro 8r idge 100. 00
Gertsch ST- 100 Transformer 25 .00
Hewlett Pac kard AC60 Mat ching Network 35 .00
Hewlett Packard 120AR Scope DC t o 200KHz 150 .00
Hewlett Pac ka rd 141A Scope Main Frame Storage 500.00
Hewlett Packa rd 175A/1781B/1754A
Scope wit h Sweep De lay Plug In and Quad Trace 650 .00
Hewlett Packa rd 17 5A/1 780A/1 752A
Scope wi t h Sing al Trace Plug In 400.00
Hewlett Pac ka rd 181A Scope Ma i n Frame Storage 1500 . 00
Hewlett Packa rd 2000 Aud io Osc illator 50.00
Hewlett Packa rd 200TR Aud io Osci l lator 50 . 00
Hewlett Packa rd 212A Pulse Genera to r 50.00
Hewlett Packard 216A Pu lse Generato r 100Mc 500.00
Hewlett Packard 222A Pulse Generato r 10Mc 200.00
Hewlett Packard 297A Sweep Dr i ve 100. 00
Hewlett Packard 302A Wa ve Analyzer 800.00
Hewlett Packard 330B Distortion Ana lyze r 20H z to 20KH z 150 .00
Hewlett Packard 4000R VTVM10Hz t o 4Mc 80.00
Hewlett Packard 403A So l i d State Vo ltmeter 1Hz to 1Mc 125.00
Hewlett Pac ka rd 412A DC Meter 100 .00
Hewlett Packard 412AR DC Meter Rac k Moun t 100. 00
Hewlett Packa rd 41 3AR DC Nu ll Voltmet er 100. 00
Hewlett Packard 411AR RF Millivol t meter 500KH z to 1GH z 100 .00
Hewlett Packa rd 416A Ratio Met er 100. 00
Hew lett Packard 417A VHF Detector 200.00
Hewlett Packard 43 4A Calor imet r ic Power Mete r 450 .00
Hewlett Pac kard 450A Amp l if i er 50 .00
Hewlett Packa rd 457A AC DC Conver ter 100. 00
Hew lett Packard 500BR Frequency Meter 100. 00
Hewl ett Pac ka rd 508A Mot or 50.00
Hewlett Packa rd 540B Tra nsf er Oscilla t or 10Mc to 12.4Gc. 100. 00
Hewlett Pac ka rd 606A Signal Generator 50Kc to 65Mc 1000.00
Hewlett Packard 6080/T5510 Signa l Genera tor 10 t o 420Mc 300.00
Hewlett Packard 60BO Signal Gener ator 10 to 420Mc 400.00
Hewlet t Packard 616A/B/T5 403 Si gnal Generator 1.8 t o 4.2Gc 300 .00
Si gnal Generator 1.8 to 4.2Gc 400.00
Hewlett Packard 616A/B 200.00
Hewlett Packa rd 61BA Sign al Gene rator 3.8 to 7.6Gc

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HeWlett Packard 618B Signal Ge nerator 3.8 to 7.6Gc 300.00
Hewlett Packard 620A Signa l Generator 7.0 to 11Gc 500 .00
Hewl ett Packard 623B 6.6 to 7.1Gc Test Set 500 .00
Hewlett Pac kard H03-624C 10 .7 to 11. 7Gc Test Set 800 .00
Hewlett Packard 624 -01 10.7 to 11 .7Gc Test Set BOO .OO
Hewlett Packard 683C 2 to 4Gc Sweep Osc il lator 200 .00
Hewlett Packard 692C 2 to 4Gc Sweep Osc il lator 500 .00
Hewlett Packard 1l05A Pul se Gene rato r 75.00
Hewlett Packard 1111A AC Cu r ren t Ampl ifier 100.00
Hewlett Packard 1400A Di f fe renta l Amp l if ier Plug In 100. 00
Hewlett Packard 1401A Dual Trace Pl ug In 125. 00
Hewlett Pachard 1411A Samp l i ng Verti cal Plug In 400.00
Hewlett Packard 1415A TOR Pl ug I n 400. 00
Hewlett Packard 1420A Ti me Base Plug In 200.00
Hewlett Packard 1421A Ti me Base and Del ay Genera tor Plug In 250.00
Hewle tt Packard 1425A Sampl ing Time Base and Delay Gene rator Plu g In 400. 00
Hewlett Packard 1424A Sampl i ng Plug In 400 . 00
Hewlett Packard 1430A DC to 12.4Gc Samp ler 800 .00
Hewlett Packard 1801A Dua l Chan nel Ver tica l Amp. Plug In 250.00
Hewlett Packard 1803A Diffe rental DC Offset Amp. Plug In 400.00
Hewlett Packard 1804A Quad Chan nel Vert i cal Amp. Plug In 400.00
Hewlett Packard 182 1A Ti me Base and Delay Generator Plug In 300.00
Hewlett Packard 1825A Ti me Base and Delay Generator Plug In 300 .00
Hewlett Packard 1841A Ti me Base and De lay Generator Plug In 500 .00
Hewlett Packard 2650A Osc i l l ator Synchronizer 100.00
Hewlett Packard 3200B 10Mc to 500Mc Oscillato r 500 .00
Hewlett Packard 3301A Aux iliary Plug In 25 .00
Hewlett Packard 3441A Range Selector Plug In 100 .00
Hewlett Packard 3442A Basic Plug I n 100.00
Hewlett Packard 3443A High Gain Auto Range Plug In 200 .00
Hew lett Packard 3446A AC DC Remote Plug In 200.00
Hewlett Packard 3450A Dig ital Vo ltmeter 1000.00
Hewlett Packard 352 1B
Hewlett Packard 5382A 225Mc Frequency Met er 350 .00
Hewlett Packard 5480A/5486A/5485A
Memory Di sp 1ay • Contra 1 • Two Channel 7000. 00
Hewlett Packard 8005B Pu lse Generator 1000.00
Hewlett Packard 10407A Plug In Extender 100.00
Hewlett Packard 10411A Horizontal Gain Calibrator 100.00
Hickok OP100 OC Voltmeter Plug In For DMS3200 25 .00
Industr ial Acoustics 55 -375 Audio Level Met er 100. 00
ITT 748345C Distortion Measur i ng Equ ipment 175 .00
Jerrold H72A Pl ug In 16 to 200Mc 35.00
Kay P860 2 to 220Mc Plug In 100. 00
Kay 570 Sweeper 10 t o 80Mc 100.00
Keithley 200B DC VTVM 50 .00
Keith ley 241 High Vo ltage Power Supp ly 100. 00
Keith ley 410C Picoarrmeter 100.00
Keith ley 600A Electrometer 100 .00
Ke i te 1 202BR DC Mi crovol t met er 50 .00
Krohn Hi te 310ABR Band Pass Fi lte r 20cps to 200 kc 150.00
Krohn Hf te 350A Ultra low Frequency Rejection Fi lte r .02hz to 2KhzlOO .OO
Krohn H'i te 360ABR Rejection Filter 20cps to 200kc 150. 00

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Marcon i TF7 9I C Ca rrier Dev i at ion Meter 4-27OMc 300.00
Marconi TF7910 Carrier De vi at i on Meter 4-1 024Mc 500 .00
Measuremen t s 80 VHF Signa l Gene rator 2- 400Mc 150. 00
Mea surement s 800 VHF Sig na l Generator AM/FM 19- 52 0MC
and Deviati on Meter 750.00
Mill i vac RM288 RF Voltmeter 20 KHz to 1.2Gc 150.00
Milliva c 828 RF Mi crovoltmete r solid s t ate 150.00
Narda 438 Klystron Powe r Supply 50 . 00
Nard a 440 Mi crowave Power Meter 100 .00
Nard a 3040-20 20db 240 to sOOrn, Coax ia l Di rect i ona l Coupl erlOO .OO
Narda 3041-20 20db 500 to lOO()nc " " " 100. 00
Nard a 3042-20 20db 950 to ZOO()nc " " " 100. 00
Narda 3043- 10 l Od b 2000 to 400(Jnc " " .. 100. 00
Narda 3043-20 20db 2000 to 400()nc " " .. 100.00
Na rda 3044-20 20db 4000 to BaDOme M " " 100 . 00
Na rda 3045-20 20db 7000 to 11 00linc " " II 100. 00
22006 20db 1700 to 4000mc M " .. 100. 00
Narda
Na rda 22007 30db 1700 to 4000nc " . .. 100. 00
Narda 22011 l Od b 2000 to 400()nc II
. .. 100. 00
Narda 22012 30db 2000 to 4000mc " " .. 100. 00
Narda 22574 10 .5db .. " .. 100. 00
Nort h At lanti c VH204 Phase Angle Voltme t er 150. 00
North Atlan tic R8503C Ratio Box 100. 00
Pol arad SO-I Mult i Pulse Spec trum Ana lyzer 100. 00
Po l arad 1001M4 Modu l ator 200.00
Polarad 1107 Signal Gene rato r 3.8 t o 8.2 Gc 500. 00
Po l arad 1108M4 Sig na l Gene rato r 6. 95 to 11 Gc 500 .00
Pol arad 1206 Sig na l Gene rator 1.9 5 to 4.2 0 Gc 500. 00
PRO 680/' 670 Cal orimetri c Power Meter with 8 . 2 to 14. 4
Gc Dry Ca1orimeter 250.00
RFL 107A Magnet Charger 500. 00
RF L 53 1 Crysta l Impedance Me ter 10 to 140Mc 500 .00
RFL 541A Crysta l Impedance Me ter 10 to 1100Kc 400 .00
RFL 541C Crysta l Impedance Meter 2.5 to 1100Kc 500. 00
RFL 942A-8/H87778 Ma gnet Charger wit h Transformer 1500. 00
Stodda rt NHlOA RFI Rece i ver 10 to 250KHz 100. 00
Stoddart NM40A RF I Receiver 30Hz to 15KHz 200.00
Stoddart 431-IA/431 - 18 Remote Contro l Unit and Antenna Coup ler
150Kc to 32Mc 300.00
Stodda rt 90078-4 Remote Meter 30 .00
Stoddar t 91226-1 Power Supply 200.00
Stoddart 91923-2 Power Supply 200 .00
Systron Donn er 1017FEE Frequency Counte r 150.00
Syst ron Donner 1255A 300mc to 12 .4Gc Plug In 200 .00
Syst ron Donner 1948A Video Ampli fier Plug In 100.00
TIC TlOA DME Pu lse Generato r 200.00
TIC TlOH DME Speed Indicato r Adap ter 200. 00
TIC Tl7A ATC/DME RF Adapte r 200 .00
Telon1c L- 3H SM2000 Pl ug In 100. 00
Te lonic SH2000 Sweeper 250.00
Te ktronix 8 Pl ug In 42. 50
Te ktronix CA Plug In Dua l Trace 112. 50
Tekt ron ix K Plug In 47 . 50
Tektroni x L Pl ug In 67 . 50

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Tektronix M Quad Tra ce Plug In 200. 00
Tektronix N Sampli ng Plug In 200.00
I e kt ront x R Pl ug In 77 . 50
Tektronix RM4 5A/ 545A Scope DC to 30Mc 325.00
Tektroni x RM122 Amp 1ifi er 50 . 00
Tektronix RM503 Scope DC to 450Khz 250.00
Tekt ronix RM 561 Scope DC to lOMc 150. 00
Tektron ix TU2 Plu g In 37.50
Tektronix W Pl ug In 212 . 50
Tekt ronix l L5 Spec trum Analyzer 10H z to IMc 900.00
Tekt ronix lMl Plug In 77 .50
Tektronix 151 Samp l ing Pl ug In 250.00
Tektronix 2A61 Plug In 100 .00
Tektronix 2867 Pl ug 1n 250.00
Tekt ronix 3A6 Pl ug In 247 . 50
Tektroni x 3A75 Plug In 100 .00
Tektronix 353 Pl ug 1n 150.00
Tektroni x 3T77 Plug In 150. 00
Tektronix 50 Pl ug In 100.00
Tektroni x 51 Plug In 100.00
Tektronix 53B Plug In 35 .00
Te ktronix 53/54B Plug In 35 .00
Tektroni x 53/54C Dua l Tra ce Pl ug In 100. 00
Tektroni x 53/54' Pl ug In 35 .00
Tektroni x 53/54L Plug In 45. 00
Tektronix 60 Plug In 45. 00
Tektronix Bl Adapter Pl ug In 75 .00
Tektronix B4 Pl ug 1n 100. 00
Tektron ix 105 Square Wave Generator 50. 00
Tekt ron ix 107 Square Wave Generator 50. 00
Tekt ron ix 123 AC Coupl ed Preamp l ifier 25.00
Tektron ix 131 Current Probe Amp l ifier 100.00
Te kt ronix l BOA Ti me Mark Generator 100. 00
Tekt roni x 18 1roodllO Ti me Mark Genera tor 75 .00
Tektronix 2BO Tri gger Countdown Unit 100.00
Tektroni x 067 -508 50 Ohm Ampl itude Cal ibrato r 100.00
Tektronix 013-0034 -00 Pl ug In Extender 25 .00
Te kt ronix 531 Scope DC to 15Mc 225.00
Tektro nix 535 Scope DC to 15Mc 262 .50
Te kt ronix 543 Scope DC to 33Mc 300.00
Tektroni x 543A Scope DC to 33Mc 375 .00
Tek tronix 561 Scope DC to l OMc 150. 00
Tektron i x 561A Scope Dc to lOMc 175 .00
Tektron i x 564 Scope Spl it Screen Storage 450. 00
Tektroni x 575 Transi stor Curve Tracer 400. 00
Tektroni x 581 Scope DC to 80Mc 300.00
Te ktroni x 585A Scope DC to 80Mc 500.00
Tektroni x 66 1/5T3/452 Samp le r Scope with Dual Trace Plug In 600. 00
Tektronix 1791 NC Program Ver fier 2000 . 00
Tex scan H5- 85 400 to 1000mc Sweep Gene rator 250 .00
Tex scan V5-73 400 to 450Mc Sweep Generator 17 5.00
Wandel U Go l termann LOE2/ L052 Measurin s Set For Group Del ay Attenuat ion
Receiv er and At tenuati on Ge nerato r 10,000. 00
Wayne Kerr B221 Uni versa l Bri dge Rf 150.00

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2NI561 $15.00 2NI562 $15.00 MMCM918 $ 1.00
2N I692 15.00 2N1693 15.00 MMT72 .61
2N2857 1. 50 2N2857JAN 2.45 MMT7 4 .94
2N2876 12.35 2N2880 25.00 MMT2857 2.68
2N2927 7.00 2N2947 17.25 MMT3960 6.25
2N2948 15.50 2N2949 3.90 MRF245 31. 50
2N2950 5.00 2N3287 4.30 MRF304 43 . 45
2N3294 1. 15 2N3301 . 75 MRF420A 20.00
2N3302 1.05 2N3304 1.48 MRF450A 10.35
2N3307 10.50 2N3309 3.90 MRF454A/BLY568 25 .00
2N3375 7.00 2N3553 1. 45 MRF502 . 49
2N3818 6.00 2N3866 1.09 MRF504 6.95
2N3866 JAN 2.70 2N3866 JAN TX 4.43 MRF509 4.90
2N3924 3.20 2N3925 6.00 MRF511 8 .60
2N3927 11.50 2N40n 1. 70 MRF901 5.00
2N4135 2.00 2N4261 14.60 MRF8004 1.44
2N4427 1.09 2N4429 7.50 PT35398 3.00
2N4430 20 .00 2N4440 7.00 PT41868 3.00
2N4957 3.50 2N4958 2.80 PT4571A 1.50
2N4859 2.12 2N4976 19 .00 PT4612 5.00
2N5090 6.90 2N5108 3.90 PT4628 5.00
2N5109 1. 55 2N6160 3.34 PT464Q 5.00
2N5179 .49 2N5184 2.00 PT8659 10 .72
2N5216 47.50 2N5583 4.43 PT9784 24.30
2N5589 4.60 2N5590 6.30 PT9790 41. 70
2N5591 10.35 2N5637 20.70 PT9847 26 .40
2N5641 4.90 2N5642 10 .00 501043 5.00
2N5643 14.38 2N5645 11.00 501116 3.00
2N5764 27.00 2N5842 8.65 501118 5.00
2N5862 50.00 2N5913 3.25 501119 3.00
2N5922 10 .00 2N5942 46.00 TA7993 75 .00
2N5944 8.50 2N5945 11. 90 TA7994 100 .00
2N5946 14.20 2N6080 5.45 40281 10 .90
2N6081 8.60 2N6082 9.90 40282 II. 90
2N6083 11.80 2N6084 13 .20 40290 2.48
2N6094 6.75 2N6095 II. 50
2N6096 20.35 2N6097 29 .00 We wi 11 t ry to replace any
2N6136 19.70 2N6166 36 .80
2N6265 75.00 2N6266 100.00 RF Transistor not on our
2N6439 43 .45 8FR90 3.00
8LY568C/CF 25 .00 HEP76/53014 4.95 list . We Can also order
HEPS3Q02 II. 30 HEPS3003 29 .88
HEP53005 9.95 HEPS3006 19 .90 many other RF Transistors
HEPS30Q7 24 .96 HEPS30 10 11 .34
HEP55026 2.56 MMI500 32 .20 Not l i st ed On OUR LIST.
MMI550 10.00 MM1552 50.00
MM1553 56.50 MMI601 5.50 Please Let Us Know What
MMI602 8.65 MM 1607 8.65
MM1661 15.00 MMI669 17 .50 Your Needs Are .
MMI943 3.00 MM2605 3.00
MM2608 5.00 MM8006 2. 15

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Solid Carbide Circuit Board Dri l l Bits Mur at a 5F04550


Drill Size Decima l Si ze Price Cente r Freq . 455KHz +/- 2KHz --------------
1. 25nm .0492 $1.85 3db Bandwidth 4 .5KHz+/- IKHz 8KHz+/ -2KHz
1. 45rrm .0571 $1.85 Selectiv ity 26db Mi n. at - 10KHz ------- - -
3.2ll1ll . 1260 $3. 58 20db Min. at +10KHz ------ - - -
35 . 1100 $2.1 5 Rippl e 1. 5db Max ----- - - - - - - - - ------
42 . 0935 $2.15 Insert i on Loss 9db Max . --------------------
47 . 0785 $2.15 $4 .00 $3 .00
49 .0730 $2.1 5 ------- ----------------------------------- ----
51 .0670 $2. 15
52 . 0635 $2. 15 Murata Type CFM455E Ceramic Fi lter
53 .0595 $1.85 455 KHz
54 . 0550 $1.85 Insert ion Loss 5db Max.
55 . 0520 $1.85 Spurious Response 45db Min .
56 . 0465 $1. 85 50db Bandwidth +/-1 6KHz Max .
57 •0430 $1.85 6db Bandwidth +/- 8KH z Min .
58 .0420 $1. 85 3db Bandwidth +/-5.5KHz Mi n.
59 .0410 $1. 85 Ripple 3bd max Bandwidth i s 3db Max.
61 . 0390 $1. 85 in 6db Bandwidth i s 6bd Max .
63 .0370 $1. 85 $7.95
64 .0360 $1. 85
65 .0350 $1. 85
66 . 0330 $1.90 Mura ta 10. 7 Ceramic Fi lte r SFE10.7
---------------------------------------------- 3db Bandwidth 230KHz+/ -50
Tyeo Type 001 -19880 Crystal Filter 20db Bandwidth 650KHz Max.
10.7 Me Ins ert i on Los s 6db
3db Bandwidth 15 KHz Mi n. Spu rio us Res pons e 40db Min.
20db Bandwidth 60 KHz Min . Inpu t / Out put Impedance 330 Ohms
40db Bandwidth 150 KH z Mi n. $4.95
Ultimate 50db;Insert ion l os s ------------------------------ ----------------
1. Odb Max.
Ripp le 1. Odb Ma x TRWBroadband Amp l ifier CA602/CA260 1BU
Ct . O+/ -5pf Rt. 3600 ohms $5.95 Freq uency Range ; 15 to 270Mc
Ga in ; 30db Max.
Tunnel Diodes And Back Diodes Supply Voltage ; 30vdc
lN2930 $6.00 $14.99
IN3716 6.00 CA6 1SBR
IN4395 6.00 Frequency Range ; 40 to 300Mc
T026 1A 10.00 Gain ; 16db Mi n 17db Max .
T0263A 10.00 50 Mc 0 to - l db From 300Mc
804/4JFB04 7.00 Supply Vo 1tage ; 24vdc
$19 .99
E F Johnson #122-0275-001 Tube Socket
These sockets are for t he fol lowing t ube s; Wisper Fans
4- 125A 4-250A 4- 400A This fan is super quite . eff icient cooling
3-4002 3-5002 5-500A where l ow acoustica l disturbance is a must.
Ect. $29.95/2 Si ze 4 .68
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.68 .50".Inpadance protected .
- - - - --- - - - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - 120vac 50/60cps
$9. 99 or 18. 00 pair

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Coherent Radiation Model 80-2 Power Supply with 5 Milliwatt
He Ne Laser $279.99
Cohe re nt Rad iat ion Model CR246 Power Supply with Model 138-02
5 Mi lliwatt He Ne Laser $249.99
Spectra Physics Model 236 Power Supply with 5 Milliwatt
He Ne l ase r $249 .99
spectra Physics Model 072 He Ne Laser with Power Supply
Aprox. 5 Mi ll iwatt $249.99
4 to 5 Milliwatt He Ne Laser Tubes $ 99.99
2 GC DOWN CONVERTERS 111 1 1 11 11111111111111 1
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Circuit Board With All Data $ 2S . DO
Circu it Board With 13 Ch ip Capacito rs Assemb led and Data $ 44.S0
Circu it Board With Al l Parts And Data For Assembly $ 79 .99
Power Supply Kit $ 44.99
Antenna 23dB Gain Vag i * Add $5 .00 For Shipping and Handling $ S9.99
Complete 2 GC Down Converter Assembled and Test ed $299 .99
Comes with 6 connectors . 300 to 75 ohm Adapter . 2 Way
Sp l itter, 100 Foot RG59 Cable * Add $7.50 For Sh ipping
and Handli ng. * Let Us Know What Your Po lar izat ion Is .
TUBES SPECIAL PRICES
2E26 $ 5.00 3-S00l $150 .00 Pai r
3B28 S.OO 3X2S00A3 150 .00
4-65A 2S.00 4-125A 34 .S0
4-2S0A 40.00 4-400A 50.00
4- 1000A 150.00 S-SOOA 80.00
4CX250B 38.S0 4CX250FG 53 .50
4CX250K 72.00 4CX250R 48.00
4CX3S0A 60.00 4CX350FJ 70.00
4CXI000A 200 .00 4CXlS00B 200.00
4CX15000A 400.00 4XI50A/G/0 30.00
S72B 39 .00 811A 12.95
81 3 29.00 S894 39.00
6146A S.2S 6146B/8298 6.2S
6146W 10.00 6360 7.95
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SHARON PA Radio Amateur Club will hold its
Wheaton Hamfest Portable
Social Events
JAN 19
The third annual Merce r Nine on Sunday, January 27,
County Amateur Radio Club 1980, at the Arlington Park Expo
seminar will be held at the Holi- Center , Arl ington Hei ght s Race
day Inn, West Middlesex, Penn- Track, Arlington Height s, Il-
SOUTH BEND IN and Shop on January 13, 1980,
at Oak Park High School , Oak sylvania, off 1-80, from 9:00 am linois. Doors will open at 8:00
JAN 6
to 5:00 pm. Come to hear speak· am sharp ! 300 free flea market
A hamfest swap & shop will Park Blvd., Oak Park, Michigan.
Doors wilt open at 8:00 am. ers on your favori te amateur tables will be available, plus 100
be held on January 6, 1980, at commercial booths. There will
radio topics. Advance eomre-
New Century Center, on US 31 also be hourly door prizes. Tick-
by the river , South Bend, jn-
sian is $2.00. There will be door
RICHMON D VA prizes. For further details, write ets are $3.00 at the door and
diana. Tables are $3.00 each. JAN 13 K3LA, PO Box 673, Sharon PA $2.00 in advance. For in forma-
Food service, autom ob ile muse- tion , send an SASE to WCRA,
um, and art center are in the
The Richmond Frosllest III, 16146.
sponsored by the Richmond Box QSL, Wheaton IL60187.
same bUild ing as the hamfesl .
Talk·in o n 146.52 /.5 2 , .1 3/
Amateur Telecommun ications WAUK ESHA WI
Society, will be held Sunday, MANSFIELD OH
.73, .34/.94, 147.99/.39, .87/.27, JAN 19 FEB 10
and .69/.09. For informat ion, January 13, 1980, at the Bon Air The 8th annual Midwinter
Comm unity Center. There will The Mansfield mid-winter
write the Repealer Valley Ham- Swapfest presented by the hamfest and auction will be
be a home-brew contest with West Allis Radio Amateur Club
fest committee, Wayn e Wert s held on February 10, 1980, at the
K9IXU, 1889 Riverside Drive, four awards: most original idea, will be held on Saturday, Jan-
best electrical work, best me- Richland County Fairground s,
South Bend IN 46616, or phone uary 19, 1980, beginning at 8:00 Mansfield, Ohio. Featured will
chanical work, and most oeserv- am at the Waukesha County Ex-
(219)·233·5307. be prizes, a flea market, and an
ing work, and prizes. FCC ax- po Cent er, Waukesha, Wiscon-
ams start at 10:00 am and com. auction to be held in large
LANCASTER PA sin. There will be food, refresh - heated buildings. Doors will
pleted Form 610s must be reo ments , and c ash prizes. Tickets
JAN 7 cerveo in the Norfolk Office o f open to the public at 8:00 am.
A t o-week Novice code and are $1.50 in advance, $2.50 at Ticket s are $1 .50 in advance
the FCC at 870 North Military door. Tables may be reserved at
theory class course wi ll be held Highway , Bank o f Virginia and $2.00 at the door. Talk-in on
at th e W illow St reet vo-re ch, $3.00 per tour-tccttebte till Jan- 146.34/.94. For additional Inter-
Bldg., Norfolk VA 23502, no later uary 11 or until half of the avail-
lancaste r, Pennsylvania , begin- than January 9th. Admission is matron or advance tickets, con-
ning the week of January 7th, able tables are reserved . For in- tact Harry srtetcnen K8HF, 120
$3.00, indoor flea market tables formation, write 1980 Swapfest,
1980. For fu rther in formation, are $3.00, and tai lgaters are Homew ood, Man sfield OH
c al l (717)·464·3359. PO Box 1072, Milwaukee WI 44906, or phone (419)·529-2801
$2.00. Talk-in on .28/.88 and
53201 . or (419)-524-1441 .
.34/.94. For further information ,
OAK PARK MI cont act the Richmond Amateur
JAN 13 Telecommun ications Society, ARLINGTON HEIGHTS IL LIVON IA MI
The Oak Park Amateur Radio PO Box 1070, Richm ond VA JAN 27 FEB 17
Club will hold its annual Swap 23208. The Wheat on Community The livonia Amateur Radio

<DEALER C!)I TORY •

Fontana CA LiUleton MA
w. <arry Ih< following, ICOM. Midland. Am· The ham Slor< of N.E, you cao .ely 00 , Ken·
oom. Defl Tron. KLM. Swan, Ofak• . T.n-Te<. I',oo,!, ICO!\.l, \\'il"'o. Ya",u, !kIlTron. KlM
Wil",n. SST, MH. HY' Gain, Luna,. Ny<- amps , ll& ..... , ..,itch", & "·aumete" . "" hi' tler Tell them you saw th eir name in I ,"1
Viking, I!&W. Redi. kilowatl, Cu,hCrafl, radar dc1e<tor<, Bearcat, R < ~en"y , anl,no", by
Mml.y. Bi~ Signal. ripo. fie. Full Scrvkc lar"'o, Wi<l"n. Hu>t l.... GAM. TU'<"OM
Siore .·onl lna EIt<1ron;". 11628 Sitml A . ~ .. 10<. Communicl,;orv; & t1«lronit"<, '75 {;"",t
fonllna CA 92335 . 8n·nlll. Rd.. RI. 119, I.IHI<luo "110 01460, 4lI6-.104O.
Phi la, P A/Ca mden NJ
Santa Clara C A sr, Louis MQ Wa. es uide & <:<>a.ial micro.. a•• compoo.ot,
Bay aroa' < "<:w"'1 Amateu. Radio <l ore, Ne..' & E.p erime"te r· , pa ridi .. ! Ele"lronic a"d & equipmenr. LaboratOfY 8' ade te,t ;nmu-
u~ Amateur Radio 'al'" & "'rvice. We mechanical oompo n.nt< fnr comput people,
feature K. n..'ood. lCOM, Wil",,,. Vae,u. ment<, pow'« , uppli"" Bu~. ",II & trade all
audio people. ham, . 'obol bullde" peri·
Atla,. Trn-Tec .VHF En~in""'in~ & many
more. Sh•• ~r Rodio. III< .. 1378 So. IIa<rom
men,.", Opeo , i. daY' a ..·.. k. (;"I~" "Y t1f.<·
11001", C"''P ' ' 8 1 lJ.1.~ PIIjl' Dl.d. , Sl. I" ul,
Si J\l!er. etc. Ltc1roni< tto.oa"'" I."'..
popula' ma."'. HP. GR, FXR, E.,<;I . Sor-rn",n ,
hIT)' A .... (:Imdfll ~J 08104. S41-42Oll.
1423 Port Anaeles WA
A . ~ .. Non J _ CA 95128, 'I'l1l.-11ll3. MO 6Jllll. 417-6116. Mobile RFI ,hi.ldiog fOf .Iimination of ;g"i-
lioo aod alternatot noi"". Bonding Slraf'l_
New Casue OE Camden NJ Scranto n PA Component' for "do-it .yo ur"lr· ",ojec",
!COM, Ten-Tek , Swan. KIl K, NIlI. Tempo. X-ba"d 1& ot h., froqu. n,i..) M i "' O "' a ,, ~ 1C0M, Bird. Cu,hCrafl. VHF EtlIineerins . Plen t~ nf fret ad"ice. fAI" f"'lll""';og, 930
Wilson; Au'horiled deale" I milo off 1·95. No Compon....t< & Equipment. l abotato, y Grade An"nna Specialim, Ba, ker & William,o" I'ohrine D.i.., Po,t Ang"~' WA 9836! .
""I", lax. DeI.... ...,Am.t~u.Suppll , 71 M..... o.. T"'t I"mumen". Power Suppli... 1M', in CDE Rotalor, . H a m-K e ~ ,. Belden. W1AUI 457-0904.
Road.~.... C..,tlt m: 1" 20, 323-n28. 'toc k al aU tim"" BUY & SELL all popula' W2VS, Shure. R"8en c~ , (:ES Tou<b·Too.
mak..- HP, GR, FXR. ESI, 5o<en=, Sins..., pad,. Radio Amateur Callbooh LoRu~ EIt<.
Columbus GA fl C. u"lronic R"",.",h bin, 1423 f'IT)' Ave.. lro nin, 11 11 {;nrnd.·lo» St. , Scranton PA DEALERS
IiUoWOOI)-.. \' At~Sll _I}RAlit: Cl md... ~J 011 104. S41-41Oll. 18Sll9• .l4l-1 124. Your company name and message
Th. world', mo" faota'lie amaleu' <ho...·
room' You 8011a "'" it 10 belie>'e it! Rodio Syracuse Central NY Hous ton TX can contain up to 15 words fo r as
Wholt<llo, lOU Auhum A......... Columbu, w. d.al. "e trad., w< di«:ount, .... piea",! Experimenter', pa,adi",! EIe<uOIlic and me-- little as SJ50 yearly (prepaid), or
C;A 319116. ~1 _700ll. Ya.,;u, Ten-Te<. Cu'hcraft. Drake. Dentron. "hanical component< for comput<r propk, $15 per month (prepaid quarterly).
KI.!\.1. !\.lidland. M W. ICO !\.l, H\'gain, S.. an, audio pcople, ha m<, robo! build.., . C'-
Prestun 10 Am,-om. Telco. Mi rag•. PS I etc_ Comp~e pcr;mente". Open ,i . da~, a week. G.l....y IVo mention of mail-order business
Roo; WB7BYZ, has the larg'-"<l Stoo::k of Ama· 1."ay """'ice ,hop! Ibm-Do .... Rodlo (01) . U ••,mo;" 11"<. , 1I931 nu1l<ftlll, HOD<lon TX or area code permitted. Directory
I.ur G.ar ;0 the Int...mou"lain WC!>1 and th. Sle"", R.pai. Sh"p) 31116 t:rle Dl>d. t:a.t, 7706l,978-M75. text and payment must reach us 45
lkst Price,. Call me for all your ham n.e,l<. Slt1lCU"" ro; \ ' 11114, 446-21(16.
R.... Di<tribul;og. 78 So. Sute, Pr"'tOfl III San Antonio TX days in advance of publica/ion. For
83163 , S}'racuse--Rome--Utica NY Compl.l. 2 way «TVi« 'hop_Call Ott. WSfSP. example, advertising for the March
8S1-OllJO. f eaturing; V~u. ICn M, Prak•• Alia' , Pen- Sdhog Atla,. A>anit. Bird, H~-8ain, Standard issue must be in . our hands by
Troon. Ten.Te<. Swan. Tempo. KlM. Hy.. oommuoi"atioo" Gon..e, H<nry. Cu<hCraft.
Te rre Haute IN Gai". Mo , l. y, Wihon , la.«o, !\.l;dla nd Hu' tl... . ICOM, KDK . Kenwood. MH , Ny<.
Jonuary 15th. Mail to 73 Magazine,
Your ham headquart , loo::ated in Ihe heart of s.ou,h" .., Technicai P,oduct' . You ...on·t be Shu,.. Swan, Tempo. Va"," and ", her•. Apo Peterborough i\'II 03458. ATT.'''':
the mid".... II"' t"<:I"IOI'-"< , 111<. , 430 di'appointe<! with "'I uipm< nl/«f.i<c . Rodlo pliaR<:< & F-'! ulpm... t {:o. , 111<., 2317 V....,. Aline Coutu.
M..ot.u... ShuPP;OK C.o'~ r . P.O. 0... lOll!' Wu, ld. On~id. Counly Airpon·Termlul Jo<k<on Rood, Son An'o olo T X 7UIJ ,
To.... HlWt.l~ "ll(I1 ,lJ8-1456. 8uilding, Ori<kaoy Nl' 13424, lJ7_2I>n. 734-7793.

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Club w ill hold its 10th anmver- MARLBORO MA March 10-11 , 1980. The second a transmi tter hunt (Freedom
sary Swap 'n Shop on Sunday, FEB 24 workshop, entitled 8080·8085· Foundation Fox Hunters Sanc-
February 17, 1980, f rom 8:00 am The A l g o n q ui n Amateu r Z80 Microcomputer Interfacing, tion Number 80-1) and a f rost-
to 4:00 pm, at t he Churc hi ll High Radio Club w ill hold its Srd an- Design , and Software. will be bite t ai lgate section. Tables,
School , Livonia, M i ch i g a n . nual ham radi o flea market on held on March 12·14, 1980. The food, and free par ki ng will be
The re w ill be plenty of tables, Sunday, February 24, 1980, at t hird workshop, entitled TRS-80 available. Dealer inquiries are
door prizes, refresh ment s, and the Marlboro J r. High School Interfacing and Programming invi ted. Talk -In on 146.52,
free parking available, plus re- catetcrtum, just off Rte. 85 for Inst rument at io n and Con- 223.36/224.96, and 146.355/.955.
se rved table space of t z-toot No rt h , Mar lbo ro , Massachu - trol , w ill be nero on March 17-18, For information and advance
minimum . Talk-i n on 146.52. For setts. Admission will be 501l:. 1980. These programs will be tickets, write to DVARS, PO Box
fu rther information , send an The event w ill be held rai n, directed by Dr. Jonathan A. 426, New Castle DE 19720.
SASE to Neil Coffin WA8G WL, shine, or blizzard. Food will be Ti tus, Dr. Paul F i e l d , Dr .
cia livonia Amateur Radi o Club, available. Tables will be $5.00 i n Ch ristopher T i t us , and Mr. STERLING IL
PO Box 2111 , Livonia MI 48 150. advance or $7.50 at the door. David G. La rsen . These are MAR9
Talk-in on .0 11.61 and .52. For hands-on workshops wi th the The Ste rling-Rock Falls Arne-
GLASGOW KY more information or reserve- participants having the oppor- teur Radio Society will hold its
FEB 23 ttons. contact Charles D. Me. tunity to retain the equipment. 20t h annual hamfest on Sun-
The Mammoth Cave ARC w ill Carthy W1BK, 128 Forest Ave., For more info rmation, contact day, March 9, 1980, at the Ster-
Hudso n MA 01749, or phone Dr. Linda Leff el, CEC, Virginia ling High School field house,
ho ld its annual Glasgow swap-
(617)-562-5622. Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061 , or 1608 4th Ave ., Sterling, Illinois.
fest on Saturday, Febru ary 23,
phone (703)-961 -5241. Advance tickets are $1.50; door
1980, f rom 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at
the Glasgow Flea Market, so uth BLACKSBURG VA tickets are $2.00. Over $2,000
of Glasgow on Highway 31E. MARCH CH RISTIA NA DE worth of prizes w ill be given
There will be a large heated Virginia Polytechnic Inst it ut e MAR2 away. A large indoor fl ea market
building with plenty of f ree par k- and State Un ive rs ity Depart- The Delaware Valley Amateur wi ll be restricted to radio and
ing. Spaces are avai lable l or ment of Chemistry will hold Radio Society will hold its electronic items only. There wi ll
$3.00 each. There will be no t hree short co urses in Marc h, Winte r Fest and Computer be plenty of free pa rking, lots of
meetings or forums, just door 1980, a t the Virginia Tech cam- Show on Marc h 2, 1980, from bargains, and plenty of good
prizes, f ree colfee, and a large pus, Blacksburg , Virginia. The 10:00 am to 4:30 pm at Christ- food . Ta lk -in on . 2 51 .8 5
flea market. Admission is $2.00. fi rst workshop, entitled Digital iana Memo ria l Hall , Rte. 273 (WR9AER). For tickets, write
Talk-in on .34/.94. For additional Electronics fo r Instrumentation and Old Baltimore Pike, Christ- Don Van Sant WA9PBS, 1104
info rmat ion, c ontact WA 4JZO, and Automation, will be held on iana, Delaware. Events inc lude 5t h Avenue, Rock Falls IL61071.
121 Adairland Ct., Glasgow KY
42141.

LANCASTER PA
FEB 24
AUTOMATIC CW UNBEATEN SIX
The Lancaster Hamfest w ill
be held on February 24, 1980, at
COPIER BAND ANTENNA
THE JOYSTICK VFA
the Guernsey Pavilion, located IVa nable F' <>q , Antenna) cla,ms unbealen $Cooing"ve,
at the intersec tion of Rtes. 30 commercial and/or oonVe<1uonal antennae
and 896, east of Lanc aster, • Simple, rapid erecl ion • Not only 6-band but
CONTINUOUSO.S - 30 Mn z,. 'ncl Be ;; MARS . Omn,-
Pennsylvania. General aom!s- ~"ecl1""a l . Substan"" lly Ha rmome FREE . 1.000.000
sian is $3.00, except c hild ren miles pe r w.lt. untleaten lecord ' . Poor OTH's en nanced '
and XYLs . Doors w ill open at CLIFFDWELLE RS ANTENNA' . OU()TE trom CO Mag -
N o w you can copy the fas t CW s tat io ns. T h e It you a'e h'llh eno ugl1l!le a ntenna w,ll ope,ate (es p. at
8:00 am. A ll inside spaces are NE W o ro tess tooauv des ign e d DE-150 plu g s 15-20) as we ll as me well· known 3-e lemenl beam W'll1
available by advanc e rectst re- in t o a t , a n s c e ive r ' s ear p h o n e ia c k & a uto wl1 ,eh we oompa' ed ~ , TM IuSlswere 'ope ralional.
tion only and are $3.00 each f or nol theooetlCa l' We fond lhal il we can l1ea r em we
m at ica lly d isp la ys Mo,se c o d e as it is be ing ean wool< 'e m.
an a-toot space, which in c ludes re ce ive d. N ew characters a re entere d t rcrn
Earo System 3
a table. There wi ll be f ree tau- th e ri g ht and shih left g iv in g a cont inuou s SYSTEM 'A' $110.00 secl""'Seas,ly
' !;o W,P,E .P. &/0' Receiving only
gating in a specified area out· eas y t o ,ead d is p la y of the la t e s t code re assembled 10 make
side, if the weat her pe rmits. cetveo. $ 4 25 , SYSTEM 'J' $130.00 unot7' 6" tong
O ne yea' w a rran ty a n d 15 day return 500 W.P.E.P, &/or Impro""d Malchl"Q ATU
There will be a t wo-ho ur Dutch o FacIo , Receive A~ mad cost oncludl>d
p rivile ge . A d d $5 fo r sh ipp ing , VISA &
Count ry tour by an advance reg- Rusl1 Maste' eharge tVosa no
M C c ards w elcome . or ched or req uesl FREE I,ter. ture
ist rat io n of $4.00. Food wi ll be .... 073
served at the hamfest. Also, • PARTRIDGE ELECTRONICS LTD
t here are excellent rest aurant s
and accommodations in the
.#)u/pOTn'C..
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ELECTROnl<J'fl<.
8 Partridge Hou se.
Broadslairs. Kef'll. England.
G3CED Tel: 011 44084362 535 G3VFA
area. Talk-in on .011.61. Fo r in -
(2 0517 73· 2758 80~ 8 9 6 H arts el te . A L 356 40
formation, write Sercom, Bo x
6082, Ro hrersto wn PA 17603.

DAVENPORT IA 50 144 - REPEATERS - 220450 Mh,


FEB 24
The Davenport Radio Ama-
BASIC AUTO PA rC M
teur Club will hold it s ninth an- N.wendlm~
· Ac c e ss, _C/ubl. a nd ed/us18ble T;m.r. Rec.lver
nua l hamfest on Sunday, Febru- COM PLETEL Y ASSEMB LED -$ 75.00. end Trin amlll...
ary 24, 1980, from 8:00 am to
4:00 pm , at the Davenport EXTENSI ON BOA 110
Masonic Temple, Hig hway 61 AMil"lsing. 3 dlgil SBq"M ri., To"ch Ton" ™
(Brady St reet ) and 7th Street, decoder worh a" rom. lic fesel. AM il" lsing
COR ld"nlifiet: All On Ona boa,d. pf09,amm"bl• • FUlly ed·
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VIBROPLEX® I am wonder ing if anyone can I am interested In buildin g a
hel p me beat the hig h cos t of "Morse-t o-video" devi ce that
vacations . I have a three-bed- will sample the inc oming CW
si gn al from my rig , proces s it,

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room ho me in Victoria BC and
would like to visit the Dtsnev- and d isp lay it o n a normal TV
land area either at Easter break set.
or in July/Aug ust. Easter wou ld Chuck Bowers WA6GZZ
be preferred. 3326 Sawtelle Blvd., Apt. 31
"deluxe" Don Ankersen YE7DHG Los Angeles CA 90066
56500 4142 Hawkes Avenue
Victorla BC VSZ 3Z1 I wou ld like to establ ish a

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• Adjustable teweled bearings manuals : Nav$hips 92175, Mil· with langu age and heari ng
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tully adjustable the M[).14 11GA and T·282D/G A lim it ed fu nds. An y u sea ble
• l arge, sOlid . COin StIver contact • utetene quarantee against unit s. Can anyone out there equ ip ment wh ich could be
poin ts manu tacturing defects . donat ed will be greatly appre-
help me? I w ill g ladly pay
• 2Vl lb. chrome ptat eo steel • RegIstered serial number. c iat ed.
reasonable pr ices. Thanks.
base rests on non-sk id reet . • Vibroplell @Qua litythrough-oul-
Charles T. Huth WBSNlM Robert Boykin WA2HUY
• Top par ts deslQned from our .'Standard" mccer wilh wrinkle 146 SChonhardt Street Industrial Arts Department
world famous linished cas iron base available Tiffin OH 44883 SChool lor language- and
Vibroplu;!) "' OrigmaL .. Ior S4950. Hearing.lmpaired Children
421 East 88th Street
Available at your dealers or through the tactorv. I de sperately need manuals
o r sc hematic d iagrams for the New York NY 10028
Send check, money order. or use your VIS A or
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except on orders outside the contmeotar U.S . G668. Central Electronic s lOA, A AnY AM$AT Informat ion
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see your duler or write lor uternureon all our world famous line Ill: KG600B. nights (VoIednesday morning s.
The Vibropler Company. Inc. ..-V2. Jimmie A. Hall UTe) at 0230 UTC on 3620 MHZ.
P.O . 80x 7230 416 Fore 81. Portland. Maine 04112 820 Robert Ct. 60 wpm, 17Q-Hz shift. , will be
Carlisle OH 45005 NCS.
Dr call: 12071115·1110 Charles E. Martin AB4Y
PO Box 3370
I'm looking for either an orig· Bowling Green KY 42101
in al ma nual or a copy for a
Johnson model 24Q-122 vto. The
vfo w as usable wi th m a ny I need a schematic 0 1 a hig h·
Johnson rig s and the manua l seria l-n umbe r Dra ke SC-6, 6·
for my Advent urer whic h I am meter converter, or I will re-
using it on told how to get it produc e the manual and return.
hooked up, bu t I have no Inter- YOU'll know th e co rrect SC-6
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li st for an Ovenaire 1-MHz oscil- station fr om a "deleted coun try"
I lat or, type 15- 10, used In Navy
frequency c o u nt e r AN/UR M-
as des ig nated o n the AAAl
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I also need a sc hemat ic for a Box 1003
Conar 223 tube c hec ker and a Fairfield CT 06430
Motorola 025 scud-state Drs-
pat cher. I will copy and return.
JUST GETTING ON THE AIR? Marvin Moss W4UXJ
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forming a net to lea rn the e er-
ma n lan guage. We need some
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o Friendly Advice I wo uld al so li ke to know if
a ny read ers c an suggest a
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50·239 .43 2N38 18 6.00 2N5248 .60 or 101 4.50 MC4024P &
UG- 175 .36 2N3866 1.09 M PF 13 1 .60 or 101 5.00 MC4044P $3.25 each
PL·258 2.99 2N3866JAN 2.70 2N4303 .45 or 101 3.50
UG ·l06 .69 2N2866JANTX 4 .43 2N3958 2.95 eac h HEP 170 2.5 Amps
UG·177 .69 2N3925 6.00 MF E2000 .90 or 101 8.00 l000PIV 101$2.00 or 1001514.50
UG·274fU 3.27 2N3948 2.00 MFE2001 .99 or 101 8 ,00
UG·447/U 1.50 2N3950 26.25 MF E2008 4.20 or 10136.00 POTTER & BRUM·
UG·492 3.69 2N3960 4.70 MFE2009 4.80 or 10139.00 FIELD 12VOC RELAYS
UG-306IU 3.00 2N 4072 1.70 MFE3002 3.35 ea ch
SPOT 25 Amps $5.95
UG·6461U 3.29 2N4427 1.09 MM F·5 5.00 each
2PDT 3 Amps $1.99
UG·260B/U 1.59 2N4877 2.57 MFEl20 1.00 o r 101 8.50
UG·10941U .90 2N4957 3.50 2N3436 2.25 each KILOVAC H·B/54
UG· 70 1lU 3.00 2N5108 3.90 2N44 16 1.00 each
2N5109 1.55 MF E131 1.05 each
VACUUM RELAY
UG·212CIU 3.00
26 vctt coil $29.95 each
2N5179 .59
TUBES 2N5589 4.60 MICROWAVE DIODES
1N21 D $ 1.40 E. F. JOHNSON TUBE
3·5OOZ $90.00 2N5583 5.00
572BIT160 L 34.00 2N5590 6.30 1N21C 1.05 SOCKETS f or 3-4OOZ and
6146 2N5591 10.35 1N2 1WE 2.00 3·5000Z t ubes $29.95 pe r pai r
5.09
6146A 5.99 2N6080 5.45 lN 23B 1.05
2N608 1 8.80 1N23C 1.05 TOROIDAL CORES
6·46W 7.95
1N23CR 2.00 T-37·6 61 1.00
811A 12.95 2N6082 10.75
1N23E 2.00 2514.00, 50/6.00
811 9.95 2N6083 12.00
l N 23F 4.10 100110.00
4CX250B 36.95 2N6084 13.20
4C X250R 39.95 2N6095 10.35 lN 23WE 2.10
l N25 3.03 4CX250B/R SOCKETS
6KD6 4.99 2N6097 19.35
6LF6 4.99 MAF502 .69 1N 121WE 4.00 AND CHIMNEYS NEW
1N286 5.00 $ 14.95 per set (1 socket , 1
6L06l6J E6 6.25 MA F8004 .75
1N416E 5.00 chimney)
8950 6.65 $$2548 .75
40280 3.50 1N446 8.00
2E26 6.00 B&WCOILS
3B28 5.00 4028 1 10.90 1N3655A 4.00
1N5153 15.00 1206T $3.99
4X15OA 15.00 40282 11.90
1N5711 1.20 2OO6T $7.99
6360IA 7.95
6939 5.95 TRIMMERS 5-BOpf FAIRCHILD REGULA-
7289/2C39 4.95 4~ each o r 1013.50
ADDITIONAL R.F.
TRANSISTORS TOR 78H 05KC $6.99 each
8072 45.00 or 100125.00
4-4ooA 90.00 40894 $ 2.50
TUBES
8877 300.00 CHOKE [U252] z.sm h M RF454I568BL YCF 17.10
6146 B $6.50
PL172 250.00 150ma 30M Hz
4· 10Q0A 160.00 21$ 1.00 BRIDGES 24 AMPS MINIMUM ORDER 55.00
Min imu m Shippinll 51. In su rance 354:
4-250 A 35.00 500PIV $2.99 each per $100. COD charlles 854: to alreet ad·
TRIMMER CAPS dress only! We preler street address as
FERRITE BEADS sma ll enoug h to LM566V VCO/FUNC- we sh ip UPS and P,O. Box . 's take up to
50 % lonller to deliver. We accept VISA
121$ .89 or m in your wat c h
100/$4.00 3.5- 11pf 75¢ each
TION GENERATOR 01 Masterc harlle. Ple ase liat complete
card numbtlr and ex pirat ion date, A llow
$.99 each
o r 10/$6.00 10% e xtra 101 shipping 01 heavy items.
1N914/1N4148 We reSe",e Ihe right to ch ange prices

301$ 1.00 or PISTON CAPS 1.2·, Opl LM340T-5 & LM340T w,tllout nOli~, All Item s li sted a,. In
smali quantities.
1201$3.00 7~ each o r 101$5.50 -12 $1.49 each

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RGSS 3 It wl PL259 each end . . , 3.35 b
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NEW from HY·GAIN! DM·SP UH F double male ,
M359 90 deg UHF elbow conn
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156 End msul. for doublet (pair) .... . _3.95 II
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AI 44-10T 10 ere
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A44I-6 6 ere
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A441-11 11 ere
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A FM24D 220M Hz Four Pole 64.15 c Pequr-e s no sw,'cl'1,ng or 270 6d b l ibergl ass 2M antenna , . 49.95 b
AFM44D 435·450MHz Fou r Pole 64.115 c matcl'1ing del/ices l !i Ib S 203 3 elemenl2 met er yagi. 21 .15b
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A50-3 3 element 6 meier beam 311.15 d RM20 20 Meter reso nator 8.95 b
A5(). 5 5 element 6 meter beam 511.115. RM40 40 Meter res onator 14.95 b
A28.3. 3 elemenl1 0 meter beam .. 69.95 . RM75 75 Meier resonator , .. , . . 16.95 b J
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A FLOTSAM AND JETSAM SALE!!!
(Jet -sam, noun. Good s thrown overboard to lighten a vessel in distress.)

In th is case the vessel is our warehouse, which is filling up with stuff


and threatens to engu lf us all . We didn't worry about it at first, but now
we hear rumors of mutant semiconductors living in unexplofed parts of
the building ... and just last week. a desperate group of mylar RFPOWER
capacitors tried to kidnap our head packer (but luckily. he put up some
resistance and that sbcet-clrcutted their plans). So you can see we' re
TRANSISTORS!
Umited quant it ies, there aren't all that many lelt by now.
getting pretty desperate, which is a tip-o ff as to why t he prices are SO Choose from:
ridiculously low. Well , I must end this message; it sounds like t he
mutant semiconductors are hungry, and I'd just as soon not be around 2NRF·1
when it 's feeding lime .. . on yes, all items below are limited quantity, 2 GHz RF power u ansrstor. ~ max 3.5W, Pout m in HJW, Pin
310 mW, etliclency 30 % , round shape, similar to RCA
2N5470 .. . $4.95

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efficiency 33% , cross shape, similar to RCA 2N6269 , •. 56.95
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SPECIAL! 2NR F-4
2 GHz RF power transistor. Pd 'Z1oN, Pout 7.5W. Pin 1.5W,
U mlt ed quantities. LESS THAN A DIM E APIECE:
14. 16, 18, and 24 pin sockets efficiency 33% . cross shape, faclOl)' selected prime
2N6269 ... 57,95
are now on ly 201$1.951
28 and 40 pin t ypes are 101$1.50,
wh ich is also quite a prlce .
If there was _ a tlrTMI Our computer business is doing great. but that
to stock your lab with socket" this II It. doesn't seem to be a universat state of affairs , ••
wtl ich means you can now buy IM5 Al type $-l005T
soldertail edge connectors on SUPER CLOSE.QUT
lor 21$5. Not list ed in flyer; limited quantity.
HOW ABOUT A NICE
SET OF LEGS?
Hah l Had you going there for a second. didn't we? These are
act ually lumiture leg s, and we thought they were pretty much OUR FIRST
the most useless things in the wond until some guy came in
and sa id he wanted some. Atter determining for oursel ves
X-RATED SPECIAL!
We have a whole bunch 0 1 surpluS motors, little
that this person was indeed menIally competent , we told him
we'd give him the legs il he told u s what he was using them jcecree that run off 1 to 5V DC. Rumor has it that
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Frequency range ' 10Hz to Ove r 600 mHz
Se nsitivity, less than 25 mv to 150 mHz
less than t 50 mv 10 600 mHz
Stabil ity' 10 ppm, 20 -40 °C : 0 ,05 ppm / "C TCXO c rystal
t ime base
Disp lay ; 7 d ig its , LEO. 04 inCh heig ht
Input protec~on: 50 VAC to 60 mHz. 10 VAC to 600 mHz
Input impedance. 1 megohm , 6 and 60 mHz ranges 50 ohms .
600 mHz range
Power ' 4 ' AA' cells. 12 V ACiDC
Gate 01 sec and 1,0 sec LEO gat" lIg ht
Decrrnal point Automatic, ail ranges
Si ze 5" W x t 'I:z " H x 5Y,"O
Weight : 1 It> w it h eenenes

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FT·707 is shown with
optional FV·707DM Vf{)
& Scanning Microphone

THE FT·707
"WAYFARER"
The introduction of the "WAYFARER" by Yaesu is the beginning of a new era in compact solid state
transceivers. The Fl·707 "WAYFARER" offers you a full 100 watts output on 80-10 meters and operates
SSB. CW, and AM modes. Don't let the small size fool you! Though it is not much larger than abook. this is a
full-featured transceiver which is ideally suited for your home station or as atraveling companion for mobile
or portable operation .
The receiver offers sensitivity of .25 uV/10 dB SN as well as adegree of selectivity prev iously unavailable in a
package this small. The "WAYFARER" comes equipped with 16 poles of IF filtering. variable bandwidth and
optional crystal fiiters for 600 Hz or 350 Hz. Just look at these additional features:
FT·707 with Standard Features FT·707 with Optional FV-707DM
& Scanning Microphone
e Fast/slow AGC selection
e Advanced noise blanker e Choice of 2 rates of scan
e Built-in calibrator e Remote scanning from microphone
e WWVlJJY Band e Scans in 10 cycle steps
e Bright Digital Readout e Synthesized VFD
e Fixed crystal position e Selection of receiver/transmitter functions
e 2 auxiliary bands for future expansion from either front panel or external VFD
e Unique multi-color bar metering-monitors e "DMS" (Digital Memory Shift)
signal strength. power output, and ALC voltage.
Impressive as the "WAYFARER" is its versatility can be greatly increased by the addition of the FV-707DM
(optional). The FV-707DM, though only one inch high. allows the storage of 13 discrete frequencies and with
the use of "DMS" (Digital Memory Shift) each memory can be band-spread 500 KHz. These 500 KHz bands
may be remotely scanned from the microphone at the very smooth rate of 10 Hz steps.

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The Fl-707 "WAYFARER" is a truly unique rig .
See it today at your authorized Yaesu Dealer.

The radio. V
YAESU ELEcmONICS CORP., 6851 Walthall Way, Pe",mounl, CA 90723 • (213) 633-4007
YAESU ELECTRONICS Eastern Service cn., 9812 Princeton-Glendale Rd.,Cincinnatl ,OH 45246 eo
The TS-520SE Is an econo~al new vet-
slon of the TS-520S .. . the world~ s'T.§st popular
160-10 meter Amateur transceiver. Now anyone
can easily afford a high quality HF transceiver.
providing 200 watts PEP Input on ssa and 160
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The TS-520SE is a high -quality 160-10
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to produce the new " SE w model :

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