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The fam ous Eimac 35TG VHF tube with its low
Inter-electrode ca pacita nces. its log ical termin al
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w artim e deve lopmen ts in man ufactu ring t echnique. arc being incorpora ted in many Eim ac
tubes and are consistently rcsuhing in vastly
increased life.
The 3 5T G is a p ower triode o f wide applicability. For instance, when used as a Class-C
amplifier, it will give excellent p erformance due
to its stability and low driving -power requi rements. A pair of 3 5T G's, with 2000 volts o n
the ,Plates, will h andl e 50 0 w atts input with
only 26 watts driving power.
\X' h a te ve c ri g yo u' re pl annin g, there a re
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EIMAC
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POWER
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. The Radio Amateurs' Joumal
JOBl'I' JI. Por-re, HdiJ.c.r
9.. PUBLISHED
Vol. 2 No.8
AUGUST, 1946
CO V E R
ART ICLES
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P ut ting the Vaccum Condenser to Work
J ohn E . Striker, 11'6.110 1'.0PG . .
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K now Your Q R M
Loui,E.DeLaFleur, 11'8.1 U
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Cat hode Coupled Ampl ifie r for Panoramic
Reception
J. R. Popkin--Clurman, WeLNP._.
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A Compact Oscilloscope
ChaTl~8 T . Haiet J r., Jr6TWI.I
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Matching Stubs for VH F Antennas
L<>yal Stephen Fox , ex- WeA llB.__.__....
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Med iu m Power P hone Transmitter
Frank C. J ones, l r 6AJP.__
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High Frequency P ropagat ion
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Shared Frequenciesl
Parts of 20 end 40 have just been reopened .
It's a great feeling to be Luck 011 the reliable DX
bands-s-even if we don't have all of them yet.
w e can eX[X'Cl the remainder of our frequencies
this year. Then nil the ham bands will be ours
except, unfortunately, WO meters.
But to anyone who has operated on 20 or 40
before the war these bands sound differentlv today . T hey nrc! We seem to be sharing them
with a multitude of commercial H'TVjCCS, both
C. w. and phone, broadcast and point-to-point.
Until all non-amateur services move out DC the
hum bands, serious interference will result from
these trespassers.
FCC control is limited to the United States and
its possess..ions. Foreign interference requires
handling through relatively slow internat ional
channels. Comp lete clearance of all unauthorized
stations from our frequencies is a project that
must be innugurutcd immediately f even whi le
waiting for our remaining frequenc ies. Log all
signals heard insid e our bands t hat sound as if
t hey do no t belong t here. Record da te, t ime, type
of serv ice nnd frequency . M all this d ata to us
a nd we will see tha t t he proper authorit ies reccive it pro mpt ly . Complai nts to the FCC must
be substnntiutcd with facts nnd figures !
Another important considerat ion in the reopening of the umutcur bands is t he phone activity in
c-w port ions of the band. Foreign governments,
which have sub-divided their bands in an entirely
diffcrent manner, have authorized voice operation within the c-w portion of most U . S. bands.
While it is undeniably true that if DX phones
worked within the U. S. phone allocations they
wou ld probably be permanently "smeared," it is
not fair that they occupy large portions of the
worka ble c-w spectrum. Inte rnational agreement
on sub-division of phone and c-w is certainly
necessary.
The solution to this problem is likely to be very
d ifficult because there is a wi de difference of
opinion. On existing frequencies it seems almost
impossible to make further sub-divisions. Additional freq uencies just outside of U. S. allocat ions
have worked well for D X c-w stations, although
t hese frequencies are unaut horized in many of
the cou nt ries where the practice is widespread .
DX phone concentrated just outside t he U. S.
phone band ma y work, although on the c-w side
August, 1946
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I U... uated and hlllh . po tt ed above are but two of many freeh, pod'f6>Gf eecewere, teanemitten.. factory built or kit . a nd parra deeillned "by and for ae r lo u a amafeun. PTlces are all
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Rei' view of PA, .howln,
method of mounting ch.ssis
on panel and the position
of tube., coil and vlcuum
condensen. Long ,f Ic.d.
arc conspicuously absent.
The SO.m.ter e oil is
plugged in, the 10mclc,
coil i, lying in front. For
,rid tunin,. the two .m.lI
JO HN E. STRIKER
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New ideas in final amplifiers are almost as rare as those in new cars.
But this unit uses something new in amateur radio, a vacuum variable
condenser. Low cost, easy drive, and a single dial contro l are other
features that make this PA of special interest to hams
of "easy-to-drive" tubes started several
years ago, but cost largely limited their application to other than output stages. I n addition to being expensive, the physical construetion of many high-gain tubes made them temperamental. Some still had. to be neutralized,
parasitics developed, and even a momentary
overload resulted in another pair of tubes land ing
in the garbage can. But the new tet rode series
has changed the picture. It was decided to use a
pair of APE-257-C's due to their efficiency at high
frequencies and the extremely high output obtained with low drive. (A fraction of one watt
will drive them easily to 1 kw input). We should
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T ests were run with inputs up to 1 kw using as
an exciter a small portable transmitter with a
single 6L6 as an output etege." Sufficient excitation (1.5 rna) was obtained with the 61.6 but
slightly loaded. Even tbough a capacity-coupled
amplifier usually requires the preceding stage to
be in close proximity to prevent coupling losses
which exist in a long capacity-coupled line, it was
possible to deliver sufficient excitat ion with a
two-foot link coupling line. It might be said t hat
a coupling line of this type violates conventional
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com ment in
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signals which have appeared on t he a ir in t he
past few yea rs and arc not readily recognized
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-------Sync~ron ization
Since these printers operate on a time basis,
t he receiving and transmitting units must be in
synchronism, and this may be accomplished in
two wa ys . The start-stop printer , in which the
printing speed is cont inuously variable from zero
words per mi nute to the ma ximum capabilities of
t he machine, uses two addit ional time units, one
before and one after t he fi ve units of the select ing
code, to provide synchronism . The first unit then
starts a scanner, or d istributor, which scans the
next fi ve units and distributes the marking or
spacing pulses to relays which cont rol a lever-gate
system and the last, or seventh, time unit stops
the scanner in a position ready to start scanning
again as soon as the next character is sent. T he
lever-ga te system in a T eletype printer consists
of five notched bars, one for each unit of the selecting code, which a re slid back a nd forth by rela ys and, in effect , cont rol the printed character.
The seco nd method of synchronizat ion requires
the conti nuous rotation of the sca nners, or dist ributors, and involves rather elaborate equipment to maintain synchronism . The use of a prepunched tape to key the transmitting system is a
"must," and the machines are usually operated
at or near their maximum speed capabilities.
Teletype printers usually operate wi th a top
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teristics inherent in frequency-modulated radiotelephone circuits. For example, a d iscriminatortype detector, dependent u pon frequency change
for its ope ration, may be utilized along with
cascaded limiters ahead of it , thereby produeing sat isfactory performance at almost unbelievably low slgnel-to-nolse ratios. Performance
is further improved on low signal-to-noise ratio
circuits by the use of very sharp filters which
reject a large percentage of the noise passed
through previous wider-bend stages of the receiving equipment.
By using the advantages discussed above, plus
space-diversity reception where needed, it is not
difficult to understand how such a circuit may be
made to perform with reliability approaching that
of a wired circuit and satisfactorily handle rad ioprinters.
Multichannel Sy,tem,
The American T elephone and Telegraph Company has approached the problem in a slightly
d ifferent manner and has produced a system
which has many desirable features. T heir system
uses a steady carrier which is amplitude-modulated by a series of audio tones wh ich carry the
printer pulses . Four tones are usually used for
each printer, two to mark and t wo to space, and
t hese four tones arc spaced as widely as is practicable. Reception of anyone of the tones is sufficient to ope rate the printer. Because of the
modulation impressed on the carrier, the signal
would be rather broad to handle only one circuit,
so t welve or t wenty-fo ur to nes are used to operate three or six independent radioprinters on
the one carrie r. One sideband may be suppressed, or used to pcrfonn an entirely separate
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High Ipeed code .utom.tic tranlmission viewl taken from P.n.d.ptor. ( Left) zero Iweep, (right) medium Iweep
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pulse to ope rate the printer. This is done tu
minimize the chance that a false pulse will he produced by static or external noise or interference.
M ulticha nnel systems of this type are charaeterized by a pulsing rate t wo, three or (our times
as great, approximately, as a correspondi ng single
channel system, depending upon whether it is n
two, three or (our channel system. M ore t han
four channels may be used on one carrier, the
limit probably being determined by t he m ultipath chn racteristics of the frequency used und the
mechan ical ability of t he printer equ ipment to
set up on each pulse a nd print before unotln-r
series of pubes is fed to the sa me printer .
PTM
The W TnPM have only recently been removed
(rom anot her system of multicha nnel operution
known as P ulse-T ime M odulati on. I n t h is xy.. .tern, n eonstn nt ly recurring ma rker pu lse is transmitred, fo llowed by a series of pu}:-;('s which ca rry
the intelligen ce of the various channels. The intelligcnce pulse may be nea rer to or fart her from
the marker pulse (on t he time a xis) uud its posit ion relative .to t he marker pulse determines t he
intelligence. Such a system may be used (or
rndioprintcr operation but it is unusually well
suited (or multichannel radiotelephone operation
and may be used largely on that type of circuit.
The British have used all adaptat ion of tilt'
cable code on radioprinters for many years, developed by Higgit t , The cable code is basically
an equal-unit code but of a type differing from
that used on the printers already described, in
that the dot, dash and space nrc each broken up
into two equal time elements, while the other
printers broke the letters, numerals and other
charactC'TS into a S('ries o( <'qual time clements, A
limited numlx-r of mnrk and space pulse combinations exi.st (or the dot, dash and ~pa('C element:;
of the Int(,rJlational :\Ionoc code nud allY of the
possible combinations :shown in Fig. 2 m:ty bc
used. This type o( printcr is gcnemlly u!'Cd on a
twO-<'hnnne1 circuit, using the distributor system
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PANORAMIC ADAPTORS
J. R. POPKIN.CLURMAN, W2LNp
communications receivers
RDl XARU.y a Panadaptor is connected to its
companion receiver by means of a shielded
cable connected through a fixed resistor at
the plate of the receiver converter tube. The resistor is necessary to prevent the capacity of the
connecting cable (rom detuning the first i-f
transformer in the receiver.
" 'hill' operation under these conditions Is generally suitnblc. the resistor in the panoramic
coupling lowers the Q of the first i-f coil, R) that
the gain of till' first i-f stage is somewhat reduced. I n most (~tL""~ this reduction in gain is not
serious. However, when the receiver i~ continuously operated at maximum gain, such reduction in sensit ivity may be undesirable.
In order to overcome this condition and to
make it possible to conner-t. a panoramic
uduptor to a receiver ,vithout affecting the
receive r in nuv wny, use of thc follow ing cuthodc
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CHARLES T. HAIST J.., W6TWL '
Once you are fa milia r with its many applications, one of the handiest
g adgets around the sh ack is the oscilloscape. This compact, inexpensive
unit just fills the bill for the ave rage amateur station
Front panel controls are: Rt , the vertical input gain cont rol, which is ganged with the vertica l
input switch SI. R, the horizontal input control,
is similarly ganged with the horizontal input
switch Sf. (See Fig. 1.) S3 is the sweep range
selector switch, the six sweep positions COVl'f approximately 15-60, 60-220, 22O-O.9K, 0.9K-3 K,
3K. IOK, and lO K-30 K. Each po... ition is overlapped by the sweep frequency vernier control
HI!. 117 is t he sweep synchronizing or locki ng
control. S5 is the switch for external or interna l
synchronization. Ri 6 is the en tube focusing
control. R2S is t he intensity control ganged
with "swit
ch 84. for power "off-o n."
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Conlrol.
(Left) Compac:t oscilloscope has professional appearanee by using commercial engraving on front p.lnel. uyout
may be tak en from Fig. 2. Standard compon entt . re used throughout. (Right) Lookin, into side of scope sho ws
a bsence of h.ywire despite compactness. M echanial I.yout should be carefully duplicated to avo id mounting
difficulties
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PARTS LIST
Rl1-S00,OOO ohm, 1 wett
R12, R:19, R20-4 meg. potentiometer
R14-1 meg ., ~ wett
R16-100,OOO ohm, 2 wen
R17, R18-5 meg., lh wett
R21-25,OOO ohm, 10 wett
R22, R:23-10,OOO ohm, 3 watt
R24-200,OOO ohm, 1 w.tt
L1, l.2-60 mh choke
l3-5 hi 40 rnd choke
51, 52-SPOT, on R1, R3
Augu.t, 1946
S3-SP7 position
S4-SPST power
55-SPOT toggl.
rotary
C. binet-8ud CU1099
Power Tr.nsformer
One reason for its compactness is the small
standard receiver replacement power t rans-
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BoUam of seepe i. accessib le throulJh cutout. Power supply occu pia rellr section of
abind. Betides ,ertin, to balance the scope For the photo f11m, box ,ive. furthr idea of
sin of oscilloscope
Cabinet
T he cabinet used for t he oscillograph is a
standard commercial u nit. A template, as shown
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MATCHING STUBS
'fU- VJl:f Ante~~
LOYAL STEPHEN FOX, ex- W2AHB '
U E T YPE OF TIl.\ S ~\lISSIO S
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410
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495
525
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495
520
550
580
610
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575
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Characteristic impedance 01 2-wire lines -
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Fig. 1. Standard transmissio n line, unaffecte d by length , d erives imp ed t nce from dlemeter a nd spaci ng of the
wires . Fig. 2 . line een be terminated in a resisto r of yalue e q ual to impeda nce . Fig. 3. ReRcction of rope
molion with one held ri9id cau ses "stand ing waves" to appear.
In Fig . 4 the ro p e is susp en d ed between two
springs at b. Since the motion is completely absorbed by the springs, none is reflected bade. Fig. 4 is analogous
to "FI.t" transmi ssion line terminating in " mlltch .:J laid, whil e Fi3. 3 represents the standing waves of an
unmatched line
Augusl, 1946
23
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TRANSM IT fER
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~
:-~ ANTE NNA
LIN E
-:''-'l
\
STUB
R. RE CT IF IER CRYSTAL
Te.t Procedure
Temporarily short-circuit the line at the antenna end. Returning to the transmitter end of
the line, locate with the meter a point of minimum
current. The minimum point may be rather
broad and difficult to determine exactly. In this
case locate points of equal current on eit her side
of the minimum. Half way bet ween these \\;11 be
the minimum point. .:\lark the line at this point.
Now remove the temporary short-circuit and repeat the minimum current point locating procedure until you have found a new minimum
point which is within a quarter-wavelength of the
first point. If you go beyond a quarter-wevelength you are moving in the wrong directionreturn to the first minimum point and cont inue
in that direction. when you have correctly located the new point (1) note the meter reading
and (2) measure accurately the distance between
the old and the new points. Now continue along
the line in either direction and locate a point of
maximum current. You can check t his point
against the frequency as the maximum and
minimum points will be a quarter-wavelengt h
apart. Note the meter reading (3).
TABLE 2
R.tio
Moa/Mla
C......
1.5
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
2-4
52 me.
L
41
33
25-1/4
!l
17-7/8
15-7/B
14-3/4
13.1/2
12-314
11-3/4
0
313/8
33.1 /2
36-7/8
393/B
-40-1 /2
41 1 /2
42
43-1 /4
...., /2
222.5 me.
1.46 me.
L
14-5/8
11 .13/16
9
7-1 /2
6-3/8
5-5/B
5-1 /4
4-13 /16
4-9/ 16
4-3/16
0
11.1/ 8
11 -15/16
13-1 /8
14
14-7/ 16
14-3/4
14-15/16
15.3/B
155/8
15.7/8
9.19/32
. L
7-3/4
5-29/32
4-29/32
4-7/32
3-23/32
3.15/32
3-5/32
3
2-3/4
0
7.11 /32
727/32
8-5/8
9-7/32
9-1 /2
923 /32
9-13 /16
1001 /B
10-5/16
10-17/32
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illustrated
here has several interesting circuit ideas b uilt
into it , such as a means of electrically shifting
the crystal-cont rolled frequency over a ran ge of
as much as 10 kc to 15 ke in the ten-meter band.
The class B modulator is driven by a power-tube
type of cathode follower which is considerably
different from t he more conventional method of
using a pair of type 45 triodes. Bands covered are
3.5, 7, 14, and 28 me.
The crystal oscillator uses a type 7C5 or
6V6GT tetrode fun ctioning ae an oscillator-amplifier or oscillator doubler. Hasicnlly the circuit
is the familiar " harmonic oscillator" in which
the tube and external capacities act as a Colpitts
oscillator wit h the crystal serving as a high-Q
tuned circuit. The plate circuit can be tuned to
the crystal fundamental frequency or to any
harmonic. Proper choice of grid-leak value and
screen grid voltage permits obtaining about the
same output on the fundamental or the second
harmonic. Tu ning to the third harmonic of t he
crystal will produce roughly half as much out put
as on the second hannonic. Likewise, the fourth
hurmcnic will be about half as st rong as t he third
or one-fourth as great 8S the second.
ilE
transmitter
Shifting Frequency
T he standard harmonic oscillator can be easily
modified by including an inductance and capacitance in series wit h the crystal to vary the net
reactance of t he crystal itself over a limited
range. This particular type of oscillator permits
greater frequency shift in this manner than can
be obtained with most other crystal oscillators.
There is a certain critical inductance for each
crystal, but fortunately a variable condenser in
series with the coil Can be used effect ively to vary
the net reactance of the whole circuit . A small
variometer makes an ideal inductance ; however,
a tapped coil of 40 or 50 microhenrys does a fair
job. The condenser can be small- 25O JJJJf maximum capacity. In this transmit ter, the coil
switch has one posit ion in which t he whole coil
is shorted out . A corner of one stator plate in
the condenser was bent over sharply 80 as to act
as a short circuit when t he condenser plates are
fully enmeshed. With the coil and condenser
shorted, the oscillator functions at the normal
frequency of t he crystal.
OS7 Durant A ve., Berkeley 4, Calif .
Coupling Method
I n setting up the circuit between the 807 and
4E27 tube, capacity coupling was used at first.
Trouble with ground returns of the 807 and
4E27 tubes reduced the grid current in the tenmeter band to a low value. Unity coupling with
a tuned plate coil and an interwound secondary
4E27 grid coil of the same number of turns,
remedied this sit uat ion and was built into the
set for use on nil bands. The 4E27 tube has a
conservative plate dissi pation rating of 75 watts
and has short leads and low inter-electrode
capacit ies. The output on the higher frequency
bands is quite high as a result, and t wo 100 watt
lamps as a dummy antenna lit up to about the
same brilliancy as a 100 watt lamp on the 115
volt circuit.
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I n common with most screen-grid tubes, moduloti on m ust he appl ied to the screen grid as well
as the plate which means a large screen-dropping
resistor from the modulated h igh- voltage source .
Th is work!'! fi ne for phone o perat ion but is not
very good for c.w. since t he screen volta ge rises
to the fu ll pluto voltage value when t he key
is open. Centr-r-tnn keyi ng (wit h a short circuit
across the plate modulation t ransformer secondary) can he used for c.w. T he most sat isfactory
method of c-w operation is to use a separate lowvoltage supply, since the fixed bias on the input
~ricl call t hen 1)(' of a reasonable value and o...eilIator or buffer ...tnge keying can he used . The
difficulty is to ohtuin a few hundred vo lt..... of audio
on the screen fur phone opcrution when using a
scparute screen ...upply.
Bios Supply
.\ sim ple fonn of fixed C bias supply wa.. . built
into this I'(,t u...ing a shunt type voltage-doubler
n-r-tifior wit h a 6116 t ube to "keep alive" a neon
hull. regulator. A I-wnt t upon hu ll. Il{'('(ls about
I ma to keep ionized and t he final grill current
of fro m I t o S rna t hen adds to th is value without
appn-r-iably ('hanging t he C bias vcltugc. Hi gher
Chill."! eun he obta ined by using I-wa t t I\NH!
Power supply for both d . and a.f. units
on bottom chassis
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New hams wha want to work OX and old hands wha are interes ted in
imp roving the ir results will find this review of high frequency
propagation paying dividends in incre a se d operating pleasure
A~ 1" OF THE
14. J[aryland
,
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IO N IZ "TlON
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f ig. 1. Simplified view of 10nosp~Cfe layer which reRects low-angle sign. Is b.dc to urth, while high...ngle signals
continue out through space. Note sile nt 01 " skip" zone resulting from Ieek of signal reRcetion in that arc.
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110
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1946
19 4 4
V A RIA TIO N
Fig, i , The sunspot cycle illustrated by yearly ....erages of the F.layer crilical/requency in megacycles, for
no on and midnight at Washington, D.
for the: last
1 i yean.
c.,
0 11('
A bsorption
The Sunspo
t Cycle
When speaking of long-range radio transmisslon, it must be remembered that all high-frequency radio condit ions arc influenced. by t he
effects of a long term sunspot cycle of about
eleven yea rs. The last minimum of the present
cycle was in 19-t-4, as shown in Fig. t . At the
bottom. of the cycle, medium high frequencies
must be used in orde r to be refracted by the
ionosphere. At the peaks of the sunspot cy cles,
the high and ve ry-high frequencies become uscful. This fluctuation may be as much as five-to-
30
CO
mill times when this effect is true . Low power
amateur trunsmi-s..ions and many of the new
radio-mechanical forms of communication, such
us rudiotclctype, being critical M to the amount
of power available, must rely upon a careful sek-et inn and a more frequ ent shifti ng of freq uc' II t-1('::; .
It will he noted that conditions whi ch perm it
t ill' use of t he sumo long-dista nce frequency fo r
severa l days arc t he result of cond it ions at the
bot tum of t he sunspot cycle, especially in 't he
summer months. At the present time and for the
next several years , during the period of increasing
sunspo t numbers, long-distance circuits will genemily have to be ...hifted to higher frequencies in
daylight hours to avoid loss of communications
due to weak signals. Of course, communication
cannot be maintained at night on t he daylight
In-qucncics because the latter will not he refleet ed hack to earth . It will be seen from these
general indica t ions t hat on ly a relatively narrow
ba ud of frequencies is useful for nn y given d irect ion , dist a nce and time or day.
3 8 .0
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2000
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0<00
0800
0200
JUN(
1600
SU NSPOT
2000
2<00
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Fig. 3. (left). Appro ximate daily curve of max imum end lowest usable fr equencies for 2000 mile work ~cc n te r e d
on Washington, D. C. for December .t the top of the sunspot cycle. We.k signals result from .ttempts to usc
fr equencies falling in the cross-hatched area. Frequeneles ebeve the upper line skip over the d ist.nt point.. Usable
frequenci~s therefere, are between the two curves. Fig. 4 (right). Approximate daily curve of muimum and
lewest usable frequencies for 2000 mile work centered on Washington, D. C., for June at the bottom of the sunspot
cycle. Weak signals result from .ttempts to use frequenetes falling in the cross-hatched area . Frequencies above
the upper line skip ever the distant point. Usable frequencies, therefore, are between the two curves
August, 1946
31
IW'---AUG UST
OUVER PERRY FERRELL
Tone
July 15 to 18 July 26 to 27 A ug . 3 10 4
Currently observed data also indicate. that
predicted conditions 01 MUF will be somewhal
,.re.ter than pictured in the July issue of
Especially in the temper.te zone after 1 BOO
houn local time .
Specific ionospheric storm warning are broad.
cast by the North American Service of the
B.B.C. and by WWV, National Bureau of
Standards, Washington, D. C. The laUer is
transmiUing continuously on 5, 10 and 1 5 me.
A series of "w"s signifies that con ditions are
below normal. A series of "n"s will signify that
conditions are normal. These particular broad.
casls are made al the 20 and 50 minute interval ,
after each hour.
ca.
SE HS OF Tilt:
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IN
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Filj. 1 (left). MUF San Francisco 10 Welli ngton, New Zealand. August 1946 avcrage. Fig. 2 (right). MUF New
Yorlc: City to Lecpeldvllle, Belgium Congo. Augutt 1946 ever.g.
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Augu'l, 1946
33
stntion ever set u p in Kore n. W20AA uw-s a rediJlole~ function prope rly.
He says the feedi ng b uilt 111'. -1 T ra nsmit te r, with a kilowat t in put. The
d rives his "wacky." At present, R ay is using 83 etc- autennn is a 2 element rotarv beam . The shuck was
mcut close-spaced arrey, a la Jones, a nd flays it sure
in an SC R399 shelter, mounted on a 2 H ton tru ck.
"perks.' li e feeds this antenna with a quarter wave,
Hurry has work('(152 eount ries. Il l' hope s to two buck
1)2 bm H G 8 U 64 " long, and then into a 300 ohm
home in Xew Ro c helle, X l'W York, around t hr- let ter
twinux line. H e says W2 EI E is really working some
part of A UJ{URt.
nice nx. I wonder just what W2 EI E is working for
.-\ card from S V1G H, who is president of the Helnx. Speaking of W 2's, W2 YY is now located in k-nic Radio Amateur League of At hens, Greece,
I lll \' il'l , California, and probably vel")' soon will have a
informs us that their h":.lJ?;UC' originated in '-10, and is
\Hi (':,11. Ill' is assistant engineer at X BC 's World.
now in action again. Mem bers would like all QS L
W itlc ~hort-W:l\'e Station in Da\;8.
cards e-nt through their HRA L Bureau as follows :
AllOl her old-timer heard from is W8JAII , formerly
Hellenic Radio Ama teu r League Q .S.L . Bureau .
of De-t r oit , and now located in St.l.ouis. I remember
s. E. Stephanou (S \' I G R) , 14 Alkamnos Street,
(lui It a hum session in Detroit a number of years
AIhens-Greece.
hark, ut which time I had a chance to meet JAB, as
The following is lifted frum the Bulle t in of the
\\'(11 11.'1 u flock (If t he other boys.
Society of Ama teur Radio Operators, which is in the
If nny of you OO)'s worked W9JYF while he W88
S. F. Hay area. Yes, I received permission. "For
operating 10 meter phone and c.w. in Tokyo, you
/(,.111: ~ room house situated in Oakland 011 top of a
call now send your cards to him as follows: Ke n
high hill . One block to transportation, s hopping
Yo U tl ~ , W9J YF , Route I , Woodstock, Ill .. Ken had
center and high school. H as two tile baths. Two car
3t,o <l:-'O's during the three months he was on the air Jt8rBgC. Room built above garage about 10 x 15 feet.
in Tokyo. Xice going.
Through oversight this room wired with 6 wnll plugs
with :,6 wire. PGE made mista ke and hft n 60 I
California hne gained another DX 'r, ex-W9CDT,
und ('x-W7ELX, H e is now W6VHY and is located
telephone pole in the backyard all set u p. All t elewith ABC in Sun Francisco. VBY says of the ABC
phone end light wires for ten square blocks are understudio 1(31111; in San Francisco, "The two hams on the
ground and everyone livin g wit hin a radius of 25
air an- announcers, and so far, no engineers have blocks has 11 t uned r-f broadcast receiver wit h two
the-ir rigs fired up. T he transmitter gang, however,
stlLJl:('S r .f. and ent irely shielded cabinets. Ren t ini~ u lit th- be t ter represented.
eludes all gnrdene r services and water-c-On a tC'J1
year 1('Il8C 27.50 per mont h. . . . HEh wbnt , lIl'lI r?
WSBI\:P is still running low power a nd 88yS he
. , , Wake u p?" . .. Oh I WIlS j ust d reamin g.. , ,"
will ~o to a kilowatt as soon as he has worked 100
Ah, unotbe r \\'9 heard Ir om, a nd it's ub out time.
cou nt ries. H iM76 th and 77 t h countries were VP9 F
lUu l WSWSy / I{J~ , You will recall, George U&''S a
WlIRBI of Mad ison, Wisconsin . I ha ven ' t hcurd
from II Nh H08S for )'<'IUS. Herb is now working at
d ou hl( hi-equnre for north-so uth and a single bi\VI BA in Madison. He is using a '1'40 in his ril(, wi th
square for the ot he r two directions.
150 wa tts input . He has worked 3;') r- ouutrios, most
Herb Brier, W9 EGQ, sends in a little info as Iolof t horn on phone. 9RnI has worked 113 count ries
lows. It seems t hrough some misunderstanding,
p re-war, an d has 110 confirmed. However, he is
W2VL was g iven credit for ha ving worked 83 COU Ilwilling to st a rt nil over o n a post-war hll..s is.
tries. Says W3VL, " Taint so, because I have
Ou r Irk-nd, W71DF, kicks through with a little
worked only 41." Inciden tally, W2VL claims a n
int e resting infor mation about C E1AO, Harry
assist for Iwlping W2IOP, ou r esteemed editor, wo rk
B rum pl\C'. H a rt)' movro to Chile atwm l2.,) }'I'urs nl(o,
l\ N'rtnin nx l'ltntion. H ow about t hat, Larry ?
W SERA work(-<I T G9RC 3615 kc on c,w. lI i& and has tloll(~ his ghfl.l"(' o f DX. Pa rt of t il(' 8u('et'Mg of
CE I AO Hp'j: in t he fact that he is close ttl t l\l' OC('lLn
QT II, Hul ph Cozad , c /o Pa n-American Airn'a ys,
for 0111:' thin/{. Ilnd t h' cliffs form a nat um l Jla nlbol a,
GUllttmaln City, Guatemala. Also workt-d F8AA
giving him th(' cxtm lift of nfl('Cwre. W7Il>F hIlS
3H30 kC', also c.w. WSERA has just crankro up his
visitl'(l CEI AO and says he is extremely hotlpitahle
kilowatt, so I pn'sullle we will be hC'arinll; more from
to visitin~ hams, and is unfailingly considt-rat( in the
him now that 20 and 40 are opcn.
usc of t ht, \' .Lo.
As for W 9 EG Q . he is still waiting for a telephone
W2IOP WllS on 20 tht" oP<'nin~ day, but KlLYS h' is
pole 10 he deliv(rcd. Good luck, H erb .
not workinJZ: out too wC'll as )'et, mostly due w his
Bill Conklin, W3J UX , is a little unhappy lx-caU!'le
antenna !lituation. L arry infonns us W 2GW E
the pnw('r rom pan)' cut down the antenna that he
snalOlwd \ 'SIJ H lind E PIC on the finlt day. W6 EX\~
plamwd on ul'Cing for 7 and 14 mc. BiU 88)'S he has
and Wl>CE:\l u1l'lO worked \ S U H. Larl")' says his
heen !lhunt-f('('(ling a 20 foot tree on 80 phone. I
first Q:-:O Ull 20 was W6 E BG and his fin<t nx con
know a ham who~ profession happens to be a Tree
tact wa;;; \ 1\:2ACX. He has eked out a WAC 80
:-iu~('On, and I don't think hc would believe thi.q.
rCl'lult-l nrc improvinJZ:.
Anothlr l...tt(r from OKIAW. We see he has had
A Iltt('r from W6 I'::.A K, an old-timer out this way,
difficult) in gC'ttillp; copies of CQ, as well as a I('tt('r
JZ:iws a little information which some of yuu twlys
or two ftom yours truly. We do hope that he will
may like to Iwar. Prior to the war Court' worked at
get thc magazine without waitinll; much long{'r.
the Omtn,l Tuwer at thl' Burbank Airpo rt . Then he
W20 AA / J 8 has I:x-t-n on the air sincc J a n uary '46,
went into the Xa"y for four years, bein~ diSl'ha~ed
in &-oul, I\:o rt'a . His first j,W" was W6J GW on
as a Lt. Olmm:mdC'r in January of this }"t.'flr. The
Illum ('. T his wa.~ followed by a c-w QSO, with a
nit that hp i~ now lJ.'ling has a pair of 2;)() T Il's in the
W7V Y. lIa rry says he is the first J 8 ever to operate
on 10 mett-'rs and b}' fsr the most powerful ham
[Continued' on palJl55]
34
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The Cantwell Fifty-Four, a communication... reccivcr incorporating rnanv unusual Ieetures ha....
lx-cu announced bv the Allt'n D. Cardwell ::\1 8.oufucturing Corp., "P lai nville , Conn. Among the
outstanding points of this new receiver are: full
turret d. section, frequency coverage to .>4.0 me.
built-in secondary frequency standard, direct readini!; liner type diuI.:'!, all miniature tubes, threshold
squelch, temperature com pe nsated oscillator, and a
IIt'W type noise limiter.
Full technical details may
be obtained by writing to Cardwell.
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range is automatically and accurately indicated. Or tum t lu- wheels to indicate any desired
standard range, anti you are immediately shown
the correct color coding. The Rcsist-O-Gllitle is
available at IRC distributors.
R.F. Chok.s
Catalogs
Resistor Gu ide
August, 1946
35
36
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month, in our first full-fledged UH F column in CQ, we were able to report t he coming
AST
Six.Metor Skip OX
Last month, the initial report... to this column
covered band openings Oil :\I a)' 2, 7, )2, 14 , Ifi
and 2 1. Starting at tha t point, things started to
g~t much more interes ting.
Sometimes longdistance work like the contact of some 1485 miles
between W6 LSX in Lon~ Bcach and wn m
near Kansas City, lusted for an hour or more.
But let's take the reports day by day .
\fay t4. W6QA P in Tucs on , Arizona, hooked
his old friend, W60\'K, in Red wood Cit)', California . Mu ch more activity, however, was reported by Russell Law, W1 FK X , who worked the
following from Atlantn : WILLL, \\rlI IIA,
W IFJN , W8CLS/I , and WIHDQ, a ll just before
or at noon, a nd a ll in M ussuchuset ts or Connecticut. Russ hcnrd W2 BYM on bot h c. w . and
phone but did not hook him .
Ma y 29. Th is w as t he first opening for walter
::\Ia nni ng, W7E It A, since he returned to M ilwaukie, Orego n, (rom bei ng a Chief Radioman at
NA H,
Bethesda 14,
~[ a ryla nd
August, 1946
lI erb, W7DY D in lIothell, Wasbington, hap1)('11("(1 to listen in the early afternoon and found
the hand open (or two hours . He was able to
work \Y6AUH, and a lso \\~6.-\ N X who was by
far the st rongest sta t ion, blocking Herb 's su pe rhet receiver at times. Others heard by him were
W60JV, W6CHIf , W6T AII , W6CFI, W6SUY,
W61 'X, W6R\' L and W6I X L? The latter seems
to be the same W6IX who hooked W7DXB,
J une 8. This is not a well-reported opening.
Vince at W9ZJ lI got W 1AE I' in Springfield,
~1 a.."S. Xo ot her reports received by us to dat e
on this.
J une 5. \\' 7DXII, W7A \ T and W7E RA a ll
37
tooo
mil
west of Engla nd
M . y, 1946
(1 4 me cw)
nl~ :lAA : II B~)J; OZr,Gj G2 AX; ~ :\ I(j ~ 1.; ;-::\1 7Y1';;
I.XIA.\; X .\BL ; il LA; G7BR; FSYZ; OX-D IEI;
llB!mT; LCSAI\ .
(1 4 me phon e)
breakage
Precision measuremen ts
in in crements of .0001"
Op ti c al ad j us t me n t
methods insu re accuracy
not ob taina ble with u n-
aided eye
I nd ivid ual testi ng for output. s ta r ting voltage and
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frequency ta n.e from 100 K C eo '00 ~f C 10 con venient steps
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into Phi ladelphia, Allentown, Lnncustor, \\"3n\Yx in Mechnnicsbu rg near H ar risburg, and
Wal1011 in Jtcmnrdsville, Xew J('~C'~. . T he
lat ter claimed that he nearly died of shock when
he hooked a portable in 'YS, hut n-coven.x. l
eno ugh to line the boys up with 'Y2FJ Q in mt h
River, K ow Jersey. They heard many strange
\\'~ calls including W~BZA , W~~IQS, '\'2~I\\'A
and W2ER but concluded that either the N ew
York City boys need better receivers or are interfering with cscb other so m uch that DX doesn' t
get through.
Out there in the flatte r areas in Gary, Indiana,
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right with his
I;) watts on a self-excited HY75 , a super-regcnerntive receiver. and quarter-wave-spaced fourelement antenna . On S unday, June 16, he and
W9XQS in Rockford . Illinois, heard each ot her
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T hey do things in a big way out in California.
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operating to put their carriers on the air and suppress W3CWU's reoeiver hiss for half the band .
W3AKI is planning to get on the band soon
as W2AKI. Say, how many stations will be using
the same call, if that keeps up! W3J WW is
h aving creeping trouble; perhaps he will be up to
.a "walk" soon. W3VX says that he puts 70 watts
into his tube on 147 megacycles; about 20 watts
leave the antenna and 15 stay in th e speech
amplifier.
The other night, W3GKP outside of W..hlngton heard a nice signal from Brownie, \V2PA U,
six miles out of Camden-but after getting up to
RG, it went out.
More from the Philadelphia-Camd en area
comes from Brownie who, since the first day the
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J oe Addison, W9l'KD- now W ~PKD , is getting ready to get on the band in Salina, Ka nsas.
WDIlAU and WDJ IlS in the Kansas City area
are using four-element antenna arrays, with
walkie-talkies.
Activity around Chicago is picking up, accord ing to Herb Brier, " '9EG Q, of Gary, but it is
surprising how many are on the air without ever
pushing their signals much farther than across
the st reet. \V9YQI in La Grange, Illinois, and
\V9IOD in Elmhurst are the most consistent at
Gary, a distance of 40 miles or more. There arc
two camps developing with W9IOD, WDZIIIl,
W9XQS, W91lLY and many others west of
Chicago using horizontally polarized antennas,
a long with \V9\V\VH up in Racine, \ViscoJl:5in.
W9YQI in La Grange, W9RIIL in Hobart,
W9EGQ in Gary and W9JPK in Milwaukee are
among those using vertical polarization. Some
DX work over 100 miles has been done crosspolarization, however.
co
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Their usual rig at these remote cabins has consisted of a 6L6 with 30 watts input, powered with a
six volt vibrator pack. A wind charger charges the
ba t te ries ; lack of wind is never a problem! Receiver
is a n 8W3.
Only this past Ap ril they had the sort of experience that was a thriller. In Verna's own words.
" Maybe you've heard of the ti dal wave that was
due here at Nak nek lust week . You see, I have been
operating t he only transmitter in town. It 's an airwa ys company outfit and has only two crystals,
bo th ai rways frequencies , but I ha ve also been in
contact with t he Signal Corps about 15 miles up t he
ri ver. There is no othe r means of comm unication nt
the presen t time, nn d 80 twice a day I handle t he
wires to and from the vtlluge.
Wcll , it all started OIl(' da y when I was just getti ng
ready to wush my hair. A fellow carne ru nni ng to
say t hat t he Ma rshal wanted me immediately. We
couldn't imagi ne what wus wrong, 80 I just tied up
my h air in a scarf, slipped on my boots (it W1\.8
tha wing some) a nd ran down. Pa rt of a t ransmission
about a ti dal wave had been overheard a nd I had to
get on the ai r to sec what the score was. Luckily I
contacted Ancborege right away ; eud sure enough ,
t he wa ve was way down the chain (rom here, b ut was
a 90 Cooter and was d ue to hit N aknek at eight
thirty. This was about five thirty. Wh a t to do and
not start a pa nic was the question!
It so happened that there were two planes in the
village, which immediately started taking women
and children to the Anny base. At seven thirty with
t he wa ve 65 miles south of here a nd traveling at a
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Chiagol.nd A ....cun .r. invited to visit o w
showrooms. TOni Kosti , W90PU, in ch.~ e .
speed of 35 miles a n ho ur, we closed do.....n the stat ion, a nd t hose of us who were left began to hike.
You see, it's aU flats and to find any high ground
W 8B nearly impossible. We finally hiked ou t to one
of the canneries , and clim bed a ladder to the top of
a 50 foot high water tank. There we waited and
listened until around ten o'clock, when we felt that
it W 8B safe to go to the cannery watchman's house
and get the la test radio reports. They were coming
in thick. and fast, st ill full of w ernings, but by twelve
thirty when nothing had happened, we hiked back to
town, and I W88 back. on the air by one thi rty.
I never left the mi ke until three p . m. the followi ng
da y , and that's about as all in 8B I ever ho pe to be.
My voice practically left me, a nd I was too tired to
t hink. any more, could n't even remember t he station
call letters. During t he day we had gotten reports
that the wave had hit down below us, a nd was still
on its way. The pla nes returned a nd took more and
more people-Verne finally said I had to go, so he
took over the transmitter.
Miraculously , the wave by-passed. us completely,
but where it did hit an Alaskan Coast Guard Station it killed five men, and, of course, di d enormous
damage in Honolulu. H ad it hit, wi t h us unprepared, the result might been t ragic, and here was a
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stalled on t he chassis, t he tube a nd the components involved should be m ounted within a
small shield, as shown in the photograph . A
shielded cable rna)" be used to connect t he leads
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I n all cases it is highly desirable tha t the installation be made permanently and that the
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fo liagc. But, using a low horizont al wire, sometimcs only five fcct off t he ground, would permit
com municat ion for many miles, provided the frequency was low enough for ionospheric reflection.
Bell T elephone Laborat ories demonstrated
that to obtain the sa me results with a short whip
ant enna as with a horizontal wire, it would he
necessary to increase the power of t he sets several
hundred times. At 75 miles, the snme signal
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t ransmitter and a horizontal wire antenna 7 feet
high, or 1/ 6 wa tt into a sloping wire 5 to 30 feet
high .
It is difficult to imagine 1/6 watt replacing
3000 watts, but it will be noted that short base
loaded whip antennas have little or no radiation
at ncar vertical angles. This explains the difficulties of t he motor torpedo boats in t he Leyte
Gulf operat ion, which were unable to communicate wi th their operat ing area near Onnoc and
their base in the Gulf. T he motor torpedo boats
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for about 20 miles and at very long ranges, but
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net by a 134" spacer at each comer of the plate
The chas..sis is located in t he cabinet 7/ 8" bac k
from the front end to allo w clearance for the
various controls.
The cathode-ray tube socket, is mounted from
the top of the cabinet by an angle bracket on
each side of the socket. T he keyway in the socket
mounting plate is filed otT 80 the socket can be
rotated a small amount to align the tube. No
steel shield was needed on the scope tube, since
t he magnetic fields of the t ransformers cancel out.
T he filament, power transfonner, and filter
choke are mounted at the rear of the chassis. T he
filter choke (not shown) is directly behind the
power transformer, fastened to the bottom of the
cabinet. T he mounting of the t wo transformers is
left unt il the scope is completely wired and tested.
Leads to the transformers are left long enough so
that they could be moved around , The only adjustment necessary after test ing the scope (or
operation is the 3-30 p p( trimmer condenser
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T o cancel out the magnetic fields of the transformers, the filament transformer is placed outside the cabinet, away from t he cat hode-ray
tube. T he power t ransfo rmer is rotated t hrough
its planes to determ ine t he point of minimum
disto rtion in the horizontal and vert ical sweeps
and fastened in this posit ion with angle brackets.
T he filament transformer is placed above the
power transformer, rotated fo r minimum distort ion, then fastened. T he d istortion can best
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Like any other suitably designed scope, many
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By applying one frequency to th e vert ical plates,
and a not her frequency to t he hori zontal plates,
harmonic relnticnshipe may be determined from
the Lissajous figu res fonned on the screen.
A scope, of course, is an excellent high-impedance voltmeter, for either a .c. or d.c. when
suitably calibrated. Calibrat ion may be nccomplished by connecting to any standard sou rce
and determining the deflection sensit ivity of the
system.
The scope nffcrds onc of the best methods of
checking modulation percentage an d linearity.
To do this, couple the vertical plates to the r-f
tank by means of a loop, and apply modulator
out put voltage to the horizontal plates from a
potentiometer. Excite the speech channel from
an audio oscillator, and a trape zoidal pattern
\\;11 appear on the screen. At 100% modulation
the trapezoid extends to a triangle with st raight
sides.
Distortion in the modulation system will cause
the pat tern to be clipped or curved. By using t he
internal sweep on the horizontal plates, the
modulation waveform may be observed.
It is perhaps well to conclude with a note on
elliptical (or double overlapping) modulation
patterns. These are caused by a phase shift of
voltage to either vertical or horizontal plates. T o
avoid this phase shift, always take the audio frequency from the output of the modulator, and
make all leads to the plates short and "clean."
One of the handiest gadgets around the shack,
this compact oscilloscope will handle just about
any job that the ham can find for it . More
thorough information on the application of the
scope in amateur radio will appear in fut ure
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in various seqUCDC<'S to actually print the character on a ta pe, and are arranged and scanned
vertically from bottom to top of each successive
row. There are five vertical rows each consisting
of five pulses. T he additional four units, to make
the total t wenty-nine, are always spaced and
provide time for the scanning mechanism to
move (rom one vertical row to the next. The relafi ve posit ion of the pulses l1S well as the manner
in which t he vari ous characters are formed are
shown in Fig. S. When observed aurally, 8
Helleschrelber printer sounds like bursts of very
high speed code in uniform succession with relatively long spacing between bursts. 'Vhile this
type of rudioprinter has been used to some extent
in this country, it has been largely replaced by
the other systems which have been described because it is capable of a top speed of only about 45
wpm as compared to speeds of 62 wpm and up
with the other system.
Radioprinlen for the Ham?
The reader may ask what use he might make
of radioprinter techniques in pursuing his hobby
of amateur radio. Beyond identifying signals on
the air at present it looks as though there would
be very little need . But if one is given to daydreaming, many uses can be seen in the futu re.
As an instance, designers and UseTS of carriershift printer circuits have claimed reliable operation of such circuits with signal-to-noise ratios of
less than one to one. Wb at a boon that would be
to an amateur on a crowded thoroughfare in a
large city, 'wit h other amateurs using carrier-shift
radiotelegraph circuits I He could make those
signals which were buried in the noise background
operate a tone keyer and enjoy solid contacts. Or
with similar equipment on both ends of t he circuit, the rabid DXer could work his DX and enjoy practically solid copy long before the signals
were coming t hrough strong enough for good aural
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threshold of the receiver. T hese and many other
possibilit ies present themselves to t he experimentally minded amateur.
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itself. It could be optional , however, as only a
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piece of t empered Presdwood (Masonite) and
turned a groove down on the edge about twice
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