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2 73 MAGAZINE
73 Magazine June 1961
Vol. I, No.9
1379 East 15th Street
Brooklyn 30, N. Y. Table of Contents
Abe lincoln Bill Ashby K2TKN .
Two m e t e r an tenna fo r mob ile or fi xed. L ooks aw r u t, wo rks g r eat!
75M Transistorized Converter Harold Johnson WA6DZL . 12
Nice lit t le on e eve n ing c on struc tio n p r o j ect.
Precision Capacity Measuring . . . . . . John Reinartz K6BJ . • • • • • • • • • • • • 14
Rhrh t down to a f ractio n of a mmfd.
Propagation, Part II Dave Brown K21GY . 16
Whe n the s u n spot null will really come and wha t i t w ill be like.
73 Tests the M-IOO Modulator Charles Spitz W4API . 20
J us t h ow good is that gate m od u lato r put ou t by E lec trotone t
AM Modulation Monitor James Tonne W5SUC . 24
A bit complicated, but g reat for perfectionists .
Modifying the KT-2UO Receiver Bill Orr W6SAI . 30
Bill claims this is a r ea l good deal w ,th these few c ha nges.
Pandapting Adaptor, Part I John Ellison W6AOI . 33
Mod e ra t ely s i mp le device connects your receiver to your ' scope.
Automatic Drive Control " Vernon Trexler W51UR . 38
Transistor d evice keeps you f rom over modulatio n . C lever.
Dear Sir Allie Peed K2DHA . • • • • • • • • • 39
On w r iting to m an ufa c t ure r s a bout you r m is e r ies .
FCC Notice '. , .. " ' . Wells Chapin W80NL 41
Thought you'd g et a kick ou t of th is bit of a n tiqu ity .
Do.it-Yourself IBM Jim Kyle K5JKX/6 .. . . . . . . . . . . . 44
P u nch 11. few holes and get som e real mileage out of a ca rd file.
Power House Pros Staff . • • • • • • • • • • • 51
Part I. all about power s up plies.
Propagation Chart Dave Brown K21GY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
D X men please note tha t t b is is t he m ost accurate ro eec eet in print.
The DX Hunter Ken Johnson W6NKE . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Do's a nd don'ts o r D X huntin &".

Mise.: Staff:
Ta b le o f C onte nts . . . . . . 3 e d it o r-pu b lisher Wayne G re en W 2 NSD
publica ti o ns man ager David Fish
d e W 2NSD (ed ito ria l) 4 a sso cia te e d itor Don Smith W3UZN
Subsc rip tion Rate s . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. . . . . 6 a ssociate edito r J im Kyle KSJKX/6
a ssocia te e di to r Marvin lipton VE3DQX
W hipping Thing s Up 13 esscciet e e ditor Charl es Spitz W4API
Don 't Break Those Good Tops .. . . . .. . . . 29 photograph er Joe Schimmel W2QDM
l ot iIons
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Me ter In sulatio n 32 t ren sp c rte tio n Old , Beet-Up Pors ch e
Fie ld Doy Power Source '. 42 printing Ye O lde O'brl en e Presse
AF MAR S Te chnica l Net _ 43 We stern Repre sent at ive : J im Morissett WA 6EX'U
Subscri pti o n Form . p ost cord BN 847. Reseda, Celi fo mi..s , Ph: 0 1 5·2077

COVER: C ould n' t t hink o f any thing so we mad e it bri ght red !
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JUN E 19b1 3
· .. de W2NSD
(never say die)
The cards from the May iss ue have been
coming in quite sa t isf a ct or ily. They've kept
me up to all hour s ha cking the information
request s out for adverti sers and toting up the
article votes . T he addition of t he " Messa ge
to the e ditor" to the card t his t ime res ulted
in a slightly puffed ego from a ll of t he kind
words. SOllie few suggested t hi ngs t hey'd like
to see in print. It s t r uck me th a t th is might
a ct a s a spur to fellows who may have just
what these chaps want, but haven't written
it up yet. So how about making a note of
somet hing you'd particularly like to see in
print on the card thi s month . .• and don't
forget to fill in some of the information re-
quest blank s.
Some of t he item s r equ est ed t his month t hat
st ick i n m y mi nd are : a nyth ing on RTTY,
m or e SS B a r t icles , more VHF construction
projects, a converter for the aircraft fre-
quencies from 108-138 me, how to take good
equipment photographs, su r pl us conversions,
etc. One chap wanted a 25 watt 160 meter
C'V rig to carry him through the next few
years of the su nspot cycle. A lmost anything
tran sisto rized is read av idly, and N uvistors
a re st ill N u .
April Votes
The card in the A p r il is sue just about
snowed me under trying to count a ll the votes.
T hey'r e st ill coming' in every day, but we have
to sto p somewher e , and besides, there no longer
is any question about which article win s for
the month. H er e are t he votes:
N uvisto r Conve rter K 8BY N . . . . . 1609
N oise L imit er K 5JKX / 6 . . . . .. .. . . 1352
Take Your Pi ck, Sta ff . . .. . . . .. . . . 972
T e nnessee I ndia ns K2 SJ N . . . . . .. . 698
Tran si stor :lIodulator KL7DLC . . . . 655
H ea t hkit T woer ' V3U ZN . . . . . . . . 489
Mod ula t e Kot Crepitate K4ZG::\I. . 428
Calibration ' V..t \VQT 426
H a ve W a ve F eed er s W 9H OV . . . . . . 377
P ower Meter K8ERV . . . .. . . . . . .. 358
RF No ise Su ppress ion K2TK N . . . . 355
Boosting Com mand Audio K8 HDR . 307
Big Ca nnon W 6VVZ . . .. . . . .. . . . . 297
'V r ite for 73, Staff .... ... . . . . . . . 272
A u toma tion K 5J K X / 6 . .. . . . . .. .• 180
'V hen the Ldth most popular article in an
issue gets 180 votes, I'd sa y that we're doing
pretty well!
Im plicit-Explicit
Whil l' on Illy way up to R ocheste r Io give u
4 73 MAGAZINE
talk at t he H a mf est (and sell a few subscrip-
tions), I got to mulling over the problem of
getting fellows to build equipment and the 73
a pproach to doing somet hing about it. The
more I mulled the more I wa s aware that my
good old New E ngland ta citurnit y had won out
a ga in and t hat I ha d said in mu ch too fe e....
wo rds what I h ad int ended to comm u nicate
way back in the first issue. Bear with me while
I elaborate a bit on t he genera l theme.
Aft er leaving my former place of employ-
ment I spe nt a couple weeks kicking myself
for not having left a year or two e a r lier and
t hen decided t hat the best course of action was
to take the bulls horns and put out my own
ha m magazine. I had been g r u mb lin g in my
edito r ia ls for se veral years abou t t he decli ne
i n home con st r uc tion , but hadn 't fi g ur ed any-
t hi ng to do about it . Now, \.... it h some time for
inves tig a t ion, I st a r ted taking a long look at
the problem a nd came up with a theory that
seems to be proving correct. A ca re f ul inspec-
tion of the ham magazines made it obvious t o
me that th ey were largely responsible for the
drop in construction.
A qu ick r iffle t hrough the ba ck issues of ham
literature will br ing th is poi nt home, I be-
lieve. I f ound t hat t here were only a handf u l
of s im ple constr uction projects bei ng published
each year, and most of these were items for
Novices and were of little interest to the bulk
of the hams . I noticed that much of the
gear being described had obviously been built
in a well-equ ipped lab and had been tuned
with l ab test equ ipme nt t hat j ust isn't fo und
in m a n y h a m sh acks. The very perfection of
th e ge a r bein g de scribed is a psychologica l
stumbli ng block f or t he cha p who would li ke
to duplica te it.
Looki ng further in the ham magazines I
found that the bulk of them were filled with
operating news. It is axiomatic that every-
one likes to see his calt in print, but when
it gets to where thi s is the major pa rt of our
literature t hen somet h ing is wrong. I n addi-
tion to la r ge seg ment s of t he magazines being
ad mittedly devoted t o catering to t h is form
of fla tter y, t here a r e even g reater bundles of
pa ge s doing t he same t hi ng u nder an a ssumed
na me. I had tr ied, unsuccessfully, to change
this course of events in years past, and de-
cided that now was the time t o correct this
problem. You see, I envi sioned specia l interest
colum ns a s devoting their s pace to a di scu s-
sion of technical topics, not to a n extension of
the ope ru ti njr ne ws section of t he m ngnzin e.
(Turn to page 6 )
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JUN E 1961 5
 A VIIF column cou ld well devote itself to tech-
nical topics and continue to be inter es t ing
indefi n itely without ever mentioning who wa s
working whom and with what rig and antenna.
The RTTY culumn could well continue forever
• mill never exhaust tho technical side of th is
fucet of the hobby. Even a DX column could

TWO ANTENNAS s ti ck to techn ical topics, with discussions of

antennas, low noise pre-amps, antenna s witch-
inK, feed lines, poss ible DXpedition sites, etc.
The difficulty with run ning columns of thi s
IN ONE* *a n o t he r FI RST from FINCO
nature is that an editor ,...-ou ld have to find
fellows who are willing to work full time
writing them, for they would take many times
the effort to prepare that the present columns
do. But then, why have columns at all'! ]f
something is interesting enough to be printed
• in a column it can just as well be run as a
feature article. And that is what we are
Palenl R[ 24,413
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commercial gear, etc. Usually these are long
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sma ll fraction of the readers. I have a solu-
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•
T il E second most popular point of discus-
sian, when a group of hams meet, is what
form of a ntenna works best in a restricted
space. \Vhen a mobile, horizontally polar ized
solution is required, the theories ar e many,
workable practical a nswers few. Man y years
UA"O t he writer, t hen W ¢ ETJ, shook u p a few
hi ghwa y travelers by driv ing all over Missouri,
Il li nois, I nd ia na , and Oh io with a pai r of 5
element two meter beams, s tacked a nd on a
rotor, all mounted on the back bumper of the
car. From the ridiculous to the subl ime, many
wild combinations were used, all good in
theory, most poor in actual radiated signal
or mechanical mo nstrosities.
I n 1949, I decided the Halo was the best
mobile, horizontally polarized compromise-
but it had to be designed properly. Most so-
called Halo's in use today are actually Ram's
H or n antennas. A true Halo is a shortened
8JK flat-top beam, so arranged mechanically
that it has end-fire gain in all horizontal di-
rections. Current must be fairly equal in all
parts of the radiating portions and 180 0 out
of phase at any two points opposite each other
across the circle. Very little energy is radi-
ated up or down; this is why a good Halo
works out well in mobile installations, with
almost 3db gain over a dipole's best direc-
tion.
Few people understand the simple principles
of why a Halo works, as evidenced by many
commercial versions copied from bad infor-
mation they have gleaned from VHF articles
and columns of other amateur publications.
T ak ing a dipole, folded or otherwise, a nd bend-
ing it into a circle, does not make a Halo an.
8 73 MAGAZINE
The
"Abe
Lincoln"
Bal A,hby K2TKN
Box 97
Pluckemin. N. J.
te nna. T he res ult is non-dir ection al, in fact
it doesn't r adia te well in any dir ection except
up when installed near a la rge ch unk of meta l.
A good 2 meter H alo is small, not over 10
inc hes in diameter, bett er if on ly 8". To reso-
nate to freq uency, of course, capacitor load-
ing- of t he open ends is required, a lot of
ca pacity ! Th us, curre nt is almost uniform at
a ny point arou nd the circle, end fir e di r ectivity
ac ross the circle becomes very evi dent a nd
ra dia t ion angle is low, very little up or down,
most out where it does the most good. Radia -
t ion is practically un iform t hru the full 360
deg rees.
Enough t heory-how about practice-spin
your existing antenna around on its mou nting
while listeni ng to a weak s igna l; if there is
any variation in s ignal strength as the an-
tenna is rotated about its mount, you do not
have a good Halo, "picket-fence" phase-shift
on reception has been evident, and physical
mounting posit ion will be critical j it is work-
ing as a Rams Hor n.
Since H a lo's are not easy to get operating
properly in actual practice, further investiga-
tion seemed to me to be in order. An antenna
type used in commercial Flit! Br oadca sting for
many years looked promising-it is the Slotted-
Pylon. This antenna is a vertical pipe, 1/10
wave length in diameter, approximately
wave length high, with uniform horizontal
*
coverage. Of much in ter est is the fact that both
top and bottom of the cylinder are points of
zero rf.
A full P ylon-S lot was constructed, mounted
on the rear bumper of the car, and then the-
fu n began. On two meters t he s izes work out
a~ follows-10 inches in d iamete r , 60 inches
high, with a 1 inch slot running vertically
from to p to bottom. T he ends of the s lot a re
shorted (the circle is complete), t he top a nd
bottom of the main cylinder can be left open
or covered with metal with no di fference noted
in perfor ma nce.
This a ntenna was t he center of attraction
at t he Syracuse VH F Roundu p in 1959. It
was a stand-out in a parking lot famous for
real "out" mobile V HF installations. Many
XYL's left tha nking heaven that their OM
had only installed a sensible H alo (?) on
the ir family hea p. T hi s an ten na really pokes
out a signal, approx 6db over a dipole. but
a state cop can spot )TOU a mile away-Tony,
VE3D IH, almost ran his station wagon off
the road when he saw me come over a hill,
stove-pipe wavi ng in t he breeze!
Aft er cleaning out all cou ntry telephone
lines in the area , and leaving a few dents in
low bridges, I decided to s.ee if the monster
SlOE
J UN ~ 1 9~1
couldn't be reduced in size a bit, without los-
ing too much signal. The " Abe Lincoln" is t he
result.
T his is shortened bottom half of a P yl on-
Slot. I t is mounted flush in the middle of the
roof of the car, secured with wide masking
tape, which is renewed occasionally. It can
be fabr ica t ed out of any conducting material.
A wor d of war ning-certain sized holes cre-
ate a siren-effect at various speeds-the unit
pictured has a plexi-glass top, not to keep
the rain out, but to keep it from becoming a
very loud fog horn at high speeds. Size-10
inch d iameter , height 20 in ches, slot % inch
wide, a nd as mentioned. t he slot and to p are
filled with 1,4" plexi-glass. There are 2 x 2 inch
tuning tabs across the slot at the top. This
keeps the height down to a reasonable level.
Tune up proced ure is very simple-bring a
g-rid- dipper coil up close to the shorted bot-
tom of the slot. A good dip will be evident at
the resonate frequency-adjust the spacing
PI P E MOUNT
FEEO
DETAILS
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 fine for DX, but is a pain in the neck for local
operation. You just don't realize how many
people are on these VHF bands until you have
used a good horizontal non-directi onal antenna
feedi ng a low-noise converter.
This antenna can be mounted many ways.
The ent ire bottom, closed or open, is at zero
rf potential a s is th e back area up the cylinder
opposite the slot . If you fabricate the bottom
plate of t he cyli nder of fairly heavy gauge
metal , t hen a pipe flange or a TV mast clamp
may be attached to the center , so t hat the Abe
Lincoln may be top mounted on a pipe. The
feed line may be brought down thru the pipe
if desired; it can be installed inside the cyl-
inder, slot, etc., just a s described f or outs ide.
The Slotted Pylon antenna can be mounted
of the tuning tabs for r esonance at 146 me. with "U" bolts to the side of a mast or tower
Attach 52 ohm co-ax-the shield to one side with some effect on the radiation pattern. The
of the slot, the cen ter conduct or to the other side away fr om the slot is placed next to the
side-st a rt about 2 inches from the bottom. t ower leg or ma st . If a null in radiated pattern
'Vhile checking the st a nding wave ratio on occurs, move the antenna around the tower
the feedline with a bridge, move the taps up to place the null in the least used direction.
or down on the slot f or best match. Do not The full slot version may be sta cked for
re-adjust the tuning tabs, attempting to match addit ional gain. Procure a pipe of the desired
the line, f or thi s get s you into a viciou s ctr- d iameter and cut slots vertically up one side,
cleo wh en the antenna is resonant, t he im- one wavel ength apart between centers, and
pedance a cross the slot is resistive-zero at feed all slots in phase. A 1926 me. beacon
the shor ted bottom, increasing alm ost linearly a ntenna is currently being designed, 13 slots
to prox, 1000 ohms at t he t op. when using high, material is 1 % inch 52 ohm co-ax. Ten-
co-ax to feed the slot , a balanced feed is ob- tative data, in excess of 15 db gain-
tained by dressing the co-ax snugly around Height-ll f eet.
the cylinder to the side opposite the slot , and Horizontal directivity-±l db 360 degrees.
bonding the shield braid of t he co-ax to the Vertical direct ivity-c-approx . 15 degree beam
cylinder a t this point. In fact, the outer con- widili. j
ductor of the co-ax may be bonded all the Feed I mped ance-52 resistive at 1296 me.
way around the side of the cylinder if de- Apply leverage to W2NSD if fuIl info is
si red. desired on this antenna.
when properly matched, check t he radiation In summar y, the Pylon Slot a nd the sho rt -
pattern with a field st r ength meter. You ened version fill a need in amateur communi-
should find only horizontal radiation, uniform cations sys tems. Many variations are possible,
g a in in all directions, and aprox 4 db gain why not see what it will do for you, after all,
over a di pole mounted in the clear . a 20 meter uni t is only 16 feet high and 6.4
The shortened Half Pylon Slot is ideal f or ft. in diameter and set -u p in your backyard
2 meter and up mobile operation, and mounted would give the neighbors something d iffere nt
on a ma st, well up in the clear, at the home to di scuss-as well a s making you top dog in
QTH is a r eal plea sure to use. A bea m is a WA C r ound t ahle on SSB. . . . K2TKN

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J UNE 1961 II
 H . W . J ohnson WAbDZL
1115 Mollne r Ave.
Lei Puent e, C alif.

Transistorized Converter
T 'VE tried sever al varieties of tube type con -
... verters for 75 meters, but none of them
lived up to my expectations. Then I built a
t hree tran si stor 75 meter mobile conve rter
which ha s outperformed all of th e previous tube
types. Since it requires no B + or filament
voltage from the car radio it can be used with
any ex isting auto receiver. It is presently in-
st a lled in my VW and is performing excellent-
ly. The sensit ivit y is very good and my noi se
limi ter h a s rarely had to be used.
Seve ral types of tran sistors were tried . I
fo und that t hough other ( 3 lead types) P .N.P .
rf transi stor s worked well in the rf st age,
they are not as satisf actor y since th ere is
much higher g ain available with t he drift
75 Meter
types , su ch a s the 2N247. Th e CK768 mixer,
chosen ma inly because of it s low cost, worked
well. Several types of tran sistors we re tried
in the oscillator an d all worked qu ite well, in-
clu ding the 2N 404, chosen here because of it s
low cost.
Wiring is not critical so long as lea ds are
kept shor t . The use of sockets for the tran-
sistors is highly recommended. The oscillator
wa s easily brought into oscillation and wa s
fir st a djusted using a wave ab sorbtion meter
a nd lastly , wh ile installed in t he car . R F and
mixer coils were al so peaked in the auto to
a pprox imately the center of the band (3.9 me) .
An NE -2 n eon light was installed acr oss t he
in put tank to afford some degree of prot ec-

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tion agat nst too much transmitter rf in jur ing
the 2N247. A ze ner diode would of course pro-
vide even better protection. T he crystal fre-
quency was chosen only because I wanted to
tune the 3800 to 4000 kc portion between 700
and 900 kc. Any other cr-ystal frequency can ,
be u sed to create the desired output frequency.
For the cost conscious, a comparison of
prices taken from a lead ing- catalogue house
showed the three trans istors to be consi derably
STRENGTH
less in cost than suitable tube counterparts ,
All in all th is converter ha s been a most
reward ing project.
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Parte Li d
Crys tal-Appro.ximately 3100 kc (or f rom 2850 to 3200
z THR EE REASONS WHY
kc). YOUR /3EST BUY IS...
Cl t hru C3-Chosen to cause t he coils to g r id d ip to t he
desired frequency .
CI-3-AIl were be t w een 50 and 90 mmfd.
C' -3fill mm fd mica o r equ!v.
E-X WAY 1t
LI-Wound on %" diameter s lul{ tuned forms. No. 30
enamel wire. Appro.ximately 40 or IlO turns. Link is 4
o r 5 turns close wound 0\'1"1' cold end. Tap is ~ of
I Sof£kQ.tt£;'60
the total turns up from the cold end. Grid dip to fre-
quency.
1.2-Same as LI except. it has no link. Taps are th and
...
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design decreases wind loa d
and . provide s telescop ing
~ of the total turns , counted from the cold end. ac tion t ha t perm its ra isin g
1.3-72 turns No. 34 enamel wire on a Y.l" dla, s l u~
tuned form. Link is 5 turns on cold end.
, and lowering of tower sections.
1.4-1 50 tu rns of No. 30 enamel wtre on a '7'." s lu l{
CRAN K UP T O 60 FEET.
tuned form . "rinding length was approximately 1 inch. DOWN TO 2S FEET and
Close wound in layer fa shion. Link is approximately TIL T5 OY ER F O R A CC ESS
K or 10 turns close wound on the cold end. TO ROT OR OR BE A M.
L4 -Alternate MiIler--4514 with a 10 turn link wound on
STRENGTH is b uilt-f n to
the cold end. I- every E-Z Way T ow er ... Heavy
All tuned circuits were grid dipped . All of the wire
was c lose wound on the forms . All capacitors Cl thru
C4 sho uld be m ica or equlv,
c:e wall s teel t u b in g l egs, can ..
t inu o u s diag ona l bracing of
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This is directed to you "mobileers." W hen Mod.1 RBX·6 0-3P ( Pa inted) S335.00
Model RB X· 60-3 G (Go lva n iz ed) $410. 00
you make a mobile installation, ha s it occurred
to you that if the a ntenn a (rear bumper MOUNTING KITS:
mounted as most are) is on the RIGHT h an d GPK X6 0· 3 (Ground Post) S125. 00
side of the car (viewed f rom t he r ear ), you've
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Fr ei ght Prepaid anywhere in (48) U.S.A .
ming tree li mbs, scaring old people and k nock-
ing' off hats t han if it we re mount ed on t he
LE FT hand end of t he bu mpe r?
T ha t's right; mou nt the mobile ant enn a on
the LEFT hand si de of t he car a nd you' ve go t
a clear area .. . right down the center str ipe
.. , without the poss ibility of lawsuit fo r scr a p-
ing t hi ngs and st uff which ma y over hang- or
come precariously nea r t he edge of the OUT-
S IDE traffic la ne!
More than that, you'll p robably require a
lot less maintenance than a RIGHT h and
mounted (from the rear) antenna will call for.
Give it a thought, B ud ! •
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JUNE 1961 Ii
 Precise Capacity Measurements
Y all call do it too
o be able to make a capacity measurement
T down to a fraction of a micro-microfarad
in the range from 1 rntnfd to 300 mmfd is con-
sider ed quite an achievement especially if you
u se equipm ent that most amateurs have in
their ham shuck. The least General Radio
wants for such a bridge is $360.00 plus the
cost of a number of accessories that may
cost as much again.
PHONES
Fig . I
The classic bridge that is fundamental in
most commercial bridges is as shown in Fig.
1. Many refinements are built into this funda-
mental design when used for precision meas-
urements, such as shielding of the standard
condenser and t he various other com ponents
including an output transformer to wh ich ear-
phones a rc connected. T he trouble is t hat you
have to go about buying at lea st t he calibrated
standard condenser. E ve n after you ha ve it
installed in your bridge you are no longer sure
that the calibration ha s been mainta ined.
To overcome these problems and to be able
to u se a good garden variety of variable con-
denser as the s ta nda r d, do away with the need
for a 1000 cycle oscillator and the earphones,
be able to measure to plus or minus 1 or 2
tenths mmfd, have no problem when connect-
ing into the bridge because of lead capacity
troubles and do this to the full extent of t he
capacity of the standard used, was t he goal
I set myself a nd w as able to attain. Th e fi na l
circuit is shown in F ig . 2.
Le t us start with a National Velvet Ve r n ier
Dial. The dial itself reads from 0 to 100 and
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220 MM Visttl Drive
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the ve rnier gives us 1000 division s. I f we use
a good broadcast receiver 350 mmfd st r a igh t
line capacity condenser, and use it over that
portion between 10 and 90 divi sions on the
Xational dial, we have about 300 mmfd that
are u seful to us spread over 800 divi sion!'.
\Ve balance the 300 mmfd with a fixed ca-
pac itor of a like value and thereafter forget
it. All measurements are made by connecting
the u nk nown condenser across the standard
conde nser and r ot a t ing t he Nationa l dial
t owa r d a lesser va lue u ntil we have agai n
come to the original balance. T he value of
capaci tance we red uced t he standard to, will
be t he value of the unknown condenser . In
t he case just outlined, you will be able to read
to plus or minus 0.2 mmfd, be it for a 10 mmfd
or 300 mmfd condenser.
How do we know what the sta nda r d con-
denser calibration is? \Ve go about it thi s
way; let us suppose that we have an initial
balance with the National dial reading just
90 div is ions. \Ve obtain a small fi xed capacitor
of say 100 mmfd and ha ve it checked at some
la b to a frac t ion of a mmfd. Let 's say i t reads
exactly 98.6 mmfd. Obviously the original
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balance is restored when the standard con-
denser is reduced by that same amount. If the
dial and vernier read 57.1 the standard has a
value of 3 mmfd per division and therefore
we can read to 0.3 mmfd or plus or minus
0.15 mmfd. H a ving checked quite a number of
stra ight line capacity condensers, these were
all fo u nd to be remar kably consistent. Those
condensers with ball bearings were of course
t he best .
100 kilocycles is the frequency used to actu-
a te t he bridge. A simple driver is shown in
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Fig . 3
Fig. 3. It is a simple multivibrator circu it and
may be a free r unn ing type or it may be
cr ys ta l con trolled. If you have one of t he old
style 1-inch square crystals you will find t hat
no matter what its frequ ency is a s the fund a-
mental freq uency, it will a lso because of the
1-inch dimension ope r a te a t close t o 100 kc in
a multivibrator circuit. This will hold the
frequency quit e constant and will r esult in a
st abili t y that will hold for hours at a time.
The resistors are 1 watt rating and four
a s near in value a s ca n be obtained should be
used. The me ter is a 25-0-25 micro-ammeter.
If you are good a t suc h things, bend the needle
edgewise for greater ease of read ing the sa me
point at zero. Those wh o have a L&N Stu-
dents galvanometer should u se it. The ac-
curacy of the reading will be improved due to
the sus pension type of movement as aga inst
the pivot type in t he first m entioned meter.
Whenever a condenser needs t o be measured
and leads sever al inches long have to be used,
these leads are first con nected to the st and-
ard and are so adjusted that they will not be
changed in configuration when attached to the
unknown condenser. The lead capacity can be
read from the change necessary to the st and-
ard r ea ding and the new reading is then the
one used to subt r a ct the final r eadi ng from
when the unknown has been connected and
a balance ha s been obtained. Suppose the
normal balance is a lways 94 div. on the d ial.
W ith leads con nect ed a new balance is obtained
a t 89 div., and with the unknown connected it
is 50 divisions. Since in ou r case t he st a ndar d
has a value of 3 mmfd per division, we find
that 89 m inus 50 times 3 is th e capa city value
of the unknown and in this case is 117 mmfd.
In this manner any lead value is obviated.
If known values of fixed capacities are add-
ed to the balance condenser, t he range of the
device can be extended as de sired. The known
additional value is t hen added t o th e value
obtained fr om t he dia l reading.
If t hat part about havi ng a lab che ck out
your 100 mmfd condenser ha s you st umped
then perhaps we can make a deal. I'll test the
value of any 100 mmfd postage-stamp size
fixed condenser for a nyone that sends me a
self-addr essed st am ped envelope and 25¢ along
with the condenser. I am using a General
Radio type 722 P r ecision Condenser in the
circuit, so I ca n give good precision••. K6BJ
JUNE 1961
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Part II •

Propagation
Davi d A, Brow n. K21GY

LAST month in Pa rt I, I covered the S unspot HBF is the ..to meter b and. As soon as the
Cycle and gave a prediction of s moot hed Su n ri ses howeve r, the !\.lU F ri ses sharply to
numbers for the remainder of t he cycle w hich a max imum following the zenith angle of t he
I t hink will have its min imum by Jun e 1964. S un a n d t he n f all s ba ck down aga in as the
Part II is going to cover the differe nt varia- Sun get s lower in the sky. Notice how t he
ti on s in MUF by presenting a circu it analysis IIBF follows this curve. It is th is plot of t he
of the path New York t o England along with a lIBF that appea r s each month in the P r opag a-
SPECIAL PROPAGATION CHART f or the tion Chart for each of 42 different paths.
coming winte r season, 1961. Wha t is impor t a nt to note is that the MUF
The MUF ( Ma ximu m Usa ble Frequency) and HB F varies with the rotation of the
is t he highest fr equency that will propagate at Earth on its axi s and with the a ng le of the
a given tim e between t wo points of communi- Sun in the sky, and that moving from one
cation, and any freq uency higher than the HBF to another is a jump by a fa ctor of two
1\1 U F will not r ea ch t he ot her end of the cir- which mean s that the H BF f or the time given
cuit. Frequencies below the l\IUF (especially is the best frequ ency that we ca n use f or
those lower by a f a ct or of 2 or more) require hamming.
an excessive amount of power to give sa t isf ac- Besides the daily variation in l\IU F there
t or y sig nal to noise rati os. The MUF for any are Seasonal variations and these are show n
given circuit var ies with the t ime of day, se a- in Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. H er e we see that the
son of the year and with the Sunspot Cycle. diurnal variat ions are differe nt for each month
of t he year. First, notice that ( Fig. 2) the

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(IIBF) that should be used. During the night-
time hours the MUF's are quite low and the Fig. 2

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 the Summer nighttime frequencies and that
", ,., the winter daytime frequencies are higher
than th e Summer daytime frequ encies. It can
also be seen that the highest MUF is reached
later in the day in the Summertime t h an in
. ,.. the W inter.
The season al curves ca n be placed into three
basic group s, each group containing a basic
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see that the maximum value of M UF in the

diurnal cur ves is incr easing from S ummer t o
Winter a s th e Sunspot number is st ill decreas-
ing! This is the Seasonal variation in MUF •
which is independent of an increasing or d e- •
creasing su nspo t number. N otice too that the
nighttime Winter f r equencies are lower than

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lows: 'V inter Season-No vember, December,

• ,,-- January and Febr uary; Equinox Season-
March, April , September and October; Sum-
mer Season-May, June, July and August.
These basic curves are shown in Fig. 4, F ig. 5
and Fig. 6 along with t he Cyclical variation
with s uns pot number.
In Fig. 4 the highest REF is 28 me and this
is reach ed when the sunspot number gets into
the fift ies. The lowest RBF is the 40 meter
band until t he su nspot numbers get a s low a s
fiftee n or lower, when th e 80 band is the night-
time lIBF. From this set of curves we can
see that the re should be some 28 me activity
this W inter, if the suns pot numbers follow
those predicted in Part II f or the New York
to England path.
From F ig. 5 we can conclude that there
will be no 21 me openings in S ep tember and
that during the daylight hour s the best RBF
will be 14 me and at night 7 me. Towards the
end of Octob er when the transition from th e
Equinox curve to the Winter cur ve comes, is
'i'
•• 00
when we will find th e first 21 me openin g s to
En gland.
F;g. 4 (Turn t o pag e 59)

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Cote Modulator
I Fyou ar e the average ham, or more active
than av erage, you may have passed this
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filling a pl ace in your hamshack. After all you
may have everyth ing. well, a l11Wst everything!
I admit seeing the advertisement in the No-
vember issue of 73, but s ince it talked mainly
about commercial or home brew CW transmit-
ters, and having no s uch plans at the time,
my curiosity wa s not sufficiently arou sed .
Actually, there are ma ny more applications
for the 1\1-100 around the average shack than
the advertisement implied, whether as a part
of the main transmitter or a s an ad junct t o
other proj ects.
This is a completely self-conta ined aud io
system from mike in put to modulator output
with interna l power supply, weighing only five
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a bout 5x6x 7 plus in size, and containing clip-
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S ince the 1\1·100 is designed to be inserted
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grid t ubes a re used, and where a scr een volt-
age of 400 or less would ap ply. This is not
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20
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Tests
C herle s E. Spitz W4A PI
1420 S. Re ndolph St.
Arlington 4, . Virg inie
Of course your transmitter must have the
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opera t ion. Altho ugh C\V n eed s stability too,
defects show up more readily when a ny rig
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r igs are wobbulati ng while modu lating!
Th er e is nothing in t he 1\1-100 which of
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Application: To modul ate CW t ronsmitters or
line ar a mplifi e rs. Used with Te trod e s or pen -
todes, singl e, parallel or pu sh-p ull in t he range
from 10 to 1000 wefts, where 400 volts or less
is required for the scree n.
Size: 6'/2"x7'h "-,,5'/4"
Weight: 5'12 Ibs
Power: 115/230, 50) 60 cy. 30 watts
Input: Crystol or dvnemlc mike
Bandpass: 300 -4000 cycl es
Tone: 1000 cycle generator
Umiting: Speech clip ping, negative end P OSI-
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Output: 400 peak d e volts maximum, 40 rn a
instantaneou s dc current
Guarantee: Two years including replece ment of
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Net Price: $49.9 5, d elivered in U. S.
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Centrols: On.Off Switch, Modula tio n Level C o n-
troL Cerrier Level C ontrol. Tone G eneretor
Switch , Cw -Phone Switch
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low power requi r em en t even when modulating
a h igh power tr an smitter d ue to t he absence
of line volt age fl uct u at ion caused by high level
class B modu lat ors r eactin g on a VFO.
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Note t he schem at ic di agram in Fig. 1. Th e
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s ta t e con sideration. F or t he de sta te, if the
grid of V-3A is biased to t he cut off point,
Co rn p lrtr with un-
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V-3B cond ucts fu lly a nd the voltage drop buildn. Use fo r d r la~· nla}· a n d in 20
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S end the f ollo w in g barga ins : -1
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carrier level is low. X A;\IE : - -- - - -- - - ("A L L : -----11
In consider ing t he ac sta te , wi th the bias on
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(Turn t o pag e 22) C IT Y'

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voltage appli ed to the final's scr een is low, and
therefore th e rf out put is low. If an audio
voltage of 1 volt peak is now appl ied from
V-2 to the grid of V-3A, it will be amplified
by V-3A and appear through V-3B at the
scr een of the final and will modulate the low
rf out put approximately 95 %. The mean dc
potential of the final's scr een remains con stant.
If the aud io voltage applied to V-3A is in-
creased, grid current will flow in V-3A. A
negative charge will build up on C-9 propor-
tionately to the peak amplitude of the applied
audio. This additional de bias app lied to the
gr-id of V-3A will cause the potential on the
plate of V-SA and the grid of V-3 B to r i~e.
The mean screen potential of the fi nal will
ri se too, resulting in increased rf output.
The increased audio voltage at the grid of
v-aA will appear a s an amplified voltage at
the final's scr ee n r elative to its previou s level,
but as the mean scr een potential ha s also been
rai sed t he rf car r ier is again modulated ap-
proximate ly 95 % and no over-modulation
occu rs.
Th e bias on V -3A will increase until a limit-
ing condition is reached where the bias built
up on th e coupling capacitor C-9 cuts off V-3A.
No f u rther audio voltage can reach the final's
screen, the de potential of which is at maxi-
mu m ; thus positive over-modulation is pre-
vented. Negative peak over-modulation is
preven ted because the dc screen potential of
the final can never fall below the level selected
by the ca r r ier cont r ol potentiometer; the audio
voltage can only modulate this scr een de po-
tential to produce full modulation.
Effective speech clipping is obtained by in-
creasing th e audio voltage input above the
level that will produce approximately 95 %
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 A Universal AM Monitor
H ER E is a high quality modulation monitor
that will give a dependable indication
with an y mode of AM transmission. It re-
s ponds to t he positive peak value of rf output,
regardles s of whether conventional or sup-
pressed ca r r ier transmission is employed. Or,
at t he flip of a sw itc h , it will indicate average
output. The detected envelope is available for
oscilloscopic observation, and an audio am-
plifier provides an output for headphone moni-
tor ing . Th e metering, oscilloscope and audio
circuits are elect r ica ll y isolated and non-inter-
a cting.
I n conventional monitors, the carrier mu st
be presen t in the usual amount. Such a moni-
tor is relatively easy to fabricate. To the
author's knowledge there has been n o data
published on a monitor which will successf ully
oper at e on a su ppr essed or partially su p-
pressed car r ier sig n al. Suppose you're operat-
ing a phone tran smitter using single or doub le
s ideband , and decide to cra nk in some carrier
f or an uniniti ated f ellow on the other end.
How much carrier to insert usually remain s a
mystery. The usual modulati on monitor won't
h elp you in the least in such a situation.
All this comes about when the necessary
audio amplifiers or transformers used to drive
the meter circuit are considered.
The typ ical monitor a s published in the
amateur literature ha s another serious defect :
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it r esponds to average modulation level, n ot
the peak. Hence it is waveform-sensitive in
that the ind icated reading will vary over wide
limits dependin g not only on percentag e modu-
lation, but also on waveform. The rf envelope
must have its peak value measured if the moni-
tor is to h ave any r eal value.
An osc illoscope output should be provided
for waveform observation. I t should not di s-
turb the rest of the circuitry. This featur e is
lacking in most monitors. Lastly, it is advi sa-
ble to h a ve a built-in a ud io am plifier to drive
a pair of head phones. This allows plenty of
freedom in choosing the headphones without
worrying about adequate volume. Again, thi s
amplifier will provide isolation between the
phones and the rest of the circuitry.
Circuitry
T ho block diagram of this monit or is show n
in F ig. 1. The arrangeme nt of components is
probably a bit unusual, but each st age does its
intended job and does it well.
At t he input is a variable attenuator. This
is a pa nel control, used a s a sor t of calibra-
tion or sensitivity cont rol. I t is not frequency
sens it ive, so changing bands with the tran s-
m itter will require no gross readju stment.
F ollowing t hi s is t he det ector. A 6AL 5 was
used instead of a crystal diode because the
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thermionic type is a bit more rugged. A bit of
rf filtering and the detector output becomes
the transmitter output envelope. This signal is
fed right into the grid of the de amplifier. No
blocking capacitor is used nor needed.
T he amplifier feeds a peak detector-but a
cathode follower separates the two for isola-
tion. This also allows t he peak detector to re-
spond very accurately to the actual waveform
peaks. A simple VTVM rounds out the meter-
ing circuit.
The de amplifier also feeds a second cathode
follower, 'whose output is intended to go to an
oscilloscope for waveform observation. It
might be of interest to note that from the de-
t ector right on through to the scope out put ,
everything is direct coupled. Hence a de scope
can be used for additional information. If such
a scope is used, the trace will not bounce
around the screen even with suppressed carrier
or cw operation.
T he scope cathode follower also drives a gain
control, which selects the desired quantit y of
a udio for the a udio amplifier.
A small power supply using a 6X4 completes
t he picture.
Details
01, in conjunction with 02 forms a variable
capacitive voltage divider. C3, Rl and VIa
form the detector. A ceramic socket is used
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for VI to minimize r f losses. R2 in conj unct ion
with the input capacitance to V2a forms a n rf
filter. R3 is the plate load for this stage, the
de amplifier. I ts rating is two watts in the
interest of stability, important at this point.
This tube operates at zero bias, with the input
signal providing the proper (negative) g r id
voltage.
The output of t his stage feeds bot h V2b and
V3b. E ach of these la tter stages are connected
as cathode followers. I n the case of V2b this
is done in order to prevent loading V2a while
at the same time providing a low impedance
charging path for the peak-measuri ng circuit
(Vl b, C4 and R7) . The result of using this
circuit is that C4 will charge to the positive
(maximum) peak of the incoming signal to
with in 10/0 at the end of 3 milliseconds. H igh
accuracy is thus assured on peak readings,
regardless of the modulating waveform.
If SI is opened (UAverage" position), C4 is
out of the circuit, and the unit will t hen read
the average value of the transmitter output.
R6 is a pla t e current limiting r esistor t o
keep the plate dissipation or plate cu r rent rat-
ings of either V2b or Vlb from being exceed-
ed if either of these tubes should develop a
heater to cathode short. Thus, the trouble will
be kept localized and wiII not destroy further
components. This resistor has no appreciable
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On extremely fast-rising inputs, V2b may ticularly harmful. Th is output is intended to
have a t endency to draw grid current on the go to a scope f or a visual indication.
peak portion of th e waveform. R 4 prevents A power supply every bit as conservatively
this effect from loading V2a. designed a s t he rest of the circu it is integral
The output of the peak-measuring circu it is with th e u nit. A 6X 4 r ect ifier is employed to
fed into the voltmeter using V3a. T h is again pre vent da mage to the meter ci r cu it by a
is a cathode fo llower, to prevent loadi ng t he quick-acting power su p ply. The r ectifier socket
preced ing' stages whi le at t he same time deliv- is of ceram ic to preve nt possible t rouble fr om
eri ng' suffic ien t curre nt to operate the meter . hea ting. Th e de out put is fi ltered by a t wo-
Rll is th e balancing adju stment for t he meter, sect ion choke-inpu t fi lter. D ue to t his fi lteri ng ,
and is a rear-of-chassi s scr ewdr ive r type. It is the sig nal to noise ratio in the circuitry is in
smooth in adju stment bu t ha s more than auf- excess of 60 db. E xten si ve rf fi ltering is in-
ficient range. corporated. The primary is fu sed with a 1 a m p
T he de amplifi er, V2a, drives a second cath- slo-blo fu se, and the high voltage win ding ad -
ode follower, V 3b, which provides a low im- di t ion ally h a s a 100 rna f use. The filamen t
pedance sour ce to operate the g a in control , ci rcu it has rf bypassin g- a nd a "resistive" cen-
RI 5. HI G, in conj u nction with t he inpu t ca - ter t ap is us ed for m inimu m hum.
pa cit y to V 4, prevents s t r a y rf from activa t- Initially •..
ing t he audio amplifier. C7 blocks the de i n
the plate circuit from appearing on the load, Turn the u nit on , a llow a f ew minutes for
presumably a pair of headphones. A large the tubes to stabilize, a nd set Rll for zero
value of capacitance is needed here to main- meter reading. A few feet of wire attached
ta in good low-frequency r esponse. R19 drains to t he " hot " input terminal will probably pick
off any leakage through C7. up s ufficien t rf to operate the device.
A portion of the output from V 3b is tapped Bea r in mi nd that t his unit is basica lly a n
off a nd deli vered to J 2. The output here is r f voltmeter , with a sens it ivit y s uch t hat a bout
5 volts or so a t t he input will cau se f ull scale
de flection . \ Vith 8 1 in t he peak pos ition , t he
un it w ill indicate the pea ks of the ap plied in-
p ut. With 8 1 in t he average position, the meter
will indica t e the a verage value, which is al-
ways lower, regardless of modulating wave-
form.
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 The a ud io circu it r y will behave as a ny di ode
detector; it will fun ction best when modulated
carrier transmissions are used. It is, however.
useful to tell aurally what kind of n oise might
be on a sig nal of any kind. The scope output is
usa ble under all conditions, including a na lysis
of c.w. emissions.

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All parts in t he device are standa rd and can
be obtai ned by mail. Recommended or unusual
types are ind ica ted in the par ts list. The vol-

sca le. It will indica t e peak or average accord-

in g t o the setting of 8 1. Normal procedure
would be t o drive th e final t ra nsmi tter stage
to maximum linear output , as indicat ed on the
scope, and set C2 ( Sensitivit y ) so th e meter
r eading is full scale with SI in the peak posi-
tion. Then th e average out put can be read by
switching SI t o the average position.
\Vith conventional mod ulated carrier tra ns-
missions, t he meter read ing ( half of f ull scale ,
set with C2) will be the same with or without
modu lation if SI is in t he average posi t ion.
\Vith SI in the peak position, the r eadi ng will
double with proper modulation . Hence the sca le
calibra t ion wiII be a s in Fig. 3.
If reduced or partially rein serted carrier
opera tion is contemplated, set sensitivity (us- tages indicated on t he schema tic are de vol-
ing C2) so peaks (SI in peak position) are tages measured with a VTVl\I. But have no
at fu ll scale. The proper amount of carrier fear; the circuitry is su ffi ciently conservative
to inser t is then that which is su ffi cient for t hat the device should conti nue to work even
half scale deflection. t hough the t u bes are about to f a ll out of their
Note t hat when measuring modulated car- sockets.
rier transmi ssions, only the positive peaks are Figs. 4 (Audio Frequency Response) and 5
measured. This is no serious drawback, and (M eter Cir cuit Response) show the accura-
does not pen alize one if high level neg-ative- cies of th e more important circuits in th e unit.
peak clipping is used. • • • W5SUC

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Hold tap buster" (hand tap wrench) t ry Common sizes for rad io work with drill hole
using self-ta pping screws on sheet metal chas- sizes f or tapping steel to 1116" thickness are:
sis and other light metal parts. It is often
much easier to tap thread s in holes f or mount- Drill Size Drill Size
ing parts than to str uggle a nd swear while Size scr ew Sleel Aluminum
you try to get the blasted lit tle nut st ar t ed on 4-40 #39 #42
that screw down in the corner. 6-32 32 33
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tapered t ips with either a short leng th wise 10-32 24 27
slot or a fluted tip. They have four common
types of heads: hexagon; slotted hex; slotted P ut a speck of lard, grease or cutting oil
round and Phillips. If you don't have some on t he scr ew tip before s ta rtin g it in steel. I
sa mples in your junk box you can get a hand- prefer t he slotted-he x type, a s I st a r t them
ful from larger hardware, auto su pply stores with a screwd river , then finish with a socket
and most sheet-meta l shops. A fair assort- nut driver. The self-t a pping screws will sub-
ment should only cost about a s much a s one s ti tute for taps in steel about 6 to 10 times,
tap. and in alum inum or brass almost indefinitely.
They are quite easy to use in st eel u p to
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 •
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Lafayette KT-200 Receiver
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William I. O rr W6SAI
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Menlo Pork. C", liforni",
IT TAKES a pretty keen eye and plenty of
"know-how" to buy a good communications
receiver for under one hundred dollar s. Sure,
there are some sets on the market selling for
much less than that amount, but most of them
only qualify as toys. Low in sensit ivit y, wide
in bandwidth, and poor in stabilit y, these re-
ceivers ser ve to introduce the newcomer to
shor t wave radio. After that, the receiver has
served its purpose, and the ham or listener is
readx to " step up" to a more advanced type of
receiver.
What should the "minimum communications
receiver" offer the buyer? Well, it shou ld have
an rf sta ge to provide usable sensitivity on
the 10 meter band. It should h ave two if stages
to produce a reasonable degree of gain, it
sh ould have an S-meter, and it should have a
voltage regulated power sup ply for t he high
frequency oscillator. I n additio n, it shou ld have
the usual trappings, s uch as a bandspread
dial, beat oscillator, headphone jack, st andby
s wit ch and other oper a ti ng aid s.
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Does such a r eceiver exist for under one
hu ndred dollars? The an swer mu st be a quali-
fi ed "no." The author is always waiting to be
shown such a jewel, but so far the wait has
been in vain. However, there have been some
d ose contenders for this interesting bargain,
and one of the best of them is the Japanese-
made, KT-200 communications receiver, sold
hy the IJfl.jay ette Radio Co. of New York. This
article describes simple modifications to this
r eceiver which make it ser ve a s a very ac-
cepta ble ham receiver. or general purpose
s hor twave r eceiver.
Th e KT-200 Circuit
A block diagra m of the KT-200 is shown in
F ig. 1. The receiver covers the 550 kc to 30 me
spect r u m in four bands. It is rugged, well
made, and uses good components. After sev-
eral month s of ca sual operations at \V6SAI
the r eceiver seemed s ufficiently st a ble and sen-
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TO BFO t o 68 ohms, a nd to ch ange the S-meter ser ies
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T hese cha nges a re shown in Fig. 2. While you
are doing this chore, you shou ld also cha nge
e
e the cathode res istor (R8) of t he 6BE6 mixer
st ag e f r om 300 ohms to 80 ohms. Finally,
co, ch a nge t he cathode r esist or (RI3) of the
last 6B DG if amplifier f rom 1000 ohms to 330
ohms. T his wiII boost t he over all g ain of
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end of the broadcast band (550 kc) , a nd has
a bad a .v.c. "pumping action" t hat produces
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It compares favo r ably with other r eceivers e,o
f a lling in the $150 price class a s f ar as r e-
s ults go, a nd results are what count ! f=
Increasing Gain and Sensitivily
The use of a 6E D6 tube in t he tf stage docs
li ttl e to enhance receiver per f ormance. This
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metal 6S K7, which in itself is no "barn bur- ..L '0' (CJ
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nections ) f or the 6B D6 (V 1 ) will go a long

way toward s a cceptabl e 10 meter performance. Figure 2. C ircuit modifications for the KT-200
To mak e this cha nge, it is necessary to r e- receiver.

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Figure 4. {a} Note: place two 3600 ohm 2 watt
resistors in parallel with R21 to compensate for
current drain by 0 82 regulator tube. (b)
C hessls layout for regulator socket, botto m
view.
bypass capacitor on the 6BA6 rf stage socket
(pin #6). Actually, there is one, but it is one
of the power supply filter capacitors at the
opposite end of the receiver that serves a
double purpose. T his is a bad state of affairs,
to say t he least, a nd the des igner respons ible
for this fiasco should have his wrist slapped
with a steel ruler. Examining the receiver,
you will notice that a wire runs from pin #6
of the rf tube socket to a terminal of t he cen-
ter coil compartment. 'I' h ls is t he screen
voltage lead and should be removed and r e-
placed with a 1000 ohm, lh-watt resistor. T he
resistor serves to isolate the screen circuit
from the rest of the receiver wiring. A .01
ufd, GOL .. ~. ~t disc ceramic capacitor is soldered
between p.n #6 (screen) and p in #2
(ground) of the rf tube socket, and a second
similar capacitor is placed between the op-
posite end of the resistor (which terminates
in the coil compartment) and an adjacent
ground soldering lug. The circuit changes a r e
shown in Fig. 2. Repl ace the 6BD6 with a
6BA6.
The last step is to provide additional if sig-
nal filtering on the a.v.c. line. This change is
shown in Fig. 3. As is, a small amount of the
if output voltage is fe d into t he a.v.c. line
and thus back into the front end of t he r e-
ceiver. when the receiver is tuned near the
intermediate frequency (the 550 kc region) a
marked instability can be noted. Additiona l
circuit isolation is obtained by the add ition of
a 47,000 ohm, %-watt decoupIing r esistor and
a 100 mmfd bypass capacitor to the a.v.c, cir-
32
cui t . Pl acemen t of these ne w parts is shown
in the illustration. S imple!
YO
Stabilizing th e Oscillator
As the a.v.c. action takes plan', the Lia s
5'3
flu ctua tes on t he rf and if stages, causing the
, • plate current of these tubes to vary. T he sim-
G'it' ple reaistance-capacitnnce power supply filter
produces a corresponding voltage change
which wreaks havoc with the high frequency
osci llator section of the GREG mixer tube. An
OB 2 r egu lat or tube, installed as shown in F ig .
4 will cu r e this annoying fault. A small hole
,. for the tube socket is punched in the chassis
as shown, and two holes are drilled to accom-
CHASSI S LAYOUT
you don 't want to get metal filings into the
FOFl REGlILATOR varia ble tun ing capacitor ! \Vi r e t he socket a nd
SOCKET-
( BOTTOM VIEW) shunt the 2000 ohm voltage dropping resistor
in the power supply to compensate for the
added current drawn by the regulator tube.
You will know the tube is operating properly
w hen you observe the purple g low between
t he electrodes. This g low will ch ange in i n-
tensity as the if gai n control is var ied, wh ich
is normal.
Additional Hints
Does t he t u ni ng of t h is (or any other re-
ceiver) seem a bit jumpy at 10 meters? If
so, place a wee drop or two of TV "turret
cleaner" liquid on the bearings of the two
variable tu ning capacitors. A lso, minute
changes in t en sion of t he rotor bea rin g s lo-
cated at t he rear of the capacitor ga ng may
work wonders. If the bearing is too tight, t he
rotor tends to turn in little increments, or
jumps, producing a nervous, erratic tuning
effect. T oo loose, the bearing produces a sloppy
effec t t hat varies when th e receiver is sub-
jected to vibration. . .. ' V6SAI
High Voltage
Insulati on
For Meters
Often the home constructor will go to some
trouble to submount a meter because of the
high voltage danger. One cause of this danger
is t he zero-adj ustment screw wh ich is some-
times connected to the meter circuit. This is
generally a slotted rivet arrangement with an
off-center projection. This projection is ar-
ranged to shift the anchor point of one of the
centeri ng spr-ing's. If the meter is disassem-
ble d, it is possible t o p ut a piece of spaghetti
on t he projection and insulate it f rom t he
circuit. Then, if the insulation from the move-
ment to the case is sufficient for the voltage
to be used, the meter may be mounted nor-
mally with no danger. When it can be used,
thi s method will sa ve a lot of trouble.
. . . K ~WML
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A New Panadapter U ni t
pr inciple of panoramic reception is not
T HE
a new development either in theory or in
the reduction to actual hardware. I t has never
received wide acceptance and general use by
t he Amat eur wh ich is probably due to two
rea sons, one, a limited appreciation of its
utility and, two, the cost of the equipment. We
propose to point out not only the obvious uses
but also some of the less obvious hut extremely
useful ones, and also how you can build at
a no mi nal cost, you r own panadapter, which
is at least equivalent in performance t o a ny
conventional commercial model. At the out -
set you may rest assured t hat it is considerably
more than just an in t er est ing piece of gadg~
JUNE 19b1
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J. H. Ellison. WbAO I end R. l. Hopton, W6LQK
etry,-it can be a very valuable ad junct to any
amateur st at ion.
Let us review what a panoramic r eceiver
does for us before we discuss how easily we
ca n achieve this ca pability. In a nut shell, the
panoram ic receiver presents on a scope screen,
all t he signals present in a wide band of fre-
quencies at anyone time. T he center f requency
of this band is the frequency to which t he
aural receiver is tuned. T he a ural receiver is
the usual station receiver, operated in the
usual manner, and list ening to a s l ew sta-
tions at once as the receiver is capable of , or
as the QRl\I will allow ! T he panoramic r e-
ceiver permits us to look at the band approxi-
33
mately 50 kc both sides of the listen ing fre-
quency. Now, what use is this to us that might
make us interested in having a panoramic
receiver? Just what do we see?
All the signa ls within the bandpass appear
as parallel spikes, spaced accordi ng to t he
amount they arc removed from the ce nter
frequency and each other. Each type of signal
has its own readily recognizable characteristic,
AM, Fl\I, SSB, RTTY, C\V, Auto ig nition ,
pulse noise, random static, etc. Fading, dr ift -
ing, image signals, false signals from receiver
oscillator harmonics, modulation, keying and
other phenomena are readily apparent. T he
distribution of stations within the passband
and their comparative strengths are continu-
ously shown. Now, how do we use this inf or -
mation?
The presentation can be used for the follow-
mg purposes :
(a) Examining propagation cond itions on
the band in question, for example, activity,
fading, noise, static, etc.
(b) Detection of sporadic openings on dead
bands without continuously combing the band
with the tuning dial.
(c) Estimating percent modulation and
over-modulation on AM signals, frequency
modulation on A::\I signals and ampl itude mod-
ula tion on F l\I signals.
(d) F inding open channels for calling or
QSY'ing,
(e) Spotting stations calling off the listen-
ing frequency. This is particularly useful when
working foreign bands since stations sudde nly
appearing at the end of your call may be an-
swering you and you can jump rapidly from
one to another to check the call, knowing there
are no responses in between.
(f) Spotting strong interferi ng stations or
sp latterers (without actually tuning on them )
so that it is possible to move away from them
for listening or calling.
(g) Identif ying false signals from receiver
oscillator har monics which will move across
the scope at twice t he speed of other s ignals.
(h) Ident if ying image frequency signals
which will move across the scope in the op-
posite direction from other signals.
(i) Checki ng keying cha racteristics of CW
signals where the presence of spikes on lead-
ing or trailing edges of the keyed signal, in-
dicates transients which produce l:ey clicks,
thumps and chirpy signals. You can check
your own transmitter performance for m a ny
of t hese characteristics without having to
rely on someone else's estimate or well-inten-
tioned but frequently misleading comment.
Now we get to an important part of t his
di scussion , namely, what equ ipment do we
need for panoramic reception? It is possible
to enjoy the advantages of panoramic recep-
tion with the below listed equipment ; the reg-
ula r station receiver with one take-off connec-
tion made to it, the adap ter to be described
34
and a scope, eithe r integral with t he a da pter
or sepa rate. No other gear will be "snuck in"
obscurely, later in the discussion, as a n essen-
tial part of the system . Mor eover, the perform-
a nce and utility of the receive r is not impaired
in a ny degree.
T he panoram ic ndnpter consists of a b r oad
band input stage which takes the signals from
the aural receiver 's mixer stage at the if
f requency, heterodynes them to some other
fr equ ency, passes the signals t h r ough a high ly
selective system, demodu lates them and puts
them into the scope vertical system. In order
to get the wide band presentatio n, the osc il-
lator section of t he p anadapter mixer is f re-
qu ency-swe pt over a wide band, heterodyning
in succession each signal t hat comes t hrough
the broad band input stage and racking up
on the scope face a ll t he signals like a p icket
fe nce. Th e maj or stum bli ng block in t he past
to a si mple pa nadapter un it ha s been t he com-
plication of getting the sweep frequency by
either a mechanical system or a multi-tube re-
actance modulator. It is now possible to get
wide f reque ncy sweep with no th ing mo re t ha n
a small diode and some res istors. The diode in
question is a silicon diode which exhibits a
varying capacity depending on t he voltages
which are impressed on it. T hese voltages a r e
sma ll and t he cu rren t r equirement s are on t he
order of a microampere. As typical of t hese
diodes we can look at those produced by
Hughes Aircraft which are .265 inches long
and .1 in ches in diameter. \Vhen used as volt-
a ge-sensit ive capacitors, the volt ages ar e ap-
plied to the diode in t he direction oppos ite to
normal diode conduction. This is spoken of as
"back-bias." Considering as a specific example
t he H u g h. ee He 7001 we find that with a back-
bias of .1 volts the d iode is in effect a 90 mm fd
condenser. As we incr ease the bias (so t hat
the positive voltage on the cathode exceeds
that on the anode) from plus 0.1 volts de to
plus 100 volts de, the capacity cha nges f rom
the or iginal 90 mm fd t o about 7 mmf d. ( The
capacity is proportional to the -.46 power
of the voltage.} This means that by applying
a varying voltage to this diode we can get
a te n to one capacity change, which if this
we re the on ly ca pacity in the ci rcuit would
g ive a lit tle more than a three to one frequen -
cy change. Act uall y, for our application we
won't need anything like this swing, so we can
proportio n the fixed and variable capacitors
and usc a sma ll voltage swi ng to give a ny
amount of frequency swing desired.
Now, if we want to use this silicon capacitor
in an oscillator circuit we must pick a basic
voltage bias which determines the center fr e-
qu ency of t he osc ill ato r and v ary t he bias vol-
tage at a periodic rate to either side or both
sides of the basic bias. As it works out, it ap-
pears to be better to vary to both sides for
t he following r ea sons; the voltage feed system
is s impler , a better capacity rang e is obt ained
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and we ca n avoid running into the conduction
range of the d iod e. Th is last r eason comes
about because the mixer oscillator operates
with an r f swing on t he t ank circu it a cross
which th e d iode is connected , a nd if the rf
swing a nd th e bias swing overl ap at any time
t he diode goes into t he conduct ion ran ge. In
a pra ctical oscill at or ci rcu it t h is can easily
be checked by measuri ng t he b ia s volta ge on
t he di ode whi le incr easi ng the bias swing fr om
zer o to max imum by mea ns of a var iable
sweep control. If t he bas ic or r esting bias
ri ses at any point in dicating condu ct ion, th en
eit her cha nge the basi c bias or limit the bias
swing . I n a n actual adapter u n it such a s we
use t his offers no prob lem and it is qu ickly
adj usted once a nd fo r a ll, in t h e or igi n al de-
s ig n.
An actual circu it f or a f r equ en cy modulated
osc ill ator ca n be derived from any conven-
t ional osc ill a tor ci rcu it and for p u r poses of
ill ustrati on let us t ake t he f amilia r H a r tley
osc illato r shown to t he left of t he dotted lin e
in Fig . 1. The parts shown to the right of
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esc-
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m inor va r ia tions in diodes but the va r iations
a re not s ign ificant in the perform ance of the
circuit, since there is plenty of leeway in t h e
circu it adj ust ment. T h e voltage divider on
t he B plus su pply establish es the bas ic bias
on the diod e ca thode throu gh a one megohm
decoupli ng resistor. T h e .005 and the .002 con-
de nsers are sim ply low impeda n ce de blocking
condensers and are no t cri t ica l in val ue. By
varying the voltage on the diode anode with
a n a c voltag e, the difference betv....ee n the fixed
bi as val ue and t he instantaneous ac value
det erm ines th e diode ca pac ity, and proport ion-
ately, t he osc illator freq uency. Hen ce we have
an extremely s imple, compact , n on -mech ani-
cal, stab le fr equency mod ulated oscill ator,
w ith a va ria ble sweep-width f ea t u re depen d-
ing on t he value of the ac voltage from the
2.5 megohm potentiom eter. I n cident all y , we
sh ould al so men t ion th at the ca pacity-tem-
perature va r ia t ion of these diodes is essential-
ly flat over a very wide r ang-e. I n t he cir cu it
shown , a peak ac swing' of 10 volts will pro-
duce about a 50 kc frequency swing at 2 me.
Th er e is one minor di sadvant age in her en t
in t he silicon ca pacit or wh ich sh ould be n ot ed
h er e. Th at is, equal vo ltage swings p lu s and
min u s do not produce equa l ca pacit y changes,
so that th e frequency swi ng is larg er in one
directi on than in t he other.! I n view of th e
extreme si mp lici ty a nd compa ctness of thi s
freq uency-modu lated osc illator it is f elt that
th e unequal swi ngs are r elat ivel y un important.
Referri ng t o Fig. 2, it ca n be n oted that
the rema ining port ions of t he adapt er are n ot
too un conventional. Some comments a re in
or der , however, to fo r est all quest ion s. Th e
• inpu t sta ge is a broa d ba nd s ta ge cent ered on
the au ral receiver 's if frequency. However,

it m us t be broad ban ded in such a man ner as

t o g ive a ri sing ga in character ist ic above and
b elow the r ecei ver if frequen cy to compensa te
fo r the f a lling ch ar acter istic of t he receiver
a bove and below its if fr equ ency so t hat the
t he dot t ed line a r e t hose requ ired for the resultan t ba nd of frequ enc ies f ed t o the p an -
produ cti on of t he fr equ ency mo dulati on , and ada pter mixer is a s n early flat a s can be ob-
a s you see are ver y si mple. T he values sho wn ta ined. T hi s is to ins ure that sig na ls presented
are s uit able fo r a basic frequ ency of about on t he scope are all in their proper r elative
2 me. T he inductance ca n be an ordinary a mpli tud es. Naturally, th is alig nment is made
broadcast b and loopst .i ck. Befor e we go any with the r ecei ver to be used with the adapter
f a rther in discu ss ing t he operation, let u s because of d ifferen ces in f ront -end selectivity
point out that a n ordi na ry Sarkes-Tarzian a mong r ecei ver s.
M-500 Silicon r ecti fi er d iode is practic ally I n choosing a conve rs ion fr equency fo r the
ident ical in voltage-capacity range to the mixer it wa s essentia l to pick one s uit a ble f or
above ment ioned H ug hes H C-7001 and costs components en sil y obta inable, h ence the mixer
les s t ha n a th ird a s much. There may be outp ut wa s ch osen to be n ear 1500 kc. This
l. \Vith t he u nit d esc r ibed a s a n example, if the sweep t-a n rre is set to sh ow s a )' 25 k c be low the center freque ncy
the reg io n up to about 4.0 ke above t he c e n t e r freque ncy will be s ho w n on the o ther s ide. If fo r some s pecial
ap plication. it is esse n t ia l that the 8wi nj:l"l' both s id ffl o f the center frequen cy be equal . thpy c a n be made so b y a
s pecia l eireuit modification u sing a different s ilico n d iode and the following procedure. Select a diode having a large
"ntlacity a t the resting bias. such a s t he lIurrh t"s H C-700.t. This h a s a eapacity of app roJtimately 33 mmfd at plus
zu volts Lias a nd gives a change of approximately p lus 10 mmftl and minus 5 m mfd for voltage s w i ngs of m in us
~ I volts a nd plull 9 volts respectively. Make a s e r ies HrrHngem("nl u f the di.. ,Il" lIn,1 a s m a ll c o nd e nse r of a bou t one-
hal f its ClIpaeity. T h is s er-ies arra ngement w ill g ive practically e qual cnpacity changes euch s ide of the res ti ng
l'a p nd t y val ue Cor equa l vo lta g e sw ings each s id e of the rest tna b ias. T he [ndue t n nce and fi x ed capacity o f t h e
usc illat u r circu l t mus t be a dj usted 80 that t he varia ble capacity ru nge p roduces t he r eq uired I requencv-ewept rang e.

JUNE 1961 35
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Fig. 2-16 is a standard ferrite-cored [cc psf-ick. You will find this discussed at length in the text .
permitted using available miniature if tran s-
fo rmers for thi s frequency, and also permitted
using a n oscillator frequency high enough to
get a wide FM characteristic with a small
capacity cha nge in the diode. It also made
practical the use of a standard ferrite-cored
loop-stick of the broadcast variety as the os-
cillator in du ctor in a tickler feed -back circuit.
The loop-st ick has a wide range of inductance
available to compensate for considerable varia-
tions in other components. This simplifies tune-
u p and alignment of the oscillator circuit.
The oscillator bias of the mixer, as determined
by the negative grid voltage, must be set a s
low as permissible while st ill getting good
conversion transconductance. This precaution
accomplishes two ends, first, it prevents over-
lapping of oscillator rf swings and diode
swings which might bring the diode into the
conduction range, and second , it keeps the
oscillator harmonic cont en t low and avoids
spurious signals in the mixer output.
U sing 1500 kc as the conversion frequ ency
with available miniature transformers would
not give adequately sh ar p sign al peaks on the
scope so we use a 1500 kc crystal to give real
spikes f or each observable sig n al a s the Fl\I
oscillator sweeps t he band. This improved r eso-
lution is a real joy to behold. The crystal in -
put transformer and bridge balancing con-
denser are adjusted for best symmetry of
signal response. This is easily done while ob-
serving the scope pattern. The crystal rejec-
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•
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........ n
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tion notches on each s id e of symmet r y are
readily distinguished (Ju st like in the book l}.
\Vith the over-all gain available, the inser t ion
loss of the crystal is not significa nt a nd the
crystal filter circuit termination may be a
s imple high re sistance, also acting as the grid
return for V3. Note also t hat the crystal fre-
quency is not critical a s long as it is wi th in
the tuning range of the nominal 1500 kc trans-
formers and as long a s the crystal has no
s pu r ious responses within plus or minus 50
kc of its primary frequ ency,
The detector circuit differs in two respects
from the usual. First, it uses a voltage doubler
circuit which give s us a "free" gain of two
and secon d, the diodes are arranged to give
a positive voltage output so that with the
conventional scope, the sig nal peaks are up
from the base line. Several volts output are
obt ainable although less than two volts are
required on the average scope with a vertical
amplifier. An integral power supply is pro-
vided with a resi stance-capacity filter. 'with
the low power requirements the s im ple filter
is more than adequate.
\Ve have purposely avoided the subject of
methods of obtainin g sweep voltage until now.
Since no power is required f or sweep pur-
poses we might consider that any constant,
r epetitive voltage might be s uit able, g.e, th e
tube heater s u pply voltage, with only th e
proviso that it can be synch r onized. However,
there are consi der at ions r egard ing synchr on iz-
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 ing which we had better cover later after we
di scu ss the scope and its fun ctions. Let us
just s ay in pass ing t hat s wee p st ab ili t y just
isn't. a strong point of simple s wee p circuits.
Earlier we sa id that the scope might be in-
t eg ral with th e ad apter unit or sepa r a te. An
integral scope is not r ecommended f or three
r eason s. First, building a scope with all the
usual con trol s and in stalling it in the adapter
would limit th e utility of the scope to thi s
use a lone. Second, sco pes of various sizes are
available in k it for m f or sepa ra te a ssembly.
Third, if you already have a scope thi s adapter
provid es another excellent use for it. The
fu nctions of a scope sui table f or panoramic
reception ar e the usu al ones fo und on all but
the si mplest of sco pes. They are, beam inten-
si t y and fo cu s, up and down and transverse
beam positioning, vertical and horizontal am-
plifiers, a vari able sa w-toot h s wee p, sync con-
trol and prov isi on f or eit her external or ac
line s yn ch r on ization.
Whatever method is chosen for obtaining
t he fr eq uency sweep in th e oscillator of the
adapter, it is ob vious that the adapter and
scope sweeps must be syn chron ized . There are
refinements of thi s requirement that are not
immediat ely obvious. They ar e, first, only the
most involved swee p methods have absolute
and const a nt accuracy, secon d, the scope sweep
is cust om ar ily synch ed with and triggered by
t he vertical amplifier in the scope. However,
t he signal p assing throu gh the vertical ampli-
fier cons ists of a nu mber of vertical pulses,
some large, so me small, so h ow does the sweep
know which one to syn c on,-or if it s yncs
on one la rge signal which then g oes off the
a ir it must find another large one. This op-
eration would produce an intolerable jitter of
the picture. The only alternative is to sync on
some common reference sou rce which is readily
ava ila ble in th e ac lin e.
Now let's make th e obvious conclus ion that
we will s im plify the whole business by syn-
ch ronizing the scope swee p to the ac line and
use the scope swee p voltage f or both the scop e
and th e adapt er oscilla tor . This way there is
no longer any problem of sync and no neces-
s it y of a sepa r a te s wee p in the adapter. The
scope sweep can be picked off the plate of the
horizontal amplifier through a .05 mfd ce-
ram ic cond enser and run to an insulated pin-
jack on the front of the scope. This involves
no ex t r a wires between the adapter and scope
because a sy nc connection would have been
n ecessary with any method considered. The
scope sweep is connected through a shielded
cable to the top of a 2.5 megohm potentio-
meter in t he ada pte r and the desired voltage
a mplitude for t he a dapte r osc ill a tor is applied
to the silicon d iode anode. The potentiometer
s hou ld be about 2 megohm s M a s not to load
down t he scope ho rizontal p lat es and lose hori -
zonta l size of t he pict u re. A s low s weep s ho uld
be used f or good slabili ty,-abo u t 30 per sec-
JUNE 1961
and gives an excellent pi cture.
The 2.5 megohm potenti ometer permi t s set -
ting the swee p width fr om zero to well over
50 kc each s ide of the center frequ ency. On
the lower frequ encies about plus or minu s 25
kc is a good working range bu t on the higher
frequencies with wider bands the greater
swee p is useful. The narrow s wee p perm it s
checking signals close to the center frequen-
cy and spr eading the picture improves the
resolution, or the abili ty to di stinguish between
signals very close to ea ch oth er . By reducin g
the swee p t o zero the quality of modulation
can be examined in detail for signals on the
center frequency. Al so at zero sweep the sh a pe
of a k eyed s ig nal will sh ow up plainly. A
st r in g' of dots will tell you instantly wh ether
the keying circuit need s sh a p ing filters, t o
eliminate spik es or transients. The sweep
width control may b e calibrated s ince it re-
mains a con stant width in kc regardl ess of the
band to which the primary aural receiver is
tuned.
A small variable padding condenser (about
5 mmf d ) is provid ed a s a control f or band
center. This may be calibrated in conj u nct ion
with th e sweep width control a s there is a
sli gh t sh if t of the band center on the scope
with different s weep width s. This is due t o
th e non -linear ca pacit y-volt age characteristic
of the diode and is not important unless it is
de sired to read the frequency of a sign al in
t erm s of "kc r emoved from center frequency."
It is sug gest ed that the swee p width con trol
be calibrated at the 40 kc, 20 kc, 5 kc, and
zero points. In fact, if desired, th e potentio-
meter values at these point s could be mea sured
and fix ed resi stors and a s witch subst it u ted.
The conn ect ion to the companion receiver
is made to the plate circuit of the mix er st a ge
by connecting one end of a 50,000 ohm half
watt resi stor to the lead between the mixer
plate and the first if tr an sformer primary
and bringing the other end of the resistor out
through a small coax or sh ielded cable to the
input of the adapter unit. The cable sh ould be
a s sho rt a s convenient,-30 inches will be
more than enou gh in most cases. The presence
of thi s attachment will have no effect on the
s ig n als through the receiver wh ether connected
to the adapt er or not, sin ce the 50K resistor
is su ffi cient isolation for the cable termina-
tion. However, don't let the end flop around
and ground because it ha s both rf and de on
it and can be awfully noisy! The output of
the adapter goes to the scope vertical amplifier
and sh ou ld be sh ielded against s t r ay noi se or
ac pick-up. There are three control levels
whi ch set the picture s ize, namely, the re-
ceiver rf gain, th e adapter gain and the scope
ver tical amplifier gain. U sually, t he receiver
gain i ~ set fl rat for s ig n al level and the
adapter ga in set ju st below the level which
produces "m-ass ' on t he p icture Lase lin e. The
scope amplifier is t hen set for s ize.
37
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In summar y, what we now have is a fixed-
tu ned adapter with three controls ,-gain,
s wee p wid th and band cent er shi fte r . In nor-
mal use. the sco pe and adapter are set only
once at proper levels of swee p and gain and
these rema in the sa me regardless of the fre-
quency band on which the r ecei ver is operat-
ing'. No adjustmen t or trimming is required ,
- i f you ca n hear them you can see them. The
basic theory and design methods have all been
set forth if you want to take-off and solo but
you a r e st r ictl y on you r own. Next month 's
article will show an a ctual unit a s built and
cur ren tly in use. T ypical patterns with their
interpretation will be shown and a dimen-
sioned chas sis layout and a list of r ea dily
available sta ndar d components will be pro-
vid ed . \Vith the chassi s layout, photographs
and schema ti c the con st ruction of a similar
unit will be as easy a s assembling any stand-
ard kit. Th e alignment and adju stment de-
scr ibed is st r- a igh tf or wa rd and un-complicated
when ca r ri ed out in the proper sequence and
requires n o period ic r eadjustment. Since the
connection to the compa n ion receiver requires
(C o ~cI · ld e::l
Automatic Drive Control (ADC)
m'::N you exceed the drive to a class AB .
W ampl ifier tube, grid current star t s to
flow. If you automatically cut down the drive
when a few microamps of grid current flow,
you have Automati c Drive Control. AD C re-
quires a circui t that ha s no output with n o
grid current flow, a nd puts out a negative
voltag e that is in direct proportion to the
amount of overdrive. This requires a de am-
plifier, which in add ition to tubes , u sually
req ui res some odd volt age power supplies.
Transi stor s seem to be a better answer. A
circ uit has been worked out that is quite sa t is-
fa ctory. One of the p r oblem s that presented
itself was t he heat that might be encountered
in a tr ansmitter, so h ea t was a ppli ed to t he
developed circu it and the circu it was mo dified
until it could with stand a t emperature of 70°C
(150°F) . This is pretty warm. To be on the
sa fe side th e cir cuit should be located in a
"cool" place in the transmitter, not nea r a ny
large tubes or power resi stors.
The ci rcui t is a simple P N P and NPN de
amplifi er; however, si nce there is no de output
with no ac input, and the heat probl em , the
t run aietors that are shown shou ld be used. The
fi rat tran sistor does not have protective bias ,
so there is no outpu t with no input. Small AA
or AAA flashligh t batteries are used for th e
1.5 V. , and a hearing aid battery for the 22.5 v.
38
no permanent alteration and leaves the opera-
tion of t he r eceiver un a ffect ed in any respect
either with the adapter on or off, the pano-
ramic feature can be used at will. Of course,
the visual presentation is the same wh ether
t he r eceiver is be ing used for SS B, AM or C\V
rece ption . Your scope is also still availa ble for
othe r uses simply by disconnecting two wires
or cables. Once you have gotten accustomed
to using the panadapter we doubt you wiII
ever t ur n it off.
Now wh ile you are waiting f or t he rest of
the st or y you may want to explore other pos-
sibilities of the sili con capacitor. The s yst em
described is appl icable to small frequency
changes as well as large. For example , for
VF O use or FS K in teletype, t he s ilicon ca-
pacitor can be connected across one or two
turns of an inductor and a desired frequency
shift obtained by de voltages. Note that sin ce
extremely minute cu r rents are drawn by t he
diode it ca n and should be decoupled from the
voltage sou r ces by high value resi stances. This
mean s that r emote con trol leads can be any
convenient length.
ne lt month)
Verno n L. Trexler. W 51UR
2459-A 45th
Los Ala mos, N.M.
supply.
Her e is a general idea of how to "hook" it
into your circuit. First, let's take a took at
your bias sup ply for your class AB I amplifier.
T he lower the resi stance of this su pply t he
bet ter will be you r AD C. If a battery or elec-
tron ic bias supply is u sed , a ll t he better. If a
regular negative s u pply is u sed, the s maller
the resi stor across the bias su pply without
exceeding the current rating of the bias trans-
former, t he bett er your AD C 5000 ohms will
be about the maximum.
. T his bias su pply mu st no t be tied directly
to ground, but mu st be isolated from ground
by an 82 K2 watt resistor. The diagram al so
shows where you ca n con nect the input of t he
trans istor amplifier. The resistance in the
series with the bias su pply will not be detri-
mental unless you change from Class AB.
operation.
Most AB t ampl ifiers can ha ve at least lOO K
resi stance in the bias su pply. If you exceed
the drive requirements there will be di stortion
added to your sig nal. \Vhen a few microamps
of g-rid current fl ow, the distortion is still very
small. 10 rni cro am ps of g-l'id cu t-rent develop
a vult age of 0.82 volt s across the 82K res istor •
when thi s is appli ed to the input of the tran s-
istor amplifier there is an output of approxi-
mately - 16 volts. T hi s voltage is fed to the
73 MAGAZINE
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gr id of a prev ious driver tube or tubes to cut volts, showing a final g r id curren t flow of
the g a in down. The tubes you selec t will de- approximately 6,u:a. This could be reduced with
term ine how t he circu it operates a nd how more t ubes be ing controlled , but proved sa t is-
muc h grid current flows; remote cutoff type f actory for me.
tubes are nice, but not an absolute necessity. You shou ld not u se AD C a s a mean s of t urn-
If you don't have en ough cut off with one tube, ing all the gain control full on (although it
try two or more. will lim it the drive and work sa t isf a ctor y ) .
w it h the proper choice of t ubes for t he The A DC should be used to keep you from
feed back, t he t r a ns istor amplifier will pr ob- " s pill ing " over on peaks.
ably not be requ ired to put out over eight _ __W5IUR

Dear Sir: Allle C. Peed . Jr. K2D HA

34 Ashley Drive
Rochester 20. N. Y.

comes a day in t h e life of each of objectivity u nless you exert spec ial effort.
T HI': RE
us when we have a compla int, question , or Give a ll the det a ils. E ven if they don't seem
somet imes , a bouquet or constructive sugges- too important or pert inent to you . Describe
tion to t oss in some equip men t manufacturer's your equipment exactly; model, ser ial num-
direction. A little knowledge of how t his can ber, etc. T hen tell how you are using it. Exact-
best be done will offer gre at dividends in t he ly wh at's t he p roblem? Wh at are the symp-
effect iveness a nd promptness of the int er- toms of t he troub le? \Vha t performance a re
change of communications. you expecting and not obtaining? (It just
One cardinal principle should be kept in could be that you are expecting more than the
mind from the outset in this matter. I n spite equipment was designed to do.) \Vha t auxiliary
of the fa ct that yo u are ad dress ing your letter equ ipment is being u sed? H a s your unit been
to a cold, formal, im per son al corporation, don't modified in a ny way? Etc., etc,
lose sig ht of the thought that the one who Don't s ta r t off with a chip on your shoulder!
read s and acts on your letter is going to be a Try to g ive a di spassi onate object ive presenta-
human being. He is subj ect to the s a me reac- t ion of you r problem. Give t he company ha lf
t ions, emot ions, a nd li mitations a s yo u. He is a cha nce to help yo u before you st a r t calli ng
not clairvoyant, so you ha ve to tell him exactly names. They may be f ully aware of a solut ion
what you have in mind together with neces- to your probl em and eager to help you s et it
sa r y backgrou nd detail to enable him to under- right. A st r a ig ht f or wa r d presentation of your
stand your proble m. You are p r oba bly too close case will put t he manufacturer's corresponde nt
to the problem to allow yo u t o obser ve str ict in a mor e sympathet ic mood tha n a heat ed

JUNE 196 1 39
denouncement of the gear and the company in
general.
Don't try to hide or hold back any pertinent
information. Don't represent the equipment as
having just been purchased when in fact
you've had it for a year or so. The manufac-
turer may have an exact record of when your
gear was purchased and can peg you as a
prevaricator before you get off the ground.
If you have had some sort of accident result-
ing in damage to the gear at some time in the
past, describe this and any local repairs that
you may have made. Remember that if you
('IHI up by having to send it to the manufac-
turer's repair service, they will see t he dam-
aged or replaced parts anyway, a nd more
correspondence may be necessary then.
Don't ramble in your letter. Be specific and
to the point within the bounds of giving com-
plete information. It is best to confine your
letter to one general subject only. Just because
you "have a letter going that way anyhow,"
don't throw in all the other questions that
you've been wanting to ask for sometime.
Different types of inquiries are answered by
different people in many firms. Thus, a letter
containing a multiplicity of queries will take
longer to answer since it must be passed along
from department to department before all of
the answers are obtained.
Be sure to give your name and full address,
either typed or in block letters, on your letter
itself. Don't depend on the return address on
the envelope and your scrawled signature.
Many firms open their mail in a mail room
where the envelopes are discarded while the
letters are read and routed internally to the
responsible parties: You'd be surprised at the
number of letters which go unanswered in
many large concerns not because of unwilling-
ness or inability on the firm's part, but sim-
ply because there is no address to which the
reply can be sent.
By all means, read the instruction manual
supplied with the equipment first. The answer
to your question might be contained in the
manual. You will look pretty silly asking some-
thing which is already detailed in the manual.
Don't write an indignant follow up letter
a few days after your inquiry just because you
haven't received an answer as promptly as
you think you should. The company undoubted-
ly doesn't have a man sitting at his desk
just waiting to answer your letter by return
mail. A big firm will receive hundreds and
even thousands of lett er s a day. These have
to be opened, read, and routed internally be-
fore the correspondent even sees them. The
correspondent may have a back log of other
letters received prior to yours. Your question
may require considerable research and checks
with the project engineer, the service depart-
ment, the parts department, etc. And finally,
dictation and transcription may take a day or
so. This whole process takes time, so show
40
your appreciation for the service you expect
by having a little patience. Incidentally, in
subsequent correspondence, if you address your
letter to the original correspondent, don't be
surprised if the reply takes even longer. Let-
ters addressed to individuals are usually de-
livered unopened to the addressee who may
be out of the office on a business trip or vaca-
tion. Hence, your letter may not be opened for
a week or more. It is better to address your
letter to the company and then to the atten-
tion of the individual if you wish. Letters so
addressed are usually opened and referred to
another correspondent assigned to cover for
one who may be absent.
If you don't receive a reply in a reasonable
length of time, don't "fly off the handle" and
start calling people names. Write a polite in-
quiry giving the date and general subject of
your previous letter. This will enable the com-
pany to attempt to trace your first letter. It
might be that they couldn't make out your
name or address on your first letter. It might
be that your first letter or the reply went
astray someplace. It might be that an honest
error in office routine resulted in the letter
going unanswered. It might be that they are
still holding your letter awaiting engineering
data. Give the firm a chance to straighten
these matters out.
If you still don't get a reply in say, two
or three weeks more time, then you'll have
reason to begin to sound off. There are several
courses open to you if you feel that a firm
is purposely dodging its responsibility in pro-
viding service information. You can complain
to the dealer who sold you the equipment. You
can write the president or general manager of
the company. And most effective of all, you
can complain to the editor or advertising man-
ager of magazines in which the company ad-
vertises. Magazines are very sensitive, for
moral as well as legal reasons, about advertis-
ers who don't perform up to ethical stand-
ards.
Finally, be reasonable in your questions.
Don't expect or attempt to establish a pen-
pal relationship with your correspondent. He
probably has enough letters to answer any-
how, and he won't look kindly upon the
additional load of "regulars" with trivial ques-
tions. You'll wear out your welcome rather
soon if you try this. Most manufacturers are
happy to provide service information so long
as it relates to the proper use of their equip-
ment, but they are not in business to provide
you with a running consulting service on all
of your electronic problems.
One additional point. Re-read your letter
before you mail it. It is well to leave it over-
night, or for a few hours at least, and then
read it again. If it still makes sense it is prob-
ably all right. Hastily written letters often
contain inconsistencies or omissions which are
easily caught by re-reading with a fresh mind.
13 MAGAZINE
 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
RADIO DIVISiON

REVISED U. S. AMATEUR REGULATIONS

SuperseJing tlzo3e JateJ March 6. /918

An amateur station is a station operated by a person interested in radio technique solely with a personal
aim and without pecuniary interest. Amateur licenses will not be issued to stations of other classes.
Amate ur radio stations are authorized for communication only with similarly licensed stations, except as
ind icated below, and on wav e lengths or frequencies within the following bands :
K ilocycles Metera Kilocycles. Metel'8
401 ,000 to 400,000 0.7477to 0.7496 8,000 to 7,000 37.5 to 42.8
64,000 to 56,000 4.69 to 5.35 4,000 to 3,500 75.0 to 85.7
30,000 to 28,000 9.99 to 10.71 2,000 to 1,500 150.0 to 200.0
16,000 to 14,000 18.70 to 21.40
an d at all times unless interference is caused with other radio services, in which event a silent period must be
observed between the hours of 8 p. m. and 10.30 p. m., local time, and on Sundays during local church
•
services.
Amateur radio telephone operation will be permitted only in the following bands:
Kllocyelee Meters
64,000 to 56,000 4.69 to 5.35
3,550 to 3,500 84.50 to 85.70
2,000 to 1,715 150.00 to 175.00
Amateur television and operation of picture transmission apparatus will be permitted only in the 101-
lowing bands:
Kilocycles Meters
60,000 to 56,000 5.00 to 5.35
2,000 to 1,715 150.00 to 175.00
'Spark transmitters will not be authorized for amateur use.
Ama teur stations must use circuits loosely coupled to the radiating system or devices that will produce
equivalent effects to minimize key impacts, harmonics, an d plate supply modulations. Conductive coupling,
even though loose, will not be permitted, but this restriction shall not apply against the employment of
t ransmission line feeder systems to IIertzian antennae.
Amateur stations are not permitted to comm unicate with commercial or Government stations unless
authorized by t he licensing authority except in an emergency or for testing purposes. This rest riction does
not apply to communication with sma ll pleasure craft such as yachts and motor boats holding limited corn-
mercial station licenses which may have difficulty in establishing communication with commercial or Govern-
ment stations.
Amateur stations are not authorized to broadcast news, music, lectures, sermons, or any form of enter-
tainmen t, or to conduct any form DC commercial correspondence.
No person shall operate an ama teur st ation except under and in accordance with an operator 's license
issued to him by the Secretary of Commerce.
SEPTEMBER 1, 1928. W . D . TERRELL,
Ch i,I. Radio Divu ion .
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Sub mitted by Wells Ch ap in W 80 NL, ex.W2DUD. WIDUD.

W pDUD, W9DUD , NU9DUD, 9DUD, 9EGQ , 9AZS.

JUN E 1961
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New Field-Day Power Source '

Thoug-h this demonstration was made primarily for the publicity involved, it still
brings home to us some hints on things to come. K2USA set up shop out in a field
down at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey and worked quite a few countries on 20 meter
sideband. The rig consisted of the little HalIicrafters transceiver feeding a Tel rex Tl\I-30
Tri-Band beam and powered entirely by solar cells. There are 7800 cells in the power
unit and they provide 250 watts at 12 volts for this demonstration.

42 73 MAGAZINE
 New Prod uct

Printed C ircuit Faraday Shield

The little comb-like printed circuit sli pped
between t hese two Air Dux coils allows highly
efficient electro-magnetic tran sfer between the

r~'':i;_
coils, while nullifying e lectro-static coupling.
1. e., Faraday s hielding , with coil Q's as high
a s 500. N ow available for any specia l ser ies
or sta nda r d Air Dux coils. w hile you're writ-
ing to tell t hem you saw it in 73, you m ig ht
a sk for the s heet of design specs on the ir com -
with a CONTROLLED RELUCTANCE
plete line of high- Q air wound coils for ama-
teur use. The post card you are now whipp ing
SAFETY-MIKE
out of your post card locker should be ad-
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$ 19. 5°., "1 TOUR Olm lBUIOR
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Super Sensitivity
for Two
Our aim, when we
s e t out to produce t he
'r ape t o ne Converters,
was to make available
to the DX·minded ham
AIR FORCE MARS TECHNICAL NET converters which until
t hen could only be built by the ham with a
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Ju ne l t-c-Ad ve nce me nts in Broa d Be nd C omm uni- ca t ions on our high-gai n low-noi se XC-144
converters.
ca tio ns. • 417A input! 6897 Cascode: 12AT7 Os-
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The Eeste m Tec hnica l Net will re cess unt il Sep- • Noise Figure: 2.8 db (with no advertis-
tember 17th. Suggestions ore re q ueste d from li s· ing fudge factor,)
teners es t o next see son •s proqr emmmq.
•
• Butler Oscillator for high stability.
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30.5-34.5 mc: 28-30 mc; 50-54 me : 7-
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in-c heek owne rs hip o f a n acre on th e .Moo n's surface. These converters are for DX-ing and nut for
I d ea l gi ft or conve rsat ion piece fo r s hac k, ha r , den o r \I;':C in hi gh signal level areas.
ollie-e. (See Pg. 119-11111.61 . CQ.l W ith ~o1d seal an d
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Converters for :
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JUNE 196 1 43
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*1dentificatlon of Back-issue 1\1agazlne-articles
o you need an 1B:\1 machine to keep track to enable ) 'OU to locate that circuit you re-
D of your collection of radio magazines and member seeing last year but can't recall just
where?
Top_Edge Coding ( holes numbered from le ft to r ight) You do? Why don't )'OU build yourself one?
Befor e flinging this copy of 73 out the win-
I 2 3 .f, I) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
- Y ea r - - Mon t h- - Author's Last Initiall~
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dow, read on a bit. ' Ve don't intend that sug-
1950 : 110010 Jan. 0001 AOOOOI JOI010 RIOOll gestion a s an insult or a sarcastic remark!
1951: 110011 Feb. 0010 B00010 KOIOn S10100 The device described in these paragraphs is
1952 : 110100 Mar. 0011 COOOll LOnOO TIOIOI a lmost ident ica l to the fo rerunner of the pres-
1953 : 110101 Apr. 0100 000100 MOllOt tnuuo
1954 : 110110 May 0101 }<;OOlOl Mc01110 vrom
ent office equ ipment-with t he advantage that
1955: 110111 June 0110 FOOllO NOllll WllOOO it's so sim ple anyone can build it on the
1956: 111000 July 0111 GOOlll 010000 XllOOl kitchen table in one even ing at almost no out-
1957: 111001 Au&,. 1000 H OlOOO PIGOOI YllOlO lay in parts or materials.
1958 : 111010 Sept. 1001 101001 Qu 10010 Z1101l
1959 : 111011 Oct. 1010
Surprisingly enough, t his gadget isn't elec-
1960 : 111100 Nov. IOU tron ic in any se nse-c-It's p urely mechan ical.
1961: 111101 Dec . 1100 H owever , its basic pri nci ple of operation is t he
1962 : 111110 same as t hat used in electronic accounting
1963 : 111111 machinery, so it can be useful in getting an
Right-Edge Coding {holes numbe red from top to bottom ) idea of what goes on inside t hese machines a s
1 2 3 '" 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Meaning well as in solving your home-scale data-proc-
0001 73 essing problems.
0010 QST
0100 CQ Materials you'll need to build the "73 Selec-
1 0 0 0 E lectronics W d tor" are simple : a goodly stock of 4 x 6 filing
() 0 1 1 Radio-Electronics cards. The tools are equally simple : a ticket
other combinations holes 1 thru ,f, A s desired punch and a razor blade (or scissors). To
o1 ham radio
operate it after it's finished, you'll need a thin
I 0 hi-fi
1 I other knitt ing needle or a length of No. 12 busbar
o1 1 1 1 H a m- Rc vrs smoot hed off at each end.
Hifi-Amp1ifiers Ready? Let's proceed.
Misc-A thru E
1 0 1 1 1 Ham-xmtrs First, take a look at the drawing which
Hifi-preamps shows a blank card's hole layout. At this point,
Misc-F thru J ignore the typing on the card and the dotted
1 1 0 1 1 Ham-Antennu lines at some of the holes. The important thing
Hifi-Turntable
Mi se-k thru 0 is that 33 holes are punched on two edges of
1 1 1 0 1 Ham-Test Gear the card; they're shown as being on 1,4 -inch
H ifi-spkrs centers with 1h inch between blocks, and lo-
1 1 1 1 0
Misc-P thru U
Ham-Misc.
cat ed * inch in from the edge, but exact
Hifi-Misc. placement on the card isn't important. What
Mise-V thru Z is important is that the holes on each of your
o 1 theory cards mu st align to within about 1/64 inch.
1 0 co nst ruc tion If possible, use some type of power punch
1 1 Product Report
o 0 Mi se. to go through 100 or so cards at a time. This
N ote : In top row , holes 11 through 15 are initial
will assure perfect alignment. However , in the
letter o f author's s u r na me while holes 16 through 20 kitchen-table version, you can do it all by
are second letter or lurname. ( Go to pag e 46)

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 (From page 44 )
Sequence ph ot os showing o pe rat io n of " 73 Se-
lector ." An a wl is being used in pla ce of the
knitting needle , with small deck of cards wh ich
is listing for January and February 1961 issues.
hand w it h the ticket punch. Ju st mark the lo-
cati on of each hole a nd be ca r ef u l \vhen
punching.
A t t h is point, you should punch all 33 h ole..s
0 11 each card. Remember that you must have
one card f or each article you intend to list,
a nd t hat eve ry article in every magaz ine you
ha ve s hould be li sted f or t he gadget to do
46
you much good.
w hen you've finished punching the blank
cards, proceed to the next step ; thi s consists
of going through your stack of magazines and
entering the information shown concerning
each article, u sing a separate card for each
li sting.
The fir st line of the li sting is self-explana-
tory. The second line lists magazine, issue, and
page number. The third line-somewhat cryp-
tically- shows the classification of the article,
according to the various categories li sted in
Table 1. The final entry is sim ply a brief
synopsis of th e article, so you can tell later
wheth er it is the one you're trying to find.
After filling in all the cards, you're ready
f or th e final stage of con struction. Thi s con-
s is ts of cutting slots from certain holes of each
card to the border, leaving the card as shown
in the photo. These slots, literally, are the keys
to system success, because they make sorting
automatic when you use the gadg-et.
Before cutting any slots, take a look at
Table 1 (which we u sed earl ier simp ly to get
our categories) . Note that each category is
a ssigned a number which is made up of t he
dig-its 1 and /or ¢ , and also a specifi c group
of holes.
An unaltered hole represents a zero in thi s
code, w hile a slot is equal to a one. Th e no-
tation is th at called "binary," which is used
in almost all computers.
As shown in the table, the row of 20 holes
a cr oss the top of t he car d represents th e year,
month, a nd a uthor ide ntification of the ar-ti cle.
Th e 13 holes down t he si de r epr esen t the
magazi ne a nd t he classifi cation of the article,
Uaing table 1 as a gu ide, cut the holes away
into slots a s indicated by the classificatio n
categories a nd other in dexed information.
w he n you're fini shed , you'll h a ve a deck of
cards with r ip ply edges, and some will have
holes where others have slots and vice versa.
At thi s point, you can relax. The work is
over. All you need to do now is to use the
file-s-and keep it up-to-date by making up new
cards every time you get another magazine
and adding them to the file.
To pick out all the articles dealing with any
one category, simply u se the knitting needl e
to lift the cards. An example will make it
easier.
Let's su ppose you want all the r eceiver con-
st r uct ion articles which appeared in 73 during
1960.
To sta r t with, u se the first four holes from
the top on the right-hand side to pick out the
73 cards. You do thi s by first aligning the
cards, then running the needle through hole
No, -1 of the entire stack. Turn the sta ck on
it s side and lift the needle vertically, joggling'
t he stack a t the sa me time. Some cards will
fa ll away f ree, s ince they have slo ts in stead
of u nbroken holt's at No. -t pos ition. Included
in these cards will be those for 73 (code 0001)
n MAGAZ1N~
 a s well a s t hose f or Ra dio-E lect r on ics (code
0011) an d any other publication s whose cod e
ends in l.
P ut the othe r car ds back in t he fi le, an d
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73 code is 0001, the desired ca r ds t his tim e in Nuvistor
a re incl uded in those which stay. P ut t he r est Converters!
back in t he fil e a nd repeat this process for •
H oles Nos. 2 a nd 1. T he r esu lt will be t h at you
ha ve all t he ca r ds for 73 magazine sep ar a ted
fr om the r est of t he fi le. Check these
The next limiting category u sed in the ex - outstanding features:
a mple was t he year , 1960. This inf or ma t ion is • N O IS E FIG URE : 3db. N o ise
carr ied in holes 1 to 6 a t t he top of t he card . level so extremely low. the
w ea k est signal ca n be he ard,
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• I npu t c irc ui t is a 'A w ave
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JUNE 196 1 47
 (Contin ued from pag e 47)
ha ve the cards for all r eceiver con st r uction
articles which appeared in 73 in 19(jO~xactly
what you w ere looking f or.
The process sounds a bit tedious when ex-
plained in words, but after you've done it once
you'll see that t he entire thing can be done
in less t ime than it takes to read a cou ple of
sente nces ex plai n ing how. The pictures show
the three steps of a sorti ng run , using on ly a
small deck of cards.
Card from the prototype "13 Selector." Note
that holes shown on top in drawing and in text
are on bottom in this set : this was first d esigned
and by experience it was determined that cards
would align more easily in fi le bcx if holes were
on to ;') . C odes for magazines and classifications
were also altered slightly ; however, any cod ing
will work so long as it is consistent.
Here's h ow it wor ks, if it h asn't become
crystal clea r to you yet. As you ca n see, a card
will f all if it h a s a slot at the pa r t icular posi-
tion used, and will stay on the needle if i t
has an unbroken hole. A ny single hole position
can be used for a two-answered question ; how-
ever, a pair of hole positions can be used to
mean four th ings :
A- code 00, both holes unbr oken. The card
sta ys on through bot h r u ns .
B-code 01, one hole a nd one slot. T he card
stays on the first time but falls away the sec-
ond.
C--code 10, one slot and one hole. The card
falls the fi r st t ime but stays up the second .
D-eode 11, both slots. T he card f a lls away
both ti mes.
By a ssig nin g specific mea nings to each code,
you ca n r ecover t hat i nform a t ion from a
scr a mb led deck by p icking t he or de r of t he
sort and the holes. F or in sta nce, to locate code
11, you would start with either hole, and a fte r
each sort the cards which stayed on the needle
would go back into the file. T he only ones
kept out would be those which fell off both
times.
On the other hand, to locate code 00, you
would start with either hole , but t he cards
which fell off ei t her time would be returned
48
to the file . All th ose which st a yed on the
needle both times would be kept.
T h is use of several positions of yes-or-no
coding is t he b asis of electronic computer s,
which a lso employ t he binary system . Wh ile
it seems alm ost inefficient, r emember t h a t us-
ing 6 holes in stead of 2 for one code g rou p
gives you 64 possible combinations-and 10
holes would give you 1,024 combinations.
P r oper coding also makes it easy to put the
file in order. Let's sa y you want it to be in
alphabetical order by the author's name. This
uses holes 11 through 20 across t he top .
For this ty pe of sor t , you start with hole
20 a nd work ba ck to hole 11. Keep th e cards
which f all free in proper or der, a nd at t he
end of each sort p ut t hose w hich stayed on
at the fro nt of t he stack, t hen sort a g ain.
\Vhe n you've sorted at all 10 hole positions.
you 'll find the entire file is in alphabetical
order according to the first two letters of the
author's surname. H er e's wh y :
Let 's sup pose your deck h a s only four cards
-one for J oe J ones, one for Q. X. A Uer, one
for Bill McNa ma r a , an d one for \V. Gr een .
On the H ole 20 sort, only J on es' ca r d woul d
stay, si nce T, N , and R all h a ve Is i n t he
hole-20 position. A t hole 19 , Nand R would
fall but 0 an d T would stay. The order at
this point would be: Jones, Atler, MaN e ma r a,
and Gr een.
Af te r the hole 18 sort, t he order would be
Jones, Green, A tl er , and Mc Na ma r a, since at
hole 18 J ones a n d Gr een h ave Os while Atler
a nd McNa mara h a ve I s.
As t he sor t proceed s, t he orde r changes
each time a ccordi ng to t he presence or ab-
sence of a ze ro in each card at that position.
A fter the hole 16 sort, t he order would be
McNamara, J ones , Green, and Atler, and the
second-letter sort would be completed. H oles
15 through 11 repeat the same process for the
fi rst letter , a nd a f te r hole 13 the order be-
comes A tl er, J on es, McN am ara , a nd Green.
At hole 12. J ones a nd McNamar a fa ll , a n d
when Atl er a nd Green are brought to t he
fro nt the order becomes correct.
In t his example, since on ly fou r names were
used , the sort was complete at hole 12. I n
practice, all 10 sorts must be made to estab-
lish proper order.
By the same token, the file can be sorted by
magazi ne a nd then the sub-deck for each
magazine can be put in order by month and
yea r .
By now, you shou ld h a ve t he idea of the
do-it-yourself IBM Mach ine, our "n Selecto r ."
J ust two words of cautio n :
W hen you put one together, you're liable to
find yourself thinking in binary code for a
while-which may prove helpful if you ever
want to work with computers-and
Wat ch out for t he gadget. You may find it
fusci natiug, a nd you 1J1f1!J lin tl it obsesaing !
•. . K5JKX / G
13 MAGAZIN E
 ( M- IOO from pag e 221
todula t ion of t he f uII r f out pu t . However, for
est speech qua lit y the modulation level sho u ld
c set no gre at er than wh ere the tran smitter's
lat e cu r rent mete r s hows a n apparent sa t ura-
ion point and fu rth er ad va ncement of t he
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ut -rent. Because no r eactive components ap -
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one of that value where it does, a s well a s t o
CODE CONSTRUCTION open the scree n de lead at the socket, bringing
t hese t wo connections to the M-IOO.
/ ONE OF THE \Vh en on tran smitter st andby (receive) or
TAPED C OD E FINEST CODE
tune positions, th e audio from the loudspeaker
would drive t he scr een of the transmitter
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by u sing a pa ir of auxiliary contacts of the
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M-IOO so that th is circuit is open on receive
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Powerhouse Pros
Part 1
H'hile we're normally agin two-part ar-
t icles, on the grounds that an y technical
in/or mation should be complete unto it-
self . this subject is an exception. T h e
field 0/ power supplies is a broad one,
not of ten cover-ed, a nd our choice w as be-
tween giving you a power-supply article
a11d no thin g else this month , cutting
V ACUUM tubes and transistors being th e
choosy gadgets they are, the power su p-
ply is a unit common to ever y item of elec-
tronic equ ipment. As a r esult, dozens of
s pecia lized power-supply circu its have been
developed; however, the entire s ubj ect is u su-
ally d isposed of with a few general words in
most reference books. Few homebr ew power
su pplies are eng inee r ed j the majority of them
a re simply put together and d ebugged until
they work.
Happily, mo st of them do work-but they
ca n be much more efficient and will accomplish
their ta sk s more easily if they are designed
befo r e, rather than after, they're built. The
basic principles are s im ple, a nd you prob-
ably know them already. However, many little
tricks can be employed-and that's what mo st
of thi s article is about.
Before going into the tricks, though, let's
take a close look a t those basic principles.
First off, we must decide on the purpose of
a power supply. Naturally, it's to supply
power. Most usually, this power is in the form
of d irect cu r r ent , although mo st vacuum-tube
power s u pplies inclu de provisio n for low-vol-
tage ac for tube h eaters.
Output voltage m ay be high, low, or medi-
um, depending on the applicati on, a nd t he same
goes for current. A supply for a tran sistorized
preamplifi er may s u pply only 5 vol ts at 1 rna,
while one for a kilowatt fina l may be called on
to give f orth 2,500 volts at nearly an amp.
Input to the s u pply is u su ally II5-volt, 60-
cycle, s ing le-ph ase ac from th e h ou se lines,
but not always. Big rigs fr equently use a 230·
JUN E 19b1
St.ff
dow n the detail, or splitting t he article
into two part s. Rather tha n compromise
th e standards of our T ech nical A rticle
eeries, see reluctantly decided to split
th e ar ticle. P art T wo will appear next
month-s-and either part is complete by
itself ; you don't have to wait until next
mou th t-O use the information .
volt input, and mobile u nits usually em ploy 6-
or rz-volt de. Mobile power s u pplies are a sub-
ject unto themselves because of their specia l
cons ider a t ions . They won't be gone into fur-
ther in th is article.
\Vit h input sou r ce and output power deter-
mined by the a ssociated equipmen t a nd oper-
ating s it e, we can proceed to design a power
s up ply. W it h so many s peciali zed ci r cu its
to choose from, though, we're g oin g to be lost
unless we classify the circu its in some ma nner
while exami ning them.
One m ethod of classifica t ion would be in to
low-powe r, m edium-power and hi gh-pow~r
ca tegor ies, and m any r efer ences f ollow t h is
procedure. However, ma ny circu its are equal.
Iy usable in either of these t hree groups, so
we're taking a different app r oach. To start ,
let's decide whether we want to u se tran sfer-
mers, or operate directly from t he ac line.
Until a few years a go, trans form erless su p-
plies were limited to the low-power group
because it was impossible to develop even mod-
erately h igh power through mult iplier ci rcu its .
However , modern circuit tech niques make it
possible to disp en se with t ransformers at any
level below about 500 watts output if we like,
W h ile most references compare voltage mul-
tipli ers with tran sformer-type su p plies on t he
basi s of comparative cost , that compa ri son
loses valid ity in the hi gher power bra ckets
s ince th e amount saved on transf ormers is
spent on additional r ectifiers and capacitors.
At lower power levels, cos t comp arison s r ema in
(Continu ed on page 62)
51
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or RF Analyzer, by all means do it. The at-
tachment is very simple and observation edu-
cational. With the l\Iultiphase, it is preferable
to use its 1000 cycle tone fed to the microphone
input in order to obtain syn c. The .02 volt out-
put should be used a s higher levels would
cause di stortion due to the high gain of the
.\1-100. Once the best sett ings for carrier and
modulation is found, they remained constant
for the microphone and plate current settings
of the transmitter.
If you have no mean s of getting to a scope,
sa t is fa ctory results can be obtained by follow-
ing the operation instructions which come
with th e unit. There is a tendency to turn the
gain up too high, therefore a critical on-the-
air check is necessary in order to reach maxi-
mum clarity with maximum punch. Actually
the M-100 hook s up much faster than it takes
to talk about it, taking only about twenty
minute s with the Navigator.
All on-the-air reports were good, even through
heavy QRM on 20 meters in the evening, and
most hams were s ur pr ised at the low power
used whi le running the Navigator.
The brochure speaks of mobile use as a fea-
ture, and the 1\1-100 would be ideal to modulate
a h igh power mobile transmitter. It would be
my preference to u se a transistorized supply
with a 115 volt GO cycle outp ut such as the
Heath l\l P-10, which, wh ile lar ger than neces-
sary for t he M-100 requirement of 30 watts,
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could also operate a st at ion receiver giving
you a quick conversion from shack to mobile,
a nd vice-versa.
T he self-conta ined 1000 cycle tone sou r ce
gives you I C'V capability on U HF, a s well as
the tune-up sour ce for double sideba nd sup-
pressed carrier should the unit be reworked
for that purpose. The bandpass wa s checked
with a Supreme Model 563 Audio Oscillator,
maintainiug- metered con stant output and wa s
in close agreement with the 300 to 4000 cycle
range, having a s ha r per cutoff on the lower
frequency side wh ere 60 cycle hum troubles
originate.
The gen eral impression gained from opera-
tion of th e 1\1-100 is that it can find a place
in almost any ham sha ck either a s part of the
main rig, for portable use or as the modulating
source for anything you home brew or test.
Many of the features available in the unit are
those you would like to have but would not
have the patience to incorporate in gear as-
sembled for trial or test purposes.
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Cha rts
David A. Brow n K2 1G Y
30 Lamb ert Avenue
Pe rmi nqd ele. N. Y.
The bands list ed a re MUF s and a high er
ba nd will not wo rk for the time period listed .
Lower bands will work, but n ot nea r ly a s well.
Times are GMT, not local time.
These charts are to be used a s a guide to
ham band openings for the month of June,
1961 to the variou s countries listed. I will be
interested to hear of your results in using
these charts an dto know what other a r ea s
you might wish included in f utu re charts .
Adva nced Forecast: Jun e 1961
Good 1-2, 4-7, 15-30
Fair 3, 8-9, 13- 14
Bad 10- 12
REMINDER
B r ing th is copy of 73 to your next
ham club meeting an d let everyone see
it. Don't forget to sh ow it to ha ms
that come avisiting too. 'Ve h a ve been
able to get special U . S. Government per-
mission (our postman says OK) for you
to d iscuss articles appearing in 73 with
fellows on the ham bands.
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Model PV wit h tube, wired and tested.
State which band $13.95
For any ba nd, 80, 40, 20, 15 or 10 meters, t he Ame co
Model PH Preamplifie r has a better noise figure t han
most mutuband receivers, 23 db. min imum ga in. will
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tuned ci rcui ts. Espec ially effective on 10 or 15 met er s.
Model PH with tube, wired and tested.
State which band .............•..................................$1 3.95
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"1 E)DIE tell ya', boy," old Rufus J ones said
.J to me one afternoon, "there ain't nothin'
what's more fun than huntin'. They's fun in
gettin' yore huntin' gear ready. Tbey's fun
in sett in' an' watch in'. They's fun in rai sin'
yore gun an' pulli n' th' trigger. They's even
fun when you open both yore eyes an' fine you
plumb mi ssed t h' varmint you was aimin' at.
But mind you, boy, it t akes a heap 0' figurin'
a nd patience for you to be a good hunter."
Although old Rufus had coon and squi rrel
in mi nd when he was tal king, h is comments
can be very aptly appl ied to t h e hu nt ing of
t ha t elus ive quary, dx. Dx hunti ng can be fu n
a nd the n umber of h a ms who indulg e in t h is
f acet of amateu r rad io ce rtainly prove it. Ex-
and trails t hat lead to successf ul dx contacts.
The new ha m with t he dx f ever in hi s blood
is very often confused and unsure a s to how
to st ar t adorn ing the walls of h is trophy room
with those rare QSL cards that result from
su ccessful dx hunts.
Fi r s t , let's give some attention to what old
Rufus would call "huntin' gear." For one
t hi ng, h igh power is n ot a necessity. Many
fellows have and wi ll continue to work t he
rare ones using less than one h u nd r ed watts.
T he antenna is very important and should be
the most efficient possible for your location.
This will enable you to hunt with the biggest
signa l possible for the power you run . As for
the receiver, forget about the chrome and
icing. If you have one that's both sensit ive and
selec t ive, who cares bow fancy it look s.
Now that you've got your "buntin' gear,"
where t o hunt is the next question. That's
easy! If you look in a copy of "73" magazine,
you'll find a "hunter's almanac" that \Vayne
calls a "Propagation Chart." A little study of
thi s chart will tell you when and where to
hunt and what for.
After you've got your gear warmed up and
you're tuned up in "hu nttn' territory," the
" aittin' and watchin'" begins. Don't get im-
patient! A deer doesn't jump out of the brush
the minute you s it down and cock your ,",U Il .
It's the sa me with dx. Assuming for the mo-
•

5b 13 MA GAZ INE
 Hunter

Ken John son W 6NK E

me nt that you're on CW, tu ne slowly up and

down th e band. List en carefu lly to the weak
sign als a nd don 't ignore t he st r ong ones. That
89 s ig na l yo u ju st passed could be a rare one
with a sk ip "pipe line" right in to you r loca-
t ion. Listen, listen, then listen so me mor e. No
doubt you'II hear so me of the fell ows ca llin g
cq dx and get the yen to try it yourself. The
chances of raisi ng a dx s ta t ion in th is manner
a re small. T he la w of averages is agio' it.
In addition, it crea tes QRl\1 for th e other fel-
lows and you could easily be on top of a rare
one and lou se things u p for them. More than
once, I've had a g ood dx cont act ruined through
someone calling eq dx right .on the frequ ency. The 80 thru 10 meter band-~witching pi network is
de ~ i9ned for 800 watts PEP sse, 400 watts CW, FM
w h en you do hear a choice one, twist th e
or FSK and 230 watt~ Li nea r AM (co ntro lled carrier)
d ial on your VFO and zero in on his frequen cy. or 185 watts ( con ~ton t carrie r) with 50·70 oh m ou t-
Wh en he sig ns, ca ll h im and be su r e t hat your pu t. Popu lar 10 0 watt SSB exciters re q uire no ~w a mp i ng
first is good, clean and easy to copy. Don't o r ma tching networks to drive th e low Z u ntuned
call hi s call too long, t h r ee or f our times and input . Grounded g rid circuit u ~e s four 1625'~ or 837 's
t he same with yours, is p lenty. Take a listen on custo me rs reque st . Meter reeds RF dr ive, p late
and tun e a little each side of th e frequ ency. current, RF amp~ output. New modern co mp a ct 9 " X 15"
Either he, your r eceiver or both might have X lOn " gray cobinet a lso contoin ~ power ~upply u~in9
drifted slig htl y. If he doesn't come back, call 81 b's. TVI suppressed, Para ~ iti c Free.
O ne -Ye ar Warranty o n 011 Ports ana Tubes
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keep after him. You've always g ot a chance
unt il he comes back to someone.
If another s ta t ion nabs him, eit her st a nd
by and wait f or h im to finis h h is QSO or hunt
elsewhere on the band. Don't try a nd break GENERALIZE YOURSELF!
in on a dx QS O. Ma ny dx st a t ions will refu se
to r ecognize or come back to a st at ion that LEARN RADIO CODE
t r ies to break in on their cont ac ts . Wait until T il e EASY W Al'
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u. S. #1
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ELECTRONICS
di vision of Amber Indu strial Corporation
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chances of losing the contact du ri ng ba nd
changes a nd fluctu ations. When t he QSO is
1920 E. Edge., Rood Linden, New Jersey fin ished , move off t he fr equ en cy and let another
Right on Highway U. S. 1
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PLENTY OF FREE PARKING \Vorking dx on AM phone is a different
proposi tion. Many of t he dx stat ions operate
Send for our NEW FREE Catalog in th e cw portions of our ham ba nds, so it is
f eat ur ing specie! bu ys f rom o ne of the largest
su rp lus co lle ctions in the East. impossible to zero beat their fr equency. The
system in this case is t o tune u p near t he low
BC-659 8C-1335 frequency ends of the American phone bands
smeu !,' :\f transceiver for 27.0-38.9 me. Xtal
trolled 011 either or two pr e -t uned ch annela. Carb ""
ron - a nd call t hem f r om t he r e. The closer you get
mi ke Input, h e aJ ~e t output. 4.3 me I F . gelt- ec ntatned to the edge of the band, th e more QRM you
G/ 12 vult. power supp ly. Conver ts 10 AU for 6 or
10:\1. O nl}' 1,," x 14" x 7" . 30 ills. G reat tor ,"" h i le, will encounter . It's like ope ning mornin g of
1~1I Lo 4. W;LtlS nutnut. Used, tnu ve ry good COII-
dltion •••••.•.. . ..•••• .•••.•.••• ••••••. •.••.••..• $-IO.D5 deer- season. E very hunter is down t he re a im-
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ing at t he com par a tively f ew dx st at ions
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ably one of many and the QRM is t errific. It's
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the moot popular pieces of surplus ever sold. 'l1lou -
sands have been used on two meters. In excelle nt
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condition, complete with PE · 94 power s up ply (24v) call fr om there. Some dx operat ors a ctually
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t une fr om the to p of the American phone
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r egulated outp ut. Completely n lteroo and rueeo. 3
retar e. 2·Ylt lO;l'a. l -Y RI 50. 1I ',i, " x 8" :l 8" In alle y. I've had them thank me for calli ng f r om
ll1..tal cas e. B rand n ew. ••. ....•....... ..••••.••• $14.95 such a s pot as they haven't been a ble to m ake
Thousands of Items-Thousands of Bargains out a word thr ough t he QRM near t he lower
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some c uan une e li mited. P rices su bject to changll wIthout edge. Try it, it wor ks.
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And do,, 'r forgel ou r fr e e new c a ud ogt
You, like ever yone else, wa nt a QSL to
prove t he success of your hunting fo r ays.
Here's another hunting t ip that get s r esults.
W hen you send your car d , put it in an en-
velope, enclose a self-addres sed, envelope and
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H elp the dx operator a nd yourself by sending
you r car d in t his manner. Th en have patience

CHOS E N and wait! Put your self in the positio n of the

ope r a tor of a dx station. Ne ar ly every station
he contact s want s a QSL. It costs hi m money
for use aboard the S.S. HOPEI to have t he cards p r inted, t he volume of post-
age st amps is costly and the a mount of time
required to check hi s log and m ake out cards
is t reme ndous. These f ellows are r eally f aced
with a job and everything you can do to hel p
TRANS-CITER t hem will be ap pr eciated.
You may spend hou r s f r uitlessly sca nn ing
the bands f or dx. Somet imes you may wor k
one stat ion, while at other s you'll work t hem
one after another. As old Rufus sa id, "it take!
a heap 0' flg ur in' a nd pati en ce to be a good
RECEIVER hunter, but it's f un!"
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o a nd equipment.
H7VAC
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~ the general circuit configuration is similar, the
1200v
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valid.
Fig. I
More important points of difference are the
magnetic fields produced in the vicinity, and
safety considerations. Any power transformer
will rad iate strong magnetic fields, which
wreak havoc in low-level audio and electron-
beam-tube circuits (i ncluding SSE exciters
of the 6AR5 or 7360 type as well as oscillo-
scopes and t uning indicators). On the other
hand, all voltage multiplier circuits are tied
directly into t he 117-volt power lines in one
way or another, t h us making it possible for
you to--either by carelessness or by compo-
nent failure-become connected bod ily to the
almost-unlimited power there residing. At best,
you'll get a shock. At worst, it could be fatal.
E quipment, also, is subject to possible damage
through interconnecting ground cables which
may short out part of the power supply.
In sum, the transformerless su pply offers
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freedom from troublesome magnetic fields, at
the price of increased da nger to both operator
If use of a transformerless supply appears
best, one way of avoiding the da nger is to in-
sta ll an isolation transformer (cost, about
$10) in the supply li ne to the power supply.
T his can be located far enough f rom the
equipment to avoid magnetic fields, wh ile pro-
vid ing isolation from t he regular 117-volt
+ '000
li ne.
Another major classification which doesn't
appear to be so obvious is between power sup-
plies using vacuum tubes as recti fiers, and
4.' those employ ing semiconductor diodes. While
oper atin g conditions of the t wo types of units
di ffer radically.
O-'-I-~-I-•
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Fig. 3
A vacuum diode requires filament power,
produces quantities of heat, and has a built-in
voltage drop ranging from 15 to 50 volts. Semi-
conductor diodes require no heater power, run
comparatively cool, and h a ve a n average volt-
age d rop of about 1 to 3 volts.
However, semiconductor diodes require cur-
rent-limiting resistors and an adequate heat
sink, neither of which is necessary with a
vacuum t ube. Semiconductors, also, may sub-
j ect fi lter capacitors to h ig her voltage levels,
due to both the lower rectifier drop and the
inst a nt action when the supply is turned on.
Another point which must be watched with
• semiconductors is that of peak inverse voltage.
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Vacuum diodes are most tolerant of excessive
reverse voltage; even the lowly 5Z3 is good for
more than 1,500 volts. Semiconductors , how-
ever, will be destroyed by even slight overdoses
of excess reverse voltage-and the most com-
L
mon types are rated fo r only 400 volts. T his
is equivale nt to about 250 volts RMS, which
means t hat u n its must be connected in series
for medi um- to h igh -power supplies.
T herefore, t he choice between using vacuum
diodes and semiconductor rectifiers must be
ma de on the basis of a nu mber of factors .
Schematic diagrams in this article show them
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the differences are allowed for.
Possibly the most common of all power-
sup ply circuits is the half-wave rectifier, show n
ill F ig'. 1. The usual circuit conflguru l.ion is
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shown in Fig. t a, and a variant for high-
voltage use in Fig. lb. Here's how it works:
A diode, by definition, can conduct only in
one direction. Again by definition, t his conduc-
tion occurs only when the anode is positive.
With an alterna ting current applied to t he
input, the diode is almost a short circuit when-
ever th e anode is positive and is an open cir-
cuit when the anode swings negative.
Whenever the diode conducts, a pulse of cur-
rent flows through it into capacitor C. W hen
the diode's anode is negative and the rectifier
becomes an open circuit, the charge on C re-
mains sta t iona r y. These actions occur on al-
ternate half-cycles of the input current; the
diode's one-way-gate action turn s the ac input
into pulsating direct. current.
It's clear that onl y half the input wave is
used; the other half is blocked and never ap-
pears in the output. The pulses of direct cur-
rent occur at the sa me frequency as the alter-
nation s of input current polarity. U se of only
half the wave means that efficiency can never
exceed 50 percent, and the low ripple frequency
present in the output mean s that adequate
filtering (which we'll go into later) is di fficult
to ach ieve. For these reasons, the half-wave
rectifier is limited in application. No other
power su pply circuit is so economical wit h
AUDIO D SC
+ 10 m illivolts of rip ple. If t he su pply voltage
~I
SET TO
RIPPLE VARV C
FOR PEAK
FREOUECV READING
CHOKE VTV M
ON VTV M
I On the other hand, the su pply for a class B
• mod ulator operating at t he 500-watt level
Fi g. 4
parts, but vi rtually every other circuit g ives
better efficiency and output.
Before going on to other circu its, though,
let's take a look at the filter since it's as im -
portant to a power su pply a s is the rectifier
circuit. A common filter circuit is shown in
Fig. 1. However, comparison between the
three maj or types can be seen more ea sily in
Fig. 2.
The basic purpose of any filter circuit is t o
remove the ac component ( usua lly called rip-
ple) from the r ectifier output. 'W it hout a filter,
the output con si sts of pulsating direct current.
The filter smoot hs out the pulses into s ome-
thing approximating pure de.
It's important at this point to emphasize
that 11 0 filter can ever turn rectified ac into
completely pure de. Even the most elaborate
(and costly) low-impedance highly-regulated
power su pplies st ill have a trace of residual
ripple in their output. H owever, it is ea sil y
possible to reduce t he ripple so close to ze ro
that for alI prnctk-nl purposes you ca n't tel l
the differen ce.
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H ow much ripple to tolerate is determined
primarily by the purpose for which the supply
will be used. Most published circuits and charts
are based on a 1-00-5 percent r ipple fig ure.
T his is far more filtering than necessary in
some application s a nd not nearly enough in
other s . F or example, t he power sup ply for the
fi r st audio st a ge of a high -gain mod ulator
(suc h as might be used w ith a low-out p ut dy-
namic m ike) should probably contai n less t ha n
is 100, t hi s work s out to 0.01 percent r esid ua l
I"ipple. !
would be perfectly acceptable w ith as m uch
as 25 to 30 volts r ipple, at a level of 1000
volts a nd provided t hat t he modulator were
push-pull. I
I n design sta ges , the best bet is to work for
a nominal t-percent ripple figure. T h is can be
modified upward s for high-vo ltage sup plies if
component cost st a r ts to skyrocket. Then, when
the s up ply is fini shed, if ripple proves objec-
t iona ble another filtering stage can be added.
Like amplification, the effect is mu ltiplied
rather than added, so one extra stage will
usually do the trick.
Now to the three types of filter circuits.
They're u sually classified according to the in-
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While they accompli sh the same end, they
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the com pa r a t ively low ac impedance of the
input ca pa citor to do the bulk of its filter-ing.
Thl' res ister- and. choke-input types u se the
hi){h impedance of the input element to block
most of the r ipple from the output.
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 The capacitor-input un it, therefore, presents
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either of the other types. T h is mea ns t hat
(theoretically at least) either of t he other
types ca n produce more usuable ou tput cur-
rent from a given rectifier than ca n the capa-
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is limited to low-current applications since its
input element offers just a s much resistance to
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Tending to balance the ledger to so me degree
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n~t frequency. If thi s frequency is nea r the
TIpple frequency, anything ca n happen. The
best rule is to make certai n t hat t he resona nt
freque ncy is at least an octave lower tha n the
ripple to avoid trouble.
However , resonance in filters can occasion-
ally be u sed to advantage. One example is the
old B N radar, used a s an I F F unit by the
Navy t hroughout w or ld ' Va l' II. Its power
s upply used a resonant choke, tuned by a 0.25
mid capacitor, to block 120-cycle ripple cur-
rent. This enabled use of a smaller choke than
would otherwise have been necessary. T he cir-
cuit is sho wn in Fig. 3. However , capacitance
va lues mu st be determined by experiment for
the individual choke. The set up for picki ng the
proper capacitance is s hown in Fig. 4.
After
• this swing through filter circuitry •
Iet s go back to the rectifier and see what we
can do to increase efficiency. As we sa w, the
half-wave circuit effectively threw away half
the input power. Now if there were just a way
of using that other half-cycle, we could double
power out put .
,r--------,.
~II-+:..-r--+- : circu it complexity. However, the transformer
!t 120 : used can be sma ller by half t han is necessary
• with the ord inary full-wave-an d the bridge
+ i
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:,
, t he line dir ectly but will be a t a potent ial half-
L J•
Fig. 7
By reversing ph a se of t he inp ut power and
putting it t hrough another half-wave circu it
connected in parallel with the first , we can
do just that. T he developmental circuit is
s hown in Fig. 5a, and the same circu it in its
more-familiar form appears in F ig , Sb. As
ca n be see n from Fig. 5A, the circuit operates
in a man ner almost identical to the half-wave
unit but twice as often.
The full-wave rectifier picks up another ad-
vantage besides higher power; since it oper-
ates twice a s often as a half-wave circuit, the
output pulses occu r twice as rapidly, which
means that ripple frequency is twice a s high
as the input. This allows u s to use smaller
filter components to accomplish the sa me pur-
ity of output.
Because of th ese advantages, the full-wave
r ectifier circuit is the one most widely used
in all type s of electronic equi pment with the
exception of enter ta in ment radio and TV sets ,
where cost considerations make the transform-
erless half-wave circuit attractive for ac-dc
radios and the n ecessity for eliminating mag-
netic fields make other transformerless circuits
popular for TV.
However , the familiar circuit of Fig. 5b is
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Fig. 8
not the only full-wave rectifier. Another one,
long popular for low-voltage applications and
now gaining popularity for other u ses s ince
the advent of semiconductor rectifiers, is the
bridge shown in F ig. 6.
Unlike the preceding full-wave circuit, the
bridge rectifier bears little resemblance to a
half-wave circuit. It utilizes the gating prop-
erty of its rectifier diodes to steer the ac input
in the prope r direction , depend ing on polarity.
Obv ious disadvant ages are the need for four
diodes instead of two, and slightly g reater
3 1 0~
ca n be used witho ut tra nsf ormers where the
NO
LOAD ord ina ry f u ll-wave cannot. However , in t h is
case B- will not be connected to either side of
way between B + and t he lin e. This is no
ad vantage- it adds to the dangers r a ther than
det r acti ng fr om th em.
T he extra diodes aren't so much of a disad-
vantage as they mi ght appear, since each ca n
be sm a ller t han would be u sed other wise
(they're in ser ies at all t imes for t he rectified
current) •
Befor e go ing f urther, let's compare the in-
put voltage an d the dc no-load output voltage
fo r each of the three circuits we've examined
so far. \Vit h an arbitrary input, t he half-wave
rectifier will g ive us approximately the peak-
ac value of t he input as its de output. The
ce nter-tap full-wave will give us something
less than half that output, although it pro-
vides twice the current. The full-wave bridge
gives approximately' the same voltage and
cur r ent output as the half-wave circuit, but
wastes less input power doing so.
\Vh at happens if we need a higher dc out-
put voltage? Of course. we can always u se a
different tran sformer if we've chosen to build
tr-an sformer-type power supplies, but if not,
then what?
Fortunately, th ere are circuits not too dis.
tantly related to the bridge which can mu ltiply
inp ut voltage. One of the ea rliest of these
(which made the table model radio poss ible
way back when) is the h alf- wa ve doubler.
T he circu it is shown in Fig . 7. Note that
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 the lower pa rt of the cir cu it, enclosed In
dotted lines, is s imila r to th e half-wave circuit
already di scussed. The remaining compon en ts,
al so, f orm another half-wave cir cuit. Output
voltage of the two sepa r at e cir cu its is taken in
ser ies, giving t wice the peak-ac input value on
light loads. This means that such a doubler
operating f r om stan da r d hou se lines will gi ve
about 300 vdc at no load.
The major disadvantage of thi s cir cui t is
that outpu t f a lls off rapidly with load. On
top of t hat, it has all t he other disadvantages
of half-wa ve circuitry.
An other doubler circui t , once popular in
TV sets but seldo m used now, is the full-wave
doubler sh own in Fig. 8. Note its r esemblance
to t he f ull-wave bridge r ectifier.
In operation, each capacitor is ch arged by
one di ode, on alternate half-cycles of input.
W hen one diode is "off" the other is "on,"
using both halves of th e inpu t cycle. Th e two
ca pacito rs , each charging to peak-ac input
voltage value, are in ser ies, making the no-
load output equ al to twice th e peak input
value.
Like t he half-wave doubler, ou t pu t f all s off
with heavy loads, but t he full -wave circu it
will take more load than the half-wave for the
sa me volt age output because of its h igher
efficien cy. U sing sem iconduct or diodes and ex-
tremely large ca pacito rs (300 mid ea ch ) the
full wave cir cu it will deliver 260 volts a t 500
rna, where a t the same load t he halfwave
output is on ly 225 volts. Halfwave outpu t volt-
age drops t o 210 at t -amp ou t pu t , while f u ll-
wave is 245 a t the sa me current.
Th e rea son for t he full-wave doubler's fall
from gra ce in commercial TV design had
nothing to do with any basic circuit flaw; it
j ust put t oo much str ain on heater-cathode
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117 VAC ---'0---++
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Fig, 9
insulation when tube filaments were arranged
in a ser ies st r ing. If filamen ts a r e su pplied
fr om a sepa r at e t r ansfo r mer you should have
no trouble with the circu it.
If st ill higher output voltage is needed,
either the half- or full-wave dou blers can be
extended to t ri ple t he input voltage, The f ull-
wave t r ipler circuit is sh own in F ig, 9, and
(Turn to page 68)
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Lo w -Poss Audio Filter & Output Trondorme r. 10p.f 600V. C<:I p . 95 ¢
Filter cu toff 2500 cps, fo r use b etwe en audio
stoges, e lse works in speo ke r leods. Output Fee dthru Capocilor 250p.p.f 500 vo lts mica . . . . . . 1St
t ro ns. f o r 6 V6 to speoke r. 2 V2" x31/4" x4 IJ4" .
4 Ib s. • • • •• •. . .. . . . .... . ••... • •.. . ... .•.. . $1.4 9 4p.f 330V. AC Capacito r . .. . . . . • . . . .60('; 2 fo r $1.00
Pow er Tronsf o rme r, 330-0-330V. 100 mo. , 5V . 3 ART~13 Power Plu g U-7jU $2.00
Amps, 6 .3V . 5 Amps. Herm . see le d , For R.
48j TRC-8 Rc vr. 4" x5" x5" 13 Ibs . •. . .. ... • . • • $2.50 Dummy-load Re sistors 112 o h ms 1% 50 w a tts
d eposited corbon, g loss e nclo se d . 2 in p o ro lle l
Au d io Output Tron sformer, 8000 ohms poP t o g ive 5 6 oh ms, 100 wotls, 2 Ibs . . • .. • • •. e oc h 79t
4-8-15-500 oh ms. 20 wofts . 3"x3 IJ2"x31h ".
4 Ib s. . ... .... ... . • • . • .• •• •• • .. .•...•• . ... . $2.00 AC Milliammete r 0-500 mo . 25-125 cp s . 2 " round
We st on ..... ... . . • • • • • . . . • . .. .. • . ... .. .. . . $1.95
Sco pe Tronsf orme r, 1250 V. 3 mo ., 3 30-0-330V.
150 m o . 1.25V., .3 Amp ., 6 .3V., .9 Amp., 6.3V ., Selen ium Re cti fier, 55V. AC input. 10 Am ps . Oil-
6 .7 Amps. 3 1/4" x 4"x31f4" . 6 Ib s. . ... (P-2118) $3.00 filled, se a le d can 6 " diom. x 8 1h " 15 lbs . .. .• $5.95

Sup eri or " Pow e rs to t." In!,ut 115V. 60-'"'-. Outout Astatic 400-0 Ph ono Picku p Arms •••••••••.• • 59c
0 -11 5 V. o r 0-2OOV. I S Amps. l e ss k nob & d iol.
25 Ibs . . .... ••• .... .. . • . . • •. . . . . . .. ... .. ... $14.7 5 8C-683 Receivers . 40 Ib s $29.95

38PI Co th od e-Ra y Tub e s . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . • •• $2. 49 Pr inted Circuit Boards, loaded w it h g e t m:lO;u m

d iode s, resi stors, capacitors, coils, neon bu lb s.
l p.f 3000V. Co p o cit or. GE pyronol ....•.•... •• . • 95 ¢ Pr iced a t 60<" 75<" 9Ot. Order seve ra l s i z e~ .
We g ua ra ntee your mone ys w o rth. Boord w ith
2p.f 6 0 ~V . Cop. " r ebe" 60 t ; 2 for $1.00 o bout 70 d iode s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1 25
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10 Pre cision Ge a rs , Sta in-
Jeff-Tronics Add 35<, handling ch a rg e on
le ss o r a lu minu m, va ri-
ous size s, from I " t o 4 " $1.00 4722 Memphis Ave. ,.,"/ers under $2. 00. Pr ices are
F.O .8 . C1e velond, Ohio. Pie us e
20 Assorled Min iQture Tu b e a cM suffic:e nt p"5to g e . All exce ss
Shields $ 1.00 Cleveland 9, Ohio w ill b e re turn ed .

JUN E 196 1 69
;'/~ QUALITY MADE COMPACT ANTENNA

Advertisers Index
THE FIRST MULTIBAND Alde n
Alqeredi o _.
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. 69
63
COAXIAL ANTENNA Alltrcnics-Hcw erd
Ameco
Arrow Elect ronics, Inc
49
55
73
for 6-10-15-20 Meters Beeker & W ill i.,mson
Be rrv Electronics
49
67
British Radio Elect ronics ltd 68
needs no ground C.,nd ee
Ce ntimeg . . . . .. .
65
68
plane radials- C e ntra l Electronics . .. .. .. 7
CI.,rk . 52
I d eal for • • • Cleqq 2,27
Emergency n ets and cit izens Columbia 45
b and wherever omn id irec t ional C urt., 10
coverage is d esired. C ushcraft 56
C amp ers and a p a rt me n t Ebco 5
r esid ents or wherever space EICO • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .• 11
is a problem . Electro-tone .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. 53
A second antenna for low Elme c . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
a ngle rad ia tion . Epsi lon _ 57
E-ZW.,yTowe rs 13
The N ew C-4 fea.tures .. .
• F ull electrica l h alf w aves on all
Finney 6
b ands . . . eliminatinlt t he need for Fulton Radio , 47
a wk wa rd grou n d pla ne ra dials. G lobe Industries 56
• E asy, i nexpensi ve m o unting with
r egu lar TV hardware such as simple Gonsel . Cover 11
chimney m ount as s hown. G re he m . _. . .. 56
• Compact ness ••• only 12' over -all HOl m Novelties 43
h ei r; ht.
H e eth 19
• E nd -load ed to p rovide maximum ra-
diato r c urrent for m axim u m r a d ia t ion. Hi-p., r 50
• Quick installatio n ••• abou t H h o ur. House of Ante nnas [f -Beems] 45
• P o we r rating, • • . 300 watts AM. [nt e rnetione] Crvste! I
• Fe ed line • • • RG S8AU o r eq ui valent . J efftronics 69
• S WR •• • les, t h a n 1.5 t o 1 a t resona nce. J 5H 45
Model C-4 Le ie vette Rad io 23
amateur n et $34.95 L-W Electronics .. .. 45
Min i-Produ ct s . 70
T wo o the r 6-10· 15·20 me ter antennas : Mission . 47
ModelS-24 F our B and Be a m Mobil ie rs 43
E lement le n gt h 11 ' - boom le n gt h 5' Multi-Prod ucts 58
T urning r adius 7' Neflonel Radi o ' Cove r IV
amateur net $54.95 Neil , 63
Pet erson , Cover III
Model M-4 Four Band P&H . 57
\ \. :' M o bi le · 5'·3" h ilii:h Red ic Bookshop 60
V , F it s a ll s tanda rd mounts Reyco . 56
Rid
I er 15
'--fll ' ama'au< n.'
$16.95
T he above a n t ennas are a lso
Ri tco
RTTA
" '" 43
69
availa ble for 6 -10 o r cit izens Spere Elect roni cs . 52
b a nd opera tion . Subscripti ons . 6
Write for li terature and the n a me TAB . . . . . . . . . .. 71
of you r ne arest M in i· Pro duct s I e p ed cod e . 50
d istrib utor. P atents pending Te p e tc ne . 43
Technica l Me te rlel Cor p 25
Telrex . 49
I exe s Crvstel s 59
U. S. # I El ectronics . . 58
Ye nquerd Electronic l ao 59
VHF-U HF Associates 53
1001 W••, 181h 51,••'
Weste rn Redic (SM Diego) 55
Erie, Pennsylvania World Radio Le bs . 21

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Wind, testes. calibnt!d, rudy
for ese. Mild . 4/104 fir drivi nc
onl! 801 or 6'46 final ill AM or "1
CW under Clns "C " CGnditions .
Mod . 4 /102 ter driwiftC two 101'5
at GUi's final. Has 5 hads.
Supplied with Mod . 1&40
dial ass'y.
Mod . 4/10] f or 144·141 me
lIands. Combinn YFO primary
fre q. of18 me wi th xtal
f undamental fr eq. of 12 me .
Supplied with Mod . 1641
dial uS 'Y.
Mod. 4/ 104, 41102 or 4/103
less tubes and .tal , nell $29.95
AGS-RT-lOl
CITIZENS BAND
t TWO .WAY RADIO
NO li cense required . Compl ies wi tll part 15
of fCC rul u on low power units. 1.5 mi-
awerage range on land, up to 5 mi. on
water. Xtal controll ed XMTR, see. Sens.
1 /loy. Each unit complete with tran smitter-
receiver, AM radio, leather carrying case,
ear-phones, antenna, 6 penlight batteries.
$70.00 eo. 2 t" $139.50

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for u ce ptiona llv fine tuning
Superb crt.tsm.nshlp by Jacllson Bras.
of Enlland. Ball beulftl drive, V.t"
dl.. shift. t v." lonl. 6:1 ratio,
Yy 18 tor fine tunln,. Easily adapt.

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THE CDR·MAC 2 METER

CUBICAL QUAD ANTENNA
Comp lete 2 meter quad antenna
kit, mac hin ed fram the fin est al-
" Wonder Bar" 10 Meter Antenna loys of aluminum . .• assemble
As futured In Nov. 1956 O$T. Complete witb B .. W it yallrself with only pliers and
30 13 Miniduttor. Only a ft . long for 10 meters.
a screwdrinr. TIlis 2 meter cu-
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Amateur Net $7.85 successfully fo r the 1D and 20
meter beams.
Versatile MinIature Transformer 2 eete K;t $12.50
Same as used In W2EWL $$8 Rilt - March
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a combination of Impedances: GOD ohms,
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laps the Impedances are Quartered.) Tne
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Other uses: Interstage, tran sistor, high
Impedance cholle, line to , rid or plate,
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