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DECEMBER 1964 1
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TOWER . -,
DESIGN Christma s :
The full -strength Hercules 66-3 has Remember, every dollar you spend on ham
d iagonal bracing- a uniqu e feature eq uip ment will make for a merrier Christmas
in all E-Z \ Vay Towers. It's designed for vour d istributor and the man ufacturer.
to support a large 20 m or 40 m beam]
4 el. Du-band, or 6 el Triband w tnd Spread cheer. T o help you in your selection
area 22 fect at 66 feet in 60 MPH I've inveigled an unusual number of ad ver-
wind s. tisers into this issue. 73. along with the foliage.
The 3 sections of the Hercules tele- went red this fall . . . this hurst of green was
scope from a mini mum height of 30
feet to a maximum 62 feet. needed so don't grumble.
A w onn gea r winch tilts the lower
over for easy access to your beam. ARRL :
My November ed itorial still stan ds. Ham
MODEl TORBl 663 radio won't be able to hold up its head un til
the League top brass stops its pett y politicking
WIN DLOAD CHART and d ictatorial act ions. It d oesn't look as if the
Ant. Full Height Half HeigM Min. Height
Model Wind Area Hgt. MPH Hgt. MPH Hgt. MPH latest director elections are going to give us
TORBI 66] 22.2 66 60 50 86 31 125 any hope for a replacement of the top office rs
TORBI 66-3 13.2 66 75 50 90 31 ,<0
TORBI 66-3 8.2 66 90 50 100 32 ISO with men who are more mature and stable.
TORBI 75-] 17.0 75 60 5S 86 33 125
TORBI 75] 10.0 75 75 5S 100 33 140 FCC :
TORBI 88-3 12 88 60 65 86 38 140
Apparently the FCC intends to ra m their
NEW E-l WAY HERCULES docket to eliminate the Condi tional Class li-
DEliVERS THE ULTI MATE IN TOWER POWER ce nse through. We'll watch this one care fully.
HE RCULES Painted Galvanized lo AR:
TORB I 66-3 955.00 1,095.00 Look for some big news next month .
TORBI 75-] 1,055.00 1,240.00
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SOLID STATE "SCOOP" FROM GONSETI
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FOR MOBILE, PORTABLE AND FIXED COMMUNICATIONS
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s ist o r ize d SSB-At\l-C\V tr an sceiver Fr equ ency Rang e : 144148 M C Pow er I n p u t : 20 wa tt s PEP
SS B. 6 w a tts AM. 20 w atts CW Spurious Su p p ression: -50 d b
(exce pt m ixer, dri ver, f in al stages in Carrier Suppression : -50 db o n SS B U nw anted Side band Su p-
transm itte r) to provide complete cover- pression : -40 d b Stages: 3 stage MIC Amp lifie r ; 15 MC M ix er
age of the 2. me ter amate ur ba nd in 4 Dio d es : 2 Bal anced M odu l at o r; M eter Rect ifier T ubes : 6 EA8
Do u b ler . M i xer ; 12B Y7A Driv er ; 6 360 Power Amp lifie r
segme nts I M e wide. Yet it's so co m-
pact it fits qu ickl y under the dash of th e RECEIVER: AII.trans istorized Frequency Sta bi lity : H igh ly st a ble;
utilize s s a me VFO as tra n sm itter Se nsitivi ty : liz m icro volt s o r
newest cars! Transistor desi gn makes better f o r 10 db s t N. Sel ec ti vi t y : Latti ce c rys t a l filter for both
possible a primary power requi rement re ce iver a n d tran srnttter > Audi o Ou tput: 3 .0 w a tt s Spu r ious Sup-
in the re cei ver o f le ss th an lh a mp! p ress ion : - 50 db o r bett er Imag e Rej ec ti o n : - 50 d b ( rec e iv er an d
tran sm itter utilize double conve rs ion ) Stages : RF; M ix er ; Do ubler;
Separ ate power sup p ly ac cesso r ies 9 MC M ix er ; 2 9 MC IF; SS B. AM , CVI Detec tor; A u d io Dr iv er; Pus h
snap-fasten jiffy-quick to back o f trans- Pull A ud io Outp ut . Diodes : AM Detecto r ; AG C Detector; RF Ga i n
Control
ceiver, or may be used for rem ote instal.
lotio n. Here's the tro uble-free, solid sta te TRAN SCEI VER : 9 M C BFa ; 15 M C I F ; H igh Fr eq u ency Cry stal Osc il-
la t or ; V FO; VFO Reg ula t or; A GC ; 9 M C IF Dimensions: 8Y. " W.
tra nsceiver w ith power to spa re for a ny
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GONSET, INC .
ALTE C LAN SIN G CO R PORAT IO N
[J::::Fi?W A Subsidiary of Ling - Te mco-Vought, I nc.
1515 S. MANCH E ST ER A V ENU E , ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA
DECEMBER 1964 5
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William H. Kennedy W 3ZFJ
1520 James St reet
Monroeville, Po.
A 2 band m obile
SSB R eceiv er
with many
unique features.
HO-2080SSBMR-10T
This recei ver was con ceived. designed. a nd into a detailed explanation of each sta ge, but
constructed w ith one aim in mind, mobile will hit only a few highlights and p roblems
single sideband. It is now and has been operat- encountered.
ing in this manner for over one year with
superb success. Sensitivity and selectivity arc
exce llent. D ozens of comparitive tests have
been made with other receivers and this re-
ceiver hears every thing my 75A-4 hears or a
K\V~I- 2 hears. It's now being used with a
companion 200 watt transmi tter in the same
size packa ge wh ich , incidentally, was an after-
thought when the receiver was comp leted .
Since most constru cting hams are familiar
with basic operation of receivers, I will not go
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Already the communica tions eng ineers are
screaming "cross modulation." Granted at full
gain this receiver is no exception. however.
when listening to a weak signal at full gain a
strong local signal 20kc away is just barely
detectable. Backing off on the rf gain just a lit-
tle removes any trace of the strong signal.
Mea surements indicate that at this point the
gain of the rf stage is approaching unity. You
need o nly to use this receiver to full y appreci-
ate the advantage of front end g ain control.
Most receivers co ntrol three or four stages and
the front end is still operating at fairly high
gain and therefore is susceptible to overload
on strong signals. Of course in order to use
this method the mixer must be of the low
noise variety, as this one is, rather than a
noisy 6BE6 or 6BA7. The bottom of the cas-
code stage is a remote cutoff 6D S4 nuvistor Top view o f rec e iver
triode. This co nfiguration will give you the
characteristics of a remote cutoff pentode ex- twice the bandwidth that is needed. Most of
cep t without the noise of a pentode . the new receivers and transceivers have 2.1 kc
, , 7 filters therefore the audio response is still up to
I rm , 2500 cps. I maintain the top frequency should
be no more than 2000 cps . This may sound like
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Th e mixer is the same high gain, low noise.
and low cross mod ulation circuit described in
the October 61 issue of 73. It works as well as
the original 12AT7, but is sca led down in
voltage for the nuvistors.
Please notice there are two filters in this
receiver. The total bandwidth of both filters is
1400 cps at the 6db p oints. Actual audio re-
sponse, howeve r. at the 6d b points is 50 0 cps 3,4 view o f receive r
to 1900 cps. Too narrow for phone operation? The c urve in Fig . 3 will show the combina-
You should hear it. The xtal filter selects only tion of the filters. The bfo frequency w as set
one sideband and sets the lower audio limit to at the 25 db point on the curve, setting the low
500 cps. The audio filter alone sets the high frequen cy to 500 cps. Since the audio filter
end a t 1900 cps. reaches its maximum depth before the xtal
One must be ca reful when defining selectiv- filter starts to roll off, the af filter is the high
ity a nd bandwidth. You may have more band- frequency defining aperture. Matching to the
width than you think. F or example the Collins xtal filter is accomplished by modification of
75A4 normally has a 3.1 kc filter, but when the standard Merit 10.7 mc if transformers as
yo u position your passband tuning properly seen in the parts list. The audio chokes used in
the lower audio limit is about 400 cps. This this audio filter were surplus units, obtainable
places the upper limit at 3500 cps, almost from Olsen Badia Co., Penn Ave., Pgh., Pa. A
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the 33 rnmfd and replacing o ne side wit h SO mmfd and H ea t shield on 6A II6 vfo is model CF M7 by Cool-Fin
the o t her s ide with 68 u uf a nd 390 uuf ceramics . E lectron ics, S o. E I. M onte, Califo rnia.
T 3 M erit 10.7 me if tra nsformer modifi ed by adding 20 LI )'liller 41A l 5SCB I 10-18 Jl,h wit h 10 tum link added.
mmfd ceramic to cxisting 33 uuf. L 2 Miller 41A1 56CBr 1-2 Jl,h wi t h 5 t urn link added.
T4 10 K t o 41/ o utpu t trans. L 3 M iller 4 1A 155CB I, T wo coils o ne moun ted on t op of
C H I , CH 4 225 mh chokes. ca n , one mounted o n bottom of ca n .
C H2, CH3 300 mh chok es . L4 Miller 4lAI 56CBI, Two coils one moun ted on t op
CH I- 4 audio chokes are sur plus Rola Co. GH-1 226-2 of can, one mounted on botton of can.
a vaila ble a t Olsen Radio Co., Pgh., Pa. Sub sthutes a re L 5 10 turns #1 6 ena mel wire wound a nd an XR-SO coil
VI C8 and VI C-9 U T e va ria ble inductors. form.
good substitute would be the VIC-8 and VIC tion is accomplished with Zener diodes as can
9 UTC variable inductors. be seen in the schematic.
The vfo is constructed in a heavy welded The ave system employed works very well.
copper box. The mechanical and electrical sta- It has none of the initial 'pop' common to a
bility is excellent. The drift in the first 30 good many receivers. The attack time is ap-
minutes is 900 cps, after which it will sit on proximately 300 JLSec as measured on a Tek-
zero beat with the Collins for hours. This tronic 585 ocilloscope. Release time is d eter-
initial drift is very slow so you may use the mined by the back resistance of the diodes and
receiver almost immediately after turning it the 50 meg resistor. The 50 meg resistor is
on, a necessary requirement for most mobile returned to B+ to provide a delay. An unex-
work. pected problem d eveloped when the receiver
The dial calibration is not very well d efined was first tried mobile. Every time I would re-
from the photos, but the dial is marked only lease the accelerator the B+ voltage would
with the 100 kc marks in each band. The vfo drop about 10v. This drop was seen as a large
covers 14.25 to 14.35 and 14.00 to 14.10 on change on the plate of the ave amplifier and
twenty and 3.90 to 4.00. 3.50 to 3.60 on 80 would cut the receiver off for about 5 seconds.
meters. This was corrected by returning the ave plate
Band changing is done with diode switching load to the regulated 102v on the vfo.
and the four 100 kc segments are accomplished This receiver has given me a lot of enjoy-
with only three changes in vfo freq . The dial ment in the time I have used it. I have re-
shows 5 bands, but only four are used. A ceived a lot of compliments from friends and
diode switch is used to shift the frequency 3 enemies alike, and I can say without reserva-
kc when changing sidebands so the input tion this receiver does not cause TVI.
frequency remains unchanged. Voltage regula- .. . W 3ZFJ
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DECEMBER 1964 9
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DECEMBER 1964 II
Ph oto h E. C. Cu rrt> r11 L. F. Kine r K6VNT
1213 Pacific St.
Sa nto Mon ico, Col.
Bui Id a
28 Volt Power Supply
There is reall y no need for you to be erly. Be sure to check the seconda ries with
passing up those su rplus 24-28 volt de trans- an ac voltmeter to insure that your connec-
mitters, receivers, rela ys, switches, coaxial re- tions are series aid ing (add ing) and not can-
la ys, lights, etc! celling.
For less than $20.00 you can build a power
supp ly that will provide 24 -28 vdc at 10 am-
peres.
The circuit is a straigh t forwa rd de p ower
supp ly circuit employing four silicon rectifie rs
in a bridge circuit a nd suitable high-capaci-
tun ce-lcw-voltage cap acitor for filtering.
The power supp ly can be built on any prac-
tical size chassis that will accommod ate the
componen ts to be used. Construction is non-
critical as to p arts placement. 1 used a
7 X 9 X 2 aluminum chassis and mounted The rectifie rs (diodes ) used in the original
this to a standard rack panel by means of unit were purchased from TAll (1 11 -54 Lib-
support brackets. Rack pan el mounting is of erty Street, New York 6, N .Y. ) for $ 1.15 each.
course op tiona l. The units selected a re the 12 ampere, 70
\ Vhen wirin g the unit it is sugges ted that vrms ( 100 p iv ) silicon power d iode studs.
the builder use No. 12 or No. 14 solid wire. Be sure to use mica (or equivalent ) insu lat-
This is the same type of wire as generally ing washers when mounting the diod es to the
used in your house wiring. About a three to chassis.
four foot length should be sufficient. Metering of the curr ent drain and output
voltage is optional. I h ad a de amme ter that
wasn't in use and installed it on the rack
panel. Since a de voltmeter of suitable range
was not available, pin jacks were provided
to check the voltage whenever desired.
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Lafayette's newest! A dual Sensitivity 1 P.v or Better o All Heterodyning crystals supplied
conversion superheterodyne 7 Band-Switching Positions-3.5, Selectable upper and lower Side
com muni cation s receiv er 7, 14, 21, 2B, 28.5 and 29.1 MC, bands
covering the 10 through 80 plus WWV on 15 MC
Geared Tuning Mechanism
o Tuning Dial Covers 600 KC for
meter amateu r bands and Each Band o 100 KC Calibrator Circuit (crystal
offering a high order of elec- o 12 Tubes optional extra)
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ity for su perior AM, CW and o Transmiller-type VFD for 2nd CW/ SSB product Detector
SSB operation. Check some Oscillator Coax Antenna Input
of the exceptional featu res! Preselector Tuning o 8 and 500 ohm outputs
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Single adjustment for tuning antenna Provides "beat" frequencies from
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Rugged, windresistant-Irridite Connects to Receiver's Antenna Input
treated Ideal for receivers without BFO, or
For Ground. Roof or Tower Installa- those using a combined Q.Multi-
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o 52 ohms impedance-l 000 walls Complete with coax cable and 9-
power rating volt ballery 0 Imported
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Jim Ky le K5JKX
1236 N.E. 44th St.
Oklahoma City, Oklo .
Weather Detector
Here in the tornado-prone Southwest, one no weather radar-but it does much the same
of the most spectacular feats of public service job .
performed by hams has been th e group of And at the conclusion of the article, almost
"Weather Nets" which aid the weather bureau as an afterthought apparently, the author com-
and news services in keeping track of severe ments that two or three such azimuth stations,
weather. A number of lives have been saved separated by 100 miles or so, could obtain
by the action of such nets. accurate fixes on thunderstorms " if the prob-
But whil e this aspect of severe weather> lem of establishing communica tions between
public service, and ham radio, appears to have stations can be solved. Perhaps the solution
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been confined principally to the tornado and can be found in amateur radio:'
hurricane belts of our country, the potential of So if you're looking for something new,
mixing the three ingredients is available al- d ifferent, and a little b it out of the way to
most anywhere. spend your construction talents on for a spell
One of the more interesting recent examples you might consider the weather detector. It
is suggested by an article appeari ng in the you and just one buddy 100 miles away fr om
Ma y, 1963, issue of Scientific American maga- you each build one, you'll hav e the virtual
zine, in the publication's department devoted equivalent of a weathe r radar station so far
to "The Amateur Scien tist." as locating thunderstorms is concerned. And
Described is a complex-appearing ( but nc- there's a chance that your observations might
tually far simpler than a SSB exciter ) device uncover some of the unknown details about
which when completed tells you the direction thunderstorms which the professionals h aven't
and intensity of thunderstorms. Its range is discovered yet!
some 600 miles; its azimuthal accuracy is Actually, the weather detector as developed
limited only by the care in construction. It's by Mr. Thomas P. Leary, an Omah a, Neb. , at-
14 13 MACAZINE
tom ey, consists of a radio-compass with os- effect results in a diagonal line p ointing di-
cilloscope readout. Comp lete constructional d e- rectly toward the original storm ,
tails appear in the Scientific American arti cle The Sense antenna's output, fed to the grid
mentioned previously, but most hams will be of the CRT, blacks out the "tail" half of the
able to build a working model from the block- trace produced by each storm, so that the ap-
diagram d escription which follows: pearan ce on the screen is simply a lin e from
Input to the weather d etector comes fr om the center of th e tube (observer's position )
three antennas . Two of these an tennas are indicatin g azimuth to the storm.
shielded loops, identical to those used for Most lightning discharges are vertica lly p o-
tra nsmitter hun ts ( Leary u sed 50 rums of larized, and the weather detector prod uces the
1\0. 20 Formvar covered wire on a 3-foot form, line on the screen when receiving vertical-
sh ielded with a wrap ping of aluminum foil) . polarized energy. However, some cloud-to-
The third a ntenna is a ve rt ical "sense" an- cloud strokes a re horizontall y p olarized , and
tenna to remove ambiguity. some di stant strokes received by sky-wave will
The loops are positioned at right an gles to be simultaneously vertical and horizontal. The
each other, and feed identical amplifie rs. The horizontal component produces a sort of spade-
amplifiers have frequency ran ge from 100 cps shaped trace, with the tip at the rip of the
to 12 kc, any hi-f or phono amplifier should screen, while th e combination of both vertical
work but high gain is essential. Leary used a and horizontal results in an oval with a
12AU7 feeding a 6AU6 to achieve sufficient straight line down the middle.
gain. Only a few precautions are necessa ry when
The "sense" a ntenna feeds a sim ilar am- cons tructing a weather detector. One of the
plifier; all th ree amplifiers are provided with most important is to m ake all antenna feed
gai n controls to allow b alancin g, and a special cables th e same length to preserve exact phase
"stereo-matched" twin gain control for the relationships. The Sense antenna should b e
loop amplifiers m ight not be out of p lace to connected to a "lightning arrestor" since the
avoid rebalancing. equipment will be opera ting during thunder-
Outputs of the two loop amplifiers go to stann conditions. The loop s should be oriented
the horizon tal and vertical plates of the scope on N-S and E-\V lines although this refinement
tube, respectively, while the output fro m the is not necessary if they are at accurate right
sense amplifie r goes to the grid or the "z" angles to each other; however th ey should be
input of the scope. at least 20 feet above ground.
Operat ion of the system can b est be und er- This weather d etector can also be used to
stood with refere nce first to th e single-channel spot probable tornadoes, since the twisters are
block diagram, Fig. I, and then to the com- invariably accompanied by strong thund er-
plete diagram, Fig. 2. storm activity and turbulence. To quote Mr .
Fig. 1 shows only the vertical-deflection Lea ry: "My station has produced an elliptical
channel loop , amplifier, and scope circuit. A display with rap idly recurring sfenc pips on
thunderstorm produci ng Q RN at p oint A will the azimuth of a small tornado 24 miles away:'
be picked up strongly by the antenna; the He ad ds that any storm producing re peated
QR N will he amplified and applied to the de- pip s on th e identical azimuth is suspect.
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strength of the QR:'-I.
Howeve r, an identical thunde rstorm at point IO-IS-20M QUADS
B will lie in the null of the antenna and will e Pre-Cvt * Pre-Tuned *Triband
not be p icked up, while a third similar storm Bomboo Fibugloll
Two Element ~ $59.95 $99.95
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screws, and aluminum clothesline for I used a one inch d owel for the fi rst part
elements. It has 14 of these wide spaced for of the mast, (that is, the part attached to
maxim um gain, a fixed capacitor Gamma the boom ) plus a length of black plastic ABS
match, nearly 20 db gain, and it works! ( ac rylic butadiene styrene ) p ipe over it. Th is
This beam is not a copy of any other. I just happens to be a good fi t into the ends of
tun ed this one up myself over weeks and the very u seful 5 and 10 foot sections of
weeks on the auteuna ran ge here . \ Vith some aluminum T ee Vee masts-that are sold in
23 years experience in back of that. Some every "rad io store."
handbooks claim th at all the directors afte r Seems like that's eno ugh detail. See vou
the firs t few can be eq ually sp aced . You can . soon on 432. There's q uite a few on the
But if you want to be sure of the gain of this band already, I find .
one, make it up precisely as indicated. Note . ..KI CLL
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A COMPLETE SOLID STATE
CJ
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aNi ...
INSTANT SELECTION
OF ANY ONE OF a PRE-SET CHANNELS
DECEMBER 1964 17
Joe Will iams W 6 SFM
The 4 150 Beck Ave .
North Hollywood , Ca lif .
Multiband tuner construction d ata has been multiband tuners which are popula rly accept-
yellowi ng in the p ages of amateu r literature ed home b rew ingredients.
for a long time and hasn't really received the In essence, the multiband tuner works like
attention that it d eserves. There was a time this: two right angle mounted inductances
when the typical hamshack needed a shoe a re tuned with one sp lit stator condenser.
box full of plug-iu coils to keep it going and ( Fig. 1 ) . The hook lip is such that the smaller
some of them were of the type that were
wound on a tube base and doped with a bit
of fin gernail polish. That was back when the c, c.
Zepp antenna was th e end-all and a store
bought rf inductance was a glossy showpiece.
Since then , the AIIIIL handbooks have de-
scribed some interesting and functional all- F I GU R E I
band rigs using multiband tuner circuitry. A coil, L 1, is tuned by connection to the vari-
typ ical handbook version of the single ended able low value series capacity existing be-
~IBT employs a dual 140 mmfd variable ca- tween the stators. The large coil, L 2, which is
pacitor and inductances of 1.5 and 8 .9 micro- connected from the rotor to one sta tor, is of
hen ries. In the commercial field, the National such size as to be seen by the small coil as
Co mpany markets the ~1B40 and the MIl150 an rf choke and therefore nonexistent. To the
18 73 MACAZINE
Detroit, Michigan: " Does an excel- to get up but the last couple of
lent job of swinging a 20-40 comb i- weeks it has proved perfect. Wish I
nat ion and sta cked Finco 6 2 had one years ago:'
beam." Alamo, Californ ia: " Works very well
San otego, Californ ia: "I am well and purchased on recommendation
pleased with the rotor to date, holds of my friend who has been using
and turns stacked 40M and up one for 4 years and likes it quite
beam s in 50 mph winds with no well ."
d ifficulty." Swarthmore. Pa.: "Am very pleased
Los Angeles, California : "I have with the results. More than meets
personalty installed 3 other HAM -M my expectations."
Rotors in the past 3 years (all of
them OK) so I feel that I'm buying Plu ckemin, New Jersey: "The HAM
t he best." M rotates and two TRIS's tilt the
6-foot parabola for 432 and 1296
Houston . Texas: " Wonderful! Was me. "
us ing t he AR 22 (t he CDE TV auto-
m ati c) and it did a fi ne job fo r 4 Chicago, Illinois: " It really does t he
yea rs, but put up a la rger beam and job."
needed more power." New York, N. Y.: " This is a perfect
Anchorage, Alaska : " Due to below- rotor. Can 't see wh ere you can im-
zero weather. it t ook quite a while prove it:'
CORNELL
DUBILIER
CORNEllDUBllIER ElECTRONICS. DIV. OF FEDERAL PACIFI C ElECTRIC co.. 118 E. JONES ST. FUQUAY SPRI NGS. N. C.
CoE makes a co m p le t e line of the w orld 's f i n es t r ot ors : H am , h eavy -duty a u tom at ic, hea vy -duty m anua l,
s t a n d a rd -d ut y automatic, standard -duty manual .. .a n d the industry' s o n ly wire less r em ot e co ntrol rotor system I
la rger ind uctance, th e small coil ap pears as the coils were properly solde red to their re-
a short circui t between the stators and the two sp ective connections. The en 201 h as small
sections of the capacitor are thus sh unted. trimmin g p ads on the back and these were
This combination of effects enables the tuner used to make sure th at the tuner d idn't
to provide a parallel-resonant, h igh impedance, 'h it' two ban d s a t the same d ial setting. The
tuned circuit for each of th e five p opular plastic frame and the mounting screw ar-
ham bands from 80 through 10 meters. rangement on the front of the condenser per-
The miniature tuner shown in the photo- mit the tuner to be chassis, bracket or thin
graph was assembled for use in some Nuvis- panel mounted. \ Vhen an ~ IBT is used in a
tor projects and is infinitely usefu l where the p late circuit, or other scheme involving above
power involved is 5 watts or less. The tuning chassis voltages, th e rotor sh aft should be in-
condenser, wh ich measures ;II X ~ X M inch , sulated . T he builder can fa bricate shaft ex-
is a CalRad model cn 201 and is of the type tensions of pl astic or other materia l and will
used in the smaller transistor radios. The an- find that Epoxy cement is hand y for attaching
tenna section is 11 mmfd t o 235 mmfd and them solid ly once the mechanical details of the
the oscillator sectio n covers 11 mmfd to III app lication h ave been worked ou t. A vern ier
mmfd. The inducta nces, L 1 and L 2, were dial mak es it easier to re-set the ~IBT and as
made from one stick of Air Dux 432 T. (The the capacitor is mesh ed , the band s should res-
Barker & \VilIiamson equivalent is # 3004 ). onate in this seq uence : 10, 40, 15, 20, and
Th is coil stock h as an outside diameter of 80.
~ inch, runs 32 turn s per inch and has \Vhere link coupling is desired for the midg-
molded p lastic bi ndings. L 1 is 16 turns and et tuner, the link coils can be made up of
L 2 is 40 turns. First, L 1 was solder t acked 2 to 5 turns of small gauge insulated wire.
to the stators and p runed to tune 10, 15 and These may be wound so that they will fit in-
20 meters. After L 2 was cut to include 40 side L 1 a nd L 2. Norm ally, a link is required
a nd 80, each coil was cemented to a rear for each coil and the links are switched when
edge of the dust cove r of the condenser. In going from one ran ge to th e other. Some-
this case, Testor's Polystyren e Cement seemed times, however, it is possible to get good re-
a good chemical match for the dust cover and sults by linking to L 1 only. The presence of a
the coil plastic. When the cement had set, link coil in L I , or in L 2, will lower the res-
DECEMBER 1964 19
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onant frequencies somewhat a nd ca librations be checked out fi rst. Another bea r trap that
should be made with tha t fact in mind . ca n bring out the builder's best dial cord re-
A Chinese copy of this tuner can be made pair language is the temptation to tune an
in your shack for a few bucks; but you can ~HJT by shorting coil turns with solder. Th is
easily fake an ~IBT with on-hand components sh ort cut icill raise the frequency-but it will
from the junk box. A Grid Dip Oscillator is a lso strangle the "Q" and will stea l a lot of
convenient for measuring the freq uencies as signal energy. If a multiband tun er is to be
construction p roceeds but is not a necessity. enclosed in a metal box or mounted on a
A multibander can also be checked by insert- panel, final calibration should be made with
ing it between an antenna and the station re- the tuner in its working position.
ceiver. \ Vhen the tun er coincides with the re- Fig. 2 shows some MET circuit app lication
ceiver frequency, it will knock a hole in th e prototypes; these diagrams are not d esigns and
incoming signa ls or noise. This way. one's have been made ske tchy on purpose. Doubt-
ca libration goofs ca n be blam ed on the re- less. other uses for the multibander will sug-
ceiver manufactu rer. It will be found that the gest themselves to the builder.
lower frequency coil can not be ca lib rated . . . W6SFM
until the smaller coil is installed, so L 1 should Ph oto credit: R ober, Jensen
ATIACH 7 MC srus
HERE IF DESIRED
, SEf'll.AATOR
a '" The basic "sp ider" is detailed in Fig. 2.
, a.."
This may be constructed from either sheet
S E_ TOR
a luminum or plywood, depending upon which
AI ... ...C
ORIVEN is more read ily available. The eight arms are
ELEt.4ENT
A2 ."'M C ern,
then mounted at a 45 angle from th e hori-
III 21 MC
zontal and the "spider" mounted to a ten foot
ORI EN
ELE
ENT length of 1 ~ inch TV mas t by means of "U-
82 2,NC REFL bolts" . A separator plate. as shown in F ig. 3,
C. 2llMC
should then be made up for each band. This
"""""
"-0"'''
C2 211 Me RE1\. can be cut from Micarta, Lucite, or even wood
D 21lNC
TUNING
if it is well varnished.
STUB TWlSTED T UNDOG ST UB
B A." l D M C . ELEM ENT
E 2 1MC LENGT H LOOP LESGTH'
TUNI NG
STUB
F I" MC 14 36' 9' 48"
TUNI NG
STU B
21 23' 6' 3G"
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Using two of the 28 me elements, center the
separator plate over the top of the mas t sec-
tion, so that the twisted loops are the same
d istance from the ends of the bamboo arms.
ROHN
Using several turns of # 14 wire, secure the
loops to the bamboo ann and solder well. sets the standard
Now secure the other two elements the same
way.
Attach the 21 and 14 me elemen ts in the
same manner, making sure that the jumpers
for
for all three bands are in the same plane. If CRANK-UP
7 me operation is also d esired , do not use a
jumper on the 14 me driven element. Instead ,
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connect a 28' length of 300 ohm twin lead
between th e driven elements at the separator
plate. Short the other end of the stub and
tape for insulation.
Connect the ends of the d rive elements to
a len gth of 50 oh m coaxial line as shown in
Fig. I , and attach the tunin g stubs to their
respective reflector elements. The antenna is Why settle
now ready to be mounted on the rota tor and
tuned. for less
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semble and uses parts that are on hand in presentation . This presentati on will be a t right
most junk boxes or can be picked up from angles to the first.
local surplus houses. As can be seen from the Now with no audio input, start your ma-
schematic, the wiring is easy and since there chine and adjust the bias control until the
is not hing critical about it, it should work the loop current reaches a stead y value . It should
first time it is hooked up. Just a few simp le read a bout 18 or 20 mills with the current
instructions are offered: adj ust p ot set to min imum.
Now you can adjus t th e current control for
the p rinter current d esired . You may fi nd th at
you will need to back off on your bias control
slightly and reset it until the magnets pull in .
The meter should read about 30 mills a t this
point. When a signal is fed to the input of the
converter, the meter current will show a sha rp
swing up to about 50 mills, and will continue
th is swing as the signal is received.
A few tries will give you the proper adjust-
e nt know-how and you will soon find the
machine rattling away with perfect copy being
received .
Details of th e monitor scope will be the
sub ject of another article, so leave room to
build the scope as part of the overall assem-
bly.
C red it is given to \ V4TJU for the basic con-
ve rte r circuit which is used here.
The power supp ly shown in Fig. 2 was
designed to provide power for both the con-
T op view . verter and the monitor scope, and voltages in-
adjust the other coil slug for maximum scope BUDWIG MFG. CD., P.O. Box 97, Ramona, Calif.92065
SIXER
to the
Receiver
Nth The Sixer receiver, as known to anyon e who
has ever used a super-regen, is not the ep itome
in receiving excellence. More than one normal-
ly timid soul h as been moved to acts of violence
during a band opening thanks to its lack of
selectivity. Efforts to relieve this situation elec-
The Heathkit Sixers and Twoers a re well
trically did not bear enough fruit to merit
known as fine and flexible pieces of gear. \ Vith
mention. Mechanically, however, I have found
a few additions and modifications, h owever, a
that a 2" vern ier dial ( Lafayette F -347) (99c)
good deal more operating ease and efficiency
is of considerable h elp to the poor OM with
ca n be obtained fro m these rigs.
coffee nerves who ca n't tune the un geared dial
onto the best side of the sq uealing signal. T wo
Power Suppl y months of tinkering convinced me that the
Goi ng first to th e power supp ly, I foun d that tunin g condenser should not be pushed back
the trouble-free operation enjoyed at the home into the rig. Success was finally ach ieved by
QTH h ad a hahit of literall y going up in cutting the condenser shaft, lea vin g only about
smoke in th e mobile. The problem is quickly }~" protruding from the p anel surface, and
and permanently solved by rep lacing the di- cutting the vernier dial shaft through the set-
odes with International Re ctifier type SD ~92. screw hole. Mount th e dial without the top
mounting screw or set screw and you're set.
~ PIN 4 ~ t.lET'ER The pressure of th e dial on th e condenser h as
---""'0 JACK 0 FWD
L
,.c,
+
M
r-<>-O<JT~PlN 2
-I M/\
OF 6AQ5
r;:::' ce
PIN e!
held everything in place perfectly for me, but
if any slipping is experienced, a d rop of glue
(or chewing gum maybe? ) will h old it ti ght
,~ - LAFAYETTE Of 6ACf>
Due to different d esign , this mounting system
rh,,'~
M 40 0 TO Ill"
c, '00' is no t applicable to the Twoer .
FIG. I FIG. 2 The only other addition to the receiver was
a closed-circuit phone jack mounted in the
Fig. 1. Coup ler di agra m. upper left-hand corn er of the p anel and wired
Fig. 2. Two of the possi ble switc h comb ina- in series with th e hot lead to th e speaker.
tions, using th ree position rotary. If spdt
toggle sw itc h is used instead, an off position
is recommended . Transmitter
C 1- 100 m m fd variab le fo r 50 me, 50 mmfd
for 144 me ( Hc mrno rlund MC1 0 0 , MC5 0) The transmitter was attacked next, and, if
C2 -35 mm fd pe r-sect ion sp lit sta to r va ri- you'll pardon my Caes ar, utrinique acrtter pu g-
able, .07" spaci ng (MCD-35SX). Reduce
to 4 sta tor and 4 rotor p la tes pe r sect ion naturn cst.1 Havin g becom e fed up with futile
in 14 4 mc coup ler for easie r tun ing . attempts to tune the tank without removing
L1- 50 mc : 4 turns, # 18 tinned, I" di - the rig from the case, I first devised an external
a mete r, Ya" spacing. (A ir- Dux #808T) tuning method. Start by soldering the threaded
14 4 mc : 2 turns # 14 e nc m., 1" dlc ., Va "
spa cing. Slip ove r L2 before mounting . sleeve from an H. H . Smith type lOS phone
L2 - 50 me: 7 t urns # 14 ti nned, 1 Vz " dia - tip to the screw head on the ceramic trimm er.
c mete r, 1/4 " spa cing (A ir- Dux # 1204) . Next scrounge for a screw ( app roximately %"
T a p 1 1jz turns from each end .
14 4 mc : 5 t urn s # 12 t inn ed, Va" diameter,
in length ) that will fit the sleeve and replace
"Va" long . Tap 1 Vz turns from each e nd. 1 Translation: " It was fough t fiercely on both sides."
26 73 MACAZ INE
Just a Piece of Wire?
One hundred feet of Soxton economy twinleod sells for just 0 dollar.
To make that tw in'cod we first hove to melt copper ingot s and e xt rude
coorse coppe r wire. Th is th en is dro wn finer and finer to the finish ed size
we n eed . N ext th is wire is wo u nd i nt o se ven shand wir e and th en this is
fe d in to 0 sic kenin g ly e x pe n si ve machine thot fo rms t he pol yeth elen e and
exa ct ly s p a ces th e wires in it, exa ct ly g o u ges the thic kness of the poly-
e t he lene, and automatically inspects th e twinleod for ony poss ibl e defect.
You bu y th is for a penn y a foo t . W e wo n't even try to t ell yo u about th e
month s we worked designing th is twi nleod, the lob tests, th e pilot ru ns,
the unbel ie vable st uff thot come out of th e first mach ines we tried to
buil t, and t he month s we sp ent makin g su re that our t winlead was a prod -
uct we could be proud of.
W e' ve been throu gh this sixteen t im es now with our 16 different types
of twinlead, se venteen times wit h coa x, nin e t im es wit h open wi re line
and on and on for ou r hundreds of types of wire and coble.
You ' ll speci fy Sa xt on ?
its head with a small knob. Finally, mount a box, wit h p ho ne tips coming from the switch,
rubber grommet in one of the a ir holes opposite through the air holes near the coupler, and
the trimmer. Simp ly p ush the "screw-knob" into jacks on the box. Or, if you're as lazy as
th rough the grommet, and screw it into the I am, you can do wh at I di d : monitor the 50-
sleeve. All this nonsense will give continuous caIled "power output" d evice in the Sixer or
clockwise and limited counterclockwise rota- Twoer ( tuning C lan the coup ler for maximum
tion of the condenser. and C2 for minimum ), and use the other
Undou bted ly the sma rtest thing I did all switch p osition to monitor th e "kick" in your
week was to add an antenna cou pler to th e modulation . Or you can monitor the filament
Sixer. For the benefit of anyone too cheap to curre nt a nd pilot-lamp voltage and say the
own a Handbook, the sche matic, adapted for heck with the coup ler.
coaxial ou tpu t, is reproduced here. This inno- Operatin g convenience was jacked up one
cent looking gadget, built into a 3" x 4" x5" last notch with the add ition of a crys tal socket
grey hamm crtone box, will load into practical- on the front p an el (see photo ) . Simply run
ly anything; in fact K2LLC used it to load his shielded leads from the p au el socket and plug
Poly-Comm 62B into a window screen with a them into the ch assis socke t.
I : I swr. You should fi nd it particularly u seful \ Vhen the smoke cleared , I decided to rewire
in the mobile, where stand ing waves often run the transmitter section with shield ed grid wire.
amuck. If used in conjunction with a low pass The apparent increases in harmonic sup pres -
filter, it should be mounted on the left side of sion and circuit efficiency were more than
the rig with the filte r screwed on to the case at worth the effo rt ( the neighbors got off my
one end a nd onto the coup ler ( with a sp acer ) back a nd the dummy load burned out ) .
at the other. Finally, I replaced the Sixer's 6CL6 final
Naturally, some method was needed for ad - with a 5763, which squeezed another watt or
justing the coup ler. No problem . Mount a 0-1 two of rf out of my Benton Harbor Kilowatt.
rn a meter, a 100,000 oh m pot, and a spd t Don 't forget to rewire the tube socket.
toggle or three position rotary switch as sh own That about sums it up. By now, you r Sixer
in th e photo. The p opular little "Monimatch" or Twoer should he operatin g more efficie ntly
swr bridge should fit nicely inside the coup ler than ever. . . . KI GHO
DECEMBER 1964 27
Twofer Talk
During the past 4 years, I have h ad occa- Removal of the diode metering circuit could
sion to chat on 144 me with several stations prevent bleeding of rf power from the tran s-
using Heath T \VOcrs. Some of these useful mitter output and reduce TVI caused by the
little transceivers delive r excellent results for harmonic action typical with diodes .
th eir owne rs. There are, however, a number \ Vith great enthusiasm, the above changes
of th ese T\\'Oers which are suffering from were made. The results were well worth th e
transmitter instability, TVI , bassy audio, ab- small amo unt of effort.
normally low output and audio distortion. A The Mod ificat ions
few of these ills are caused by poor workman- P. A. Tank-Replace the final amplifier tank
ship when the kit was assembled. The bulk coil with 4 turns of #12 wire, }2" in diame-
of the ailments mentioned result from engi- ter X I" long. (Silver plate if p ossible. )
neering problems which can quite readily be
corrected. PA
i6BA8
Numerous art icles have been written and "r--. ~,
0
dedi cated to circuit modification of these L~
handy little portable packages. L ittle has been .,......,1-. 1
said about th e more predominant problems
i1 I I ~"
which exist in them. Some of these articles 1
described th e add ition of push-to- talk relays ,
panel meters, sq uelch circuits, etc. T he basic
-- -- I I
-
I.
- - -
a ilments wh ich relate to efficient operation FIG I- A
have not been presented. \Vhile sitting back
on the sidelines , watching many of the fellows PA
st ru ggle with these common problems , I de- ';68 A8
cided to acquire a T\VOer of my own and ,.
. ,"
28 73 MAGAZI NE
P.A. tube, it beca me necessary to emp loy SWH bridge as sta ndard bill of fare.
POSITIVE neut ralization . This is actu ally less Conclusion
com plicated th an the conven tional methods Before modification of the circuitry,
of neu tralization. Add a 1.5 mmfd cera mic as noted above, the measured outpu t of the
capacitor from p in 7 to pin 9 at the tuhe T\VOer was .78 watts. Similar readings were
socket, keeping th e p igtails as sho rt as p ossi- taken with other TWOers. Following modifi-
ble. ca tion, the output increased to 2.4 watts into
This modification eliminated all signs of the same dumm y load . No trace of TVI
instability, cleared lip all signs of FM, down- could be found. Pri or to mod ification , ch annel
ward modulation a nd audio distortion and 7 was wiped ou t. Reports of excellent audio
roughness. TBI was further red uced u ntil it quality and qu antity were received following
could no longer wipe out channel 7. F aint th e circuit changes.
cross hatch remained . (See Fig. I-B. ) M OO
Replace th e .01 mfd coup ling capacitor be-
tween the 12AXi p late pin a nd th e 6AQ5 <>-II-
AU DIO
i l2AX 7
6' OS
-.
T O PA
1-
conditions was improved. ( See F ig. 2-B. )
Clipping-There is no audio gain con trol
for the modulator. This means tha t it is neces-
1 .L::~
Co
sa ry to remain a proper d istance away fro m
the microphone to prevent "overmodulatlon."
This can be a source of annoyance when
ope rating mobil e. T his extra aud io which is .- f1
available, can b e put to use in the form of FI G. 28
"clipped modulation" which will increase the Regardless of the manne r in which the
weak signa l readab ility of the t ran smitted sig- multiplier stages and the P.A . are tuned, no
nal. To add thi s High Level Negat ive Peak instability would occur. Audio distortion and
C lipping, simply add a 500 rn a top hat type d ownward modulation completely disappear.
silicon diode to the modul ator output circuit, cd.
as shown in Fig. 2-B. You can now move in" Other refinements could have been made to
on the m ike w ithout fear of d istortion, etc. the T \\'Oer, but the ones mentioned in this
Antenna Fitti ngs-Replacement of the pres- article were of greater impor tance.
ent antenna connector with a standard SO-239 No changes were necessary in th e receiver
chassis type recep tacle, will perm it u se with portion of the transcei ver. Havin g built several
sta ndard cables and other sta tion accessories. regen type 2 meter receivers, I must say that
This is easily done b y enlarging the existing the one con tained in th e Heath T\VOer is
mounting hole with a ~" chassis punch. the best I have seen in such sim ple ci rcuitry.
Metering Circui t-In some T\VOers I h ave It is stable, sensi tive and exhi bits no "dead
tested I discovered th at the metering diode spots" in the tunin g ran ge.
and allied c ircuitry bl ed a p ortion of the rf \Vith my modified T\VO er, I have been
output energy away from the feedline. Re- able to work considerable distances over the
moval of the entire network increased the rough terrain common to 0: orthwestern Low-
transmitter output considerably. In addition , er Michigan . I am using stacked A62 F inco
the metering diode encouraged harmonic out- antennas on a 75 foot tower and feeding
put, wh ich in turn contributed to TVI. Once them with low loss balanced feed line and a
th is circuitry was re moved , the re ma ining TVI VHF type Matchbox. I have been able to hold
disappeared. Wi thout this m etering p rovision, regular Q-5 sched ules wit h WA9 DOT in
it becomes necessary to tun e up by a different Grafton, \Viscon sin . The distance is 165
means. In my case, I tune for maximum for- miles, airlin e. Other simila r contacts have
ward p ower as noted on my s\vn bridge. been m ad e without the aid of band openings.
This should be no handi cap, inasmuch as Good luck on your T\VOer changes!
most well equipped VHF stations have an . .. W81I lIS
DECEMBER 1964 29
An Idea Article R. E. Baird W7CSD
3740 Summe rs Lane
Klamath Falls, Oregon
High Level
Modulation for
Ham T - V
Severa l interestin g articles concern ing ham that will pass frequencies on the order of 10
TV have appeared over the last coup le of cycles to 4 megacycles.
years. If this w riter had the time and the A possible solution : The series modulator will
where-with-all to finance the camera and be found in the literature as far backas 1918
synch generator en d of the system , he would when an original patent was held by Heising.
certainly be draw n to this face t of amateur Howeve r, the series modulator has been a
radio. Since time and material do no t permit subject of academic interest only, because it
the construction and operation of such a sys. has been regarded as a very inefficient meth-
tern. this article will take the form of a sug- od of modu lation and one calling for too
gestion for someone already engrossed in ham much power sup ply. T his writer h as been
TV to expe riment with. told that there are certain European TV trans-
mitters that have used the system quite suc-
cessfully.
Referring to Fig. 1, let us see what the
series modulator actually does. The series
modulator tube is nothing more than a vari-
able resistor which varies at the modulation
frequency. It makes no difference to the plate
modulated stage whether the series modu-
lator is on the plat e or cathode side of the
tube. But since the previous video stages refer
to groun d it is most convenient to p lace it
on the cathode side. In standard plate modu-
lation, for sound, it is necessary that the series
modu lator have more plate voltage than the
p late voltage of the modulated stage. This is
necessary so that on the positive half of the
Types of video modu lation commonly used: audio cycle the modulated stage will have
All of the articles investigated, and in fact, all twice the unmodu luted value of plate voltage,
commercial TV transmitters in this country. to get 100% positive peak mod ulation. Thus
use some form of low level modulation. RCA the supp ly for a modulated sta ge req uiring
has built some transmitters that actually modu- 1000 volts would have to b e something in
late the last stage, but even so. it is still grid excess of 2000 volts when the series modula-
modulation. Technical ly this is low level mod- tor is added." Furthermore, the modulator
ulation . ( F ortunately, in TV the amplitude tu be itself would have to be quite large.
modulation is mostl y negative which does As indicated above, a series mod ula-
permit higher efficie ncy in the modulated tor seems rather impractical from the sta nd -
sta ge than under norm al AM as used for point of regular AM. But how about TV? In
sound. ) Why hasn't high level plate modula- TV the AM is very non sinusoidal; in fact,
tion been used? T he answer is quite simple.
Most people think of plate modulation as For e xa mple: An un modulated s tage requires 1000
volt s at . 1 a m p. At 10 0 % pos itive pea k modulation the
bei ng transformer cou pled between the mod u- same s tage requires 2000 volts a t .2 a mp. Since t he
lator and the modulated stage. So far nobody series modulator does no t ha ve a n internal resistanc e of
zero a t th is poin t t here will be fro m 300 to 500 volts still
has come up with a modulation transformer across it.
'0 73 MAGAZINE
standard commercia l TV uses a p ositive modu-
lation of no more tha n 15% and the negative send for New FREE .. . with New
p eaks are on the order of 85%. This p uts the TRANSISTOR
use of a series modulator in quite a d ifferent CRYSTAL ~CILLATOR
light. We no longer have the problem of very CATALOG CIRCUITS
high voltage supp ly. For the forementioned
a mp lifie r requiring 1000 volts, the tota l volt-
age could be less than 1500 volts: 300 to 500
volts for the series modu lator, and 1000 for
the mod ulated stage. Negative peaks are no
problem since as the voltage goes up across HERMETICALLY SEALED
the mod ulator tube the current goes down .
So a tube with rela tivel y small p late dissipa- PRECISION GROUND
ti on could he used . CUSTOM-MADE
NON-OVEN CRYSTALS
T op p erfor m anc e a s sure d with q ualit y con -
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TA NK m o un ted an d sea It' d un der vacuu m o r fi lle d
w ith in er t I{BS. Vef)' h ht h f r e q u e n cy stability .
R.F.
INPU T
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Suggestions for trial : It is though t that sat- SUB .MIN IATURE PRICES sl;ghtly h;ghe,
isfactory results will be afforded for ham pur- C I T IZE N BAND C l ass "0 " C r ys t a ls ~_ .. $ 2 .9 5
O v er 50 .000 C B e rY5 t a!s in stoc k f or nil s ets
poses if a triode series modu lator tube is used. and cha n n els . bot h H C 6 / U and minia ture types .
If the very high vid eo freuqencies are atten- To insu r e proper correlation a nd cor rec t f r e q ,
oper at io n . o rder b y manufactu re r mod el n u rn -
uated, some form of inverse feed back or high Le r and channel.
fre quency peaking may be necessary. If loss of
highs due to the Miller effect is too great. a NOW 48 HOUR SHIPMENT
screen grid type senes modulator might be ALL TEXAS C R YS T A L S are made t o exa ct ink
used. specifications, qu a lity checked. anJ u n ccndi -
.ti o n a ll y g ua re n ree d l
Actual case: As was stated at the begnning
of this article no equipment has been con- Send for new Citizen Band Crystal Inter-
structed, so test results are not available. changeability Chart with Texas Crystals
However, sometime b ack for entirely different Code System.
reasons the auth or h ad occasion to build a
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commercial reasons th e circuit is not included
here hut series modula tion of one transistor CRVST
by another t ransistor was used. O ne photo- DEPT. 7310 or
Di vis ion
1000 Cry stal D riv e
graph of a test pattern transmitted b y this FORT MYERS. FLORDA
milliwatt sized rig is shown. If it can be done Phone 81 3 WE 6 - 21 09
at the m illiwatt level with t ransistors. surely it AND
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LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
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A look at th e graph in Fig. 1 will sho w you Mar ry of the amateur stations on th e air
the p ercentage of power reflected for various today make use of HG8A/ U coaxial cable. Its
standing wave ratios. For instan ce, if you are excellence is proven out by its extensive use by
p resently tolerating an s\vn of about 5.8 : 1 the military, but a look at the loss graph ( F ig.
(not uncommon in man y ham shacks), 50% 2) for this cable indicat es that it is not corn -
of the p ower which reach es th e antenna pletel y lossless! E ven at 4 me it has app roxi-
is actually reflected back down the transmis- mately 0.3 db loss p er 100 feet, and on six
sion line, heating up the final tank and causing meters there is a loss of 1.4 db for the same
TVI. Nor is only the transmitt ed signal effect- length. A look at Fig. 3 indicates that on 75
ed, a high SW R will similarly d egrade the meters only 94% of the transmitted power is
received signaL This is particularly important d elivered to the antenna if 100 feet of
in the reception of the extremely low level HG8A/ U is in use. At 50 me the loss has
signals often encountered in DX and VHF sky rocketed to 26% for the same length of
opera ting. Ste reophonic buffs should take heed line. However, there is one big hooker for
32 73 MAGAZINE
portion of the reflected sig nal. In some cases
where the leng th of the transmission line is
excessively long, the reflected wave will be
attenuated to such a degree that the SWR
will appear to be very d ose to 1: 1, wh ile in
-. reali ty it will be a good deal higher . This
fact is graph ically represented in F ig. 5.
11. 0
.,..
! .e
,
L.'
~l S>/II . , ,r_ H t. r
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Atten uation vs Powe r tra nsm itted .
u
these conditions to exist: the S\V R must be ,.,
I: 1. For an y other value of S\VH there will u
be further line losses as shown in Fig. 4 be-
cause sta nding waves have th e property of i L'
...
mu ltiplyin g attenuation . T his graph indicates
that if a transmission line is operating at an
"". , .e,
11I
It should be obvious by now that the use , .00<
of an S\VH bridge in the line a t all times is
very ad vanta geous in the main tenance of a
t.OC)}
, .~
,..
f-+ ' <r':h'V
r,
low S\V R at the opera ting frequency. H ow-
ever, contrary to popular belie f, the S\VR 1.001
2 0 1 A 1 6 1 h 1 2 10 B , c
bridge d oes not tell all. Since the re is loss or A'!'TENUUI ON l M D~
DECEMBER 1964 33
Jim Young W6WAW
1412 N. Fairfa x Avenue
Hollywood 46, Cal ifo rnia
i ' 3/B Ai L
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FOUR WIRES
SPAC ED
r a 230
A. BASIC 3/ 8). FOLDED DIPOLE
Short 1'-, ~~
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Dipoles FIG. 2 THE 318 A FOLDED DI PO LE
[_ - - - -~.~/4 A -J
equal and in phase with each other. The im-
pedance of this anten na is nominall y 4 times
th at of a single dipole, or 280 ohms. If we
add a third cond uctor in parallel, the im- I ~ ~ I
pedance becomes 9 times that of the dipole. - -- ~- -" r T- -~ n
34 73 MAGAZINE
tribution is the same as for a full-wave an-
tenna before we folded it to bring about a
phase reversal.
The }l wave folded dipole then is equivalent
to an end fed }2 wave rad iator, operating on its
first resona nce. As the ends are folded back,
the efficie ncy suffers a bit from ou t of phase
current cancella tion , as shown in Fig. 3. H ow-
ever, this norma lly only amounts to about 0.5
db loss in the system, and is a small price
for shrinking the an ten na 50%in overall length.
There is a sour note to this antenna though ,
which has d iscouraged many potential users.
This is that the antenna exhibits a feed point
impedance of around 6000 ohms, which cer- liJJ METER BEAM
tain ly does not conform to our sta nd ard feed One Inch Elements fo r Low Q
line impedances. This prob lem can be cured and Wider Frequency Range
easily however b y use of a ~ wave matching 12 Foot Boom f or Wide Spac ing
tra nsformer section . For a 75 ohm feed line, Di pol e Driven El ement, 52
the matching section is 670 oh ms. Similarly Ohm Feed
for a 50 ohm line it becomes 385 ohms, a nd Forward DB Gain 9.2
conceivab ly could be made from either 300 Front -To-Bock 28 DB
or 425 ohm open wire TV line with a resu lting A ll T empered A lum inum- Dr iven
low SWR. Element Assemb led.
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DECEMBER 1964 39
Richard Van Wickie W6TKA
P. O. Box 4051
Santa Ba rbara, Calif .
A 2 Meter
Double-sideband Adapter
That single-sideband will eventually be the graphs uses 6146's simply because I had them
predominant mode of voice transmission for on hand. For the power level achieved with
all amateur frequencies cannot be seriously this system a more economical approach
denied by even the most staunch advocates of would be to use a pair of 226's, or for lower
AM and FM . However, with many amateurs, power, a pair of 5763's. It should be stressed
like myself, double-sideband suppressed-car- that twin-tetrode tubes (such as the 832.
rier may well be the stepping stone to VHF 832A, 829B, 3E29, and 6360 ) are not suitable
SSB. If it is not a matter of laziness-or per- for this application since the screen grids have
haps more correctly, a desire for simplicity a common terminal and hence cannot be used
of construction-it may also be an economic in this push-pull-output circuit.
problem in which case DSB is ideal-if the
amateurs on the receiving end will be tolerant
- ----
of the fact that a DSB signal is ofte n more
difficult to correctly tnne in than an SSB signal.
Before beginning the description of
my two-meter DSB adapter, I must in all
honesty, warn you that DSB (or SSB) con-
tacts on two-meters may be not too frequent.
You should not, at least at the present, disable
your AM or CW eq uipment in favor of DSB
or SSE. In fact, therein lies the beauty of
this DSB adapter. It uses your existing two-
(
meter gear and allows you to return to AM
or C\V operation quickly and easily.
I
Top View
T he rectifiers V3 and V4, rectify both posi-
tive and negative voice peaks and cause audio
voltage to be applied to the balanced-modula-
tor 6146's. When the top end of the modula-
tion transformer secondary goes positive, the
plate of the top 6, 146 (VI ), is driven positive,
and the ground re turn circuit is through recti-
fier B4. On negative voice peaks, when the bot-
tom end of the secondary goes positive. the
plate of the lower 6146 (V2) is driven posi-
tive, with the return through V3. Positive
voice peaks thus supply plate and screen
power for the upper 6146, and negative voice
2M D5B Adopter
peaks supply the power for the lower 6146.
This adapter will have you on two-meter A balanced modulator results when we have
sideband with only a few hours of construc- (as shown in the schematic) the grids of the
tion. It utilizes your two-meter transmitter as tubes in parallel and the output circuit in
the source of rf drive. The plate and screen push-pull. Applying audio voltage alternately
voltages for the 6146's are provided by rec- to the plates and screens of the 6 146
tifying the output of your existing modulator. balanced modulators results in a carrierless
No other high voltage is supplied to the double-sideband signal. A small advantage of
adapter. The adapter shown in the photo- this circuit is that, since only one tube works
40 73 MACAZINE
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at a time, the non -couductmg tu b e is a ll cost abou t 90t: each. Silicon rect ifi ers of eq u iv-
effect ive "ncutrallzmg capacitor" for the alen t PIV uud current ratin g s are far more
other tu b e . expensive . T he 6X4's shou ld be qu ite ad e-
Re p orts O il au dio qu ality wi th th is ad a p ter q ua te for li se wit h m od ulators h avin g a power
have been q uite good , and we b eli eve that outp ut ill th e vici nity of 100 watts. Silicon
the p late-uucl-screen m odu lation is part of the rect ifi ers can, of course, be used if yo u prefer.
reason for these report s. As yo u know , most You will note th at th e screen resistor val ue
high-l evel do ub le side- band transm itters util - is lower th an customari ly used w ith 6 1-46's or
ize screen mod ulation wh ich, wh en not p rop - 2 E26's. Don't let this frighten you b ecau se
erly adju st ed . o ften results in less-th nu-the the tubes operate on a very low du ty cycle
best aud io qua li ty. in thi s a p p lieation , a nd can easily stand the
T he modul at or used with th is adapter is increased screen voltage and resulting greater
d esig ned to limit th e aud io frequen cy response p late current. The heavier plate current thu s
by ustng ,00 :' cou pling capacitors, a 100 d rawn also offers a greater load to the m od -
mmfd cnpucitor across th e microphon e input, ul ator, and ill m y ease, resulted in b ett er
a -4 I 0 m mfd capacitor across the grids of the
P ar ts L is t
807 modu la tors, and a .002 capacitor across
(') - 7-7 m mfd air va r iable capacitor
the secondary of the m od ul at ion tran sforme r. C2 5-50 mrntd a ir va r-iable capacito r
Too many lows in a dou b le-s ideband signa l C3 - Mica tr immer capacito r, 7-40 mmfd (see t ext )
resu lt ill increased diffic ulty in tu ning in the C~ IIFD 15X ( llamma riu nd) dual va riable capacitor;
four ro t or pla tes removed from each sect ion; no sta tor
signal. and a strange "growling" sound . plate s re mo ved.
T he ()X-t rectifiers were chosen after m ak ing CS-5-S0 mmfd a ir variable capacitor
com p arisons wit h silicon rectifiers, So little J l -f{ (' A- t )'J~ phono jack
J 2 Four-conta c t Cinch- Jones ;: S - 30~ socket
difference was noted in this app lication be - j 2 t 'IIF .type coax ia l panel.rvpe connector
tween silk-Oil and tube recti fiers , that it was ) 11 0 1 rna meter, S h urite ~[ odd 350 .. edge w ise .. t )'J>e
decided to stuv w it h th e 6X4 's since thev HrCI , 2. 3, ~ -O h mit e Z-t44 rf choke
S l-dpd t s w itc h
have a p eak inverse voltage ratin g of 12.50 n. \ ' 2- 61~ 6, 2 1-:26, 5763, et c. (see t ext )
volts, a pea k current rating of 2 10 rn a, nud \ ' ,1, \" ~ - 6X~
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sounding audio than when screen resistors of
more conventional values were used.
The meter is an inexpensive Shu rite "edge-
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Evaluating Receivers
About ready to replace the tired old re- in beat-note ton el If you get no warble when
ceiver in your shack, with either a new or the lid is dropped, pound the side of the re-
"li ke-new" one? Or thin king of adding a sec- ceiver gently. D o not , however, drop it 5 feet
ond one for stand by? onto a concrete floor. It might dent the floor.
Either way, you won't want to make the Assuming that this test is passed ( and full y
acquisition blind-unless you happen to be half the receivers around may flunk out right
the rare type who p refers to purchase his pigs here ) open the lid and blow across the tuning
in pokes. Most of us at the very least like to capacitor. If it's buttoned up tight in a sh ield
read over th e specs of a receiver before buying box. blow across the oscillator tube. Again
it. you don't want to hear any warble. but you
But the "like-new," as w ell as the "surplus- quite possibly will . At least one high ly regard-
bargain" variety. won't have a specification ed current-production receiver flunks on this
sheet with it unless it reall y d id belong to a one. T he real q uestion, of course, is does the
little old lad y from Pasadena who only used warble sound suspicious enough for you to say
it to listen crosstown on Sunday afternoons. "No, th anks" or does it appear to be with in
And even then, you might like to kn ow just bounds- and only your own insistence on per-
what shape the fra illy feminine p revious own- fection will supp ly the answer to that.
er left the rig in . Now that we've established that the receiv-
H ere are some tips on receiver evalu ation, er has frequen cy-m eter stability-and if it pass-
based in part on typical checkout tests and in es both the preceding tests, it does and then
part on years of experience in receiver trading some-w e can check the selectivity. You ca n
( a nd yea rs of getting lemons until some of use the \V\VV signal for this. but a rocking
these tricks were learned ) . 50-kw broadcast transmitter or Californ ia kilo-
The first step is, of course. to turn it on watt is better. Tune across it and note how
and connect an antenna. If you can't do that , wide the signal appears to be.
any pu rchase will have to be on the basis of To be more scientific about th is, you might
"caveat e mp tor" an d broth er, you'd do well hook up a signal generator and tu ne its signal
to caveat! in. Adjust generator output until the signal
\ Vith the rig warmed up , tune in a weak regi sters 20 db over 59 when tuned for maxi-
and known stab le signal. \V\VV will do nicel y, mum strength. Then tune across it, and note
as will a harmonic of th e lOO-kc calibrator how many kc it is between 52 on one side of
if available. Next , lift the receiver lid and let cente r and 52 011 the other; this will be your
it drop a coup le of times. This is just a warm- approxima te 60-db band width. Reduce signal
lip to see if the receiver is really u nstable; generator output until you have a peak read-
for the rea l test, turn on the BFO and ad jus t ing of just 59 and note the width between 58
it for as low a beat note as you can com- points; this is the 6 db bandwidth. Dividing
forta bly hear. In any event. it should n' t be the 6-db bandwidth into the 60-db bandwidth
much above 100 cycles. Then drop th e lid will give you a sh ape factor. which may tum
again and listen for a ny' trace of warble. out to be nice to brag about if you bu y the
This is a tough test ; as little as 50 cycles unit.
cha nge in ei ther local oscillator or BFO Fre - But for an in-the-store examination, th e Be
quency will show li p as a one-octave change station will do as well; if it takes a li t some
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40 kc or so of spectru m, the selectivity is not check the ave action. This divides into two
good. If, on the other hand , the Be station real parts: one is the avo characteristic on C \V
starts sounding like SSB when you're off- tune and SSB , wh ile the other is the simple ques-
just 3 or 4 kc either side, the selectivity is tion does th e ave work right at all?"
very good indeed. Older receivers for the most part make little
To check out a crystal filter, do the same or no p rovision for ave when the bfo is on ,
thing. In the maximum-selectivity position of and many even gang the switches so that ave
the crystal switch, the signal should have a is always off when bfo is on. In these, obvious-
d istinct ringing sound. Many older receivers ly, no use of ave for C\V or sideband is
which are out of ad justment or have defective going to be possible without some major re-
crystals won't produce this ringin g. ceiver chan ges. In newer ones, though, you
To make a check of sensitivity, remove the ca n get a pretty good idea by tuning to a
antenna. See if you can peak up the receiver medium-speed C\ V signal on whatever band
noise with the anten na tri mmer, wit h the an - is coming in best at the moment, and listening
tenna disconnected and the bandswitch set for "thumps" and apparent ch irps on the be-
to 10 meters. If you can't, the front end is ginning of each cha racter. If all is well th e
pretty poor. If you can, put the antenna back thumps and ch irps will be absent, yet the
on and if possible switch to II meters. The 5- background noise will rise between charac-
watt wonders there p rovide an almost ever- ters. In some units, background noise will stay
present source of weak signals so you can tell d own-and this is a matter of preference. Most
where noise leaves off and signal begins. C\V ops like to have it come back up in a
So far as other controls are concerned, you hurry so they can work break-in easily, while
will prohably have twiddled them all in the the SS B gang li kes to h ave it stay down be-
course of performing these tests. Any sp ut- tween syllables b ut come back up quickly at
terings or pops from the speaker with rota- the end of a phrase.
tion of a gain control indicates p robable trou - For a general ave test, turn everyth ing but
ble in either the control involved , or th e th e audio up to maximum and tune in the
circuits associated wi th it. Jerky tu ning will strongest broadcast signal you can lind. If any-
make itself obvious in the selectivity test as thing is going to clobber the ave, this will be
an inability to find the 52 points accurately. it-and Be stations are required by law to
The noise limiter may not have received a keep their audio pretty clean. Thus by simply
good wo rkout. F ortunately, most ham stores listening for dis tortion while cutting back the rf
are located near busy streets and many cars gain you can find ant if the ave is working.
still have unsupp ressed ignition systems. A If distortion disappears sud denly as rf gain is
rough check of ANL action may be made red uced. something's wrong in ave!
simp ly by switching it in and out while cheek- Those of us who anticipate spending long
trig on -the-air sensitivity. hours at the rig have two "must" items for
Should you live near a powerful transmitter checking, unless we like to resemble the morn-
other than your own, cross-mod ulation might ing after the night before, following a 3-to-4-
be worth checking into. This will require a hour session on the air. These "musts" are
mod ulated signal generator, which may not power-suppl y hum, and aud io distortion .
be available in the store. Set the signal gen- Neither of these possible defects is particu-
erator for maximum outpu t. Tune to a fairly larly objectionable during short sessions, but
weak (54 or 55 ) signal on your favori te band. after some 90 minutes of listening to a back-
Set the signal generato r to app roximately the ground of raw ac the temptation to take up
same frequency and tun e the genera tor back philately becomes strong!
and forth. If you h ear the 400-cycle modula- To test for hum, plug in a pair of phones
tion from the generator on the weak signal, and turn the af gain all the way up. Turn
tune the receiver to the geneator frequency. rf gain fairly well down, and tune off signal.
If the freq uency is very close (50 kc or less ) Listen for any hum. Some will undoubtedly
the effect is normal and to be an ticipated. If be detectable, but the q uestion is whether it's
it happens to be a possible image response, it loud eno ugh to be objectionable.
should be considered as one. But if the modu- To d etermine whether it's the power supp ly
lation shows up wh enever the signal generator or possibly a poor tube, turn the af gain down
is on, then you h ave cross-mod problems while listening. If hum goes away, it's origi-
which are going to have to be cured if that nating ahead of the af gain and the p ower
receiver is to be usable. supply is p robably pretty clean. Possible cul-
If, like most of us, you tend to be a bit on prits are bad rf or if tubes, or a single poor
the lazy side then you'll certainly want to filter capacitor. If, on the other hand , it goes
DECEMBER 1964 53
up , then the power sup ply is at fault. repeat the general ave test but turn rf gain
Aud io distortion is most readily checked by down and set audio gain wide open. If distor-
comp arison a gainst a known good receiver, but tion sh ows up , red uce audio gain and see if it
this may not be possible. Next best way is to goes away. At the same time, compare to all
TEST BANDS\\' lTCIl R F GAI N AF GAIl' SE LEC T IVITY Ave CALm A~L BfO AN T ItESULT
SENSITI VITY 10 Me t e r s Max Any Widest Rand Of f orr Off orr NOlle I
{)n 2
AU DIO QUALITY Any Band Any Max An~' Setting 0, orr Of[ orr On 12
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other available receivers for distortion. If pos-
sible, compare against a Collins 75A4 ; this has
about as little audio distortion as any receiver
tested in our experience ( but steer clear of
S-linel ) .
Alignment of the receiver can be checked
by repeating the sensitivity test at each end
of each band; if you can't peak up front-end
noise without the antenna, or if noise doesn't
increase when the antenna is connected, the
receiver is not properly aligned at that point.
Most used receivers, unless they have just
been reconditioned, are not in proper align-
ment; putting them back in isn't d ifficult but it
may be time-consuming, especially if you don't
have the instruction manual and have to figure
out which slug or timmer controls wh ich cir-
PLUS THESE EXTRA FEATURES :
cuit on which band. It's something to keep in
Great Clrcl. B.arint. " Q" and "r ' Sitnal.
mind while di ckering. Great Circle Charts World Time Chart
Dial calibration can be checked with a 100 Prefixes bJ Countries Int'L Postal Rates
kc calibrator; like alignment, it's not hard to United States Listings $5.00
restore but may take some tim e. Frequency OX Listings . , .. . , ...... .. 3.00
readout from the dial is another matter. If you
like to know the other fellow's frequency to
=
the nearest cycle, you're not going to be hap- RADIO AMATEURS
py with a dial in which the marks are 1/16 REFERENCE LIBRARY OF MAPS
inch apart and each of them indicates 50 kc ORDER YOUR SET TODAY!
segments! While it's more a matter of personal
preference than anything else, don't forget to
take a look at the dial calib rations. The Col-
lins line, of course. has virtually frequ ency-me- ,,, ' ""
ter readout; many other makes approach this , """" '""" ,
~
ease-of-reading condition. A few, h owever, do
not. Check before you buy. ~ ctl d;
If your line voltage fluctuates widely, you'll
want to run all of the tests at three different
.' ~~~
line-voltage cond itions. One, of course, is at
normal rated voltage. The other two are 10 to
15 per cent above and below normal, respec-
tively. A Variac or similar ad justable auto-
transformer is handy, or you can put together
a "voltbox" for such testing. The stability tests,
in particular, may be severely affected . Dis-
tortion may also suffer at low voltage.
.-
To make all this a little simp ler and clearer,
we've wh ipped up the accompanying "Receiv-
er Checklist" which summarizes the tests, po-
sitions of receiver controls for each test, and
test procedures and expected resu lts. With
it, you can pull a complete analysis of any
receiver in a very few minutes. You can also
check out the big station rig, to find out if
it's still doing its best. Some top DX hounds
check the receiver out thoroughly every 30
d ays, on the theory that a few minutes spent I'
.~c a
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RK 7158
1:,1:' "' e a
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,AS
spacers. This procedure permits the amplifier
no I to self neutralize at six meters with no d iffi-
RFC 1 10 tu rns #22 e na m el close wound culties. If mounted on the chassis the circuit
RFC 2 4 2 tu rns #22 e name l close wound on becomes almost impossible to neutralize. (see
V2" ceramic insu lator 2" long . Fig. 2 )
RFC3 ohm ite Z - 50 or equ iva le nt 4. The grid is series tuned, permitting the
L 1 4 tu rns # 18 V2 " dlc . close amplifier to be tuned to six meters. The input
~ 8 turns # 18 % " die . c lose coil is close coupled to the grid coil for max-
L3 4 turn s 3 / 16" coppe r tubing, 1 V2" di - imum drive.
ameter, I V2 " lo ng
5. The plate choke is wound on a half inch
C I , C2 500 pf 20 kv TV doorknob type
ce ram ic
ceramic insulator two inches long with the
TV doorknob capacitors threaded into the
Measuring the input cap acity between the ends of the insulator and then bolted to the
cathode and grid reveals that the old hand- chassis. (see Fig. 3 ) The plate cap is of the
book is correct in listing a value of 30 mmfd. heat radiating type and the stra ps from the
Because of the large value it is necessary to cap to the choke are either ~" braid or flexible
use an unusual grid circuit to permit tuning strap.
to the six meter band. The result is an inex- 6. The Pi-net capacitors used at K2ZEL
pensive half gallon which is compact and easy came out of a BC-191 tuning unit. The final
to build. has been used here for four years and, from
L The filament is heated by two 12.6 volt reports, p uts out a nice wallop. It is easily
filament transformers with their primaries in switch ed out of the line-up when going from
parallel and the second aries in series, making ground wave work to local rag-chewing.
it unnecessary to search for a hard-to-get . . . K2ZEL
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Testing the
Venus di Clegg
I : .'
Back last spring, when we were getting 73
Mountain ready for the big June VHF scram-
ble, there was co nsiderable discussion over ..."-- --
wh ich rigs were best for which bands. Every- -. - .0
o ne agreed that. if we co uld get it, a C legg
Venus would be the last word for OUf six
meter effort.
-
Someh ow I managed to talk Clegg into available. Between a two meter kilowatt in th e
sendi ng one up on loan . \Vh en it arrived every- next room and a six met er kilowatt on a nea rby
one was so anxious about it th at they had it mountain top , the pressure was really on .
unp acked before th e carton ever got off the Grid block keying is used on C\ V, though
delivery truck. we only were able to make a few contacts on
wh at a beauty! thi s mode. There sure isn't much C\ V activity
I co uld see that nothing further would get in th at bottom 100 kc, even when the band
done on 73 if I left it around here, so I d rove is open. If it ever developes, th e Venus w ill
it all lip to the mountain, p lugged in the ac, he ready for it.
the mike, and an antenna and started talking The \'enus kicks up to 85 watts PEP (all
to the growing mob of sidehanders down at modes ) , which is plenty for most operation .
th e low end of six. I found I was getting out If yo u want to always be first there is a nice
so well with the Venus that it was hard to tell linear available from Clegg, the Apollo, which
if the band was open or not. plugs right into the Venus and boosts you to
Whil e the A~[ boys were fighting R~[ and 700 watts.
changi ng band cond itions I found that I could The Venus normally tunes from 49.975 to
h ave lon g rag chews with sideband sta tions . 50.475, though it takes just a quick crystal
VP7CX, who, by th e way, has a Venus and replacement to ch ange this range to any other
is wild about it, called me on e day and we SOO kc you want to tune. Since the g reat bulk
talked for about a nhour. H e has been carrying of six meter activity is in the lower 500 kc
on daily skeds w ith Panam a and crazy things this will hardly ever cause much of a problem
like th at wh ich no one would even have con- . . . and if you stick to sideb and , wh ich is
sid ered before the advent of sideband on six. almost completely between 50.1 and 50.2,
One fellow called in and said he had been you'll never kn ow there is p art of the b and
, .
considering a Ven us , but that th e transceive you re not usm g.
typ e of operation worried him . H e wanted to The stability of the Venus is att ributable to
he able to tune his receiver separa te ly from the carefully b uilt 5 .0 to 5.5 me oscillator. Th is
his trasnmitter. I pointed out how simple it is mixed with the 14 me output of the con-
was to feed the 14 me output of the Venus' verter to give a 9 me signal which is fed
conv erter to his regular station receiver and th rou gh the 9 me crysta l fil ter and results in
use that for tuning off the transmitter fre- 3 kc selectivity. The final if is 450 kc. T he
quen cy. In this way you get all the extraord- transmitter heterod yn es the 14 me signal up to
inary sensitivity of th e grounded grid nuvist or 50 me with a 6883 (twelve volt 6146 ) in th e
converter in the Venus as well as its stability final. The unw anted sideb and is down over
(it has to be stable to be good for SSB ). 5 0 db at 1000 cycles and th e carrie r is sup -
Tuni ng the Venus is a d ream. Th ose Ed cl v- pressed more th an 56 db. Distortion p rodu cts
stone di als may be expen sive, but th ey sure are down over 30 db at full output. Since all
are worth it. circ uits except th e fin al are broadbanded the
Since a lot of th e six metter gang still are tun eup process is sim ple . E ven the fin al doesn 't
using receivers wi tho ut b fo's, it is handy to be have to be touched for small frequen cy ch anges
able to switch to the AM position at tim es. (say 100 kc or so) .
T he receiver has both AM and SSB detectors, During the two months that I used th e
switch ahle AVC and a very effective noise Ve nu s I worked 43 sta tes, VEl-2-3-4 , VPi.
limiter. T he Venus was able to give perfect and C02. w hat a world of difference there
copy of signa ls under Q R ~ 1 conditions that was using this rig as comp ared to a small AM
just about stopped every other receiver we had job ! . . . Staff
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Model CMA is a crys -
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Model CMA sistor, all band con-
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verter tha t covers all
" bonds from 160
through 2 meters (1.7 Me. to 54 Me. and 108 Me. to
174 Me.). The output of Mode l CMA can be fed to a
standard broadcast set or to any com mcnicotions re-
ceiver up 10 30 Me. It can be used for mobile Or fixed
operation . The CMA has better than I microvo lt sen-
sit:vity . It can be o p e ra te d fro m on inte rna l battery or
from the 12 volt ca r ballery with the Ameco 85 .9
adopter. It has a tune d RF stage, tuned by the dia l on
I -,.., NUVISTOR
STANDING WAVE BRIDGE
MODEL SWB ,1\1 'f~ __ PREAMPLIFIERS
I . : 1. " ...... SINGLE BAND
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tha t will accu rately rea d SWR's
~/...- _ .... 144 OR 220 MC.
from 1.8 Me. to 225 Me. !i nclud- tJJ,11",.....,.' OYER 20 DB Gain
ing Ham , CB and Com me rcial band sl. It can handle up
to one tho usond watts. Model. SWB use s the superior .- ....... ..:- '<'
Th e N u vi st or Pr e -
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t; ..... a mpl i fie rs w ill im-
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the lin e continuously witho ut insertion loss . It con tain s used a hea d of your present converter, receiver, or
two SO-239 VHF connectors and is attractively pack- tra nsceive r. 2 tuned circu its and a 6054 Nuvistar are
aged in a satin copper case . Size 1 %" x 2 lf....... 4lf2" . use d . The noise figure is 2.0 d6 at 27 Me., 2.5 db at
Mode l SWB - Wired and tested $9 .95 50 Me., 3 .0 db . at 144 Me. and 4 .0 db . at 220 Me.
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ci rcui ts up t o t he f inal are brcadbanded,
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SPECI FICAT IONS ANO FEATURES
Power input t o f inal ; 15W. CW, 15W. peak
1i
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on phone.
Tube lineup: 6GK6- osc., triplet , 6GK6
doubler, 1868 tr tcter (on 2 meters)
1984 Final. 12AX1 and 6GK6 modula to r.
cryst at-ccntrcued or ext ernal VFO. Crystal s
used are inexpensi ve 8 Mc ty pe .
Met er reads f inal cathod e curr en t, f inal
HAS BUILTIN MODULATOR AND POWER gri d curr en t an d RF outp ut.
So li d sta te power supply . _
SUPPLY'75 WATTS PHONE AND CW AT- Mike/k ey jack and cry stal socket on fron t
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gain cont rol.
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watt carbon resistors in p arallel; making the plates of the 5894. At this voltage the screens
connectio n on each end of the resistors close of the 5894 are reg ulated at 258 volts. R-16a
to the resistor bodies. Cut off excess wire with this supply is a 12,000 ohm, 50 watt
from each end, leaving one lead at each end resistor. For other values of high voltage, the
to make the connections. Now connect and value of the screen-dropping resistor must be
solder one end of R L to the junctio n of He calculated. T he VR tubes draw 5 rna and
an d the RG-58/U. Solder the other end of the screen current varies from 0 to 25 rna: a
HI, to the ground lug next to the V-2 socke t. total current through the screen-dropping re-
T he next step is t o rep lace L-l with L-a, so sistor. In calculating th e value of th e screen-
that it wil l tune 15. 5 me, instead of the orig- dropping resistor, do not forge t that when the
inal 16-18 me. Then replace L-2 with L-b, so 6N2 is in Tune or Standby positions, th e
that it will tune 46 .5 me, instead of the orig- screen-dropping resistor R-16a, is shorted to
inal 48-54 me. R-7, formerly attached to the ground, so do not exceed the power rat ing of
mid point of L-2, is now attached to the mid- the resistor und er thi s cond itio n.
poin t of L-b . Install V-3, and the VR tubes, V-5 and 6.
Next, m ake a hole in the chassis on each Ad jus t th e b ias so that V-3 restin g plate cur-
side of the Fine Coupling control shaft im- rent is 35 to 40 rna. T his wiII b e fro m - 26 to
media tely behind the fr ont panel for each of - 30 volts of vias. T hen install the 7750 kc
th e two VR tube sockets. In stall th e sockets crystal an d th e 6U8 an d the 6360. The clamp
so th at the VR tubes will be above the chas- tube is left out of th e unit in this mode of
sis. Bring a p iece of hook-up wire up throu gh operation .
the grommet with the wiring harness for In order to ad just the bias from the Heath
con nection to t he terminal on R-16a, the HP-20, install a 50K, 2 watt wire-wound po-
screen adjust resistor which h as an orange tentiometer in place of R-6 in the HP-20. The
wire already attached. T he va lue of R-16a is middle terminal of the pot. is connected to
discussed under Adjustments. Leave the pin 1 of the HP-20 power socket.
orange wire attached. Solder the other end of Operat ion
the hook-up wire to pin 5 of V-5, one of the If the exciter has more th an 12 watts rms
two sockets which was just installed closest to output, a pad must be used b etween the
the 6N2 meter. Connect p in 2 of V-5 to pin 5 exciter and th e 6N2 to limit the input to the
of V-6, the other socket which was added for 6N2 to 12 wa tts rms.
the VR tubes. Ground p in 2 of V-6. Tune the oscillator and the multiplier of
Referring to Fig. 2 in the 6N2 Operating the 6N2 in the usual m anner. Tune the ex-
Ma nual, the b ottom view of the 6N2, locate citer on the 80 meter band , 3.5 me corres-
R-12 on the left han d side of the figure. pond ing to 50.0 me, and 4 .0 me h eterodynin g
Rep lace R-12 with R-12a, the 47K ohm, 1 to 50.5 me. Then apply exciter p owe r to th e
watt resistor. 6='J2 and tu ne the fi nal grid and the fi nal plat e
We n eed a - 30 volts of bi as from an exter- of the 6N2 wi th the exciter in the C\V p osi-
nal source for the grids of the 5894, V-3. tion . Then switch to SSB on the exciter and
Since the antenna relay and accessory re- join th e fun on 6 meter SSB.
lays may be con trolled by the exciter, the The reason for using a 7750 kc crystal and
antenna re lay socket J-2, on the 6N2, may b e 80 meter input is that the crystal multiplies
used for th e bias line after disconnecting from to 46.5 me, far enough away from 50 me so
it th e wires which go to S\V-2. Connect a that the tuning circu it of th e 5894 will reject
wire from J-2 to the position 10 of SW-3, it. With a 6 me crystal and 20 met er input, a
after having disconnected position 10 of 5\V-3 harmonic occurs at 48 me which mi gh t cause
from gro und. Simply disconnecting p osition difficulty. It is easier to use th e 7750 kc crystal
lO af S' V-3 makes both di sconnections d e- th an to use the 6 me crys tal and h ave to build
picted on the schematic vy 2 X." Since R-21 , traps.
the shu nt resistor, is mounted on the meter Further information on the 5894 m ay be
switch it is taken care of in the above step. obtained by writ ing to Amperex. . .. K,SSGI'
This step app lies bias to the grids of the
5894 and also takes care of the meterin g cir-
cuit. SEE YOURSELF ON TV!
W ith th e exception of R-16a, the modifica- Build a vidicon came ra at the lowest price ever. We have
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mas gift.
Ad just ments Send I Oc in coin for further information.
I am us ing the Heathkit model HP-20 ATV Research
P.O. Box 396, South Sioux City, Nebraska 68776.
power supply which provides 600 volts t o the
DECEMBER 1964
"
has a COAX IAL RELAY
-KEY for most every switching
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receive. p r ot ec ttn g con nector me. Powe r ' IIt ln g 1 k w . VSWR
fo r positive Isolallon o f r.s. less t h a n 1. 1 : 1 Ilt 10 0 m e . is ola
ti on g reate r t h a n 4 0 db at 100 m e.
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DK72 SERIES
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Freq uency r an ge 0
Power ratln lO to 1 kw . VS WR to 500 mc, Po wer rating 1 k w.
less tha n 1 ,15:1 fro m 0 t o 500 VSWR less than 1. 1:1 at 100 m c .
me. Isolation greate r t h a n 30 Isolation greater than 4 0 db at
db "" 5 0 0 me. Loss less t h a n 100 mc. Li fe OVer 1.000,000 opera_
0.03 db 'ri> 30 mC. Li fe over tio ns. 50 ohm impedance. Size :
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DK78
ped a n c e. VSWR l e~s t h an 1.05:1 a t 150 m e .
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g rea t e r t. ha n 80 db M' 30 me. W ith dial
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SPECIFICATIONS
r.t. ratings: 1 kw t o 500 me. VSWR less than 1.05,1 at 150 me (see
1- f--
curves below ). Isolat ion greater than 5Ddb at 500 me and greater than
80 db at 30 me (see below ). Impedance: 50 ohm . Contacts : Fine silver,
others upon reques t. Connectors: UHF are standa rd , types N, BNG ,TNC
._,
and C are also available . Operating Temperature Range : 55 degrees I .......
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5 /32" dia. hole . Wt. 10 oz. Size 3" diamete r x 11/8" deep.
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Low cost oscillators from 200 to 650 mega- cles. The same xtal will go to 8 1 megacycles
cycles. High power (25 to 50 watts ) units are ( tripling is st ill 1I0t too bad there ) 162, 324,
described for experimental line or cavity test- 648 megacycles, and then to 1296! Suit you r-
ing, antenna experiments, and transm itter self. At least the oscillators to he d escribed
drive work. The technician and the UHF ex- ( Yes, I'Il get to th em eventually ) will help
perimenter particularly, should be interested you work it out.
in this helpful inform ation which is the result Remember, if you have some four or five
of man y years of work.
Introdu ct ion
As one works up into the UHF region,
two facts become more an d more ap parent.
One, it is mu ch bette r to double, and two, it
is also mu ch better to start at the final and
work back through the drive rs and multipliers.
Too many times I have blithely followed the
carefree word s "T hen tripling to 432" (or
1296 ) . By the time I tri ed to triple to 1296
the drive was way way down from what it
should be. A great help in this situ ation is
doubling instead of tripling. Don't forget, the
t. ,
~ 7.45 T RIM\l ER
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5 763
,
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----
---- 190 to 2 50 mc osci llator
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5' 20 ' multiplier stages set up and then h ave to re-
T O-v
",0 CU RRE ' i T
- P LATE
CUR R E NT work them it may be quite a deal when you
"- find that you have insufficient drive to the
fin al. Especially as such reworking will gener-
ally mean bigger tubes or an in between am-
plifier stage. You will see these amplifiers quite
L, ve
.5 T UR.. S 5/6- 00. 110 -170 often in commercial rigs, where they had to
4 TURN S 314"' 00 65 - 110 lise one in order to get sufficient drive for the
Fig , 1.8 5 to 170 mc osc illa tor next stage. This is OK when all you have to
first "big bang" you come to as you frequency do is call the purchasing department for an-
multiply up is the doubling frequency! Fur- other UHF tube!
ther up you find a littl e weak spot of energy. Working backward from the final , you
This may be the tr ipling spo t. know just where you are as regards d rive.
Granted, d oubling onl y throws out some one stage at a time.
of th e harmonic relati ons found on 144, 432, The oscillator of Fig. 2 covers 190 to 250
and 1296 megacycles, but from a power megacycles. This can be used to check doubl-
and operating standpoint you may find it ob- ing circuits from 216 to 432 megacycles.
ligatory. All harmonic relationship is not lost The next, Fig. 3, covers 400 to 500 mega-
by any mean s. One 27 me crystal ( e ll unit ) cycles. This is useful for decisions on whether
goes to 54, 108 , 216, and then 432 megncy- to use lines or cavities on your 432 stages.
78 73 MACAZIN E
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be handil y ad jus ted for size, len gth , and res-
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onance, w ith these units.
Reasons fo r Different Types of Oscilla to rs
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tOA XIAl CAIIl.
wi t h Increa sing Frequ ency
...L . J 1/ 2" 00 T\J"~ There seems to be some "Law" operating
'N"E"
L~....CONDUCTOII here. T his b usi ness of "Laws" is of course
SOD 0 " " OUUR _
BFC -12 ,w buried in An t iqu ity. {W here is that? Africa?
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ro Asia? ) F rom 50 to around 150 megacycles,
~- - e -_ - - S _ If Z " _6 _ TR' "
using a good tube such as the 5763, the old
~__ . "_ -L 'bAOONO reliable Ulrra-Audion circuit does FB. Fig. 1
110 NOT .....
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shows an old version that works well. You
can push it a litt le highe r in freq uency, at
II I" COPI'(II J which time putting chokes in the cathode and
I
ROONO, 1. )/' "
.I.8OVE GIl OUfO!I I heater leads will help, hut why bother when
~~, , 2039 you can use the circuit of Fig. 2 which
.,
0 . 2 50
2 C39A "takes off' with as little as 9 volts on the
1'\. ...re WI. """,[It p late!
\ Vith all the "S'ers,' Gonsets , etc. around ,
the assumption was mad e th at there is plenty
of rf avai lable for 50 and 144 me t ests of all
$>0 ' "0"'0 LI... .
kinds.
"'
OUTPUT " UCt: O OI/ EII ct; Nn R 2 0 0 Megacycles a nd Up
OF TA N. l' ''ES
Thi ngs begin to change a little a fter 150
FIG 2
megacycles. The "p late co il" gets real small
and nasty like . Q uite a differen t type of oscil-
Fig . 2. Powe r oscillato r 19 0 to 25 0 me . lator now enters the scene. See Fig. 2. This
oscillator uses a half-w ave in each line. One
The high est frequen cy of this econo mical half-wave in the grid lin e a nd one h alf-wave
series run s 600 to 6?O mega cycles and is main-
ly for checking 1296 megacycle doublers. I
have even used it to check tran sistor doub lers
(don't scream, p leasel ) T h is m ay seem fan tas-
tic, to d rive a little tran sistor wi th a 100 watt
tube, but yo u just run low voltage, 50 to
100 or so on th e p late and u se very loose
coup ling. W orks F.B.!
1200 to 1300 pow er oscillators wiII b e in-
vestigated a t a later date . I have almost d e-
cided th at p erhap s a 600 megacycle oscillator
d rivin g a 1200 megacycle d oubler would be
best. L ess F~I when yo u modulate it and you 4 0 0 to 500 mc oscillato r.
are ready for crystal control later if need ed. in the pla te line. This allows the first quarter
By using a hig h-powe red oscillator one can wave on each line to be well up inside the
ascertain what grid drive will p roduce what tube . It appears to be a "natural" for th e
output in the final ; maxim um grid mils can region between 100 and 700 megacycles.
he set up; etc. Don't forget th at if you are Look at the size of it on -lOa to 500 m ega -
using grounded grid, plate outpu t will go on cycles! Easy to work with; no need of short
increasing even though the allowable grid mils leads. O f course this does not mean th at you
are being exceeded! Oscillators arc shown for can change anything shown in the circuit.
some of the most useful freq uencies such as This oscillator is so good frequency-wise that
2 16, 432, and 600 to 650 megacycles. N umer- I had to change the p late and grid lines from
ous antenna tests can be more easily mad e one ineh brass stra p down to "wire." " 'hen [
with more sock in the oscillator. Of co urse. say down I mean just th at. With the brass
watch those operating rules and regulations! strap I could n't get it d O\\11 below about 280
Personally there have been plenty of times megacycles. That is, witho ut using longer lin es
on U H F when any signa l would have b een -and look at em now. \ Vith the w ire lin es
greeted with joy. In fact, th is is still usu ally it immed iately jumped down to under 200
the case "up there." VHF-U HF helix type megacycles. A good live d emonstration of strap
coils, line and strap circuits, and cavities can versu s wire.
DECEM BE R 1964 79
... OOl'O ~
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20 9 same method should already have been used
...
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2C39A to find this zero rf p oint for attaching the
plate choke and the grid resistor. These
., ..." . points are indicated in the figures, but it
r- " --, ... - .- won't hurt vou to check them. (T hat is, if
<-.0. ...... ..
.. .. ''T'
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travel ( voltage swing ) of each end of the
spring is changed to elastic strain (current
swing ) at the center. T he old business of
potential energy and kinetic energy in a pen-
dulum. The m omentum principle is well rec-
ognized by the term "flywheel effect" in an THE LARGEST INVENTORY
electron ic tank circuit. As applied to a half-
wave line it means that at the exact electrical of USED EQUIPMENT in the
center, there is an extremely small variat ion
in voltage from one instant" to the next. It NORTHEAST, SEE SAMPLES BELOW.
theoreticall y gets to be infinitely" small, bu t CHRISTMAS SPECIALS
remember, as th e old Gennan professor said
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Hallicrafters SX-96 129.95
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ever, at the center of this half-wave line there Hallicrafters SX-I01 Mk III 214.95
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nomina l sum. with one of the commonly availa ble. "two-
A wide variety of imported crysta l micro- part" epoxy cements. After the cement dried,
phone cartridges and microphone units us- the unit was given a qu ick ta lk test and then
able as replacement cartridges is now available reassembled with the original baflles and grill.
at low cost. The photograph shows the range Now came the problem of matching the
of units that is available from just one na- acoustics of the microphone to the new car-
tional distributor-Lafayette Radio Electronics tridge. This was strictly a trial and error
of New York. These units range from a lmost proposition and I am convinced that, even
exact replacements for a large number of U.S. for the manufacturers, th is is more of an art
manufactu red microphones to miniature m ike tha n a science. The assemb led microphone
units that may be h oused in the case of your was carefully tes ted and th e results were less
defective mike. T he photo ca ption gives the than satisfa ctory. The lower frequencies were
Lafayet te ca talog number, description, physi- "mudd y" and the highe r freq uency com po-
cal size and p rice for each of the economica l nents had an unclesirenbl e ec ho effect. The
units shown . first step was to st uff th e remaining space
If one of these units is a d irect or almost inside the original cartridge case wi th cotton .
direct replacement for your microphone, you This eliminated the high-freq uency echo ef-
are in luck. For a very nomina l sum and with fect but the low frequ en cy response was still
very little effort, you can restore your mike unsatisfactory. As shown in the photograph , a
to new cond ition. Even if a direct replace- ca rd board baffle plate with two small holes
ment is not available, do not despair. You can is used in the original assembly. Additional
still use one of the other cartrid ges if it will holes were punched in this baffie and the
physicall y fit in the microphone housing. The mike reassembled but without a fiber-glass
photographs show the install ation of one of cloth acoustical filter ( no t shown ) which was
these cartrid ges in an Electro -Voice T ype 927 a lso used in the original assembly. Perfor-
Crys ta l Microphone. This mike is the proper- mance was great ly improved with the sole
ty of \V3] HN and after the unit failed, he remaining problem of excessive sibilance and
unsuccessfully tried to locate a replacement breath noise . Rein stallation of the fiber-glass
cartridge. As is common with many of the cloth cu red th is problem . The results of this
newer "slim-line" mikes, none of th e com- repair were quite sa tisfactory and the defec-
monly available replacement cartridges would tive microphone retu rn ed to serv ice at a frac-
fit into the availab le space. tion of its original cost.
While the specific procedures described
above may not be d irectly app licable to
other microph ones, th e general techniques are.
Select a replacement cartrid ge that will fit in
the availa ble sp ace. Follow as closel y as pos-
sible th e original mountin g method. That is,
if the original unit is shock mounted, then
shock mount th e replacement. If the orig ina l
ca rtrid ge has a high mass and is rigidly
clamped in place. th en attemp t to duplicate
the mou nting method. In the case described,
The new ca rtridge insta ll ed in the o ld ca r- the weight of the original die-cast cartrid ge is
tridge housing and ready for a ssembly .
retained and the re place ment fitted in the
Disassembly of the microphone is shown in
ava ilable space. As mentioned, the acoust ics
the photograph. The existing ca rtrid ge is a
of the microphone will probably be altered.
heavy die-cast unit and the mounting screws
Achieve the d esired respo nse by the judicious
also secure the grill and the acoustical b affles.
use of p addin g ancI/or b aflles, vented or
Carefu l meas urement showed that the La fa y-
solid. A little tri al and error effort will sh ow
ette PA-40 Sub minia ture Crys ta l Microphone
yOll what is requi red to ac hieve sat isfac tory
could be fitted into th e original cartridge. The
performance.
inside of th e cartridge was cleaned out and
the die-cast case cut out with a file to accept Next ti me you are faced with a defective
the Lafayette unit. The attached leads of microp hone, consider repairs. A very modest
the Lafavette unit were then soldered to the investment. a little work and small amount of
existi ng terminals ( hot-to-hot and ground-to- luck will restore your m ike to good-as-new
ground ) inside the old cartridge. The case of cond ition.
th e PA....JO mike was then cemented in place \V4WK~ 1
DECEMBER 1964 83
The Heath
Tunnel .
.' " .'
.'
" "
Dipper !
[ {ow
-' J
Relati vely little time passed between the Retainin g all of the fea tures of the now fa-
anno uncemen t of Dr. Leo Esnki's research miliar conventional grid-d ip meter, this instru-
with his specially dop ed germanium d iode ment p rovides an add itional advantage . . .
junction with its u niq ue "negative resistance" freedom from external power requirements.
characteristics and Heat h's an nouncement of Th is opens up new areas of utilization which
their replacement for the familiar grid-dip previously have not been convenien t, such as
meter. Anyone who has seen the T unnel Dip- tuning antennas on the house roof or at the
per will be q uick to agree that Hea th has top of a tower, and adjusting mob ile rigs and
added anoth er winn er to their lon g and grow- antennas.
ing list. Covering a freq uency range of 3 to 260 me,
the Tunnel Dipper contains a comp letely
solid -state circuit requiring only a 1.5 volt
battery and d raws only 5 mil s! The com plete
schematic is shown in Fig. 1. The tunnel diode
function s with in th e oscillator circuit, the fre-
qu ency of which is determin ed by th e induct-
ance of the plu g-in coil in p arall el with variable
cap acitor C2. The oscilla ting voltage devel-
oped across this tank circuit is rect ified by
D2, an ordi nary d iode, applied to the base of
transistor Ql operating as an emitter follower,
and am plified b y the de ampli fier consisting
of transistors Q2 and Q3. T he meter is in series
with the collector of Q3 and measures the cur-
rent, which of course is proportional to the
amount of rf voltage being developed at the
other end of the circuit, the oscillator tank.
When th e tank circuit coil is pl aced adjacent
to a tuned circuit of the same resonant fre-
quency, induct ive coupling res ults in absorp-
tion of energy from the tunnel di od e oscilla-
tor circuit , in turn producing the character-
istic dip of the meter, ind icating resonan ce.
F or those who are puzzled a bout how a
diode is able to fun ction as an oscillator, a few
brief words of exp lanation mi gh t be justified
, 1\ a t this p oint. O hm's law tells us that w hen
'.~ voltage across a resistance is increased, the
'. curren t through the resistance also increases .
The same law also applies to an ordinary diode
which is, after all, a resistance too. However,
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in coils and corresponding colored dial scales,
built in storage sp ace for the coils, and stu rd y
Spec ifications
Freq uency R ang e . . J t o 260 me. ( u si n g s ix plug-in coils)
HCA type phono p lugs and sockets for th e
Circ u it r y 50li<l State; coils . . . an improvement Q' "er earlier mod el
I t unnel diod e grid-dip mete rs whose coil-socket arrange-
I silicon d iod e
1 cr ys t.al di od e ments sometimes beca me int ermittent after
J t rans istors extensive lise .
Cont rols """ . T u n in g , S witch ( O ff- D iod e O scilla te) Priced at $3..J:.95, H ea th 's Tunnel Dipper is
P ower S u p p ly " . . " . . AA penfite cel l ( 1.5 volt ) n ot Iu r -
nis h ed a worthwh ile addition to a ny h am shack . . .
Dimensions" " . "" " ." " 5 ~ " long, 2 13116" wide. 4 3 /1 6" and will ca use YO LI to wonder how yo u ever
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Th e Fin est ill V HF Perjormance Dollar for Dollar. A nd 1I0W , Model
The 621 features sharp tuned stages for maximum efficiency and elimination of TVI
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APPEARANCE? PERFORMANCE?
\Ve consider appearance important to the point at which it burdens the performance of
the con verter, preamp Or transmitter. Our first aim is to use top quality material and the
newest design concepts. \ Ve try to
make our eq uipment look fun ctional,
from the bottom as well as the top.
The elec trica l aspects, such as ga in,
noise figure an d overload are those
necessar v for the band on which thev
arc used. The specifica tions listed are
not claims, th ey are actual p erform-
ance fi gures which we guarantee. Our
usc of BNC connectors was based on the fact that they are the best connector for low
power use at the VHF-UHF frequencies. W e have learned that many of our customers
have installed phono jacks because of simpler cable connection. F or this reason, we will
sup ply any unit with phono connectors if you ad d the prefix S to the model number.
Listed below are complete specs and cost.
ALL OUR CONVERTERS ARE OVEHLOAD RESI STANT AND STA BLE.
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12 v de input . 400 v de @ 200 rna out put.
Weight 12 rbs.
$3 .95 postpaid west of Denver.
$4.95 postpaid east of Denver.
Dow Trading Com pony
N. Dowdell W6LR 111 Spanner Street
Elliott 73981 Monrovia, Cal. 91016
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Reduees Inte rfe re nee For ALL Amateur Trans
Nolu on All Makes mitten . Guaranteed for 600
Wave Ree ei n ra. Makes World W atts A M 1200 SSB PI.
HiQ Plastic Insulators W id e Recep t ion Stron.er. Net or Link Dlrert Feed.
Cleare r on All Band sl Light. Neat . Weatherproof.
Model II Q-2 in sulators offer all the electrical and
Comp lete s hown tola l length 102 ft. with 96 ft. or 72 ohm
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chem ical advantages of molded acrylic p lastic. h" lar"'~" Iwlnllne. 1I 1-ll up act mo lde d resonant tfli PS. (Wt. 3
oz . I" :I 5" long ). You Jus t tun e to des ire d band for bellmllke
T hey com h ine high tensile strength and extreme resu lts . ~: l(ce lle n t fllr AI.I. world -w ide s hort- wa ve re~ 1 1'O f8 I nd
resistance to weather and temperature changes, ama teur ua nsmtuere. For J\OV!CJo: A ND ALI. CLASS AMA -
TE UHS I NO I<:XTUA -ruxxns OIt GADGI<;TS N E E D m>1
w hile providing: excellent insulating properties. T he ":Uml nates 5 separate antenn as with esceuent Derrormance
gu aranteed . I"eonsp ieuous fo r Fussy Ne ighborh ood s l NO llAY-
insulators ha ve reinforced rib stru cture su rroun d ing WI llE HOllSE AI' I'EAIlANCEI EASY INS'fALLAT TONI
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the tie p oin ts to assure extra str ain an d vibration 75 -40 - 20 - 15 -10 meter bands . Complete .. , $15.95
40 - 20 -1 5 -10 meter. 54- ft. (be st for s wl' s ) COIDDlete .. $ 14.95
resistance for lon g -w ire antennas over one kw in-
S E N D ONLY $3.00 ( cas h, ck . mo l and DIl, IlOstman balance
put. The insulators measure 2 " x 1M" . Details abou t COO Diu! Do~tage on arrhal or send r ull price for IlOltpa loj
the insulators, list priced at 99c a pair, are available deliver,. ComD lete Installa tion & technical Instru cti oDl rue-
nlshed. Free Information on many othe r 160-6 meter ","teonas.
from Budwig Manufa cturing Co., P. O. Box 97, AVllllahle only rrom :
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The original all metal encased trap was first
produced in 1957 by Mosley for use with the
-: World Famous T A33. The Mosley trap design
ot/ has been imitated by many manufacturers of
/ amateur antennas. Thi sis both a compli ment
and proof of the outstanding engineering built
into every Mosley Multi Bond Antenna.
antennas ...
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==-- . Amateur Net $1 04. 75
Thre e element beam pro v i d e s outstanding performa nce on to, 15 and 20 meters . Exceptionally
brecdbc nd for excellent results over full Hom bandwidth. E x c:l u s ive MOSL EY trap design provides
resonant Ireq ceney stability under all westher conditions. Easily handles full KW, amplitude modul-
ated. Traps enclosed in a l u mi n u m ore weather and dirt proof. Element center sections of doubl e
thickness aluminum, minimizing sag. Boom requires no bracing. Heavy duty universal mount-
ing plate fits masts up to 112 inchO.D. Feed wit h one coax line. RG8/U is recommended. See your
nearest amateur eq uipment dealer or write for literat ure describing the TA -33, only on e of th e
famous TropMoster family of fine amateur ante nnas.
SP EC I F IC ATIO NS AN D P E R F O RMAN C E DATA : Fwd . gain u p to 8 d b F r on t-to -b ec k is 2 5 d b.
SW R, 1.S or le ss , at reso nan t frequencies . Max imum element le ng th i s 28 fee t Boo m len gth i s 14 ft.
T ur ning ra diu s i s 15.5 ft Ass embl ed we ight is 40 pounds Wind s urfoc e o rea is 5 .7 s q ua re ft.
Win d lo ad i s 114 pounds Sh ipping we igh t is 53 pou nds
MODEL
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Amateur Net $132.1 0
The new C lean- line TA-3 6 the thre e ban d beam tha t w ill give you r s ig na l that OX punch I
This wide s pa ced, six e lement configurati on em p loys -4 opera t in g e lements on 10 meters, 30perot-
ing e lements on 15 meters and 3 operat ing e le ments o n 20 mete rs.
Automatic bandswitching is a ccomplishe d by mea ns of exclusive design high impedance, parallel
resonont "Trap Circuits". Bui lt for operation at maxim um legol amateu r power.
Traps are weather and dirt proof offering frequency stability under all weather conditions. Just
one coaxial feed line i s needed. 52 ohm, R G-8/ U i s recommended.
Antenna comes complete with illustroted booklet and color coded elements for ease of assembly.
S PEC IF ICA TlON S & PE R F ORMANCE DAT A: Fwd. ga in, 10 meters - 9 db., 15 me t e rs - 8.5 d b. , 20 meters _8 d b.
Fro nt-t o-bock, 20 db. or better SW R, 1.5/1 or better at resononce Transm iss ion li ne - 52 ohm coax ia l.
Max imum e leme nt le ngth, 29 ft Boom le ngth , 24 ft Turning rad ius i s 19' 3 " Assembled weight-69 lbs.
Wind loa d ( E IA Sta nda rd), 210.1 Ibs Wind surfa c e area, 10.7 sq ft
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DECEM BE R 1964 .,
Exclu sive B-A "Space-Gun" Special for winter nights!
Letters
E xcelle n t 4 0 me t er p erfo r m a nce when atta ch ed t o an y
trl.ba nd or 20 meter beam fed d irectly wit h 52 oh m Dea r W ay ne :
co-a x a n d u s ing- n o ma rching devices. R eg-ula r $39.95
value no w only $29.95. Sur p rise I Th is is n ot a h ate lett er , b u t one I hope will
enco u rage yo u t o co n t in ue to figh t with your edito rials ami
Burstein-Applebee Co. th e rig ht o f you r op inion a n d others. T h e p a st year or mo re
1012 McGee SI., Kansas City, Mo. or I ha ve been follo wing your editoria ls plus t h e big one,
1237 Sixteenth St., Denver, Colorado, RM 499, and a m p o aitjve t ha t yo u h a ve many t hou sa n d s of
hams beh in d you. I'm s u re th er e are m an y t h ousa nds more
t hat h a ven't taken time ou t t o wr it e t o yo u. R eadin g
AN SSB LINEAR POWER SUPPLY NEEDS HI C O c t obers' edito rial I felt t hat you m ight be a litt le dis -
HERE IT IS! t r es sed . I felt tha t maybe you mi g ht th r- ow in t he t o wel .
Yo u are a pp rec ia t ed o n you r commen ts and id ea s. Plea se .
250 mfd 4 50 wvdc in a can \V he t h er yo u a re r ig ht o r w ron g on any issue you are the
I Sn D x 4 " L with so lde r lug termi na ls. cha m pion of hundreds of tho u sa n d s of hams. lI o w would
99c: postpaid t h ey he ab le to v oi ce their op inions or fight f01' the ir
Ra lph L. Barrett, W2PCD, 2970 Lawrence Drive r igh ts if yo u d id n ot t ak e the position you did.
Wantagh, N . Y. Y ou a re o u r so u rce of in for m a tion. No w we k now what
the oth er sid e is d oing. You a r e in a p o sition t o have mail
crossing you r desk from all pa rts of t h e count r y (YOII
LOOKING? SHOPPING? TRADING? still ha ve th a t five dollar desk ?) . Y ou , lik e D r e w P ea r son,
mu st ha ve m a n y sp ies a cross t h is COUll t ry t o g et t h is in fo .
TRYING TO SAVE MONEY? H o w a r e we to know if y ou do n' t t ell us. D on't let it be
h idde n ill o t her m agazines w h er e yo u n eed a microscope to
Write Bob Graham t or Special Deals on New and Re-
conditioned used gear. ClSh or Budget. read th e p r in t .
I a g ree as mu ch a s a ny one tha t AHRL has done :1
Graham Radio great d eal for the ham. But let us n ot go back to the
Dept . C.. ReadIng, Mass. Tel : 9444000. great d eal fo r t he Ham. But let us n ot go back to the
g ood o le days but forwar d an d don' t ait back 0 11 OUT
laurel s. I a m a sales rep. I n our business it ' s not what we
AMAZING 572B did yes t erday but what we d id t oda y and what w e p lan
Direct replace m ent for the 811A-but runs twice t h e to rio in the fu t u r e. I can 't see wh y any o rg auizution
power . Now only $9.95 pp . ca n ' t t a ke c ri t ic ism unless some o f t he t hi n g s said are true.
MO-2000 ZERO BIAS TRIODE I believe. as in business, yo u need t o have compet it io n
Equal t o f ou r 5128'5. $ 29,9 5 pp. to keep every body honest. I feel su re that there is ruom
Both tubes now being monu fa ctured by the designer : for ARRL an d I oAR. This is keep in g- t he other g u y
O'Malley Tubes ho nest an d it's th e way thing s s ho u ld he. Y O Il have been
acc used o f di viding th e hams but this is n o t so. T t h in k
525 leh igh Aven u e , Un ion, N. J .
you have sf ren g t hened u s . Y ou have take n issue with tha t
dir t y o le HM -499 a m i ot he r issues. W he ther we ag-ree wi th
you or 1I0t yo u h a ve opened up ou r m inds no t t o Ill' hog-
CRYSTALS FOR CHANNEL A wa sh ed by wh a t o u r lea ders have t o say. Now we can
- Most CD rigs can easi ly be retuned for ten meter operation.
C hannel A will help bri ng activ ity back to t en mete rs. lea rn wh at both sides o f t he story are. Now we can read
-Put your CB rill on Channel A with a Texas Crystal. between th e lines . Now we can s moke Viceroys and h e
Texas Crysta ls is maki ng spech,l crystals for all popular
makes of CD r igs so t h~y can operate on: t h in kin g me n. No w we d on 't fall h oo k l in e ami sinker for
anyth in g that is sa id un til we have tlre fa c t s. Is it w rong
CHANNEL A 28.60 me t o ask abo ut a nd d isc uss iss ue s or do we have t o l ake it
CHANNEL B 28.65 me lik e ot her cou n t ries th at can' t voice their o pi n ions? \Ve
CHANNEL C .... 28.70 me wa n t t o sta nd on o ur own t wo feet ;In,1 not let somchody
These crysta ls would normally sell for 103. 85, however, in th e else do t he t hi n ki n g fo r u s. T h is is a democracy.
interests of encouraging activity on t hese channels , we are
making th em available for only : There h a s b een a g rea t deal of name calling Oil both
s id es. T his sort of reminds us of our present presidential
$2.9 5 postpaid race, This is no t weak en ing o r divid ing t h e country. I also
Whton ordering please specUJ' channe l and make and model
of ell rig }'QU arc "s inK so we can match the crystal t o you r t h in k t hat what you are do ing is n o t weakening hnm radio,
particular ri g. OHD E R DIR ECT fr om : b ut pu tt ing a little s t rengt h in to it. In eve nt of :I erncr-
gency I a m su re t he tw o political parties wou ld act
TEXAS CRYSTALS, t oget her an d I feel the sa me way in our hobhy of amateur
1000 Crystal Drive, Fort Myers, Florida radio . W e h av e r oom for a nother organization such as
10AK A s m en ti oned before, you have had t h e GUTS t o
stand up und er p r essure w ith your convictions and ideas.
WANTE D WANTED L e t your co nscience be you r guide and I am sure yon will
R-390A /URR come ou t on top. Keep up the good work.
RECEIVERS R a y Gia nchetti WA 2 CUB /W 3QL Z
A ny qu antit y , a ny cond it ion
Top prices paid. Ca ll collec t
D ear W ayne,
Space Electronics You are a cr usader an d I would s ure l ik e t o get some-
4178 P ark Ave, Bx, N. Y . , CY 9-0300
one lik e you t o join me in a war t o th e h itter death, hi!
\V h at is r eally hu g ging me is a ll th e clicks, clacks, buzzes
and horrible noise in ge ner al Oil the amateur bands. Serious
T ONS OF AMATEUR E Q UIPMENT IN ST O Cl(
o ffenders are t el evision hori zon t al oscillators a nd the rmo -
= statically cont ro lled dev ices such as electric heating pads ,
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Ideall y, we need a law t hat s ta tes so me th in g lik e : " a n y
device gen erating any electromagnetic radiat ion at any
freq uency such t ha t t h e intensity at 50 feet exceeds a
level of 2 (?) microv olts per meter must be licensed by
the F ede ra l Communications Commission." Penalty for
JEFF. IRONieS
non complia nce shou ld be at lea st $500 per d ay or 30 days
in ja il fo r ea ch day of non compliance. It would be a rnaa-
ill/{ ho w quickly po wcr line insulators, n eon signs. dia-
Surplus Electronics
the rmy, theromostats e rc., etc., would he replaced. If
t here a re applicable ex ist ing la ws, the y e ither are inade-
q uate or not enfo rced. New & Used Ham Gear
C ur tis W . Reedy, W6YTA
H ow about the chair?
Sir.
Government Warehouse, Inc.
T a m in need of da ta fo r my res earch at t he University 264 Shrewsbury Ave. , Red Bank, N. J .
of \V isconsin, D epa r t men t of M eteorolog y, on any occur-
re nces of s ix meter band open ings during the period from
August 25 to September 25, 1964. In forma tion desired is, R. W. DECEMBER BARGAINS
sta t ions heard or worked, time and date, QTH if known,
and the time at which t he band opened or dosed. if known . ARC-3 TWO METER XMTR, 100-156MC, 8 Xtal Preset Chan-
nels; 832A fin al, 6L6 's Modul ators & 6 othe r tub es &
I n my st ud y periods periods du ring which the band is schematic. Excellent $17.95
closed is of impo rtance a lso. ARC3 XMTR POWER SUPPLY- I nput ll 7v 60cy, Output
Thomas D. Damon W 9HAQ 410vDC @ 275MA, Two 6.3vAC @ 3A. Sec-Can be
1125 N orthland Drive reconnected f or 12.6vAC. Has 5Z3, perforated metal
Madison, Wisconsin 53704 cove r, l ine cord & schematic. Used, Good. $14.95
LAZY MAN 'S Q5er- Navy Beam Fil t er, l 00cy Bandpass,
Si ngle signal select iv ity t he easy way-j ust plug it i n.
New. $2.49
Dear V HF Editor, ARR2 RECEIVER- 234 t o 256MC wI l l Tubes, schemat ic &
S ince I a m VHF I T echn ica l editor of the "FE A R ( l\I) Conve rsion data f or CB & 2 Met er s. Used, Good. $5.95
NEW S " I t houg h t I sho uld fill you III on VH F opera- AUTO CQ'er- Xlnt for band warmi ng & contests. See "73"
tion in J a pan. Apr il 62 for convers ion. Used, Good. $3.50
\Ve have on ly two VHF bands here, 50- 54 M e. a nd 3AP1 CRT- Xlnt f or Modulation Monit or , Scope etc. Wi t h
2.5V fil. xfmr. NEW $2.95
144- 146 M e. P ower in pu t is li mited to 50 Wa tts. T he PLATE POWER XFMR-l nput llO /220 /440vAC 60cy, Output
normal micro wa ve bands ( sta rt ing at 123 1 M c.) are 764vCT @ 735Ma. Open frame. NEW $6.95
ava ilable a lso wi t h 50 watts ma x imum input . STEPDOWN POWER XFMR-In put ll7vAC 60cy. Output
Al most a ll of t he operat ion here is on 50 Me. AM . 24vCT @ 10 Amps. Double shell. NEW $6.95
KA2's CM, DF , ] \V , K S , LD, M D. N A, PA, RD,
WRITE FOR BULLET I N # 4 1 LOADS OF BARGAINS
RJ. SF, Y'P, a nd KA9's AD a nd F H are on six me ters.
KA2 KS, KA2RJ, and KA9FH are on two meters a lso. Se nd Check or Money Order- Mi nimum Order $2.50
KA2 RJ is on SS D wit h t rans ve r ters. PLEASE INCLUDE POSTAGE- Excess promptly refu nded
Six meter DX from J a pa n includes K orea and Okinawa Minimum C.O. D. Order $10.00 with 25% Deposit
via sporad ic E in t he summer a nd A u stra l ia via Transequa -
to rial sk ip in t he Fall a nd Spring. R. W. ELECTRONICS, INC.
I hope th is in fo will be of inte rest to those who a re
contemplating d uty in J apan soon. 2430 So. Michigan Ave. Depl. 7311
Ro n , KA 2RJ ( W 9 V C H) Chicago, Illinois 60616 Ph on e CAlumel 5-12Bl
10. 39 166 10.66666 11.61852 12.60000 20.53333 21. 43575 22. 15000
22.1 5556 26. 12083 26. 162SO 27. 12000 27. 72500 27.78333 28 .62000
35.55555 35.66667 35.88889 35.85 185 35.96296 35.92593 36.07407
36.33333 36.37037 36. 40741 36. 4H H 36. 48148 36.51852 36.555~
36.59260 36.66667 36.70370 36. 74074 36.77778 36.8148 1 36.85185
36.88889 36.92593 36.96296 3 7.0oo 37.03704 37.07 407 at. ru u
37. 14815 37. 185 19 37.22222 37.25926 37.29630 37.33333 37.37037
37 .40741 37. 4444 4 37. 48148 37.SOOOO 37.51852 37.55556 37.59259
37.62963 37.66667 37.70370 37. 40741 37 . 74074 37. 77778 37. 77770
37.81481 37.8SOOO 37.8S185 37.88889 37.92593 3 8 . 0oo 38.85000
39.51850 39.51852 39.55550 39.S5555 39 .59259 39.59260 39.62963 AVAILABLE LOW FREQUENCY CRYSTALS IN
39. 62960 39.66670 39.66667 39.70370 39. 74070 39. 74074 39.77780 FT-241 TYPE HOLOERS. Crysta l frequ ency tol-
39.77777 39.81480 39.81481 39.85000 39.85185 39. 85190 39.88890
39.88888 39.92590 39.92593 39.96296 39. 96300 40. 07400 40.11110 erance .02% . All crystals guaranteed. PRICES
40 .14810 40.14814 40 .1 8518 40 .18520 40.222:20 40.22222 40.2 592 5
40.2 5930 40 .29629 40 .29630 40 . 33330 40. 3333 3 40. 37037 40. 3704 0
AS FOLLOWS,
40 .4074 0 40.44444 40.4 814 8 40.481 so 40. 51850 40. 55550 40. 5555 5
40. 59260 40. 59259 40. 62 960 40. 62 963 40. 66667 40. 7037 0 40. 74 070 3 for $1.00, 12 for $3.00 and 25 for $5.00_
40.74074 40. 77780 40. 77778 40. 814 80 40. 81485 40.8 5000 40 . 8!'>1 85
40. 85190 40. 88890 40. 88888 40. 92 590 40. 92596 40 . 96296 40. 96300 All postpaid on below listed channels.
41. 03700 41.03703 41. 66667 42 . 33333 42. 592 59 42.62 963 42.66667
42. 70 370 42 .74074 42 .77778 42. 81481 42. 85000 42. 85185 42 .88889
4 2 . 7OO 42. 90000 42 . 92 593 42 . 96296 43.03704 42.07407 43. 25926 QUANTITY - 100 or more in stock .
43.29630 43.1 1111 43.1481 5 43.1 8519 43.22222 43.37037 43 .4074\ Listed by channel number
43 .44444 43 .4814 8 43 . 51852 43. 55556 43.592 59 43.62 963 43.70370
43 . 74074 43. 77778 43. 81481 43. 85000 43 .85185 43. 88889 43 . 92 59 3 11 to 39; ALSO 53 to 69 ANO 71 to 79
43. 96296 44 .03704 44 .07407 44.11111 44.14815 44.1 8519 44.22222
44.2 5926 44.29630 44 .33333 44.37037 44 . 40741 44.H444 44. 48148
44. 51852 44. 55556 44. 59259 44. 62963 44.666 67 44. 70370 44 . 740 74
44.7777 8 44 . 8148 1 44. 85185 44. 88889 44.92593 45. 27500 46 . 10000
46.30000 46. 70000 46. 85000 47. 85000 47. 90000 47. 937 50 48 .27500 The channe ls listed below SEll FOR 5Sc each
48.85000 49 .8 5000 50 . 85000 51. 27500 52.27500 53.27500 53.85000
55. 27500 56. 27500 57. 27500 73.78333 82.33 333 postpa id USA.
LIM ITED Q UANTITY AVAILAB LE _ - - - GIVE S ECO:-<O C HOICE Quantity - 50 or less.
9. 32250 9.337 50 9.53750 9.62250 9.84167 10.1 5833 10.05 500 43 44 46 47 49 50 (also 200 Kc)
10 . 43840 10 .40000 10. 437 50 10.44167 10.44625 11.2 8125 II. 3062 5
11.2 562 5 11. 5312 5 11. 3562 5 11. 38125 II. 40625 11. 4312 5 11.4562 5
11.4812 5 11.5062 5 11. 5812 5 11.54074 11.56296 11. 58518 II. 60625
11. 6562 5 11 . 7062 5 11. 62962 11.65185 11.67407 11 .7312 5 12. 30000 limited quantity give 2nd choice.
12 .76666 14 .45000 1 5.OO0 16. 82500 15.95000 15. 5062 5 16.0062 5
17. 5062 5 18 . 00 600 19 .00600 19.93575 17.93575 17 .25500 17. 85500 selections.
18 .0062 5 19 . 50625 20. 753 50 21. 50350 25 .70000 26.60600 26. 22083
26.66667 2 6 .7 OO 27 .00600 27.62916 27.70000 27. 87222: 29 .22500 40 41 42 70
29.62 500 29 .47 500 29.72 500 30 . 0oo 30.55000 30. 72 500 30.87500
30.92SOO 28 .84500 28.88889 28 . 97 500 29.7OO 31.0oo 3 L tl l l i
31 .7 OO aa.coooo 32 . 22222 32 .7OO 33. 7OO 33 .9OO 33.95000
34. 0oo 34. 44444 34 .05000 34.1 OO 34 . 15000 34.2OO 34.2 SOOO l OW FREQU ENCY CR YSTALS IN HC-6 / U TYPE HOLD
34 . 3 OO 34.35000 34.45000 34.65000 34.70000 3 5.0oo ae. run ER S. Hermet ically sealed. Frequency Tol erance
36. 14815 36. 18519 36. 29000 36 .22222 36 . 25926 36.2963 0 37.2OO
37 . 85000 se.coooe 38. 19580 38.33333 38.36250 38. 88889 as. cccco .05%. Crystals sell at $1.05 each.
39. 11250 39. 59260 35. 85000 40. 0oo 40 . 66667 40.74074 40. 8 1481
40. 85185 40. 88889 40.1 8518 40 .29629 40. 48148 40.2592 5 40.03700 limited quantity give 2nd choice.
40 . 07407 40 . 66670 41.11111 42. 8SOOO 42 .91667 43. 1OO 43 . 3OO
43.33333 43 . 90000 44.1 OO 44 . 3OO H.50000 44.7OO 4 5 .1OO
Frequency listed in kcs.
45. 5O(M)O 4 5 .7 OO 45. 9O(M)D 46.2 SOOO 46.612 50 46. 812 50 46.90000
46.93750 47.062 50 47 .1 OO 47 .1 87 50 47.27500 47.46250 47 . 5OO 19.380 340.000 268.000 412.000
47 .3 OO 47. 56250 47.66250 4 7 .7 OO 47.81250 41. 927 00 48 .1OO 388.000 356.000 859.375
244.000
48. 012 50 48.1 87 50 48.31250 48 . 5O(M)O 48.55200 48 .7OO 48.27500
4 9 .7 OO 4 9 .3 OO 49 .27500 49 .90000 54. 85000 62.22200 61 . 33300 292.000 773.958 404.000 236.000
61. 3330 1 59. 44440 69. SOOOO 70 .66700 70.6333 0 77. 33300 81. 45800 332.000 131.104 226.000 284.000
81. 83333 82 .66700 83. 12500 83.33330 308.000 276.000 324.000
428.000
14CO.OOO 348.000 316.000 372.000
Special: l OOke crysta ls in HC-6/U ho ld er $3. 00 252.000 396.000 364.000 420.000
380.000
QUAKER ELECTRONICS
P.O. BOX 215 HUNLOCK CREEK, PA.
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QUAKER. THE CRYSTAL KING
CRYSTAL ETCHING AND ANOTHER FIRST FROM
GRINDING KITS QUAKER
These kits contain th e follow ing materials,
Kit # 1 QUAKER AMATEUR BAND
12 Crystals in
Misc. holders CRYSTAL KITS
6 Assorted cryst al
blanks
1 Pkg. Ammonium An assortment of FT-243 and HC-6 /U cry stals for the
Bifluoride flakes amateur bands at the lowest pr ices in the USA. All are
1 - Packet grinding fully guaranteed. Only Quaker can offer this deal.
compound Kit ,#1 6Assorted cryst als in the 40 meter CW band
2 - Plast ic $2.10
conta iners
2 Wooden crystal Kit ;; 2 6.Assort ed cryst al s in the 40 mete r phone band
blank holders $2.10
Instructions ONLY $3.95 postpaid USA
Kit ;:2 Kit ;;3 6-Assorted cryst al s in the 6 meter band
20 Crystal s in Misc. holders $2.10
12 Assorted crystal blanks
large package Ammonium Bifluoride Kit;;:4 s-asscrted cryst als in the 2 meter band
large packet of grinding co mpound $2.10
3 Plastic containers
4 Wooden crys t al blank holders Kit ;#" 5 6-Assort ed crystal s cover ing 6 amateur bands
In struction s $2.10
ONLY $7.50 postpaid USA
Kit # 3
35 Crystals i n Misc. holders ANY 3 OF THE ABOVE KITS FOR $5.CO
15 Assorted cry sta l blanks
Extra large packafe of Ammonium Bifluoride fl akes
Ext ra large packe of grinding compound All kit s are postpaid USA
5 Plast ic contai ners
2 Plast ic spoons These kit s contain our assortment. Do not request
6 Wooden cryst al blank holde rs
Instructi ons
ONL Y $12.50 postpaid USA specifi c fr equenc ies
QUAKER ELECTRONICS
P.O. BOX 215 HUNLOCK CREEK, PA.
DEC EMB ER 1964 95
More Power
to You : -
The Autotransformer
The va riable-ratio autotransformer, more used as an example, the principles involved
commo nly known by trade names such as will apply to va riable-ratio autotransforme rs
Variac'J' ", PowerstatOv , etc., has been with of all manufacture.
us for man y years. Recently the surplus and A cut-away view of a typical Variac appears
"second-hand- new" outlets have begun to in the photo. The corresponding schematic
offer them at very attractive p rices. Most of diagram appears in Fig. 1. Basicall y, it con-
us a re aware of its usefulness when used by sis ts of a doughnut-shaped iron core Oil which
itse lf to provide a variable ac vol tage from the is a single-layer toroida l winding. The wind ing
GO cycle line. There are methods of greatly is tapped near each end, with the end and
extend ing its usefulness wh ich arc not so com- tap connections brought out to a terminal
monl y known . however, and some of these p late. The insulation is ground off th e windin g
will he presented here. a t one end of the doughnut to provide a track
2 2 on which a carbon brush makes contact. Elec-
I
tricallv,
the brush is connected to a terminal
'a
, V Ll N [
, on the terminal board. Physically, it is at -
tach ed to the sh aft. The sh aft may be rota ted
'0
e J, throu gh abo ut 320' , sufficient to allow the
brush to travel from one end of the winding
l to the other.
F IG. I In an autotransformer, the single wind ing
Flt~ > acts as both a primary and the secondary. If
Fig . I. Basic v a riable- ra tio autotransformer the ends of the winding a re connected across
ci rc ui t .
Fig . 2 . Illust ra ting the line -vo ltage connec- the power line as shown in Fig. 2, the line
tion . voltage will be eq ually divided by the number
The Va riac of turns. This results in a fraction of a volt
Perhaps we first should know what th e across each tum. All the turns are uti lized U5
variable-ra tio autotransformer is and how it the primary. The turns across which the out-
works. A note of caution is in order here. In put is taken correspond to the secondary of a
add ition to stand ard catalog models, each conventional transformer. The number of
manufacturer builds an almost unbelievable these "secondary" turns, each with its volts-
number of "specials." Both types often appear per-turn contribution to V0' is selected b y the
later as surplus at very attractive prices. It brush. Thus, as the control knob is rotat ed,
pays to be sure of what you are ordering, and the brush contact traverses the windin g,
such information is free for the asking. Al- tapping off a portion of the total volt age
though the General Radio Variac !" ! will be across the winding, and the output voltage ,
96 73 MACAZIN E
Vo , is continuously adjustable from 0 to as
large VHue - ]f V0 is taken between terminals -To2,
2 and 3, operation is the same excep t that the
direction of knob rotation for increasin g or de- T,
?reasing V0 is reversed. In either case, Fig. 2 ," ' " , '' ,
Illustrates the so-called "line-voltage" con- V"",
nection. V L1NE
Vo
The second basic connection is illustrated
in Fig. 3, the "over-voltage" connection. By
connecting one side of the input line to the \ . SPE CIAL TAP
1~
-
,
' ZO Y : IZOY
of T 2 ( in F ig. 4 ) could get pretty tiresome . p- ~
98 73 MAGAZINE
the ra ting of 'I'I a nd T 2, there should be no
p roblem if you just revert back to our simp le 118 to 148 MC
equa tious ( 1 through 3 ). RI9/ARC-Airc raft Frequ ency Receiver
Tunable 18# exc. $29.95
A Versa t il e Distribut ion System PANORAMIC INDICATOR
One fairly useful combination of tech niques
IP69/ALA2 See June 73 for conversion data shipping
previously described is ilIustrated in F ig. 7 . wt 18 Ibs, October special $22.50
In this circuit. TI is a standard 120 volt 8C453-tess tubo s-12# 12.95
Variac and T2 is a 12 volt filament trans- Transformer 5~ 530 volts-425MA-15# 6.95
former. With SW2 in the positiou shown, V. W2EWL- SSB-RTTY-t'hone Patch Transformer-
Lionel 6 for 4.95
is adjustable from 0 to VII ne- With SW2 in the RG54--58 ohm coax-370 ft.-15# 9.95
upper position, V o is adjustable from VlI ne to BC45B IT21 ARC5) e, c.- 15# 4.95
10% abov e or below Vllm. depending on the BC696 ITI9 ARC5) less tubes-15# 5.95
sett ing of S\V3. This system is quite useful for 8eam Filter--Q-5'er- Navy 1.95
NICAD- Battery 1.49
bench work, and if the loads to be encoun-
tered are relatively small. either the "line All orders FOB Chicago-
voltage" or the "over-voltage" connection may Subject pri or Sal e.
Illinois Residents add 4%
be used for T 1. Another particularly useful
applicatio n for this system is for p rimary ARROW SALES-CHICAGO, INC.
power control for a single sideband transmit- 25 34 S. MICHIGAN AVENUE
ter. The lower position of 52 permits the de CHI CAGO 16, ILLINO IS
to be brought up slowly to cha rge the nor-
ma lly high valu e of filter capacitance in the
power supp ly. The upper position of S2 then 5G93 / U R M15 5 22Qme ~HIl & S ..ee p G en. W I X tl l. M od . EX 67.15
a llows the line voltage to be maintained at Mlln ua l1 ( f) with 8093 IP hilco Com. Type Hll~1) EX " .15
T6 1A/AXT2 T V X' lftlttr. L1k. N.". \7Pe ATJA,TK. NEW IT .50
the des ired fixed level. In this applica tion it R65 /APN 9 Lora .. Recei ver IIld I nd ica tor . W / Lens . _ EX 51.00
R23/AR C5 19Q55 0T 1tl1. The " Q5-er" GOOD 11.15
might be desirable to be able to switch the MT7A Mou nti no tor one A RC5 n eeenee EX U iO
8 "325/ U Conlal Rel ay. SNT. W / 'l8 we Motor . EX 2.'16
voltmeter between the input a nd outp ut line UG210 /U Conlal Plu.' l or 8A32!i Re i..,.. used EX 3 /1 .00
CU l 19A Coupler. W /18 I-tube Imp1l11en. tubes EX " .76
to determine which position of S\ V3 will be RT82 / AP X6 Con ,ettl to 1215-1298 me X c.her .. NEW 21.75
TS726/UPM 8 1'8l tl APXll./21 Tube 10 Diede. .. GOOD 14.1i0
required. Switch SW3 should be set with UP M8 Ma nua l Nlnhipi II llS1.&. Pottpald NEW J. 1t
Rl I8 / AR CI IO O- 156mc x cet vr . W /tu bes & DN9 _ GOOD 19 .75
S\V2 in the lower p osition and TI set for zero M T 2S0/ A RC Mountl no lor ARC l , ARC" I nd ABCU EX 1.85
C732 / A RC2 Cunt rol Bolt for ARC2 Transce iver . .. .. ,E x 1.85
output. T his prevents T2 operating as a cur- T46!!/ ALT 7 Xmlftr 168 '52me W /2 816I 100W out. EX 2!.!!0
Sc he matic fo r T4 6!! /ALT1 .Uh partl valuea 1.00
rent transformer and bu rning up the contacts Tube TYPI 6161 W /I' late. Grid . Cathode. H eater Con-
nectors . 100 wattl o' pu t to suome, 68 wat ts to 2000me.
of SW3. In determining th e ra tings of Tl and SW R Bridg e , M lcromateh -Retl ectometcr. 5{l-HIOOmc. EX S.!!!
EX 7.5 0
T2, the following should he remembered . B lower. AxlYa na Typ. 60 C. JI'.M. 12- 24V. AC/DC EX .n
Set of 120 Xta l. , Typ e FT 243 5615 kc thm 8650 ke In
With SW2 in the lower position, TL supplies 25 ke Incre ment . US t ested &. pac ke d , 120 /17 .75
HV Probe 50 K V I nsu la tion . lIOO me l( .erie. rCI. . r."'EW 2.t!!
only the current drawn by the power supply MeIcr. Wu ton Model 843 500-0-500 mlcroam p. 3" . EX ' .8!!
R E2I A RC!! Ant Reil Y W ille ter &. Vl cuu m Cap aet tor EX 1.85
in charging the filter capacitors and to make Tl 9 - B.75 120 4,7!! 12 1-4 .7 5 122-S.7!i .. . . . , .
S N36 / APS31 W / 5-807a. f8 other tubes , 2- B lowen EX t .25
ALL GOOD
up for transformer losses. It is the combina- I D59 / AP AI I W l3n P I &. 16 t ube. EX f or P ana da ptr. EX 11.75
A PX I leU t ubu . 30lhl or hl l(h qu allt,. Plrts . .. . GOOD 2.75
tion of Tl and T2 together as described for T un i ng Unit ror A P X I ...lth 3 t ube . . . . . . . . . . GOOD 1.00
APN I Xeclvr 4:!Ome W /Wohulator. Len tube . . ,GOOD 3.85
Fig. 4. which supp lies the Full transmitter op- RI22 A / AR NI2 75 me Su perh et ... ' 9 tube. &. xtil
IC /VRW7 W ire RK llrdcr. 28 ' -DC. wr 'rcees
E X 3.85
. GOon 4.50
erating load. Also, remember that the con- UP M IIA AFC Cha n ll W / i tube. &. . chemat lc .N EW 3. 75
BOX 2 94 Bo y Saint Louis
tacts of S1 and S2 must now be cap able of E. C, HAYDEN Missi ssip p i
carrying the Full outp ut-load current. Sh ip m ent: FOB Bo y Sain t Lo u is . T erm s: N e t , Cosh.
. . . WlISI
DECEMBE R 1964 99
HOW GOOD ARE VANGUARD CONVERTERS?
In a recent comparison test at Wayne Green 's moun-
tain-top shac k, witnessed by a group of hams, a
VANGUARD 2 meter converter (3000) wa s able to pull
in all the signals heard on a $100.00 co nverter and
with practi cally the sa me signal-to-noise ratio. An
amazing accomplishment for a $12.95 converter!
20M
6M
1300-C
30 0-J
300-G
W-54
50-52
14.0- 14.35
14-1 8
2830
1.01, 35
$10.95 ppd.
$10.95 ppd .
$10.95 ppd.
ern te chnol ogy can bring at a pri ce you can afford.
Vanguard Labs.
CB 300A 26.96527.255 1.0-1. 29 $10.95 ppd.
WwV 300-H 5.0 1.0 $11.95 ppd.
Int'!. 300-1 9 .0 10.0 .6-1.6 $11.95 ppd.
CH U
CHU
300- K
30 0-L
7.3
3.35
1.0
1.0
$1 1.95 ppd .
$11.95 ppd . VANGUARD
Mar ine 300-M 2-3 .6-1.6 $11.95 ppd.
j 300-N4 121-122 .6 1.6 $13.95 ppd.
TUBE TYPE
Aircraft )300-N5 1221 23 .6-1.6 $13.95 ppd.
Fire, Poli ce 300.
P .
I SS 156
CONVERTERS .,
t .
00 .6-1.6 $13.95 ppd.
CUSTOM 300X Choi ce of 1 input tree. $14. 95 ppd.
MAD E and 1 output fre q. be-
'hU"m _
twe en .6 me. and 160
mo.
A ll a bove converters are sup plied wit h Mo torola ty pe
Unbeatab le performance at an unbeatable price.
connectors. For t wo 5 0239 co n nectors instead. a d d Only $10.00 ppd.! Complete with 6UBA. 6CW4 tubes
75c. N. Y.C. residents add 4% sales tax.
and choice of 36 me. crystal for 1418 me. output or
MISC. CIRCUIT MODULES 49.4 me. crysta l for broadca st band output. Fu lly
6 meter nuvi stor preamp . $5.00 assembled as shown, tested and guaranteed. .1 micro-
CB (27 me.I preamp . . . . . .. $5.00 volt se nsitivity. Noise figure 2.5 db.
TNS noi se silencer and squelch $6.00
Al so available for CB 127 me.I complete wi th 6UB
M ore modules and g ov er nment s urplus eq u ipme nt in
o ur cat alog available fo r t Oc co in or stam ps. and 6AU6 tubes.
For prompt shipment please includ e postal money order or cashi er's check . C.O.Do's must
incl ude 20 % deposit. N.Y.C. residents add 4 % soles tax . Include s uffi cie nt postage for 011
items e xcept converters and circuit modules which are postpaid.
Dept. H-12
VANGUARD 190-48 99th Avenue
Hollis. N. Y. 11423
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ELECTRONIC LABS
VANGUARD TV CAMERA
VANGUARD Model 400
on ly $ 14 9. 9 5 less
Vidicon a nd le ns.
F/ l .9 lens with focu sing
" C" mou nt- $1 8 .9 5
T yp e 7038 Vidicon
Grode A $85.00
Geode B+ $75.00
Grode B $60.00
Geode C $25.00
Grode C sui t ab le for test
pu rposes on ly.
Save $3 .95. Camero with le ns a nd
$149.95 Gra de A Vid icio n on ly $ 2 4 9. 9 5.
The VANGUARD Model 400 is not a kit average room light ing and pictures can ci rcuit s. Weighs 12 Ibs.-measures ap-
but a factory assembled camera, fully even be obtained with subject luumt- proximately 81/4" x 6" X 6".
t ested and guarant eed. It is designed nated wi th as low as 1 f oot-candle
f or cont inuous duty and is complete Model 400-X with crysta l-controlled
when using our lens and vid icon. Pic- hori zont al frequen cy ava il able f or only
with self-c ontained synchronizing gen- tu re shar pness guarant eed t o be equal
erators, 4 me. video amplifiers, power to the best capabi l it ies of any st andard $20.00 more.
supply, tripod mount and TV tran smitter 525-l ine TV receiver. Modular const ruc- We will ship camera and vidicon s on ly
tunable fr om channels 2-6. Video out put tion and printed circuits permit quick by REA Express shipping charges cot-
is avai lable internally. Operates with replacement and servicing of major lect.
Building your own TV camera? The f ollowing assembled and t ested ci rcuits wi ll save yo u much time and money.
POWER SUPPLY with t ripod plate- $28.00. FOCUS COI L and DEflECTION YOKE. Professional quality
SWEEP and SYNC. GENERATOR. Test ed and complete with full shielding and cosi ne wound yoke. Complet e
with tub es-$ 18.00. with vidicon signal r ing contact , yoke and tu be clamp
- $36.00.
VIDEO AMPLIFIER with MODULATOR and R.F. STAGE .
Tested and complet e w ith t ubes-$20.00. More part s available-send I De f or complet e catalog.
,
J VANGUARD VANGUARD
. TRANS- TRANS-
MITTERS CEIVERS
For prompt shipment please include postal money order or cashier's check . C.O.Do's must
include 20 % deposit. H.Y.C. residents add 4 % sales tax . Include sufficient postage for all
items except converters and circuit modules which are postpaid.
Dept. H-12
VANGUARD 190-48 99th Avenue
Hollis. N. Y. 11423
DECEMBER 1964 101
.Jirn Kyle K5JKX
1236 N. E. 44th St.
Oklahoma City, Okla.
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up of L, Ca> and C, in series. The voltage
developed across C, depends both upon the
curre nt and upon the reactance of C c; the lar-
luca luca luca
ger the reactance, the less voltage. However, HA LLIC RAFTERS. tra m Lstorlud short wave tn nsmltttr
reeeteee, lraoaceher. Mode l ;r Fl>ll 200 . S ub unt ts
C, is also a part of the output tank, and any below a re oompletely ....emb led.
V.F.O.- J' h lloo 2Nl145 tra nsb tou and ecmntete tu ntnc
voltage developed across it is also applied eempcnen ts endowed In metal cue. . . . ,.. . . . . . . ' S15.00
I .F. St rl p-I'.C. Board, at least 32 P ht lco Tra nsla tors ,
across Land C a (on the output sid e) in series 10 crystal completely a 6lembled ; 2N1H2. 2N174 3 etc. 25.00
R eceiver H ete rody ne B oard, 9 crystals, 6 t ranslators. In
with each other. This in turn causes current UF a nd oscilla tor circuit. Includl ni 100 KC crys ta l 1lI.00
110 volt AC blower motor on metal boa rd with heat
Row, which results in circulating current in th e sinka for 10 power transi stors , TO - 3
F req uency se lector with trans ht ora a nd crysta h. etc. 10.00
, 5.00
output tank. }feta l fro nt pl ate f.OO
16 Knobs, comp let e s et ,. . . . . . ....... 2.00
...
TO I' "11'1',.-" T A.~ I( Q COl' PU"G f ACTOR ~ Tl1l'E UP IHQ _ IO d b
D ial D ru m-marked .. ,..... 1.00
" fh f,l
" f.. -, 1 " /<;1 f .. _ ~ ' .. All transist ou a re mou nted in tr ans istor locke ts for raU'
removal.
,. l I f ... f , I
J n /Q I I
" -..,.-
:1 ,. f . . Pract ically rom plete unit wit h output rh aslls a nd partl 200.00
srf~ f ,\
P arts for above. rolls. if , for t uni n.. etc ,e ar h . 25
I l!f~ .fl l
. 'f ~ f ,) '' 0
f
-
Itl
I (IQ
3 Watt a mplifier Kit . 5 t ranslnor 12 POwerl . w ith 3
SQ. printed ci rcu it board and Ir hema tlc 6.00
flo
fl 1.0>
t ' ['"..... r,_.
_It'" r,........ I. "
I. , ..
Tran si lt or Tuter Kit. with 0 1 mete r a nd Iche ma llc
Code practice module as sembled on 1\4 :II: 1% board with
Instr uct. . ,........ . . . . . .. ......
Voltai c Sel en Ium Ce lh 1" :II: 1%" mou nted ; Le ather cue,
5.00
. 90
" .. l ' h'f,l
, ISekonlk) .. .. 2.25
TAlll.I; , . T Q , ,_Ion, '.""' . '.,,".p,.........,....d _I........ nd...... h ' 0' "'n""" <I".". Keystone L I&hl :o,;('nsltlve 0 -50 mtcrcammete e In ras e 1.50
The bandpass action comes from overcoupl- % mnuon tra n~ htors. d l"de" . l UO.H OI) f'l eet r oIJ lle 81U1
tantau-tt cs.
ing of the two tanks. If each tank has the Write for Free Cahl og.
sa me Q, and coup ling factor k is less than Minimum order $3.00 prepaid , Postage fr ee USA.
l /Q, then the two are "undereoupled" and TRANSISTORS UNLIMITEO COMPANY
power transfer will be less than maximum. Post Office Box: 442
When Q is held constant and k increases ( b y Greok Neck, New York
reducing the value of C, and returning the
Office : 462 J ericho Turnpik e,
tank to resonance ) until the product of k and
Mineola , Ne w York .
Q eq uals I , we reach "critical coup ling" where
SI6-P;6-7221
power transfer is maximum. As k is increased
still more, we find a dip in power transfer
at the resonant frequency, but two new peaks
spaced approximately equally on either side,
which are about the same amount of power
transfer that we had at crit ical coupling. Mov-
ing a lit past the peaks, we find power transfer
droppin g off again; after it passes the reso-
nant-frequency level, it drops rather rapidly.
This is the "cvercoupled" cond itio n.
Ily holding the product kQ to 4 or less,
the "top ripple" or difference between reso-
nant-frequency p ower level and peak p ower
level can be held to less than 6 db, In th e
design procedure outlined h ere, a choice of
O.S d b, 3 db, and 6 d b is give for top ripple.
The more violent the top ripple, the nar-
rower will be the out-of-band region . Also,
the higher the operating Q must be. In prac- PSYCHIATRIST FOUND
tice, the top rippple of O,S db will usually p ro-
BUT HE CAN 'T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYON E CAN PAY
vide plenty of out-of-band rejection while SUCH HIGH PRIC ES WITHOUT BE ING COMMITTED.
LENNY AND PAUL KEEP INSISTING THEY CAN STIll
keeping the p assband reasonably Rat an d per- MEET OR BEAT ANYONE'S OFFERS.
mitting reasonable values of Q in the tanks. CRAZY? HURRY AND FIND OUT!
For these reasons, it's recommended that this SG-J, 2, 3. 12, URM-25, 26. 48. TS. BC312. 342,
value of top rip ple be used unless there's a 6 10, 669. ARC27. 34, 52, TED. TCS, TRCI, 8, SP600,
R388, R390, CV-43 /APR-9, TN- 131IAP R9 RT66, 67,
specia l need for one of the other values. 68 /GRC, R1 08, 109, nO /GRC , Ri 70 / GRC. PRC6 , 8,
9 and 10 and any othe r mi l it ary electronic gear that
\Vith th e circu it of Fig. I-F, as coup ling is you may have t o se ll or trade.
increased th e lower peak tends to stay fixed in
one sp ot whil e th e upper p eak moves higher COLUMBIA ELECTRONICS
in frequency. This requires that tune-up of 4365 WEST PI CO BLVD., LOS ANG ELES 19, CALI F,
such a circuit be d one at a frequency other
DECEM8ER 1964 103
than the gene ra lly used mid-frequency. the design is comp lete at this point. However,
At this point, we're ready to sneak a look in most cases the outp ut load resistance is
at the design p rocedure. Basically, we're going much less than the input Ht ; in such cases,
to p ick a working Q to suit the passband we matching is most easily d one b y capacity taps,
want, then adjust the value of k to put the and the values of cap acitors making up the tap
pass band limits at the right place. It's quit e point must be calculated .
possible for this proced ure to d ictate an im-
possibly high value for Q, or an impractically
low value. In such a case, vou rnav have to
modify either your passband or the level of ".
J' OUT
we must know the tune-up frequ ency, which in PLE NTY MORE W OND ER F U L M ATER IA LI A.II: for ~ur
nl'edll We ALS O BUY your e:U llSI mdse.
our case is 52-52/25.5 ) or 52-2.04, or 49.96 R. E. GOODHEART CO., INC.
me, Plugging this into our equation for L gives Bax 1220-GC BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF, 90213
6.28 X 49.96/197, or 0.62 microhenries. Phonl!S; Area 213, office 272-5707. message s 275-5342.
DECEM BE R 1964
'05
5ELECTRONIC5
420 MC TRA NSCEIVERS KAY ELECTRIC TV EQPT.
Mfg. by link t or use in th e 450 -470 me. co mme rci a l bond. MARKA-Sweep Mode l I. F. 20 -50 Price : $29.95
But it con e asily be con verted for use in th e 420 me MARKA-Sweep Model RF-P all 12 channels. Price : $39.95
amateur bond. These uni ts cont o in two 6 -e , or 12", vi -
brator-type power su pplies l one for re ceive, on e for tre ns-
m it l .
TRANSMITTER: 5894A tr ipler eed finol use t u ned lines.
ELECTROFAX SIGNA GUARD
All prec ed ing st oges ore slug - t uned. BRAND NEW-made for bonks for encodi ng savings ac -
RECEIVER : Uses 6 )4 r.t. Amplif ier and 3 tunabl e co... ities coun ts passbooks. A CADCETEERS DELICHT.
diode _m iller. Xtol- co nt rolled oscillator choin with 6AK5 Partial list of ports:
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Using X, and tune-up frequency we find two peaks, add some tempora ry shunt capaci-
that C is eq ual to 1/ 6.28 X 49.94 X 197, or tance across C e and repeat th e output tank
16 mmf. ell eq ua ls 1.1105 times 16, or 17.8 tunin g adjustment. The dip in plate current
mmf, while C, equals 17.8/ 0 .1105 or 161 sho uld still be fa irly sharp an d output sho uld
mmf be very small.
Since we're feedi ng a Su-ohm load and HI is Now return to tune-up frequency and re-
2500 oh ms , we must calculate Xl and X 2 also du ce the setti ng of C e until p late current
and obtain from th em values for C 1 and C 2 reaches design value. Hock d rive frequency
For Xl we plug in values: reactance of ell is across the entire p assband . You sho uld have
176 oh ms at tune-up fr equency, so Xl eq uals a p eak at tune-up frequency and a slight
176 times (5 0/2500) V, or 176/7.1, which ( about 10 p er cent ) dip in output at th e fre -
comes out to be about 24.8 oh ms. X2 is q uen cy midway between band lim its. Anoth-
simply 176 minus 24.8, or 151.2 oh ms. Capaci- er p eak should be present us far above mid -
tances eq ual to these reactances at tune-up frequ ency as tune-up frequency is below that
frequency are 127 mmfd for C 1, and 20.8 point, and outp ut at the b and limits should
mmfd for C2. eq ual that at mid -frequen cy. If all these con-
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ditions are met, tune-up is comp lete.
However, d on't be disappointed if it doesn't
quite work out this way fi rst time around. As
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2 _5 0 at the band limits is down below tha t at mid-
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COUT frequency, coup ling is too loose. Reduce the
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11. 8 MMFO TOTAL
Output at tune-up frequency sho uld then b e
FIG. 3 0.8 db higher.
Sample design If the peaks are too high and the band is
Th e completely designed circuit appears in too wide , the coup ling is too great. Increase
F ig. 3 with all component values marked . the capacitance of C, and recheck.
Once d esigned, a bandp ass coup ler of this If peaks are too high and the band is too
type is simp ler to tune up than a conventiona l narrow, the Q of the circuit is too high and
single-tuned circuit. Start by setting all ad- the coupling is also off. Increase coup ling un -
justable elements as closely as possible to the til plate current is correct. If band is still
calcu lated values, with the exception of Ceo too wide and p eaks too violent, return to
T his one sho uld be set to maximum, and then original settings and sh unt both tanks with
shorted out wi th a very short jumper wire as equal-valued resistors to reduce Q a bit. This
well. F eed in some d rive at tun e-up fr equen cy, is pure cut-and-try, but st art with high-valued
and ad just either C, or L ( on the input resistors and work down until things smoo th
side ) for the best p ossible d ip . This should out. You really shouldn't run into this p rob-
be a very small ad justment; it's better to ad- lem unless your slide rule slips a cog (as ours
just C Il if you're reason ably certain th at L is d oes now and then ) , in working the arith -
at the design value, since CIl is a ffected by metic.
stray capacita nce wh ich cannot be estimated Peaks too low and the band too wide indi-
accurately. The d ip sho uld be d eep and you cate Q lower than design value. I ncrease cir-
should find no trace of output on th e far side cuit capacitance at CIl and C 2 and retune L to
of the coup ler. resonance. This will require reworking the de-
Now unshort C, b ut don't change any other sign eq uations if the changes are very large.
settings. Adj ust the outp ut-tank tuning in the While our entire approach in this article
same manner for a p eak in outp ut. C 2 is the has been toward use of bandpass couplers in
one to adjust on this tank if vou're reasonablv transmitters, they are equally applicable to re-
sure of the setti ng of its inductance. . ceivers, especially in the signal-frequency stag-
Next step is to "rock" the drive frequency es and if output stages of vh f converters. The
by abou t 10 p er cent either way to make sure same principles apply excep t that the value of
that you have only one peak in the output, R1 must usually be fixed by a composition re-
and that it's at tune-up frequency. If you have sistor across the tank on each side. This re-
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