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 THE TEAM November 1992

PUBL ISHERIEDITOR
Wayne Green W2NSO/l
Amateur Issue #386

Radio Today
A SSOCIATE PUBLISH ER
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MANAGING EDITOR
Bill B rown WBSELK TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRODUCTlON EDITOR
Hope Currier FEATURES DEPARTMENTS
50 Above and Beyond
EDITORIAL A SSOCtATES 8 The OAP 80/40 CW Sender
73 Ad Index
SueJeweII QAP power and QAP cost.
60 Ask Kaboom
Joyce Sa wtelle ..............•..................G28ZQ 46 ATV
84 Barter 'n' Buy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 12 The No ise Aemover 85 Dealer Directory
Mik e Bryce WBa VGE
A simple, effective way to 17 Feedbacklndex
David Cowhig WA1LBP 40 Ham Help
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Mic hael Geier KB1UM 64 Hams with Class
Jim Gray Wl x un 56 Hamsats
Chuck Houghlon WB6IGP 18 An All-Band HF Mobile
34 Homing In
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4 Never Say Die
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Joe MoeU KOOV 62 Packet &. Computer.
Carole Perry WB2MG P 29 Spread Spectru m Primer 88 Propagation
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What is spread spectrum, 66 ORP
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 what's the dillerence, so we continued.
Number 1 on your Feedback card
I wrote do\Im the stun he was saying.
The story that emerged was 01 his
mother and lather living in the back 01
a cold , damp tactory building. His
mother had a bad cough, whiCh apoar-
ently was palntu! to little ore-ace. The
father said something about her stay-

NEVER SAY DIE ing with the 'amily next door, the Mur·
phys, unt~ she felt better,
Whether ltIis was all fantasy or real-
Wayne Green W2NSD/l ity I dOl' know, but it was intr9Jing.
Once we'd run through all this stun a
lew times Joe never again had to
cough when he was announcing.
SOmething worIIed.
A few weeks later Joe's mother vis-
ited lor a lew days. I took her out 10
lunch. armed with my noteboo k. I
asked her il she'd ever lived in the
cw In 1992 lorm a builcling maintenance service I'd ever seen who wrote long editoria ls back of a tactory. She was roen.llous.
A reader noIed this response when and oller it to the banks. For a reasco- about whalever was interesting him at Yes, not long before Joe was born.
he asked eccct ee code in ee milItary: able price I'd look auer the ir repos- the time . How many magazines have was she SiCk atll'le time? She thotJglt
"We don't train radiOmen 10 copy code sessed houses, keep ing the lawns you seen with inleresting editorials? It's lor a morrent and then said she'd had
any more. Why would we want to train mowed and watered, the bushes rare. I eventually gol to be good meoos a terrible cough . As far as she could
someone 10 copy code when we can trirrmed, the windows repaired, the in· with John. We·d get together for lunch remember this e xperience had never
move messages at 1,500 words per sides clean and dusted. The house every few weeks. Talking with him was been mentioned a fter Joe was born.
minute encrypled, download it, decrypt isn't going to sell il it looks ralty. I'll bel e xciting- like a mental roller coas ter, She'd forgonen about he whole thing
it, have it letter perfect and hand oejv- I could sign up the banks around wilh ideas on nuclear physics, cosmot- until I reminded her. Then I as ked jf
er me the addressee ? The Navy can't sou thern New Hampshire to let me ogy, quantum physics and so on going she'd stayed with some friends next
live w ith 35 wpm r espo nse times , handle at least a couple hundred by in rapid succession. He was iruer- 000r for a While. Yes! And did she re-
HeclI, even our tugs have high speed homes. HeclI, thafe are several just on ested in everything and never re o merroer their name? Was it Murphy?
communicabons.~ my little country road that have "For strained by sceoutc or religious dog' Yes, it was , and she was sure sre'e
Sure. manual CW is lun. But it's like Sale" s'9ns on them and are unoccu · ma o Alas, he smoked, so he died lar never even thou!tll of them since Joe
ue l un men have driving antique cars pied. They ~It need aneotco. too young. wasbom .
and preserv ing them . Should our motor Then there are families going on va- So here I am, sun an Analog sub- This did a lot to convince me thai
vencie departments insist that people cation. They need their homes scriber aner 58 years and still turning this was a real experience that Joe
prove their ability to crank a Model T checked, animals fed . and the j unk to their sc ience ta ct article the first was bringing up under hypnosis. 01
and drive a stlck-shjt in order 10 gel a mail taken in. All you need is 10 be rea- thing every month. They're usually out- course, there's always the possibili ty
driver's license to operate loday's acto- sonable , dependable and known 10 slanding. that he might somewhere have heard
mere shilt cars? It makes the same your lXllenhal customers . To be known The article they published on how abOut all this and torgotten it. but mars
kind 01 sense. you have to have some visibility and the brain worked made so much sense a remote po5SOlity since you don't lor-
that means small ads in the paper. an that I bought the book on the Sltl;ed:. I gel things under hypnosis . tl's alI lhere.
Making a Buc k occasional news item, perhaps a TV had to know more. Since I approach all Being a pragmatist I wasnl QUite as
The endless Whining jeners from re- i ntervie w. II you can organize it . It new ideas as a skeptic. I wanted to interested in whether mese were real
tired oId·timers who are Irying to make means mailing cards to the owners 01 give this new ccnoeot a try and see if il memories or lake, as tong as dredging
do on Social Security make me sick. cener homes. It means visne to the 10- really WOfked. The idea that painlul in· them up and "running" them would
The world is out there with to-ocner cat banks-and more visits. cidents happening to a baby before it's erase the patterns causing problems in
bills hanging from me branches 0' at- Any problem oilers opportunities- born could influence it all through life present time. tten I had hold of some-
most every tree and these old geezers it's all in how you think about it. My was rejected flat ou t by doctors and thing important, so I wanled to know
are too lazy to bother to reach up and wile Sherry rouceo how dllliCult it was psychiatrists, yet from a systems anal- mo"
pick 'em. Then there are the millioos of to lind good baby-sltlers. So she start- ysis View, it made perfect sense. The radio station owner was im-
people who are "out of work~ and can't ed a babY-Sllling service. She truer - I was a radio anoouncer at WSPB, pressed WIth my announcing and abi1i-
lind a job , If you can' lind a job. make v iewed p otential baby-sitlers and a radio station in Sarasota. Florida. at ty 10 ad IG morning shows. He onered
coer checked their references. She ran ads the time. I talked over the idea with a to let me have a three-hour morning
A chap stopped by to viSit the other and checked with the customers to see leliow announcer. He was skeptical, spot and share in the ad sales it woulcl
day, Out 01 work . Wha t can he do? how weU her sitters were do ing. She but game for us to give it a try and see generale. This was an opportunity that
Well, here we are in a recession. Here helped train them. The lirst thing you what would happen. We decided 10 many disk jockeys would kill for, but
we are in what looks like It's going to know she had dozens of sitters and a see il we could lind out why he had to while I enjoyed the work. I couldn't see
be a very long eecesece because the land-office business going, with her cough every time he was starting to myself devoting my lile 10 being a OJ. I
'actors !hat caused it haven't been ad· gelling a commission on every job. announce. He'd solved the problem by quit to learn more about how 10 help
dressed by the adminislration or And that was eeicoe corTllUlers, which instamng a small switCh by the nscc- repair minds . I fI'lOVed 10 New Jersey
Congress yet---f'lOf is lhefe any ray or would make it even easier to keep phone which would C\Jt it oil while he and a research IOUndation. This tumed
hope on the hofilon that they.. really track , do the billing 01 the customers out to be the wtsest decision 01 my
do anything about it, Well, one man's
catastrophe is another 's bonanza .
and handle the payroll lor al those in-
dependent contractor sitters.
"'"""'"
So I put him into a light hypnotic
state and asked him to repeat the word
entire tile.
In a few weeks of ccncentratee
When Humpty falls you get busy and So what services are needed in cough. I men asked him to go 10 the work I learned how to lind and remove
ma ke omelets, you don't sland there your area? I can think of a bunch more, e a rnest lime he had to cough and to the causes 01 people's problems, Doc-
wringing your hands while hydrogen but let's get your lillie gray cells perk- say whatever ca me to mind. He said, tors today agree that all diseases have
sulfide develops. ing instead of silling there in a foop. "I've got to cough.~ I asked him to keep emotional components. What we dis-
Where are Ihe opportunities 101 repeating lhat and see what else came covered was how to find these and re-
Fixing The Brain
starting smeu businesses? Every· to mind. This developed i nto, "Every move the basic causes for most m-
wtere! For instance, wllh people losing It all staneo w ith an article in time I get nervous I have to cough.- nesses. We even discovered that an
their jobs ng-.t and left, many are also Analog When t was young I read a lot For about an hour I kepi 96lting him amaZingly high percentage 01 what
losing Iheir homes. Thi s presents a of science neucn. The best was in to come up with more words and seem li ke accidents have emotional
couple opportunilies. One is to start Aslounaing Stories, edited by JOhn phrases. I asked him his age and he causes.
making very low income housing lor Campbell W2ZGU. The magazine is said eighl. I asked ilthal was years, He My experience w ith Joe was re-
people who suddenty have to live on now Analog. said no, it was months. I said before or peated endlessly wilh other people I
well are or unemployment. But my ap- John had an enormous Inlluence on ane birth, He said it was before birth. worked with. I've been promising my-
proach as an entrepreneur would be to me. He was the lirst magazine editor Hmmm. Sure. Well, it it might help, ContinuerJ on page 74
4 73 Amateur Radio Today . November, 1992
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LETTERS
From The Hamshack
_.
that much, I haven't heard any very
convincing arguments on the hams'

Finally, one of the great th ings

manulaclure, thus depriVing millions 01
Americans 01 their Job s. A principal
cause of this excccs stems lrom the
cross purposes between govemmenl
about your editorials is the broadsides
you level from time 10 time at various agencies, namely the EPA under the
offenders. II wouldn't hurt if you would guidance of Director Reilly. Why
occasionally go inlo background so we should our lactories be lorced 10 align
Dn ld Ro sner VE4DAR , Win" acceptab le administrative burden, norKXlfl'lffiUr-.::ants might gel the drift eemsewes with the machinations 01
nlpeg, Manitoba, Canaea I am a rela- 'IIt1ile too long a period woulal't have For instance, I found your story in the Ihe environmentalists when foreign
tively new Canadian radio amateur, the purging effect we need . Purging February editorial about the variOus nations offer tax breaks. low interesl
having received my Basic QualifiCation would end any bogus license counting earty leaders of the AARL of consider-
IoaIlS and Iow-eost labor enticements?
{no-codel in Febroary 1992. Since lhal mghl be going on. and also give able interest; on the other hand, I've
Again, do poIitieians understand? 0b-
getting on the air on the 2 meter band. the manufacturers (and publisners) a heard a good deal about K1MAN and
his netarious activities, but never wtlal viously not. The EPA is an indepen-
I have tried to learn moJe lheory and more accurate estimate 01 what the
must be obvious background (to dent govemment agency within the
J)flICtice through discussion with more hobby needs. I don't feel like actually
experienced hams and by reading 73 $hOveling gold into the pockets 01 the hams) about exactly what II is he E xecutive BranCh, yet Bush still
and other publieations. manufacturers. but I would like them does. It's true, mostly hams read the scra tches his head wondering why
I enjoy your provocative editorials 10 stay in business so I can buy stull magazill8, of course. but good toumal- joblessness remains high, Hey Bush:
and remember your call lo r one million and get it fixed. tsts (storytell ers) should always try Look In your own back yard! (Remem-
new hams alld suggestions for ieam- We might even consider basing the to be complete so none of us slower
ber, Wayne, Reagan dismantled the
ing CWo I was delighted, therefo re , to license lee on the amount of spectrum listeners getlosl.
EPA; it was Bush himself who restored
win subscriptions to 73 and Radio Fun a license is authorized to use. The lair
it)
et my lirst hamfesl lasl weekend at the market value of VHF ere UHF would Dean Bergmann KB5UVT, Arllng-
I appreciate your obvious concern
CanadalU.S.A. Peace Gardens. probably be higher than HF, since It Ion TX Concerning David Cassidy's
Please keep us thinking! has more competitive comme rcial vat- for the wellare ct this country; I trust
"Eventually, Morse code will be
ue and isn't as limited by Intemahonal you're concent rating your ettcrts
dropped I rom au license classes."
Larry J. Clark N2MOS, Pri ncet on agreements and treaties. where they'll etc the most good.
("Random Output: September 1992):
NJ Isn'llt about time that amateur ra- Partial andfor lull relief Irom lees
Since international agreements are
dio operators started paying their own could be provided by allowing credit to Ray J . Howes G40WY, Wey·
way around here? We 're facing a hams who participate in bona uee involved, it may be a long time before mouth, Dorsel, England Wayne, just
steadily escalating federal budget drills and exercises conducted by teo- Ihal is true. I suspect that in many thought I would drop you a short note
defiCit. and we expectlhe taxpayers to erally recogniZed (pertlaps by FEMA?) parts of the world it is Slill important regarding your editorial in the August
pay lor our hobby. Let's get real! public service agencies and orvaniZa- that CW rigs cost less ; that they are '92 issue.
Free Lunch Nothing is free. If you lions, This would have 10 amount to simple enough for an amateur 10 build; sunce it to say thai I agree with
want it. pay lor it We haY'Elll1 paid a something more than Ihe monthly thai they use less banetwidth; and that your incisive hypothesis ; as usual il
liCk for what we use, but Ihere are check-in on tne 2 meter net By main- was right on the button . Yes. the
they consume less power. As a newly
plenty of other people who woukI fike taining a data base of hams applying British education system sucks, and
licensed amateur. I am impressed by
more chunks 01 ·our" spectrum , .• lor lee Credits, we could linally show as you inler it parallels what is appar-
And they are willing 10 put up cashl II exactly how many hams really are wiB- ORP CW rigs that can work the wortd ently happening in America.
you want 10 use a National Palt(, you ing 10 support emelijel'lCy service 0p- wittl batteries that would orWy power a You won't be surpriSe<llo learn that
pay. You uceose your boat and you eratiOnS , , 01 COU~, we have 10 be handie-talkie in other modes. I have written numerous leiters to all
pay. II we don't pay for it, how can we prepared for an underwhelming reo Cassidy is right about one lhing : In- Ihose who possess governmental
daimit? sponse as well. rovaton is vital. Amateur race once power, but not arty that. I have actual-
PubliC service? This notion of all A rational jcense fee would show led, and commerce followed. Now the ly spoken 10 these people in an at-
hams just waiting in ranks 10 put their that we pay our own way, are Willing tempt to dissuade them from their al-
reverse is true. Oon't dream of copy.
radios into public service mighl just to pony up fhe bucks to support most maniacal desire to preserve the
contain a measurable amount of bunk. ing commercial modes; dream of en- sta tus quo tha i unfortunately exists
the FCC's enforcement efforts in our
What is the percentage of hams who bands, support ne w and disa- tirely new ones. within our educational system. Trying
really participa te in meaningful drills bled hams, and otte r that trained to get these so-caned elected "lead-
and exercis es? Most hams spend and equipped resource for emergency Dean-CW is, and always will be, a ers" to see the error of their ways Is
most of their time doing other radto ope ra fions we 'v e a lways ta lke d fun way to communicate. The gear is akin to resurrecting the dead.
stuff, some of it rewarding, some of it about. inexpensive, portable and simple 10 Perhaps I should mention the stran-
merely interesting, and (by an increas- There is ano ther advantage l or wol1f on. The fael s/ill remains met it is glehold the teachers union (N. U. T..
ingly vocal minority) some of it down- those of us in the hobby coming up quite an appropriate acronym) has on
an ineffICient way 10 transmit informa-
right destructive to the hobby (20 me- with a license fee scheme: II we etcn't the teaching profession here in the
ton and is quickly becoming a "nostal·
ters?). do it, and soon . someone else Iper- U.K. The union bosses appear to be
Policing We've gOI a few Bozos haps Congress) is going to ram it gia mode' like AM_ My prediction is more interested in preserving their
out there. Unfortunately, they take up etcwn our ttHoals. Trust me , • • when that the ITU treaty will drop this re - perks and large salaries than in eradi-
more than their lair share 01 domestiC these things come 011 the Hill they quirement someday-lhe sooner. /fie cating the cancer that pervades their
and international resources (radio Ire- usually ecn't work righl . The money beNer . . . David mGPH eerroers' flawed 'eaching" methodol-
quenc:ies) . What if we decicIe to reoe- would probably go into the general ogy. Whal a jungle.
line the term "sell-policing" as mean- lund instead 01 10 the FCC (perhaps Edwin S. Oxn er, Sin Jose CA As there are several leachers who
ing the willingness 10 pay lor compe. an FCC Amateur RadiO Trusl Fund are also hams in my inwTlediate area,
Wayne, you Nt the nail squarely on its
tent enlon::emen1 by a pruperfy staffed, needs to be established). Congress's I've been expounding the virtues 01
head--again ("'Never Say Die," August
equipped and lsained FCC? Idea 01 a lee scheWle could be pretty re -inventing the wheel, so far as
I be.e.-e fhal we should pay a fee strange. And it would probably lake us 1992). Both our educational system teaching is concerned, ever my local
upon inilial liCensing, upgrading and years to get Congress to fix things. and our prison syslem are a losl repeaters. etc. Guess what? For my
renewal. The lee should be sulflCient I think it is time to pay up. cause . And, none 01 our politicians are paos, an I hear Irom these supposed)'
10 cover administrative costs during aware 01 either Ihe problem or the "intelligent people" are pathetic ex-
rne perioel 01 the license, as well J . G . Owen, Fori Sl lo ng l NY cure. cuses and irrational (iiatribes , instead
as the cost lor a reasonable amount Greetings. I couldn't let thai churlish As I read your column I was hoping ot reasoned argumenl or construc-
01 enlorcement in the amateur bands. lellow's complaint in Ihe February tive remedies. It's a monster out 01
to see comments regarding the bur -
The one exception to fees should 1992 issue stand unanswered. I like control.
geoning interest in home schooling
be initial (but not renewal) lor Noviee your editOrials. Indeed, I have very lit· Hey, perhaps we need a Rupert
class licenses, However, I think that lie to do with ham raelio, so probably that many families are adopting, My Mu rdoch to do wha l he did 10 the
a substantial discount for those under the only reason 1 occasionally buy the daughter has tour youngsters receiv- British print unsons. which were noth-
18, the disabled and senior citizens magazine is lor the entonars. Ing their education at home. II works, ing more than constipated dinosaurs
would be in order .. . Which, 0 1 course, On another tcoc . Irom my reo-ham too. A year ago the Montana legisla- awaiting ex tinction. Murdoch w ent
would proportionate ly raise the fees viewpoint, the arguments about spec- ture planned to outlaw home school- through them like a dose of salts. You
of eon-crsccuntec hams, since w e trum usage are very convincing; why Ing, but throug h the insistence of my would not bel ieve the salaries 'pnet-
want the hoblJy to be pretty much self- should we give you guys all this stuff? ers" were earning before Murdoch cut
daughte r, who was priVileged to speak
lunded. I mean. ifyou want to talk to each em- to the joint houses of the Montana
off the gravy train.
The period between renewals will er, can't you just use a car phone? I Oon't lose heart Wayne, I'm doing
have to be determined, bul some- don'l want 10 be harsh, but as you've Sla te Legislature. home schooling not my level best here in the U.K. to per-
where in the neighborhood of every pointed auf again and again, hams only remained legal but was enccur- suade those people who malter that
two to five years will probably work have to appreciate how the rest 01 us aged! education just has to unclergo a trans-
out. Annual renewal would be an un- are going 10 see this issue. and at- Another topic you covered related tormatiOn • • • now. iii
6 73 Amateur Radio Today . November, 1992
QRX • • • Number 3 on your Feoedbllck ca rd

number of stations automatically forward packet

SAREX Flies Again messages on the HF bands by permission of a
STA (special temporary authOrity). The current
on STS-47 STA expires at the end of the year and wiR es-
The space shuttle Endeavour lifted ott on sentially kill the HF packet forwarding network.
September 12 at 14:22 :59.974 UTe ca rrying This network has been in place lor a number 01
two ham astronauts (Mission Specialist Dr. Jay years and successruuy transfers many thou -
sands of messages each month between pack-
"Wayne Green's World"
Apt NSQWl and Payload Specialist Dr.
Mamoru Mohri 712NJY) among its seven-mem- et operators and BBSs across the country and Wayne Green W2NSDf1 is the latest addi-
ber crew. This was the first on-lime lillotl since around the wo rld. The League's recommenda - t ion to t he growing list o f ham radio celebri-
1985. ti on is for semi-automatic fo rw ard in g . This t ies taking to t he airwaves with a radio show
Due 10 the sleep and work schedule of the means that only a station with a control operato r of his own. "Wayne Green's Wor1d" was kicked
astronauts. most voice contacts took place over p resent may initiate a contact with an unatteno- o ff on Thu rsday, August 6 th, as a part of the
the Eastern hemisphere. Hams in the U.S. and ed HF packet station. new lineup on the revamped Let's Talk Radio
Europe did have ample opportunity to work the Lyle Johnson WA7GXD has come up with an Network. In his fir st outing, G reen touched on
shuttle via pack et radio. The shuttle's pa cket in trigu ing p roposa l in th e J u ly '92 issue 01 several subjects that included national politics,
callsign was W5RRR -1. This mission's high in- TAPR's Packet Status Register that would move the w elfare system , educational tra vel and
clination orbit (57 degrees) put it within reach of unatt ended automatic HF pack et operations to coo king. as well as amateur radio. According to
those living in the higher latitudes. segments in the WARC bands (30 , 17 and 24 LTRN PrQducerlOirector Frank Collins N6TAF,
Several schools in Aust ralia and the U.S. meters) to alleviat e crowding on the popu lar 20 th e re sp on se to G ree n 's new p ro gram wa s
were contacted directly by the shullle and ove r and 40 meter segments currenlty used. overwhelming. Collins says tha t he received nu-
8000 packe t and voice contacts were made It's hoped that a reasonable compromise or merous calls after the program to congratulate
during the meson. alternative can come about to keep the forward- the organi zation on bringing W2NSD to the
A aSL is available i1 you've worked the shul · ing network alive. Write to your ARRL Director satellite radio network. "Wayne G reen 's World"
ue or if you have a reception report. If you made with your opinion on these proposals or sugges- can be hea rd every Thursday at 9:00 p.m. East-
a packet contact with the shuttle, please include tions for a workable unattended HF packet tor- em time ove r LTR N 00 GTE Spacenet III, Chao-
your aso number. Send a SAS E (foreign sta- warding system. net 21 , 6.2 MHz audiO. TNX West/ink Report,
tions should indude at least $0 50 postage or #632, August 28, 1992.
equivalent IRCs) to Jay Ap t N50WL at 806 Founder of
ShOrewood Drive, seabrOOk TX n586 USA. Instant Licenses
Hallicrafters Dies
Earthwinds Update William J. Halligan W9A C, fou nder and re-
for Aliens?
Th e E arth winds aro und -tbe-wc r tc t ired chairmen of the Hallicrafters Compa ny, The FCC on Augu st 6th issued a Notice of
man ned b all oon flig ht is now scheduled to fly d ied J uly 14 at age 93 in Miami Beach. Th e Pro posed Rule Making in P,R. Docket 92-167
any time a tta r N o vember 15th. Inclement man whO started the firm in 1933 as a supplier to provide a wa y in which foreign amateu rs
w ea th er and wind patte rns p rev ented la s t of amateu r radio shortwave receivers, and then cou ld secu re 60-day o perat in g p ermission
yea r's attem pt from Akron, Ohio. developed it into a major manulacturer or elec- whil e visit ing th e U.S. The plan would include
This time the launch point has been moved tronic equipment for the home, industry, the mili - amateurs from countries with which the United
to Stea d Field near Reno, Nevada. Th is area tary and a eros pac e, resid ed in Bal Harbour, States has no recip rocal operating agreem ent
nea r Reno has some of the most favorable win- Florida, and lormerly in Chicago, Illinois. and would have volunteer examiners handle the
tertime ground wind con ditions in the U.S. and Halligan, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, mechanics of th e ap plicatio ns. The c omment
will give the launch team more opportunities for received a radio experimenter's license whil e d eadline for P.A. Docke192-167 is October 26.
a successful liftoff of th e complicated dual-bal- still in high school, and held the amateur radio The FCC proposes to have VEs examine the
loon system. call letters W9AC . He worked as a wireless op- loreign operator's amateur license and identili-
The amateur radio e xperiment will ope rate erator on excursion ships between Boston and cation, and d ete rmine the appl icant'S home op-
during the mission under pilot Larry Newman's other coastal cities, serving in WWI as a radio erating privileges, then administer a zc-quesncn
callsign KB7JGM. Twice each hour (at 30 and operator on the battleship ff/inois. e xamination -00 those aspects 01 ou r rules that
55 minutes past each hour) a digitized voice Halligan attended We st Point, but quit the are most applicable to the type of operation in
message will give the balloon's latitude, longi- military academy to instead become a newspa- which the visitor pla ns to engage wh ile in the
tude and ground speed on a fr equ enc y o f pe r reporter in Boston, end then later in New United States"
28.303 MHz. Transmissions at 15 and 45 mio- York. He left jou rnalism to become th e sa les The FCC suggests that VEs could co mpile
utes past the hou r are also possible . T his manager lor a radio supply company in Boston, the zo-quesucn examinations from ex isting
should give anyone with modest receive capa- then started Hallicralters in 1933 . question pools maintained by Volunteer Exam-
bili ties the opportunity to track the balloon's During WWll, Hancrett ers made shortwave iner Coordinat()(S.
progress as it flies non-stop around the world. radios for the military. After the war ended, the Upon passi ng the examination , the foreig n
The expected fligh! path should carry the bal- compan y took to productIon of home television applicant would receive a Certificate of Suc-
loon from Reno to Texas, the Midwest and the receivers and peacetim e ra da r. In the early cessful Completion of Examination, which would
East Coast during the initial portion of its jour- 1960s, the company's military contracts consti- serve as proof 01 the foreign operator's condi-
ney. Launch updates will be posted on the Bal- tuted 70% of its revenues. Hallicrafters helped tlonat license authorizing operation in the United
loon section 01the 73 BBS at (603) 924-9343. to develop the Air Force Ouick Reaction Capa- States, aCCOrding to the FCC.
bili ty (O RC ) pro gram , an d th en moved into The vol unteer examiners then wou ld notify
ARRL Kills Automatic HF space communications. their coordinating VEC, who would add the per-
A 1953 Chicago Tribune article said of Mr. tinent information on the foreign applicant to a
Packet Forwarding Halligan that due to his p rominence in the in- data base thai is maintained and forwarded to
At t he Ju ly b oard m eeting o f th e ARRL c l- dustry, he was sometimes referred to as "Wire- the FCC on a requla r basis. The fo reign opera-
rectors it w as decided to accept th e Digital less Will ie,w or "Radio's #1 Ham." tor would be allowed one maximum 6Q.day op-
Committee' s recommendation t hat u n et- Halligan, who served as President and CEO erating period in the U.S. at any time within 365
tended (a ut o m atic) HF packet forw ard ing of Hallicrafters, continued in that position even days of the issuance of the CSCE. TNX w es t-
sho u ld n o t be allow ed. Currently a selected after the company was acquired by Northrop in link Report, #632, August 28, 1992.

73 Amateur Radio rcaey »November, 1992 7

 Number 4 on your Feedbac k ca rd

The QRP 80/40 CW Sender

ORP power and ORP cost.
by Richard Q. Marris G2BZQ

M y original plan was to home-brew a

simple CW transmitter for a daily, , "'"
early morning, point-to-point QSO with
a friend in Germany. using 3665 kHz.
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figured that around 5 watts CW would
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tors . A look at so me recently published
designs indicated that this would involve
a printed circuit. seve ra l se mi-c o nd uc - f-t •
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lOTS. maybe 50 or more co mponent s, plus

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all the components for an AC power sup- "t ..
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I went back to the happy days when I, '" scc v
and many ot hers , used a single 6 L6 or ?
6V6 tra nsmitter and worked the world. 6 ... . 0
With these happy recollect ions in mind,
things reall y got out of hand--one thing
led to anot her. and the QRP 80/40 was Figure I. Schematic of the QRP 80140 CW transmitter.
born.
This tra nsmitter is a person ificat ion of
simplici ty in circuitry, simplici ty in con- for the selec ted band. Do not try to dou- which al so shows the assembled layout
st ruction, QRP in power, a nd QR? in ble an 80 meter crysta l to the 40 meter of th e main components on the front pan-
cost. It covers bot h the 80 and 4() meter band. The purpose of Cl (3-33 pF trim- e l a nd chassis. Th e size of th e
bands. and is built into an ex isting me tal mer) is to pre-set adjus t for a clean CW cabi net/chassis is not c ritical and the po-
cabinet measuri ng about 8.6" wide x 4" note, which can be a problem with a sin- s itio ning of the major components can be
high x 4. 1" deep (that includes the built- gle tube TX. The power o f the TX could adjusted s lightly to accommodate the ac-
in AC power supp ly). It uses just one be increased by decreasing the value of tual component sizes used by individu al
tube and can be loaded to 5 warts o r so. R3. at the risk of a n {fS no te. constructors. The HT DC plate voltage
In fact . the result is less complex than so- CS is a s ing le-gang 365 pF air-spaced with "key down" was 115 volts DC.
ca lled " simp lc " se m i-c o nd uc to r jobs . good quality receiving type variable ca - L I is wound o n a len gth of I" diameter
The reliable. robust 6BW6 lube can be pacitor. C9 is a similar 2-gang 365 + 365 PVC o r plastic tube using 35 turns of 24·
quickly changed a nd the design does no t pF variable capacitor wit h both sections ga uge e namel copper wi re s paced one
requi re a printed circuit-all major com- wired in parallel to give 730 pF total ca- tum . The LI /C8 + C9 c ircuit should tune
ponents have solder tag co nnections and pacity. Both an external LC and "T ' type to the 40 meter band nea r mi nimum ca-
the sma ller components can be slung be- ATU have been used with success and no pacity. However. individua l coils and
tween them. By all means. toil away on a detectable harmonics . layouts may differ slightly. If necessary,
printed c ircuit board if it will make you The built-in AC power s upp ly half- a small number of turns can be removed
happy, but I have a lways believed that wave rectifier used was an o ld Westing- from L I to achieve 40 meters with the
" the simplest is the bcstcst." In addition. house ISRA which was in the junk box. CS plates about 15% enmeshed. and then
S5 % of the bits and pieces were in my but Radio Shack/fandy and others stock the SO meter band shou ld resonate with
j unk box. suitable low cost alternatives. CS plates about 65% enmeshed.
The c ircuit in Figure I sho ws a rela- The whole TX + AC power supply is To te st the TX . adjust C I and C9 to
tively conventional c irc uit using a 6BW6 enclosed in an exi sting metal c a bine t maximum capacity and plug in a 5O.ahm
tube ( V I). c rys tal-co ntrol led with a pi- 8.6 " wide x 4 " high x 4 .1" deep. onto dummy load. Next , insert an SO meter
output c irc uit whi ch is tunable over both which a new front panel was fitted . A band crysta l, press the key, and tune CS
SO and 40. by s im ply plugging: in an Ff'- simple ~ shape chassis was made and for minimum current o n the meter; then
243 c rysta l (ei ther 80 or 40 me ter band) fined to the panel as shown in Figure 2, increase the current by detuning to give a
8 73 Amateur Radio Today· November, 1992
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The Noise Remover

A simple, effective way to get rid of the static.
by Gerald F. Gronson KBMKB

T he re ha ve b e e n a n umber of re -
marks as to ho w a really na rro w -
band CW fil ter becomes useless w hen
~ O J US '~ B l.f
.. '''''TER
-S P E EC ~ '
a ~ NO P ~ , S

" LTE"
" ~NCE

a lo t of "static" no ise is on the band . "INJ4 "°,"",-Y>T' ",".

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'·20.'
The source doe sn 't m atte r: the re su lt is ·1 <'lE-
the s a me . T he fi lter becomes a t one
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.
TO EAR PH ONE O'

generator and the signal you are trying OR 0 ' " 1:"
" 'GH LE VE L
G 8 TO "'
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to copy is lost.
OUTPUT '" OUTPUT
AD JuST
f;;; N~ R "O w
NO " cTt R
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O ne so lution is the no ise c ircuit de- • ca
scribed in thi s article. It is adj ustable ",", ,,,
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from "no effect" to " no s ignal out:' re- , ALL "ES'STORS _ II. W
q u ire s no specia l parts, and c an be
m ade small enough to be installed in FiXlII"e I. Noise-limiter schematic. Use this circuit if (J high level signal is available and )'011
an existing add-on CW o r SSB fi lter. have all "odd-on" narrowbandfitter.
It can also be used in o ne of the new
s imple recei vers, such as the S udden
(see the October '91 iss ue, p . 8), to O'
"' 000 '

g ive th e rece iver a bit more pe rfor- '00_

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m anc e ,
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shown in Figure J. Most noise-limiter
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d iodes is adjusted by the 10k limi t ad- '. LSO.T BI
'0' • ce ce OUTPuT

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"aev.' .,
0 .047 'OJUST
220'
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j ust p o t. The resisto r marked 6.8 to
8.2k (a I Okj25 tu rn pot can he used • ca '" ,.
" ,' "'no_
+'38v

he re ) is use d to adjust sym m etry. The

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t
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c apacitor is a bias fi lte r: the 15 k resis- ;L og:. OF " '8
, C.. OQSE " 5
FO~ BEST OUTPu ,
Sy .... E TRyA ' c . PO EN 11.· ,
tor is the output loa d. T he 220 o hm,
0 .047 J.l F, a nd 0.0047 J.l F c a pa c ito rs
fo rm a speech range fi lte r. The lOOk
+
Figure 2. Schematic of the noise-timuer with a pre-amp. For a low level signal if yo II have all
ME TER COULO BE u SEO ' Of' ExACT AO JUS1 "I: N1

o utput a dj ust potentiome te r can be a "add- on" filter such as all MFJ CW rvpe.
.

.-.
tri mmer or a s t a n d a r d audio t a pe r
"volume control."
Putt in g th e noise li mi ter in the re-
."-. ."
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",
."'''0.' '0 - "
•• ""
'., .-
' ' '0' 0 TO ' ' ' ' '.o ~
". '"
". OV'.'."'"O '"' "" ••,
ceiver ahead of any filter m ake s copy-
ing a signal e asier. II 's like closing the ". ( "" .,,,_- "'000,'
.
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<70'
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window a bit o n th e radio signals be -
ing received, b ut un like a volume con-
" en.
,
" Po' '"" •
o

n
,
...,. " •
. ~

fO A"O 'O
OM" " ". ""uT
tro l, sma ll signa ls get full amp lifica-
t ion and bi g s ignals get clipped. " .
, ., 100()

Three circuits are shown. W it h so

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.
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m any d iffere nt s ituat ions ou t the re it ' s ,,," "'
GOO . o'
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a hard call to make as to wh ic h circuit , , '''' , ". ".' • "'''0 "'.,., ,
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to recommend, but it is best to place , ,
, n ,, • 'f-8 ,
COw ' ' ' H
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th e noise limiter ahead of any fi lter. In
the Sudden receiver, pl a c e the no ise
' N'U T

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000'"
...
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lim iter ahead of th e LM386. In fact, in
a simp le rece iver, use t he c irc uit in ~ 0' "'''' , c ..
,., P" "
,
.
"'"' •m ,
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.;k ~ '
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F ig ure 3. T he c irc uit between t he X's co, <f.< • . "'0. '''.<'N'Ou
• sr." ,",
co u ld be omi tte d f o r f i r st - t i m e
,
bu ilders. A ll it d oe s is give stee pe r Figure 3. Schematic oj ttic noise-limiter with u built-in amplifier and f ilter.
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Figure 5. Ports placement f or rilt' bas !«

noise-limuer. Figure 7. Parts placement for the noise-limiter + filter.

skirts to t he bandpass re -
sponse . It is a definite im - KBI'IICB ..aI SC ~YEJI
'$- rn.T£ RI' .... C?
provement. but not really .flI} D
B
.,3
necessary. The output trim-
•
000
pol is adjusted. in any case, 1
1
10 keep from overdriving the
filter. U sing fixed resistors
that are about 35% lower in
S
••
C6

value will allow operation of

th e lim iter on 9 vo lt s . II
could then be buill into one
of th e exis ti ng add-on fil -
lers, suc h as one of the M FJ
m ode ls.
Assem bly
The noi se lim it er can be
asse mbled on perf board. PC
bo ard s a re a lso a v a i labl e
(see the par ts list on page
16 ). Glass epoxy is preferred FiXllre X. PC board foit nanem for the noise- Figure 9. Parts ptacemem f or the noise-limiter +
to pape r pheno lic . Use a limiter + filter + preamp (refer to Figure 3). fi lter + preamp.
low-watt soldering pencil.
and heat-sink the diodes.
Quarter-watt resistor s are u sed 3) for initial adju s tments (you can limit adjust pot (R2 in Figure I. R6 in
throughout. Po ly -s ty ren e capacitors leave the pot in place when done or Figure 2 and R9 in Figure 3) to maxi-
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5%). The squares wi th dots are wire in Figure 3) for the optimal output lev -
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for making connections to pots. power in F igure I ) counterclockwise unti l
connections. an d input-output connec-
circuit can improve clip ping occ urs ( listen for a de finit e
tions . copying a CW signal in change in the q ua lity o f the sou nd).
Adjustmenls a high QRN situation Rock R I back and forth unt il you hear
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Number 6 on you r Feed back car d

An All-Band HF
Mobile Antenna
Efficient and inexpensive.
by Stephen A. Glowacki KC4TMT

T here are man y reason s why we build

antennas. Oft en we want so mething in
particular that we either can't buy commer-
larger inductance than base loading in order
to cance l out the increased capacitive reac-
tance (Xj (This increase is due to less an-
cially or can't af ford. tenna being available for resonance above
As the county 's Emergency Coordi nator the cc il.) This larger induc ta nce then re-
I needed a good mobile rnuniband antenna. q ui res a larger Q -fa ctor (to ma intain the
I initialed this design 10 favo r material s same comparative radiation e fficie ncy as a
ava ilable at loca l hard ware stores . T his base-loaded antenna).
tends to make repai r eas ier and helps keep This need for larger induc tance and Q-
thc overall cost down. The follow ing mo- factor forces the construction of physicall y
bi le design can be constructed for about larger coils. with placement o f the coil be-
$20. with subseq ue nt band coil s co sting ing higher. wind-loadi ng problems req uire
less than $3-$5 each. the use o f guy connections. (I hate to think
Much of the designing for thi s ant enna in terms o f guy wires when wo rking with
was done with the aid of thc ARRL Antenna my car.)
Book and the ARRL Handbook , Theore ticall y, if the coil is moved much
beyond the two-thirds mark . the size of the
T heory coil would become impract ically large and
The main idea behind an HF mobile an- make it impossible for mobile usc.
tenna is to maintain the e lectrica l length Mo st of the d imensions o f this an tenna
while shrinking the physical lengt h to a resulted from the materials I had on hand at
practical size. The way to do this is to in- the time. The numbers are on ly inte rnally
corporate so me sort of load ing coi l at ei the r significant and changes can be made easily
the base or the center. Eac h has its merits. w ith m inor adjust ments to the rest of the an-
Base loading has the advantage of physical. tenn a, i.e. if yo u shorten th e top antenna
Iy plac ing the we ight of the co il ncar the section. increase the number o f turns on the
car. This avoids the need fo r guy conncc- co il; if you lo wer the position of the coil
tions. along the antenna, use less turns on the coi l.
I' ll include some references 10 the math. (The oppos ite of these remedies is true for
but not man y. If yo u really wa nt the full reversed condi tions.)
outline o f the calculation process and for- To ac hieve optimum e fficiency you need
mul es. contac t me and I'll be more than 10 balance all the characte ristics of the an-
glad to QSO about it. tenna. The measure ments given will put you
RF current is maximum at the point im- in the ballpark, but fine- luning is always re-
me d iate ly above a loading co il. With a qu ired. Be patient in fine -tuning the an tenna
base-loading an tenna. the efficiency is less Photo A . Stephen Glowacki KC4TMT stands to you r car. A good way to ens ure a favo r-
because th is current tapers off quickly as it next to his mobile all1enlla. able outcome is 10 set plenty of time as ide
goe s towa rd the top of the antenna. Howev- and fo llow consistently whatever procedure
er. with center loading, the radiation effi- you devise 10 trim the coil.
ciency improves quite a bn. Optimum posi- The match ing system listed here is only
»e-
tioning is somewhere between 50q.·70% up "LAS,.,C O'l...-E R o ne o f man y. The general approach is to
'"Lv " el ~G • • S~ EftS
the total length of the antenna. "'" • "16 ' cause the antenna to be capac lrive: that is,
SHEL7
RF current varies with the cosine of the to have it resona te at a frequency slightly
height in e lectrical degrees at any point in • higher than what you want. This will also
the base section. In a ce nter- loaded antenna increase the impedance o f the antenna. The
this cha rac te ristic result s in more curre nt increased capacitance can then be cance led
being allowed to conduct higher up the an- "e'
H ~OE~
by an inductance in the matching portion.
tenn a. This is more e fficient, compared to a ".S ~E ~S
The opposite is also true. However, using
STO~OA~ O wA S ~ E ~
base-loaded antenna. The current then ta - • an i nducto r seems to be eas ier-it 's less
pers off above the coil no rmally, resulting L , "• . , "2 " "e'
~ E' ~ UO w ' T~ ' 6"' TC ~ sensi t ive to su rrou nding co ndi tions and,
in an overall increase in the efficiency of thu s, more predi ctab le than an air ca pacitor.
the antenna. The third approach is to use a cornbina-
U nfort unately, center loading requi res a Figure J. Antenna bracket. Continued on page 21
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, K 4 · O'YC COIL FOOl"
to the class can go a long way. Die cut a . !TH 'O'YC 001
PL U~.SS SNCEotS
3/8· 16 thread around both ends of the lower
• solid antenna port ion. (Reme mber to keep
in mind that TWO couplers are used on this
section and that the overall required length
is 63- 1/2".)
The top an ten na whip can be purchased
at most radi o shops or at Radio Shack; or, - ln 2 '
SHEt T STEEL
yo u may have o ne ly ing aro und that will , .s· (......uX!
wor k. T he ma j orit y w i ll u se a 1/4 - 20
thread. A coupler of the same thread will be ~;:;) ~u.::X=-II.· PLE"GL-US

used to attach this to the top o f the load ing

coi l. Figure 2. Ml1tchillK coil p latform.
1 suggest you use d ielectric for all thread-
ed connections . About a month after I in-
stalled the ant enna I began having problems
whi le tuning up. I fo und that this was be-
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Photo B. Close-up I'il'w of 111(' '()(JJiIlK coil,
cause the threaded po rtions had some minor
corro sion due to we athe r. Pe ri odic a ll y
check these connections and. if necessary.
f
treat them with e lectrical sealer o r dopi ng.

lion of inductance and capacitance shunted M uunting Bracket

' ... . 20 . , ln.ftOLT-=~~
in parallcl 10 g round. Th is is mo st effective The ac tual mounting bracket design will , / 1H ' • , 1/2 ' ftOLT_

since it is basica lly a custo m-made an tenna depend on where yo u dee ide to place the
tuner. I recently experime nted with this de- antenna on you r car. Like many cars, mine •
sign and found it to be very successful. To has rubber bum pers. This forced me to de-
make this addition. simply locale a variable sign a bracket using 1- 1/2" x 3/32" n at steel 1ft GAuGE w ' ~ E
ai r cap hav ing somewhere between 15 and th at wou ld be bent to mount aga inst the
600 pF an d moun t it ei the r d irectly on the body BE HIND the rear bumper. "
car or on an enlarged platform able to hold Firs t bend the steel to fi t as you wo uld •
borb. Wire the m in para llc l and yo u ' re like it. Then measure how far o ut it needs 'Ill · .. 2 ' COUPLE~--III
read y 10 go. to be cut to suppon the antenna. Ensure that
~
lve been able (0 tune the existing center the steel doesn 't rub against other pans o f
loads across each entire band wi th at least a the car-this would cause static and could
'Ifl·--.T
1.2; I SWR. Not bad for a $2 add ition! effect the tuning of the antenna.
Before you begi n. I'd like 10 note that de- After Ihe final placement and bend ing is
sign ing and bu ilding antennas is a learning co mp leted, drill two 7/ 16" ho les through Figure 3. Own ';ew of the mobile lllltellllQ.
experience. We've all heard the story o f the the stecl and body of the car. Temporarily
damaged antenna lyi ng on the g round that att ach the b racket and determine ho w fa r tance be tw een th e two co n nect io ns. It
worked bett er than when it was on the low- out to drill the hole for mounting the anten- shou ld be better than 10 meg . (I measured
er. Anten na performance is ne t always pre- na. Mark th is spot. almost 250 megohm s with my DMM .)
d ictable, so wat ch for unusual resu lts. The size o f ho le 10 drill here will depend O nce satis fied. use el ect rica l doping to
T here are many opinions and approaches on Ihe o uts ide d iamete r o f the ins ula ting insulate BOTH connectio ns 10 slo p mo is-
to wha t works or doesn 't work. w hat 's im- tubing you use around the mounting bo ll. tu re from gett ing into the coa x and from
po rtant to remember is that the ante nna is The tubing I used had an o .d. of 1/2". This crea ting a shon between the two leads. This
only as good as its SWR and RSTs. hol e shou ld allow Ihe in sul ating tubing 10 dop ing is commonly available at e lectrical
have a snug fit. so cut the hose to the thick- supply stores.
Constr uction ncssof the steel pl us 1/8". Use 7/ 16" hex-head bo lts and washers to
Preparation and asse mbly of Ihe antenna Drill a second hol e (1/4") about 1- 1/2" mount the bracket 10 the body o f the car. To
is straig htfo rw ard . First gathe r the mat e- from the fi rst, to ward the car. This will be ens ure a good gro unding co ntact. sc ratc h
rials. I strongly suggest Ihat Ihe low er por- for mounting the coax ial ground ing connec- off the enamel where the washers meet the
lion of the an tenna be made o f OIl least 3/8" tion. bracket . Conside r using Lock-tight on the
d ia me te r SO LI D a lum inum o r sta in less After all the bending and drilling is com- bo lt s if e xcessive v ibra tion s are a factor.
steel rod. Thinner d imension s will te nd 10 pleted , paint the bracket with as many coats These bolts should ex tend inside the trunk
break under the stress o f d rivi ng. of cl ear enamel as necessary to prot ect it about I " beyond the nul for attac hi ng the
T he length of th is rod (62- 1/2") wi ll be fro m Ihe weather. Set it aside 10 dry. ground ing strap.
an overall 63- 1/2" when the couplers are 011- Next, attach two elect rica l connectors to Finall y, dri ll a 3/8" ho le thro ugh the car
tached . T he upper whi p sec tio n measures one end of the 16-1 12" RG-58 coax; 3/8" to body next to the bracket and install a grom-
50- 1/2" overal l. This inclu des the coupler. the center lead and 3/16" to the shield ing. I mel. Feed the o ther end of the RG -58 coax
so measure appropriately. If you need to de- suggest sol dering the ground connector as through the grommet.
viate slightly from these figure s no recalc u- close as possible 10 Ihe coax. Be careful nor This completes the mounting bracket as-
lat ion will be nece ssary. j ust allow mo re to me lt the center lead insulation. se mb ly.
tu rns o n the loading coil. Later you can tri m Once the b rac ke t is d ry. assemble the
the coil to accommodate the chan ges. 3/8" coupler as sho wn in Figure I. When Matching Co il
At this po int you'll need a lap and d ie se t you tighten the coupler the plastic washers The matching coi l is designed to balance
(see the sidebar). If you don 't have one the will co mpress against the rubber hose and an 80 meter loading coil and higher. If yo u
loca l hardw are store w ill usuall y do Ihe electrically insulate the bo lt. decide to use a 160 meter coil you can add
work for a small fcc . O r vis it the local h igh T hen a tt ac h th e sh ie lde d s id e to the more turns 10 the matching co il.
sc hool meta l shop. T he teachers arc o ften bracket with a 1/4 " bolt. Measu re the resis- The coi l is bui It aro und a I" PVC pipe

73 Amateur Radio toasv»Novem be r, 1992 21

 hex-head bolt. Again allow a bo ut I " extra through both disks at the same time to hel p
on the bolt len gth for the coil and j umper ce nter the antenna studs. Then drill one of
connectors. these to 5/ 16". Drill carefully to avoid chip-
Solde r th e two electrica l connect ors to ping or cracking. For added streng th, drill
the RG-58 antenna feed in side the trunk three holes in a triangular pattern thro ugh
AFTER IT HAS BEEN FED THROUGH both disks. The holes should be about 518"
THE G RO MM ET. (7/ 16" for the shielding in from the edge to provide clearance for
and 3/8" for the center lead.) the PVC tubing thickness (114"). The size
To mak e the jumper, remo ve the shield- of these hol es depends on the size of the
ing from a pi ece o f RG·58 about 6" to 7" plastic bolts you'll be usi ng. I strongly sug -
long and solder an alligator cl ip to one end. gest that yo u tap these holes to allow the
C UI a length of heat sh rink that will in sulate bolts to thread. P lastic bolt s a re n't very
all but 1/4" of thi s shie lding and shrink it strong and the added benefit will be need-
on. Slide the alligator clip 's rubber cove r 'd.
over the heat shrink to the cl ip. Finally, so l- Tap the center 3/1 6" an d 5/16" holes to
der a 1/4 " connector to the other end of the 1/4 "-20 and 3/8"wI6 thread, re spectivel y.
j umper where the ba re shield ing extends. Using fende r washers to help disperse the
Photo C. The compotlent parts of rile loading
coil fo rm are made of a slice of PVC pipe A ttach both the jumpe r and on e end of pressure, thread each bolt through to e nsure
the matching co il over the platform's 1/4" a clean tap.. Back the bolts out about 1/4 "
with plexiglas end pieces.
bo lt. Attach the ot he r end o f the coil to the and apply a generous amo unt of in s tant
Plexi glas s upport using a 318" bolt (see Fig- glue to the threads. Re-tighten to a snug fit.
about 4 " long . Fro m 1/4 " Plexigl as" c ut ure 2). Plac ing the threads outward, glue the two
3- 1/4" x 4" lengths 10 usc as spacers. With If yo u use 16 or 14 ga uge wire for the in- di s k s to a PVC s lic e wi th five-m inu te
PVC cement, glue these, eq ua lly spaced, ductor it will be ab le to support itself by its epoxy (clear type ) and let the m dry. An im-
aro und th e PVC form. Th is wi ll pro vid e leads. portant point when gluing is to have all the
room for an allig ator cl ip to be used later. To finish the ma tching unit, cut a 6" to 7" pieces under moderate press ure to ensure a
Wrap 14 to 15 turns of 14 or 16 gauge len gth of RG -58 co ax and connect a PI.- tigh t bond. To do thi s, th read the plastic
so lid bare copper wire around thi s for m. 259 connec tor to one e nd. Solde r an all iga- bolts through and tighten them before the
The width of the total tu rns sho uld be 3". tor clip to the other end's center lead. Insu- glue dries. DO NOT USE METAL BOLTS
With a d iameter of about 1- 1/2", thi s coil late th e shie lding with heat-shrink tubing, FOR T H IS-they wi ll interact with the
sho uld p rov ide approximately 3. 2 IlH of as before , w ith th e jumper a nd attach a load ing coi l and could dis tort the radia tion
matching induct ance. So lde r two e lectrical 7/16" electrical connector to the end. (Al- pa ttern.
connec tors to the leads of the coil. low these two leads to be long enough for Once dry, solder a 1/4" electrical connec-
Cons truc t a mounting platform , as shown the center lead to extend to both sides of the to r to one end of the 18 gauge enamel w ire
in Figu re 2, using thin sheet steel and Plexi- mat ch ing coi l when th e shie ld ing is con- that will be used fo r the co il. Bolt th is to the
g las. Use a 3/8" bolt to attach the coil to the nected to the 7/ 16" brack et mo unting bolt.) top part o f the coil form usi ng spacin g
Plexi glas portion a nd a 1/4 " to gro und the A t thi s po int yo u c a n add a variable washers and the 1/4 " coupler.
co il to the stee l portion. capaci tor. Remember to wire it in parallel With a flat iron tip melt a groove into the
Thi s platform can be moun ted almost and yo u' re all set. edge of the top P le xiglas disk . Press the
an ywhere inside yo ur tru nk provided it's enamel wire into the groove while it's still
with in reach of the RG -58 feedl ine . Drill a Loading Coil so ft. T his w ill stop the coil from unravel-
1/4" hol e and mount th is p latform w ith a Cut a piece of 4" PVC tubi ng into Slices, ing. Wra p wit h a n a ppropriate number o f
refe rri ng to Table I . tu rns for the band you've chosen. Try and
Make the se cuts as keep th e turns as tig ht as poss ible and
sq uare a s po ssib le . pressed togethe r.
This will determine Use plenty of electrical tape to temporar-
the straigh tnes s of ily hold the coi l wire in p lace. Mo unt the
the antenna. Because 3/8" connecto r to the lower side as yo u did
bolt s and washers w ith the top stdc. but don 't so lde r the
ex tend towa rd the in- enamel wi re-you ' ll need it loose for tun -
side of the coil , the ing later on.
PVC slice shou ld not
b e cu t le ss than I " Fine-luning
wide . A nach an SWR met er to the matching
On a sheet of 1/4" co il's PL-259 connector. H ook up your
Plexi g la s , outline radio as it would normally be and attach the
two di sks for e ac h feedline to the other side of the SWR meter.
loading coil by using T he feed line a lliga tor cl ip s hould be
on e of the slices as a attach ed to the ung round ed si de o f the
g uide. I ' ve had ex- matching coil where the antenna fee dline is
cellent re sults using c onnected . T he coil 's g ro und ing jumpe r
a s a be r sa w with a should be unconnected. (Yo u can cl ip it to
moderate tooth blade the end of the PVC fonn.)
( 12/inch) under mod- Assemble the antenna and attach it to the
erate pressure . This coupler on the mo unting bracket. (I added a
s ho u ld avoid chip- second support highe r up to allow the lower
ping but may create antenna to s ta y perm anentl y on the car.)
melt in g . Pliers can (See Figure 3.)
Photo D . The matching coil assembtv mOl/nrs inside of the vehicle. be used to pull off File the enamel off the tip of the lower
Grounding and feedtine alligator dips allow fo r fine tuning of the the melted excess. load ing coil wi re that isn't attached. Use an
resonance and impedance of the alllellna. Drill a 3/1 6" ho le alli gator clip to temporarily hold the con-
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 1/2" at a time . Each quarte r tum should in-
Table 1, Center Coil Dimensions crease the resonance by abo ut 50 kHz while
Band Tums Coil Length Form Length PVC Diameter ha lf-inch sn ips should be 10 kH z.
160 62 2.75' 2.875' 4,5' Once yo u arc sat isfied, remo ve the co il
80 23 .75 t- 1.125' 4.5' and solder the e na me l w ire to the lowe r
40 10.25 0.5' t- 4.5' connector. Reassemble and c hec k the SWR.
20 7.50 0.5' 2.5" 2.375' If there are a ny proble ms you'll need to
15 2.80 0.125' 2' 1.875'
resta rt the fi ne-tu ning from the beginning ,
10 No center coil necessary; join the two rods together With a coupler.
and possibly rewrap the coil.
Repea t th is process for eac h band coil.
nectio n for tuning. The clip should not ha ve the SWR . Don 't test by sho rting the loading Try no t to c hange the m atching un it. The
any wire attac hed to it. coil- this wi ll degrade the efficiency of the goal is for the coi l to be the o nly necessary
Check fo r the best SWR. 100 kHz down coi l and give false readings. change to switch bands.
fro m the center freq uency yo u want the an- O nce yo u get nea r the null (where the The matching coi l alligator cl ips are used
tenna to reso nate at. Adjust by clipping one SWR begins to dip) adj ust to you r desired for with in-band adjustments. These will al -
quarter tum at a time, each time checking frequency and continue by clipping 1/4 " to lo w for adj ust ing the SWR within a s mall
ra nge afte r the overall tu ning is complete .
The fcc dl ine cl ip is us ed to balance the
Tap and Die matching coil. while the jumper is used 10
adj ust the inductance. You' ll need to be pa-
If you're not familiar with Ihe mec hanics of a tap and die, no problem . The procedure tie nt to successfully tunc to diffe rent fre-
is straightforward. qucnc rcs.
First locate the proper size of die. (This is what cuts the threads into a rod 10 make il The resul ts could be ma rked by paired
resemble a bolt.) Using the 3/8"- 16 size as an e xample, the first number measures the colors, 1/8" j umpers could be soldered to
diameter of the outside of the threads, and the second numbe r tells how many threads the matching coil at these points for easier
there are per inch. These numbers appear on the die itse lf, whic h can be purchased indi- reference, o r a two-pole ro tary switch could
vidually for about $2. be used to ma ke band sw itching qu ick and
You need a handle to hold the die steady during the process. These cost about $8-$15, easy.
depending on the style. If you c hoose to incl ude the variable ca-
If you want to save money. Scars has a 20-piece Homeowners Set for unde r $20, paci tor in the matching system you' ll have
available through their catalog store. Whatever yo u buy, just make sure that the 3/8"-16 m ore le ewa y . ( T he groun d ing j u m pe r
and 14"·20 are part of the set. These arc common sizes used in amateur radio. wasn't necessary when 1 made this addition
The technique for cutting with a die is simple. Brace the rod steady either in a vise or later.)
with Vise-Grip pliers. (I used the latter, attaching the pliers ncar the base of the rod and Whatever you do, the shorter th e leads
then standing on them for bracing.) are the bette r. Everything effects the anten-
Placing the wid e side of the die toward the rod. tum slowly but with pressure. You'll na. Even the 16- 1/2" feed line is pan o f the
feel it cut into the aluminum almost immediately. anten na a nd wi ll effect the tun ing if it is
Make sure that the first two to three thread cuts are square so that the die remains per- changed.
pendicular to the rod. Hot g lue or five-min ute e poxy could be
The die needs to remain square to the rod while it is turning. This is the most difficult spread o n the ena mel wi re once all tuning is
pan of the whole process. Once the first two to three threads are CUI, the rest is easy. complete . I haven't been able to find hea t-
Now the turning technique: T um the handle clockwise 90 degrees, then reverse and shri nk tubing big enough 10 fit over the coil,
tum back until you feel the metal fi lings snap. (About 30-40 dcgrccs.) Then, tum clock- altho ugh this would be best. If you usc 2"
wise another 90 degrees and again reverse to snap off the filings. Continue this process PVC or smaller for the loading coi l form, 3"
until the proper length is cut. I find it easier if I imagine north, east, south and west and hea t-shrink tu bing is av ai lable from Elec-
keep to those points. tronic Surplus (R&D Electron ics) in Cleve-
It may be necessary to tum continuously for the first thread or so to help the die take land. Ohio.
hold. Don't be afraid to back off and stan again.
Once the cutting is started. have some lubricant avai lable and apply moderately. Ft nishlng
T here are certain lubricants preferred for some me tals. Generally. a light oil or kerosene TIle g uy connection I'll leave up to yo u.
is good for aluminum and stainless steel. High strength fishing line. thin rope, or ma-
son line a rc all good c hoices. Either way,
guys arc necessa ry to avoid da mage. I sug-
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I've had many S7-9 reports within a 400-
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The JRL·2000F HF Fax: (212)319-5227

Price Class: $4,899

MOSFET Linear Amplifier

A solid-state, no-tune kilowatt with very advanced fea tures.

T he JR l-2000F is built by the

Japan Radio Co., ltd. (JRC). II is
a microprocessor-controlled solid-
push the 2000F's SET button to sam-
pie the frequency of operation (not re-
quired when using the JST·135, due to
state no-tone HF linear amplifier ca- the fee dback data line between the
pable of producing a solid 1,000 watts transceiver and the amplifier). Insse
output. mode it is necessary to say a word or
When the 2000F arrived it was in a two (ie: "ahhhhh!") so the amplifier can
single box and well packaged inside determine the operating frequency.
same. The weight of the box was a Once the frequency is determined, the
form idable 78 lbs. and you should 2000F will tune itself, based on prior
be torewemec not to attempt to place usage at that frequency.
this amplifier on anything less than a Once the band segments for my fa-
desk or surface designed for berne- vorite frequenc ies had been pro -
Ship pcrpcses. I used two heavy-duty grammed into memory, I lound the
milk crates. Due to its weight. this unit ICOM and Ten- 'rec to be nearly as
cannot be shipped by UPS. It arrived dexterous with the JAl·2OOQF as is
at my door via Federal Express the JST-l35, the only difference being
(FEDEX). the requirement lor pushing the SET
There is nothing \0 assemble with button and announcing yourself each
the amplifier. It is ready to go as soon Photo A. The JRL-2000F solid·state kilowaff amplifier. time you QSV.
as it is unpacked. No tuOO(s) or trans- The ease of the 2OOOF's automatic
former(s) to install. Strictly plug 'n gol tuning and an tenna selection brings
The 2000F comes with a remote hand control, power, or distortion. A single 3-500 (1 kWoutput) this HF linear amplifier into the realm of the in-
resembl ing a TV remote control, which can com- tube-based amplifier was used for on-the-air stant aSY we are all used to with solid-state
pletely operate the amplifier. comparison of signal reports. transceivers. I found th at when jumping from
Fan noise was not mentioned by anyone. 14.300 to 3.950, the amplifier tuning and the
Initial Testing Nevertheless, depending upon physical place- switching of the antenna line took about three
For initial testing I used the JST·135 (also ment of the amplifier, I believe fan noise could seconds when using the ICOM 751A. Just punch
from JAC) transceiver. Through an interconnec- prove to be a problem. However, the 2000F is the new frequency into the 751's keypad and
tion cable, the 135 converses directly with the not the only amplifier to suffer from fan noise. press ENTEA, then press SET on the 2000F eoo
amplifier for band/frequency info rmal ion and The problem applies to nearly all HF amateur say "ahhhhh: It really is that easy! aSYing with
0001"'. amplifiers. the Ten-Tee took slightly longer as its tuning
The 2000F is a complex and mcoem device, The typical efficiency of the 2000F appears to knob and band selector switch must both be
although from the operational point 01 view il is be aboul 60 percent. This is based upon meIer used when Changing frequency.
abou1 as Simple as you can gel. A pre-made ca- readings of 22A current at 80 VDC during key- Throughout the testing period I was always on
ble (optional ) is connected between the exciter down, with an output of 1 kW. the lookout for a g1ilch to rear its ugy head , yet
and the amplifier lor control (il contains a lew Antenna control is core by the 2OOOF. Manual none ever appeared. Performance was flawless.
more wires than the usual transmit relay control selection is made by push ing buttons on the front
line) and a coax jumper lor bringing (he AF input of the amplifier. Later recea of previous operation Po ints of Interest
to the amp . on the same (or nearby) frequency will cause the The 2000F can be used as an antenna switch;
The antenna system is connected to the four amplifier to select the originally chosen antenna swilch and tuner; or switch, luner, and amplifier.
antenna ports on the back of (he amp. In the automatically (this can be overridden by the Each section is separate in operation but they
case of this testing I utilized them in the following manual controls). are linked operationally via microprocessor con-
manner: 80/40 dipole, Cushcralt A5 vertical , 160
meter dipole, and 80-10 meter Windom. No ex-
After using the JST-1351JAL-2000F combina-
tion on several bands and enjoying the complete ''''.
S witch selections provide lor power on/off,
temal antenna tuner was placed in the line. ease of fully automatic tune-up and antenna standby, tune (automatic antenna tuner), anten-
My first operation was on 75 meters. II took change, 1 built connector cables for use with my na selection, and set (storage/selection of cur-
about 10 seconds for the amplifier to set itself up ICOM 751A and Corsair II. The cables must pro- rent operating parameters).
for the band segment being operated on. Later vide, in addition to the normal ALC and PTT Two fron t panel meters provide selectable
return to this segment required only an instant lines, a talk-back line. The latter forces the ex- monitoring of output power or VSWA and cur-
lor retuning . citer into transmit during tune-up or after QSY. rent, voltage, or Ale.
Signal reports were excellent. No mention was Tune-up is still super simple. For example, to LED indicators monitor drive levels and XMIT,
made 01 poor Signal , low audio quality. reduced Change lrom 40 meters to 75 meters you merely indicate antenna match, and show the selected

26 73 Amateur Radio Today · November, 1992

antenna. A central display indicates the frequen-
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The amplifier is designed lor a 1 kW output
and typical readings of the output show that the
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The JRL-2000F's manual is rather stark when
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ICOM'" R7000 SWEEPING particular frequency (or another within the same for the control circuits. By USing a swrtching pow-
1300 CHANNELS/MIN. subband) it will set itself to the previous settings er supply, JAG claims enceocy of 90% or more.
and antenna selection. If not. you will be required The power supply is cooled by its own fan and is
to enter this information before operation (takes professed to be capable of continuous operation
,iv.
DELTACOMM"" 1-7000 and. YOUT MS-DOS compo~ r
you • ~ iMerl_ inlq..-.:d _ idl ..,.;"'iud
toftlr<ve lbal ..ill not juot coauol but will _Umiu !be
only a lew seconds and is fully automated). at 2.4 kW.
",*",' ;'1 of)'OW' R1OOO.
Antenna seectcn is a part 01 the 2000F's tun- The AG line VOltage required for operation is,
ing as the four antenna inputs are microproces- according to the various manuals and information
• Spectnlm k>& IIl Ipeeda ill. e~ of 1300 , .... ·litIm.iIl sor-controlled. For example: On 14.300 MHz you sheets I received with the 2OOOF, ambigl.lOUS. In
wtUk . ... to ally I • .we .
~.- of
always use your trusty tribander and select that Ihe wrinen information an indication is made that
fRy"} ..v..ity.
antenna when tuning the amplifier. From that AG 01 5Ql60 Hz from 85 through 2£4V win coer-
point , until you tell the 2000 F otherwise, the ate the unit, yet attention is later drawn to re-
robanoer will always be selected when operating duced output power at lower input voltages fie.
14.300 MHz. tOO-12O VAG for 75OW). All testing al this station
The antenna selection relays are contained in was done at 220 VAG line voltage, which I con-
a separate shielded box on the rear panel of the sider the standard lor 1 kW and above amplifiers.
amplifier's chassis.
The important band information is written into Service
an EEPAOM (a AOM Chip that can be electrically I was concerned about service for the 2000F
re written) during the TUNE operation. This infor- since there is not a plethora of JAC dealer/ser-
mation will always be available and won't disap- vice centers and the unit is very complex (i.e. not
• CYBF.RSCAN"" allow . ocaa fik nc:kin, control of pear when the power is turn ed ot!. user-serviceable).
Iyllemt employ ine: f~ boppin. tcehniq~.
• Bird ie 101 durinJ frequcncy ocarch automatically The data for the various operating states of JAG informs me there is no problem in obtain-
,ba ~riua YOUT R7000. lbc:a 10xb Otlt tI..- the JAL-2000F (power, PA, meter sellings, an- ing service, as the Aaytheon Service Company of
fl'e<l~ia durin. frequmcy ocan:b opemioa.
• C...wm inlc rf..,., hM clectronKa "" aUow ...ftwaR
tenna switch sellings. frequency band setnncs. New York, service center lor JAG's commercial
control (by c hannel number) of exkmal tape ra;ordtt. etc.) are stored in battery-backed AAM. Memory and marine amplifiers, will service the JAL·2000F.
backup is provided by a rechargeable battery This is reassuring, as tne name Raytheon is rec-
ICOM'" R71 RECEIVER which will keep the AAM fresh for a period of two ognizable and the 2000F is based upon the com-
weeks if the unit is unplugged from AG power. mercial/marine amplifiers routinefy serviced by
COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER When the battery discharges your operation set- them.
DEl.TACOMM"" 1·71 Veniaa 4.0 offen rmdIwrik tings are lost; however, normal operation can be
CODlrol. of y R71 receiver'. freer ')'. mode IIDd restored by using the SET procedure. Battery My Recomme ndation
.........., r -h
Addm..-J I'fl'Intli r ~ ino;kdc
aulo lot frcquaq' .-rdl. _ pnin._ timer' clodt eva'll recharge is automatic during normal operation. The 2000F is a dass act that the competition
.....- . .s.ta " - -a:emmt. pu.lI-d _ wtlilind very difficult to follow. It does its job wen,
...inoIoo'ot1. ",iii tw;l'eC:Il for yOW' TerttliI.I Node Coatr'OlIer Power Supply
(TNC) com<r! '.",*Ooa ~ aDd !he llbilily 10 c:oacrol aD appears to be solid in design and manufacture,
_ _ ~ ')"IU:m Of loU ' " tape I"eOOtdtt. The power supply is designed to use 220 VAG and exemplifies the term stale-of-the-art. Would I
and provide 80 VDC at 30A for the PA. Addition· like to have a 2000F residing in my station? Yes,ff
• Data lIMe ........ cmmI.umr,...defmitioqoff ~.
<;a1l l ip, ~ ochoduk. mo:o:lc. larJet -.rca. ~ . ally, it produces 12 VDC (positive and negative) I had some easily earned dollars, I would immedi-
140 ~ ....... field. 69 ~ TN C convnlIIlI! ately purchase one!
f>tld . QSL fIoltoM. ooatrol relay ItIltui ...:I , in lIdditioCl, Specifications The 2000F amplifier does operate as intended.
d ioplaya ....,r d cfmcd opWnlUD oettin&. o f O'I\ICeivu Operating bands 160m
front,....,1 kDob pooitiona. In fact, it does it very well and includes many tea-
• Combined with your TN C . DELTACOMM'"' 1-71' . 60m tures not available on any other HF amplifier. Ad-
"""f defmcd oommand QOd", PTOIr-m Y(H,If TNC for
' Om ditionally, I experienced no problems whatsoever
rc«ption Uld Iouing of PACKET, AMTOR, RlTI'
and Potu, . Code (fu lly unIIttendcd and ... lonUIticlolly) . 30m while testing it for nearly two months,
20m I cannot compare the design of the 2000F to
17m that of models from competitive manutac -
16-DlGIT TOUCH-TONE'" 12m' turers, as none offer an amplifier as advanced
REPEATER PROGRAMMER ten- or feature-filled as the JAG product. There are
Input impedance 50<"''' good solid-stale amplifiers and auto-tune tobe -
DELTA TON ~ 2.0 ~ to your MS-DOS conlfl"~ r
viii !be prinlcr port. ltr. ib tu,;b ~ mode, DTMF 0Jtput impedance 500"'" type amplifiers currently available on the market,
d il_ an: ocat 10 yow ........'er c0atr01le, III • . - iD. 1 kW (SSS'CWIRTTY)
nee. of 500 pe' m.iD.~. """'" pcee r but none provide the overall features of the
VSWR less than 3.0 (16.7 · 150 otms} 2OOOF.
• DFl..TATONI:.- 2.0 k( pili P"OII .......... c::omn.ndI Unwarlfe<l radiation -60 dB Of less (below PEP) I cannot accurately say that JAG's design will
from • rile " led ...., )'OUl" f.v<>l'1le word P' Q If.
-35 dB 0( less (below PfPJ
'UD provide long and trouble-free service. There is no
• T. . .former ~ 600 obm to.lrr.Doed ~
"~Ie 10 - IOdbm• .m ..ttw.n: 0DDtn>l of .d.y Ed<!lion power lOOW (max.I history, yet, to base the assumption on. However,
com.cIII mKlCII inlafoo;'" q

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Freq. change time

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I note that the company manufactures ccmrrer-
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The 2000F is not an amplifier for everyone and
All DFl..TACOMJor ~ prod_ iDclude Temperature range -10 10 +4Odegrees C
_ iaIoerf_. UL Ii.Ied pawer oupply...a """'f"'OCII I can only leave the choice 01 such an expensive
for c:.l>linJ. Protec:lion aens ElCessive PA CUlTeni purchase 10 the individual. I would say, however,
PAovemeal that when contesting and/or chasing OX, the abili-
DELTACOMIor 1-7000 or 1-71 S299.00 e.cb
(1-71 ~uiJa ICOIor UX ·1 4 COCIverter)
Excessive exetter power ty to instantly aSY and make antenna selections
DELTATONE'" 2.0 includin, inlerfoo;e S'49 .00 PA abnormal load
automatically could be very valuable. Further-
Excessive ACvonage more, the hands-off coerancn is enhanced by use
VlSA, MC, AMEX IIlld 104.0 KCepIcd. ConlaCt \U fo,
diKoWlt pncin,lo ~. islercd DELTACOMM'" ...en. Power supp!y overheat of the remote hand con trol.
PA failure
Excessive VSWR Availability
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28 73 Amateur Radio Today · November, 1992
 Number 8 on your FeedNek card

Spread Spectrum Primer

What is spread spectrum, anyway?
by Randy Roberts KC6YJY (ex-WA6BFN)

pread spectrum uses widcband, direct sequence (OS) are pretty well
S noise-like signals. Because spread
spectrum signals are noise-like, they
kno wn, mature techniques today.
Other more exotic forms of spread
are hard to detect. Spread spectrum spectrum such as chirp. time hopping
signals are also hard to intercept or and hybrids of frequency hop and di-
demodulate. Further, spread spectrum rect sequence are not in general usc
signals are harder to jam (interfere in low-cost Pan 15 equi pment and
with) than narrowband signals. These will probably remain only in the mili-
low detcctability and anti-jam features tary province for several more years.
are why the military has used spread The following paragraphs will de-
spectrum for SO many years. Spread scribe freque ncy hop and direct se-
signals are imemionally made to be quence techniques in a little more de-
much wider-band than rbe information tail and show that pseudo-noise code
they are carrying 10 make them more techn iques prov ide the common
noise-like. thread through all spread spectrum
Spread spectrum signals use fast types.
codes that run many times the infor-
mation bandwidth or data rare. These Frequency Hop
special "Spreading" codes are called Frequency hopping can provide
"Pseudo Random" or "Pseudo Noise" the easiest method of utilizing spread
cedes. spectrum. Any radio with a digitally
Spread spectrum transmitters use controlled frequency synthesizer can
the same transmit power levels as nar- Photo A. Direct sequence spread sp ec trum signal (un-f iltered (theoretically) be convened to a fre-
rowband transmitters. Because spread BPSK ). Note the suppressed carrier. Center f req.= 52 MHz with a quency hopper. This conversion re-
spec trum signals are so wide. they 15 megahittsecond PN (3/ stage PN generator). Horit . scale = / quires the addition of a pseudo noise
transmit at a much lower watts-per- MH:/dil'. Vert. scale = / 0 dB/d;\,. code generator that is used to select
hem power density than narrowband the frequencies for transmission or
transmitters. Th is lower power density gives spread spectrum techniques on a shared frequen - reception. Most hopping systems utilize uniform
spread signals a big plus. Spread and narrowband cy basis in the Industrial. Scientific and Medical frequency hopping over a band of freque ncies.
signals can occupy the same band. with little or (IS M) frequen cy bands of 900, 2400 and 5500 This is not absolutely necessary if both the trans-
no interference. Th is capability is the main rea- MHz. These bands are also shared with amateur mitter and receiver of the system know in ad-
son for all the interest in spread spectrum today. radio operation s-so we hams have a direct vance what freq uencies are to be skipped. Thus.
stake in what happens with this kind of equip- a freque ncy hopper in, say, 2 meters could be
w hat's Spread Spectrum? ment Since 1983 the FCC has revised and clari- made that would skip over commonly used re-
Spread spectrum radio communication is ignit- fied the rules for spread spectrum operation un- peater input and output frequency pairs. A fre-
ing much discussion and speculation lately. In the der Part 15 of their rules. Hams have been able quency hopped system can use analog or digital
last few years there has been a lor of media atten- to legall y use spread spectrum under Pan 97 carrier modulation and can be designed using
tion, congressional interest (IEEE Spectrum, rules for a number of years, also. However, the conventional narrowband radio techniques. De-
"Spread Spectrum Goes Commercial," August FCC rules for ham spread spectrum have been hopping in the receiver is done by a synchro-
1990, by Donald L. Schilling, Raymond L. Pick- quite restrictive and have had the net effect of al- nized PN code generator which drives the receiv-
holtz and Laurence B. Milstein. pp. 40-45). FCC most eliminating ham radio experimentation in er's local oscillator frequency synthesizer.
rulemaking, commercial product announcements spread spectrum techniques. Recent commercial
and marketing hoopla about this exciting new developments with Pan 15 equipment and a new Direct Sequence
field. Several very good articles on spread spec- FCC Special Temporary Authority (STA) (R. A. The most practical. all-digital version of
trum (SS) have appeared in ham radio literature Buaas K6KGS request for STA, FCC file num- spread spectrum is direct sequence. A direct se-
and the ARRL's Spread Spectrum Sourcebook ber 7230-A, granted April 17, 1992) provide a quence system uses a locally generated pseudo
has been in print for several years now. With all renewed impetus to the amateur community to noise code to encode digital data to be transmit-
of this activity you may still have a few questions make more use of spread spectrum techniques. In ted. The local code is generated at a rate of 10 10
about spread spectrum. how it applies to hams, light of the possible awakening of a ham spread 100 limes the data rate to be transmitted. Data
how it works and in general what all this alpha- spectrum community, I hope [0 spur some inter- for transmission is simply exctusive-Ok'd with
bet soup (like PeN, PeS, COMA, TDMA and est in the ham builder/experimenter to put some the faster pseudo noise code. The composite
frequency hopping) is all about. See the sidebar of these ideas to practical use. pseudo noise and data can be passed through a
for a definitive guide. This article is intended to data scrambler to randomize the output spectrum
gently lead you through some of the practical de- More About Spread Spectrum (and there by remove discrete spectral lines). A
tails of today's modem commercial (and soon to Simply put, spread spectrum trades a wider direct sequence modulator is then used to double
be ham) radio spread spectrum technology and transmission bandwidth for bener signal-to-noise sideband suppressed carrier modulate (also
help you gain a basic understanding of the princi- ratio and reduced transmiued power density. Two called Binary Phase Shift Keying-BPSK) the
ples involved in SS. types of spread spectrum implementation are in carrier frequency to be transmitted, resulting in a
In 1983 lhe FCC issued a nonce of proposed fairly common use today: Frequency Hopped signal spectrum as shown in Photo A. Other
rule making authorizing the low power use of and Direct Sequence. Frequency hop (FH) and forms of carrier modulation are possible with di-
73 Amateur Radio Today · November. 1992 29
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 1
reel sequence, however BPSK or differential recover a spread spectrum signal. 1be corretator
phase shifl keying (DPSK) are the simplest and actually tben "spreads" out a narrowband mter-
most often used techniques. ferer over the receiver's total detection band-
A spread spectrum receiver uses a locally gen- width and thus only the IOtal integrated signal
erated replica pseudo noise code along with a re- dcnsity or signal- to-noise ratio dete rmines
ceiver correlaror 10 separate out only the desired whether there will be interference or not. All
coded information or messages from all possible spread spectrum systems have a threshold or tol-
signals. A spread spectrum correlator can func- erance level of interference beyond which useful
tionally be thought of as a very special matched communication ceases. This tolerance level or
filler-it responds on ly 10 signals that are encod- threshold is related to the spread spectrum pro-
ed with a pseudo noise code that matches its own cessing gain, Processing gain is Ihe ratio of the
locally generated replica code. Thus, a spread radio frequency (RF) bandwidth to the informa-
spectrum ccrrelaror can be "tuned" to different lion bandwidth,
codes simply by changing its local eeoc. This Typical 55 anti-jam (AJ) radios have a pro-
corretaror does not respond 10 man-made, natural cessing gain of from 10 to 20 dB, depending on
or artificial noise or interference. II responds on- rhe data rate, They can tolerate total jammer
ly to spread spectrum signals with identica l power levels of from 0 to 8 or 10 dB (jamming
matched signal characteristics and encoded with margin) stronger than the desired signal. Yes, the
the identical pseudo noise code. system can .work at negative signal-to-noise ra-

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sold by GRE America, Symbol Technologies,
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O'Neil Communications and Qualcomm) include
AX.25, X.25 or Tep/lp networking protocol s
soft ware or firmware. At the curre nt time these
radios can use small networks that can be built
up, entirely by software, with up to 32 or more
network nodes, thus providing limited PCN/PCS
capabilities. Typical SS radios in the network can
be designated to be a digipeater (a uore-and-for-
ward. single-frequency repeater) by software.
Several digipeaters can also be connected in tan-
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Joe Moen. P.E., KOOV manual for now.

POBox 2508 KK6CU's display unit is a Teklronix
Fullerton CA 92633 Mod e l 603 medical monitor. It write s
traces on the screen conte ucusfv until
What's That Whirl igig ? the ERASE button is pre ssed . Wh en
·00 yo u have a TV In your car?" evaluating a storaqe oscilloscope for use
Questions like thai trom passers-by are in lhis application, look for e ~ terl1al in-
common when hams gather lor hidden puts on bolh len-right (x) and up-down
transmitter hunts, usually called Ioxhunts (y) axes. Amplifiers for both axes musl
or T-hunts. The yagiS and quads that wo rk al DC and have the same scale
most ccrrcentcrs in my area use for 2 factors (\'OIls per division).
meter radio direcbon linding (RDF) look JaMi uses a DC-to- AC Inverter 10
a Iollike lelevision antennas, so !hey are powel\he CAT monitor, the motor, and a
big-t'me aneruco-ceuers. No one gets +1-15 volt DC power Sl4)pIy lor the inter-
more stares than JaM, SrTlIth KK6CU of face circuit. His 4 00 -wa ll Tripp lite
sasaoere. Calilomia. HiS quad is long, square-wave inverter is nol recorrmen<J.
tal, and conijnuously spinning at 40 rpm' ed Jar inWc\iIIe moIor loads. but the so.
Last month's column showed how a watt molor and l he 125-wal1 monilor
display .....ith a storage type cathode ray have worked are with it so lar,
lube (CRT) gives far more useful A DF
data IMn an s-meier when you're hunt- Electronic Trigonometry
ing with a beam. The ccrcept. originally A beam and receiver s- mete- give
used on the ham bands by the late Jim signal strength information as a function
Davis W6DTR has been updated and of pointing direction (azimuth). This data
improved by KK6CU. He motorized his is in "polar" fo rm. You may remember
antenna for continuous rotation and nom a math class that polar coordinates
bearing readout. are represented by an angle (signified by
This month youll see how JaM, bUitt the Greek leller theta) and the radius (I).
up hIS system from ine~pensive surplus The magrlliude 01 r is proportional 10 sag-
compoI eets and read some hints 10 help nal strength.
ambl\lous ADFers build \heir own. YOU To dISplay polar data on an cscno-
may no! be able 10 make an exact dupi- scope mOrlllor, il must be converted 10 x
Pnoto A. Heads lum when Ja Mi Sm./fl KK6CU goes on foxh/Jnts with this array. It
cate bul you can achieve \he same re- and y ans vcnaqes The value of x
spins al40 RPM and displays bearings on a storage oselloscope.
sults using Mrdware lnars readily avail- equals r teres the COSine of theta . The
able, plus your own ngenUlly value 01 y equals I limes the Sine of
theta, That means we need a device that (201) 335·1007, for a calalog, Prices 6) are connecled 10 s'!lnal ground. Yours
It', Not Covert outputs voltages proportional to the Sine range from $18.50 10 $69.50 each. Tile may have only One ground pin, or il
JaMI supports his stx-efement quad and cosine of the beam pointing angle. minimum order is $30. mighl have two separate sections, one
with an A·frame almost three feet high Such a device exists: the soe-ccsme If you can do so without damaging it. for Sine and one for cosine.
(see Photo A), The frame sits atop a bi- potentiometer. YOu won't l ind one at your peek inside your see-cosine pol to see if The s-rneter input level and the gain
cycle rack that is lirm ly attached to the local parts store because lhey are used it is designed fOI rotation in a scecae di- of U1 a are Such that Jami gets nn-srze
rain gutter, Pil low blocks hold the 3/4- only in specialized acoscerons such as recnon. Some units have the wiper arm scope patterns with signals fhat ba rely
inch c.o. mast in two places, 21 inChes servomechanisms and «cones.
But l ry configure<! 10 'pulr across the winding in move the receiver's s-meter. As he ap-
apart , wnn the drive mechanism in be- nearby su-ovs oullets-you might get one dlrecliOn. II you rotate in the ocoo- proaches the T and lhe traces go 011 the
tween (see Photo B). The AC gearmolor lucky, JaMI found a good one for less site dlrectiOl'l. lhe w1:ler "pushes" across scope face, he act» RF allenuation be-
lums al 12 rpm, coupled w~h a 1J..irldt than a dollar. the wi/ldmg and tee pot will wear out tween the antenna and ltle receiver to
belt to lhe 40 APM mast reese pots have special windings Q' It, shrink the pattern.
Parlung garage clearance ' No prob- thaI generale Voltages ploportlOnal 10 Use care mounllrlg lhe pol on your
lem. The A-frame lowers to the rear on the sine and ccsme of the shaft angle antenna mast. partICUlarly ~ it has a 118- A Cheap J oint
hll'lgE!S (see Photo C). The whole assem- when the polIS connected to equal post- inch diameler shall. AIow a IiItle sde-IO- The next dilemma is getting the ~
bly adds onlt about a foot of height 10 live and negalJIIS voltages. Several m0D- side play so mat damaging shear force is nal from the spinning antenna 10 \he sta-
Ihe vehicle when lowered. JaMi says ets are available from Servo Systems not applied 10 the shaft. But don't alloW llonary receiver wilh minimum lo ss.
he's eyeing worm gear drives to auto- ccrpcrencn. 115 Main Road. PO Box much rotalional play, as lhat will cause Prices for coaxial rotary couplers (soee-
mate the raise- lower turcuon, but irs 97, Montville NJ 07045-9299; telephone: bearing errors, JaMI supports the pot by times called ·rotary joints·) start at a
the wiring harness, as shown in Photo D. budget-busting $4 50 each at specially
'00' '00' Figure 1 shows lhe polar to x-y ceo- coax product suppliers like Pasternack
verson scoemauc. The op-amps operate Enterprises, Furthermore, they must be
, near DC, so compensation is not critical. mounted to the bottom end of the mast,
,
.
~

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"
A 14 58 dual op amp (RS 276-038) which is where the soe-cosoe pol also
~ I" • . '.J.lIZ should work line . JaMi used two sections needs logo.
'"
"'~ pO
of an LM324C (AS 276-1711). KK6CU's solution was to make an in--
~, ~, /"1
S -"£H~ Each stage inverts the s-meter out - line rotary coupler out 01 a fWO.element
· '~ V
';);c put. so equal but opposite polarity· r continuous· turning polentiometer. Two
1I01Iages are applied 10 lhe sine-cosine elemenls are needed because an insu-
• ~

, .~
• , ~ I~· y. vtllT pol winclWlgs. USing rwo identical irlII8rter lated slip ring is required for the coa x
shield as well as for \he center conduc-
,! . ..< slages assures symmetrica l low

'" I impedance ewe.

On the pol JaMI Used. a COmputer rn-
struments Company model 106-1 , one
lor. If you take !he easy rene and try 10
couple the shield through the bearing
the pot. youl nave a very noisy system.
a
Ftgure 1. Bas.c polar to reclangular convener and pal/em generator. The sme-
~ ~
inverter outpul goes to pin 1 and the ern- If's simplesllo conve rt a pot having a
cosme pof is shown as a bridge of lour resistlVB sececos and two wipers, bul most er 10 pin 2. Sine and cosine outputs are 114-inch diame ter shaft. "Most continuo
units aCluaily have a single lapped winding on a square board Inside. pins 3 and 4 . Two pins on this pot (5 and ous-tum pots, including lhis one, have

34 73 Amateur Radio Today · November. 1992

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 some kind Of insu-
lated slip ring as-
sembly bonded to
th e shaft : JaMi
sa ys. " I caretuny
d isa ss emb led it
and put Ihe shatt in
a vise. Then I took
a scribe and a little
ma ll et a nd ve ry
genily chip pe d
away the epoxy so
thai I could re move
the two slip rings
and their insulators
intact I rom th e
shaft, which is dis-
carded.
"I replaced the
shaft with a piece
o f 1/4-inCh o.d.
ho bby b ra s s tub-
ing, one 1001 long I
soldered a piece 01
7/3 2-lnch c.o.
brass tUbing inside
me 1/4-inch tubing
to reinforce it. I slid
one o r the sli p
rings on the tubing
an d b o nde d if i n Photo D. Close-up of the two-stage pot modified inro a coax
p lac e ; t nen I put rotary coupler (abo ve) and the special sine -cosine pot
the second one on, (below) on the mast bot/om.
sel to r Ihe s ame
spac ing as on the
original shaft, and bonded lt. The solder- system like this, keep salely in mind at
abl e connec tion po i nt s on the rings all t imes. Use ext ra care in design ing
should face each other. and building your motorized antenna.
PholO B. A gearmolor and bell drive the masl, which rolates on two pillow block "After the glue set up, I used a rat-tail Mount the beam high enough thai it can't
mounts. The antenna coax goes down the inside 01 the new brass shaft of the file to gently make a lillie slot in the strike someone standing next 10 the car.
rotary coupler. located between 100 PI/lley and the sine-eosine pot. IUDeS (forming an oval) between the slip Fasten the Irame securely to the vera-
rings, then ceou rreo it. The coax Irom cle---suclioo cups aren't good enough.
the antenna comes down the mast, mto Pay close attention to balance, distri-
this tube, and out to the slip rings. De- bution at weight, and center 01 gra vity.
spite the higher loss, I recommend RG- An ante nna that brea ks up or sheds
178 teflon-dielectric coax. You can use p ieces on the highway cou ld in ju re
RG-174 if you're very careful net to over- someone rollowing, or cause a serious
heat it. accident. Ja Mi says he arranged tor
"By cutting a square end on the coax someone to serve as a spotter, Ira iling
and curling it jusl a tiny bit, I could teec his car during initial tests 10 watch for
the coax down the hollow shaft and out mechanical instabilily in tne antenna
through the oval hole. Then I stripped system.
the shield and center concocter in me There is also potential danger in the
normal manner and soldered them to the 120 volt AC power syslem. Carelully
slip ring rotors. ground the chassis ot the slorage moni-
"j removed the windings to minimize tor and all otter equipment to the vehk:le
stray capacitance. Finally. I reasserrcled Irame. Do not leave AC terminals on the
the pol, making sure that the coax pig- motor. or any other equcment exposed.
tails didn 't protrude and mtertere with Cover or tape them up. Don't use the
anylhing inside Ihe enclosure. The sta- system in wet weare r unless you have
tionary coax connections (RG-58) go to a waterproof cover fo r the motor and
the rotor terminals 01 two stages, as other exposed AC-operaled ilems.
shown in the photo." A good engineer is never content with
JaMi has some additional sugges- his or her creetcns. KK6CU is no excep-
tions tor anyone duplicating this conver- non: he's trying out new bells and whis-
sion: "The orig inal shaft probably had tles constantly. He has incorporated the
one or more C-rings 10 hold tt in place. x and y outputs trom a Radio Shack flux-
You may have 10 stack washers or shims gale compass sensor through a switch
onto the hollow brass shaft to maintain 10 put a "north ocr on the CRT screen.
proper spacing and avoid end play. When his rotatable screen-mounted pro-
"Lubricate the wiper 10 prevent norse tractor is aligned with the norlh d ot,
and avoid excessive wear," he adds. bearings are relative to north instead 01
"You'll need 10 re-I ube it occasionally. so relative to vence heading. He is WQrking
d rill a 1I16-inch hole in the body. You on new offset circuits to subtract the
can spray tuner lube through the hole as noise toor from the scope Irace.
needed. The hole should be located JaMi and I welcome your letters with
where il will not allow easy water entry." questions on this unusual RDF scheme ,
buf please enclose a se ll-ad dressed
Photo C JaMi can told the entire antenna assembly down on the car top for Safety First
slamped envelope ir you want a person-
toe -cteea cce situations. When constructing ero u$Jng an RDF al repiy. iii
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INTERFLEX SYSTEMS
InterFlex Systems has released the and KaGOlD support huge scroIlback
KaGOLD Dua lPort lor Kantrorucs buffers that are dynamically allocated
TNCs, lhe KAM and all KPC units; and (memory given to activities that need
Compifed by Hope Currier PkGOLD Enhanced lor AEA TNCs. it), with up to 250K of scrollback on
KaGOlD fully supports duat-port oper- most systems. They have fast installa-
ation, milled modes including AMTOR. tion and startup and run in Host Mode
RTT Y, C W and pac ket. T h re e lIIe lor high pe norrrence. The built-in Clip-
transfe r me thods are sup po rted, in- board editor's cuVpaste feature makes
clud ing remote send/receive as well traHic handling and me ssage storage
as text liles and brag mes. The packet and retrieval a snap. Both come with a
conference bridge is easy to use and ss-cece bound manual, an extensive
supports mulli-Ievel conterences and online help system for all parameters
cross-port conterences on two port and operating modes, and a quick rei-
umts . usetul for nets, emergencies ererce guide.
and group discussions. The built -in Each program is $79.95 plus ~­
logging teatore also handles automatiC ping and handling. For fllOfe mtorrre -
e xchange 01 name, QTH and QSl in- tion , contact In/orF/ox Systems , P.O.
formatiOn with other GOLD users , and 8011 64 18. Laguna Niguel CA 92607;
many more advanced features. In - (714) 496-6639; Fa ll: (714) 496-804 1.
stead of fixed-length betters. PkGOLD Or circle Reader Service No. 202.

EUR-AM ELECTRONICS
EUR-AM electronics is ollering an either vertical (lenders) or horizontal
adjustable mount (up to 25 degrees) (rool) fashion. The N type is $36; the
joCOM
lor Pl or N type connector antennas PL type is $33. For more information,
The Mode l SDP-600 aulopalch l ance dialing , And . unlike other low (l ike Diamond, COM ET, etc.). The contact EUR-AM Electronics, P.O. Box
trom J"Com is a low cost nsccorcces- cost autceetcres, the SDP-600 can be mount is ClJITenlly i~ed Irom WiMo 990. Meredith NH 03253-0090: Fax :
so r-cc ntrctled interface between a used in lui duple~ mode WIth a dual- (Germany) and comes with 12 feet 01 (408) 866-4311. Or circle aeeoer ser-
VHFIUHF transce iver and a telephone band transceiver, so both parties can RG-58 coax permanenlly connected in viCe No. 203.
line. allowing lhe user to make and re- hear each o t her at the same l ime.
ceive telephone calls from any HT or Simp lex mode can also be used. With
mobile rig within range 01 the base the reverse patch option enabled. in-
stalion. Installation consists of con - com ing calls will cause a short ring-o ut
necting the aulopatch to the rig's ml- ove r the air and the user can then an-
crconcne and speaker jacks and plug- swer the call using his access pass-
ging in an RJ·l1 telephone jacl<. con- word code .
trol and programming ct me autccercn The SDP-6OO's introdl.lC!ory price is
is done by OTMF tones issued lrom $199.95. ContaCljoCom. Boll 194. Ben
the rem ote . Separate use r-p ro- Lomond CA 95005: (408) 335-9120:
grammable access password codes Fall: (408) 335-9121. Or circle Reader
can be set up lor local and long dis- servce No. 201.
TRIPP LITE
The new ISOBAR(R) Ultra surge sup- damage occurs , the ISOBAR Ultra and
pressor trom Tripp Lite has a revolution- connected equipment will be repaired or
ary new design, featuring diagnostic indi- replaced free.
cators and a new comp rehens ive war- Each ISOBAR Ultra also features ex-
ranty. Using multico~red indiCator lights, clusive isolated lilter banks to prevent in-
the ISOBAR Ultra can detect and display terference between connected compo-
wiring tacrts. loss 01 power and integrity nents, two or three UL listings, multIple
01 !he surge proteCllOfl cirClJltry, aiertlO9 filtering components and a rugged all-
the user 10 problems before equipment is metal case. They are available in 4 -, 6-
tumecl on. This series also teatures new and a-outlet mode ts . with optional
liIetime ummetee tnsureece. wh ich lax/modem crctecncn. For prices and
guarantees every Ultra model and the more information. contact Tripp Lite, 500
connec ted equi pment against su rge N. Orleans. Chicago IL 60610-4188;
damage (in cluding direct lightning (312) 329- 1777, Fall: (3 12) 644-6505.
strikes) lor life, up to $25,000. If surge Or Circle Reader servce No. 205.

MIDWEST WOOD PRODUCTS

( Midwe st Wood Products has intro- stained, and has a polyurethane linish.
duced a new clock made of solid oak and This clock is available in a 12·hour or
measumg 1G-314" by 19-.11 comes wilfl a 24-hour version lor $69.95 plus stupprIg.
HAMTRONICS frame lor either Size U.S. eceese and has For more informatiOn and/or a mmplete
non-glare tenses lor bolh the movement catalog, contact Ml(1wesl Wood ProdUCIS.
The TD-4 seeeuve caning Module set in the lield with wire jumpers. The and display frames. The quartz move - 1614/ 24th Ave., Ccoperwi.IIe M/ 49404:
t-orn Hamtronics is an economy touch- 2-314-inch·square PC bOard is easily ment is u.s.eece. MIS on one AA bat- (6 16) 6n-3706. Or circle Reader ServiCe
tone decoder with one latching output. packageclfor eustcrn installatiOns, and tery, and is warranted by the manulactur- No . 204.
This versatile module is primarily de- it operates on 12 VOC. er lor Six years. The wood and r----~~~==~.;;;;;:
signed to mute the speaker of a recelv- The TD-4 is $49 in kit torm or $89 display Irames are warranted
er or transceiver unt il someone calls by wired and tested. For more inlormation 'Of one year. The tenere on the
sending tour-digit DTM F signal. thus or a complete catalog, which also in· clock are sell-adhesive and are
making it unnecessary to listen to all eludes all Hamt roncs' VHFIUHF trans- easily changed il you upgrade
the activity on a channel just so some- millers, receivers, repeaters, convert- or move and change your call-
one can call you once in awhile The ers. preamps and accessories, contact sign-lhe oecessary Iellers and
TO-4 also may be used to I\Jm on an Hamtronics. /nc.. 65-E Moul Rd.. Hilton numbers wiI be ~ for $1 .
eutooatcn or olher device which re- NY 14MX!-9535: (716) 392-9430, Fall: The hardware is brass. ncIud-
qu ires a simple ground 10 aclivate it.
The Iour-digil DTMF address is easily
(716) 392-942Q. Or Circle Reader ser-
vee No. 206.
ing !he bezel. and !he dock is ;1E~~
available wiltI a nalural!ifliSh or , -_ - " ,
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HF Equipment Regular SALE Handhelds Regular SALE
IC-781 Xcvr/psltuner/scope * $6529.00 5298 o All prices subject IC-P2AT 2mHT... $419.00 3491\
to change without IC-P3AT 220MHzHT 419.00 3591\
ICOM notice ~ check
with salesperson
IC-P4AT 440 MHz HI 469.00 389"
IC-2A 1.5w2m HT . Closeout...... 199H
IC-2AT 1.5wzm HTmP * 269.00 219"
IC-1I2ATlHigh Pewer zm * 349.00 289!ll
IC-1I3AT 2.5w220 HTm p...329.00 27!r"
IC-2SAT 2mmP " 379.00 309"
......... $2859.00 2348 IC·2SRA 2m125-905 n. * 579.00 479!l
IC-24AT 2m/440MHzIllp * 459.00 37911
IC-3SAT 220MHz HTmp .... 359.00 29911
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IC-4SAT 440MHzHTmp 39900 32911
IC-4SRA 440125-905 n.. * 579.00 48911
IC-2GAT 2mHTm p 399.00 3291\
IC4GAT 440MHzlTTP 399.00 329"
VHF/UHF Base Transceivers Regular SALE IC-12GAT 1.2GHzIllp" 519.00 429"
IC-751A 9-bandxcvrlSWn $1629,00 1348 IC-275H IOOw2m FM/SSB/CW * $1589.00 1298 IC·W2A 2m/440 HT... , * 589.1Xl 49ggg
PS-35 Interna l power supply 239.00 219!\ IC-475H 1001'1440 FMlSSB/CW 1819.00 1498 IC-X2A 44011.2 HT , ) 49.00 629"
IC-735 HFxcvrfSWrcvr/mic ,
PS-55 External power supply "
*
1149.00 9491\
239.00 219 ' 1
IC·S15A 251'1 6JlOm xcvr/ps 0 1455.00 1158 PS-70 2A powersupply fo r HT's
Aircraft band handhelds
* 79.00 6911
Regular SALE
IC·S75H 251'11001'1 6/l 0mxcvr ".. 1699.00 1398
AT-150 Automatic antenna tuner 469.00 39911 lC-1275A lOw l.2GHz FMlSSB/CW 0 1924.00 159B A-2 5WPEP synth aircraft HT $575.00 42911
A-20 aircraft HTwNOR 639.00 469 11
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AH-3 Automatic antenna tuner 512.75 449" VHF/UHF FM Transceivers Regular SALE
IC· 728 HFxcvr/SW rcvr/mic * 1099.00 89911 IC-28H 45w 2m FMlTTP mic * $389.00 329 11
IC· 729 HF xcvrlSW rcvr w/6m .1419.00 1168 IC-228H 45w2m FMlTTPmic * 429.00 349 11
AT-160 Antenna tu ner 413.00 34911 IC·229A 25w2m FMlTTPmic 439.00 369$1
IC-2KL HF solidstate ampw/ps $2119.00 1768 IC-229H 50w 2m FMffiPmic 439.00 369$1 Shortwave Receivers Regular SALE
IC-4KL HF 1 kwamp w/ps * 7459.00 5998 IC-38A 25w 220 MHzFMrcvr. 439.00 369$1 a-t 100kHz-I.3GHzAMIFM pocket ... $539.00 44911
IC-449A 35w440FM xcvrffiP 529.00 439" R-71A 100kHz-30MHz rcvr * 1209.00 98911
COMBO DEAL! IC-1201 lOw 1.2GHz FMlSSB/CW * 849.00 71911 RC-11 Infrared remote controller 74.75
Until 11/30/92 SAVE on the purchase of a IC728 Dual band FM Transceivers Regular SALE FL-32A 500 Hz CWfilter. 72.25
or IC-729 along with the AT- 160 tuner. rC-24111A 25w2m/440 FMITTP micO* $889.00 729" FL-44A SSBfilter {2nd IF)... 187.00 16911
IC- 728/AT·16D Reg. $114990 • Combo $1129 IC-24111H 45w 2m/35w440 FM/TTP 939.00 76911 EX-257 FM unit.. 51.50
IC-729/AT·16D Reg. $1517 95 • Combo $1398 IC-3230A 25w2m/440 FMITTP mic 739.00 61911 EX-3111 Voice synthesizer 62.00
IC-3230H 45w2m/35w 440 FMffiP 839.00 699 11 CR-64 High stablifyoscillator rtal. 83.00
In addition, until 10/31/92, you can apply a Multi·band FM Transceiver Regular SALE R-72 30kHz-30MHz SWrcvr * 1109.00 929 i S
$60 ICOM Discount Coupon (below) to the IC-901 50w2m/35w 440 FMxcvr... * $1069.00 879$1 R-l110 100kHz-I .856GHz AMlFM * $729.00 599H
IC-728/AT·160 making your price only - $1 069 UX-R9IA Broad band receiver unit * 539.00 449$1 R-7000 25MHz-2GHz receiver 1439.00 1198
UX-19A lOw10m unit , * 319.00 269H RC-12 Infrared remote controller ,.. 74.75
UX-59A lOw 6m untt.... " , 369.00 319" EX-310 Voice synthesizer 62.00
IMPORTANT! You have only until N-R7000AN unit 184.00 16911
10/31 192 to take advantage of ICOM 'S UX-S92A 2m SSBlCWmod ule * 639.00 54911
UX-39A 25w 220MHzunit. " * 479.00 39911 SP-3 External speaker 68.25
"Back to the Shack Sale " DISCOUNT UX-129A lOw 1.2GHz unit 589.00 48911 CK-70 (EX-299) l2VOCoption 13.75
COUPONS on the following items R-7100 25MHz-2GHz receiver * 1479.00 1228
(also shown with a * in this ad). UX-49A 440MHz mod ulefor IC-900 * 369.00 31911
IC-970A 25w2m/430MHzxcvr/ps 2839.00 2348 R-9000 100kHz-2GHz all mode rec .* 5859.00 4898
$200 Off on : 781 , 4KL, RP4020 , IC-970H 45w 2m/430 MHzxcvr/ps 3079.00 2548
R9000 UX-R96 50-905 MHzreceive unit 419.00 34995
$60 Off on: 728, 735, Rl00, R-71A, UX-97 l.2GHz ba nd unit * 1059.00 89991
R72, R7100 VHF/UHF Mobile Antenna Regular SALE We stock the entire ICOM line, but due to
$40 Off on: 2410A/AB , 901, 1201, AH-32 2m/440 DualBand mobile ant.... $41.25 space limitations some items, especially
2SRA, 2AT, PS·70 VHFIUHF Repeaters Regular SALE accessories, are not listed in this ad. For
RP-1520 2m 25w repeater $2369.00 1968 other accessories not shown, please call.
$20 Off on: 275H, 228H, UX·19A, UX· RP-2210 220MHz2Swrepeater 2009.00 1658
39A, UX-49A, UX-97, UXR91A, UXS92A RP-4020 440MHz2Sw repeater * 2439.00 1998 ICOM Warranty Service Centers are located
$10 Off on : W2A, 24AT, 02AT/HP, 28H, RP-40211/511W 440 SOwrepeater * 2649.00 2198 in Bellevue WA • Irvine, CA • Atlanta, GA •
4SAT,4SRA RP-1220 1.2GHz lOwrepealer 2759.00 2298 Richmond, B.C. Canada.
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Bullet Electronics marketed several Wanted: Tube schematic for 3AP1

kits in the late '70's: among these CRT. Also, schematic suggestions for
were "Grandfathers Clock" and "Super building a simple o'scope using this
Music Machine," Construction instruc- CRT. Please send info by air ma il.
tions and schematics are desperately David K. Hanson KBOE VM, SAUDIA,
neede d. Will pay. Jac k Christila w P.O. Box 167 Cost Center 956. Jed-
KOBi, 38700 Ann A rbor Traii, Livonia asn 2123 1, Saudi Arabia,
MI 48 150.

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73 Review Nye Engineering

4020 Gall ocean Dr. #606
by Larry R. Antonuk WB9RRT
Fort Lauderdale FL 3330B
Telephone: (305) 566-3997;
Fax: (305) 537-3534.

The FS 73 Signal Cube™ Price Class: $159

Digital Field Strength Meter

Measure both absolute and relative field strengths.

F orward and reflected power measured at

the transmitter can tell you quite a bit , but
not always the whole story. You may have a
VSWR of 1.1:1, and 250 watts out , but for
some reason you're just not making the trip.
What's the problem? It's obvious thai what's
going into the coax isn't getting out of the an-
tenna. The flal VSW R is just there to fool
yo,-il could be caused by several different
problems. You may have moistu re in a con-
nector at the antenna that just happens 10 ap-
proximate 50 ohms. Your receive signal may
be fine, since t he connector may not break
down until it sees the high power transmit sig- INC.
!'lyE SNOJH8SJ,UllO CO,
nat. You may have had moisture in the con-
nector last year, and by this year the moisture " SJOPl/l.L CtlBS"
METBR
has crept down the coax, causing it to become PISLD STltSPIOTH
very lossy-not unlike a 5O-foot-tong resistor. DIOITAL
At any rate, you begin to wonder why people ps 7l
no longer talk to you, even though your trusty
wattmeter tells you that everything's OK.
At times like this, the tool to pun out of your
bag is you r field strength mete r. Short of a
QSL card, the only way to really measure the
effectiveness of an antenna system is 10 mea-
sure the field strength produced by the anten- The Nye Engineering FS 73 Signal Cube digital field strength meter.
na--how much signal is actually being thrown
off into the ether by that tangle of wires on the ry, making it easy-to-read and accurate, and To put thin'gs in perspective , relative read-
roof. Basic field strength meters consist of a giving it a rather high-tech look. Two collapsi- ings would be used to tune a transmitter. Your
small antenna, a diode and capacitor to rectify ble ante nnas pull out from each side of the only concern would be to watch your voltage
the RF, and a DC meter to display the leve1. Cube, making a dipole that can be adjusted to and current readings, and tune for a maximum
These meters are useful only for relative read- different lengths to change the sensitivity of ind icati o n on th e Sig nal Cube . It wouldn't
ings, and tend to be somewhat lacking in the the meter. matter what the readings were, just so you
sensitivity department. (In technical ci rcles, got the peak reading possible on the Cube.
they are referred to as being "deaf as a post.") Measurements Absolute readings would be useful to measure
The addition of absolute measurements to a the performance of, say, a 2m yagi antenna
The Signal Cube
meter of this caliber is quite an achievement. you just built. You could set the unit up to
Enter the "Signal Cube" field strength meter For those unfamiliar with the concept, an ab- transmit in t he open, then take readings a
from Nye Enginee ring. The Nye Engineering solute field strength measurement is one that fixed distance away at several points of the
fol ks have mixed some traditio na l f i eld is related to a given reference-in this case, compass. This information could be used 10
strength meter values with some new technol- the number of volts/mete r, derived from the plot a basic directivity graph. You could then
ogy, and have come up with a winner. The first voltage impressed upon the two antennas. In change the design and re-measure. or per-
traditional value you' ll notice is t he quality. actual operation of the Signal Cube, this value haps compare a commercial antenna to your
Built lnto a 2.5" x 2.5" x 2"-deep cast aluminum is calculated by taking a reading from the dis- desig n. (Comm ercial tes t ranges often keep
box, the unit is as solid as a rock . Anoth er play, and using a chart (found on the back of the field strength meter stationary and rotate
quality f eature is the unit's practicality-c-it the unit or on Ihe instruction sheet) to relate the anten na, but build ing a commercial tes t
makes relative as well as abso lute measure- the reading to the frequency of operation and range is beyond t he scope of th is artiCle.)
ments, from 100 kHz to 450 MHz. The Signal the lengths of the small collapsible antennas, Closer to home, you might record readings
Cube is sp lashproof (coffee ??) and has a producing a value in volts/mete r. On the other f rom your HF antenna at several key spots
range of 30 mY/meter to 30 vzneter. It's au- hand, a relative reading is simply one related aroun d town whi le yo ur buddy keys it up.
to ranging , and wideband-the only co ntro l to a previous reading. The actual value is not Once a year or so you might repeat the exer-
available is the onIoff switch. A large 3-1/2-clig- of interest -we only care if the second reading cise, and get a jump on things the next time
it display brings the device into the 20th centu- is better or worse than the first. you get that water in the connector!

42 73 Amateur Radio Today . Novembe r, 1992

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Other Uses play. The display blanks in the event of exces-
Of course, coce you get your hands on the sive in put-simply collapse the antennas, or Enjoy !'lEVER 1
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YOUR TOWER nI'l

Cube to measure the lev els of RF floa ting directivity to the unit. For most situations, the
around the shack itself, perhaps caused by Cube is just rotated to give the high est read-
fau lty antennas , or maybe poorly sh ie lded ing, wh ich is then noted.
equ ipment. The Cube can be used to tune a This directivity and the high sensitivity make ACAIN
ground lead, artificial ground, or an antenna
counterpoise. Paranoid users will find it useful
a t w ork-th e hi gh sensi tivity of t h e S ig nal
the Cube of some interest to the foxhunter, es-
pecially during the end game. However, the
FS 73 lacks an external antenna jack, wh ich
Are vou reo scarer:l or f OO 0ICl to oeo- t«.'Yef ClI'!'()
VOVager
rower ana eE\lilfO' tram SV5telTl
il9ilf1 'i>'Ttrl !JlIS
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uses Stado: ~OIl' to an~ neI9flt t11 " 1 , 8 314' or 10'
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Cube makes it useful for ferreting out thos e might be used to connect a higher-gain, more
Sl'Ct1On Ien\ltns Easy to JlStilil hinge case, w.... (.(l
hidden transmitters bugging your offic e. How di rectional antenna than wou ld be necessary erecton,Ne:<t 0U'rCl tOWl'!' WItflllM'llng tlOItsll tese
m uch RF is c oming out o f your microwave
oven? How about the cellular phone on your
in most fo xnunts. In addition , the LCD readout,
while quite readable , ha s no bar graph-it's
~ rotc- ana .\iIl' neavv Dl'ilITIS en Hall'!' trilm
¥w:l wrtn one natlCl wn::n to tlXl o! toNe!' tor f1OfTT1iII
OPel at'9 DQ5ItO'l s.m.-tv 00 Mtem cce-eees 'M'llIl'
r-.g or iONe"*"'il At est a c:neao, CXlf'M:'OIeflt iI'IJ
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tren t seat? How about that c olor c omputer designed mainly for measure ments, rather sale wav to n;:lIlI ¥w:l rr.am.. YO..C cee- TIllS 6 a
monitor? than peaks or dips. 08./l<l' tON!'!" SV5t\!lTl tf\r. VOU con etY:N tt:Il»Y
These la st three exa mples are all "cut of
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70 Route 202 North tremes at the upper atmosphere, launch
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Quite a lew groups have sent up er they landed (usua lly in remote and
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periments this past year. One of the equipment The loIowing is an accou~
more prolific (and ambitious) groups is of their Ialest effort (the ninth flight), as
!he Bridgefland Amateur Radio Club in d 1 bed by Hall GoodseI W7LTH.
Logan, Utah. o..er the past year BAAC
has I10wn nine balloon experiments (t'M) The Super ATY Bal loon
were tethered ) carrying amateur radio The BARC group decided to attempt
equipment. Every payload on these a flight using a newly designed super-
flights has been successfully recovered. pressure balloon don ated to them by
These initial flights carried a reo-cren- Winzen Internatio na l, rnc., makers of
nel Radio Sha ck VHF receiver, a 250 large high-altitude balloons and f9C(N-
miliwatt 2 meier beaoon and a lone ee- ery parachutes. A sucer-oressure bal-
coder thai would activate a release looo is designed 10 go to a fiXed altitude
mec hanism on co mmand fr om the and re main there lor long periods 01
ground. The early flig hts used a stan- Iime_ II is c:onceivable that it could re-
dard rubbef _alhDr balloon thaI burst main at a ltitude lo r monthS. trave ling
immediat ely upon rea ching maximum thousands 01 m iles in the jet streams.
altitude. The seventh and eighth Ilighl (Ed. Note; Imagine an AT\! (Of VOiCe're-
used a spec ial zero-pressure balloon pealer er 65,000 feet periodiCally floal·
(made out of a prastc lilm) that could al- ing across the country! Two-way con-
low the payload 10 float at peak altitude lacts over 600 miles apart could be reli·
lor as long as a day. ably established with P5 pictures from
These initial tI~hts helped give the socii a syslem.]

Photo A Inflating /he zerrJ-Pre~re balloon lor payload 1851 f/¢I #8. Photo by
Gil Moore NrYTK.

The BARe Prog ram thin clear nylon material. As Gi Ialer put
One 01 the goals ot this program is to it, 1 just couldn't say no."
interest high school and universily sfu-
dents In science by flying their e xperi- The Payload
ments as part 01 a balloon payload. This One of the goals was to have ATV on
allows them to see the results in real- board and to have a means of sending
lime as !he tlight progresses. real-lime and delayed information down
The lilth !light carr ied the first 01 \rom the payload . Stan Wellard N7UXC
these student experimen ts : a sotar- took over as profed coordinator and Ihe
driven motor Ihat cou ld be used l or new payload Slatted 10 come together. h
maintaining a deviee in relation 10 the contained a Motorola P50 2 meter FM
sun. The Sixth flight carried several hun- radio, a tone decoder board. a GampbeI
dred paper gliders thai were released at ScientifIC data-tower. a P.C. Electronics
aboul2,OOO Ieet as part ot a CUb Sooul KPA-5 one-watt ATV transmitter on 434
event. The glider lhat went the farthest MHz, an Olda Ante nn a Labs "mlni-
received a prize. wheel," a Micro Video Products minia-
Gil MOOJe N7YTK, Adjunct Proiessor ture black arld white CGD camera and a
01 Physics at Utah State University and High Technology Flight video overlay
a representative of the Rocky Mountain board fOI the callsign 10 (N7YTK). A
NASA Space GIani Consortium. has three-inch 1I0 nt surface mirror was
bee n the driving loree beh ind these fTlOlXlted at a 45 deglee angle in front 01
balloon fl igh ts . He has been ab le to the TV camera and rotated by corrmand
obtain the special ball oons and has USing a one-RPM motor to allow a l ull
also ~ with mati)' of !he expenses 360 deglee view. A PacComm UMPAO-
incurred. Many of the Ioc:al hams have 4 micro powered TNC sent down oeoet
put in long hOUf S designing, building telemetry on 144 .290 MHz via the Mo-
and tes ting lhe circuits used in the 10 rOIa 2 meter F M HT. Kelly Vini ng
payloads. KE7WI b uilt a separate 250 mllliwaU
During a conference on balloons, Gil beacon transmitter that 10ed lor 20 sec-
met the folks from Wlnzen and showed onds every three minutes on 145.550
them a videotape 01 the BARC experl· MHz to aid in tracking the balloon.
ments. He was asked ~ the BARC group There were sensors 10 measure in-
would like to fly one 01 thei" newly ee- side and outside temperature , as well
Signed super-pressure balloons. They as battery condition. There was a Mag-
Photo B. Liftoff 01 fI/gIlf #7 using a zerrJ-Pressure balloon. Ph% by Harf G00dselI even ottered to come out and show ellan GPS (Global Positioning System)
W7lrn. them how to handle this specia l very receiver board that 'MMJId give the bal·
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} ailltude fo r we eks or tlelped steer the crew in the rigtll direc-
montl'ls. tion. At dayligtlt Hugh N7KW took 011
from Itle Log an airport followed by a
The Flight second plane piloted by Carl Howlett

, Early on tIM! morning

ol August l Si, G~ N7YTK
ca lled the FAA Irom his
with Jamie N7XLH riding along as oc-
server,
The balloon stopped at 45,000 feel
cellular phone and re- and remained alltlat altitude . A look at II
ceived clearance lor with the ATV camera revealed ttrat il
urtcu. At euclly 4 ;00 was not completely in the sunUght yet
a.m. local lime the bal- and had not fully expanded . Reception
loon was released. It be- repools came in as tar away as Kemmer,
gan slowty moving 10 the Wyoming. In additiOn, N7POZ in Rawl-
north but was NOT ris- ins, Wyoming. had 0V'l:lf an hour of pack-
ing' II tumed out thai the et 1ta1dcopy. At about 7:15 a.m. the sun
payload weight had been shown fully on the balloon and within
misca lculated ana nol minutes it rose to its peak altitude 01
enougI'I helium had been 64,000 teet and tM:tId steady. The ATV
pu~ into the balloon. picture revealed the balloon was now
The balloon was quiCkly fuly e~. Brian N7aAR iSSued the
captu red and brought cutdown command and a cheer went up
back to the launch site as the ATV down link displayed tne
lor some additiOnal he1i- parachute blossoming out above me
~o C. Stan W66aro' N7UXC (f) ChfK:Jls out the payload tor the super.pi8SSiJf6 ba.llool'l expe';' um. Al 4 :07 a.m. the bal- payIood.
metlI (flighll9). The rolating TV mtfTOf system is on the left and the GPS antenna (egg-sIlaped)
is shown stidUng out on the right siOe of the payload. The radiometef is located ifISide with the
rest of /he eIectrotIics. Photo by Marf W7LTH.
loon was again on it s
way and finally began its -.....
journey. Alter the payload landed . the chase
......,." The launctl was planned tor thiS earty crew closed in on the tanding Si'B near
hour so lhallhe radiOmeter could look at Ihe lown of Evanston, Wyom ing (75
the ozone layer as the sun came over miles from the launch Sile). As the re-
the horizon. Also. one 01 the goals was CDIefY leam drove down a lirI road lhey
to see how the new super-pressure bal- came 10 a fence that had a sign reading
loon would react whefI the sun hit it and "No TrespaSSing-Hunler Conlrol Area.
expanded the helium 10 stfeldl the bal- Cyanide PoiSOn Charges SeL· Since the
loon $lIin tighL ATV was used 10 observe Signats were so strong, ttley knew me
the balloon as it reached Its maximum package was Just over the next rise.
taoeess and to see if the ctlldown sys- After a call to me local Stleriff, the
tem funct ioned properly and the recovery team was escorted ttlrougtl
parachute deployed. the area and quickly found the payload
M systems perlormed well wrth good and parachute in good snece. The baI-
data coming down on me packet down- loon envelo pe was eve n found [ us!
link as reported by AC70 In Clayton and two miles away by Randal N7YSV and
Dan KA0EOF at their portabla stations. SOL emp loye e s w hi le riding In I tle
Joe N7NJR was receiving me ATV pic- Space Dynamk:: LaboralOl'YIUSU recov-
ture (wl l h so me snow) and Bri an ery !rud e
N7aAR and Dic k K6KCY were busy The actual landing sue was wil tlin a
sending commands 10 downlink the data mile of the predidion as given by Stan
and tarn on and rotate the TV came ra 'rom updated data. The night had tasted
mirror. Members of t he cnase le arn, three hours and 50 minutes. 'rne iotar
Mark N7 EVJ , DeAnn KB7LLG, Mike lime from lil1011 to recover y took six
KG7FZ (and tlls brother Jeff N7UWW), hours and 47 minutes. The radiometer
all headed out 10 Ihe projected landing dala is currenlty being analyzed and ap-
slle. Kavln N7RXE and Tyler N7 UWX pears 10 valid.
headed lor the lop 01an 8,000 loot pass Over 25 hams, and many more who
that was hallway to the landing zone. Gil were moniloring, were involved in this
and Stan updated the aircraft map as very successful ftigtll iii
Photo D. The super-preSSUffJ balloon payload (flight #9) is found just eigh t miles BARC
Ilridgertend Am t&ur Radio Club_
northeast of Evanston, Wyoming. (/ to r): Jeff ~, Mike KG7FZ and Marle loge". Uten
NlEVJ. Photo by N7UWX.
loon's ccrrent position 10 within 300 me- just over 27 pounds. {Ed. Note: A pay-
ters (latitude, Il:ln{;lude and the altilud8). load oIlhis Size requires a special FAA
waiver (four to six pounds is the /mit tor
A l our-dlalv1el radiomeler was obIaned
10 study the ozone layer. Tho data logger
stored aata lrom the radiometer, sensors
and lhe GPS receiver and I»wnlinke<l
ffee-flight balloon payloads unless a
waNer is iSSued}j. In adliIion, two slrobe
igIts were on the system eece the bal-
-
the inlormation via packet on 144 .290 loon would be launched during dark-
MHz on command or aulomatieally al ness. The payload wa s enca sed in a
two-minute intervals. Ttle lirst mree rigid nylon Irameworll about 12 ecres
packets gave the GPS position data and square and coYered with 314-fl:h styrO-
the ku1h packet gave the sensor data. toam with an outside layer of metalled TV Xmmw

A cutdown system consists 01 two mylar fa act as a radar rellector. There

electric pyre Igniters eonlJolled via the were Itlree separate battery supplies
lone decoder. an activation, it would
bum a large V in the top 01 the baloon
and also sever the Ina ~ the paY'"
load with its tz-tcot perecbute. There
useo to power <tIIerent parts of the paY'"
load.
T1'Iis super-pressure baloon when lui·
Iy inllated has a 26-fooI diameter and a
\
was also a laJ-safe ~ Just in case al 'tOIume of 9203 cubic feel It can cany a
else tailed. The payload weighed In at Xl-pound payload fa 64,000 teet Once FIf}Uf6 I . Block diagram of the BARe payload. Drawing by Stan We4aro' N7lJXC.

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San DiegoCA 92119 everything. Ifs just like a sifT1lle aystal
de tector or "potato" recei ver-you re-
Filters for Am ateur Use ceive everyllling that is stfong In your
Last manit! I briefly discussed 10
GHz Gurm oscillators and the ccmpc-
llents used wilh WBF M systems. This
month I would like 10 gel into another
area (a potato receiver Is very similar 10
a crystal ootector). Th e same allalogy
lor low Irequency is true lo r both our
VHFIUHF and microwave bands.
I 2 112 "

subjecl altogether: different RF lillers For exarrp&, When you take an HT tl

1.75"
aod coaxial and .....aveguide systems. I a lavorite O'oertook or mountaintop. why
have a<:aJmulaled questions from read- ooes your HT seem dead? Is your HT
ees on this topic for Quite a while. These OK or is the band dead? Wen, the band
questions vary from prob~ms on very Is not dead arid your HT is OK. What is
low frecuences (60 kHz) to very high up goi ng on is that th e same probl e m a
into the rercoweve spectrum. simpl e crystal receive r experiences is
I usually orient each of my coIulMS to happening to your HT, but in a slighlly
some oIlhe topics brought up In IetletS I different manner. The HT is being de-
reoeiYe !rOm our readers. I IeeI that this sensitized by operating near a hi{1l p0w-
is \tie best way ~ present material 01 n- er transmrtter. Your Hrs Iront end is
terest. I appreciate your feedback on 5hutling down 0Je to the high power RF
these and Similar topes. Most specific that is being thrust upon it. The cure lor
qcestons Invoke a more general discus- the HT is a row-pass @or that will pass Ftgura I. 1296 MHz BPF by N6CA; 30 dB attenuation at 800 MHz and 1BOO MHz,
sion of applications and materials that 148 MHz with low loss and provide high insertion loss is 0.05 dB.
call benelil our amateur ende avors. loss at 150 MHz and higher. This will
Sharing the information has always been minimize the etlect on your HT and allow
paramount 10 me. normat operatiCln to be restored, as at-
lenuation is given the I'Iigtlef frequency
Tranamlssion PfIlh a RF as presented tl your flfSl stage a~
Let's start 011 with a Simple premise. in the receiver. The same would be true
"WtIy don't we move some 01 our radio- lor other UHF Ireqi.l91'1Cy bands.
based systems to a closed coaxial or On microwave the problems are the
waveguide environment? In that way we same. Filters can be used to minimize
would reduce qurte a bit 01 interference oul-ol-band influence and aid operation.
and congestion on much ol our frequen- Wrth basic systems operating wideband
cy spectrum." I think this question has FM (W9fM), Ihe addition 01 Mars would
been asked in various ways ever since not be 01 much use but would be rather
spark ran king. Why don't we use coax cumbersome 10 the basic systems. The
or waveguide to contain communieations basic systems provide enjoyment and
paths instead 01 USing almospheric-type easy contacts. While !hey could be mod-
transmission paths? ilied, I !eel !hat a point is reached where
Belore we get lar afield, let me say relinemen ts do not give apportioned re-
t ha t we don't use coaxIal cable or sults for the etlort put forth. When you
waveguide for systems covering great have reached this point, as I did some
distances because the cable losses be- time ago, \lie necessary SWiICh to a re-
come too Large 10 pass signals as the duced baud....idth and mode 01 transmis-
distance gets greater and greater. Loss sion would yield higher e"ieiency 01 0p-
in the atmosphere is great also bu t eratlcn-c-tcr starters. red ucing band-
nowhere near the loss encountered in widlh improved operation several orders
coaxial systems. Antennas perform bet- 01 magnitUde. Changing from FM to sin-
ter in transmitting and receiving energy gte sideband wilh less than 3 kHz band-
at very great distances. width eisc made improvements. Fitters
Fillers also enter into a major aspect again play an important part in the se-
of our lives: They help to separate the ries of improvements in circuit pertor- FREO
multituOe 01 signals and help prevent mance and operating practiCeS. ADJUST
overload ... some 01 the very Sin1:lte sys-
tems. Mdrtionally. litters can be used to Types 01 Filter.
prevent out-ol-band image product sig- This month I will describe a few new F;gUff12. Coleman Microwave RF cavity filler for 1296 MHz.
nals trcm reaching the antenna when types of naers and discuss some of the
mixing low frequency IFs for 144 MHz or methods and materials used to ccestnct that will tune the cavity and the 718" pipe gol came from the Coleman Mcrowave
432 MHz. 01 course, we want the de- them. The lirst filter is one that was de- section to resonance. Co. of Lebanon, New Jersey. rrs a tun-
sired frequency signal 10 pass and the sIgned by Chip Angle and presented The tuning screw is made out 01 1/4" able cavity adjustable trom 1.3 to 1.4
IiIter does just lhaL quite a few years ago lor 1296 MHz. aa- rod that is tapped 1/4·28 to thread into GHz. I have just enough room to make
The trend lor advancement in com- sicaly, irs a copper pipe 3" In diameter the bottom cavity plate. PrOVide a lock 1296 MHz in its tuning range before !he
rruniCations has brought along a corre- and 2-112" long. See F~re 1 for details. adjust to make the tuning tight but not slOPS take etfect The fitter has a window
spending reduction in banttwldth and im- The filler is constructed with a 718" IXlP'" bound up. Then , when the cavity linal and lilm catibration settlng knob con-
provement in signal-ta-noise ratios due per section fixed to the top lid 01 the cev- adjustment is made, you can lock the ad- trolled wilh 1 MH z calibration marks
mainly to filters. The re are oth e r ad- ity, Two coupli llg links are sotde red to justment in. Typical specifications are 6 about lIS" apart. with real easy frequen-
vanced wide-based systems employing this 718" pipe section, di rec~y to the cen- MHz bandpass, 30 dB isolation at 800 cy selling. See Figure 2, the Coleman
spread spectrum and frequency hop- ter pipe section 0.600" up from ground. and 1800 MHz, insertion loss less than cavity. These are available in surplus in
ping: I am not going to get Into them These coupling links are 180 degrees O.OS dB, and relum loss greater than 30 multitudes 01 frequency ranges covering
here. Belore we get on to S9V9fal diller· apart from each other and connected to dB several hundred MHz to just about 6
enl Mer types and discuss them, jet's their respective i'lpuV0U\pU1 coaxial con- The conslJUction 01 !his filler is quite GHz. Usua lly at the higher micro....ave
see hoW they help to solve part 01 the nec1OI", type "'N"'''' this case. The bottom Simple .".im hand tools and a lillie pa- eeqoerces. 12 GHz and ~ , \lie cavity
problem. 01 the cavity. also made out 01118- brass tience. Commercial litters can be ob- designs stop and waveguide-based de-
First, fillers to me are the doorways 01 like the top section, has a l uning screw tained for this same range and one that I signs take over.
50 73 Amateur Radio Today · Nove mb e r, 1992
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CIRCLE 5 7 o~ READER SERVICE C" RD

 your model, especially to hit a desired board is e xcellent 'or micro-
r 3 /4" COPPER PIPE CAP frequency without re-aclusureot. Grem-
lins always seem 10 enter inlO the math
wave but there are esunct differences
between different board materials.
stage and exact operation is nol always Micro wave circuitry constructed on
~ P RO B E 0 .200 INCH HT proper. Whal I do wilh a particular PC Teflon malerial tends 10 be bigger when

t board substrate is to have my stock 'jig-

g1ing" or "ludge' teeter to multiply by lor
compared to the ceramic material. In ei-
ther case, you can vary the malerial to
0 .200 each material 10 accounllor my particu- suit your construction needs. For exam-
ple, a 10 GHz type amplifier using ce-
I" lar construction lechniques. This seems

Y Y ' - - COPPER/ BRASS PLATE

10 work out OK. II you try some you will
have 10 develop your own factor as it
can vary quite a bit, depending on ire
board material you use.
ramic can reach sizes 01 a quarter 01 an
inch SQUIlle lor a push-pun comrneteial
amplilier, while with Teflon the size
nears one inch square lor a single-stage
2 SMA OR SIM ILAR RF CONNECTOR COULD BE A prime consideration when ccn- circuit. The point to make eere is that
INSULATED PROB E SOLDERED TO INPUTI QUTP UT structing these nners is what type 01 micro positioners and gold bonding
STRI PLINE . 3 4 in. PIPE CAP GOOD FOR 5.7 GHz substrate you construct your lilter on. equipment are mandated when workng
I 1/2 FOR 1296 . L ENGTH ADJUST WITH SHORT For instance, lhe dielectric constant 01 with some ceramic materials at 10 GHz.
SECTI ON PIPE. 112 in. NEAR 10 GHz the material has a lot to do with how and star'ldard soldering techrliques are
I2r9O )'OUr litler wilt be. low dielectric used with the Tellon ooard . This makes
F9Jro 3. ~ CiJP liners courtesy of WASVJB tI North Texas MICrowave Society. material like Tellon'" has a dielectric Tetlon quite a bit easier 10 work with , at
constanl of 2.5 (Er =2.5), and as such least at 10 GHz. Choose your board mao
DeSignS lor M8fS thaI can be used In lions) are Interleaved and spaced with will produce larger filters than ceramic teriaI carefuly.
frequency ranges from 1296 MHz to 6 close coupling 10 allow the AF to flow (Er -.10) , where the Mer's length d be Tl1e converse is Irue when the Ire-
GHz can come from lMlUSUal materials. through them , by nature of !heir reso- quite a bit smaller. Well then, why did quency is reduced, say, to 1296 MHz. An
Reports of filters from Kent WA5VJB nante. A smal adjust screw is positioned ee PC board makers use G·l0 epoxy ampliflOr constructed on G·10 (Er = 5)
show that p(le caps lor o:oppei pipe can above !he high impedance end 01 each when they designed these kitS lor their and Teflon (Et = 2.5) tends 10 make Cir·
be seled:ed to Size and i'lYetted and fit· &'lger 10 permil: adjus!ment to 1llll oosil'ed nc-tcne designs? Well, ceramiC and cuitry Large, as we staled belore. In this
led wittI .. adjust screw on the lOP of \he !Tequency. See FlgWe 4 tor typical inter· Tetlon PC board material is quite expen- case, with G-l0 material at 1296 101Hz, a
cap. The cap Is soldetecllO a copper or digitallilter construction. sive and I'l()( a common everyOay shop single stage striplne design would be
PC board material ground surface to The size limits coosnuctcn 01 this stock material. Board cost is quoted by two ilches wide and lour to live inCheS
....nich probes are added on the opposite type Iiltef from 400 MHz, Of lTlOfe typical- the inch. However, high quality epoxy Icng_ WIil1 ceramic this would be reduced
side of the gr<Mm su1aallor inpuVoul- Iy 1300 MHz. to over 12 GHz In most FtlergIas'" G-l0 PC board material has to less #laO one inch wide and aboutlWO
put coupling. F~ters of thiS nalure have c:onmercial applications. A fillet Iof 1300 a Er :5 and is a good cost/performance inches long. This is quite manageable
loss lhat is deterTTWled in part by probe MHz can measure 4" x S'. For 10 GHz, allemative, (Note: The upper Irequency and standard soldering can be em -
IengIh and spaCing. These filters lend 10 !hat equates 10 less than 2'Iong and 314" lor Go10 epoxy board is 3 GHz, where rt pIoyed. With Teflon PC board material
exhibit a little excess Joss but do work square lor a Six-element filter. These fil- gets lossy bul is stiU reasonable.) While bulk components such as adjustable ca.
wei from 2304 MHz to 6 GHz. This de- ees can be reluned quite far i'l fTequen- the Te'lon and ceramic types nave ex- pacitors and abQo,oe-board inductors can
pends on the size 01 pipe cap: 314'lof 6 cy, namety 10% to 15%. For an 11 or 12 cellent RF loss factors and are highly make Tellon a good choio:e it al comes
GHz and 1-1/2" lor 2304 MHz. see
Fig- GHz finer it usually can be retuned to to recommended 'or mcrowave construc- together in one simple statement Use
ure 3 lor cetaus. GHz without too much difficulty. tion, the G·tO Fiberglas board shows what you nave and make logical choices
good lOSS characteristics to 2 GHz. It to maintain PC board circuitry, particular·
Waveguide Finers
Waveguide filter designs usually start
The Hairpin Fitter
Another lype of Mer that is becoming
gets a little b4t0' high loss near the lop
end 01 the Irequency, l>ullhis problem is
Iy stripline circuitry, small and workable
to your application.
at 5 GHz and work up in frequency,
were ltIey provide very high qual ity fil·
very popular is the hairpin liller. This is a
printed circuit type 01 filler where each el-
offset by ue convenience 01 the easy 0'
Make use the engineering program
availability 0' G-10 type PC board mate- PUFF I described in the May 1992lssue
ters. A difficuny with them is thatlhey re- ement of lhe liiter, or hairpin, is a nan- rial, Teflon, and especially ceramic ma- 01 73 Magazine. This program will give
quire tlghlly controlled coostruction tech, wavelength long. The actual length that terials, are a lot more diffiCult to obtain. you some very good design information
niques because the dimensions lire quite can be construc ted depends on what ceremc materialS at nus time are oul 01 not only lor amplifiers but tor generating
critical. I have not tried to construct one type 01 dielectric matertat it is construct· reach 01 amateur construc tion budge ts. 'iller designs as well. I don't know what I
yet but when I do I will present this mtor-
mation and describe any troubles I en-
0'
eo on, the velocity lactor the material,
and what frequ ency you plan your lilter
The high dielectric constant of 10 or so would do withoul it PUFF is a very pow-
ma kes circuitry ve ry small when using erful tool in e ngineering circuitry ' rom
countered. lor. Most 'illers 01 this type became very th is type of high dielectric constant stri~ine techniques.
I have tried to re-adjust waveguide fil- popular with the aoveot 01 the MMIC am- (E r =10 or greater) type ceramic board nars
Well, it lor this month. It you lell
ters obtained 'rom commercial sources plifier ro-tere design for 1296 MHz and material. we lett out the 2 meter Mer lor your HT,
to amateur bands. In both the 6 and 10 a variety 01 other frequencies , Printed 'tenon dielectric PC board material, well, we did, buti'll cover some 01 those
GHz waveguide tillers I did nol have very circuil board labrication 01 this type 0' tn- by comparison, also has excellent designs next month. I will get into some
much success wilh retuning most filters ler demands thai accurateness be tightly low los s al microwave treq ue ncie s-e- simple effective ones and some inexpen-
'Mlen the designed 'requency was over controlled or else the liller will be reso- 10 GHz and even highef, due to its low- sive types tha t work quite well. As al·
500 MHz higher than where I wanted to nant ott frequency, high or low, depend· er dielectric constant, which can vary ways, I will answer your questions ceo-
use them. They did nol have much 're o ng on the coostruction techniques. You lrom about Er =2.0 to Er =2.6. This de- cerning this and similar topics. Please
quency range in luning or reluning, As can use math to a large degree, but be pends on who manulactured the board send an S ASE lor a prompt reply. 73
they tuned downward !hey seemed to sure to ack! a little jigging to make it lit and how they constructed it. All Tetlon Chuck WB6IGP. II
get balky and have high loss ..men low·
ering a 11.5 GHz waveguide lilt9\' to 0Uf
10 GHz band. I also eocounlefed trOlbIe
n tryng 10 lower II lrequenc:y 6 GHz fi1-
~

-1"1
I ,,
I
I
I
ters to 5760 MHz. ThiS did I'l()( work ei-
ther. ThiS is nollO say it is al k'IllOSsible, I
just lhat the filters I tried would I'l()( U'le
low enough to make them usable. My
recommeodatoon on waveguide fillers is 2114-
10 stay away from Ihem ISMess !hey are

,....,...
cul lor your lTeQuenc:y or you make one

lnterdigital Flhers
U,
, HA IRPIN
There reman two basic types oIli1ters ,
10 be OO\Iered: ee interdigital Nter and a
tl I;l 112 WAVElEJlGTH

more recent appIicatio"l 01 il!he hairpn

El EACH ElE IolEJlT I~ WAVELEJIGTH
filter. First the kllerdigitallilter. This is !he
last of !he "great bloclI 01 metal" fihers, or
fillers constructed out 01 or uSing sub-
!i 1/4 - .I
stantial metal, lorrnng a cavity. In !heir Figure 4. 1540 MHz IfIlerdigital filler WIth SIX adiuslabJe eJements. This filter has 20 MHz ba/ll:PIlss 0 3 dB points. Inservoo
construction, lingers (quaner-wave sec- .oss is 0.4 dB. A 1/2 wa~de"gth hairpin shown for comparison.
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 Numbeor 16 on your Feedback card IIIllI iIs IlSCIIn. inslAahon peneI$ peel from Ihe ng system liar-. The aIIituOe of .., poirt
S11UClu.e kke tree leaves 'alkl'lg away III a on 1he ooeen can be a:x:uraIety ~ed to
HAMSATS strong wond. AlIIough the paneb -..ete I'W:II •
eYIdenIlt.lrrog ee laIe "'"0 _ 9 IIo..n::tl oflTll$-
SIOr'I52, the $pedao.' Barnes !rom 1he kquid
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Two au...,., palllage,s were .... wrtn
TOPEXIPOSEIDON ~ I"duded KlTSAT-A
Amateur Radio Via Satellites and Solid boosters lll.l on QUle a show. and IifIOlI'Ier smaI satelkle aIrno$t idenlIc:aI in
The flawless ~ was toloWed by a shape to Kilsat, caJIed S&Vf, The two smel
Andy MacAllisler WA5Z1B to complemeo1lhe amateur radio devices. For perlec1IBl.f'lCh. spac;ecrait we.e mounted on a large ring k).
14714 Knightsway Drive hams, though, great pictures 'rom the wide-
Houston TX n083 and narrow-angle cameras and the irlcreditlly
strong downlink signals nave been a de'gltl.
Korean Star in Orbi t!
Just alter 2300 UTe on Augl,l$! 100h, I
Complete details ot the satellite were de-
scnbed in the JUy 1992 "1iamsats' «*.mn.
"For hams, though, great pictures
was senllo~.
..-lmiIleu"ado sa1ellrle
KlTSAT-A. no", known as KJlsal 0sclI,·23.
from the wide- and narrow-angle
bruugI'll: anolher p o . the I\amsal rom-
S& 10 For those .. ttl satell,te TV dIshes or a cameras and the incredibly strong
fI'Ilnly. 0... tongl1lUabons ID !he u-s.ty qua~1y cable TV system , the NASA·SeoIect
01 Surrey leam in EngIIInd .-.:llhe Kcr-. AcJ. chamel oovered the lantI 01 K.().23 Bnlthe downlink signals have been a delight. "
....-.:ed Insblule 0/ TeJ."*>;jy (KAlST). The DIher PBY'oeds sen! 10 space on AIIanespace
prOlect manager 10' the payload was Jell IIIgIlt 52. Trvs was arty the second \me an At-
Ward G(liK8KA JetI has been extremely fIC· iane 4 rocke1 was Iao.n:hed WIth two strap-on
t,ve with lhe Suney group tor several years solid-luel boolSlers. The rocket Os typieely con- NASA and Pentagon .ep.8lIeoliltives W!lre COled below the main payload ceeee the AS-
and is now leadIng some 01 the mcee amb;· IU
1ured WIth more e.<lemal tloosters for heavy present wi th a keen eye on me proqrese of AP (Ariane Stl\lClure lor Au~ ili ary Payloads).
hous prog rams. commu.-.ealioo satellite payloads to be sent to the ope.ation. Futu re joint veotcres are ex- The sateUites were put in place two weeks pri-
KrTSAT·A incorporates many oIlhe belte<
features of uessr-osco- te and 22. The
geostallOnluy transfer orbrts.
lJIt-oH was jusl alter dark. from Kcorco.
p.,,,' Of to lal.f'lCh.
S&Vf WilS blJk by Mat'a Marc:oni SpIce
system provideS. high-speed (9&00 bps l FrerlCh GUIana. Kourou is located on ttle The PaytOllos 101 1he a-n:S and was deslgled to SIUdy the
padIel: BBS lrom ortIl with • new and greally nortIleasl coast 01 South Amenea just above The p.incipa l passengel. TOPEX! U5e ol1he VHF o.nd from 137 to 150 MHz tor
omproved C3m&r1 system. The satelll1e his the equatOf. Dayt'me Ariana launches are POSEIDON. was a Jo,nt NASA/CNES (the mobite communicahons . On-board power
... compuIers and an array at expenmenl$ ~e <"eCliIO .... Wl'iIe !he rocQI 1$ begin- FrtnCt1 space agency) soentollc payload. The av8lIable IS 26 wMI$, WIIIl ., e........-:llilellme
sat., was buill by Falld'Jjd Space. l.ftder 01 one year.
CO.. a:l to NASAlJPl (Jet Propulsion labOfa- K-o-23 we;ghs in at 50 kg. substar(IaIly
tory) . II weicjls 2.0C00 kg and hes an expected less than TOPEXIPOSElOON. AI Iao.nch. 1he
life 01 five years. Dunng that time rt wiNsurvey S81el1rte is appIO~UTletely one fool by one fool.
ocean circulat ion on a global scale. The by two teet tall. The fIrl1icipated Idetime '5 love
spacee,ak includes SophtstlCOted radar l.flils, years. Stabilizal ion is achieved by a gravily-
a laser ,euollecto. ar.ay and a ~obal pos ibOflo gradient boom and compuler--eontrolled mag-

Pnoto A. Kitsat-oscar 23 was launched on an Ariantt 4 rocket. (Pholo oy CSG ana Photo B. The August 10. 1992, early evening launch of KO-23 from French
Arianespace.) GiJI8lla. (Photo oyCSG ana ArianespaaJ.)
56 73 Amateur Radio tcaev »November. 1992
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netic lorqoor. When deployed, It\e boom is al- MHz with 1.3 watts out (B kHz below TXO. the several devices described, a new 9600 bps TAPR TNC·1. The instruction manual with the
most 20 feet long. low-power unil ). modem kif has been announced by TAPR kit eescntes the TNC-2 hook up,
On August 1Bth. efforts began to ccmme- (The Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corpora- Experiencing is believing. Digital commu-
The Orbit
sion the CCO camera experimen t. This sys- tion). Kits are avai lable from TAPR for S70. nicatians via satellite at 9600 bps works ex-
Due to the m issia n req uir eme nt s af tem includes 11'10 CCD cameras: one with a Since the initial release, several bugs have ceptionally well. Actrvifies that are tedous at
TOPEXJPOSEIDON, K-0-23 is in an arbit un- lens system capable af 4 km resalutlon, and been found and corrected . The July 1992 is- 1200 bps flash by at 9600, Messages. pro-
like an y Of her amateue radio sateane. Most another with 400 meier resolution, The cam- sue of the 'Packet Status Register" I rom grams and images can be downloaded and
space shutt le missions have an inclinatio n eras are connected 10 an BOS1 microcontroller TAPR describes the iatest moddications to the uploaded with ease K-Q-23 has added aneth-
(angle of the mtlital plane relative 10 the equa- and from there to two transputers. board and interface procedures for the AEA er fine sateliite resource to the bamsat com-
tor) between 28 and 57 6egre~ and an am- The first image was taken at 1740 UTC on PKBB. AEA PK232MBX, ORSI PC·PA and the munity, iii
tude of less than 500 km. MOSllow-ort>if ham- Augus t 191h while the satel lite was ov er
sats have orbits thaI fake them over the pales. Antarctica, Satellite controllers were delighled
Their inclinalions are near 90 degrees and al- 10 see an excellent picture of lhe edge af me
titudes are usually less than 1,000 km. K-Q.23 earth shawing doud formations with an inter-
has a 66 deg ree ircunetcn and an aMude esting lighting effect cau sed by the low sun
near 1,325 km, Mosl Northern Hemisphere angle, Some software bugs caused d ropped
stations will find it diffarent 10 track because frames in the transpoier-tc-o ac (on-board
fh e sateliife doesn' t appear fa travel in a compu ter) path, Ihus carruptong later encts.
sl raight line. The path la kes some getting but the system is currently producing excellent
usedto , but the langer access limes for data views with both wide- and narrow-angle cam-
do wnloads per pass (jusf over 20 minules) eras. Due to the orientat,on of the satellrte, the
have been great. cameras are always painted earthward.

Spacecralt Commis sio ning Working K-Q-23

Only 24 minule s atter launch KITSAT·A xnsat's
uplink ( 145,900 MHz) and down-
was released into orbit and 14 hours tater the link (435, 167 MHz) both use AX.25 FSK at
KAtST ground station HL0ENJ in Korea was 9600 bps for normal cperauons. A typical
uploading software to the satellite. Many re- earth station has 100 watts ERP (effective ra-
porters witne ssed K-O·23 execute the very diated power) on the uphnk and a sensitive re-
forst command seqllllnce sent by KAIST. Up- cerver on the ooWlllink. Antennas range from
load activities and tests continued WIth few omnid,rectiona l turnstiles to circularly-polar-
problems, iZed yagis, A sligh~y modified TNC (terrnmal
During me
first few days, hams noted that node controller) with modem ceccmect head-
the K-O-23 signals were relatively weak and er, a 9600 bps modem and a PC-type comput-
Photo C. The first image taken by KO-23 used the wide-ang le camera. (Received
experienced severe fading. The satenne had er runnin g · PB" software compl ete the sys- and formaffed by NK6K and piolted by KB5UST.)
not yet been stabdized and only It\e few-power tem. Any station currently active on U-O-22
transmitter was on. Wilhin a week of launch can work K-o-23.
the craft was complelely stable with virtually Information on the ccroonenrs that make
no tumbling or spinning, The gravity-gradienl up a UoSat or Kitsat-ready station can be
boom was deployed and the TX1 transmitter fou nd in th e October 199 1 and Dece mber
was activated with a downlink on 435. 167 1991 ' Hamsars" columns. In add~ion to the

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 ASK KABooit 17 00 '00' , ..... " u" more. The micro's port conn ects to
where the re sistor meets the switch.
in duced VOltages on the re mo te
switch's wires (such as from your trans-
When the switch isn't bein g pressed, miller) and the wires' inductance kick
the connecnon point will be high. When atso can damage the micro. And you
The Tech Answer Man you pr ess me switC h, i l goes lo w can't put a capacitor across the wires
(to grou nd). By making the micro's to smooth things out because it inter,
soltwa re e xamine the val ue of the teres with the scanning pulse, making
MicIlaeI J. Geier KB, UM lew? Well, eere just aren't l hat many port, the switch's state can be de ter- the switch appear to be continuously
c/o 73 Magazine things to be coded. And speed is not mined. Actually, ifs almost that simple, pressed. II your remote switch is more
70 Route 2()2 North an issue fike it is on the PC so, if multi- b ut nOI cune . swacnes l e nd 10 than a few inches 01 wire away, it is
Petert>orovgh NH 03458 ple bytes are needed 10 re pre sent a 'bounce ." or h ave rapid -cns- and besllO use either a relay or a 4066 or
partieular piece of jnrorrratcn, it's no "offs," for a fraction 01 a second when Similar type analog switch chip. Multi-
Micro Power big deat yo u press or release them. To avoid plexed switches can be a real pain to
ThiS month we're going to explore terse readings, the sottware is rraoe remote.
rricro power. NO. nol QAP. I'm IalUlg tn Conlror 10 wail a lew milliseconds and l hen
Small microprocessors wi lh their l est Ihe SWitch's stale again. II the My Friend Fl ick er
about the microprocessors whiCh are
the brains 01 ;ust about all ol our gear own RAM and ROM buill in are known two readings match, Ihe computer By the way, Ihe multiplexing teen-
these eeys. Sure. you know what they as miOoco,troIe1s because they're in, knows lhat a valid press or release has rjque werts lor displays as wei . If you
do lor you. but how do they do if? tended to be used to con trol thi ngs, _..-. have lots and lois of LEO segments 10
rather than to be ee centers 01 large Hey, wait a minute, my '940 has an control, as you do in a frequency dis-
Just A Bit inlormatiOn systems. You can find 1Ti, awful lot of butlons on it! Is there a sap- play, you sure don't want a wire lor
I doubt there are very many hams ccccurceers in lots 01 things , from mi- arale port for each one? wen, probably each one. You can multiplex lhem in
out there who have no idea what a mi- crowave ovens t o VC Rs, and cam- not That would require a big chip With exactly the same way, thanks to the
croprocessor (e rs eee it a "miCro1 is. corders 10 hard disk drives. The chip's lots of wires, and remember, hardware eye's inability to see very rapid flash ·
JUS! about al 01 us have had some ex' architecture is essentially the same as costs lOOfIey, while software is free' To i'lg . The reSlJIt is that orlt1 one segment
pererce WIth desktop computers, and that 01 larger systems, but the nurrtlefs read lots of switches, an old ted1nique, in the enure display is on at anyone
many 01 us have them in our shacks. are smaller. A typical microconlroller used lor evetything from calc:ulator and time, but they get scanned so fast that
And if you have a computer, )'OU know might have anywhere from 256 bytes cornpuler keytloarOs to elecboilic tele- they aU appear to be on at the same
what nns, bytes, ROM and RAM are . to 2K ot RAM . You sure wouldn't want phones, is employed. Irs called multi· time. The technique reduces power
so I'm not going 10 wnte an eoee c0m- to type a documenl into it! pleJling Here's how it works: consurnplion, 100. Of course , the dis-
puter primer here. But What does lhal The ROM, which stores the operat· play doesn't appear as bright as it
mysterious little miero in yOU( walkie or ing program, also is typically in the 2 K Drive A 4X4 would if they were ail on together, but
HF rig have in common with your PC to 4 K range. Small as that sounds , it Let's say you have a t e-euucn most displays are more than bright
Clone? Well, more than just a bil . usually is enough to handle a pretty ke ypad, like the one found on most enough anyway. LEO lunction indica·
In tact , several bits! While your complica ted radio's 'unctions. In some waucee. To read each SWItch individual- IOfS, such as the ones used IOf filler
desktop machine reads and writes to cases , e xternal ROM an d A AM are ly requires 17 connections: one for and mode selections on some rigs, at-
disks and outputs characters to its used to increase the data capacity each switch and a common ground, If so may be muniplexed.
screen and printer, the micro in your rig Many HF rigs use murupie-ctup sys- instead, though , you wire them in an If you want to see if your display is
reads tne rad io's knobs and buttons tems, although some do it all on one X!Y grid, you can do it with only eight multiple xed. try this: Turn the rig on
and wrrtes to the display screen . It also chip. Most watk ies use one or tw o wires. Try it on paper. Draw rour rows and shulthe room lights 011. Now, stare
outputs control signals to the frequency chips. of 'our boxes each, Now, connect them at the display and move your eyes
synthesizer Whi ch pu ts your rig on together horizontally and vertically, II rapidly in a circle, It you see interrupted
whatever frequency is shown on the Take It For A Spin you connec t lour wires at. say, the left bars or light, the display is multiple xed.
display. So , ho w many bits does It When you spin the tuning knob on and four at the top, no matter which
butt on you press, you'll make a con-
If all you see is a bunch 0' solid
take? one of today's typical HF rigs, an opti- smears, there's no multiplexing in use.
We ll , desktop PCs t ypicall y use cal encoder (a scneo disk with an ar- r ecuon between a wire on the top and And, if you do it long enough, you may
eigh t or more bits. Why? Because it ran gement of LEOs and detecto rs) a w ire on th e si de so me where. get to see Nirvana.
takes at least six to represent all the sends pulses to the micro. Its software 0 1 course, mu ltiple ke ys pres sed at LCOs usually are multiplexed, tOO,
upper- and lower-case cha racte rs. It reads the pulses and changes the Ire- the same time can cause all kinds 01 but their inherently slow response time
you raise two {the number of possible quency by rewri tin g the display and ccoruston . The way to avo id it is to makes the segments stay set between
bit states-con and off} 10 the power 01 sending the proper codes to the fre- scan the ro ws Bnd columns, looking scans, so they really are all on, or
the numbe r 0' bits, that tells you how quency syn thesizer, It may fee/l ike 'or connections. That way, i' you find nearly so, at the same time.
many possible combinations you can you're tuning a VFO, but you're really more Ihan one set, you can ignore
make 'rom those bits, Two to the Sixth JUS t alterin g da ta! ( For th at matter. them all. By the way, if you're trying to f!.to D, Where Are You?
power equals 64 , so you can use six these day s a "VFO" is nothing more discern the grid pattern on a bunch of SOme micros, particularly the ones
bits to cover the alphabel and num -
bers. But just barely. By the time you
than a piece 0' data in memory any- SWitcheS, keep in mind that the electri-
cal arrangement is not necessarily re-
in walkies, display s-eerer readings in
the lorm 01 LCD bargraphs. Some also
wa y.) Many other con trols work Ihe
add punctuation, -ccetrcr' characters same way. Usually, the AIT, modulatiOn lated to the physicat layout 0 1 th e show battery voltage. To do Ihis, the
(so named ceeeose they let you oontrol rrode (AM, FM , SSB, etc.), filter selec- switches. SOmetimes they match, but ana log voltage represe nli ng the re -
the machine Instead of producing any- tion and IF shift or PBT are controlled sometimes swacnes on unrelated ar- ceived signal strength or bauery volt-
thing on the screen) and cerecs some via the rrsco. Some lunctiOnS, like vol- eas of lhe rig may be connected in a age must be digitized and converted 10
graphiCS blocks and such, you are way ume and SQuelch, are just regular old grid . Ultimately, w hat ever costs me bargrapll steps by the micro for display,
over 64 ccces and you need more bits , analog controls, but they too could be least wi. be used. It sounds messy but. luckily, most eee-
Eight bits gives you 256 characters, made to be part 01 the computer srs- em microconlrollers have buin-in ana-
whiCh are more than enough . tern and probably wi. be in the Mure. Where In The Wortd Is Common Iog-t~igital (AID) converters, making
SO, why use more than eighl bits? Why bother? Well, wouIdn1 it be nice to Groundiego? the job very easy. There is one tunc -
Wei , for word proceSSing. there's really have the SQuelch "remerri>er" ns prop- Please notice that. in the scanned teo. however, where the rigs coeet. All
no point. But for graphiCS and higrt--pre- er setting on FM but return 10 the wide arrangement no SWItch has a ground! the walkies ree seen which have bar·
cision math, having more tilts per byte open position on SSB? Scanning ports are specially construct- IJ'aph RF power output d'.splays Simply
jets you f1'IOYE! more informatIOn arOUnd ed to provide a voltage pulse on one show a preset number of bars which
faster. Essentl8ny, a computer's archi- Getting Wired set ol connections and 10 look for it on oeoeocs only l4)On the power level you
tecture is that 01 a senar device With SO how does a rt'iero read a switch, the other; mat's how the scann ing is have chosen. I've never seen one that
parallel La nes, much like a multi,lane anyway? Actually, irs prelly simple. Mi- aCCOlT'lPliShed. I've seen more than a actually shows a rear measurement
ex pres sway. You can move ju st as eros have "ports: which are just con, 'ew cases ol damaged chips because of the power coming oul ol the trans-
many cars with lwO lanes as lour, but it rectons used lor inputs and outputs, someone wanted 10 connect a remote mitter.
takes twice as long . So, many PCs or "110," as they say. In rrcst cases, the swilch and put it between the mic ro Well, there 's lots more to d is-
now use 16 or even 32 bits. switch will have one end lied to ground, and ground. If you need 10 connect a cuss, but I've run out 01 room . We'll
In co ntra st , the m ic ros in mosl WIth the other end tied to the posiliVe remote SWIICh, you must connect it continue nan month, 'Tit then, 73 de
radios use lour Of eight bits! Why so supply via a resstce 01 a lew k ohms or across the original one. Unfortunately, KB1UM. iii
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PACKET & COMPUTEiis~'d similar to a voice repeater, but is not

fUll duplex. AX.25 allows up to eight
intervening "dig is," which are speci-
scheme that uses 10 M Hz radio
transmissions on RG-58 cable. It is a
CS MAfCD-based system, and is
fi ed in the conn ect request to the quite similar to packet radio in opera-
TNC. Stations seeing the dig ipeat re- tion. Ethernet is used throughout the
quest will handle the packet in the or- Internet.
der in which the list is specified. Even fEe Forward Error Correction is
Jeff Sloman N 1EWO CRC See: Error Detection and if the destination can hear the origi- a scheme which allows broadcast
do 73 Amateur Radio Today Correction. nator directiy, it will ignore the packet messages with very low error rates.
70 Route 202 North CSMAlCD Carrier Sense Multiple until the digis handle n. Ail packet Unlike AX.25, which uses retransmis-
Peterborough NH 03458 AccesS/Collis ion Detection is the ac- stations are digipeaters by defaulI- sion to correct errors, FEC modes
cess method used by the AX.25 pro- this function of the TNC must be ex- send the error-correcting data along
Digital Radio Glossary tocol to allow simultaneous use of a plicitly turned off if it is not desired. with the original transm ission. This
Many 01 the letters you've sent singl e channel by multiple stations. DSP Digital Signal Processing is redundan t information can be used to
(thanks for writing!) have had ques- This differs from, say, land-line mo- a relatively new technique which us- reconstruct data that is damaged up-
tions about basic packet and digital dem connecuons where the conver- es general purpose or specialized mi- on arrival. This method is very similar
radio lenTIinology. Instead of answer- sation is be t ween a pair of croprocessors to do the job that ana- to QSZ-sending each word or group
ing them individually, I thought I modems-one on each end of the log filters normally do. Since OSP- more than once-in CW traffic han-
would give you a digital radio glos- line. CSMNCD is easy to understand based filters can be programmed for dling. II QSB-fading-or QRM/QRN
sary. This Is by no means an exhaus- if you think in terms of a typical group all sorts of different behaviors, they - inte rference- make copying one
tive effort, but it answers all the ques- discussion on a repeater. Each sta- are e xtre mely fle xible . M ulti mOde attempt impossible, it can probably
lions I have received and provides tion listens to the channel and waits units based on DSP are becoming be reconstructed from the repeated
related inlormation. I hope you all for the curren tly transmitting station available and have the advantage of vers ion.
lind this useful, and maybe some- to finish (carrier sense). being ready for any new mode that Frame AX.25 uses data packets
thing worth saving and relerring to in If one (or more-multiple access) might appear by simple reprogram- cal led frames to transmit data and
the future. Please let me know what of the listening stations wish to make ming of the DSP chip. link management information. There
you think-and 01 any questions you a comment, they will wait for an arm- DWAIT Digipeater Wait is an im- are three basic AX.25 frames:
have about items d iscussed here. trary period of tim e to make sure portant TNC parameter which deter- I Frames Information-Transmis-
Thanks for the wonderful response to "th ey've got it. " They don't key up mines how long a station will wait af- sion Frames transmit user data-the
the column by US Mail, and various right away because others might do ter the last transmission before at- text of messages and bulletins, etc,
email. 7:3 de N1EWQ. the same and cause a double. But, tempting to acquire the channel for S Frames Supervisory Frames
AMTOR Ama teur Teleprinting even if the stations wait to see if the its own use. Digipeaters should have are used to establish and main tain
Ove r Radio is an enhanced form of channel becomes busy, two can de- smaller settings than users, s ince the link between two stations. They
RT TY, including error correction cide to transmit at precisely the same they need to be able to repeat users are responsible for ACKs (ACKnow l-
(called Mode A or ARQ for Automatic time , causing a double any way.
ReQuest for reception) and FEC
(Mode B) modes. It is well suited to
Whe n this happens, th e sta tion to
whom the transmission was directed
"I hope you all find this useful,
noisy HF channels and reliab le,
though very slo w. AMTOR avoids
will say some thing Hke. "You guys
just doubled, K9Hltry it again"-colli-
and maybe something worth saving
QSB (fading) and QRM/QRN (noise)
by sending very small data packets,
slon detection.
One other access method which
and referring to in the future. Please
two characters at a time, giving an will also be familiar to repeater users let me know what you think-and of
AMTOR QSO its Characteristic stac- Is called Token Passing. In this
cato sound. AMTOR Mode B is ex- scheme a "token" is passed amon g any questions you have about items
cellent fo r bulletins and a version nodes on the net. When the node re-
called NAVTEX is used to communi- ceives the token, it can use the chan- discussed here. "
cate with ships at sea. See: FEC. nel-though It may not want to. It
AX ,25 Amateur X.25 is a version makes its transmission-or not-e-and packets. This very simple method edgements) and NAKs (rejections), in
of the CCITT X.25 protocol with en- men passes the token on to the next has not been effective for busy LANs, addit ion to establ ishment and termi-
hancements for operation over radio, node. You may have already recog- and has been-or should be-re- nation ot the link,
It is the set of rules which is used by nized this as tne scheme used in placed by the Slot Time parameter, U Frames Unnumbered Frames
the packet TNC to establish, main- round-table QSOs: "WN9T and the which is more random. are used when there is no connection
tain, and terminate a link between group, this is N1EWO: the token is Error Detection and Correction to another station. They may also be
t wo staucns. and to transfer data passed. Packet radio has an advantage over used during a connect ion for miscel-
back and forth . AX.25 defines the DCD Data Carrier Detect has two olde r digital modes like RTTY be- laneous housekeeping.
structure of valid data lrames and tne meanings. It is the designation of pin cause it detects and corrects er rors Hidden Transmitter Because
behavior of the sending and receiving 8 of th e RS-232D pinout slandard, in transmitted data packets called AX, 25 uses a scheme called Carrier
stations. See: CS MNCD; Error De- and it is a function of the TNC which frames. AX.25, the packet orotoccr. Sense Multiple Access/en (CSMAI
tection and Correction; Frame. determines if there is incoming da- uses a technique called CRC (Cyclic CD), all stations operating in a LAN
Backbone A network connection ta-or another station on the air. Be- Redundancy Check) to determine if (Local Area Network) must be able to
among LAN s. Packet radio beck- cause pac ket radio uses CSMNCD, the frame ar rives intact, A CRC is a be heard by all other stations-this is
bones are usually used to connect it is important for the TNC to know if mathematical operation which is per- the carrier sense part. tf not , some
LANs for PBBS message forwa rding, there is another station on the air. formed on all data in a frame . The stations will attempt to transmit while
although some allow user traffic. DCD comes in two basic types. The resu lt is transm itted along with the others are on the air. This leads to
Baud Named for the French engi- s implest ma kes no distinct ion be- frame and must match the resu lt co llisions- l ike doubli ng on re-
neer J. M.E. Baudot (Baw '-doe), a tween actual data and anything that the rece ive r gets using the same peaters. Though the COllision detec-
baud is a discrete transition of a sig- opens the squelch-noise. voice, operation-a misma tch indicates a tion part of CSMAlCD will reject the
na l which can carry information , whateve r. Th e second, ca lled De- detected error. The receiver then re- garbled frame and acts for a retrans -
Baud is not necessarily equal to bps riv ed DCD , actuall y determines if quests a retransmission, called a mission, the hidden transmitte r will
(bits per second) since fancy modula- there is data present. Since this type retry, of the frame and the process is continue to interfere until both it and
tion schemes-using signal phase of DCD allows the squelch control to repeated until the data arrives with- the station it is interfering with "retry
and trellis encoding, for example- be left open at all times, it can be ad- out error to the retry count-the num- out" (give up and disconnect). The
can stuff more than one bit in each vantageous for older radios and high- ber 01 attempts the transmitting TNC only way to prevent this problem is to
baud. These Schemes are common speed transmiss ion where the lim it- wi ll allo w-is exceeded. The retry insure that everyone can hear ali sta-
in land-line applications, but general· ing factor is the speed of the squelch coun t is a settable TNC parame ter tions operaling in the LAN and, since
Iy are not used in radio since proper- circuit. which de faults to 10, it is impractical to expect ali stations
ties li ke phase-on which they de- Digipeater A DIGital rePEATER Ethernet Developed by Xerox at to erect antennas capab le ot this, a
pend-are hard to preserve. is a station which receives a packet the ir Palo A lto Research Cente r repeater-almost identical to a voice

62 73 Amateur Radio Today · N ovem ber, 1992

 HAMS WITH CLASS"okW
d
(;afOIe Perry WB2MGP stuutron. The AWA has gained ollicial
MeeJa MentOIS. Inc. recognitiOn in past years when ~ was in-
PO Boll 131646 Yited 10 hokI ns amual hiSlorical conler-
Sialen Island N Y 103 1:J.0006 eoces at three 01 the nation's leadllg mu-
seums: The Ford Science Museum in
The Antique Wireless Associa- Dearborn , Mich igan : The Benjamin
tion: A Heterodynamic Group Franklin Institute in Philadelphia; and The
This past summer I had lhe privilege Smith so nian Institu tion in Washingt on,
of ~ ng a guest speaker al a hamfasl in D.C.
Batavia. New York, My gracious host for By 1970. Kelley's bam was overflow-
the weei<.end was Tom Rosica W2GIR, a ing and t he AWA le ase d h all ol lhe
productiOn tectne:ian in racio and televi- Bloomfield Academy Building. Following
sion at Genesee Com munity College. renovalion oIlhe 1837 buildng.lhe AWA
Tom was a as-veer employee of the Ior- Il'lUSelm InOYed in alongside the muset.m
mer GTE·Sylvani a plant in upstate New 01 the Historical Society 01 the TOWIl 01
'0<1<. East Bloomfield. wt'idl ceo!pie5 the oIher
II was a pleasure to be taken on a tour half oIlhe former sdlooI. II you are ceo- Phoro A Q:1efaling a 1923 amateur phone station at the AWA E1ocIrooic Commu-
of l hi s most scenic area 01 New Yor1l: sidering viSlllog there. or laking a dass nication Museum, East Bloomfield. Ne w YorlI'.
state. Tom took greal pride in lelling me trip 10 \his wonderful place . you should
aboul lhe good works of the Genesee Ra- know thaI the Aadio Museu m in East houses more than 25,000 hisloricaJ nere. have lound a place n lhe AWA Electronic
dio Amate urs, who a re ve ry active in Bloomfield is aboul 20 miles socrteast 01 trc m early Mo rse t eleg ra ph key s, re - Communication Museum. The museum's
community affairs and are prepare d to oownlawn Rochester and 10 miles west peaters, relays, and other equipment . 10 resources include a comprehensi ve li-
help oul in emergencies. This region of of Canandaigua. the eartiest commercial wireless appara- brary of books. periodicals. photographs
New York is known for severe winters and The Radi o Museum is a teacher's Ius (vintage 191 0 and earnen and radio and documents basic 10 ils research and
blizzards thaI can devastate an entire reo dr eam . Not enough museum s otter receivefS-Which are considered 10 make the sharing or lhi s kncwreoqe with ctn-
gion . Tom spoke of several Such ceca- youngsters. Of cesters for thaI maner.ne up one 01 the finest collections in lhe Unrt· ""."
SiOnS where the communicalions 01 ham oppoclunily 10 touch. leel and even smell ad Slates. In addition to race and wire- Many of us enjoyed ,he recent show-
radio operators were the only thing lhe lhelr embils. Most ctee displays al this less gear, the museum contains slld1 vi- ing of ee PBS ~'e of The Air." This
comrmmy had to rely on. museum are out in the open to be eKam- sual equipmenl as l he early RCA and Ken Bums doctP1enlary covered the kves
I had a wonderftA lime speaking wilh ined and enjoyed. According to Broce Finch lacsmile machines. and scarYling oflhree controversial radio ccoeers: De-
marry 01 the hams and teachers wOO at- Keley. most 01 their l our groups consisl disk-type leleYiSiOn receivers. Forest. Armstrong. and se-en The story
tended my Ioru'n. V"lSilors 10 !tis part of of school easses. SCoullfOOPS, reI ired Many ollhe exhibifs have been 00Nl· stayed dose 10 the excelent Tom lewiS
our state gat 10 ef10y a special kind 01 1oIks, and artique aticionaclos. Mrission ed by privale institutiOns or are on loan book 01 the sa-ne litle. A laf99 ilIllCUlI of
hospiIaMy. Tom kepl assuring me thaI no 10 the museum is free. from cerer-mereere. There are today the IooIage was photographed or recon:t-
Yisillo !tis cortmIXIily WOtAd be complete Exposing youngsters to artifacts and more than 3 .600 members in lhe AWA ed in the AWA Musetn1. including the Sig.
without a lour of the wol'ld·l amous An- reliCS 01' lI'le past is a terriliC leaching 1001. world wide. Among t hem are lea ding nals from lhe Associaliorfs rotary spark
tique Wireless Assodalion Radio Muse- The Radio Museum provides lhe visitor scroere. slalesmen, scienlisls and indus- transmitter.
um in Bloomfield. New York. My interest with a "feet" lor what went betore. This is trial eaoers. and many oId-lime pcoeers The AWA Museum is open from May
was really piqued when Tom lntrodcced how we come to know where we are now: in te lec om mu nica tion s. Acco rdin g to through October. I hea rtil y recommend
me 10 Bruce Kelley W2ICE. the museum's by experiencing the enrichment of lhe Bruce , "Mem bers hi p in cludes Marc oni that you put this museum on your "must
curator. For the iongesltime, Frank Gun· things mat make up our history. In lhis she-to-snore ope rators 10 hundred s of see" list when you have the time. I also
ther W2ALS {friend and colleague of Ma· museum you will "experience- one or the amateur radio operators who earned their recommend lhat you bring a t least one
jor Edwin Armstrong) had been telling me largesl collections ot ean y radiO appara- expertise in the days or the spark gap and young person along with you.
lhat I musl get in touch wit h Bruce Kelley lus-aelu at equipment associ ated With ee coherer. In add,tion, mere are scores Fo r more eeune about the Antique
and visit lhis most impressive museum. Ma rconi, De Forest. Armstrong . Edison 01 knowing anliQuarians who have saved Wireless AssociatiOn or the Radio M use-
My only regret tu rned out to be th at I and OCher pcoeers. MlId1 of rt st,. works . from oblivion literally thoosands 01 ern- um, wme 10 Bruce Kelley W2ICE, Main
lfIOO' have more lime 10 spend there on The AWA MIJS9l,m in East Bloomfield sects Irom earliest wireless days which Stroot, Holcomb, New YorIl l 4469. iii
this visil . Jl is delinitely on my list 01
places 10 reYisiI as soon as I ca'\.
---- -
GOLDEN AGE of EN'IERJAIIIME.'IT
Bnxe Kelley
In 1936. Bruce Kaley began c:olIecting
radio Ilbes and old gear wNIe he was jv-
ing i1 Rochesler, New YorI<. When Bruce
Ii
was 34, in 1948, he set up a museum in
h is ba rn in Spencerport. Br uc e, wh o • •••
worked ror Eastman Kodak, became well
known in lhe area lor the extraordinary ••••
euoe p resentation s and equipment o.s-
plays l hat he brou ghl to meelings and
harntests. After awhile, u ese acnvmes
took up so much of his time lhat. in 1952.
•
he fOUl"lded the AIlIique Wireless Assoda·
tion with Geor ge aane rsce W2GB and
lilc Cl.nctaI W2LC.
The AWA began to grow in member-
ship, and Kaley and hs museu-n moved
10 a new home and a new bam in Hol-
comb, New York. The "Old TImer's Bul-
letin" was lOlIlded in 1960,lhe AWA Na-
Iional Conlerence debuted in 1963, and in
1972 the AWA was charlered by the stale
of New York as a nonprofit educational in· Photo B Curator Bruce L. Kelley W2ICE with a group of school childre n.

64 73 Amateur Radio Today · November, 1992

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nately, this is still rare--due mostly to a ROM, hence the name. NetROM rerneter that works in conjunction nelworlling world, and is being adopt-
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Hi erarchi c al Add r ess i ng A tion about other NetROM nodes that thoroughly randomize attempts to ac- AX.25. While il has some distinct
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forward packet messages to easily location. Use rs co nnecting to it is important that transmissions oc- more difficult to get running than a
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runs from specific (callsign) to gener- them, avoiding the time-outs and oth- sions. SLOTTIME and PERSIST (KA9Q) implementation of the utilities
al (continental region). We don't yet er limitations of digipeaters. work like this: needed to run TCPflP, can be found
Include plane t in a hierarchical ad- Packet The general name given SLOTTIME specifies the amount on many BBSs. The best way to get
dress. to amateur computer nefworking via of time the TNC will wait before qen- started in TCPflP is to find someone
Intern et An enormous Ethernet radio, it is derived Irom the use 01 da- erating a random number between 0 already running it.
network with tens of thousands of ta "packets" to provide data integrity. and 255, which will be used by PER- Term inal Em ulat i on Using a
government, educational, and com- See: AX.25; Frame. SIST. computer program to emulate a
mercial computers connected. The PACLEN An important TNC pa- PERSIST se ts tne threshold (0- dumb ferminal. Digital's VT series is
resources of the lntemet are used by r amete r wh ic h determines the 255) which wi ll be checked against the most common choice.
amateurs running TCP/IP to create length-in characters-of an I the random number each time SLOT- Th eN et Another automatic net-
'wcrmnores' that route transmissions Frame. Larger va lues will increase TIME specifies one should be gener- worlling scheme, similar to NetROM.
originating on radio through the land- throughpuf on quiet channels by re- ated. See: NetROM .
line Intemers high capacity network. ducing overhead, but will drastically The exact settings of these values TN C A Terminal Node Controller
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most Instantly from the US to Aus- qui re retries. The default size is usu- should be dete rmined by a technical "brains" to run AX.25 protocol. Be-
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local Aussie AX.25 network. PACTOR An experimental mode zanon. needs only to have a terminal and ra-
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is similar to NetROM networlling. parts of packet and AMTOR and sign tnat allows a station to have gence are available for use with inex-
LAN Local Area Networks are combines them into an excellent sys- multiple connections active without pensive modems.
groups of nodes-usually user termi- tem for the condi tions found on tne cotuston of the packet address. TN C Parameter s Sellings used
nals, like packet steucns-cmat are HF bands. Its legality lor use by US SSIDs up to and including 15 are by the TNC to determine how it will
connected in such a way as to direct- hams is questionable, given the am- valid. An SSID of 15 is usually at- behave. Because of varying channel
ly share the networll channel. In Ihe biguity 01 the rules concerning digital tached to a user's cali when they are conditions, there is no single "ideal"
case of packet, LAN nodes are those modes. There is hope, however, that being heard through a network node set of values. Other things like call-
slations which directly participate in this will change. like a NetROM node. sign and text messages are also
the CSMA/CD sharing of a frequen- PBBS A Packet Bulle tin Board TCPIlP Transport Control Proto- in the set of parameters, See:
cy. This is distinct from WANs (Wide System is a computer program which colflnternet Protocol is the protocol MAXFRAME; PACLEN; SLOTTtMfi"",
Area Networks) which are used to allows amateurs to exchange mes- used on the Internet. It is me closest WAN See: LAN. III
connecl LANs together. The ensure- sages and provides automatic store
lion is rot necessarily tied to geagra- and forward facilities for bulletins and
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anolher is how that ~ny changes on the uptake, but reviewing a radiO
or ~es a product. based on input during FI8ld Day is asking lOt trouble .
lrom tts CUSlomers. Ten-Tee is a good FJeld Day has to be the au-urre worst
exarroe. Teo-Tee began as a company place 10 test a new reco. You gel es
producing ORP equipment and lheir kinds of critters flying about on Field
Argonaut ttne has become the worl d Day. lrom no antennas to weak batter-
standard in low power amateur radio ies. Don'I forget all the other stations
transceivers. When Ten-Tee introduced all trying to be on the same band at the
th e Argonau t 11 at the '91 Da yton sa me time. The Ten·Tee Argonaut 1/.
Ha mv enncn . there were some rough Well, several days before Field Day,
edges. The unit I initially reviewed re- the Argonaut II arrived. The lirsl thing pOI"1 S include receive audio. TIR line changes I really like. Firs!. in the older
vealed some 01 these rough edges and that gol my attention when I opened and transmit audiO, as weR as TIA line vllfSiOn 01 the firmware, when the Argo
other people noticed the same lhing5. the box was a tull-blowo manual with to key an external amplifl(lr. Ten- Tee did II went into transmit the frequency was
Most companies would have just schematiCs lor the A1gonaul II. AU my not incIode the band-line outputs on the locked. You eeoen move the frequen-
weathered lhe storm and let the rain first unit had were some inslJUctiOnS lor rear ol the Argonaut II to aulomatieal- cy around the band with the main tun-
roll 011 their backs. Not Ten-Tee! Altha memory prograrrming and some con- Iy select the proper band on the am- ing knob. Now this problem has been
'92 Dayton HalTlllen!ion I cornered Tom densed operabng instructions. pillier. Remember, you pu rchased a hed. I guess it's not the best thing to
salvetti KC3NF, viCe president ol Ten- This lime around, me Argonau l Jl ORP transcei\lef in the fIrSt place. Yes, do on the bands, but band swebers
Tec markehng. Tom mentioned Ihal seems to have a better Iii and linish O RPers do use amplifiers, just ask are a part 01 life. II nothing else, it's
Ten-Tee made several changes in sub- than the first urut I testec . The silk· Randy KD8JN but hoolting up an Arg- great to swish around to lind the res-
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dozen or so prototypes were the ones holding me covers on. In their place, tnen use an ampnuer. get the Delta. operating on battery power. When the
that got out as review units. A prototype Phillips scre w heads. Now you can You can turn the Della's RF po wer battery voltage dropped down to 12
was the one I received for the original open the case withoul a lrip to Sears down. too. volts, things went kinda weird. By nash-
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 w ere more chang es done to the aoo-cnm TV twin lead and some 450 · not, All in all . the Argo II rea lly did level to save my hearing.
fi rm wa re con trolling the A rg o II, bu t ohm open ladder line . I ran out of TV super on Field Day, The g oof that I am. I worke d both
these two I really think help the most. lead wire. The Argo II received its pow- CW an d 5SB during FD. Switching
The first Argo II I reviewed showed er from an 80 amplhour battery. solar- Sugge st ions l or Impr o vement Irom SSB tc CW is no big deal. only a
diHerent arrcunts 01 transmit current for charge d 01 course. Are there still some rough edges? couple of b ullon pushes. But. I sure
the same amount o f RF output. T his Our club had a CW station, too. An Well, nothing is cenect and yes. there miss the automatic mode selection tee-
time around, the current lor the trans- old Trifon 4 was pressed into dUty this are some things that I leel need to be ture most modern transce ivers have.
nstter is wit hin a tew hundred mn- year f or the C W srauon. Both tne looked at Going from 75 5SB to 40 CW and not
liamperes 01 each other. Transmif cur- phone and the CW staten were run- With the lu ll ma nual, ma ny o f the p ushing the buttoos caused me no end
rent ranged from a low or 2.51 afT1C)s 00 ning 100 watls output. l iner points in selting up the Argo II are of grief. I'd ke y th e rig, then get a
80 rreiers to a high 012.84 amps 00 17 Anyone wor1ting the event this year lully e xplained. I would like to see a sicetcoe but no RF. Alter lOOking lor
meters. RF power was 5 watts into a can lell you the band conditioos were drawing on the settlOQ 0 1 the bandwidth loose wires, downed antennas and ev-
50-0hm load No sig\al receive current the pits. Everyone started out on a dif- control and adjustable li lter cont rol. erything else in between, I noticed that
is 832 rnA on rece ive with the back- lerent band. Aner a lew hours went by. T his drawing should show the approxi- the rad io w a s in th e wro ng mode .
lighting ott, and 888 rnA with the back· we all knew how bad the bands really mate locations IOf bandwiCllh. Put the RATS!! II wou ld (should) be a simple
lighting 00. were . Toward the late part of the night. b an dw id t h co ntrol he re for 50 0 Hz change to the firmware 10 tlave the ra-
In the past, keying the radio with a we somehow all managed 10 be on the wide, here for 1200 Hz, etc. As sid as dio switch modes as you change Ire-
transistor·switched keyer seemed to same band at the same time. The band the variable bandwidth control is, Ten- quency. GoIng !rom 7.040 CW to 7.200
cause some trouble . I was able to key happened to be 80 meters ; D on Tee would really have a radio II I could 5SB would then be automatic. Moving
the Argo II using anything I had in my W08DEA on 75 meter phone , the CW tlave the best 01 the digital slUff and the Irom 40 meter lower sideba nd 10 20
shack. A fill? rm not sure, but the !if$! station on the one end and me in the crystal l ilters from my Argo sy II. Yes, meter upper sideband would also be
ones off the tine had trouble WIth some . -. the COS! 01 all the !lIters would be ex- automaoc. As it is. the Argo II worn do
keyers, When the CW stance was on, me pensive and yes, you wou ld lose the this si f11)le taSk .
For the times when you want 10 es- phone station got na iled. T urn ing on advantage 0 1 the variable ba ndwidth The Argo II has many pluses. too.
ten to the BBC 00 5875 kHz . the AM me aueeuatcr. I was not onl y able control, but iI's a thought. With the LCD backlighting. the display
aUCiO response rolls off at 1600 Hz (as to work stations. but I was also able to I found it hard 10 keep a station cen- did no! tire out my eye s. even at 3 a.m.
reported by OSJ) is ~ bed. Adjust nudge up as cl ose as 5 kHz to t he tered in the passband 0 1 the rece ive r 5hulbng off the backlighting saves only
the NOTCH conlrol so it is 100 percent CW stabon without getting nailed. Oh whe n I tightened up the h iler ban d- about 50 rnA so I just kept it 00 all the
001 01 the circuit (Iully counterclock· yes, I cou ld tell when the CW station width. I hed this problem by myse lf by time.
wise). The Argo II is not a Drake A8, was transmitting. but I could still coer- setting the f~ter con trol at the 11 o'dock The semi-QSK (slow QSK) worked
and it was not designed to be , but it al- ate! On the other hand. Don threw up oul quite welt under the aRM aFteid

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position and then adjusting the PBT
lows lor good shortwave liStening. Mosl his hands and headed lor the f ood tuning cont rol 10 cente r the statio n I Day. I like to work aSK with the best
01 the QRM fighting controls, however, wanled , Leaving both controls alone, I of them, but FD is really hard on me
are olfline when in AM mode. rcc e myoid Argona u t 509 with
I used the main tuning knob 10 fune the ears.
me and swapped out the pair. I never station in to my IilterlPBT settings. This I have to hand it 10 Ten-Tee for get-
Field Day Testing made it to the front 0 1 th e rad io as seemed 10 work t he be st under FD ting many 01 the problems worked out
The real acid test came during Field the CW staucn na iled the 50 9 right CRM. or the Argonaut II. You don't see this
Da y. I set the Argo II up beside our lhen. I QUiCkly unplugged the 509 and Using the scot lunctioo to get a sta- too many limes nowadays . So . next
phone station. Don Wade WD 8DEA replaced it wit h the Argo II. I thought tioo property tuned in was dllficutt dur- t ime you work a stalion and he tells
was using our ICOM 735, His antenna the 509 , having a tu ne d front end. ing the FD CRM. It worked , but I had to you . "Rig here is Argo II," he has a
wa s a G 5A V. I used a center-feed ve r sus the Argo II's brceoeanoec run up the eieetcoe level so high to wc nocte ss a AP transcei ve r on his
zecc and fed the antenna with a run 0 1 tr e nt en d. mi ght be better. I guess overcome the CRM. then reduce the de sk. He has an Argona uf II. iii
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The M Jlt,uukee Repe ater Club,
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P.O. Box 2 123, Mllwilukee WI
Conlact Alma AB5BA, (8 f7) 859- mcal programs throughout the day. Mal1let set-up 3-8 PM Nov. 13th. and &0-
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Plymouth Center (RT3A) f rom NOV15 NOV 21 P.O. Box 1386. Washington PA
9 AM-3 PM . Admission i s a $2 15301. Tel. (412) 695-8608 after 6
BENSON, NC The Johnston ARS, PARK RAPIDS, MN The Smokey
donation; childre n under 12 free. PM.
Inc. will hold its annual ~J A R S ­ Hills ARC will hold a Ham Fest at
Tables $12 ea. in advance, $ 14 ea.
FEsr at the A m e r i c a n L e g i o n the Eagles Club from 9:30 AM-3;30
at fhe doo r if available. Walk-in VE WHEATON,IL. G.M.R.S. of Illinois,
Complex from 8 AM-4 PM . Tickets PM. Tickets $3. $4 for a table and
Exams. Talk -i n on 44 6 .6 25 a nd Inc . will host Iheir ann ua l "W inte r
$4 in advance, $5 at the door. Ta- admission. Talk-in on 147.30. Con-
146 .55 simplex. To pay for tables, Fest 92," at DuPage County Fai r-
bles $6. Tailga ting $3. Set-up a t tact Nick De Carlos, KA 7VLH. Rt.
mai l checks w ith an SASE to grounds, 20 15 W. Manchester, from
6:30 A M. Co ntact etn Lambert f Box 352A , Park Rapids MN
M .A .R.C., P.O. Box 76 6, Dept. 8 AM·1 PM. Set-up at 6 AM . Tick-
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FM, Plymouth MA 023 61 . Fo r ets $4 in advance. $5 at the door.
27504 . Tel. (919) 894·3352 oe-
exa m info can Dave KA 1TXO, Tables $ 10 in advance, $12 at the
tween 7 PM-l0 PM. SUMTER, SC License Preparation
(61 7) 58 5- 13 5 1. For Flea Markel In- door. Talk-i n o n 146 . 52 di rect;
Classes are being of fered by the
fo, call Jon WS1K, (508) 746-0162, 4 6 2 .6 0 0 , P L 173.8. Con tact
BRANFORD, CT The Sou thcen- Sumter AR A. For info write Sumter
or Jim NM1F, (508) 747-2224 G.M.R.S. of Illinois, In c ., 2077 W.
tra l Conn. ARA will hold ns tam ARA. P.O. Box 193. Sumter SC
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po/1992 ARRL Indiana Stale Con- Reservation deadline (in wri ting , no uled l or 12 noon at the Fowle r Hamtest will be held at the Eagles
vention will be sponsored by AC - phone) Nov. 1. SASE 10 SCARA , Bldg., 145 Bridgeport Ave., by the Club, starting with regist ration at
ARTS, and held at the County War P.O. Box 705, Branford CT 06405- Coas tline Amateur ARA. wane-ins. 8;30 A M . There will be a Handt-
Me morial Coliseum . Doors open 9998. For info call Brad. (203) 265- All classes. Contact Gary NBfM, Ham equipment auction. Dinner at
Sat. 9 A M-4 PM; Sun. 8 AM-3 PM. 9983. Talk-in on 146.0 1/.6 1. (203) 933-512 5. or Dick WA1YQE, noon and prog ram. Tal k- in on
VE E xams both d ay s . Coliseum (203) 874·1014. 14 6 .1 9 f .7 9 . Contact Don Franz
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Admission $5. Comm ercial tables Radio Flea Market will be held at WASHINGTON, PA The 5th ann u- Lea MN 56007.
$30. Flea Market tables $15, (elec- Knights 01 Columbus Hall . Admis- al Tri-State HamfesllComputer Fair
tricity $25 extra). Reserve tables by sion $1 . Table and space wlone ad- will be held at the Chartiers Hous- DEC6
Nov. 6th. Talk -in on 146 .88- and mission $10. set-co at 7:30-9 A M. ton High School from 8 AM-3 PM . HAZEL. PARK, MI The Hazel Park
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with chec k, 00 phone reservanons.) Certificate is known as the Gerat oJ Fo r a certi fica te, sen d a SL a nd the Novice portion 01 the 10 meter
Free pa rki ng. Talk -In o n 14 6 ,64 - number. This ne t al so a ids th o se S ASE to SCARS, P.O. Box 64, band. Fo r a certif icate, plea se send
(DART). For rese rvation s and info. operalors on the completion of the CJJn t on HC 28328. a aSl and a large " 0 S AS E 10
wrne to HPARC, B ox 368, Ha zel C an adia n 2/80 Awa rd cnerec b y Fort Pierce ARC, P.O. Box 4, Ft_
Par k "" 48030. the Metro ARC. The GeratoJ net is
NOV7 Pierce FL 34954.
nOI a OX net . For the purpose of S A N TA ROSA ISLAND, FL The
DEC 8 tms net, Canada is IlOl coossoerec Serious Hams AA C will o perate NO V 28-29
LARGO , MD To b ene fi t Prince OX. The Geralol net meets every Sialion N4MAo fro m Ft . Pic ke ns PLYMOUTH, MA Th e Whitm an
Georg e's Cou nly RA CES /ARE S, night e t 0 100Z on o r about 3.767 Sta le Park (IOTA 142) from 1200Z- ARC will commemorate Thanksgiv-
Inc.. HOLl oAYFEST 92 will be held MHz, depending 00 a RM , and con- OOOOZ on 80, 40 . 20. 15. a nd 10 ing by operati ng Station WA 1NPO
from 8 AM-4 PM at Prince George's tinues to coerere u nt~ all hours, de- meters in the code and voice per- from 1400Z- 2100Z each day. Fre -
Communily College Campus (e xit pend ing on band con ditions and tiorls 01 the bands. Contacts made c u en cre s: 3. 970, 7 .270, 14.270,
17A or 15A Capital Beltway). Dona- check-ins. For more info 00 the net, 10 Stalion N4MA D will rec e iv e a 18.140, 2 1.370. 24.970 and 28.370.
tion $4 . Ta ble s $20. Sym po si u m awards and endorsements, send a special aSL card. Sorry, 00 ceeen- WA1NPO will operate from histone
presentations. free VE Exam s by . ' 0 S AE with 2 units 01 postage to cates lhis lime. Plimo th P lant a tion , overloo kin g
Lau re l V ECs ; pl ea se b r ing your WDYTZ, 300 Valley View Dr., Ord Cape Cod Bay. A special oa t, card
NOV 7-8
origi nal nceosezcac or photocopy. HE 68862 USA _ w ill b e sent to th o s e Ham s a nd
HONOLULU, HI Hawai i Arm y SW Ls sendi ng an S ASE. A special
Special CW speed challenge con-
te st. contac t H OLIDA YFE ST 92,
NOV 1 MA R S m ember s will o p era le 8 1/2 x 11 c e rt i fi c a te with t he
DELAWARE The members 01 the WH 6R to com m emora te th e 50th Mayllowe r II in th e backg round , is
P.O. Box 103 7, College Park MD
Wa rminst er A RC wi ll conduct thei r anniversary 0 1 the rescue 0 1 Capt. etsc available for this event. Send
20740. Tel. (301) 572-2362.
4th annual oXPedition to th e rare Eddie Btckenbacker. Activit ies a re repli es to Wh itman A .R,C, P.O.
SPECIAL EVENTS state of Delawa re and will operate planned for all bands , a ll modes, ln- Box 48, Wh i tman MA 02382,
Sta tio n WA4 o FU/3 . Frequenci es : cluding the Novice sutcencs. Loo k
ANNOUNCEMENT lo r us at the lowe r portion of each DEC 5-6
7 .27 5, 14.275, 21 .375 and 28.375
GERATOL NET G reetings Extra MHz. CW contact s will be made on sucoenc. Nov. 7 1900Z· 1900Z Nov. GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA The
Radio A mateurs Tired of Operating 8 . For aSL please send yoor card Guantanamo Bay A RC will opera te
r e qu e s t. aS L w ith SA S E to
La tely, T he G eratol Net (fo r ama - Wa rmins ter A .R.C., Box 113, a n d S ASE to Joe Mao, 3 25' Station KG 4CA from the U.S. Naval
teurs of all ages, from all sl ates and
Warminster PA 18974. Pakahu sc. Honolulu HI 96822. Base at Gua nlanamo Bay, Cuba ,
lhe C anadian provinces) helps to from Dec. 5 000l Z-1700Z Dec. 6,
as sist U ,S . Extra cl ass ama te urs NOV5 NOV1 4 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of
a nd oth er opera lors (whose p rivi- C LINTON, NC The Sa m p so n FT. PIER CE, FL The Ft . Pierce Cuban -A m erica n Fra lemit y Da y.
leges allow them 10 use the Extra County AR S w ill o perate Station A RC will ope ra te KN4R Y f r o m ocererco wift be SSB and CW 00
class portion of the 75 meter Ameli- AB4TT fro m 1700-2 400Z for the 1400z -2100z to commemorate the 20. 15 , and 10 mete rs. For aS L
can phone band) to obtain the AA - Sa m pson Coun ty Expo a nd Po rk 7th anniversary o f the UDT-SE Al se nd aSL a nd S AS E fa Guan-
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award . The nu mber on the A A RL lower portion 01 the General bands. General portiorl 0 1 40, 20, 15 , and 73, FPO AE 09593-0146 USA .

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 were real. or just imaginary. I found fields in the home are electric blankets. worth i t I want to be able to get on the
NEVER SAY DIE that when I e rased them, jus t water beds, nearby pole transformers air, make a contact and ta lk without
Continued from page 4 as I would a present-life trauma, the and poor house wiring. But not far be- fighting the QRM endlessly- without
sell I'd write a book on how the mind patient would change significantly and hind comes ham radio am plifiers, having to keep my contacts down to a
works and how to fix it, complete with seem no l onger in fluence d by the which may help explain why hams are signal report , name and QTH . I've
anecdotes on the people t helped. events. Peopl e with a great lear 01 dying of cancer at far above the aver- worked my 350 countries-did it long
AI the foundation, we learned by wat er, when regressed to find the age. Have you measured how many ago, so I don't have to prove anything.
working on each other. While \he pro- cause, would pop instantly to a drown- cell-disruptive milligauss you have go- I want to be able to talk with my friends
cess is lightning fast in comparison to in g death. I'd erase the trauma re- ing through you when you ope rate? in Hong Kong, Saban. New Zealand,
psychiatry or psychoanalysis. it's still sponse and they'd no kJnger be afraid Look lo r the book in your local book Jordan and 50 on, not have to fight to
slow enough so those working with it ot the water. Oddly enough I was un- store or call Uncle Wayne's for a copy. get heard,
don't see startling changes on a day- able to find any water-related traumas So whal do you recommend? How
to-da y basis. Week to wee k, yes. In the during their present nte. even during The Dream Statio n do you like me rig you're using? What's
work. done for me I fo und myself be ing the prenatal period. Well, real or fanta- My wife has been bugging me. She wrong with il? What's right? I'll bet I'll
held down by two doctors and my par- sy, what I was doing did the job, and says now thatI'm 70, I should be able need a full-s ized single-band 20m
ents when I was lour years old. My ear that was what counted. to have the ham station of my dreams. beam-what do you thin k? Should I
was infected amflhey'd decided 10 op- Many people dismiss past lives, Yes, I know. our wives usually bug us get a tilt-over tower so I can fix It when
erate on it. I was frightened as they put psychics and so on as fan tasy, I re- ab out how much we' re spending on something goes wrong? A crank-up?
the ether mask over my nose and main a skeptic, but one with an open our ham gear, not how lillie, so per- I'm not sure I want to cl imb 100-loot
mouth. mind, I've had too many instances of haps I'm fortunate 10 have mine push- towers for many more years. I've paid
Then the re was the l ime I got psychic phenomenon during my lile to ing the other way. But It's an uphill my dues there too.
across my 2,000 volt power supp ly and refuse to even cons ider that we may push. I' m not know n as Wayrle The Shoul d I look around for a used
was thrown si x te et across my have a lot to learn about all this yet. Frugal lor nothing. That NSD ill my call ICOM 730 or something like that, or go
rerrsnac k. Whammo! During one of the more traumatic stares for Never Spend a Dollar. Yes, bananas lor a multi-kilobuck rig? I'm
Afle r a few weeks at erasing these moments ot my life, when I was terribly I'm cheap. When haircuts got up to a not into impressing anyone with the
painful memories, plus mose of alai 01 distraught, the telephone rang. It was dollar I bought a pair of scissors and magnificence 01 my stauco. I just want
very painful beatings by my l ather, I my mother, 120 miles away, She said, have cut my own ever since. Lordy, one that does me job and will make it
touoc my awareness had improved ' w hat's wron g? I know something 's they must be up 10 near $2 by now! so I can talk about more interesting
enormously, as had my ability to think, terribly wrong: Coincidence? Hardly. Look at the money I've saved. things-providing I can find a ham
At this time . was faced with anoth- This was the only time in my life she So I need some help, Yes, I'd like to somewhe re with an actual interest in
er career cho ice, Should I go back to ever called like thai, and she had no have a great ham station. but I want to talking. Perhaps I'm asking too mucn. I
radio work? Should I go back to being way 01 knowing I had any problems. So get the best bang for the buck I can, had a 730 but one of my editors left it
a television director? Or should t be a I' m open to know more about life, not just go out and throw money at the behind whell he was on St. lucia help-
therapist? I tried the therapist business death, and other pse udo-scientific mat- top of the line stull, just because it's ing out alter a hurricane. ' hated losing
for a while, working on something over ters. I'm not a passionate believer, just expensive. Sure, I wear Hclexes , but that rig.
a hundred patients and having some a skeptic who wants to know more. I they only cost $25 in Taiwan, Oh, I had I had a Kenwood 830 that I really
amazing successes. But I Iouno tnat believe we still have a lot to learn. a real rtcle x once-used it lor years, liked. Alas, a 73 editor swiped it. I even
most people preferred to live with their There are just too many unexplainable then it got swiped when I sent it in 10 had a panoramic adaptor lor it 50 I
problems, This was lrustrating. This anomalies-loo many loose ends that the Rolex peop le to be cleaned. A could find empty channels a utne easier.
was very frustrating, I'd meet people need tying friend of mine, Jean Shepherd K20 RS, So if you had an uncle who was a noted
who stcnerec. or who had other easily got il lor me at the discounl store at skinllint, what would you recommend?
curable physical or emotional prob- Magn etic Field s
Shannon Airport back in 1957. It was
lems , but didn 't want to do anything WARNING: The Electricity Around one of those Submariners, good to 300 Iraq Ret akes Kuwait
about them , I decided it would be You May Be Ha zardous 10 Your feet. Since I'm only good 10 around 200 How'd you like to see that one in the
better to pursue a technology-oriented Health---by Ellen Sugarman-Simon & feet I felt Ihe margin for error was just headlines? I'll be surprised if it doesn't
career. scouste-c-suoo. fine. II had a movable bezel, which was happen-and without the U.S. lilting a
II we can ever get over the concept This fascinating book tells the slory handy when I had my own plane. finger to stop ll. Further, I'll be even
that psych iatrists, psychologists and of the criminal cover-up by power com- Wh en the insurance money came I more surprised if Iraq doesn't keep
psychoanalysts can cure mental prob- panies. dishonest scientists and even blew il all on one of those new digital right on going on down the old Arabian
lems, we may be ready to get to work the White House of the death and seri- watches. Yep. I managed to get in penins ula, gobbling up Saudi Arabia,
rclually repairing minds, It's easy to ous health problems caused by 60 Hz there and grab one before the price Bahrain, Oman and points south.
so. It's fast. And you don't have any re- power line magnetic fields. Remember, oroooeo-ceetcre ceerc got into the Well, we'd never put up with that
lapses. I'd like to see the basic concept one of the leading researchers in the business, I got in there early on calcu- sort 01 nonsense! We'd be right over
incorporated into a ccmpcter program field is Dr. Ross Mey K6UI, who has lators lao, buying a bunch from MITS there lobbing missiles down Baghdad
which would help doctors to diagnose proven in his own research the Incredi- for $129 a whack just weeks before the chimneys aqain, right? Not if Saddam
not just a patient's physical illness, but ble power to affect cell growlh of even prce dropped to $12. Who wants any plays it they way' would if I were hold-
also isolate the root emot ional (s ub- very sma ll magnetic fields . Powe r of those cbeapo calculators, right? ing his hand. Ask me how I'd pull this
conscious) tie-in so that can be erased, lines, pole transformers and other This time I'd prefer to get in on the one off.
That'll resolve many physical illnesses sources of magnetic fields are causing other side ot the price curve. l ook, il Glad you asked . The next thing
a lot faster than pills, The whole sys- leukemia, brain cancer. and a whole you w ere going to put togethe r a you 're going to ask me is what this has
tem is routine enough 50 it could be range of other immunily-weakened dream ham sta tion, but were faced to do With amateur radio. What's the
made into a computer program. health problems, with a seven-generation genetic need malter with you, got monomania and
We do need a ot more research 50 You can gel the straight skinny on to be frugal, what wo uld you pick? interested in noth ing but hamming?
we'll know what kind 01 successes we me extent of the cove r-up via this new What HF rig? What amplifier? What Well , I'll get to the ham relevance ,
can have with things like dual person- book, The chap who originally blew the tower? What beam? Keep in mind that Hang in there, but in the meanwhile
alities, multiple sclerosis, cancers, al- whistle on Ihls health hazard was Paul I need to have a whammo signal. As it take off your bloody blinders. Hamming
coholism, and 50 on, An other aspect Brodeur, the same fellow who ev emu- says in "December Song:' I haven't got is fun, but it isn't everything.
that needs more research is the past- ally was able to convince people about time to play the wailing game. I've got So here's how I'd go about corner-
life phenomenon, Many psychiatrists the dangers of asbestos The govern - 50 much lined up to do and 50 l ew ing the wand's oil if I were silting in a
run into this and dismiss it. Some have ment and busi ness approach is the hours of life left in wtac n 10 do it metro deep bunker in Baghdad scheming.
had considerable success in treati ng same with magnetic l ieIds as it was rather put a lew bucks into a humon- First I'd invest in a l ew more tank
past life traumas just as il they were re- with asbestos and cigareltes: Deny it, gous signal that gets answered on the trucks so I could run more at my oil
al I started to do some research in this then produce pa id scientists to deny first call in a pile-up instead of being down to Aqaba via Jordan. Jordan, cut
uetc. but coo'ucncw through. I did find it and eventually to be forced by down there in the second or third layer off by the other Arab countries from
that every person, under hypnosis, can lhe pub lic to race the situation. The and having to Iruslrate it oul, hoping their old support payments, is in des-
be regressed to limes 01 grea t trauma power companies are still In denial and the band won't change before I'm nnat- perate need 01 the toll money for the
in what they say are previous uves-,cr, the public is paying the price through Iy heard. I've paid my dues in that de- use of their highway and port. Remem-
more often , past deaths. Being prag- high Childhood leukemia deaths. brain partment. The fact is it doesn't have to ber, Jordan has no natural resources
matic, I found the whole thing interest- tumors, miscarriages, and so on. cost all that much extra to have a first or industries, 50 they need anything
ing, but I wasn 't sure whet her these The most critical source of these layer signal and the investment is well they can gel from Iraq.
74 73 Amateur Radio Today ' Nov em ber, 1992
 Instead ol buying more food lor my While much of me country might Hey. Bush had to drag them kicking about any1tling to gel cash. so perhaps
people I'd build up a liltle kitty 10 send cheer lhe loss 01 Washington, which and scralching inlo lhe Gulf War last we oughl to stop needling lhem about
along with some friends of mine when has very le w redeeming val ue s, the year, even though we did mosl of the killing ali lhose pesky studenls. Doesn't
lhey vtsu lhe e x-So viet cc untrtes. possible loss 01 the New York pimps dirty work. They seem more interested whal they do 10 their people, no matter
They'd be shopping for lhe besl deal and transves lites might act as a deler- in selling Sadda m plutonium process- how despicable, oome under the head-
we could get on a couple et alomic renl lo our mihtary. While we don', want ing equipmenl than borOOing him. ing 01 an internal maner and lh&refore
tlorrbs (also known as devices). 10 lose all thai oil, we fl'l9l11'l(l( want 10 Since Saddam probably isn' as un- is none 01 our butinsky meddIillQ busi--
The next slep woold be to bUy a lose a couple million people in New principled as I. I'm sur e we'll never resst
small suitcase lor each 01 me bombs York even more. Having lived in New have to worry about the scenario I out- In vie w of the above. how much
and smuggle them inlo the U.S. I'd set YorI< Cily lor many years, I'd eeoe il crt lined. It's always possible that no mat- should we hams gel involved in sening
up one in downto wn Manhattan and in a minute tor aurcst anything, but I tar how dilficul! th ings get and how up high speed emergency communica-
the other in Washinglon, over near lhe doobt it our presoam will know it as hard up the ex-USSR countries are lor tions syslems? Should we breathe
Capitol. Then I'd announce m y plans well as I and w ill thus be inclined 10 food a nd cash, they 'll not sell any easily, now thai inlernatiooal commu-
Jar Kuwait, explaining about It1e bombs wimp out. nukes. How much would you li ke 10 nism has been soundly oereatee by
and suggesting thaI we I'l(l( hurt each Sui w hat about Europ e ? What bet? Hey. Ch ina nas nukes too . and capilalism? Or should we maybe plan
about Gennany and France? England? ahead in case something goes wrong?
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One more thing I'd like explained is the concept and started organiZing our·
why the Russi ans haven't stoppe d selves to 00 what we say we do? And
73's
buikling new and biOgef nuclear sub-
marY1es! And why have they stepped
KA8JSK we can 00 ii, If we have the leacletship
we need . 00 you get the feeling lhal
up lheir i ntell igence op erations in AMATEUR RADIO IS we're fUr.ung ;,zst a lad short on lead-
America? I thoughl they were short 01 BIG IN SEATILE! ership? And no, stop WIlling me asking
cash and were begging IOf a Whopping me to start a new nationat ham Ofgani-
loan from us to tide them over. Does zanco. I've got enough aggravation in
this mean we' re about to lend them my life wil ho ut geling invol ved w il h
money w hich, in essence, will help that. You jusl want someone else to do
them build bigge r, better and quieter Ihe work inslead 01 you . Well. get all
nuclear submarine s? I hate to seem your bulls and make the Le ague do
dense about this, so if you can explain what they sh ould . Ge t t h em b usy
wha.t's going on, I'm wa iting . In the cleaning up our bands. Get them into
meanwhile perhaps we shouldn'l de- gear to help us rope more kids inlo our
commissi on to o many 0 1 o ur su b- hobby so we'll ha ve some inventors
marines. And we might just put a little and pi oneers to help u s ho ld ou r
etten in lO building a national h igh
speed emergency traflic system. And
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is this really the time to stop experi- OSl 01 the Month To enler your OSl mall n in an envelope to 73, Wayne Green Inc.. Uncle Wayne Broadcasting
70 Roule 202-N, Peterborough, NH 03456. Ann: aSL of the Monfh. Winners receive a
menting With cneueoceo packet relay Yep, I'm on for an hour or SO every
we·year subscription (Of exfension) to 73. Entries /'IOf in envelopes eaorot be accepted.
stations on me low bands? week, coming 10 you by satellite radio
I wonder il every single ham club in service. They forgel tha i meg abuc k conscienc e tha t a ham l icense is a every Th ur sd a y evening a t 9 p.m .
America will expect someone else to commtJnications companies are pour- riglt instead 01 a privilege . Wrongo, Eastern time , 6 p.m. Lata Land time .
actually 00 something about this? Hey, ing milliOnS 01 dollars into lobbying et- Look, we've acquired the responsi- And yep. you can even call in and \jve
it's just that old doom & gloom Wayne torts aimed at pressuring Congres s bility IOf issuing licenses via our VECs, me a hard urre
again? When was !he last lime he was and the FCC to take away our bands. so why shouIdnl we have the power to What 00 I talk about? Anything and
ever rigtl t about anything? They forgel the success UPS had in take licen ses away? So let's gel tile everything, Sure, I talk a 101 about am-
grabbing 40'%. of our 220 MHz band rules changed to give us the power to ateur radio. I talk aboul Oving. sbng,
Hanging's Too Good
not long ago. The y forgel thai as a actually 00 the sell-potiCing we keep psychology, cooking and so on. I talk
Plea se let me know when you're be- group we have contnbuled pathetica lly tenlng the FCC we're doing. We aren't about my experiences dtJrlng the war
ginning to get led up With hearing bad IllIle to our country in the last 20 years. oong squat. Yes, we need some sale- in a SUbmarin e. I ta lk about whal 's
language on lhe air. OIl yes, you mighl They forget that modern ccmmumca- guards to protect honest, clean-living gone wrong With our country and how
sen d a co p y 10 the AR RL , whi ch nons technology is making our slo w, amateurs Irom small gangs 01 rascals , 10 fix it I talk about making money, fly·
seems 10 be unaware Ihat we have an error -prone emerge ncy nets of lillie . , the old crooked sherm syndrome , ing. horseback riding and SO on. I even
increasing number of very sick individ- more Ihan historic interest. They lorget But losing an amateur radio license is talk about eo-nos like religion, pro-lite
uals exercising their Ireedom 01speech that before me 1964 ARRL holocaust. not comparable to being thrown inlo vs . pro-cho ice . I lalk aoout Bush ,
on our ham bands. Now that stull may whiCh stopped our growth and killect all pr iso n or executed. Let's gel a rule Quayle, Clinton, ecoe and even Perot.
be just fine IOf radio and television, bul over !lO'Jl, 01 our American ham indus- whiCh will allow !he l itth repeater in Los 1'1 be talking about roosiC and trying
there are a majortly 01 us who dorn try. amateur r.Kio was c:on\l'tluling new Angeles to be cleaned out once and tor to get you «uerestec in li sten ing to
want to have to listen to that kind 01 ... IeCtlnology breakthroughs and pial eel - all. Let's get a rule whiCh w ill lei u s some diIIerent kinds 01 music. I talked
er ... baloney when we're harnmillg. ng on a r~r basis. They IOfget thai clea n out the nu ts ruining lOrn. And a bit with on e li st ener about lcuc -
Having spen t a lew years in th e the wor1d doesn't care what we did 30 let's make sure the rule has no open- speaker design and how I put the Karl·
Navy, there aren'l any combinations 01 or 50 years ago, it wants to know whal ing whatever lor la wyers to get their son speaker on the market and buin a
words that both&r me. Indeed, I use a we've done lately. The answer is net scum-sucking hands inlo the system. million-dollar business within two and a
few myse ll when the situation seems pretty, We're being licensed by our peers, hall years, starting from scratch.
appropriate, But t have never used 'em so let's get organized so our peers can If you can tune in scaceoet Il l ,
A Solut ion
over the air and it annoys me when I de-license our mis ta kes. We don't Channel 21 (6.2 MHz soocamen. you'll
hear hams doing it. CB is well kflOwn Out side 01 my usual hand·wringing have any test IOf 10 or sanity when we be able to keep track . And you can call
l or th is kind 01 expre ssion, yet I've over the lix the League has gollen us give a ham test. so we're going to get in to kibitz via (310 ) 824-6991 during
heard far less bad language on c e into, •• my contribution in the way 01 welfdos. We know !hat kids inleresled the broadcast. Hey, 111 talk about any -
!han I have on our ham bands. League-ba&hing, as n's called ... or in amaleur radio are generally ccoso- ltting you wanlto hear.
Perha ps I should remind you that League truth-te lling, a s I see il ..• ered nerds and dweebs. so we should My Ialest enthusiasm has 10 do with
there have been;,zst two people arrest- wha t's Ihe a nswer when we hear do al we can to clean our bands 01 nut tying rccetner quantu m mechanics,
ec. tried. c:onvicted and sent to pnson garbage pouring out ol OU" loudsp<>...ak· cases and ranting teretes. hologlaphy. and chaos theory. if you've
l or u sing bad language over me air. ers? The answer is the same one I've Do I have 10 work out the propo$w:I read up on th&se inCreelible develop-
Yes. they were both oong this on CB. proposed before , but whiCh, a s tar as I rule Chafl98 in detail, thus giving you menlS. How do these be in with a com-
And ye s, 01 course bol h were Ext ra know, ret one single ham club in l he the opportunity you 're waiti ng for to prete ty ne w pe rception 0 1 the real
class hams. Both had passed merr 20 entire country has acted upon, is to get lind some aspect with which 10 lind world? It'll lake some explaining, but
wpm code tests , the hiler ou-timers as- the league all its dull and 011 the gall tauIt? I'd rather have you come up with the rarratcenone are so enormous thai
sure us will keep amateur radio ethni- links long enough 10 tackle the oroo- whal you recommend so I can have it's worth learning more. Are we close
cally pure 10m. the fun of lelling you how stupid you to being able to eliminate en illnesses?
Almost every amateur ex cept t he I've p roposed a number 01 ap - were 10 sugges l lhis or Ihal. Why I said all! I believe this is within our
tiny overly vocal minority causing the proa che s lhe league cou ld lake to should you have an the fun? As far as I grasp, ~ we reach in a COfl1)letely dif·
trouble gelS upset when faced with this ~ us clean up 0tJ" bands if they had know t here is lillie pe rceived lun in ferent direction.
filth. The knee jo. k reaction is to I~n to the slightest interest in living up 10 their coming up with Cfea t~. constructive Our health care system Iexlay is
the FCC en outrage. The anger these billing as our naliooal SOCiety. t'l know suggestions and endless hXI in riOiC:tA- ITIt.ICh as if we spent all our bme leam-
maggols incur causes otherwise rato- thefre taktng an inlerest in something ing any perceWed negatives-no mat- ing how 10 repa ir people eener aller
nal amateurs to complelely fOfget the more lhan selling sWscnptlQnS 10 QST ter how exaggeraled. serious car accidents , wh ile it never
League's endless promiseS to l he FCC when I see they've establiShed at least So, if your brain hasn't already been occurred 10 us to see whal we could 00
lhal amateur rad io is s en- ponctnq. a one-person department at HO dedi- lurned to ktmchee by lislening to the to pr event tne accidents in the first
They also lorgel thai the FCC is woe- cated to cleaning up our bands. stink on our ham bands, ere see what place. I! we can stop people Irom get-
tully under/unded and has no budgel The first step I'd take il I were going you can come up with. Then, let's see ting sick we won't even need a phar-
lor policing our bands. They forgetlhat 10 tackle the problem would be to pefi- if you can get through to any of the AR- maceutical industry. Is this even worth
the FCC ha s it s hand s lied by the tion the FCC fOf a rule change which AL Qld-limer directors and get their at- considering?
Supreme Court when it comes to the would make it easier to un~cense 01- lention. I'm giving odds of 50;1 you Well, anyway, there's a 101 01 inter-
Ireedom of e xp res sion. They lorget lending hams. Aigtlt now it's easier 10 won't get anywhere. esting things tor me \0 talk about • , .
!hat amaleur radio is an e xpensive tux- apply the dealh penalty than 10 take We've been billing ourselves a s a and next to talking about me , talking
ury whict1 costs the FCC big bucks and away a 1iOenSe. Somehow the COIlCepl sell-policing service, so isn't if aboul wilh you over the air come s a close
!hat we are nol paying one coo t tor thiS seems 10 have gollen into the publiC time we paid more tha n lip seMce to secocld. II
76 73 Amateur Radio Today . November, 1992
 Spread Spectrum Primer HOW TO GENERATE A LEGAL FCC PN CODE
Here is one tried and true (almost foo lproof) Pseudo Noise (PN )
Continuedfrom page 32 ~r.lIor circuit thaI requires no EPRO M or- PLD progr.1mmer lor
soft....are either.) The main advantage of Ibis design is thai it generates
a seven-stage. length 127 maximal length shifl register ~ueoce that
is legalto usc ullder current FCC Pan 97 amateur radio ru les.
• • Simple, short length troor- to I] ,slage; maximal length shift regis-
ter (MLSR\ sequence generators arc oflen used [0 provide simple PN
O'" f ~ code generators for 55 systems. These simple generators usually per-
" It =t ., form very wen when started from the correct initial conditions or

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when reset at po.... er up. However. most of these simple crrcuus can
~ It hang up and SlOP generating anything (they can gel sud: ) when an all
3t '-:'
....,
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L
...
ones (or an all zeroes) condition occu rs. Which condition mill causes
hang up or ho.... it gOl lo lhis condition is. immalerial--the: darn thing is
broken "'hen this happens! l1Je circuit concept shown in Figure I
I sotves this problem ~ery nicely and even includes an EPOCH sync de-

u: • _. "",,..-,. lector as w'eli lfor data timing. scope sync. or whalever).

The circuit of Figure I is built from twc 74 HC 1 7~ !ohift registers,
one H HC86 and 1....0 H HC.\O NAND gales. As shown. the: generator
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oc.
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r ~.
...,..-,.
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uses feedbac k from lhe lasl shift register stage as well as from the first
shift register stage, as the FCC requires. This connection..... hen started
from the all-zeroes state. will always generate the correct MLSR se-
querce. The top NAN D gate looks for ibc occurrence of an ali-ones
I - -, coodinon (an indication of being Muck) and resets the shifl registers to
all zeroes if this coodnion should ever occur. TIle bonom NAND gale
detects the occurrence of the all zeroes , ondition which marls the
Slart of a PN cy<'1e of length 127, al~ mown as a PN EPOCH. The
Figurr I . Sim/ )/c' 7-sw ge PN generator: EPlX"H signal is coiocident with the stan of the code repeat cycle and
is useful for sampling or synchrooiLing input data for Direct Seqcence
Spread Spectrum lDSSS) modulalion.

C"I~ ~ •••. "'.M.' ....

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- - traffic and protocols could be transparemly handled via Ihese
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_M gateways . Will SS techn iques have any impact on ham radio in
the near futu re? Probably not- unless a renewed phase of ham
radio experimentat ion takes place. Personal com puters are now
•• " .,_.~

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a fact of life in ham radio. So is packet. Will SS become old hat
"-
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and used every day, like VHFN HF SS B is" Time will tell. I
think SS is one of the bigger challenges for hams-a-with inge-
-& nuity and dedication hams may enter tbe 21st century using SS
and keepin g most of our bands out of ibe hungry commercial
Figure 2. Filtered BPSK modulator blocs: diagram, tnreresrs' hands . iii
Use of dedicated Pes o r Macs with SS ra- async d ata rates and protocols.
dios will be necessa ry unt il an integrated and HOW TO GENERATE A
well-defined data com municatio n inte rface set Are We Hams Ready for 55? USEFUL BPSK SIGNAL
of standards have been generated (commercial A very importan t part of a foreseeab le na- Figure 2 shows a block diagram of a BPSK
work along this line is being done by the IEEE tionwide spread spectrum system is the ability modulator that is usefu l on the ham bands. Spec-
trum limiting Ibeth pre-modulation and RF band-
802. 11 committee-c-hams ha ven 't started this of the spread specuu m system to interface with pass filtering ) is included in Ihis design. As the
effort yell . The major feature Ihal an industry o ther existing packet-based te rrestrial and/or unfi ltered BPSK spectrum POOIO shows. Spread
standard hardware/software interface provides satellite-based or other amateur radio communi- Spectrum BPSK is I relatively wideband modula-
is a very simple and flexible way to channel cation s facilitie s. Several communication tion that can splatter out of a band. Pre- or post-
(o r multiplex ) diverse sources and sinks of da- switching centers (or gateways ) could be in- modulation filtering must be used for mosl ham
ta to/from SSradio equipment. Standard PC or stalled ar various points throughou t the US to applicalions.
The c1o,:k for the PN generator. shown in Fig-
Mac (Appleta lk) based mu lti ple COM channel handle digital voice. fax. te jerype or otter com- ure I . is derived from a lTL crystal oscillator.
boa rds a re being integ rated into commerci al munications that req uire routing outside a na - This furnishes rte "chip" clock sig nal. The chip
SS radio ho st pe s and mes sage rou ting soft- tional spread spectrum net work or national ham clock must be 127 times the data rate for prope r
ware can be easily modified to handl e multiple rad io PCN/pc5. Standard ham communications operation with this PN generator, The PN genera-
tor's output drives an impedance matching circuit.
then a passive LC, a three- to five-pole BUller-
SPREAD SPECTRUM GLOSSARY ....onh lew-pass filter. This filter uses a cutoff fre -
AJ Arlli-Jam-desigfl8d to resist inlellerenoe Of jamnWIg,
quency approximately 0.75 limes the chip clock
BPSK Bi'Iary Phase Slitt Keying-digitaI DSB suppressed canief ~lion. rare. This filler is used to - round" off lhe sharp
COMA Code DMsion .... "iple Arress a way to i'lerease dlamel capadly. edges and spiLes that are present on ltle lTL oct-
CH'P The time iIlakes 10 "allSffiit a bit or single symbol 01 a PN code. pul of lhe PN gtlll.'Talor. This filtered. AC-coopled
COO, A (jgilal bit stream with ooise-lke char.Jderistics. signa.l lben drives ltle IF (OC-coupled portl of a
COARELATOR The SS receiYel componenIlhal demo<Uales a spread scectren fiI11al doubly-balanced mixer (DBM). The LO port of
DE·SPREADING The prooess IJ5ed by a c:orrelatOf to I'8COVi:!r nal'l'OWtland inlonnatiOn from a ttle mixer is driven by a c rystal oscillator-multipli-
spread spectrum Signal. er chain or a frequency synthesizer to provide an
DIVERSITY Sharing a signal characterishc 10 allowmore users in lhe same trequency band. RF tarrier for the modulator. Finally. the mixer's
DPSK Differerltial Phase SMt Keying--a Simplified BPSK whe re onlydata irenslncns are RF port dri ves a bandpass filter to provide the
transmitted. modulator's output RF signal. Optionally. just an
MULTIPLE ACCESS A method lor accomodatirlg more users in the same trequency band. output tow-pass filter thai reduces rransmnrcr har-
NARROWBAND A signal whose bandwidth is on the Ofoer 01 its information bandwidth. monics can be used instead of the bandpass filter.
NOISE·L1KE Having prccenes that cause the appearance 01!rue ranclom noise, Funrer amptifw:ation aAll frequency conversion. if
PeN Personal Commtncation Network.. needed. comes althis point in an amateur foldio 5S
PCS Personal CorMw..ncation System. transmiuer,
PN Pseudo Noise a digCai signal with ,Cl"SB Ike propertes

73 Amateur Radio Today · November, 1992 rr

 Number 23 on y our Feedback c.rd He contacted AEA and was told that WA6MBP 01 Terre Haute, Indiana, who
the MPS-801 , to the best 0 1 thei r has a long-standing 10118 aNair with
RTTYLOOP knowiedge, could nol be made to print
RTTY in real lime, and that this carYlOt
ATTY. He wntes that the "August c0l-
umn was at least partially the most
Amateur Radio Tele type be changed. enjoyable for quite some lime due 10
He solved his problem by selling the admissiOn that a few 01 us ' old-
the MPs-ao1 and purchasing a printer tilTlef'S' slil get etlOYment from ccerat-
Marc I. Leavey. MD., WA3A../R denly iI began to print. There was a with a parallel Centronics il'Iput. He al- ing ATTY on mechanicaJ machines. I
6JernyLane buner in the setup which had to Iii ee- so purchased a CardcO+G serer-to- am still using a good 01' Model 19,
BaltJmore MD 21208 lora printing would begin. ThiS appar· parallel interlace to run the parallel which is older than I am.
ently applied to both sending and reo printer from the C -64 seriel output. "Yes, ifs noisy. vee, it is limited to
From the Mailbag celVing. A.D. notes that while Cardco sells 60 wpm Baudot. But I don' care! In a
A lew months ago, I relayed me His other suggestion was to con- more expensive interfaces, he be- receot ATTY OSO on 20 meters, the
p1ighl of ail Barbee AA5ZA, who was nect the printer to the user portva on seves thaI they will not do the job as ham on the other end sent me his
having trouble getting his Commodore the compuIer. Figure 1 details the coo- welf as the less expensive +G inter- 'BRAG usr (no doubt dumped !TOm
computer to prinl when receiv ing nection 01 a Centronics-compatible face. a memory) and asked what I was us-
ATTY online. I guess sometimes it printer 10 the user port. The DO Apparently, this information was ing. I reached l or my REAL BAAG
pays to clean your desk because through 07 lines are the data lines, known to AEA as well, as they did tell TAPE (as punched by my own unit)
there, buried under more stuff than I and the corresponding lines are con- A.D., in a letter two years ago, that as and sent it out merrily at 60 wpm. The
ca re to discuss, was an old teller nected to the printer. It is Important to far as Ihey know, the carocc +G inter- last entry on if says ' , " AND THE
which addresses a similar problem. use the signal ground, not the chassis face is the only one that wiil pl1nt real- TELElYPE IS A GOOD OLD MODEL
This one, though, comes with a eoiu- ground, time ATTY. He also passes along the 19: When the ham on the other end
ten. II's worth a try, if you haven't al- Infor mation that Sup ra Co rpo ration responded, he said he ' , • , had neller
Written to me several years ago by ready done it. Anyway, if II works, or manufactures the carocc Interlace. heard of that brand of computerl' Oh
Carl Moore W4MJK, it discusses a helps, let me know. Orders may be phoned to (503) 967- boy!!
problem with printing with COmmodore I am passing this informatiOn along 9075; the tech support number is "It is interesting to note that some
computers, He said that the keouon- because n is related to another tetter. (503) 967-9081 . software today designed lor Rn V
ics Hamson protocol is compatible jusl received, on the same topic. A. D. This information from A.D . Carter is does not send a LINE FEED when a
with printers. The Ocntrol-P key tog- Carter, an SWL in Vass, North Caroli- provided pretty much -a e-rs.' and I CARRIAGE RETURN is sent. That
gles Ihe printer on and of! wilh Ihis na, stales thai he is using the Com- can' speak about !he specifics, other doesn't bother compu1er users, but it
ecnwere. Sim ilarly, Kanlron ics Ham- modore C-64 computer and Kenwood than to say that it is provided in good sure makes me keep my hand on the
text SllppOrts a prinler toggle with the A-600 and A-SOOO with the MFJ-1225 taim. If you cee Supra. be sure to tell paper crank!"
F7 function key. receive-only interlace and the AEA them where you read aboutlhem, and I guess lhat lasl statement really
He also indieated that his Star l OX SWUext software on ROM to receive i' you apply this inl ormation to your is a plea for computer programmers
pnnter, With a carocc +G interlace, CW, Baudot, and AMTORfSITOR. own setup and have any measure 01 to keep compatibility in mind--com-
was also not working at l irst. Aller He had the exact same problem as success, please let me know! Sure, palibility wiItl mechanicaf teleprinters,
checking everything "lJmpleen" limes MSZA: The G-64 would print on the tell me about your taacres. 1001 that is!
and still finding nothing wrong, he ce- monitor and be saved to floppy disk, MoW1g back in lime , so to speak, I Jerry also asks lor some RTTY art
gan to curse at the printer, and sud- but not prinl on the MPS-8Q1 printer. received a leller from Jerry Arnold to be included in the column, Well ,

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Stephen Coil KK6AB 01 Santa Ana , and well-supported prog rams avau- availability information, anct be sure to Reach me by mail at the above ad-
california, relates thaI he has been a able for the Apple 11..., li e, lie, or Jigs. It mention 73s "RTTY Loop" when you d re ss , on CompuS e rve at pp n
subscriber to 73 Magazine l or about supports split screen operatiOn or luJi write. 75036,2501, or on Delphi or America
two years. and has gonen interested screen, at speeds to over 19k baud. Another solu tiOn ava ilable to you Online uSing the screen or user name
In ATTY. He wants 10 gel onto ATTY and will run under either ProOOS or would be lo use any of a number 01 MAACWA3AJR. And as we all sit
wittI his computer, an Apple 11+. but aI Apple OOS 3.3. hardware solutiOnS, such as the multi- down this month to observe the
he gels are blank stares and the re- While Apple users sometimes feel mode interfaces from MFJ, Kantron- Thanksgiving holiday. tel us think of
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Well , while he teeis stuck in the sicoe they are often relucta nt to gi ve up their package. This would have the advan- whom we can help this time 01 year.
Ag e, Stephen wonders II the re still ex- machines and me sizable investments tage 01 ollering more modes and lea- This past l ew months have soon hurri·
ists some so ft wa re lor his Ap ple - they have already made. For many, teres. although it certainly would cost canes, earthquakes, fires, and human
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valid on or after July 1, 1992. Paddy should be sent to John (Pao-
For fu rther informat ion write to: dy) Mc G ill G M3MTH, 9 , R am say
The Japan Amateur Radio Leag ue, Place. Coatbridge. Lanarl<shlre, Scot-
Arnie Johnson Nt BAC to operate an amateu r radio station tnc., Awa rd Desk, 14·2, Sugamo 1· land, ML5 5RE.
43 Old Homestead Hwy. o n th e basis of q ueuuceuce e o b- Ch ro me. 'rc s mma -xu . Tokyo 17 0 . US AlR uaal alUkr. l ne From th e
N. S......anzey NH 0343' tained in the ROK. Japan. Roano/(e TImes & WOOd News. Sil-
It is to be noted that WIth regard 10 CO Korea is the name of a new urday. August t , 1992, sent to us
Notes f rom FN42 the correspondence of amateur quali- amateur radio ma gazine in the Re- from Da vid La rsen KK4 WW: 'In a
Wh ile listening to the Tr;-State nceueoe between th e two countries. publiC or Korea. ThiS es-seec publi- small room in the east wing of David
Emergency Net originatmg from the the first and second classes of ROK cation 01 62 pages has a colored cov- Larsen's hilltop house are some ol
KtXR "Keene Machine ' in Keene. will correspond to the same ol Japan. er ero a great many 01 the inserted the keys of global goodwill and un-
New Hampshire, my ears perked up Ho......ever. the th ird class (telegraph) photos appear in col or. II se lls on the de rstandi ng. They're on a computer
when "Ne ws/ine 92" reported that the of the ROK ......ill be equivalenl to the local market lor 2,500 won per copy, that's hooked to an array of amateur
FCC has established Proposed Rule- thi rd cl ass of J apan a nd the Ihird bu t the subscription rale is 25.000 rad io gear. Larsen has been using
making Document 92-167. I did nol class (telephone) of the ROK ...... ill be won lor one year (induding postage) those keys for more than a year to
get all 01 the partiCulars noted but it equi....alent to the fourth cl ass 01 l or domeslic (Hl) read ers. plus a corrmunicate with people in the for-
appears that it addresses the ablllly Japan . bonus 01 a tree copy lor the l irs1 two mer Soviet Union. AmaIEllJr radio co-
of licensed amateur operators from And l inally, congratu lations to all months. e ee tcrs in th e old SOv iet republics
other countries to operate in lhe UtIIt- concerned! Detailed terms lor overseas read- have been included in this computer-
ad States even though ......e may not Wo rked A ll Sq ua res Aw ar d ers ha ve yet to be announced but ized ham radio project." Larsen has
have re ciprocal agreements With JARL has introdUCed a ne...... a...... ere. sho uld someone wish to subscribe, de....e loped m any fr iend s in th e
them. ' WASA," ......hich is characteri zed by he or she is asked to write directly 10: Ukraine since meeting Vic tor a co-
It appears that those wishing to the use of the grid square locator CO Korea. s ec or-em. Jongro-gu, charsky. an amateur operator. during
operate in the United Stares ......oua system that is gening more and more Kyeonun-dong 47-1. Kongukyu Bldg. a ham con.... enuon in the US during
contact a Voiunteer Examiner group popular 'NOrkl'Nide. 312-1 1-10, RepubliC of Korea 1990. David and his ......i1e Gaynell, al-
which would Check licensin g docu- This system enables us to clearly ScoU .nd Fr o m the 5collish so a ham. have visited republics in
mentatiOn and a~nlster a test. U~ determin e a location bo th on land TouriSt Board (RadiO Amateur) Expe- th e former Soviet Union during the
on successful completion the appli- and at sea. Therelore . OSL cards 0b- dition Group. John ·Paddy· McG ill past three years. They and others
cant would recesve a Certificate 01 ta ined through commun ication ......Ith GM3MTH : On N o....e m be r 30 th have Iaken a new IBM-donated c0m-
Successful Completion which would Iocatioos at sea can also be used for GB65A will be operallng on 51. An- pete r plus several older but service-
atlow lor 60 days of operation in the the A...... ard. dre......s Day. celeb rating the 2nd An- able PCs there as a first step in set-
U.S. Seeing that this is our first attempt nual Internation al 51. Andre......s Day. ting up an emergency radio commu-
I ha va not really had time to think at this new system . ...... e ask for your in volv ing the Mosco...... Ra d io Club nications net......orl<.
of the pros and cons o ( this Proposed close coooeraton and look forward to (MT I) and the 51. Petersburg Radio The development of this net......ork
Rulemaking but will say that anything rece t in g you r applications. The re Club. and th e Aberdeen AR 5 . The will allow those republics to maintain
that a country can do to assist ama · are t o a...... arcs : WA S A-V .U.5HF ca llsi g ns appea r to be G B 65 A . emergency contact with each other
teurs from other countries to operate (adlieve COtIYflUnicatiOn or receptiOn R1 SA. U A3 or RA 3??? , an d (turing times ol emergencies and wil
in its own is a plus. Many 01 us have with amateu r radio starcee in 100 af· GBOA5P. enc.. . . ceaeetct communicalions
had the good fortune to meet many lerent squares on and above 50 MHz This appears to be the last of the around the world during the rest of
nice people from other countries on and/or an amateur satellite; sucker US( ot Events ol l 992 10r the SCottish the time.
the air and then in person. l or each 50 above 100) and WASA- Tourist Board (RadiO Amateur) Expe- The transfer of tnese computers
It ;s a/so very noteWOfthy to men- H F (achi eve commun ication o r reo dition Group . Corre spondence for has been made possible by building
lion the agreement between Japan
and the Republic of Korea (ROK).
Catch tnet in "Roundup ' under Ihe
Japan banner.
AnoIher interesting way to .k:ense
operators from other countries was
performed f)y th ree ARRL VEs f)y
laking the mountain 10 A.foha". tl8d."
Be s ure to read I his s tory in
"Roundup ' under Ihe USAlRuss~1
Ukraine banner.
Now it is time for the ne ......s from
the rest 01 the world. -Arnie N I SAC.

Roundup
Japan From the JARL Ne ws :
Reci p r oc al A greem e nt Betwee n
JA-HU August 1. 1992. is a memo-
rable date for both Korea and Japan
because the much-talked-about and
Dtorg,ltlO en CA Ii A.Jt ).ir5
long-a......ai te d reciprocal agreement ,l I., n t.ufon Oprrabl1. por:
bet...... een the two countries came Into
effect
Up to no.............hen a ROK citizen rn lmtub a sus mmtea, al mmpttr las
......ishQ(\ to operate amateur radiO in
normal t6t;tbltnb;ll1 per ta D, a £.
Japan helshe was obl iged to obtain
an operator's license in Japan, USing
a clUb statiOn. Henceforth, however,
and thanks to results emanating from
T .· •. · I .. _ <-_.. . l" "'~r-,

the two countries' agreement. the es-

tablishment of individual stations ......ill
be acceptable . And furthermore . it al-
so will be possible tc- a ROK Citizen Photo A. Diploma Islas Canarias.
80 73 Amateur R adio Today · November, 1992
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 lions after Ap ri l 29 , 197 1, o n any
band or any 1T1Ode. The requirements
are : fo r Spain, Portugal, Madeira-
contact 60 different EA8 stations; the
rest 01 Europe and Morocco-40 ;
South America and the Caribbean--
30; USA , Canada. and Alrica- 20;
and Asia and Pacific-10. It is not
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tiOns contacted, in alphabetical order,
f •• r

... - and indicate date, band, and mode of

the contact.
The request neees to be signed by
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that they have checked tne logbook
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Apartado 860, Las Palmas de Gran
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Ihln/( 01 ne)(f?-Amle}

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Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV
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PO 80x 13273
Photo B. The EASVIB OSL carel. N0flhmead1S11
South Africa
an organization canee the Fcunca- David also worke<! on university ex- continues 10 say that this conventloo IARU Slation Established at Na-
tion lor A mateu r Internat ional RadiO change agreements lor VPI and SU hasn't been publiciZe<! eit her by the tio na l Un i ver s ity 01 Lesotho . On
Service, or FAIRS, with David Larsen and several institutes in Russia and local or nalional authorities. Friday. August 21, the IARU Region
a s tne execuuve ctrecto r. W he n the U kraine, T he g ro up sp ent as My one-man proj ect to at leas t One Wori<ing G roup l or the Promo-
these com puters are connected to m uc h time ope ra ling I rom Lvrv. document the unique Canary Islands tion of Amateur Radio in Developing
ham trenscetvers, lhe computers can Ukraine, and Ulyanovsk, Russia, as knife styt e (be fore if died a Quiet Countries presented a complete HF
send and receive a form of radiOtele- possible. death lrom neglect) is beginning to amateur radio statiOn 10 the Amateur
Iype lhal is le ss affected by almo- For more inl o rma tion on FAIRS bear fruit after lour years of garden- RadiO Club 01 Ihe NatiOnal University
spheric ccoeuens and is automali- and Ihe trips, contact David or ing and mothering, After a brief pre-- of LesothO as part 01 its prograrTWT'IQ
cally error-eorrecting, making n highly Gaynelt Larsen at (703) 745-4023 or view in the yearly "Knives '92," it will 10 establish amateur radio in the de-
accurate and more ellicienl than 23 1-6478 . or write P.O . Box 34 1, be rea tu rec in an article in -Knives veloping world.
Morse cod e. The compu lers can also Floyd VA 2409 1. '93." Th ose 01 you interested in that At the ceremony. wh ich was at-
save and store messages l or later re- tended by senior government repre-
trieval. fA phone call 10 David con - sentatives, university personnel, and
firms AMTO R uSing the APLINK pro- "It appears that those wishing to the secretary 0 1 the Lesotho Amateur
gram connected to a BBS. -Amie}
The tarsens were visited by Vyaetl-
operate in the United States would Radio Society, lhe IARU PADe liai-
son officer, Hans van de urcenen-
esIav Sergeev and Yuri Katyutlfl ear-
lier Ihis year and il plans work c ut,
contact a Volunteer Examiner daaJ ZS6AKV. said the establishment
(;J the Radio Club at the NatiOnal Uni-
Vietor and He len Goncharsky from
lhe Ukraine will visit in August. Helen
group which would check versily 01 lesotho was an important
stec to place amateur radio on a firm
served as an Interpreter during me licensing documentation footing in this African mountain king-
Lar sen s ' vtst ts to R us sia an d do m and would provide the infras-
Ukraine. These visits are part 0' an and administer a test. " tructure 10 leach Lesotho youth ama-
exchange agreement between Rus- leur radio. From an eoucancear point
sia's Ulyanovsk Polytechnical Insti- of view this wiU add a third dimension
tute and Virgin ia Tech, where David SOl'! ot thing might enjoy reading it. To to the teaching 01 science and in par-
teaches dlernslry.
CANARY ISLANDS say that rve had a fine bme doing it hcutar electronics and communica-
U kra in i an s a n d R u s s i a n s re - SPAIN (wo rking with an o ld-world master lions.
ceive USA A mateur Ucensesl The Woodson Gannaway £A8INS/(VB smith to learn how to make the "Amateur radiO," he said, "provides
FAIRS group gave AR RL VEC e x- Aparrado I I knives so I"d know what lhe " 0 $ ' I an oppoJlunity 10 get lesotho's youth
ams in the Ukraine and Russia dur- 35450 Sia Madre Gula (G.C) was writing about) would be a real inlerested in electronics and pursue a
ing lhe May 1992 visit of Ame rican Islas ceoer as understatement. II is a commenl on career in this lield. For Lesotho itsell
FA IRS m embe rs. Th e ARRL V Es Espana lhe sad state 01 our world that I don't it is anoth e r step lorward in training
were David Larsen KK4 WW, John {This let/er was sent prior to the kno w wh ere I can sell a n article local people in this growth sector
Douglas N OI SL , and vrcrcr Gon- FAX received from Woodson in time about the human interest see of tile where the country is currently almosl
charsky KC1VF, VICtor's home call is for last month's Spanish lesson. It will stOlY. by far the most interesting facet lo ta lly dependent on lmperted per -
UBSWE in Lviv, Ukraine , and he re-- hopefully clear up .some of the Info ot an. Occasionally he asks me: -How sonnet." The Managing Director of
ceived the Ameriean can during a vis- from last month.-AmIeJ The news- long Is it that you've been the shop the Lesotho Te lecomm un icati ons
it 10 the Dayton HamventiOn in 199(1- paper that I read loday says thaI in now? What, lour years? It seems like Corporation, Mr. L. Mohapeloa, said
The exams were given to eight in the October 1992 we will have a Wortd it was just the other day , , ." that his OOfjXlraliOn supports th is new
Ukraine and toc r in Russia, and a to- Amateur Radio Congress here in Las I also encicse the Diploma Islas thrust to establisn amateur radiO on a
tal of six passed the exams. Palmas de G rand Canary! It says it cenanee (Photo AI . This diploma is mo re local footing and said that he
During the vi sit David a nd Ron will be In the Im pe ria l Playa Hotel awarded 10 amateur radio operators was committed 10 easing regulations
taught workshops on instrument au- and will attrac t hundre ds 0 1 hams and SWLs in all parts 01 the worl d lor 10 make lhe hobby more accessible
tomalion and local area networking. lrom all over the world. The editorial having contacted dif1erent EA8 sta - 10 the youth of his country. iii
73 Amateur Radio Today · November, 1992 83
 BARTER 'N' iii/yYO"'F_"'k ~'d
MINIATURE POLlCE RADAR TRANS- ELIMINATE MULTIPLE NOISE TONES
MITTER one mile range, $41 assembled. n your receiver audio output The revolu-
$31.00 kit , (219)489-1711 . P.O. Bolt tionary new JPS flOIch filter, model 'NF-
80096. Fort Wayne IN 46898. BNB125 60. Digital Signal Processing simple
hook up. Unlike othe r Nolch Fi llers,
BUILD YOUR OWN WIRE ANTENNAS, nok:hes out mu~ varying Iones. Deep
T",")'CU old ham and ~ gear into Clsh now s....
you can ..... lor a .......... 10 IIY parts. GROUND RADIAL WIRE, open- Discounted : $139.50 delivered eoou-
rd ct.mp it, buI you ~ l'OIo'.
get alar """" ~ ~ ~ you ....... it ClUl ""'- 100.000 Ie- wire feedlines , copper·weld. insulators• nentat U.S.! (Elsewhere $150.00 plus
... ham p<>Ief1W ~ can _ it ..... toe Ie.- ~ kallWnS ""'" _ by • 1M IONlI1<et
~_ Ched: j'CY' - . ~. celli 8I'Id do88I ......... lOCI cash lor 'I'M ...... n I;l;lmpI,lII!f
coax. Dacron rope, baluns. etc.. LOW· sllipping,) Authorized JPS dealer: Davis
IJMI bo!IDre irs 100 old 10 .... You Ialow you'", nor P'9 '" it .~ 50 wily l8IwfI it Iol 'fOUII EST PRICES. Catalog. $1.00, DAVIS RF RF ce.. P.O. Bolt 23O-S, Carlisle MA
.,.;dow 10 throw out? Thalllutl .... ~ gen.ng I1IT'1 ~ Co.• P.O. Box 2»S, Carllsle MA 01741. 01741 . 24·HR orders: (600) 484-4002,
The 73 Flea MaI1<el, flaIta' 'n" lluy. costs you peanutl (aJmosI)-<:omes to 3S 0Il'IIh0. word lor (600) 464-4002. code 1356. BNB726 code 1356. BNB763
indMdkJal (JlQnWlTlmurtiaO acJS and $1.00 a word to< l:OII\IIIefOiaI ads. OQn'I plan on IIllWng a long
st0rv. Use abbrevia!kln$. eram 'I in, 8uI be honest. Thera ara plenty 01 hams who love to til things. HAM RADIO REPAIR- Prompt service. SOLAR POWERED HAMSI The
so ~ ~ doesn't wO<1l. say so. ROBERT HALL ELECTRONICS, 1660 s uoswncn is a charge controller to pro-
Make ~oor 1",1. count the words. including you' t<lII, adlJ'ess and phone numDer. Include a
McK ee H d., Su ite A , San J os e CA tect your balle ries t rom over charge.
check or 1'00' credo! ciud """,ber aoel expiraUon. If you'", plleiog a comme'da! ad. include an ad·
drtional p/'lQne runbe<'. separailit Irom \'OUI' ad 95116, (408) 729·6200. BNB75 1 Power MOSFETs are used, no relays!
Tl'O!I is a m~ maoazone. nor • doIity newspaper. SO hgure a CQI.4)le months llelOJ8 me ec- Assembled tuned and tested $39.95 plus
bOn $la!t$: then be PrepiI"Id· II you gel ee many calls. you pneed it low. If you liOn'tll"l many PICTURE QSL CARDS of your shaell., $2.50 shipping . Sunli9ht Energy Sys·
calif. IDD 1IfIl- etc.• from your photo or black ink an- tems , 2225 Mayflower NW, Massillon
So get busy, Blow Ihe lUI 011. ched< everytrwIQ 0I.t. make sure it 'SliI woob righI and maybe work. 500 $28.00, 1,000 $44.50. Also OH 44647. BNBn4
you can help make ...... ne _ or reIJI9d old _ hIWy ..... N rig you',. "91 usrovlltM'
fl(J'l~re cards. Cuslom pmted cards.
Or .,... II'OgI1I get My on 'fOUII cx;mp.IIeI' ;ond pull<yIf_ • list at _ \lNrll*1$ 10 .-110
MIUTARY MONITOR ING ANTENNAS,
send specilCabons lor estmale. Send 2
. . . inleresled1
Send rour Ids a'ld PI,,,,, . 10 Ihe B8<1er "ri BoIy. s...Coller\. 70 "'- 202N. P-.t>ooOUltl .... Stamps tor illustrated literature. Gener· broacllan(! VHFIUHF esccoes. biconi -
03458 and get . . lor , . ~ (';;Ik ous safT1)le kit $2.00. halt pound of sam- eats . setccrn types, 3O-1000mc. ship -
ples $3.00. Ra...,,·s RD2, Orchard Road, board construction , ' N' coooecoe. sat-
CoopersbI.i'g PA 18036. BNB756 com preamps, antenna mulliCouplers.
Deadline tor the December classifi&ds RIG REPAIR by 2O-year ham. Fast. rea- cables, accessories. (419) 726-2249.
Is Odober 12, 1992- sonable, Skip Withrow, 5404 S. Walden ALUMINUM MAST· 'F 00 X .25" waft, BNB613
Street, Aurora CO 80015. (303) 693· type 606 H6. 6' $39.95, 9' $59.95. UPS
HAM RADIO REPAIR CENTER, Quality 0997. BNB702 paid lower 48 . Lengths 10 24' in stock! FREE SHAREWARE AND HAM CATA-
workmanship . Solid sta te or l ube, all DouglWS9W, BOK 384. Stoughton WI LOG tor IBM or CoCo. Morse ccoe com-
makes and models. Also repa« HF am- IBM PC VIDEO DIGITIZER 640 BY 480 53589. BNB7S7 puter e uertacee. $49.95. DynamiC Elec-
pnners. Af tordable Electronic Repa ir, RESOLUTION. 256 gray levels, $89.98. tronics, BOK 696, Hartselle AL 35640 .
7t l0 East Thomas Rd., scottsaaie AZ. Demo dis k, $3 . Informa tion, $1. Color- DIGITAL AUTOMATIC DISPLAYS. Ken- 205-n3·2756. BNB615
65251. (602) 945-3906. 6NB220 burst. Bolt 3091, Nashua NH 0306 1. wood, Yaesu, Collins. Drake, Atlas, etc.
BNB103 No band or mode switching, Business CALLER 10 For Your Com peter! PC
FINALLY HEAR those unreadable sig- $.52 SASE. Specify radio. GRAND. POB compatible TSR pops up with caller's
nals buried in noise, heterodynes, tuner ROSS' $$$$ NEW November (ONLY): 3377, Blaine WA 96230. Phone/FAX name and olher inlormation you Wish to
uppers. The REVOLU TIONARY new KENWOOD TM-411A $300.00, TH-315A 604·530-4551 . BNB756 keep. Logs al ncomiog phone calls. As-
JPS audio filler NtR-l0, digital signal pro- $280.00 , TM-241A $355.00, TR ·84oo Sign alanns or IoclI out specific callers.
cessing, sinple hl)oli; l4l, deep discount- $330 .00, ICOM 04 AT $250 .00 , 735 UNUSUAL TECHNOLOGY: The ewesn- Check with your local phone company
ed $329.95 delivered' Auttlortzed dealer: $920.00. 471A $850.00, TEN-TEC 535 galion of paranormal electronic VOices. Jar availability 01 a.IO service. Intefface
Davis RF Co., P.O. Bolt 230-S, Carlisle $1150.00.222 $27.00, 238 $319.90, InlormatiOn $1 .00, 18 Yrs. EKperience. & 50flware $59.95. (301) 428-n 10.
MA 01741 . 24-HA. Orders: (800 ) 484- TELEX HYGAIN 395S $400.00, 390S BiI Weisensale, Bolt B.Q. Cl0, Barstow BN..,.
4002. code 1356. 6NB254 $240.00,500 FT RG·213 $150.00, YA£.- CA92312-3030. BNB759
SU FT-709 R $275 .00. FT·73RTI RADIO HOBBY BBS! 1000's free ham
QRP KITS IN CA NA D A! CW $250.00, FT-410 $345.00. YAESU AMATEUR RACtO SERVICE: COmplete programs. (706) 238-1901. 14,4/96124/
Transceivers, Receivers , Morse Keys, PRICED WITH COUPON. ALL UMITED repair faci~ty. 15 years communicatiOns 121300 bps. BNB621
and more. Details: 'CO RADIO KITS: TI ME OFFERS. WANTED: MANAGER repair e xpenence. Special se rvice
Box 1546 , Bradtord , Ontario. L3Z-2B6 SALES PERSO N FOR NEW STOR E. needs? No proble m. Give us a call.
HAM & ELECTRONICS SOFTWARE.
CANADA. (416)-n5-9119, BNB433 SEND RESUME TO P.O. BOX 234. Over Compassionate rates. HAMSERV, 1720
From $2. per disk. IBM 5.25". Free cata-
9,000 t ram-related items in stock lor im- Grand Ave., Waukegan IL 60065. (706)
lo g on d isk . GE NERIC SOFTWARE .
QSL CARDS- Look good with top Quality mediate shipment. Mention ad. Prices 336·2064 (Dean) or Voicemail at (706)
Bolt 502. Dayton OH 4540 H I502.
printing. Choose standard designs or tUI' cash. F.O.B. Preston. HOURS TUES- 560·2034. BNB760
BNB822
Iy customized cards, Request free OAY·FRIDAY 9:00 TO 6:00, 9:00-2:00
brochure, samples (stamps appreciated) P.M. MONDAYS. CLOSED SATURDAY THERMOGRAPHED CARDS! Raised
- NIKOLA TESlA ON HIS WORK WITH
trom Chester QSLs, 310 Commercial. & SUNDAY. ROSS DISTRIBUTI NG print QSLs at f1a1 printing prices. Sam-
ALTERNATING CURRENTS~ ISBN
Dept. A, Emporia KS 66801. FAX (316) COMPANY, 18 SOUTH STATE . PRE- ples: Phone (817) 461-6443 or write :
Q-963U52-Q·2 , Leland Ar'Idersoo , Edi·
342-4705. BNB434 S TON 1083263. (208) 852.(l83(). W5YI Group, Bolt 565101 , Dallas TX
tor. $ 40.00 postpaid. 21s1 Cenlu ry
BNB707 75356. BNB761
Books, P.O. Ben:: 2001. Brecl«!rYidge CO
REV OLUTIONARY HYBRID AERIAL
1lO424-2OO1 . BN8823
W IRE : 168-stra nd copper - F L EX· GIANT SOLA R PANELS $44.00 EA! WANTED : HAM EQUIPMENT AND
WEAVE"' Tm , '14, strong , Ultra Flexible. EltCOIlonl PricesISoIar EquipmenVAcces- OTHER PROPERTY. The Radio Club 01
ties n knots. nonstretd'l, WCI'l1 f\IStI1lri. seoes. Free InfonnatiOnlSend stercec JlI'liOr High 5chooI 22 NYC, Inc . is 001 FOR SALE : Two 4CX1500B lubes,
like copper weld , $36.95 first 27S ' (mini- Envelope, Catalog $3.00. To: Quad En- only the Big AppIe's largest Ham ~ but $600.00 pair. DP-GPS 5-band trap verti-
mlSll), $.131ft. eereaner, includes ship- ergy, P.O. Bolt 690073, Houston TX also the nations only lui tme fl(J'l-prol11 cal With trap radials, $250.00. Diamond
png l (Radial wire only.) Catalog $1.00. n269, (7 13) 693-0313. aNB115 organization working 10 get Ham RadiO SX-200 SWRIPWR meter. $150.00. Gary
DAVIS RF Co., P.O. Bolt 23O-S. Carlisle into scnccls around the coun try as a Morgan, VE3JKO. (6 13) 726-1137.
MA 01741. (600) 464-4002. code 1356. SIMPLEX REPEATERS $149.00! We theme tor teaching using our EDUCQM- BNB624
BNB5S7 manufacture them ourselves. Quad En- Education Thru co mmumcauon-pro-
ergy, (713) 893-0313. BNB7t6 g ram. Send your radio to school. Your ATIENTION COUNTY HUNTERS : Zip
COAX, GROUND RADIAL WIRE, lowest d o nat ed am at e ur o r other pro pe rty, Code to Coun ty con version IBM sen-
cost, top Qu ality, Mi lSpec RG- 21 3 , ELECTRON TUBES : All Iype s and w hich will be pic ked up or shipping wal e. $20 postpaid . 10-10 Software also
$.36Ift.; AG-6X, $.19: RG-56, $.16: LOW Sizes. Transmitting, receiving, mierowave arr anged , means a ta x deduction to available. HOS , Bolt 7304, Tiflon GA
LOSS Belden eQOiv. RG-9913, $.39: any •• , Large inventory '"' same day ship- the l ull extent o f the law l o r you as 31793. BNB625
lengths piuS shipping . Radial wire '16, ping . Daily ElectroniCs. 109 14 NE 39th we are an IRS 501 (c) 3 chanty in our
S39.5(W1000 ft. J'dudes shi~1 Irrme- ST. Suite B·6. vaocower. WA 98662. lWell\tl year oI5efVice. Your help wiI also
SEIZED GOODS, radios, stereos, c0m-
diale shipment. Catalog, $1.00. DAVIS (800)346-6667 or (206)896-8856. mean a YItlole new world of educalional
RF ce.. P.O. Bolt 23O-S , Carl isle MA BNB719 ~ily lor dliIdren arOl.l1d the COl.lI"f-
euters. and more by FBI , IRS, DEA .
01741 , (800) 484-4002. code 1356. try. Radios you can write on , kids you Available you" area no... Cal 1-800-338·
. BNB562 WE HAVE IT ! AEA, Astron , Bencher, can't Please. ..rite , phone, or FAX \he 3388 ext. C--6223. BN8826
Butternut, Callbook, Comet. Diamond, "22 Crew' today : The RC 01 JHS 22 ,
WANTED: ROBOT 1200C in excellent Hustler, Kanlronics, Larsen Anlennas , POB 1052. New York NY 10002. Tele- ICOM 745-$500.00, Heatl HW-a $25.00
electrical condIIion. MUST HAVE SCOT- MFJ , RadiO Shack, Smiley, antennas, phone (516) 67 4-4072 and FAX (516) minor repair, Healh SA1480 remole coax
TIE 3 .6 EPROM . Call sign irrelevant Valor antemes. and more, $mal town- 67 4·9600. Young pe ople, nationwide, switch $25.00, Heath HW102
(SWL use only). Simon 609~5362. servce with discount crces. Dand ys, can get high on Ham Radio with your SWRM'atlmeter $15.00. I ship two-week
BNB701' 120 N. Wa shi ng to n , Wellington KS help. Thanks tor reading and helping! tryout. Dale, NOAOZ (612) 670-9305
67152, (316) 326-6314. BNB722 BNB762 Evenings. BNB621

84 73 Amateur Radio Today . November, 1992

 PINS, PATCHES, J EWELRY. Custom Sell-contained-ideal lor DX-muSI sell- COMPONENTS fOR QRP 'ERS, HOM· KC40KG , KC8BKX, K4LTA, K4fQF,
designed. Free catalog. Free artwork . $79.500 WBOKWA. (SOl ) 456-7128. BREWERS AND HOBBYISTS. Great WV3B, N3JWF, KA3GTR, Nl2ZK,
logo Masters, Box 3243 Thousand Oaks ON68,. selection and great prices Ialge SASE W3HKl, N4JQf, KA 1UQT, N80GY,
CA 91359. (818) 889-6544, N6WJG. INEXPENSIVE HAM RADIO EQUIP - to KA7OJY, COMPONENTS, Box 3893, KB20 RJ , KA3NVN, KB8KRO, W0 8E,
BNB828 MENT, Send postage stamp for Iisl. Jim Logan ur 84323. 801-563-5173. KA1EfD , WB1AGP, KD4XK f , AA2FC,
Brady WA4DSO, 3037 Audrey Dr., uas- BNB967 N2PCH, K2RJG, WA1MLQ, WOUUK,
EAR N EXTRA INCOME AT HOME I tonia NC 28054. BNB890 AF 1ZQZ , W4YCZ, KB8CVR, WJ3K ,
$400·$800 Weekly stuffing envelopes. WD9NWE, N2KWR, KC4WK, KAI JLN,
MARC ONI SALAD AND TESLA
SASE lor details 10: J & J DiSlribul· fREE Ham B6S. 317-742-1868.BNB899 TATE RS! El eetr oMu l. Cookbook, N31NL, N2NVM, KC4Y X, N4VRR,
ing. 50669 Parsons, utica Ml 48317. available jusl In lime lor holiday gilt KA30 AL, N3lDR , KE9 AV, KA4PUN ,
BNBa29 AMATEUR RADIO REPAIR!! AI makes giving. 125+ recipes , $12 .00 plus N5WN . KAN4DO, KM5TH , C7TH ,
& models maxim um labor per unlt, $3 S&H. ElECTR OMAN , oect. 73 , N3CUM, KP40D, W4LPF, WB2H8W,
WANTED-2 METER fM H.T. Write Onty, $80.00. TELO (Dan), 1302 S. UplandS W9IRT, KAC AW, WB4LYI O, EHM,
Box 24474, New o neans LA 70184.
N31 MJ, 257 Seb ring . Pitt sburgh PA Or., Camano Island WA 98292. (206) K3BCB , K2CQ , PTTN , N3CD,
BNB968
152t 6. BNBB30 387·3558, BNB900 M5NNC3Z, KC3YGE, KA3LTN, W4PTH,
N9AW, A.A4, WA20 AC, GOLWI, GA5U,
DIGI TAL SWRandPOWER METER , HEATHKIT NOSTALGIA-History in oc- AlDEN SERVIC E by rc rmer lact ory WIWI, KA3EK, N31MR, KF8DX, N1JTB,
Assemble , Kit, or Plans, with Alaml and tures and stories 01 and by lhe people i1- tecnnrcse n. scctnem Techno logi es KC3VSI , WB9RR, NY3R, NY3G,
set Points, f REE information . RUPP vo/Ye<I. 124 page paperback by KeTP. Amaleur Radio, mc.. 10715 SW 190 KB4IHD , KN4 WR, KA3WED , PWA,
ELECTRONtCS,S403 Weslbfeeze, fort Send $9.95 (plus lax i'l WA) to Heath st es. Miami Fl33157. (305)238·3327. YEZZI , W3SK, VY2C AK, W08 MR,
Wayne IN 46804, 219-432-3049. Nostalgia, 432Q-196ltl SW, Suite 8-111, ON..,. KBOIZC, WB8ZKI, N9KKY, KA4CLM,
BNB831 Lym wood WA 98036. BNB903 KB8MCZ, KBOHIQ, WA9QNN, VE7FA,
COMMODORE 64 REPAIR fas t turn VE7FW, WB6KOZ , KD4GTY, KOAK,
R·390· A SERVICE: module repai r to COMMUNICATIONS AT ITS BEST! AR· around. Soultlem Technologies Amateur WA9FNN. VE2GFE, W8GRP, W3HSN ,
complete remanufacture. cos metic 900 $219.00, AR·l 000XC $399.00, AR- Radk!, 1071 5 SW 190!h Street ' 9, Miami N3WG, GBBU, KB310N , CEA, AT1 F,
restoration. 20 years experience, expert 2500 $439.00. AR-3000 $969.00, Lowesl fL 33157. (305) 238-3327. BNB982 KA6XUR , N4BA I, W4P BL, NVAOE,
servce, t -week tumaroond, Very rea- p-ees on ADR RadiOs guaranteed, CB·s. WTl 1f B, K04ETY, KB2NFP, KB2JZH,
sonable, any condition accepled. (4 19) scanners. Radar detectors, and more. KJ4AK , WA3NAN, N1 KAJ, KA3lPG,
726-2249. BNB834 free Shippi ng VisalMGJAMEX. Turbo THE AMAZ ING UN IVERSAL CABLE KM4LTf, VE3REX , W1 AW. K4AO H,
Electronics, 366 North Btoadway, Suite TV AND SATEWTE DESCRAMBLER. WB4ZTR Jarretlville MD, seroccun,
fCC COMMERCIAL U CENSE PREPA· 310, JerichO NY 11753, Inquiries: 516· Detailed pl¥ls, theory. cets ill instruc- N8PHG, KA3YTA, WA4CMS, KC2QB,
RATION RADIOTELEPHONE·RADIO 938- 1946forders 1-800· 33-TURBO. tions, and b'OIJ)leshooters newsJener. 20 N2FA, W2SC, KA2UJO, KC1 ZVK ,
TELE GRAPH. Late st home stu dy BNB905 pages. $1 3.95 postpaid. OCTE-O, Box K9UQN , W3KQJ , W5ZR , K 2PPK,
la st easy audio video . FREE details 276, Alburg VT 05440. BNB985 WD5CT, WDXCTQ, KM2 LLX, KA3ZK,
WPT Publicati ons 1· 800· 800-7588 . R·390·A SQUELCH MODifiCATION : N1SS, KFOPN, WOJTI, N40JG, K8Q GC,
BN..... smail external ace-en module, super HOBBY/BR OADCASTlNG fHAM/CDI N4LZY, N4DBY, KX4f E, YU4M. W8FEU,
sensitive, works great on AM and SSB, SURVEILL ANCE Iransmillers, amplf- W8l HV, WD9NWE, N2KRR, KC4WKO,
PR INTED CIRCUtT BOARDS·etched, 15 mi'lule i'lStallaliOn, i\structions i'ICUJ- liers. cable TV, science, bugs. other KAULN , NK4L , N2 AKW, B2LRN ,
clI*td. ti'l-plaled. Si'lgIe sided $1.25Isq. ed. $25.00. (419) 725-2249. BNB906 greal projects l for calalog. call/write K3PYL , KA1 ROK, KB2LAl, W3DCR,
nell, No setup charge. Send negative or (9 16) S34.()417. PANAXIS, Box 130-59, WA8VMF, KC4MB, N2NFE. WB8VPJ,
artwork ($10.00 lor negative). We can Paradise CA 95967. BN8991 KA3ZFW, N2NRA, KA3ZUW, KA3ZFW,
LIGHTNING BUSTER. Protect your in-
generale artwork Irom YOUI schematic. AC4EK, N3EOK, WB20lH, WA3YOR,
vestment eercre irs too late! Gas dis-
CHELCO ELECTRONICS, 61 Water 51. CELLULAR HACKERS BIBLE· $54.45. KF2KM , WQ3S, KA3ZHA. KA3CR,
charge arrestor, DC to 500 MHz, 500
Mayville NY 147571 -&00-388-8521.
Watts PEP, 50-239. $39.95. ELECTRO· censer Programmers Bible·$84.45, Ca- KA3Z IQ, KA3NI D, N4ZT, N3IQA,
BNB842 ble Hackers Vid eo' $39,95, Satelli te W3DCR, WD9AWW, KB8JBG, N2JBZ,
MAN, Dept. 73, Box 24474, New Or-
Hackers Bible·$56.95, Scanner Hackers WB3KHK , K5RH , K5MP, K3F ME,
leans LA 701 84. BNB914
WANTED-l0 METER SSB RIG. Novice Bible ·$34.45 . TELECODE, P.O. Box BE3SWH, VE3AWA, WB3JFW, NOG,
phooe portion. Write onty. N31MJ, 257 642S-Rf, Yuma AZ. 85366-6426. W2EXZ, K6ERO, W2YIK, KC4PNR ,
Sebmg, PiItsOO'gtI PA 15216. BNB870 WANTED : BUY & SELL All types 01 W80LCX. KA3lAJ, KA3ZMZ, KC4W1W,
ONB993
Electron Tubes. Call loll Iree 1 (800) W4PPG. W3CVE, KA9UOM, KA3ZEP,
NEVER BEfORE! 20.000 Share ware 421-9397 or 1 (612) 429·9397. C & N VIDEOCI PHERISATEL LITE/ SCA N· N7MYB, N6MZ, HHH NETS HA3HV 431,
programs on three CD·ROM discs. $69 Electronics . Harold Bramstedt, 6 104 N5AU , N5K EA, MMM 123' SB5LM,
NER/CABLEfAMATEURfCELLULAR .
prus $5 shipping. Including man y useful Egg lake Road, HliQo MN 55038. Repa ir Manuals, Modilication Books & WA1HGJ, N2LDK, KB8MOU, K4CRF,
ham programs. Amazing value! Dealers BNB915 Soltware. Catalog- $3.0Q. TELECODE KF2H C, W04 DX, KBBMPQ, WA4KUG,
wanted l Crosley, Box 276G, Alburg VT P.O. Box 6426·Rf, Yuma AZ 85366· WB3GZU, KA3GZS, KASWRP, KC4OJL,
05440. (514) 739·9328. BNB871 USED & NEW AMATEUR RADIO, SWL 6426. SNB994 WB4M NX. KB9Grz , K9WYP, Kf8 NE,
AN D SCANNERS. We buy, sal, consign KA4VGU, K04PY, KA3WTM, KN2DD,
ARROW ANTENNA 2M Portable Beam and e specia ly lrade . AI used equipmenl KV1LD, WB2EUO , KA3WTZ. W3PA,
ROTOR PARTS ROTOR service,
converts from walki'lg stiCk to 4 elemenl has a 30 day guarantee. Fot jst or wants ROTOR accessori es ; Brak-D·Lays, WB2YAf, WA4FAX, N5QAB, WB4QEX,
beam i'l less then 2 minutes. High gain, ca•. fOR HAMS ONLY (412) 825·94SO, Ouik,Connec ts, Pre-Set mods. NEW Kf2HC, WT4ZAU, KD4HEL, N8GGC,
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COMMODORE 64 HAM PROGRAMS BNB996
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·8 disk sides over 200 Ham programs GYC , W3QC, N4ACI , K3XXI , UJ A,
$ 16.95 /$ ,29 stamp gets unusual WANTED QSl AWARD INFORMATION
K8X f TELEGRA PH KEYS IMPO RT W2BI , W5UAW, YV1AX, W4BZM ,
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markable Quality, superior constructed KA3ZPG , K4MOC. W4VBB , N07K,
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My rereeoce ladiO call signs are N7RC,
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VPH, W5REf, W4VBB. WB3 RC f ,
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have plastic dust covers. Shipping $8 ETC, Laminated, info, SASE. WB2EUF, KD4H EL, WB2AUW, N8JWH, N5ACY,
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W9U XQ/6. N4IYN . N4EYN ,
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EMA4SEOTI6 , W1FNffl, Vv'V1L. KDOEX.
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deck on 10 wooded acres in ozarks. BNB966 N3KLR , N8HGDNT, Kl 0ER. KB20Y. ingdaIe IL60108. BNB998
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I'm borecI. I've got a ~a' new an- it sure would be neat to be on the re- 210 EastOJaleau c.me Voul be able 10 hear !he weak ones in there,
lennas that I keep meaning to put up, ceiving end 0( a piJe.t4l. Payson AZ 8554' and QUlle etten the weaker stat ions will
but I never seem to get around to it. I've I haven'l done any public service in November is a month Ihal lalls be\weel'I prove to be \tie real gems you need. l et me
got a transceiver kit Sitting on my desk, QU ite awhile. With my new pilot's n- the excellent ra il propagatoan condllk>ns or know how Itle m(lfllh goes lor you, too. I like
still in the shipping box . I can 't remern- cense. I wonder ~ my Skills as an ema- Seplember!October and tbe reRilively poor the lee<tlack.
ber the last time IIurned on the 2 meier teur radiO operator would be valuable 10 Winter cor.ditiOns of December/January ... By now you already know that the solar
transceiver in my car. I took the HF an- tne local Civil A ir saner w ing ? That which is 10 say that the HF banos will be flux has con sistently lallen below the 100
tenna mount off my car a le w months would be one way to comtnre two inter- trending from Good to only Fair as a general marl<. on many occas ions since June and Ju-
ago and haven't needed to re-install il. ests. while pulling bot h to good use. prediction and thai many days during lhe ~-wh ich is a "leading indicator" of ee ce-
My mullimode controller hasn't multi - OM 01 the CAP's functcns is to locale month are elJ)eCt&d to be Poor. cline 01 cycle 22 and the approach 01 the
moded in weeks. There's a layer of dust downed aircraft, olten by racc-cuec- For example, the periods oeteeen lhe 5th sunspot minimum, so make hay While the
on my HF gear that really shoutd be
wiped off.
tion-linding the emergency locator bea-
con contained in most every aecran.
and 7th and agai n between the 10th and sun shines. iii
14th ale antcipa ted \0 llfin g not
Ho hum ... I'm in the dreaded arne- Talk about a lolthuntl only poor inono sphenc propaga·
te... radio rut Sa telli te s is yet anctnee area 01 liM but also Itle posstliity of some
I have no one 10 blame lor this spa. amateur rad io that I have very linte severe weather '" some parts of EASTERN UNITED STATES TO:
thy but myself. After ai , amateur radiO experie nce with. I hear that now it's the co.nry. and maybe even 0lI'Iet
iSn'! a sing le hobby, it is hundredS 01 eaSier than ever 10 get inYO/Ved. I bet I peophyscal eaecs as wei. There ,~. 20 20 20
soeceueec jnterests all held together already have all the gear I'd need to are severa l sigmflCant plane ta ry ,~,~ CI >II . to'
by the common thread 01 the Amate... gel started. I cou ld download some alig nments dUring tn at pe nod " , _ ... 20 1 ,
Rad io Service. II you get bored with tracking sonwere lor my Mac off 01 an wllleh historically have produced ' ,s .ooo· , , . 20 "0 "0 ' "
one , there 's always so mel hi ng new onlme service , gettl1e current orb ital some very ". nerest ng" resuhs in 20 '" ~ _ >0 "01'°'° 'S
10 try. data olf 01 the local packet Bas, and the past. Look again lor POOl' ceo- '0 ' 2 0 ' 00
Let's see . . . what haven't I tr ied I could be on the air via satelli te in a
yet? How about ATV? I've always w ent- single afternoon.
drtiOns arMd the 23rd to 25th and
again around ire 29th and 301h.
N
15 ' 20 " -,
' S o4O' : 20 ' 0 '0 '0 ' 0 ' 0
ed to put together some video presen- Something else that piqued my Inter- This means about 10 days out of 20 1\" S'
N N
tations- sort 01 "mini·documentaries"- est recently is the possibilities of remote 30 that are fo recast 10 be 'Peer.' '" . 0 ' 00 ' OIl' 2Cl ' 0 ' 0 ' 0 '0 ' 0
and transmit them to o ther hams,
Wouldn'I rt be grealfun to get together
base operation. I met a guy etme Los
Angeles hamfest who could do every-
The da i~ Jcrecest will te ll you whal OIl' 20 20 20 , " '0 '0 ' 5
to expect.
"
" 0! ' 5 ,
'0 : ' 0
"
every week and show orr your latest thing-and I mean everything-from his Use the eanc-ume-errecncn
;>0 ,;>0 . , • •,. _ , TO '0 '0
vide o creation 10 other ATVers? We 2 meter HT. He could change frequency chart lor your planned activities
could share ctner t\otlbies, careers, or and band (with verbal confirmation of CENTRAL UNITED STATES TO:
and OX operation. I wish I could
even sect flCtionat stories. With the ec- the change ), switch between differenl
tivity on 450 MHl , 9V9I)'Or'Ie who has a antennas and rotate h is tnbanoer
say thai the propagation wiU be '"
' S !1$ ! 20 _ _ '0 _
good al montll. but that just wonl
cable-ready TV or VCR already has an (agai n. with an automa ted voice con- ",,,,,,,. '0 '" 040'''''20 _ _ '
'5 " 2020 _00 0010'0' '0
ATV receiver. A Iow-eost transmitter, a firmlOQ the new heading). He did all this In general !he barxls abcNe 20 _ _ _ _ _ _ '°'°'51'5
simple antenna, maybe a p rea mp to via the tone pad on his HT. We were siI· melers "flll close at darl<. or before, 'S ' S 20 ' .«1 ' .«1'.«1 20 _ _ >0 ,
boost the received Signal, and I could ting by the hotel pool. and he was mak- ____ , _ " 5 _
while tl'lo$e below 20 meters ";1
be in business! iog OX contacts on 20 meters through a become qUite OX ·live ly. There
Something else I've always wanted sIlitl·pocl<et·siled radio! I know this isnl wonl be the summertime ORN to
to try is l oxhunting. I've already gol a exactly new technology, but it was the dISgUise weak S9"alS, so you wil
portable beam. All I'd need to do is wire best applieation 01 remote operalion I be able to do very well on 30, 40.
up a Simple anenuator and some kind had ever wnoeeeec. rers see . , . my eo, and (poSSibly) 160 meters. As
01 signal strength meter, and I'd have a house sits at the crest of a 900-foot hill, the later hours of night and the
pretty good beginner' s toxhunting rig. with a clear shot 10 almost every erec- eany hours 01 morning approach.
Make a few cal ls. inv ite some tnenos te n (except when I drive behind me lew the benee the lower ffequeocy HF
over for a Saturday foxhunVba rbecue. higher hills eoo mounlains) . A nice high bands become . . . so either get
I've got a cocora' hundred acres 01 masl althe peak of my roof would get ya.ur sleep during !he day or keep
State Forest bordering my back yard my antenna higher by almost another the coffeepot going. Finally, as
thaI would make a great place to hide 100 feel. Maybe I ooghtto give Ihat guy da wn approaches, the h9her HF
the lox. Now lhat sounds like jun! a calf. bands will come alive and some
What about QR P? Sure , I've dab- I guess I'm not real~ in a rut at all! In excellent east-west ox and Ioog·
bled in jew-power con tac ts, b ut how lact , I clon'l know what to do lifsl. path OX w~1 appear. Always use
about working al 50 states on a s-wan Hams cnen call smale... radio "The the dusk and dawn periods for " 0 '0 - - ." , _
rig I build myseff? MIQI'lI even be /un to Greatest Hobby In The Wot1d ." Even "grey-line- OXI'lg. too . Ilhi'lk that '0' 'S ~ ' ·""---"·'O"
get back into CW ope ra tion. I do so though we may be a bit biaSed, lhere is 20 wi be !he "sleeper" thiS rnonlIl 20 ·20 '_ 'O'S 'S
much trave!lnQ, I could bring a CAP rig. a 1010( validity to mat immodest daim. I and may wei be ee best tland 01 _ _ _ 20 120_ ·_ · _ ,~, 20
antenna and code key with me and get
th e firs t "Wor ked All SIa te s-Ho l el
Portable" award in the history 01 ama-
set out to oulline the variOuS $lJbgfOl4ls
01 amate... radio activity the other day. I
sl opped alter three single· spaced
aI ... bul wi! al$O proviDe ee U$Uo
at pile-ups and crOWOOg ... so a ..
T '0 ' 5
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.,.~~ -
",- - >0 '0 ,

teur radio! It wouldn't cost much, either. pages and probably could have come
Ramsey's got a nice utne uansrrafterzre- up wi1tl two or three more pages with-
cerver combo for less than $100. There
are a bunch of olher advertisers in 73
out much trouble. "Amateur" and "radio'
are two simple words that we use to de-
November 1992
with nice QRP transceiver kits lo r very l ine litera lly hund reds o f u nique and SUN MON TUE WED T HU FRI SAT
little money. fascinating activities. When you co m-
Something else I've never done is bine amateur radio with other areas of 1 F-G 2 G 3 G 4 G-F 5 F-P 6 P 7 P-F
microwave operating. I bet I could work interest- aviation, camping, boating-
nine or 10 states, piuS a few Canadian I'd bet the list would grow to the thou·
p rovinces , all Irom Ihe top of Mount sands. 8 F 9 F-P 10 P 11 P 12 P 13 P 14 P
Wa shi ngton (6, 300 l eet ) in no rthern There's one more thing t've been
New Hampshire. meaning to get to. and I thinlll'l put it at
Speaking of northern New Hamp' the top of the list. My neighbor 's 10- 15 P 16 P-F 17 F-G 18 G 19 G 20G 21 G-F
shire, aren't there a lew rare cou nties yeat-old son was watching me PU!14I a
up there? I already have the HF mobile 2 meter quad las! weekend . Va' know,
gear. h would only take about 10 min- I've been mearWlg to move lhat80 me- 22 F-P 23 P 24 P 25 P 26 P-F 27 F-G 28 G-F
utes to mol6ltthat Outbacker bacIc onto ler clipole , and I think 111ask him if he'd
my car. In fact, Outbacker has a new like to help me get it back iolo the trees.
model coming out, and Douglas RF De- The n, when we're done, I wond er if 29 F 30 F-P
vices has an all·band mobile antenna he'd like 10 gel a chance 10 say hello to
I'd sure like to test drive. I've never real- someone across the ocean? I bet I
Iy gotten involved in county hunting, but know what his answer will be. iii
88 73 Amateur Radio Today · November, 1992
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