RA i IOhELECTRONICS

CONSTRUCTOR
JUNE 1979
PP9 ELIMINATOR UNIT -A simple and inexpensive
unit to fit into battery compartment of a
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For the Beginner

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 SEMICONDUCTORS POTS & IRONS
SOCKETS POTENTIOMETERS OPTOELECTRONICS
1611 8 pin DIL £0.11
1612 14 pin OIL £0.12 CARBON POTS (Linear Track) DUAL GANG LOG -ANTI -LOG POT
1613 16 pin DIL £0.13 Single gang with wire end terminations, 1888 Track specification as dual gang pots NEW INCREASED RANGE -ALL 1ST QUALITY
VC3. but tracks mounted to log -anti -log LED'S (diffused)
1614 24 pin DIL £0.25 6mm 50mm plastic shaft 10mm bushes action 100kohms £0.75
1615 28 pin DIL £0.30 supplied with shake proof washer 8 nut. 0/no. Type Size Colour Price
Tolerance ± 20% of resistance. SPECIAL VOLUME CONTROLS 1501 ARL2091TIL209) .3mm 1.1251 RED 00.10
1816 T018 Transistor £0.12
1502 MIL3232171L2111 .3mm 1.1251 GREEN £0.15
TU3 Transistor £0.35 1831 1k ohms £026" 1836 47kohms £026' A miniature 16mm type replacement
1617
1832 2k2ohms £026. 1837 100kohms £028' volume control incorporating single pole 1503 MIL3331 10PL212AI .3mm 1.1251 YELLOW £0.15
16117 T05 Transistor £0.12
220kohms £0.26' on -off switch. Resistance value 5kohms. 1504 ARL48501FLV 1171 .5mm 1.2 RED £0.10
1833 4k7ohms £0 26' 1838
1

470kohms £0.26' Tolerance ± 20% 1/8watt rating. 1505 MIL52511TIL2221 .5mm 1.2 GREEN £0.15
1834 10kohms £0 26' 1839
1

VOLTAGE £0.26' 1889 £027 VC8 1506 MIL53511MV53531 .5mm 1.2 YELLOW £0.15
1835 22kohms £0 26' 1Meg 1
1840 £0.11
£026' 1509 FLV 11 .5mm 1.2 CLEAR
REGULATORS 1841 2M2
1
1

MINIATURE ROTARY VOL lilt., Red1

Positive CONTROL
CARBON POTS (Log Track) 5kohms log law with on/off switch. 20mm SUPER 'Hi -Brite' Type
MVR7805 v.a. 7805 70220 £0.70 1521 MIL32 .3mm 1.1251 RED £0.10
1842 4k7ohms £028'1846 100kohms £026' grooved spindle. Tag connections 17mm
MVR7812 v.a. 7812 T0220 £0.70 1522 MIL52 .5mm 7.2 RED £0.10
1843 10kohms £0 26' 1847 220kohms £026 dia. Supplied with fixing nut. Used mainly 1

MVR7815 v.a. 7815 70220 £0-70 1514 ORP12 Light dependent resistor £0.55
1844 22kohms £0 26' 1848 470kohms £0 28' for replacement. £035
MVR7818 1945 47kohms £0 26' 1049 1Meg £0 26' 1890 £0.54' VC9 1520 OCP71 Photo transistor
MVR7824 v.a. 7824 TO220 £0.70 1850 2M2 £0 26' LED CLIPS
WIRE WOUND POTS 1508/125 pack of 5 125 clips £0.15
Negative A range of wire wound single gang pots
£080 DUAL CARBON POTS (Lin Track) watt rating, fitted 1508/2 pack of 5 2 clips £0.18
MVR7905 v.a. 7905 TO220 with linear tracks of 1
ALL (a 8% V.A.T.
MVR7912 v.a. 7912 TO220 £0.80 These high qualitydual gang pots are fitted with 10mm bush and supplied with shake -
MVR7918
with wire end terminations and 6mm proof washer and nut.
50mm plastic shaft 10mm, bush Ind sup- VC6
MVR7915 v.a. 7915 10220 £0.80 plied with shake proof washer & nut track 1000m5 00.80/ 1895 220ohms £0.801
MVR7924 v.a. 7924 10220 £0.80 tolerance ± 20% but matched to within
1891
1892 22ohms (0.80/ 1898 470ohms (0.80/
DISPLAYS
v.a. 723C T099 £0.45 2db of each other. VC3 1893 47ohms 00.80/ 1897 lkohms E0.80/ DL303 segment D.P. left 1.30" height)
7 Common Anode
1894 20ahms (0.80/ 1898 2k2 ohms (0.80/ RED Single Digit 0/N0:1523 £0.70
7272314 pIn DN £045 1851 4k7 £0.88' 1855 100kohms (0.86 DL707 7 segment D.P. left 1.0.3" height) Common Anode
1899 4k7ohms £0.80
LM309K T03 £150 1852 10kohms £0.969 1856 220kohms f0.86' RED Single Digit 0/NO: 1510 £0.95
1853 22kohms £0.08' 1857 470kohms. Mgr PRE-SET POTS DL527 7 segment D.P. left 1.50" height) Common Anode
/854100kohms £0.86' 18581Meg f0.86' RED Two -Digit Reflector O/NO: 1524 £1.70
ZENER DIODES 1859 2M2 £0.96'
HORIZONTAL MOUNTING
DL727 7 segment D.P. right 1.510" height) Common Anode
400mw (B:y68) D07 Glass encap-
Miniature type for transistor circuits. The 0/N0:1521 £220
wiper of the preset is provided with a slot RED Two -Digit Light Pipe
sulated range of voltages avail- for screw driver adjustment. The tags of DL747 7 segment D.P. Left 1.630" height) Common Anode
able. 1 3v, 2 2v, 2 7v, 3 3v, 3.9v, DUAL CARBON POTS (Log Law) RED Single -Digit Light Pipe 0/NO:1511 £1.70
4.3v, 4.7v, 5.1v, 5 8v, 6ßv, 6 8v, 1860 4k7ohms £0.86' 1864 100kohms (0.86' the preset will fit printed wiring boards ALL 8% V.A.T. (
7 5v, 8ßv, 9 1v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13v,
1861 10kohms £086' 1865 220kohms £0.86 with a pitch of 2.54mm. All tracks are linear
1862 22kohms 80.88' 1866 470kohms £0.86 law.
15v, 16v, 18v, 20v, 22v, 24v, 27v,
186347kahms (0.86 10671Meg (0.96 VC7
30v, 33v, 39v.
No. 24 8p ea. 1868 2M2 Oar 1801 100ohms (009 1808 22kohms (009' OPTO -ISOLATORS
1802 220ohms (0.09 1809 47kohms £0.09' - continuous fwd current
£8.09' Isolation Breakdown - Voltage 1500
1w-1 5w Plastic and metal encap- 1003 470ahins C0.09 1810 100kohms
00mA
SINGLE GANG SWITCHED (Lin Law) (0.09 £0.09 1

sulated Range of voltages

These potentlometers are fitted with
1804 lkohms 1811 220kohms
CIL74 Single -Channel 6 pin DIP standard type - optically
available. 1.3v, 2 2v, 2 7v, 3 3v, 1805 2k2ohms (009' 1812 470kohms £0.09'
coupled pair with Intra -red LED Emitter and NPN
3 9v, 4.3v, 4.7v, 5 1v, 5 8v, 62v, double pole on -off switches. The switch is 1806 4k7ohms £0.09 18131Mahms £009' Silicon Photo Transistor. 0/NO: 1497 £0.50
6 8v, 7 5v, 8 2v, 9 1v, 10v, 11v, incorporated within the rotary action of the 1807 10kohms £0.09 1814 2M2ohms (0.09'
CILD74 Multi -Channel 8 pin DIP Two Isolated Channels.
12v, 13v, 15v, 18v, 18v, 20v, 22v, pbt. Specification of pot Is as VCI. 1815 4M7ohms £0.09' 0/NO: 1498 £1.00
24v, 27v, 30v, 33v, 43v, 47v, 51v, Switch rating 1 5ampa at 250v AC.
CIL074 Multi-Channel 16 pin DIP Four Isolated Channels.
68v, 72v, 75v, 82v, 91v, 100v
1870 4k7ohms (085 1874 100kohms £0.65' PRESET POTS O/NO: 1499 £2.20
No. 113 15p ea. 1871 10kohms £0.65' 1875 220kohms £0.65' VERTICAL MOUNTING
Miniature type for transistor circuits.
ALL ( 8% V.A.T.
10w Metal stud type S010 case. 1872 22kohms £0.65 1876 470kohms (0.66'
£0.65 18711 Meg (0.65" Wiper adjustment Is made by a screw
Range of voltage, available, -3v, 1
1873 47kohms
driver slot. Designed to fit 2 54mm pitch 2nd GRADE LED PACK
2v, 2 7v, 3 3v, 3 8v, 4,3v, 4 7v, 1878 2M2 £0.65
2
board. All tracks are linear law.
5 1v, 5 8v, 6 2v, 6 8v, 1.5v, 8 2v, VC7 A pack of 10 standard sizes and colours which fail to perform
9 1v, 10v, 11v, 12v, 13v, 15v, 18x, SWITCHED POT (Log Track) 0009' 1823 22kohms £0.09' to their very rigid specification, but which are ideal for
816 100ohms
18v, 20v, 22v, 24v, 27v, 30v, 33v, Specification as VC2 but 'rack having (log) 817 220ohms £0.09' 1824 47kohms £0.09' amateurs who do not require the full spec.
43v, 47v, 51v, 68v, 72v, 75v, 82v, 0/No. 1507 (1.50
law. 818470ohms £0.09 1825 100kohms £0.09
91v, 100v. 18/9 4k7ohms 10.65' 1833 100kohms £0.65" 019 Ikohrrs (009' 1826 220kohms 00.09'
No. ZIO 35p se. (0.09'
1881 22kohms (0.65"
1884
1885
220kohms
470kohms
10.65'
£0.65
820 2k2ohms
821 4k7ohms
£0.09'
(009'
1827 470kohms
18281Meyohms £0.09
THYRISTORS
SILICON 1882 47kohms £0.65 1886 1Meg 0.65' 822 10kohms £0.09' 1829 2M2ohms (0.09 000me TO 18 Case 7 Amp TO 48 Case
1887 2M2 £065' 1830 4M7ohms (0.09' Volts No. Price Volts No. Price
RECTIFIERS 10 THY800/10 £0 15 50 THY7A/50 £0.46
200mA THY74/100 £0 31
15920 50v £0 06 ANTEX IRONS 20 THY800/20 £0 16
£0 20
100
200 THY74/200 £0 57
30 THY600130
15921 160v £0 07 0/No. 1943. 15 watt high quality soldering O/No. 1931. Highly popular x25 25 watt 50 THY600/50 £0 22 400 THY7A/400 £0.62
S922 150v £0 08 iron totally enclosed element in a ceramic quality soldering iron ceramic shafts to 100 THY600/700 £0 25 600 THY7A/600 £0 76
5923 200v £0 09 provide near perfect insulation break-down 200 THY600/200 £0 38 800 THY7A/800 £0.82
shaft fitted with 3/32" bit. £3.80
5924 300v £0 10 voltage of 1500 volts AC and a leakage 400 THY600/400 £0.44
1 Amp 0/No. 1947. Replacement element for 1943 current of only 3-5uA and another shaft of 10 Amp TO 48 Cite.
N4001 50v £0 04} iron. £1 90 stainless steel to ensure strength. £3.60
N4002 100v £0 05 Volts No. Price
N4003 200v £0 06 O/No. 1944. Iron coated bit 3/32" for 1943 0/No. 1935. Replacement element for 1931 1amp TO 5 Case 50 THY10A150 £0 51
iron. £1 60 Price THY10A/100 £9 97
N4004 400v £0 07 iron. £0 46 Volts No. 100
N4005 600v £0 08 O/No. 1932. Iron coated bit 1/8" for 1937 50 THY1A/50 £0 26 200 THYIOAI200 £0 62
N4006 800v £0 09 0/No. 1945. Iron coated bit 1/8" for 1943 iron. £0 50 100 THY1A/100 £0 28 400 THY10A/400 £0.71
N4007 1000v £0 10 iron, £0 46 0/No. 1933. Iron coated bit 3/16" for 1931 200 THY1A/200 £0 32 600 THY10AI000 £0 68
iron. £0 50 400 THY1AI400 £036 800 THY10A/600 £1 22
1SAmp 0/No. 1946. Iron coated bit 3/16" for 7943 600 THY1A:600 £0 45
5015 50v £0 09 iron. £0 46 0/No. 1934. Iron coaled bit 3/32" for 1931 800 THY1A1800 £0 58 Amp TO 4$ Case
iron. £0 50 16
S020 100v £0 10 0/No. 1948. General purpose 18 watt iron
S021 200v £0 11 OINo. 1953. SK1 soldering kit -this kit con Volts No. PrIce
fitted with iron coaled bit. £3.60 THY18A/50 £0.54
S023 400v £0 13 tains 15 watt soldering iron fitted with a 3 amp TO 66 Case 100
50
THY16A/100 £0.58
5025 600v £0 14 O/No. 1952. Replacement element for 1948 3/16" bit plus two spare bits, a reel of Price THY16A/200 £0 62
S027 800v £0 16 iron. £1 90 solder, heat-sink and a booklet 'how to Volts No. 200
THY3A/50 £0 28 400 THY18A/400 £0 77
S029 1000v £0 20 solder'. In presentation display bon. £5.55 50
THYI6A/600 £0 90
S031 1200v £0 25 O/No. 7949. Iron coated bit 3/32" for 1948 100 THY3A1106 £q 111 600
iron. £0.48 0/No. 1939. ST3 soldering iron stand. 200 THY3A/200 £0 33 800 THY tfi0.',W1 £t 19
3Amp Stand made from high grade bakelite 400 THY3A/400 £O 42
N5400 50v £0 14 0/No. 1950. Iron coated bit 1/8" for1948 material chromium plated strong steel 600 THY3A/600 £0 50 30 Amp TO 94 Case
N5401 100v £0 15 iron £0 46 spring, suitable for all models, includes 800 THY3AI800 £0 85 Volts No. PrIce
N5402 200v £0 16
for accommodation for six spare bits and two £118
N5404 400v £0 17 0/No. 1951. Iron coated bit 3/16" 1948
sponges which serve to keep the soldering 50 THY30A/50
iron. £0 46 100 THY30A/100 £1 65
N5406 600v £021 iron bits clean. £1.50 Amp TO Case
N5407 800v £0 25 5 66 200 THY30A/200 £1 63
N5408 1000v £0 30 volts No. Price 400 THY30A/400 £1 70
600 THY30A/600 £3 50
O Amp PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD TRANSFERS 100
50 THY5A/50
THY5A1100
£0 36
£0 45
S10/50 50v £0 19 Price
510/100 100v
S10/200 200v
510/400 400v
£0 21
£0 23
£0 35
o o O 0 200
400
600
THY5A/200
THY5A/400
THY5A/600
£0 50
£0 57
£0 69
£0 91
No.
BT107 / 500R
BT1021500R
£060
£0 80
000000000000 800 THY5A/800 BT106 £1 25
S10/600 600v
S10/800 800v
S10/1000 1000v
510/1200 1200v
£0 42
£0 51
£0 60
£0 69
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000
1 5 Amp TO 220 Case
BT107
BT108
2N3228
£0
£O
£0 70
93
N
Volts No. Price 2N3535 £0 77
Amp 0000 0000000 00000000 000000000000 £0.57 BTX30150L £0 33
30 400 THY5A/400P
S30/50 50v £0 56 800 THY5AI600P £0 69 BTX301400L £0 46
530/100 100v £0 69 800 THY5A/800P £0 81 C106/4 £060
Drev, your own boerels w.111 the new BI-PAK etch - Each pack contains 11 sheets of transfers 1 of each as
S30/200 200v £0 93
530/400 400v £1 25
resistant transfers. Lay the symbols on the board. rub
over with a soft pencil. The transfer will adhere to the
shown above.
Illustration-approx. 3. size.
S30/600 600v
530/800 800v
£1 76
£1 94
hoard. Than complete the circuit with your BI-PAK
etch -resist pen
0/No. TR400 e' (1.00 p&p £0.10. CABLES
S30/1000 1000v £2 31
S30/1200 1200v £2 88 DESCRIPTION, O/NO PRICE/
Metre
60 Amp SILICON 1 amp Microphone Cable 3126 £0.10
$70/50 50v £0 75 Type Order No. Price 3127 £020
Twin Microphone
S70/100 100v £0 84 BRIDGE 50V
100V
RMS
RMS
BR7/50
BR1/100
£0
£0
20
22 Twin Stereo Screened Cable 3128 £0.15
$70/200 200v £1.20 £0 25 Multicore Standard 4 -Core Screened 3129 £0.30
RMS 8811200
S70/400 400v
S70/600 600v
£1 75
£2 25
RECTIFIERS 200V
400V RMS BR11400 £0 36 4 -Core Individually screened
Heavy Microphone Cable
3130
3131
£0.22
£018
S70/800 800v £2 50 SILICON 2 amp Light 3 -Core mains 3132 £0.10
570 1000 1000v £3 00 50VRMS BR2/50 £0 45 Twin Oval Mains 3133 £009
BYX38/300 6A 300v £0 45 100VRMS BR2/100 £0 48 Speaker Cable 3134 £0.07
BYX38/600 6A 600v £0 60 200VRMS BR2/200 £0 52 Low toss Co -axial Cable 3135 £022
BYX38/300 Rev 6A 300v £0 45 400VRMS BR21400 £0 58 15 Way Multi Coloured Ribbon Cable 3136 £0.40
BYX38/600 Rev 64 400v £0.60 1000v RMS BR2/1000 £0 68

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TRANSISTORS 112 ICs
Type Price Type Price Type Price Type Price Type Price Type Price Type Pries Type Price Type Prior Type Price Type Price
7400 £0.09 7427 £0.24 7472 £0.20 74105 £0.38 74163 £0.62
AC107 £0.22 BC119 £0.26 BD183 £0.95 BPX25 81.45 TIP41B £0.48 2142712 £0.22 7401 £0.11 7428 80.26 7473 80.26 74107 80.24 74164 £0.88
AC113 £020 BC120 £0.40 80184 £1.10 BSX19 £0.18 TIP41C £048 2142714 £0.22 7402 £0.11 7430 80.11 7474 £0.25 74110 80.36 74165 £068
AC116 £020 BC125 £0.17 13D185 £048 BSX20 £0.18 TI P424 £0.44 2142904 £0.18 7403 £0.11 7432 £0.22 7475 £0.29 74111 80.58 74166 £0.78
AC117 £0.30 BC126 £0.22 BD188 £0.88 BSY25 £0.18 TIP428 £0.48 2N2904A £0.21 7404 £0.11 7433 £0.30 7476 £0.25 74118 £0.80 74174 £0.65
AC117K £0.34 BC132 £0.18 BD187 £0.75 8SY26 £0.16 TIP42C £048 2N2905 £0.18 7405 £0.11 7437 £0.21 7480 £0.44 74119 81.18 74175 C0.62
AC121 £0.20 BC134 £0.18 BD188 £075 BSY27 £0.16 TIP2955 £0.80 21429054 £0.20 7406 £022 7438 £0.21 7481 £0.86 74121 80.24 74176 £0.58
AC122 £0.14 BC135 £016 BD189 £078 BSV28 20.18 T1P3055 f060 2142906 £0.18 7407 £0.22 7440 £0.12 7482 £0.68 74122 £039 74177 £0.68
AC125 £0.18 BC136 £0.18 BD190 £0.78 BSY29 £0.16 TI 643 £0.22 21429084 £0.19 7408 £013 7441 £0.60 7483 £0.68 74123 80.40 74180 £1.50
AC126 £0.18 8C137 £018' BD195 £0.90 BSY38 £0.19 TIS90 £0.18 2142907 £0.20 7409 £0.13 7442 £040 7484 £0.88 74136 £0.62 74181 £0.58
AC127 £0.18 8C139 £0.32 BD196 £0.90 BSY39 £0.19 2N2907A £0.22 7410 £0.11 7443 £0.70 7485 £0.68 74141 £0.55 74182 £0.70
AC128 £0.18 BC140 £0.30 BD197 £0.96 BSY40 £0.29 2142923 £0.16 7411 £0.17 7444 £0.70 7486 £0.22 74145 £0.65 74184 £0.70
AC128K £0.26 BC141 £0.28 8D19ß £085 BSY41 £0.29 UT46 £0.20 2N2924 £0.15 7412 £0.15 7445 £0.65 7489 £1.70 74150 £0.88 7419074191 £0£0..6862
AC132 £0.20 80142 £022 131)199 £0.99 8SY51 £0.25 2N2925 £0.159 7413 £0.24 7446 £0.80 7490 £0.32 74151 £048
AC134 £0.20 8C143 £022 80200 £0.99 BSY95 £0.13 2N2928Gf0.08 7414 £050 7447 £048 7491 £0.84 74153 80.48 74192 £0.60
AC137 £0.20 8C145 £048 80201 £0.80 BSY95A £0.13 ZTX107 £010' 2N2926V 20.08 7416 £023 7448 £0.56 7492 £0.35 74154 10 82 74193 £0.58
AC141 £0.22 BC147 £0.07' B0202 £0.80 8RY39 £0.45 ZTX108 £0.10 2N29280£0.08 7417 £0.23 7450 £0.11 7493 £0.30 74155 £0.60 74194 £0.62
AC141K £0.30 BC148 £007 BD201/202f1.70 130105 81.40 ZTX109 £0.10 21429268 £008' 7420 £0.11 7451 £0.11 7494 £0.75 74156 £0.50 74195 £0.60

8
AC142 £0.20 BC149 £007 80203 £0.80 60105/02 £1.85 ZTX300 20.12 2N292613£0.08* 7421 £0.20 7453 £0.11 7495 £0.50 74157 £0.60 74196 £1.05
AC142K £0.30 BC150 £020 8D204 £0.80 BÚ204 £1.40 ZTX301 £0.12 2N3010 20.85 7422 £0.19 7454 £0.11 7496 £0.50 74160 £0.68 74197 £1 A5
AC151 '80.20 8C151 £0.22 80203/204£1.70 80205 £1.40 ZTX302 £0.16 2143011 £0.15 7423 £0.21 7460 £0.11 74100 £0.85 74161 80.62 74198 £1.85
AC153 £0.22 BC152 £0.20 020 £0440 BÚ208 £1.90 ZTX303 £076' £0.18
2N3053 7425 £0.19 7470 £0.26 74104 £0.39 74162 £0.62 74199 £1.85
AC153K £030 8C153 £026' BD206 £080 50208/02 £2.25 2TX304 £0.20 2143054 £0.40 7426 20.23
AC154 £020 130154 £0.196 BD207 £1.00 ZTX330 £0.15 2 N3055 £0.40
AC155 £0.20 BC157 £0.10 BD208 £100 ZTX500 £013 2N3391 £0.20
AC156
AC157
AC165
£320
£0.25
£0.20
BC158
BC159
BC160
£0.10
£0.10
£0.28
80222
BD225
50232
£0.47
£0.47
£0.56
E1222 £0.38 ZTX501
ZTX502
ZTX503
£0.126 2N33910í0.22
£0.18
£0.12
2143392
2N3393
£0.20
£0.20
CMOS ICs
£0.19 2N3394 £0.20 Type Price Type Price Type Price Type Price
AC166 £0.20 BC161 £0.3880233 £0.48 MAT100
MAT101 £0.20
ZTX504 f025' 2N3395
Price Type
£0.22 CD4000 £0.14 CD4015 £0.76 CD4026 £120 CD4043 £0.88 CD4070 £0.17
AC167 £0.20 BC167 £0.12 80234 £0.66 ZTX531 £0.25
AC168 £025 £0.12 BD235 MAT120 £0.19 2N3402 £0.21 CD4001 f016 CD4016 £042 CD4027 £050 004044 £0412 CD4071 £0.17
13C168 £0.55
£020 ZTX550 £018' £0.21 CD4002 £0.18 C04017 £0.76 CD4045 £140 CD4072 £0.17
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That's not to say it doesn't look like HiFi - just that it doesn't look like the usual sort of
thing you have come to associate with DIY HiFi. The Mk3 outstrips and outperforms all
British made HiFi tuners, and most imported ones too. Certainly at the price, there isn't
one near it. But more than that, it looks superb A small pic here would be an insult,
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PARTS FOR CURRENT PW PROJECTS ... FROM AMBIT INTERNATIONAL so send an SAE for details on the kit that looks as if isn't. It's something else
VHF FM monitor RX: A complete kit of parts for this project, which we firmly
believe will be an established "standard" for years to come. The kit includes a - * Exceptionally high performance - exceptionally straightforward assembly
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5 channel switched crystal oscillator added to the board end, using diode switch-
* Baseboard and plug-in construction. Future circuit developments will readily
ing. Uses cheaper 3rd OT crystals, employing original oscillator as x3 stage. plug in, to keep the Mklll at the forefront of technical achievement
Price depends on filter selected (we have various types) and whether or not chip
capacitors are required. More notes on the kit from our own lab. £25-£35 kit. -* Various options and module line-ups possible to enable an installment approach
to the system -
VMOS POWER TRANSISTORS FOR PW WINTON £9.95 pair 2SK133/J48
FULL KITS FOR THE PW SANDBANKS METAL LOCATOR (should be ex stock) and now previewing the matching 60W/channel VMOS amplifier:
FULL KITS FOR THE PW DORCHESTER - * Matching both the style and design concepts of the Mklll HiFi FM tuner -
Radio ICs Discrete devices: more than ever: * Hitachi VMOS power fats - characterized especially for HiFi applications
TDA1062 HF/VHF tunerhead 1.95 BF960 800MHz/2.8d8 of mosfet 1.60' * Power output readily multiplied by the addition of further MOSFETs
TDA1083 One chip AM/FM rx 1.95 BF961 200MHz/2.OdB of * VU meters on the preamp - not simply dancing according to vol level
0.80'
TDA1090
TDA1220
One chip HiFi am/fm
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3.35
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- * Backed with the usual Ambit expertise and technical capacity in audio -
HA1197W HiFi AM tuner IC 1.40 40673
CA3123E AM tuner IC 1.40
Famous MOSFET 0,55'
T8A651
CA3089E
AM tuner IC
Famous FM IF system
1.81
1.94
2SJ49/2sK1333 120v/100W MOSPOWER

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1050° The Pw DorchesterL,5U1,Ft
W mW Fm stereo tuner
CA3189E As 3089+ deviation mete
3mm 5mm 2.5x5mm THE DIGITAL DORCHESTER ALL BAND TUNER
AF preamp, adj, agc 2.75 Reo With styling and
HA1137W 0.14 0.14 0.17
Improved S/N 3089 2.20
TBA120 limiting amp+detector 0.75
Green 0.18 0.16 0.20
p
iS torfit
TBA1205 high gain 1.00 yellow 0.18 0.15 0.20 I l p
14 /25 In withons
the rest
MC1350P aged IF preamp 1.20
Orange 0.22 0.29 0.24 1
aF of AMBIT's new
100 off mix, 25% discount. All are AEG first
MC1330P synch AM/video detector 1.35 range of tuner &
9 9 9
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grade types - absolutely no junk. 5mm clips 9 t.alllllrl i
KB4406
oA753
Cascade IF preamp
limiting FM preamp
0.65
1.95
for panel mounting 0.03 each
° 9 9 99 9 0 - audio aequipment.
ul ment.
Communications circuits Misc. ICs for radio/audio applications
SD6000 DMOS RF/Mixer pair 3.75
U237B 5 LED bargraph driver 0.80' When the new range of OKI digital frequency display ICs was announced, the original
KB4412 SAS6610 4 station touch tune IC 1.48' prototype of the Dorchester had been made - but since so many of you wanted to use the
Bal mixers, IF+agc 2.55
SAS6710 adds 4 stations to 6610 1.48
KB4413 AM/SSB del. squelch,agc 2.75 MSM5523/4 LW,MW,SW and FM digital OKI frequency munterdisplay system with the Dorchester, we quickly designed a unit to
KB4417 mic processor 2.55 incorporate the necessary facilities. The Digital Dorchester is designed in 19 inch form,
frequency readout plus
MC3357 best thing in NBFM yet 3.12
MC1496P popular double bal mixer 1.25 clock, timers, stopwatch £14' and forms a perfect match for the other units in the range. If you don't want to go to
MSM5526 LW/MW/FM DFM with expense of the feu Ambit DFM1 module, with AM/FM/Time/Timers, then the MA1023
theclock
Multiplex decoders + noise blanker direct drive for LCD E11
MC1310P popular PLL decoder 2.20 TCA730 DC volume control 3.50
module can be used instead
oA758 buffered 1310 2.20 TCA740 DC tone control 3.50 The Dorchester has been described in PW Dec., Jan. and Feb. issues - but for those of
CA3090A0 RCA PLL decoder 3.25 TDA1028 DC input switch 3.50 you who may have missed it - it is an All Band broadcast tuner, covering LW/MW/SW
HA1196 improved PLL decoder TDA1029 DC mode switch 3.50
with stereo preamps 3.95 and FM stereo in 6 switched ranges. Construction is very straightforward, with all the
HA11223 19k Hz pilot cancel, low Radio and Tuner modules switching being PCB mounted - and the revolutionary TDA1090 IC used for AM/FM.
distortion, high S/N 4.35 We cannot really list all the details we would
KB4437 as HA11223 with remote like to here - but with advent of the new mark 3 The electronics for the radio section of the Dorchester remain unchanged at (33.00,
VCO kill facility 4.55 tuner system, the Dorchester and matching AF with 12.5% VAT. The hardware package, of case, meter, PSU now costs £33.00 + 8%
KB4438 stereo MUTING preamp units, Ambit offers you the widest choice ever,
plus hardware and styling that matches the very
with the MA1023 available for an extra £5 only.
for post decoder mute 2.22
KB4423 impulse noise blanker high standards we have set in this new range. For the fully digital version, with Ambit DFM1, the price is £56.50 + 8% VAT.
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Metal Brand New ALL BRAND NEW! Can be run from Hl
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ROTARY POTS WIREWOUND RESISTORS POLYSTYRENE CAPACITORS
All modern types, carbon tracks. 60, long All brand new modern types 47pF/400v
shafts, all new 60pF/350V TUNING CAPACITORS
1.5ohm 5w 5p 560 ohm 5w 5p 163pF/125v 250pF air spaced 40p
10K Lm 18p DUAL 2.7ohm 2w 4p 1K 10w 5p 390pF/150v ALL 350pF + 350pF approx
47K Lin 18p 100K Lin 24p 30 ohm 5w 5p 1K2 5w 5p 395pF/350v AT double gang, slow tune, air spaced 60p
51 ohm 5w 5p 1000pF/350v Both types are new
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30 Uncoded BC107 70p SENSATIONAL SCOOP' brand new. 10pF, 30pF, All brand new modern tran-
30 Uncoded BC108 70p 50pF, 1,000pF All 15p each sistor types mostly, all
30 Uncoded BC109 70p Tubular solder -in types, values, voltages marked
30
20
AC128 branded
Vari -Cap diodes uncoded
70p
35p
LED - DISPLAYS
Brand new devices, 7 segment, common anode and common
brand new. 3pF, 6pF, 8pF,
12pF All 10p each
luF/75v
2uF/40v
5p
5p
40 Asstd transistors 70p cathode types, these are not full spec but are 100% functional. Dau semi -air spaced 4uF/300v 5p
30 2W Zener diodes uncoded 42p Data supplied, we cannot select display colours or c.a. or c.c. 2 to 9pF 16p 6.8uF/25v 6p
6 asstd pre-set pots 30p types. 6 to 45pF 16p 12uF/25v 5p
20 wirewound resistors 42p 0.3" single display 35p 8 to 125pF 18p 25uF/12v 5p
25 C280 Capacitors 30p 0.6" single display 45p 25uF/30v 4p
25 Polystyrene Capacitors 30p 10.5" double display I.C. TOOL 32uF/40v 5p
65p Insertion or extraction
25 Ceramic Capacitors 30p 0.5" Special +1 and 7 segment displays 70p 32uF/160v 6p
25 asstd Capacitors 30p plastic, new 55p each 40uF/16v 5p
6 P -channel FET's 60p MAINS TRANSFORMERS
47uF/25v 5p
6 N -channel FET's 60p All primaries 240V:
56uF/25v 5p
6 Photo transistors uncoded 60p ONLY LIMITED STOCKS 64uF/10v 4p
24V tapped
10 Stud diodes asstd types 30p 14V lamp £1.80 64uF/70v 5p
22-0-22V 500ma £2.00 75uF/9v 4p

TBA 120S FM DETECTOR LDR's

PUSH BUTTON BANKS 16V 2 amp £2.10 100uF/6.3v 4p

I.C.'snew with data but ORP 12 Equiv 50p

All new, ratchet type switches 12V t amp £1.70 100uF/40v 5p
untested 18p each ORP61 60p Single d.p. changeover 12p 24V 1.75 amp £2.00 125uF/10v 59
Both brand new Three banked all d.p. changeover 20p 30V 1 amp £2.10 125uF/10v 5p
Three banked, one d.p. changeover, two with four d.p. change- 13-0-13V 1 amp £2.20 150uF/6,3v 4p
WIDEBAND AMPLIFIER overs 24p 22V 500ma £1.40 150uF/16v 5p
.I.C.'s new with data but 35 amp FUSES Three banked, one d.p. changeover, two d.p. changeovers 18p 32-0-32V 500ma £2.20 150uF/25v 5p
untested 18p each 1'%" Six for 20p Five banked, two d.p. changeovers, three single changeover Please add P&P 40p on 200uF/10v 5p
25p transformers 250uF/16v 5p
300uF/9v 5p
MULLARD TAA320 INFLATION 300uF/25v 5p
M.O.S.T. PRE -AMP I.C. with POWER SUPPLY ELECTROLYTICS 320uF/18v 5p
circuits brand new, tested I.C. EATERS CARBON 320uF/18v
SOCKETS 32+32uF 275v wkg 20p 5p
48p each FILM RESISTORS
Low profile d.i.l. brand '2+32uF 350v wkg 25p, 330uF/25v 5p
25p 5% '/w and '/w 400uF/10v
new types 100+200uF 275v wkg 5p
13 AMP RUBBER Fly -lead All brand new but with 400uF/25v
8 pin 129
150+150+75uF 350v wkg 34p preformed leads
5p
extension sockets. 35p 470uF/6.3v 5p
14 pin 13p 1200+200+100+32uF 325v PAK OF 150
Black 40p Il All types brand new 470uF/16v 5p
16 pin 14p ONLY 60p

REED RELAYS t4" COIL FORMERS NCHANNEL FETs PCHANNEL PHOTO-TRANSISTORS INLINE FUSEHOLDERS
Small types 10p each With cores 9p 16p each FETs 16p New, uncoded 18p each 1+" fuse type 16p each

13 amp PLUGS TERMINAL BLOCKS RELAYS RELAYS PANEL FUSEHOLDERS BD187 TRANSISTORS
Black rubber new 38p 4 way 5A 12p 12v dc min new 70p 24v dc min. new. S/T 70p 20mm type 30p each 4 amp full spec 28p

SLIDER POTS PRESSIL SWITCH

T03 TRANSISTOR
* * * NUTS/BOLTS Insulation Covers Nylon 4 for
All new smooth track plastic Single/pole, new, 2 amp
STAR PACK 6BA nuts 40 30p 24p
coded types TEN POWER 6BA 1" Bolts 40 35p 18p
Twenty asstd I.C.'s. All sorts
470R lin
8 pin, 14 pin, 16 pin all
TRANSISTORS 4BA nuts 40 32p T03 WASHERS
1K lin 4BA I" bolts 40 36p
types. Many coded but all 4.7K lin All Melinex for heat -sinks 4 for
untested at only 24p All new and marked 6BA solder tags 40 28p THYRISTOR l6p
5K lin 22p
10k log each numbers, plastic and metal 10 amp 100 PIV metal stud
f 25K log types, tested working Only 35p each
£ 1.00 SUMMER'
BATTERY HOLDERS 100K lin
250K lin
* * OFFER
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throughout. 12v or 24v inputs as listed -
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709 (T05). 741 (DIL-8) Op.amps 30p; finished purpose-built cabinet made from black vinyl
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MORSE MADE can be supplied at £2.00 plus 40p P&P if required. Full
connection details supplied.
transistors including Silicon Transistors in the first five
stages on each channel resulting in even lower noise level
with improved sensitivity. Integrated pre -amp with Bass,
EASY STEREO DECODER SIZE 2" x 3" x 1/2"
Treble and two Volume Controls. Suitable for use with
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magnetic cartridge instructions included. Output stage
Ready -built. Pre -aligned and tested. Sens, 20-560mV for for any speakers from 8 to 15 ohms. Compact design, all
9-16V nag earth operation. Can be fitted to almost any FM parts supplied including drilled metal work, high quality
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ce)
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light if required 40p extra. nuts, bolts-
minium front panel with matching knobs, wire, solder,
no extras to buy. Simple step by step instruc-
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MAINS OPERATED SOLID STATE AM/FM STEREO RMS per channel into 5 ohms. Frequency response ± 3dB
TUNER 12-30,000 Hz. Sensitivity: better than 80mV into 1 MS2
Full power bandwidth: ±3dB 12-15,000 Hz. Bass, boost
approx to ± 12dB. Treble cut approx to -16dB. Negative
BY THE G3HSC feedback 18dB over main amp. Power requirements: 35v
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LATEST T/O MONO COMPATIBLE CARTRIDGE for 2 EL84s, ECC83, EF86 and EZ80 rectifier. Simpleinstruc-
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playing EP/LP/78 mono or stereo records on mono
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£2.70 inc. UK postage STEREO MAGNETIC PRE -AMP sens 3mVin for ready -built and tested. £22.00 P&P £1.40.
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AL.212 P STOCKISTS
Alpha Sound Service,
AL.1 P5
50 Stuart Road, Waterloo, Liverpool L22 4QT.
England.
Anson Electronics,
1133 Hessle High Road, Hull, England.
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Amateur Radio Shop,
04 13Chapel Hill, Huddersfield, HD1 3ED.
England.
Brent Electronics,
Seaview Street, Cleethorpes,
Lincolnshire, England.
J. Birkett,
26 The Strait, Lincoln, England.
£14.75 Bradford Consultants Limited, £78.00
25 Regent Parade, Harrogate,
INPUT VOLTAGE
OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGE
220 V ac
12,6 V dc
t 10% 50-60Hz Yorkshire, England. INPUT VOLTAGE
OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGE
220
1
t10% 50 Hz
± 15 V. dc
OUTPUT CURRENT MAX 2,5 Amp F.Brown & Co. Ltd., OUTPUT CURRENT MAX 5 Amp
LOAD REGULATION <0,3% 0-2,2 Amp 44/46 George IV Bridge Street, LOAD REGULATION <0,1%0-45 Amp
RIPPLE <5mV 2,2 Amp Edinburgh, Scotland. RIPPLE < 2mV 4,5 Amp
DIMENSIONS (mm) W140 x H90 x D140 DIMENSIONS (mm) W210 x H155 x 0250
WEIGHT 1,490 Kg._ N. R. Bardwell Limited, WEIGHT 5,100 Kg.
Sellers Street, Sheffield, England.
.AL.315 P Casey Brothers, AL.212 PS
235 Boundary Road,
"Saint Helens,"
Lancashire, England.
k Electronic Services Limited, ti e
33 City Arcade, Coventry CU11 HX, England.
A. Fanthorpe Limited,
6 Hepworth Arcade, Silver Street,
ALZlZP/s
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Hull, England.
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G. W. M. Radio,
Portland Road, Worthing, Sussex.
Leeds Amateur Radio,
27 Cookridge Street,
Leeds LS2 3AG, England.
£18.00
Target Electric Limited
£29.50 16 Cherry Lane, Bristol, England. INPUT VOLTAGE 220 V ac x 10% 50-60 Hz
OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGE 12,6 V dc
INPUT VOLTAGE 220 V ac z 10% 50-60 Hz New Cross Radio, OUTPUT CURRENT MAX 2,5 Amp
OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGE 1,7-15 V. dc 6 Oldham Road, Manchester, LOAD REGULATION <0,3% 0-2,2 Amp
LOAD REGULATION <0,2%0-2,8 Amp England. RIPPLE <5mV 2,2 Amp
DIMENSIONS (mm) W140 x H90 x D155 DIMENSIONS (mm) W140 x H90 x D140
RIPPLE 3mV 2,8 Amp Progressive Radio, WEIGHT 1,490 Kg.
WEIGHT 2,330 Kg. 93 Dale Street, Liverpool L2 2JD. AMPEROMETER
England.
AL.330 P R. E.Pitt Electrical Services Limited, AL.315 P2
60/64 Bath Buildings, Mont Pelier,
Bristol, England.
Peats Electronics,
Parnell Street, Dublin.
R. F. Potts,
68 Bobbington Lane, Derby, England.
Brian A. Pearson Limited,
66 Moncur Street, Glasgow, Scotland.
£46.50 R M E Supplies Limited, £54.00
INPUT VOLTAGE 220 V ac ± 10% 50-60 Hz 143 Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Scotland.
INPUT VOLTAGE 220 V ac ± 10% 50-60 Hz
OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGE 3,4-30 V, dc
OUTPUT CURRENT RANGE MAX 3 Amp
Stephan James Limited, OUTPUT VOLTAGE RANGE t 1,7 t 15 V dc

Warrington Road, Leigh, Lancashire. OUTPUT CURRENT RANGE MAX 3 Amp

LOAD REGULATION < 5% 0-2,8 Amp
LOAD REGULATION < 0,2% 0-2,8 Amp
RIPPLE 10,5V 2,8 Amp
Stewarts Radio, RIPPLE < 3mV 2,8 Amp
DIMENSIONS (mm) _ W270 x H90 x D155 DIMENSIONS (mm) W270 x H90 x D155
4 Chance Street, Blackpool, England.
WEIGHT 4250 Kg. WEIGHT 4,140 Kg.
The Radio Shop,
lb Cherry Lane, Bristol BS 3NG,
9istributec in the U.K. England.
Stan Willets Limited,
37 High Street, West Bromwich.
D. C. Trading, M/S Waltons,
anc Ireland by: 1 St. Micheals Terrace, Woodgreen M22 4FT,
England.
55a Worchester Street,
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Electronic Components
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BC108 80140 2N3704
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BC178 14p MPSA56 20p 2N3905 80 Length width height
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8p
BC182 10p TIP3oC AL2 4 3, 1'n 58p
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AL3 4
8C182L 10p TIP31C 65p 2N5457 32p 3 2 65p
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80p 2N5458 30p
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BC212 1op ZTX108 AL6 8 6 2 116p
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Secondary rated at 100mA. BC214L 10p DIODES Plastic
Thy ristors
Available with secondaries of: 8C477 190 1N914 3p 1N5401 13p
6 0 6,9-0 9 and BC478
BC479
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19p
1N4001 4p BZY88ser. 8P
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BC V 70 140 1N4148 £1 40/100 £11/1000 62p
68p
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56mm dia. 8 ohms 70p LINEAR LM301AN 26p NE556 50p
LM318N 85p NE565 85p Plastic cased Tnacs.
64mm dia. 8 ohms 75p THIS
64mm dia. 64 ohms 75p A
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LM324 45p
45p
NE567 170p
SN76003 200p
TRACS Texas.
All rated at 400V.
LM339
70mm dia. 8 ohms 100p 709 28p LM380 75p SN760j3 140p 4A 70p
SN76023 140p 12A 90p 20A 185p
741 16p LM382 120p
70mm dia. 80 ohms 110p 747 40p LM 1830 150p SN76033 200p BA 80p 16A 95p 25A 215p
748 30p LM3900 50p SN76477 220p
CA3046 55p LM3909 65P TBA800 70p 4018 55p 4050 25p
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CA3130 90P MC1458 32p ZN414 75p 4024 40p 4068 18p
Rated at 10A. Accepts 4mm plug, black, 4001 12p 4026 90P 4069 12p
blue, green, brown and red 22p . . . 4002 12p 4027 300 4071 12p
4007 12p 4028 48p 4081 13p
CAPACITORS 4011 12p 4029 50P 4093 4543
SWITCHES TANTALUM BEAD each
4013 28p 4040 60p 4510 65p
4015 50p 4042 50P 4511 65p
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& 2.2uF @ 35V
1 8p 4017 48p 4049 25p 4520 60p
SPDT 70p SPDT centre off 75p 4.7, 6.8, 10uF @ 25V 13p
DPDT 80p DPDT centre off 95p 22 @ 16V, 47 @ 6V. 100 @ 3V 16p FULL DETAILS IN CATALOGUE!
Standard toggle MYLAR FILM
0 001. 0 01, 0 022, 0 033.0 047 3p
SPST 34p DPDT 48p 0 068, 0 1 40 SKTS
Wavechange switches. POLYESTER
Mullard C280 series Low profile
1P12W, 2P6W, 3P4W or 4P3W all 43p ea. 0.01, 0.015, 0.022, 0 033, 0 047, 0.068, 0.1 5p by Texas
0.15, 0.22 7p
Miniature switches (non -locking) 0.33, 0.47 10p
8P,, 8p 16 pin 11p 28 pin 22p
Push to make 15p Push to break 20p o 68 14p
14 pin 10p 24 pin 18p 40 pin 32P
1 OuF 17p
Slide switches (DPDT) CERAMIC
Soldercon pins 100 50p 1000 370p
Miniature 14p Standard 15p Plate type 50V. Available in E12 series from
22pF to 1000pF and E6 series from 1500pF to
0 047uF 2p
OPTO
CONTROL KNOBS RADIAL LEAD ELECTROLYTIC 100+
LED's 0 125in 0 2,n each
Ideal for use on mixers etc. Push on type 63V 047 1.0 22 47 10 5p Red TIL209 TI L220 9P 8e
22 33 47 7p TIL211
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Green
Yellow TIL213
TI L221
TIL 223
13p
13p
12P
12P
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25V 10 22 33 47 5p DISPLAYS
100 Bp DL704 1300 120p
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470 15p FND500 0.5 in CC í00p 80P
1000 230
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Carbon film resist
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Up to 15w w/wound 10p
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18-30v d.c. coil, normally
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1 pole 2 way 10 amp oblong clip in mains 7000, 11-13v Min. SONNENSCHEIN/POWERSONIC DRI-FIT RE-
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£1.50 BA145 17p
AF116 20p BD131/2/3 40p BR101 34p 2N3133/4062 24p Centercel 29p
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39p BB103/110 Varicap 24p
AF 17 8/80/81 35p BD140/142 35p BSV79/80 F.E.T.s 90p 2N5484 FET 613113 Triple Varicap43p
AF239 35p B D201 /2/3/4 92p BSV81 Mosfet £1.00 2N5956 87p BA182 15p
ASY27/73 35p B 0232/3/4/5/8 55p BSX20/21/78 16p 2SA141/2/360 36p OA5/7/10 17p
AU110/113 £2.50 BOX77 £1.15 BSY40 30p 2SB135/6/457 24p BZY88 up to 43 volt 10p
BC107/8/9 + A/B/C 8p BD437 58p BSY95A 14p 2SC372/644/735 15p FsZX61 11 volt 17p
;BF/115/167/173 18p BU204+Mount Kit£1.85 2SC853 30p AA133
BC147/8/9 + A/B/C 8p 10p
BC157/8/9 + A/B/C 8p BF 178/9 23p BU208 £2.26 40250 (2N3054) 35p BZY96C 10V 34p
8F 180/ 1 /2/3/4/5 18p CV7042 (0C41/44
CATALOGUE BZY95C 33V or 15V34p
BC178A/B 179B 14p 8E194/5/6/7 8p ASY63) 12p
38, 11 x 8 ins illustrated
BC182/184C/LC lip BF194A, 195C 8p GETI 11/E112 45p
sheets, listing approx.
RS lrravin high tempera-
BC 186/7 23o 8E200 258 324 23p 0C45(ME2) ture wire, 19/0.16, minus
BC213L/214B/238 13r 6E262/3 35p ON222 23p
P
5,250 items, photo 55° to 105°C, 600V
BC327/8 337/8 10p BF336/274 31p R2008B/2010B £2.30? printed on day requested, 3A, white, black or red.
BC547/8+A/B/C 13p BFS28 Dual Mosfet£1.15 TI P30 from constantly updated Half trade price at 54p
BC556/7/7B/8/9 lip BFT61 40p TIS43 (2N2646) 39 masters, to ensure latest 10M coil.
8CX32/36 15p BFW10/11 F.E.T 46p uA7805 £1.85 stock position, 75p (re-
BFW30 £1.15 ZT1486 £1.15 fundable with orders) plus PVC QUALITY TAPE
BCY31 90p Lisso 10m x 15mm grey
BCY70/1/2 14p BFW57/58 21p ZTX300/341 9p35 large 24p s.a.e. or lebel.
BFX12/29/30 23p 2N393 (M,4393) 38p
BCZ11 32p TRANSFORMERS 33m x 33mm green
2N456A 57pp
Volt BRIDGE RECTIFIERS 2N706A 18p
Ferromag C core. Screens 95- £1.13
Amp 105-115-125-200-220-240v
1,600 BYX10 34p 2N918 30 input output 17v IA x Trimmer: Post stamp
140 OSH01-200 30p 2N929 18p 2 + 24-0-24v 1.04A+20v type 3-3OpF 1 6p
5 100 Ex Equip 73p 2N987 46p mA. hese current ratings
I 10-8OpF 1 9p
0.6 110 EC433 20p 2N1484 £1.15 can be safely exceeded oy
30-140pF 23p
5 400 Texas £1.10 2N1507/2219 18p 50%. £4.90
2} 100 I.R. 48p 2N1613 24p Cassette Dynamic Micro GARRARD
34 100 840C 3200 58p 2N2401 35p phone with switch and twin' GCS23T Crystal Stereo
plug £1.80 Cartridge £1.20
OPTO ELECTRONICS Telephone Pickup, sucker Mono (Stereo compatible)
N RECTIFIERS Ceramic or crystal
re Diodes Photo transistor with lead and 3.5 plug.70p £1
t1 0
a0 stmp Volt
BPX40 57p BPX29 92p
N W M1 } 68 Bp BPX42
.

92P
.
.

OCP71
.
.

.
. 75p
. . .
Amp Volt THYRISTORS
W 1N4005/6 1 6/800 Op BPY10 92p
. . .
. .

i 240 BTX18-200 36p

1N4007/BYX94 1 1250 8pp 1 400 BTX18-300 41p
8Y103 1,500 (VOLTIAC)
0 1
BPY68 2" Red 16p 1 240 BTX30-200 35p
a SR100 1.5 100 9p 500 40506 80p
SR400 BPY69 92p TIL209 .125" Red 4
400
. .
1.5 10p
.

BPY77 14p .15 500 BT107 . £1.14

REC53A 1.5 1,250 18p Green 18p 6.5 500 BT109-500R/SCR957/BRC4444, £1.14
LT102 2 30 16p Wire end neons 9p
o 20 600 BTW92-600RM £3.40
BYX22-200 1} 300 25p 15 800 BTX95-800R Pulse Modulated £8.76
BYX38-300R PHOTO SILICON CONTROLLED SWITCH .
m 2. 300 48p £1.15
BYX38-600 2.5 600 BPX66 PNPN 10 amp
62p
BYX38-900 2.5 900 60p
BYX38-1200 3" red 7 segment L.E.D. 14 PAPER BLOCK CONDENSER JNTEGHILTED CIRCUITS
2.5 1,200 65p D.I.L. 0-9 + D.P. display 1.9v TBA920 TCÂ270 £2.20
BYX49-300R 3 300 35p 0.25MFD 800 volt 87p
BYX49-600 19m/a segment, common 1MFD 250 volt 64p TAA700 £2.40
3 600 42p anode 96p 85p TBA800 £1.24
BYX49-900 900 47p 1MFD 400 volt
3
RS 0.6in. green .£2.25 741/7490/7473 28p
BYX49-1200 3 1,200 60p
.

TV KNOB uA702 op amp 53o

BYX48-300R Minitron 0.3in 3015F (72) 709
6 300 47p filament £1 26 Dark grey plastic for recessed shaft y
BYX48-600 6 600 80p (quarter inch) with free shaft extension 74107/74122 38p
BYX48-900 6 900 70p COY11B L.E.D. 8p SN76228N £2.03
BYX48-1200R Infra red transmitter .£1.15 SN7 61 3 1/7 51 0 £1.55
6 1,200 92p .
SN76013N/ND
1

BYX72-150R 10 150 42p One fifth of trade CHASSIS SOCKETS £1.40

BYX72-300R Car Aerial 11p, Coax Bp, 5 pin 180° TAD100 AMRF
10 300 62p CA3001 R.F. Amp £1.58
BYX72-500R 10 500 86p 11p, 5 or 6 pin 240° din 8p, speaker CA3132
R.S. Battery Holder for din switched 13p, 3.5 mm switched
£2.22
BYX42-300 10 300 36p 74151 46p
1N5401 3 100 16p 4 x HP/SP 11 30p 7p, stereo }" jack enclosed 20p. CD4069 24p
L 1N5402 3 200 18p TAA300 wt Amp£1.15
1

m MR856 3 600 24p McMurdo PP108 8 way edge plug 12p TAA550.Y or G 26o
BYX42-900 10 900 92p
SPECIAL OFFERS TAA263/74LS192 70p
5 Multicore Solder 4kg. 16 or 18 or 20
2 BYX42-1200 10 1,200 £1.07, s.w.g. 60/40 £5.00 2500 mfd. 40v 68p TA.A320 £1.15
BYX46-300R 15 300 £1.19 0.1 mfd. 3507500v
7400/7401 16p
3 inch 8 Ç 'speaker £1.15, 7402/4/10/20/30
BYX46-400R 15 400 £1.75 10 for 50p 16o
BYX46-500R 7414/74132N órp
15 500 £2.00 New unmarked, or marked 10000 mfd. 15v 7438/7474/7432
BYX46-600 15 600 £2.30 3 for £1.16 27p
ample lead ex new equipment AY5 8300 £1,00
BYX20-200 25 200 72p 6800 mfd. 10v 3 for 90p 7483/74520
BYX52-300 40 ACY17-20 10p TIC44 28p 79p
300 £2.06 32+32/275v 3 for 90p 7493/CD4013 41p
BYX52-1200 40 1,200 £2.90 ASZ20 10p 2G240 £1.17 16 + 32/275v 3 for 80p LM3gUgppU332N/2UV reg t£a.i5b
RAS310AF 1.25 1,250 48p ASZ21 35p 2G302 6p
2G401 6p 8+8 mfd. 375v4 for 90p M4;54/TBA810 f;:a2
BC186 13p 1 mfd. non -polar
*Avalanche type 24p 2N711 28p 350v 10 for £1.19 TBÀ5500/745112£1.80
BCY30-34 2N2926 Op
Amp B CY70/ /2 10p 25000 mfd. 25v 66p ZN414 £1
Volt TRIACS 1
2N598/9 Bp
25 900 BTX94-900 £4.50 BY 12 6/7 5p 12000/12v 3 fnr £1.16 HANDLES
2N1091 10p G.E.C. 5% Hi -stab Rigid light blue nylon 61"
25 1200 81X49-1200 £6.75 HG1005 12p 2N1302 10p
Diode Characteristic, Equiv., and 4p capacitors 013, with secret fitting screws 11p
HG5009 1N1907 £1.17 061, 066, 069, 075, 08
Substitution Book 82p HG5079 40 Germ. diode 2p Belling Lee white plastic
10 for 65p surface coax outlet box40p
Transistor equivalents and L78/9 4p 2N3055 AY5 8300 10 for £6
substitution Book 138p Book 2 82p M3 12p Motorola 38p BC548B 600 tor £28.50 Miniature Axial Lead Ferrite
Chrome Car Radio facia 28p 0A81 4p GET120 (AC128 Choke formers 6 for 13p
BC556 500 for £28.50
Rubber Car Radio gasket 10p OA47 4p in 1" sq. heat 600 for £43.50 RS 10 Turn pot 1% 250
4p BCY71
DLI Pal Delayline 90p OA200-2 sink 22p 50 for £13.75 500 Q-1 K. 50K £1.70
Relay Socket miniature 2PCO 20p Oc23 27p BD437
. .
GET872 15p 2N2906500 for £43.50 Cópper cóéted
board
28 pin d.i.l. socket low profile 38p 0C200-5 24p 2S3230 34p 181' x 2 }"
£6.50 C106 THY 38p TBA920 10 for £11.50 40p
Colour EHT Tray 3000/3500 . . TIS43 26p
Nylon self-locking, 34" tie clips 3p Vero card handle Geared Knob 8-1 ratio.
1.5, 10, 22 or 750 µh choke 12p 10 for 65p 1}" diem., black 93p
.

MINIATURE EDGE METERS 62 Ç -jW Resistor

0-30, or 0-15, black pvc, 360° 100í/A f.s.d., scaled 0.5. 12V Illuminated KLIPPON 25A 440v
dial, silver digits, self adhesive 2.000 for £6.75 TERMINAL BLOCKS
blue perspex front, 35mm x 14mm £3.45 ON222 (superior matched Professional leaf spring
41" dia. 13p 8F181) 10 for £1.20
Mullard Semiconductor, Valve & 200uA level meter, clear front. clamp, twin with clip -over
Component Data Book 1976-78 50p 10 x 18mm £1.20 58 Volt 10 Watt Lene> cover 110
.)iodes,. ....5 for £2.50

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Strip of 4, 40A 440V 16p

VAT & POST PAID

MINIMUM ORDER £3 OTHERWISE ADD 50%
NO MORE TO ADD Prices INCLUDE
UK VAT and Post/Packing
FOR SMALL ORDER HANDLING COSTS (UNDER ALL ENQUIRIES, ETC., MUST BE ACCOMPANIED
£1.00 TOTAL ALSO INCLUDE 9p S.A.E.) BY A STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE

JUNE, 1979 595

 FETS/SCRS ETC AEROSOL SERVICE TOOLS
MOTORS TRANSFORMERS SOLDER SUCKER, plunger
All 240VAC Primary Union carbide N channel AIDS, SERVISOL
1-5 to 6VDC Model Motors, type, high suction, tefl ee
(postage per transformer is FET similar to 2n3819 15p Switch Cleaner 226gm nozzle, £4.75 (sparr
20p. Sub. Min. 'Big Inch" each. 3N140 or BFW61
Precision motors, II5VAC 3 shown after price 1. 54p. Freezer 226gm 65p. bap each).
rpm, 30p. 12VDC 5 Pole MINIATURE RANGE: 6-0- types 40p each. M203 dual Silicone Grease 226gmnozzles
Good Quality side cutters,
6V 100mA, 9-0-9V 75mA matched pair of single gate 68p.FoamCleanser370gm insulated handles, 5"
Modle Motrs 35p. 8 track mosfets in one can 40p.
12VDC motors, new and 12-0-12V 50mA all
2N5062 plastic (T092) SCR
55p. Plastic Seal 145gm £1.35.
£1.25. Cassette Motors 73p each (15p). 12-0-12V 55p. Excel Polish 240gm Good Quality snub nosed
100mA 90p (15p). 0-6V, 100V 800mA 18p each. pliers, insulated handles, 5"
6VDC ex. equip., 65p. BX504 Opto isolators, 4 40p. Aero Klene 170gm
Crouze geared motor, 0-6V, 280mA £1.10 (20p). 45p. Aero Duster 200gm £1.35.
115VAC 4 rpm new 95p. 0-4-6-9V 200mA these lead infra red led to Antex Model C 15 watt
photocell 25p each. 58p.
Smiths clock motor, syn- have no mounting bracket, soldering irons, 240VAC
chronous 240VAC 1 rev 65p (15p). 12V 500mA SURPLUS BOARDS £3.60.
per hour £1.75. 95p (22p). 12V 2 amp DIODES Antex£2.75
(45p). 15-0-15V 3 No. 1, has 14 encapsulated soldering irons, 240VAC

PBoards,
IN4004 10 for 45p. £3.60.
SEMICONDUCTORS removable £1.95. No. 2, Antex Model X25 25 watt
(54p). 30-0-30V amp 1
IN4007 10 for 5Op. BY127 this has at least C106
All full spec. devices. 741 8 £2.75 (54p). 20-0-20V 2
1 1
soldering irons, 240VAC
pin 6 for £1. No. 555 10 for 75p. IN914 (50V 2.5A( plastic SCR's, £3.60.
amp £3.50 (54p). 0-12- (numbered) 100 for £2.50.
Timers 22p each. TBA800
audio IC's 50p. 7415 (wide
bandwidth) 35p.LM38e
15-20-24-30V 2 amp
£4.50 (54p). 20V 2.5 amp
80 ZN414 Raio IC 75p.£2.20 (54p).
for £2.25.c
IN4148 (numbered) 100
one relay a unijunction tran-
sistor and tantalum
Boards, e
these arer a com-
I.F.
Antex ST3 iron stands, suits
all above models £1.40
Antex heat shunts 12p
each.
LM3900 40p each. TIL305 plete I.F. board assembly
-

made for car radios, each: of Solder Mop 45p

alpha numerical displays MURATA MA401 each.
£2.50. Miniature LDR's TRIAC/XENON PULSE 40kHz Transducers. Rec./ 465Khz, full set of IF's and Neon Tester Screwdrivers
(same spec. as ORP12) TRANSFORMERS Sender £3.25 P air. oscillator coils, trimmers 8". long 40p each.
etc., 40p each. No. 4, Lamp
30p. 1 :1 (gpoy
style) 30p. 1:1 flasher board, suitable fo
Myama IC test clips 16 pin
plus sub. min. pcb moun- £1.75.
1

ting type 60p each.

low load 2x. 0 V C
PROJECT BOXES ELECTRICAL ITEMS applications, approx. flash 1

Sturdy ABS black plastic per second but can be SWITCHES

boxes with brass inserts and 12 way Choc Blocks via preset pot. 38p
or 5 amp18p per 2 armp Sub. miniature toggles;
lid. 75 x 56 x 35mm 43p. MICROPHONES varied SPST (8 x 5 x 7mm) 45p.
95 x 71 x 35mm 50p. 115 amp Rubber Extension DPDT 8 x x 7mm 50p.
ECM105 Condenser, Omni
ampPlasticFusedDPDT
e7

x 95 x 37mm 580. Sockets, white 38peach. POWER SUPPLIES

Directional, 600 ohms, centre off 12 x 11 x
on/off switch £2.95.9voltDC120mAregulated 13 9mm 75p.
Plugs (foreign) 25p each.
supply, will replace PP9
PUSH
VERO POTTING BOXES EM506 Condenser Cardiod, SWITCHES, 16 x 6mm, red
Uni directional, 600 or 50K etc., £2.25. SWITCHED top, push to make 14p
49 x 71 x 24mm, available TYPE, plugs into 13 amp
in black or white with lid ohms 30-18Khz, heavy PUSH BUTTON TV
each, push to break version
chromed copper case socket, has 3-4.5-6-7.5 and (black top) 16p each.
and 4 screws 39p each. TUNERS 9 volt DC out at either 100
£12.95. DYNAMIC Stick SLIDE SWITCHES, all
mike, 5,000 ohms, on/off UHF, not varicap, tran- or 400mA, switchable DPDT; 15 x 8 x 12mm 12p,
VERO 'HAND HELD BOX' switch, fitted with std. jack sistorised new £2.25 £3.25 HC244R 16 x 11 x 9 12p. 22 x 13 x
White ABS, 2.4" x 3.7" £2.95. E M1 04 Sub. STABILISED SUPPLY, 3-6- 8mm 12p. 22 x 13 x 8mm
tapered, with screws 85p miniature tie pin condenser 7.5-9 volts DC out at centre off 13p. Multipole
microphone, 1,000 ohms 400mA max., with on/off slider, double action 12
each. TELEPHONE PICK UP switch, polarity reversing
imp., 50-16Khz., uses deaf COIL tags 29 x 9 x 11mm 24p.
aid battery (supplied) £5.25 switch and voltage selector
MULTIMETERS Sucker type with lead and switch, fully regulated to
STANDARD CASSETTE 3.5mm plug 55p
Big price reductions on MIKES, 200 ohms, fitted PPY exact voltage
supply 9 from MICRO SWITCHES
pocket size testers. Model with 2,5/3.5mm jacks, no load to max. current Standard button operated
KRT100,
pocket tea00 ohms per £5.25 28 x 25 x 8mm make or
1
on/off switch £1.25.
volt, mirror scale, range RELAYS break, new 15p each.
selector switch 1,000 volts DYNAMIC PA Clare Elliot sub. min. sealed Roller operated version of
AC/DC, 100K resistance, MICROPHONES, suitable relay 10 x 10mm 2 pole TOSHIBA LEDS the latter, New 19p each.
150ma DC current £4.65.. for mobileuse,e C/0, 1,250 ohm coil, new TLG113 0.2" Green 13p. Light action micro, 3 amp
Model KRT101, same spec. hand weld
ly 75p.Miniature encapsulated 0.2"lGreen 70 make or break x 20e x
as the KRT100 but range p
lead, 50k imp.£3.40. reed relay U.1 matrix moun- fused lens 1Fla TLG1070 7mm, 12p each.5 Cherry
selection is via prod inser- ting, single pole make, 0.2" Green Flat top 14p. plunger operate° micro, z
tion £3.75. operates on 12VDC 50p TLR120 0.2" Clear 17p, normally open, 2 normally
each. Continental series, MAN3A min. (3MM) 7 seg- closed, plunger 20mm long
CONTINUITY TESTERS sealed plastic case relays, (40 x 30 x 18mm) 25p
ment LED displays Comm.
Tubular withlead probe andwith
Tub flyr
batts.
£1.35,
REPLACEMENT
CRYSTAL INSERTS
35mm diam. x 10mm deep
45p each
24VDC 3pole change over
5 amp contacts, new 65p.
12VDC (130 ohm)
make and
C/O, 3
1

break contacts,
1
anode 40p.

BUZZERS
each.

ROCKER SWITCHES
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MORSE KEYS new 65p each. Metal Cas- 2 amp SPST, single nut
Beginners practise key 95p. ed Reed Relay, 50 x 45 x MINIATURE SOLID STATE mounting, various colours
All metal fully adjustable 17mm, has 4 heavy duty BUZZERS, 33 x 17 x 15mm (red, green, white, blue,
type £2.45. RIBBON CABLE make reed inserts, operates white plastic case, output at yellow, black) 19p each.
8 way single strand on 12VDC 35p each. three feet 70db (approx(, 250VAC 6amp rocker (all
miniature 20p per metre. low consumption only white) 21 x 15 x 13mm

80py
MINIATURE LEVEL 15mA, four voltage types 17p each.
METERS DECON DALO ETCHING available, 6-9-12 or
1 Centre Zero 17 x 17mm PEN 24VDC, 75p each. LOUD
.75p. 2 (scaled 0-10) 28 x SPECIAL OFFER 12VDC BUZZER, Cream TAPE HEADS
SEMICONDUCTORS With spare tip 72p. Mono cassette £1.3 5.
25mm 75p. 3 Grundig 40 x plastic case, 50mm diam. x
Plastic voltage regulators, 1 30mm high 60p. GPO Stereo cassette £3.00.
27mm £1.25. Standard 8 track stereo
amp all now reduced in TERMS: OPEN TYPE BUZZER, ad-
price, 7805, 7812, 7815, Cash with Order (Official justable, works 6-12VDC £1.75. BSR MNI330
7824 all 75p each. 7905, 25p each. SIRENS 125mm track 50p. BSR SRP9U â
JUMPER TEST LEAD
SETS
10 pairs of leads with
7912, 7915, 7924 all 99p
each. LM340T 6 volt 1
rnp regulator 40p each.
Orders welcomed from
colleges etc). 30p postage
please unless otherwise
liametPr gold coloured
horn, high pitched wailing
track £1.95. TD10 tape
head assembly -
2 heads
both a track R/P with built
various coloured croc clips shown. VAT inclusive. (rite of varyingq frequency, in erase, mounted on
each end (20 clips) per /23 14 pin regulators S.a.e. for new illustrated I ,VOC £7.45.
1

bracket £1.20.
set. 40p each. lists.

P ROG R ESS IVE

IF'sRADIO
New arrivals, 12 volt car 8 track stereo playback
stereo motors with pulley heads only 75p each.
55p. Car radio boards, complete
Car radio RF/IF and audio with6 transistors,
preamp boards 2 tran- choke etc., these are new
sistors, LM382 IC trimmers but no info available 75p
IF's etc., no info' 65p each. each.
31 CHEAPSIDE, LIVERPOOL 2.

596
RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
BUILD TWO FREE
PROJECTS
ELECTRONICS BY NUMBERS
FISH'N'CLIKS
EXPERIMENTOR BREADBOARDS.
ON
No soldering modular breadboards, simply plug
CS PROTO -BOARDS.
THE ULTIMATE IN BREADBOARDS
Now using EXPERIMENTOR BREAD- components in and out of letter number identified FOR THE MINIMUM COST.
BOARDS and following the instructions in nickel -silver contact holes. Start small and simply TWO EASILY ASSEMBLED KITS.
"Electronics by Numbers" ANYBODY can snap -lock boards together to build breadboard of any
build electronic projects. Look at the
size.
diagram, this has the same letter/number
system as all EXP BOARDS. Look at the All EXP Breadboards have two bus-bars as an integral
"YOU WILL NEED" list and select Q1 this part of the board, if you need more than 2 buses
is PNP transistor type HEP -230. This plugs simply snap on 4 more bus -bars with the aid of an
into hole X9, A7 and C9. NOW take Cl ,
EXP.4B.
a 50 uF capacitor, and put into holes J6
'and J14 and do the same with all the
components.
NOW YOU HAVE FISH'N'CLIKS
ra EXP.325. The ideal breadboard for 1 NMI
SY chip circuits.
0 000.0 0000TRx
Accepts 8,14,16 and up to 22 pin IC's.
0000i00000000000000
D .o IIIIIIIII Pß.6 Kit, 630 contacts, four 5 -way binding
BO
w0O
O ONLY £1.60. 7EErE ..rrr posts accepts up to six 14 -pin Dips.
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000
E000 oolY0000 LMc--ol PROTO -BOARD 6 KIT. £9.20.
-° T1

0000003 EXP.350. £3.15. ÌÌIÌÏ IIi

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I
.O1000 o1000, 000çl 00/ 0000 270 contact points with Prow foal 1 no.100
k

Crystal 'Earpiece
-re
earth
two 20 -point bus -bars.
6
I

6 i Ì 2',n1p.
YOU WILL NEED EXP. 300.
B2- 550 contacts
B1,
Cl, C2-
capacitor
2x1.5V AAA batteries
50 uF, 12-VDC electrolytic with two
40 -point
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El - Crystal earphone bus -bars. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII';

01- Motorola HEP -230 pnp transistor £5.75.
R1- 5000 -ohm pot
R2- 27000 -ohm, Y. watt resistor
S1- Spst switch part of R1
T1- Mini transistor output transformer; EXP. 650 for Micro- 'ÌÏ ÌÚ Ï IÌ
500 -ohm center tapped primary to processors. £3.60.
8 -ohm secondary
EXP- ANY EXP. BREADBOARD.
The anglers dream come true. This electronic
EXP 4B.
marvel emits a CLIK-CLIK sound that More bus -
makes fish really hungry. Shove the whole bars. 11111 11111 11111 11111 11111 Illlf,11111 11111 r P6.100 Kit complete with 760 contacts
works in a watertight container lower it £2.30. un, inn mu
Il 11111 1111/11111 11111 IIIII, accepts OD to ten 14 -pin Dips, with two
over the side and wait for the fish to grab binding posts and sturdy base. Large capa-
the hook. ALL EXP.300 Breadboards mix and match with 600 city with Kit economy.
series. PROTO -BOARD 100 KIT £11.80.
FILL IN THE COUPON AND WE WILL
SEND YOU FREE OF CHARGE A COPY HOW TO ORDER AND RECEIVE FREE COPY OF FISH'N'CLIKS PROJECT WITH
OF THE FULL PROJECT FISH'N'CLIKS,
AND A COPY OF PROJECT No 1 "TWO BONUS OF FREE TWO TRANSISTOR RADIO PROJECT.
TRANSISTOR RADIO". CSC UK LTD. Unit 1, Shire Hill Industrial Estate, Saffron Walden, Essex C811 3AQ.
It's easy. Give us your name and full postal address, in block capitals. Enclose cheque, postal
credit card number and expiry date. OR telephone 0799 21682 and give order or
PROTO -CLIP TEST CLIPS. Express or Barclaycard number and your order will be in the post that night.your Access, American
us
Brings IC leads up from crowded PC boards. EXPERIMENTOR. CONTACT HOLES. IC CAPACITY UNIT PRICE
Available plain or with cable with clips at BREADBOARDS. 14 PIN.DIP. INCLUDING POSTAGE
one or both ends.
AND V.A.T.
EXP. 325 130 1 £ 2.53
EXP. 350 270 3 £ 4.21
EXP. 300 550 6 £ 7.29
EXP. 650 270 with 0.6
PC - 16 pin. £2.75.
use
pitch Dip's
PC - 16 pin with cable. .l EXP. 48. Four 40 Point Bus -Bar Strip
£
£
4.69
3.29
£6.00. Bus -Bars
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 PP9 EL IM/NA TOR
UNIT
By M. V. Hastings

Supplies current up to 1 00mA

Fully regulated

Fantastic savings in running costs

This simple and inexpensive eliminator unit is as, otherwise, it would in most instances be
designed to fit into the battery compartment of a necessary to open the back of the receiver to switch
transistor radio which normally employs a PP9 the unit on and off. The receiver on -off switch may
battery, thereby enabling the radio to run from the be left turned on all the time, the set being switched
mains supply. When the portability given by on and off by the eliminator mains switch. This is
battery operation is not required, or is required preferable to having the eliminator permanently
only occasionally, the eliminator unit offers far running and switching on and off at the receiver
lower running costs, these being of the order of 300 switch.
to 400 hours of use for one penny! The initial price T1 is a sub -miniature mains transformer having
of the eliminator is obviously higher than that of a a secondary rated at 12-0-12 volts at 100mA.
replacement battery, but the extra expense in- Transformers with these secondary ratings are
volved will soon be recovered in saved battery available from a number of suppliers, including
costs. Fitting the eliminator does not preclude Home Radio. The secondary connects to the full -
future battery operation; the unit is built in a case wave rectifier circuit given by diodes D1 and D2,
slightly smaller than a PP9 battery, and it can be and reservoir capacitor Cl.
fitted and removed as easily as can a battery. The voltage regulator circuit incorporates TR1,
A power supply of this type is also very useful to TR2 and TR3, and employs a well-known con-
have in the electronics workshop when building, figuration. TR1 is conducting all the time, and its
testing and servicing small items of equipment in-
tended for 9 volt operation. The unit gives a
nominal output of 9 volts at currents up to 100mA
maximum. It incorporates output current limiting
which prevents the current from rising much above F5'
100mA even if the output is short-circuited. The 3 DI
2A TI
output is well stabilized and the voltage drop g
11,14001
between zero load and full output current is only L 12V

about 100mV. The output is also well smoothed,

with hum and noise level being a fraction of a
millivolt at low load currents and only a few 240V
millivolts at full load. A.C.
mains
12
THE CIRCUIT
Fig. 1 gives the complete circuit of the PP9
battery eliminator.
The mains supply is applied via the fuse FS1 and
on -off switch Si to the primary of the isolating and
step-down transformer Ti. The fuse and the on -off b
BC108 2N2219 2N3711
000
switch are not included with the other circuitry of Lead-outs Lead-outs
the unit. The fuse is fitted in the 13 amp 3 -way b e

mains plug which supplies the eliminator, and the

switch is inserted in the mains lead at any con- Fig. 1. The circuit of the PP9 battery eliminator.
venient point. It is, of course, desirable to have the This offers a stabilized output at slightly less
mains on -off switch separate from the eliminator than 9 volts with a current limit of 100mA
600 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
i
 The eliminator unit is hous-
ed in a plastic case having.
approximately the same
dimensions as a PP9 battery

emitter is held at about 8.2 volts above the negative circuit cannot be maintained indefinitely unless
rail by zener diode D3. TR2 is an emitter follower TR2 is provided with adequate heatsinking. TR2
and its emitter couples via R2 (part of the current would otherwise overheat and be damaged. In
overload circuit, which is described shortly) to the practice it is as unlikely that a continual short-
base of TRl. After switch -on, the voltage at the circuit would be put on the output of the unit as it
emitter of TR2 rises until it reaches 8.85 volts, would be on the terminals of the PP9 battery it
whereupon the consequent 0.65 volt across the replaces, and it was considered not worth -while
base-emitter junction of TR1 causes this transistor equipping TR2 with a heatsink.
to pass collector current. If the voltage at TR1 base
attempts to rise higher it causes TR1 to pass a CONSTRUCTION
heavier collector current, thereby reducing the
voltage at TR2 base and counteracting the rise in The prototype eliminator is housed in a black
voltage at TR1 base. As can be seen, a negative A.B.S. plastic box measuring 75 by 56 by 35mm,
feedback loop is set up as soon as TR1 commences which is available from Progressive Radio, 31
to pass collector current, and this stabilizes the out- Cheapside, Liverpool 2. This box fitted comfor-
put voltage at the zener diode voltage of 8.2 volts
plus the 0.65 volt in the base -emitter junction of
TR1. COMPONENTS
If a load current is now drawn from the output, it Resistors
will attempt to take TR1 base negative. The collec-
tor current of TR1 will then reduce and allow more (All 4 watt 5°0)
current to flow into TR2 base via R1, whereupon R1 1.5kn
the output current available from TR1 emitter in- R2 6.8 n
creases and brings the output voltage back to the Capacitors
stabilized level. Cl 680uF electrolytic, 25V Wkg.
C2 smoothes any noise or hum present across D3 C2 l0uF electrolytic, 25V Wkg
and its presence gives a lower noise and hum level C3 100uF electrolytic, 10V Wkg
on the output. The final smoothing capacitor, C3, Transformer
also reduces noise and hum. C3 is beneficial when Ti Mains transformer, secondary 12-0-12V
the eliminator is supplying a receiver having a at lOOmA
Class B a.f. output stage since it enables brief
current peaks in excess of the output current limit Semiconductors
to be supplied. The stablilizing action of TR1 and TR1 BC108 D1 1N4001
TR2 gives further electronic smoothing of the out- TR2 2N2219 D2 1N4001
put voltage and is, indeed, largely responsible for TR3 2N3711 D3 BZY88C8V2
the very low noise and hum levels. Snitch
The output current flows through R2, and this S1 s.p.s.t. "pressil" (see text)
has no effect on circuit operation until the current
rises to around 100mA. The voltage dropped across
R2 then exceeds 0.65 volt, causing TR3 to turn on FS1 2A tsee text)
and draw a collector current through R1. It then
becomes impossible to draw on increased output
current, since this merely results in TR3 reducing A.B.S. plastic case (see text
the voltage at TR2 base with the consequence that Verobox type 75-1469-L
the output voltage falls. Even if the output is short- Veroboard, 0.01 in. matrix
circuited the output current will still only be 13A mains plug
typically a little in excess of 100mA, with TR3 con- PP9 battery connectors
ducting sufficiently to bring the output voltage Connection block (see text,
down to zero. :t -core mains lead
The unit cannot then be damaged due to tem- \ um bolts. wire. solder et(
.

porary overloading, although an output short-

.JUNE, 1979
 Direction of copper strips

1 3 5 7 9 II 13 15

o
o

o
0

o
o

o
o

o
o

o
0

o
0
o

o
0
o

0
0

0
0

0
0

0
0
0
0

0
0 0

0
0
0

0
6BA clear

o o o o 0 o 0 0 0 0 0

O
TR2
1 0 0 0 0 0

o R1 o o

O O 0

o o ob TR3

o
T1

D2
o

o C3
o

0 o
brn(L)
/y (E)
o o 0

Neg. output

Pos. output
o

blue (N)
Mains lead

Fig. 2. Wiring up the eliminator unit. All the smell components are assembled on a Veroboard module

tably into the battery compartment of the author's side of the box adjacent to the component panel.
Fidelity RAD15 set, for which it was intended. The component board consists of a piece of 0.1
Presumably, the same case should be of a suitable in. matrix Veroboard having 16 holes by 17 copper
size for installation in other receivers designed to strips, as shown in Fig. 2. This diagram gives
take a PP9 battery. details of the wiring on the board and also the other
The mains transformer is mounted at one end of wiring in the unit. There are no breaks in the
the case, being secured by two short 4BA screws copper strips. The board is mounted in the case by
and nuts. A solder tag is held under one of the nuts means of two 6BA bolts and nuts, the board being
to allow the transformer frame and core to be oriented so that these are furthest away from the
earthed. It must be mounted as close to the end of mains transformer. Spacing washers or several
the case as possible to allow sufficient space for the 6BA nuts, are fitted over the bolts between the case
component board. An entrance hole for the mains and the underside of the board to prevent strain on
lead is made high up on one of the long sides of the the latter when the mounting nuts are tightened.
box and is fitted with a grommet. The mains lead The two connections between the mains lead and
should be secured inside the case with a plastic or the primary of T1 are made via a plastic connector
plastic -faced clip. Two small holes for the output block of the type intended for mains wiring. These
leads are drilled at roughly the centre of the short are normally sold in 12 -way lengths, and it is

Removing the lid of the

eliminator case. The 2 -way
connector block provides
connection between the
transformer primary and the
live and neutral wires of the
mains lead

602 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR

 The complenen t :board The
Jerger transistor gee is TR2

necessary to cut off a 2 -way block with a sharp mains lead should be suitably clamped inside the
knife. It is advisable to cover the connector block, box at both ends. If the lead has to be cut to allow
after wiring, with two or three layers of insulating access to the live wire, the neutral and earth wires
tape to ensure that the mains wiring cannot come at the cut ends may be connected through by way
into contact with any of the other wiring. Alter- of a further 2 -way connector block.
natively, a panel of s.r.b.p. can be interposed
between the connector block and the component
board to prevent any accidental electrical contact USING THE UNIT
between the two. Before connecting the eliminator to the radio, its
The output of the eliminator is connected to the output voltage should be checked by means of a
receiver by way of two PP9 battery connectors. multimeter switched to a suitable range. The out-
What would normally be a negative connector now put voltage will probably be slightly less than 9
becomes the positive eliminator output clip, and volts but, since the actual voltage provided by a 9
what would normally be a positive connector now volt battery varies from about 9.5 volts to less than
becomes the negative eliminator output clip. This 8 volts during its working life, this is not of any
situation can be readily visualised when the con- great practical importance.
nector clips are compared with the terminals of a It is also a good idea to check that the current
PP9 battery. It is necessary to connect the
eliminator output to the receiver with correct limit circuit is functioning correctly. This can be
polarity. achieved by connecting a multimeter set to a high
If desired, the output clips could be glued with current range to the output terminals with a 47n
Araldite to the outside of the short end of the case resistor in series, as shown in Fig. 3. If all is well the
through which the output leads pass. The clips meter should give an indication of about 100mA.
The resistor limits the current which can flow to a
would then be presented to the receiver in a similar safe level of around 200mA if the current limit cir-
manner to the terminals on a PP9 battery. cuit is not working. The eliminator should be
As already mentioned, the mains on -off switch is switched off without delay if the meter reading is
inserted at any convenient point in the mains leads. well in excess of 100mA.
The author employed a "pressil" switch of the type It should not be necessary to carry out any
in which successive pressing of the button closes modification to the radio except, perhaps, to make
and then opens the switch. These switches are a notch in the battery compartment door to accom-
available from most electrical stores, as well as modate the mains lead. Some battery com-
from Maplin Electronic Supplies. The switch is partments have a sliding door, and it will then
mounted in a small plastic Verobox type 75-1469-L simply be necessary to have the door not fully clos-
having dimensions of 71.5 by 49 by 24.5 mm. A ed.
hole fitted with a grommet, is drilled at each short The negative output of the eliminator is at mains
side to allow the mains lead to pass through. The earth potential. Quite a few receivers have their
chassis and some of the exposed metalwork con-
nected to the positive supply rail, and this point
+9V
should be borne in mind if the receiver is connected
47n
to any equipment, such as a tape recorder, having a
1/2 watt chassis which is also at mains earth potential. No
Eliminator unit
Current -reading problems will arise when the receiver is used on its
meter own.
Finally, it should be noted that the eliminator is
only intended for use with items of equipment,
such as radio receivers, which have a fairly modest
Fig. 3. Checking the current limit operation.
current consumption. It cannot be used to power
The 47 n resistor prevents excessive current cassette recorders and similar items requiring a
flow if there is a current limit malfunction relatively high current.
JUNE, 1979 603
 NEWS AND
HIGH DENSITY POLYTHENE TAPE SOLVES FRICTION PROBLEM
problem, in the form of a high density polythene
tape, has been adopted by Muirhead Data Com-
munications Limited, manufacturers of document
facsimile machines.
The company's Mufax equipment will transmit
and receive documents, charts and pictures over a
telephone line or radio link, the image being
reproduced by means of an electrostatic charge
which is applied to the paper through a travelling
stylus. This stylus is carried on a rubber belt and
traverses the paper up to 600 times a minute.
Stability for the stylus throughout its travel is
provided by a 4in wide strip of high density
polythene tape mounted on foam rubber and
positioned behind the belt. The tape used is Scotch
5421 from 3M, which features an ultra high
molecular weight polythene backing. Its low fric-
tion properties and resistance to wear make it an
A strip of Scotch 5421 high density ideal bearing surface which gives long, trouble -free
polythene tape mounted on foam rubber is in- performance. Being self-adhesive, it can be applied
stalled behind the belt on the writing plate to almost any material without time-consuming
assembly of a Mufax document facsimile
machine.
mechanical fixing.
Users of Mufax machines include government
Linear movement, such as is found on recording, departments and the police, so reliable operation is
scanning and tracking devices can cause excessive of prime importance. A marine version of the
friction and wear between components, resulting in equipment, a weather chart recorder for shipboard
early failure of equipment if it is not frequently applications, is also manufactured by Muirhead at
maintained. A simple and effective solution to this their Beckenham factory.

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 a COMMENT
AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING NEW I. C. SOCKET RANGE
WORK ON COMMUNICATIONS
BY SATELLITE
In May 1979 The President of the Italian
Republic will present the Fifth Marconi Inter-
national Fellowship worth $25,000 to Dr John R.
Pierce, Professor of Engineering at the California
Institute of Technology, for his outstanding work in
satellite and space technology directed especially
towards improving world communications.
Dr Pierce retired in 1971 from the Bell
Laboratories where he was Executive Director,
Research, of the Communication Sciences Divi-
sion. His work covered research into radio, elec-
tronics, acoustics and vision, mathematics,
economic analysis and psychology. Dr Pierce has
been granted more than 80 patents for inventions
in electron tubes and communication circuits. In
1955, two years before the first satellite, Dr Pierce Winslow Component Systems Limited, the Kent
offered his first concrete proposals for satellite based Semiconductor Accessory Manufacturer, an-
communications. es- nounce the launch of a brand new range of I.C.
The Marconi International Fellowship was of the Sockets.
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EXTENSIONS TO SERVICE ponent Systems Limited, Southern House,
Sigtronic Electronics of 27 Malvern Street, bridge, Kent.
Stapenhill, Burton -on -Trent, Staffs DE15 9DY,
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vice which they will be operating from the begin- POPULAR DESIGN
ning of May onwards.
They will accept orders by telephone, number A those of our regular readers who have followed
0283-46868, from 6.00pm to 10.30pm every even- Sir Douglas Hall's receiver designs will be aware,
the
ing from Monday to Friday inclusive, and they are one of the most succesful of these has been
"Spontaflex S. A. 5" medium and long wave radio,
also prepared to advise on the components readers Sir
may need without charge. They undertake to which was described in the June 1971 issue. use
depatch orders within 48 hours of receipt of written Douglas has had the prototype in constant
confirmation, cash to be enclosed. All items are since the article appeared and has evolved several
new, and guaranteed for six months, and there is no worth -while modifications which improve its per-
extra charge for the service. formance.
Readers who are still using this receiver can ob-
PROPOSED NOVICE LICENCE tain details of the modifications direct from Sir
Douglas Hall at Barnford, Ringmore, Kingsbridge,
There is, of course, considerable controversy in Devon, and should send a stamped addressed
the radio amateur world as to the desirability of a envelope together with a 7p stamp towards the cost
Novice Licence. of stationery.
The European CW Association, who favour such
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1. A simple examination covering regulations
and
radio theory. 2. A 5wpm morse test. 3. Crystal con-
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 SUGGESTED CIRCUIT

AS:
Remote
Control Garage 1

Light by G A. French

One of the minor irritations of life less some form of isolating device is high resistance, and this will fall to a
for the motorist is given when, on a incorporated, the electronic circuit low value when it is brightly illum-
cold night, he drives his car into his which controls it has to be con- inated by a car headlamp. The
garage and then has to fumble nected to one side of the mains slider of VR1 is adjusted such that,
around in the dark to find the switch supply. The relay has the disadvan-
for the garage light. This article
with ambient light, the voltage
tage of having moving parts, and applied to TR1 base is significantly
describes a device which causes a the advantage that it enables the less than the 1.2 volts needed to
garage light to be switched on for a electronics to be completely
timed period, being controlled en- cause forward current to flow in the
isolated from the mains without any base -emitter junction of TR1 and
tirely from within the car. The light additional isolating components or D l TR 1 is, in consequence, turned
.
is turned on simply by flashing the circuitry. It is for this reason that a off. In this circuit state Cl becomes
car headlights on and off, one of the relay is employed in the design charged via R3 to as high a voltage
headlights being directed against a featured incidental is as the circuitry around TR2, TR3
photoconductive cell installed per- that a very suitable small relay is and TR4 will allow. When the
manently in the garage. The timing available from Maplin Electronic ORP12 is brightly illuminated by
period commences when the Supplies, this being described as a the car headlight the voltage at VR
headlamps are turned off and can "6 volt Open Relay". The relay has a
1

be extended by flashing them on

slider rises sufficiently to allow a
41012 coil, an operate voltage range forward bias current to flow in the
and off again. The period over of 4.8 to 35 volts and changeover base -emitter junction of TR 1 and in
which the garage light is turned on contacts rated at 5 amps at a max- D1. TR1 turns on. Capacitor Cl is
is about one and a half minutes, imum voltage of 240 volts a.c. rapidly discharged, with the voltage
which should be more than ade- The same relay was employed in across it falling to around 0.8 volt
quate to enable the driver to get out the previous circuit, which provided (given by 0.6 volt across D1 and 0.2
of the car and turn on the normal a slowly decreasing relay coil volt across the bottomed TR1).
garage light switch. voltage near the end of the timing
This idea is not new and the
When the car headlight is turned
period, the voltage eventually falling off, PCC1 exhibits its previous high
author used it some years ago in the below the release voltage level for
project "Automatic Garage Light", resistance, the voltage at the base
the relay. Light -weight relays do of TR1 drops and the transistor
which appeared in Radio & Elec- not, however, always take kindly to turns off. Capacitor Cl commences
tronics Constructor for September slowly reducing coil voltages and to charge via R3.
1975. The previous design tend to suffer from contact chatter. Thus, illuminating the ORP12
employed rather a complex ap- For this reason, a second heavier with the car headlight causes Cl to
proach which necessitated the use low voltage relay was included in quickly discharge. Turning off the
of two relays, and the writer decid- the earlier design to control, in its
ed it would be of advantage to
headlight allows Cl to slowly
turn, the Open Relay. charge again.
return to the subject with a circuit The present circuit appears in
which had simpler electronics and
required one relay only. The present
Fig. 1. In this diagram the SCHMITT TRIGGER
photoconductive device is an To avoid relay chatter it is
article describes the result of his ORP12 cadmium sulphide cell, the
work. necessary for its coil voltage to
resistance of which decreases as cease abruptly at the end of the tim-
the intensity of light falling on it in- ing period rather than reduce slow-
RELAY OPERATION creases. At very high light levels its ly, whereupon it is necessary to
An electronic circuit can, in resistance may be as low as 75 to employ a voltage comparator which
general, control a mains powered 300Q. It couples via R1 to the pre- has an inherent regenerative action.
lamp by means of a triac or a relay. set potentiometer VR1, the slider of An excellent choice for the present
The triac has the advantage that which connects to the base of TR1.
there are no moving parts to wear
application is a Schmitt trigger and
Under normal ambient light con- this is made up of TR3, TR4 and the
out and the disadvantage that, un- ditions the ORP12 will have a fairly associated resistors. When TR3
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ORP 12 R3
t1
Relay contacts

240V
470 kn D3 -D6 A.C.
R7 4 x IN4002 mains
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S2
IOkn

R1

I kn R2
TRI lOn TR2
BC 107 BC 107

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+ CI
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22 kn
IN 4002 BC 107 BC 2I4 L
Lead -outs Lead -outs

Fig. 1. of the remote control garage light. Switching on the car headlamps illuminates the
The circuit
photoconductive cell and causes lamp PL1 to be turned on for a period of about one and a half minutes

base is at a low voltage, with Under normal conditions, with seconds. Divergencies from this
respect to the negative supply rail, only ambient light falling on the time will be found in other assemb-
this transistor is turned off and ORP12, Cl is charged, the positive led circuits due to component
current flows to the base of TR4 via voltage on its upper terminal being tolerances, particularly in Cl itself,
R5 and R7. TR4 is then turned on. If passed via emitter follower TR2 and but in general the period should be
the base of TR3 is slowly taken R4 to the base of TR3. TR3 is, in well in excess of 1 minute and
positive a level is reached at which consequence, turned on and TR4 is shorter than 2 minutes.
the transistor starts to conduct, turned off. The voltage across Cl is The power supply consists of
thereby diverting to itself some of then held at around 3.5 to 4 volts mains transformer T1, diodes D3 to
the base current for TR4 which by the current flowing through the D6 and smoothing capacitor C2.
flowed through R5 and causing ad- base -emitter junctions of TR2 and The rectified supply should be well
ditional current to pass through R6. TR3 and through R4 and R6. Since smoothed, achieved by
The latter effect takes TR4 emitter TR4 is turned off, so also is the giving C2 the rather large value of
positive and there is a regenerative p.n.p. transistor, TR5, which is con- 1,000/2F. 51 is the on -off switch,
action which results in TR3 turning nected in its collector circuit. No whilst S2 is an override switch
fully on with TR4 cut off. The tran- current flows through the relay coil which can turn on PL1 regardless of
sistors remain in this state should and the relay is de -energised. The the state of the timing circuit.
TR3 base go further positive. relay contacts are identified in the
The reverse changeover will oc- circuit as RLA1, and the make pair
cur equally abruptly if the base of are open. The lamp, PL1, is
TR3 is taken slowly negative but, therefore extinguished. COMPONENTS
due to the hysteresis inherent in a When the car headlight is flashed
Schmitt trigger, will take place at a onto the ORP12, capacitor Cl dis- The components are all standard
more negative voltage at TR3 base charges, TR3 turns off and TR4 types. All the resistors may be
than that which instigated the first turns on. So also does TR5, energis- watt 5% or 10% components.
changeover. The hysteresis is of no ing the relay and switching on PL1. Switch S2 should be a type suitable
importance in the present circuit. Cl now commences to charge. Un- for switching a mains lamp. The
til it approaches the end of the tim- quiescent current drawn by the cir-
ing period the charging current for cuit from the smoothed supply is
Shade Cl is that which flows through R3, about 6mA only, this rising to some
because the base -emitter junctions 14mA when the relay is energised.
ORP 12 of both TR2 and TR3 are reverse - Despite these low currents it will be
biased. Near the end of the period preferable to avoid employing a
current starts to flow into the base subminiature transformer for T1
3
of TR2 also, and only a small further and to use instead a transformer
positive excursion is needed at TR2 whose secondary is rated at at least
base for the Schmitt trigger to go 100mA, or even quite considerably
through its abrupt changeover, with more. The latter will give good
TR3 turning on and TR4 turning off. supply voltage regulation, and there
1
The relay releases and PL1 is is also the fact that many sub-
switched off. miniature mains transformers tend
If, during the timing period, the to run warm if left switched on for
3,
car headlight is turned on and off very long periods, as can happen
again Cl becomes discharged and with the present circuit.
Fig. 2. The intensity of ambient
light falling on the photocon- the period commences once more. The ORP12 may, if desired, be
ductive cell can be reduced by Using the component values mounted away from the main cir-
fitting it with a simple shade, shown, the prototype circuit gave a

as shown here period of almost exactly 90 Continued on Page 609

.JUNE, 1979 607
 DESIGNING REFLEX
CIRCUITS
Part 2 (conclusion)
by Sir Douglas Hall, Bt., K.C.M.G.

Salient features in the design of reflex

radio receivers
SUPER ALPHA the collector of TR1 and the base of TR2 is out of
phase so that stability is good, though in some cases
Fig. 5 shows the author's Super Alpha "Spon- a resistor of about 10k is required across the r.f.
t.iflex" circuit which is far and away the best simple choke to prevent spurious oscillation at the low
circuit for medium and long waves that he has yet wavelength end of the tuning range. Input
tried. Selectivity is considerably better than that of capacitance at TR1 base is very low, which makes
any of the other circuits described, or that of a for good amplification of the signal in the tuned cir-
ZN414 circuit. It will be seen that, at radio fre- cuit L1, C2, and this, in turn, can have a very high
quencies, TR1 and TR2 operate as a Darlington or inductance -capacitance ratio. A coil of 200 turns
Super Alpha pair. Consequently the input im- close -wound of 34 s.w.g. enamelled wire with a *in.
pedance at TR1 base is very high indeed. Also, the ferrite rod sliding in and out of it will make a
output impedance at TR1 emitter is so low that a satisfactory variable inductance tuner for the
good match is offered to a low impedance detector medium wave band. C2 has a value of 30pF. An ex-
diode, which has its low impedance made even tra capacitor of 560pF switched in parallel with C2
smaller again by the direct forward current passing will enable the whole of the long wave band to be
through it via TR2 and R5. received. Alternatively, variable capacitor tuning
After detection, TR2 acts as a common base may be employed, using a coil of 115 turns of 34
audio amplifier followed by TR1 as a common s.w.g. enamelled wire and replacing C2 with a
emitter amplifier with a fairly high input im- variable capacitor of 100pF. The reaction coil, L2,
pedance at its base. The a.f. signal at TR2 collector should have 15 turns of 34 s.w.g. enamelled wire if
is routed to TR1 base through R1 and Ll. Such variable inductance tuning is used, or 10 turns with
back coupling as exists at audio frequency between, variable capacitor tuning.
A considerable increase in sensitivity at some
R1 R2 extra expense may be obtained by changing R3 to
IOkn 47kn +vv 68ka and shunting it with the large winding of a
crystal microphone transformer, such as the Rep-
R3 Phones or
anco TT53.
amplifier
15kn SHORT WAVE CIRCUIT `I

An excellent short wave double reflex receiver,

TRI also employing the author's "Spontaflex" circuit, is
BF 167 shown in Fig. 6 (a). This was first introduced, with
germanium transistors, in the magazine issue dated
January 1968, under the name of "D.R.C.2", the
TR2
letters standing for "Double Reflex Colpitts 2 -
BC 169C
transistor". Its function is very obvious from a
study of the circuit. TR1 amplifies, at r.f., as a
common base transistor followed by TR2 as a com-
C3 mon collector device. Then, after detection, TR2
functions as a common base a.f. amplifier followed
VR1
0OINF

R
II C5
by TR1 as a high input impedance common emitter
amplifier. Output can be taken by way of a 1k D
22kn 39On
1000 p earphone connected across the secondary of the in-
w.w.
R6
terstage a.f. transformer, or by a crystal earphone
C4
OA10 Y;33kn connected across the larger primary. Similarly, an
T47pF a.f. amplifier can be coupled to either of the
transformer windings according to the amplifier in-
put impedance.
Fig. 5. Described by the author as far and For short wave listening the reaction control is
away the best simple reflex circuit for given by a 100pF variable capacitor connected
medium and long waves is the design across the detector diode. This acts as a
shown here. It exhibits particularly good capacitance tap into the tuned circuit. Variable in-
selectivity ductance tuning can be used, if desired. With this
608 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 On -Oft
Fig. 6(a). The "D.R.C.2" short wave reflex +9V
circuit. Audio instability problems do not
occur at short waves due to the very low
.//, 4.5 1

Interstage
impedance at a.f. of the short wave tuning
coil
33 kn
Output
(b). The circuit can be adapted for v.h.f.
reception on both a.m. and f.m. A different
reaction control circuit, illustrated here, is TRI 22pF TR2
required at these frequencies BF115 BF 115
100
111115 pF

3 15OpF
470n
circuit the output at TR2 is in phase with the input
IOOpF OA 91
f
of TR1 but, because of the very small a.f. im-
pedance offered by a short wave tuned coil, the
base of TR2 is virtually at the potential of the Ikn I000pF=
negative rail for audio frequencies. It is thus easier
to maintain audio stability with reflexed short
wave receivers than it is with medium and long (a )
wave receivers. On -Off
I5 kn +9V
The circuit can be used for v.h.f., at which fre- Pos. line

quencies it is highly suitable both for a.m. and f.m.

signals. With f.m. signals the synchronous method
of detection is employed. The coupling capacitor IOOkn
100

should be reduced from 22pF to 2.2pF and the tun- ^. 6-2v

ing capacitor from 150pF to 15pF. A suitable coil zener
for Band II can consist of 6 to 8 turns of 34 s.w.g.
wire ,pace -wound on a former consisting of a lengt h
of the barrel of a "Bic" ball-point pen, the exact 1-2kn
number of turns depending on layout deisgn. Ikn
Variable capacitor reaction is not suitable for v.h.f. +
Si

and the circuit shown in Fig. 6(b) is recommended. 68pF "eGe 220NF
The 1k sa potentiometer varies the forward current
flowing through the germanium diode and thus its
impedance and the consequent damping effect of (b)
the tuned circuit. Maximum oscillation occurs with
the potentiometer slider at the negative end of its Fig. 6
track. The 33kü load for TR2 is replaced by a
100ksa pre-set variable resistor which is adjusted so maintain stable voltages in the circuit as the
that the lki2 reaction potentiometer gives good battery runs down. The two transistors should be
control. The silicon diode and the zener diode changed from BF115 to BF167 or 2N3663.
(Concluded)

Remote Control Garage Light continued from page 606

some constructors may prefer that When the unit is connected to

cuitry, being coupled to it by a twin
the circuit switch on its own lamp, the mains and is then switched on,
lead which should be kept well
the existing garage wiring then be- Cl will be discharged and the cir-
away from unscreened mains wir-
ing unaltered. It is of the utmost cuit will go through a timing period
ing. It is mounted on a wall directly
importance that the unit be in- before it becomes set for use.
facing one of the car headlamps
stalled in a proper housing which After completion and installation,
when the car is parked in its usual
allows no access to circuit points it is necessary for VR1 to be set up.
position. To reduce illumination by
at mains potential and that all ex- This potentiometer is initially ad-
ambient light it can be fitted with a
ternal metalwork be reliably con- justed so that its slider is at the
simple shade along the lines in-
nected to the mains earth. It will negative end of its track. The car
dicated in Fig. 2. It is of course ex-
be seen in Fig. 1 that the mains headlamp illuminating the ORP12
tremely unlikely, to say the least,
earth connects to the positive rec- is then turned on and the slider of
that the ambient illumination at day
tified supply rail, thereby allowing VR1 gradually advanced towards
or night on the ORP12 inside a gar-
one of the leads to the ORP12 to be the positive end of the track. A set-
age will even approach that offered
at earth potential. Precautions ting will be found at which PL1
by a car headlamp positioned a few
against shock from the mains must lights up and the circuit goes
feet away from it.
always be fully observed in a gar- through a timing period. The final
The switching part of the circuit
age, which normally has a concrete position for VR1 slider is just slight-
may be coupled to the main light
floor offering a high shock hazard. ly beyond that setting.
switch for the garage, although
609
JUNE, 1979
EXCLUSIVE SERIES
TUNE -IN TO PROGRAMS
Part 5
by
Ian Sinclair
Becoming Dszy
One of the most important features of a program- cL2
mable calculator is its ability to keep churning round
a program loop, displaying results or storing quan-
tities into memories. In Part 4 we noted one method
of stopping such a loop by making use of the [x=t]
unconditional branch key. This time, we're going to
look at another way of limiting the number of times
a loop is traced. This involves the [Dsz] key of the TI -
57, which is operated by the sequence [2nd] [GTO].
t
SKIP ON ZERO
The key title [Dsz] comes from the description of
what this key does in a program: "Decrement and
Skip on Zero". Decrement means count down by 1,
and what is being decremented is any number Mal ES ,H3
stored in memory 0. If, for example, before running a
program we key in [12] [STO] [0], then on the first
loop the [Dsz] operation will result in being sub-
1

tracted from the number in memory 0, leaving 1 1 .

On the next loop the [Dsz] operation will subtract 1

The keyboard of the Texas
again, leaving 10 stored in memory 0, and so on. Instruments 7/-57 programmable
Eventually, when there is only stored in memory 0,
1 calculator. Most keys have a second
the [Dsz] operation will reduce this to 0, and then function, whereupon facilities are
nearly double the number of keys
the program will skip one step so that the skip takes provided
the program out of its loop.
This operation could, of course, be done by using
the [x=t] operation, but some steps are saved in the
program when a straight count -down is needed by
the use of the [Dsz] key. We do not, for example, In our program we will start by setting the con-
have to program the steps [INV] [SUM] to arrange tent of memory 0 at 72 and decrement by using 1

the decrement, nor the [x=t] for the skip step. [Dsz] on each run through. We could, of course, do
Let's look at an example of this count -down in this by counting up angles, 0,5,10, and so on. It is
use. The average value of a wave over a cycle is a easier to use the contents of memory 0 to generate
quantity which is rather important. If this average the angle, however. If we start with the number 72
value is 0 then the wave is pure a.c., but if there is stored in memory 0, then multiplying this by 5 will
an average value which is not 0 then there must be give 360, which is the first angle to be calculated. If
more flow in one direction than in the other, so that we use the number in memory 0, and multiply it by
some d.c. is present. Now this can be calculated by 5 on each loop, then the result will be the angle we
the mathematical process called integral calculus, want to use. For example, on the second loop, the
but the programmable calculator can do the same number in memory 0 will be 71, and the angle will
job in an equivalent way by adding up the be 71x5=355 degrees.
amplitudes of a wave at a number of points in the The program, shown in Fig. 1, starts by setting
cycle. Suppose we decide to sample a sine wave the contents of memory at 0, and memory 0 at
1

every 5 degrees. Now, a complete cycle is 360 72. These steps are not repeated during the loop

points -
degrees, so that we will have a total of 72 sample
a rather tedious business to do using
tables or even a conventional calculator.
because we want to count down the figure in
memory 0, and to add up the answers that we get
into memory 1. After the [72] [STO] [0] step, then,
610 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 INVERTED STEP
Program Procedure
LRN 0 STO 1 72 STO 0 Fix 2 RST R/S Like most of the keys on the TI -57, the action of
Lbi0 RCL OX5= After 71 loops the result the [Dsz] key can be inverted by using the sequence
sin SUM Dsz GTO 0
1 (zero) is shown. [INV] [Dsz]. With this instruction in a program, the
RCL R/S LRN
1
sequence that takes place is that 1 is subtracted
Fig. 1. from the number which is stored in memory O. Then
if the number stored in memory 0 is not 0 the
program skips a step. If the number left in memory
For a calculation of the average value of sin 6 X sin is 0, then the next step of the program is used. This
(A+ 301, such as might be wanted for calculating 0 facility is nice to have, but we seldom need to use
power dissipation, the program would read: it because it's difficult to think of anything which
can be done using [INV] [Dsz] which could not
Program Procedure equally easily be done by using [Dsz] by itself.
LRN 0 STO 1 72 STO 0 Fix 2 RST RIS
Lbl 0 RCL 0 X 5 = After 71 loops the result There are a few points to look out for when we
STO 2 sin X (RCL 2 (31.17) is displayed. (Note program in the [Dsz] type of instruction. The first
+ 30) sin = SUM 1 that this program will take and most important point is that we cannot use
Dsz GTO 0 RCL R/S LRN about twice as long to run
1
memory 0 for anything else. In part 8 of this series,
as that of Fig. 1.)
we shall be looking at methods of keeping records
Fig. 2. of programs, but it's not revealing any secrets to say
now that we should always keep a note of what
each memory is used for when we write or record a
the program has [Lbl] [0], indicating where the loop program.
starts. Remember that memory 0 and label 0 are Because the [Dsz] instruction counts the number
quite different. Within the loop the number stored in of times round a loop, it doesn't necessarily follow
memory 0 is pulled out and its value multiplied by 5 that the number stored in memory 0 must be the
to give the angle we need for the wave amplitude number of times that a loop is traced in the course
calculation. The step [sin] now calculates the sine of
the angle, and this value is added into memory 1,
which stores the sum of the amplitudes of the wave,
struction in two different loops -
of one program. It's possible to use the [Dszl in-
counting down in
one loop, then reloading another number into
a sine wave. For other calculations some other ex- memory 0, switching to another loop and using the
pression will replace the [sin] step. as in Fig. 2. [Dsz] step all over again. How do we do it? Fig. 4
shows one method but you'll until we
The next step in the program of Fig. 1 is [Dsz] for
start dealing with subroutines next month for other
the count -down, and this is followed by [GTO] [0] so methods.
that the loop repeats. When the loop repeats,
however, the number stored in memory 0 has been
made 1 less by the action of the [Dsz] step, so that
the angle whose sine is being calculated is 5 Program Procedure
LRN 4 STO 0 Lbl 0 Load resistor value into
degrees smaller. On the last loop, with figure 1
RCL 1 + (RCL 0 X STO 1.
stored in memory 0, the angle is 5 degrees, and this .05 X RCL 1) = CLR RST RIS
is the final amplitude calculated. At the [Dsz] step, Pause Pause Dsz GTO 0 Display shows values for
subtracting 1 gives 0, so that the program skips the 4 +/- STO 0 GTO 0 positive tolerances from
[GTO] [0] step and lands on [RCL] [1]. This puts into LRN 20% down to 5%, then
display the total amount (sum of amplitudes) stored
in memory 1, and the [RIS] step then stops the
from -20% upwards
negative values then
-
negative tolerance values

program so that the final figure is visible in the dis- Fig. 4. repeat. To avoid repeats,
play. Note that the angle 0 degrees is not see next month's issue.
calculated, because 5 degrees is the last run and the
counter skips when the [Dsz] step is used. The value
of a sine wave is the same at 360 degrees as it is at
A few more assorted points on the [Dsz] key are
0 degrees, so that we do not have to include the
useful to know. One is that a fraction stored in
latter in the program. If, in some other program, we memory 0 is taken for the purposes of the count
had to include the value at 0 degrees (or 0 of
down as the next whole number up. 0.6 is taken as
whatever quantity we used) we would have to 1, 5.5 as 6. 14.2 as 15, and so on. This is ocy for
amend the program by starting with a number 1 the purpose of the "skip -on -zero" step; the number
!nigher in memory 0 (73 in this example) and then
stored in the memory is not rounded up. for
subtracting after this number is out of memory.
1
example, if we place 4.65 in memory 0 then use
Such a step sequence is shown in Fig. 3. the [Dsz] step in a loop, the number will be counted
down as 3.65, 2.65, 1.65, 0.65 (which still counts
as 1, so that there is no skip yet) and then to next
[Dsz] step makes the count 0, not -0.35. If the
Program
LRN 0 STO 1 73 STO 0 number which is placed in memory 0 is a negative
Lbl 0 (RCL 0 1) - number, the [Dsz] operation increments by 1, so
X 5 = STO 2 that is added on each loop. This ensures that the
1

remainder as before Fig. 3.

count always ends in 0, causing the skip.
JUNE, 1979 611
 This program calculates the gain (output voltage divided
by input voltage) and phase angle (in degrees) for a
4 7kn simple RC low pass filter.
In
Out
Program Procedure
LRN RCL STO 4 RCL 21
Load value of starting
Prd 4 RCL 3 Prd 4 Lbl 0 frequency (in kHz)
RCL OX RCL STO 5x2 4= into store 0, value
1 + 1 =,/x 1/x Pause Pause of R (in k S2 ) into
RCL 5 INV tan -/- store 1, value of C
Pause Pause Dsz GTO 0 GTO 1
(in,uF) into store 2
LRN 2X7' =STO3
Fix 2 CLR RST
Fig. 5. Simple RC low-pass filter. Gain and Pressing [R/S1 will give displays of gain, then phase angle
phase angles at different frequencies are for the starting frequency, and then for each 1kHz less
calculated by the program of Fig. 6. The until kHz. The end of the cycle is signalled by a flashing
1

program will, of course, operate with other display caused by the impossible instruction [GTO] [1J
values of resistance and capacitance than those (Label 1 is not used).
shown here
Fig. 6

GAIN= (T=RC)
i I+w2 T2
Gain ANGLE = -tanTu (W = 2nt)

I0 --100

08- Phase

06-
Phase
(degrees)
04- --40

02- Gain
--20

IO 12 14 16 18

Frequency (kHz)

Fig. 7. Graph showing gain and phase angles of

the low pass filter of Fig. 5 at a starting fre-
quency of 20kHz. The curves are plotted from
the read-out of the Fig. 6 program

PROGRAM STEPS number steps [15] [=] [65] amount to 5 program

Just a short note here while you pause for breath. steps. When constants like these have to be used,
An important difference between the TI -57 and the it's better to calculate the result first (15=65=0.23)
PR -100 is the use of what are called merged codes to insert into the program or, even better, to place
on the TI -57. When, for example, we program [Lbl] the full result (0.2307692) in another memory. If
[4], [STO] [3], [RCL] [2] on the TI -57, each of these, we use memory 3 for this result, then the program
the instruction and the reference number, counts as steps become [RCL] [2] [X] [RCL] [3], which is only
just one program step. On the PR -100 each key- 3 steps on the TI -57, 5 on the PR -100.
stroke counts as a program step. Because of this it
is difficult to compare the program handling capaci-
ty of these two calculators. Another important point
Next month -
subroutines, allowing us to use
more program steps then we believed possible. As a
which applies to both calculators is that each digit tail -piece, though, Fig. 6 shows a program for the
of a number which is entered into a program is gain and phase angle of the low-pass filter of Fig. 5,
counted as a program step. For example if we need and Fig. 7 shows the graph produced from the read-
the steps [RCL] [2] [X] [15] [-1 [65], then the out of the TI -57.
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Times = GMT Frequencies kHz

U.S.S.R. WORLD SERVICE newscast in Hebrew in a relay of the Domestic

This service commenced last year and has been Network B to Europe and the Middle East,
in operation for some time now, it commences at scheduled here from 0610 to 1740.
0400 and is on the air continuously until 2300 on a Jerusalem on 11655 at 1210, OM with a
wide range of frequencies. Entirely in the English newscast in the English programme to Europe,
- -
language, the programmes are intended for a wide
range of consumption worldwide in fact hence
the title `World Service'.
Middle East, S & E Asia, N. America, Australia &
N. Zealand, scheduled from 1200 to 1230.
The many frequencies used throughout the CYPRUS
period are complex, we present only a few below: BBC Limassol on 21660 at 1040, religious ser-
From 1000 to 1030 on 7300, 9600, 9640, vice in English to Singapore and Malaysia from the
9720,- 9780, 11705, 11740, 11810, 11820, East Mediterranean relay station, the English
11835, 11960, 11975, 12055, 15110, 15150, programme being scheduled from 0900 to 1130.
15305, 15350, 15360, 15440, 15460, 15510, USSR
17700, 17730, 17775, 17825, 17870, 17900, Radio Moscow on 21645 at 1043, YL with the
21615 and on 21645. English World Service, featuring at this time some
Massive coverage such as the above goes on Georgian folk songs and music. Also logged in
throughout the day on various channels but it is parallel on 21615. The recently innovated World
helpful to remember that from 0400 to 1230 21645 Service is entirely in English, see opening para-
is in constant use. graph.
Another listening period could be from 2000 to
2030, in which case the channels in use are 5920, PAKISTAN
6010, 6020, 6030, 6130, 6200, 7150, 7175, Radio Pakistan on a measured 21728.5 at 0735,
7300, 7320, 7330, 7440, 9490, 9550, 9630, OM with religious chants, YL with identification in
9745, 9760, 9785, 9795, 9810, 9845 and on the World Service to South Asia, Middle East and
12050. The latter frequency is in use throughout Africa scheduled from 0700 and to the U.K. ad-
the period 2000 to 2300. ditionally from 0715. Nominal frequency is
AROUND THE DIAL 21730. Also logged in parallel on 21625.
Radio Pakistan on a measured 11642 at 1805,

East Anglia -
Holbrook in the county of Suffolk -
In which recent loggings, made in the village of
the gem of
(the county not the village!) are
OM with local songs in the Turkish Service to
Europe, scheduled from 1800 to 1900 except for the
news in English from 1815 to 1820.
featured. Radio Pakistan on 21625 at 1100, YL with
SPAIN identification and a news bulletin of local affairs
Radio Nacional Espana, Madrid, on 11920 at read at slow -speed in English in the World Service
1534, a round -table discussion on Spanish internal to Western Europe, scheduled here from 1100 to
affairs. 1115. Also logged in parallel on 17665.
RNE Madrid on 11930 at 1530, OM with an- SOUTH KOREA
nouncements in Spanish amid recordings of local KBS Seoul on 7550 at 2050, YL with the French
pops. programme to Europe, scheduled here from 2030 to
KUWAIT 2100 (the English programme is from 2000 to 2030).
Radio Kuwait on 21605 at 1050, Arabic music, This channel is probably your best chance to log S.
YL (young lady) with songs in the Domestic Ser- Korea.
vice, scheduled on this channel from 0815 through
to 1305. CHINA
Radio Peking on 11445 at 1311, YL with the
MALTA Laotian programme to Laos, scheduled here from
Duetche Welle, Cologne, with a relay from 1300 to 1400.

-
Cyclops, Malta, on 17825 at 1123, OM (Old Man
male announcer) with the Japanese programme
for Asia, scheduled here from 1115 to 1215.
Radio Peking on 11685 at 1308, YL with the
programme for Indonesia, scheduled from 1300 to
1330.
Radio Peking on 15060 at 1320, YL with the
ISRAEL programme for Burma, scheduled here from 1300
Jerusalem on 17630 at 1147, OM with a to 1330.
614 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 Radio Peking on 7480 at 2045, Chinese classical programme for Europe, scheduled from 1530 to
music, YL with songs in the Standard Chinese 1600.
programme intended for Europe and North West POLAND
Africa, scheduled from 2000 to 2100.
CHINA - REGIONAL
Chinese regional stations broadcast programmes
Warsaw on 7125 at 1545, YL and OM with the
Danish programme for Europe, scheduled from
1530 to 1600.
Warsaw on 7285 at 1540, YL with a talk in Fin-
intended for local consumption. Dxing these nish in the programme for Europe, scheduled from
imparts a sense of achievement
logs them!
-
stations not only provides a lot of interest but also
providing one
1530 to 1600.
SOUTH AFRICA
CPBS Harbin, Heilongjiant, on 4840 at 2215, RSA Johannesburg on 21535 at 1335, sports
OM and YL alternate in Chinese. The schedule of commentary in the English programme for Central
this one is from 2040 to 0635 and from 0825 to 1430 and East Africa, Europe and the Middle East,
and is in parallel on 4924. scheduled from 1300 to 1600 (1500 to 1600 Sun-
Urumchi (in the new Romanised form Urumqi), day).
Sinjiang, on 4220 at 1543, YL with song in Chinese AUSTRALIA
in a relay of the Peking Home Service. This Melbourne on 9570 at 0759, YL with frequency
channel carries the Home Service in Mongolian details after station identification, 6 pips time -
and also relays Peking (Romanised=Beijing), the check at 0800 followed by a newscast in English.
schedule being from 2300 to 0555, 1100 and 1730 Melbourne on 11740 at 0750, OM with the
and also relays the Peking Foreign Service in Rus- English programme for Europe (answering
sian from 1800 to 2055. listeners letters). The English programme is
Urumchi, Singjiang, on 4500 at 1540, YL in scheduled here (at the time of writing) from 0700 to
Chinese in the Home Service, scheduled here from 0900.
2300 to 0710, 1000 to 1730 and also relaying the
Peking Foreign Service in Russian from 1800 to ITALY
2100. Rome on 7275 at 1548, OM and YL with the
CPBS Peking on 6345 at 1430, Chinese German programme for Austria, scheduled from
orchestral music in the Domestic Service 2, 1535 to 1550.
scheduled here from 2100 to 0030, from 0950 to WEST GERMANY
1700 Wednesday & Friday, other days from 1033 Deutsche Welle, Cologne, on 21600 at 1047. OM
through to 1700. with identification followed by a newscast in the
CPBS Peking on 11610 at 1115, Chinese music, English programme to Central and East Africa,
YL announcer in the Domestic Service 1, scheduled scheduled here from 1045 to 1115.
here from 0743 to 1300 and from 2333 to 0300. NETHERLANDS
CPBS Qinghai on 6260 at 2304, YL in Chinese, Hilversum on 9895 at 1335, OM with a talk
choral music, also logged in parallel on 6500. about the prevailing weather in Holland in the
Schedule unknown. English programme for Europe, scheduled from
EGYPT 1330 to 1420.
Cairo on 17920 at 1150, YL with news of local VATICAN
affairs in the Arabic programme for South and Vatican City on a measured 6221.5 at 1050, OM
South East Asia, scheduled here from 1115 to 1215. and YL with announcements in English, classical
SWITZERLAND music followed by announcements in various Euro-
Berne on 21520 at 1055, typical Swiss music in pean languages.
the Entertainment Programme for Africa, schedul- CLANDESTINE
ed from 1030 to 1100. Also logged in parallel on Voice of the People of Thailand on a measured
21630. 9423 at 1512, local -type music, YL with songs in
ALBANIA Thai.
Tirana on 7065 at 1530, OM with the Arabic NOW HEAR THIS
programme to the Near and Middle East, schedul- Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on 6250 at 2245,
ed from 1530 to 1600. YL announcer, local -style music, songs with female
chorus. The clock time quoted is just right for
BULGARIA reception of this station, Radio Pyong-Yang is off
Sofia on 7670. at 1535, YL announcer with
recordings of local -type music in the Serbo -Croat through to the U.K. -
channel, allowing the signal from Malabo to get
we hope!

BACK NUMBERS
For the benefit of new readers we would draw attention to our back number service.

We retain past issues for a period of two years and we can, occasionally, supply copies more than two years
old. The cost is 63p, inclusive of postage and packing.
Before undertaking any constructional project described in a back issue, it must be borne in mind that com-
ponents readily available at the time of publication may no longer be so.

JUNE, 1979 615

 BASIC SHORT
By R. A. Pe

Uncomplica
design ca
1.2 to 29

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

Five simple controls, of which one, for aerial attenuation, is only re-
quired occasionally, make this neat little short wave receiver easy to
operate

For the enthusiast seriously interested in short headphones are to be preferred for long periods of
wave Dx reception (i.e. the reception of distant, comfortable listening.
rare or otherwise difficult stations) the ideal Three ranges are covered, the frequencies being
receiver is, of course, a high quality superhet with approximately 1.2 to 4.2MHz in Range 1, 3.5 to
good i.f. filters, a b.f.o. and a host of other specialis- 13.5 MHz in Range 2 and 7.0 to 24.0 MHz in Range
ed features. However, even a fairly modest short 3. The set requires an external aerial of the long
wave superhet receiver can be quite expensive to wire type, but it is still capable of receiving a great
buy, whilst the less expensive approach of building many stations with a short indoor aerial if, for any
one's own receiver is only open to the more ex- reason, a proper outdoor aerial cannot be provided.
perienced constructor. The circuit of the receiver is given in Fig. 1. TRl
Fortunately, it is possible to obtain quite good and TR2 provide r.f. amplification and detection,
results from considerably simpler equipment, such and appear in a hybrid cascode configuration
as the short wave radio which forms the subject of which provides high gain and a low noise level at all
this article. This is a t.r.f. (tuned radio frequency) the frequencies received. TR3 is a straightforward
design, and it differs from a superhet in that it a.f. amplifier which also offers a high degree of
detects the received signal at radio frequency gain.
rather than converting it first to an intermediate The field-effect transistor, TRl, is used as a
frequency which is fed to an i.f. amplifier. The t.r.f. common source amplifier with source bias provid-
receiver cannot have the same sensitivity and selec- ed by R1 and R2 in series. Rl is adjusted to give
tivity as has the superhet but it employs much optimum bias with the particular f.e.t. employed.
simpler and cheaper circuitry, and it requires no The electrolytic capacitor C7 bypasses audio fre-
complicated alignment after it has been completed. quencies but, since it is not entirely effective at
Dx signals may be readily picked up with a t.r.f. set radio frequencies, the r.f. bypass is provided by the
provided that the operator exercises the requisite parallel capacitor, C2. The gate of TRl is biased to
skill and patience. the negative rail by the tuned winding of whichever
r.f. transformer is switched into circuit by the
THREE TRANSISTORS range switch. There are three r.f. transformers, L1,
The present receiver incorporates three tran- L2 and L3, these corresponding to the similarly
sistors, one of which is a field-effect type. It is numbered ranges. For simplicity only L2 is shown
powered from its own internal 9 volt battery and in Fig. 1, the switch connections to L1 and L3 being
has an output which is suitable for high, medium or identical.
low impedance headphones. It will also work well VC1 is the main tuning, or "Bandset" control,
with a single crystal earphone, but proper whilst the lower valu6 VC2 is the "Bandspread"
616 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
WAVE RADIO
'enfold

tted t.r.f. control. The manner in which these controls are

operated is described later. The aerial is coupled to
a tap in the r.f. transformer tuned winding by way
of Sl (b) and VR2. The potentiometer acts as a sim-
ple aerial attenuator and may be needed to reduce

overing the input signal strength if the detector becomes

overloaded, or if the loading effect of the aerial
prevents correct regeneration being obtained.
TR2 is connected in the common base mode, its
emitter being driven directly from the drain of
4 MHz. TRl. Bias is provided by R4 and R5, with C3
bypassing the base to the negative rail. The choke
L4 offers a high impedance at r.f., and a proportion
of the r.f. signal at TR2 collector is fed back, via
Cl, VR1, S1(a) and a coupling winding on the r.f.
transformer selected, to the aerial input tuned win-
ding. This feedback is positive and provides
regeneration, or reaction, the level of feedback be-
ing controlled by VR1. When VR1 is adjusted so
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
that the circuit is just below the threshold of os-
cillation, or is just beyond it, the effective Q of the
tuned circuit is increased very many times, allow-
ing the receiver to exhibit high sensitivity and
selectivity. With the present circuit the regenera-
tion also increases the detection efficiency.

+9v
SKI S2
iAe
t VR2
J
+
En C9
ÌIÌ L4
CI Ili
II
V
k VR1 TRI TR2
co
SK3
SIa 2N3819 BC109C Phones
I

SIa
42 3 Lii2
13
II C 3
TR3
I! BC IO9C
P 2
b2 IIMC2
Slb
3
! VCI Tc' R5
4

SK2
Earth I 000
D G S
3
2
0
o
0
O

0
4

BC 109C
L1 L2 L3
2N3819
Lead -outs Lead -outs Pin layout

Fig. 1. The circuit of the short wave receiver. One of its attractive features is a very low battery current of
2.5mA only

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 COMPONENTS
Resistors Inductors
(All fixed values ; watt 5%) L1 R.F. transformer type KANK 3333R
R1 2.2kc pre-set potentiometer, 0.1 watt, (Toko-Ambit)
horizontal L2 R.F. transformer type KANK 3334R
R2 470 (Toko-Ambit)
R3 lk Û L3 R.F. transformer type KANK 3335R
R4 6.8k ci (Toko-Ambit)
R5 6.8kû L4 10mH r.f. choke type 8RB 187LY103
R6 1.8M1 (Toko-Ambit)
R7 5.6k
VR1 lkc potentiometer, linear Switches
VR2 5kß potentiometer, log, with switch S2 S1 3 -pole 4 -way rotary with adjustable end
stop (see text)
Capacitors S2 s.p.s.t. toggle, part of VR2
Cl 100pF ceramic plate
C2 0.01µF type C280 Sockets
C3 0.1µF type C280 SK1 insulated wander plug socket, red
C4 0.0151 F type C280 SK2 insulated wander plug socket, black
C5 0.1µF type C280 SK3 3.5mm. jack socket (see text)
C6 270nF ceramic plate
C7 47µF electrolytic, 10V. Wkg. Miscellaneous
C8 47µF electrolytic, 10V. Wkg. Metal instrument case (see text)
C9 100µF electrolytic, 10V. Wkg. Headphones with 3.5mm. jack plug (see
VC1 365pF variable, type 01 (Jackson) text)
9 -volt battery type PP3
VC2 25pF variable, type C804 (Jackson)
Battery connector
Semiconductors 1 large control knob
TR1 2N3819 4 medium size control knobs
TR2 BC109C Materials for printed board
TR3 BC109C Nuts, bolts, wire, etc.

Detection is achieved due to non -linearity in TR3 is a standard common emitter a.f.
TR2. Negative -going half-cycles at its emitter amplifier, with R7 as its collector load and R6
cause TR2 to conduct more heavily, with a conse- providing bias. C6 rolls off the higher audio fre-
quent increase in current gain. Positive -going half - quencies and gives an improved signal-to-noise
cycles have the opposite effect. The non -linearity is ratio. C8 provides d.c. blocking at the output.
enhanced by the regeneration and it results in a C9 is the supply decoupling capacitor whilst S2,
detected a.f. signal being produced at the upper which is ganged with VR2, is the on -off switch. The
end of the r.f. choke. R3 functions as the a.f. collec- current consumption of the receiver is very low, be-
tor load for TR2, and the detected a.f. signals are ing about 2.5mA only.
passed via C5 to the base of TR3. Any r.f. signal With the exception of the three r.f. transformers,
present here is bypassed to the negative rail by C4. Ll to L3, and the r.f. choke L4, all the components

618 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR

 11
4BA clear capacitor, and it is important to ensure that the
bolt ends do not pass more than marginally past
the capacitor front plate as they could then damage
6.5
fixed or moving vanes. Spacing washers are
fitted over the bolts between the inside surface of
the front panel and the capacitor front plate. The
4BA clear
1l3
capacitor takes up its chassis connection via these
10 dia
mounting bolts. The chassis connection to VC2 is
made by way of its mounting bush and nut.
SK1 and SK2 are mounted on the rear panel of
All dimensions in mm
the case, with SK1 roughly opposite VR2/S2 and
SK2 roughly opposite VC2.
Fig. 2. The variable capacitor VC1 is mounted All the smaller components are assembled on a
by means of three 4BA bolts passing through printed circuit board which is reproduced full size
holes in the front panel. These appear round in Fig. 3. This is produced and wired up in conven-
the central hole for the spindle in the manner tional manner, and it should be noted that the holes
shown here for the mounting lugs of Ll, L2 and L3 need to be
slightly larger than the other component mounting
holes. For maximum accuracy, the mounting lug
are generally available. The transformers and the and coil pin holes may be marked out with the aid
of the r.f. transformers themselves.
choke are all manufactured by Toko, and can be As can be seen from Figs. 3 and 4, there is quite a
obtained from Ambit International. The receiver is lot of interwiring between the printed board and
housed in a metal instrument case type BC2, the front panel components. The board is finally
available from Harrison Bros., P.O. Box 55, positioned in the manner shown in the photograph
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex 5S0 7LQ. It has dimen- of the receiver interior, with L3 closest to
sions of 6 by 4 by 34 ins.
S1(a)(b)(c), and two 6BA clear holes are required
in the bottom of the case for securing it in position.
ASSEMBLY The wiring should be as short and direct as possi-
The controls and output socket SK3 are mounted ble, including in particular that to VC1, VC2 and
on the front panel, using the layout shown in the S1(a)(b)(c). An unconventional approach, but one
photographs. At the upper left is VR2/S2, with which will probably prove easiest for many con-
VC2 to its right. Below VR2/S2 is S1(a)(b)(c), and structors, is to complete the wiring from the printed
below VC2 is VR1. To the right, with the larger board to S1(a)(b)(c), VR1 and VR2/S2 with the
knob, is VC1, with SK3 below it. The precise board and the controls outside the case. Include a
positioning of the front panel components is not im- lead from the arm of S1(c) for later connection to
portant, although the two pairs of controls to the VC2 fixed vanes. The board and the panel com-
left should be centred on the same horizontal and ponents are then finally mounted in place. Note,
vertical lines for the sake of appearance. The out- incidentally, that Sl(a)(b)(c) is a 3 -pole 4 -way
put jack socket should be of open construction (i.e. rotary switch with adjustable end stop set for 3 -
not insulated) since it takes up its sleeve connection way operation. The underside of the printed board
to chassis from its mounting bush and nut. is held clear of the case bottom by short metal spac-
VC1 is mounted by three short 4BA countersunk ing washers. A chassis connection to the board is
bolts passing through 4BA clear holes laid out in made via the copper print to these washers. There
the manner shown in Fig. 2. The bolts fit into is also a wired chassis connection from one tag of
tapped 4BA holes in the front plate of the tuning VR1 to the moving vanes tag of VC2.
.JUNE, 1979
 C
C4
)
O
SK3

Si 2
L2
p + under

R2 r C2
Neg. battery clip

Vj
C )
6BA clear ---
O

)
2 4°

)
C )

3.15*

Fig. 3. The printed circuit board, reproduced actuel size. The letter and number references in-
dicate connections to the front panel components shown in Fig. 4

Shortening as necessary, the lead from S1(c) arm the ground at any convenient point and connected
may be connected to the fixed vanes of VC2, which to the receiver by way of a lead which should be as
connect in turn to the fixed vanes of VC1. The lead short as possible. Apart from increasing signal
from the board to SK3 may now also be connected. strengths at low frequencies, the earth connection
The only remaining connections should be to SK1 will also eliminate the otherwise inevitable hand
(from VR2 slider) and to SK2 (from the moving capacitance effects which may be apparent when
vanes tag of VC2). tuning in high frequency s.s.b. and c.w. signals.
AERIAL AND EARTH
Quite good results can be obtained by simply us- USING THE SET
ing a few metres of wire strung around the room as The receiver is switched on by rotating VR2/S2
an aerial. With the prototype, even a telescopic knob clockwise until S2 closes. Normally, the
aerial little more than a metre long produced good potentiometer need not be advanced clockwise an
reception of a surprisingly large number of further than is needed to operate the switch. Ad-
stations. However, as with any short wave receiver, vancing the potentiometer further causes the aerial
a better aerial system gives improved results. This signal to be attenuated, and such attenuation is
is especially the case with the lowest frequency only needed if the detector is being overloaded by
Range 1, and here an earth connection will also strong signals or if aerial loading effects prevent
result in a considerable increase in the number of adequate regeneration from being obtained.
stations which can be picked up. Overloading will manifest itself in the form of a
An acceptable outside aerial will normally be high background noise level and an almost total
about 10 to 30 metres in overall length, hung as loss of selectivity. Aerial loading effects are only
high as possible and well away from buildings, likely to be given with very long aerials and they
walls and other earthed objects. The earth connec- prevent VR1 from taking the detector to the oscilla-
tion can consist of a metal spike or pipe pushed into tion point at certain bands of frequencies.
620 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 When initially testing the receiver it is advisable transmission modes which are mainly used on the
to set S1(a)(b)(c) to Range 2, as there will be a large amateur bands, and these signals can be resolved
number of strong transmissions in this range at vir- by adjusting VR1 so that the detector is just
tually any time. If VR1 is set fully anti -clockwise it beyond the threshold of oscillation. With an s.s.b.
is probable that few, if any, stations will be receiv- signal the tuning must be adjusted to produce an
ed. Advancing VR1 clockwise will increase the audio signal of the correct pitch and very careful
number of stations received, as well as their and accurate adjustment is needed in order to
strengths, and will also improve the ability of the achieve this. Strong s.s.b. signals may be rather dis-
receiver to pick out just one of several closely spac- torted unless VR1 is advanced a little further to
ed transmissions. However, VR1 is a regeneration produce stronger oscillation or VR2 is adjusted to
control and not an a.f. or r.f. gain control, and if it decrease the signal strength.
is advanced too far the detector will go into oscilla- Tuning will be difficult with VC1, particularly
tion. This will be heard as a tone of varying pitch as on Ranges 2 and 3, as a small movement of its knob
the receiver is tuned across an a.m. station and will will take the receiver through many stations. This
make the proper reception of a.m. signals impossi- problem is overcome by setting VC1 to the part of
ble. For optimum a.m. reception, both in terms of the range which is to be searched for stations, and
sensitivity and selectivity, VR1 should be adjusted then carrying out the actual tuning by means of
so that the detector is just below the threshold of VC2. Since the latter has a much lower value than
oscillation. The setting of VR1 varies at different VC1 it covers only a very limited range of frequen-
frequencies, and it should be readjusted when the cies and enables tuning to be far easier.
tuning control settings are altered significantly. The required adjustment in pre-set poten-
C.W. (morse) and s.s.b. (single sideband) are the tiometer R1 will not normally be very critical, and
the best setting is found by trial and error. It is
necessary to include this potentiometer in the cir-
Sib
cuit due to variations in bias requirements between
different 2N3819 transistors. If R1 is set too high in
5K2 value (adjusted too far in a clockwise direction) it is
likely that there will be a lack of gain and regenera-
tion, with consequently poor results. On the other
hand, too low a value may make the set difficult to
operate and, with some samples of the 2N3819 in
the TR1 position, could even result in the receiver
ceasing to operate. It is really just a matter of ex-
perimenting with R1 at various settings to find the
one which gives the best all-round results.
The r.f. transformers, Ll, L2 and L3 are fitted
with adjustable tuning cores but, in the absence of
a suitable signal generator to set specific frequency
coverages, these should be left at the settings they
P.C.B. have when the transformers are purchased. The
(neg.rail ) receiver should then cover approximately the fre-
quency ranges stated earlier.
Finally it should be borne in mind that short
wave propagation conditions vary throughout the
day. In general, the low frequency bands produce
the greatest number of stations during the hours of
Fig. 4. Connections to VC2, VR2/S2, VR1 and darkness, whereas the high frequency bands
S I (a)(b)(c). Confirm with a continuity tester the provide good long distance reception during
outer tags corresponding to the inner tags of daylight hours and tend to fade out completely
S1 (a)(b)(c) before wiring to this switch, as after dark. There are no hard and fast rules here,
} relative tag positioning may differ with some however, and propagation can also be affected by
components
seasonal and other variations.
JUNE, 1979 621
WORKSHOP POWER
SUPPLY - Pen2 By R. A. Fanfold

The concluding article on this high perfor-

mance multi -option mains power supply
In last month's issue we dealt with the circuit marking out its six mounting holes. Before
design of this comprehensive power supply and finishing with this part of the assembly, check with
commenced its construction. We now conclude an ohmmeter that the transistor bodies are fully in-
with the remaining constructional details. sulated from the heatsink. Confirm also that the
HEATSINK connections to the transistor base and emitter pins,
and to the collector tag, are well clear of the rear
TR1 and TR2 are mounted on the large heatsink surface of the metal case.
using mica washers and insulating bushes. A solder A hole for the mains lead is drilled to the left of
tag is fitted under one mounting nut for each tran- the heatsink (as viewed from the rear). This is
sistor to provide connection to the collector. In- fitted with a grommet. A plastic or plastic -faced
sulated leads about 200mm. long are then con- clamp will be required to secure the mains lead on
nected to the emitter and base and the collector tag the inside of the case.
of each transistor and these are led through two
holes in the rear of the case, the holes being fitted COMPONENT BOARD
with grommets. The leads should have different Many of the small components are assembled on
colours, which are noted down so that the transistor a printed circuit board which measures 100mm. by
connections can be correctly identified later. The 120mm. The copper backing pattern of the board
heatsink is bolted to the rear of the case, near the is reproduced actual size in Fig. 5. The two fuse -
mains transformer end, in the position shown in the holders are each fixed in position by means of a
photographs. It may be used as a template for short 6BA bolt and nut. Mounting holes are not

Many of the small components are assembled on a printed circuit module. This is secured to
the base plate of the power supply instrument case

622 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR

 68A
clear

Printed board
100 x120 mm
shown full size

Fig. 5. The printed circuit board for the workshop power supply is shown here actual size. It will be noted
that there are two resistors marked R3 and two resistors marked R8. This is because R3 and R8 each
consist of two resistors in parallel

JUNE, 1979 623

shown in Fig. 5 and these should be marked out The wiring in Fig. 6 is point-to-point, with R14
with the aid of the fuseholders themselves. The and R13 being soldered to the tags of S4 and meter
fuseholders may have a locating pip on the under- M2 as indicated. In practice, the slider tag of R14 is
side; a second hole is then required for this. soldered direct to the tag of S4, the potentiometer
It will be seen that there are two resistors mark- body being horizontal so that it may be easily ad-
ed "R3", and two resistors marked "R8". This is justed. R13 is then positioned laterally between
because R3 and R8 each consist of a 1.2 o resistor R14 track tag and the positive meter tag. The result
and a 1.511 resistor in parallel. is an adequately firm mounting for these two com-
The completed component board is mounted on ponents.
the base of the case behind the controls with C4 at
the front. In the prototype, the board was mounted
with 6BA screws about 25mm. long, spacing ADJUSTMENT
washers about 10mm. long keeping the underside When the construction has been completed, all
connections clear of the case. It is essential that the wiring should be carefully checked to make cer-
the board underside be well clear of the case metal- tain that there are no errors. A wiring fault could
work; longer screws and spacing washers can be cause damage to components when the supply is
used if the constructor wishes to provide a really switched on. At this stage the lid of the case will not
good clearance here. The board cannot be finally be fitted, whereupon mains connections are
mounted in position until all the external wiring accessible at the on -off switch, the mains
to it has been completed. transformer primary tags and at the tags of the
neon indicator if this is a type which does not have
flying leads. Due care must be observed to avoid
accidental shock. At this stage R2 and R14 should
OTHER WIRING be adjusted to insert maximum resistance into cir-
cuit.
A multimeter switched to a suitable voltage
The eight rectifiers, D1 to D8, are wired in point- range can be employed for the first tests on the un-
to-point fashion between the transformer secon- it. The power supply is switched on and the multi -
dary tags and Cl and C5, following the circuit meter connected to each of the outputs in turn,
diagram of Fig. 2. checking that the range of output voltages provided
The wiring associated with the front panel com-
ponents is illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. When the by the appropriate control potentiometer is ap-
wiring in Fig. 5 has been completed, the component proximately correct. Next R14 is set up so that
board may be finally bolted in position. The leads meter M2 gives an f.s.d. reading at 25 volts. To do
from TRI and TR2 to the board may need to be this, S4 is set to select one of the outputs and the
shortened in the interests of neatness. Before wiring multimeter is applied to the output terminals. The
to the rotary switches, confirm visually or with an control potentiometer is then adjusted for a reading
ohmmeter the outer tags which correspond to each of 20 volts in the multimeter, after which R14 is
inner tag. With some switches their positioning adjusted to give a corresponding reading in M2.
with respect to each other may differ from that With the original scale calibration, this will be
80AAA.
shown in Figs. 5 and 6.

Detail illustrating the mains transformer and the rear of the case. The eight bridge rectifier
diodes are wired between the secondary tags on the mains transformer and the tags
of Cl and
C5
624 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 Behind the front panel of the power supply_ Point to -point wiring couples the panel corn
ponents to the remainder of the circuit

Fig 6. The remaining wiring behind the front panel. The mains earth wire connects first to the arm of S3
and then to chassis by way of the solder tag secured under one o1 the mounting nuts of M2

Jl'tih,, 1979
 It is next advisable to check that the current METER CALIBRATION
limiting circuits are functioning correctly. The two Perfectionists may wish to alter the meter scales
outputs are adjusted to 10 volts, after which each is so that they represent more accurately the currents
tested in turn in the following manner. Switch the and voltages that they measure. It is possible to
testmeter to a range which will allow it to give an remove the front covers of the meters and unscrew
indication of 1 amp, set S2 to the 1 amp position, the scale plates for modification, but it must be
and connect the testmeter to the output terminals strongly emphasised that this operation should
with a 4.7115 watt resistor in series. If the current only be carried out by constructors who have had
limit circuit is functioning correctly, the testmeter experience in this type of work and who feel com-
should give a reading of approximately 1 amp. petent to carry out this task. The meters have very
Should there be a fault then the maximum current delicate mechanical movements which can be easi-
which can flow in the testmeter is limited to ap- ly damaged by careless handling or by the entry of
proximately 2 amps. Repeat the procedure with the particles of dirt or dust.
100mA limit, but this time inserting a 47C 1 watt In the case of meter Ml, the legend
resistor in series with the testmeter. The latter "Microamperes" should be removed or covered,
should indicate about 100mA if all is well. Finally being replaced by the term "mA". The 0-100 scale
carry out the check at the 10mA limit using does not need to be altered. With meter M2, the
a 470 n- watt resistor in series with the test - term "Microamperes" is replaced by "Volts". Also
meter, whereupon the testmeter should indicate its scale is altered from "0-100" to read "0-25".
approximately the current limit value. As with the The existing "0" is replaced by a "0" in the new
1 amp test, the series resistors of 47 n and 470 tZ
figure type. "20" is changed for "5", "40" for "10",
limit the current which can flow in the testmeter to "60" for "15", "80" for "20" and, of course. "100"
about twice the current limit value. These checks for "25". The new legends and figures may be cut
must be carried out very carefully to ensure that out from "Panel -Signs" Set No. 4, which is ob-
there is no risk of damage to the testmeter. tainable from the publishers of this magazine.
When both outputs have been tested in this The unwanted existing letters and figures can
manner, S2 is set for the 100mA current limit and be gently scraped off, or they may be covered with
the testmeter is connected once more to the positive thin white paint. Again, it must be reiterated that
output with the 47111 watt resistor in series. Once the process of altering the scales should not be
again the testmeter should give an indication of attempted unless the constructor is fully confident
100mA. R2 is then adjusted so that meter M1 gives that he can carry it out without damaging the
the same readingas that given by the testmeter. If meters.
the latter should be slightly in excess of 100mA,
VR1 is adjusted to reduce the output voltage so that
the testmeter reading is just at 100mA. R2 can then
be adjusted for a reading of 100 in meter M1. (Concluded)

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RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 A SPECIAL No. 7
SERIES FEATURING
S-DeCs By Ian Sinclair

How to control a lamp or a relay

successive sound signals.
- by

This is the seventh in the series of articles The circuit can be divided into sound amplifier,
describing projects which can be built up on two S- pulse former, bistable and lamp driver stages.
DeCs and it deals with a circuit which is activated Since the lamp driving stage has a relatively high
by sound signals to operate a low voltage light bulb. current capability, the lamp can be replaced by a
The circuit is a development of the switching cir- relay coil (with parallel protective diode) using the
cuit featured last month in "Double Deccer" No. 6. circuit which was shown in "Double Deccer" No. 6.
A sharp intense sound such as is obtained from
breaking glass or snapping wood will switch the
light on, after which another similar sound will MICROPHONE
switch it off again. Alternatively, the reset switch The microphone connects to points 30 and 21 of
can be used. The effective range depends very DeC 1, coupling to the base of TR1 through Cl.
much on the sensitivity of the microphone TR1 and TR2 form a Darlington input circuit with
employed; it is better to place an insensitive a fairly high input resistance. Bias is provided by
microphone near the source of sound than it is to R1 which, because of the large current gain in the
have a sensitive microphone remote from the Darlington pair, has the high value of 1M (2 The
sound. This is because a sensitive microphone will voltage gain of the two transistors is no greater than
trigger the circuit too easily on stray sounds. For that of a single transistor fed from a low resistance
burglar alarm use (when the lamp would probably signal source, but the Darlington circuit has the ad-
be replaced by a relay operating a bell) an insen- vantage of offering an input resistance which is
sitive microphone placed near a window or a door is high enough to avoid excessive losses when a
better than a sensitive microphone in the centre of medium impedance or high impedance microphone
the room being protected. is used.

+6V
o
39
40

--1 y 029
30

Mic 21

25 66 20 56 60
2N697 2N2219 DEC I DEC 2
BFY5O TR1-TR7 2N697or 2N22I9 or BFY5O
Lead -outs D1-02 IN914 or IN4148

The circuit of the sound-operated light switch. The lamp is alternately turned on and off as the
microphone picks up consecutive sounds
JUNE, 1979 iì27
 is then in the ready condition with TR5 conducting
COMPONENTS fully and TR4 cut off. A sound pulse from the
microphone will, as just described, cause the
Resistors bistable to switch over, so that TR4 conducts fully
(All ; watt 5%) and TR5 cuts off. Current now flows through R10
R1 1Mn R7 1.8k sz and R11 into the base of TR6, whereupon an
R2 12kn R8 22k s amplified emitter current passes into the base of
R3 150kn R9 22k sa TR7 which turns on and lights the lamp in its
R4 22kn R10 1.81m collector circuit. Due to the high combined current
R5 150kn Rl.l 56k sz amplification provided by TR6 and TR7 the lamp
R6 150kn can if desired be replaced by a relay coil requiring
Capacitors a considerably higher current.
Cl 10tF electrolytic, 16 V. Wkg.
C2 10iF electrolytic, 16 V. Wkg.
C3 0.00112F polyester or mylar
CONSTRUCTION
C4 0.001uF polyester or mylar Clip the two S-DeCs together to form one long
C5 0.001/íF polyester or mylar DeC. A panel may be fitted to DeC 1 to take the
reset switch and the lampholder. The microphone
Semiconductors can be connected by way of screened cable, the
TR1-TR7 2N697 or 2N2219 or BFY50 braiding of which connects to the negative rail of
Dl, D2 1N914 or 1N4148 the circuit at point 21 of DeC 1. If the microphone
Lamp is already fitted with a screened cable terminated
PL1 6V, 60mA, m.e.s. in a jack plug, the best method of coupling to DeC 1
is to use a matching jack socket with two short
Switch lengths of wire soldered to its connection tags and
S1 push-button, press to make inserted into points 21 and 30 of the DeC. The
Miscellaneous microphone plug is then fitted into this socket. This
2 -off S-DeC approach is preferable to dismantling the jack plug
6V battery or soldering wires to it. If a new microphone cable
Lampholder, m.e.s. is made up, however, remember to solder its ends to
Microphone (see text) short lengths of single strand wire, which will plug
Jack socket (see text) much more easily into the S-DeC. Stranded wire
should never be inserted into the S-DeC as the
The second stage, TR3, functions as an amplifier strands have a nasty habit of separating and
and pulse former. The transistor has a fairly large catching in the internal springs.
value collector load resistor, and is deliberately Connect up the switch and the lamp, using single
overbiased so that voltage is just
strand wires, then plug in the eight wire links which
over 1 volt above the negative supply rail. Inciden- bridge the DeCs and the sections of each DeC. At
tally, this voltage can only be measured accurately this stage, insert R5, R6, D1 and D2, because these
with a high resistance meter. such as a 50k n per components also bridge the two DeCs. Make cer-
volt meter switched to a 10 volt range. TR3 operates tain that the diodes are inserted right way round.
at full gain, so that the signal applied to its base The fact that both diode cathodes are on DeC 1 is a
becomes clipped at its collector. The signal at the good aid for quick checking. The cathode end of the
collector will have a low voltage limit of about 0.2 component will be identified by a band, usually
volt (the bottomed voltage of the transistor) and a white, around the diode body.
high voltage limit approaching the 6 volts of the
supply. In the presence of signal, therefore, the Next plug in the capacitors. Cl and C2 are elec-
average voltage at the collector is higher than the 1 trolytic, so these must also be connected right way
volt level given when no signal is applied. This is round. The capacitors are followed by the tran-
another way of saying that the signal has been par- sistors, which are the same n.p.n. silicon types used
tially rectified by TR3 (a linear amplifier tran- in all the "Double Deccer" circuits. Check that the
sistor would never bottom or cut off). C3 acts as a transistor lead -outs are fitted correctly; the tran-
reservoir capacitor for this rise in voltage, so that sistor plug-in points have been chosen so that the
the action of a few sound waves reaching the full length of, lead -out is unnecessary in most
microphone is to make the voltage at point 42 of positions. Finally fit the resistors.
DeC 1 rise by a few volts. An electret capacitor microphone was employed
When the sound ceases, however, the voltage at with the prototype, and a crystal microphone will
TR3 collector will return to its normal level, caus- give similar results. A dynamic, or moving-coil,
ing the voltage at point 42 to fall in similar manner. microphone with an output impedance of around
The rate of fall of voltage is governed by the rate at 50k0 (as employed with many cassette recorders)
which C3 charges through TR3. The drop in voltage could also be employed, but in this case it is impor-
constitutes a negative-going pulse, and it will be tant to ensure that Cl is a modern component in
enough to trigger the bistable circuit around TR4 good condition, since leakage current here could
and TR5. The operation of a bistable circuit of this upset the bias conditions for TR1 and TR2. In
type has been fully explained in previous "Double practice, any difficulties here can be completely
Deccer" articles, including in particular "Double avoided by changing Cl for a iliF polyester
Deccer" No. 3. capacitor if. a dynamic microphone is to be
The reset push-button connects the collector of employed.
TR3 to the negative rail, causing a negative-going When all has been completed it only remains to
pulse to be transmitted through C4 and C5 when it insert two leads for connection to the battery, and
is pressed. This will trigger the bistable so that if the sound -operated switch is ready to go at the clap
the lamp were illuminated it goes out. The bistable of a hand.
628 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 By E. A. Parr

Concluding
article
describing
this exciting
electronic
SPECTACULAR
rifle game
A
ELECTRONIC RIFLE
GAME FOR SIDE-
SHOWS AND
GENERAL
ENJOYMENT

GUN CIRCUIT gun as possible, although this is not critical. Next, a

The. internal connections in the gun are shown in proper foresight and backsight were made from the
Fig. 3. aluminium and attached to the gun. Exact
IC22 is the 15V LAS photo -electric cell. The im- positioning is not important, as the p.e.c. was
age of the target light is focused onto the p.e.c. by a positioned later to take account of errors.
Now comes the tricky bit. A single light was set
lens. The mechanics of setting up the optics will be
described later. The sensitivity of the p.e.c. can up and the half of the gun with the lens in set up in
vice at the distance from the light at which the gun
be adjusted by VR1, but in practice this potentio- would be used (about 3 metres with the prototype).
meter has never had to be moved from its centre The gun was aimed at the light using the sights. A
setting. The output of the p.e.c. is monitored
by LED2 to simplify aligning the optics. This
l.e.d. should not. of course, be visible to the
budding marksman!
The trigger switch is a simple limit microswitch.

x
LED1 gives the gun fire flashes. In the prototype it 15V LAS
was mounted in the breech mechanism. The gun +12V
speaker was an ex -transistor radio 75cì speaker. It
was mounted in the gun butt to be just by the PEC out
to
marksman's ear. LED2
R17

C22 (monitor)
GUN CONSTRUCTION OV
The following is a description of how the R25
prototype gun was made. It is intended as a guide,
not a rigid set of instructions.
The machine gun was based on a child's toy. The
Gun LED f LEDI
X IC11,5

X OV
Connections
to f ig.2

original toy as purchased was made of two plastic Fire x ICç,1

pressings joined down the centre line of the gun.
These were easily separated with a sharp knife. A Gun trigger
53
OV

small convex (magnifying) lens was obtained from x1Cg,5

a Christmas cracker ,(other sources would do, of x Cg
course!). A bit of experimentation focusing a dis- Gun speaker LS1 4W3
tant light onto a piece of paper gave the focal X OV 15 V LAS
length, about 100mm. Lead -outs

The lens was now glued onto one half of the

barrel with Araldite (having first checked that the
two halves of the gun would fit round the lens). The Fig. 3. The internal circuitry in the gun
lens was positioned as near the centre line of the 629
JUNE, 1979
 metres long. Note that the OV lines are separated
out to prevent noise problems. The cable should be
firmly anchored where it enters the gun, for ob-
vious reasons.
When all is correct, the two halves of the gun can
be fastened together again. To allow repairs and re-
alignment of the optics, the prototype was simply
bound with black tape, which was surprisingly
effective and neat.

OTHER NOTES
The control circuit was wired up on an RS Com-
ponents stripboard No. 433-911. No layout is given
as the wiring is simply point-to-point. Layout is not
The gun employed in the rifle game. It critical, although the OV return from TR1 to TR16
connects to the control logic by way of a 12 - was separated from the logic OV. To aid transpor-
core cable tation the gun and target cables connect into the
control box by way of plugs and sockets.
piece of paper was then put in the barrel with The power supply uses two transformers. An 8
adhesive tape at the focal distance from the lens, volt transformer gives the 12 volt supply for the
and "spotted" where the light image fell. lamps and a 5 volt supply for the logic. A second 6
The p.e.c. was set up on a small piece of volt transformer provides the supply for the seven -
Veroboard with flying leads for connection to R24, segment displays. This separate supply was used to
C2, etc. The Veroboard was then embedded in reduce the current through the 5 volt regulator. The
Araldite and manoeuvred so that the active area of circuit for the power supply is shown in Fig. 4.
the p.e.c. lay behind the spot. It is advisable to
leave the leads of the p.e.c. long to allow it to be
moved by a few millimetres for fine tuning.
When the Araldite had set, R24, VR1, C2, R77
and LED2 were mounted in the gun and connected
to the p.e.c. The gun was again set up in the vice
and aimed at the fixed light. The supply to the
p.e.c. was turned on and the p.e.c. moved on its
leads until LED2 came on, checking the aim all the
time in case the gun had been moved. Care is essen-
tial here if shouts of "cheat" by peeved marksmen
are to be avoided later.
By comparison, the mounting of the gun flash
l.e.d., LED1, the trigger limit switch and the
loudspeaker was simplicity. In mounting the limit
switch it is better to have the trigger held back onto
the switch by a spring, and the trigger pulling the
striker off the switch rather than the trigger
pushing a striker onto the limit switch. This
prevents an over -strong trigger finger breaking the The miniature speaker is fitted in the
limit switch mounting, as happened in the develop- butt of the gun. The gun flash l.e.d. LEDI, is
ment of the prototype. mounted on the top of the gun housing, slightly
forward of the butt, so that it can be seen by
The gun is connected to the control circuit by a the marksman. The 12 -core lead has an
12 core cable. In the prototype this was about 1.2 anchorage at the "magazine'; and in the area
above this is fitted the electronics, apart from
the trigger switch and the photo -electric cell

alisidasstem Construction of the target was simple. Ten

batten lampholders were fastened to a piece of
chipboard, and connected back to the control box
by 4 metres of 12 core cable (ten signal, one 12 volts
and one spare).

VARIATIONS ON A THEME
In the development of the prototype a few ideas
were tried out and rejected. They may be of in-
terest to readers who might like to develop them
further.
The first idea was based on a pistol, with IC10(a)
The gun can be divided into two halves. The and edge -triggered 100mS monostable fired off the
electronics and lens system is fitted into the bounce removing flip-flop IC9(a)(b). It was found
half which will normmally be held against the that this was a more skilful game, but people
right hand side of the marksman's face preferred to loose off with a machine
630 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 S4 FS' TI FS2
L mm + 12V to lamps

1C 23 0/P
9V +5V
240V 7805
in Comm.
To logic
N v 1 12

Supply
on
> OV
T2 FS3
Heatsink pad
1 1
r\o Input
Common > To display
6V
Output anodes
7805
Lead -outs 1 1

Fig. 4. The power supply. This provides separate outputs for the logic, the lamps and the display anodes

gun. Presumably they are working off their

frustrations; there's a PhD thesis subject there
for a psychologist!
The second idea was to give the gun a kick. A slot
car motor had a lead weight fastened off centre
onto the shaft, and the motor mounted at an angle
in the gun. A relay was driven off IC9(b), causing
the motor to run whenever the trigger was pulled.
The effect was startling; the gun kicked worse than
the notorious Thompson gun (which was reputed to
be more dangerous to your friends than to your
enemy). The gun proved impossible to aim and the
motorised kick was shelved, although it probably
could be made to work with a tamer motor.
Finally, the design proved to have a feature not
designed in. With a good marksman it proved
possible to "single shot" the gun by lifting off the
trigger when a hit was recorded.The record score to
date, in fact, is 85 bullets for 80 hits. The game was The convex lens is positioned along the
designed to take 2 minutes at most. With a needle barrel slightly behind the foresight. The photo-
match and a marksman firing single shots the game electric cell is one focal length behind it and, in
can take up to ten minutes. This is good fun, but the prototype, was just behind the forward grip
bad for funds in a side show as it slows the income
down. It would be easy to overcome the problem,
and an obvious method would be a time-out of, This would force the marksman to hurry on and
say, two minutes. A second method would be a not single shoot. Finally, the bullets counter could
triggerable monostable added to keep the bullets be easily changed to a seconds timer, and the result
coming for 1 second after the trigger was released. based on hits/time rather than hits/bullets. is

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JUNE, 1979
 THE
SLOW PICTURE'

The TV with a fault

in time

Smithy placed the 12 inch black He scratched his sparse locks, manual and took it over to the Ser-
and white television receiver on his then checked reception on the other viceman's bench.
bench and examined it briefly. He local channels. Vision and sound "These mains -battery sets
recognised it as one of the earlier continued to be perfect, with no ob- fascinate me rather," he said. "In
fully solid-state sets capable of run- vious shortcomings in performance the old days a TV set ran off the
ning from the mains or from a 12 whatsoever. mains and that was all there was to
volt accumulator. A small label was it."
tied to the carrying handle at the top ENTER DICK "The 12 volt battery idea was a
of its cabinet and, without much ex- "What's up, Smithy?" called out logical outcome of receiver
pectation, Smithy bent down to look Dick from his bench at the other development," remarked Smithy.
at it. It was rarely that customer side of the Workshop. "Got a "Or at least it was, so far as simple
descriptions of fault symptoms, even problem?" small monochrome TV's like this
when they were forthcoming, prov- "I certainly have," replied one were concerned. When the set -
ed to be of any great assistance. Smithy. "If what the label on this makers started manufacturing
This particular fault description was set says is true, it's got the weirdest receivers with semiconductors in all
almost frightening in its incom- snag I've ever heard of." the stages it became obvious that a
prehensibility. "D'you mean the label which complete set could run with a com-
The label stated: "SLOW says 'slow picture'?" mon supply rail of around 11 volts
PICTURE". "You've seen it, too?" positive. The few high supply
A sudden eldritch vision of a Dick grinned. voltages which are needed for the
television scene sluggishly trying to "I always look at any label there picture tube circuits could then be
keep pace with the transmitter rose is on a set before I take it off the taken from the line output
in his mind, and he shivered in- rack for servicing. When read that
I
transformer. Hey, is that the service
voluntarily. He shook his head label I decided I'd leave that set for manual for this mysterious set I've
irritably and turned to practical you!" got here?"
matters. After connecting the "Well, thank you very much," Dick nodded in agreement,
receiver to the mains, he plugged in replied Smithy caustically. "But whereupon Smithy took the manual
an aerial and switched it on. The what the dickens does 'slow picture' from him and opened it at the circuit
sound from one of the local mean? I've tried the set out and it's diagram. He stabbed his finger at
channels became audible from the working perfectly." the power supply section of the cir-
receiver speaker. After a short "There's nothing in it that's slow- cuit. (Fig. 1).
period the picture appeared, and ing the action, is there? Like people "There you are," he remarked.
Smithy examined it carefully. It had in the picture moving more slowly "Now, to continue my argument,
excellent brightness and contrast, than they should?" here's a set in which all the stages
was locked as firmly as the Rock of "Of course there isn't," retorted work basically from a stabilized
Gibraltar to the transmitter sync Smithy shortly. "I suppose the best supply rail of around 11 volts. After
pulses, and gave no evidence of any thing can do is to leave the set run-
I
a suitable mains supply has been
serious non -linearity in either the ning for a bit and see if anything provided, only a little extra circuitry
vertical or the horizontal direction. happens." is needed to make the set capable
Smithy checked for any conceivable On a sudden impulse, Dick rose of working from a battery as well. It
attribute which could merit the ad- from his stool and walked over to can, for instance, run from a 12 volt
jective "slow", but had to admit the filing cabinet. After a little car battery."
himself baffled. searching, he pulled out a service 'Blimey," protested Dick, "that's
632 RADIO AND ELECTRONICS CONSTRUCTOR
 Ganged with
volume control
AF. output
r
stage
On j
240V
A.C.
Tube
Main pos. 5.6n heater
330
rail

4,7
220yF
n
O 150
o-
o I

Link

256337 Mains
Line and 11.5V stab. plug
frame
timebases
47NFl Ikn
220n

7V
Ikn
2 SC 281 2200
NF

820n
82 n Battery
plug

Fig. 1. A mains -battery power supply for a monochrome television receiver. Mains
or battery operation is
selected by inserting the appropriate plug. This is a slightly simplified version of the power supply section
of the I.T.T. "Featherlight 12"

asking rather a lot, isn't it? Car isolating transformer, a 4.7M 11 "Yes, it's all quite easy if you take
battery voltages vary all over the resistor couples one side of the the circuit one step at a time. Where
place according to the state of mains to chassis. This is to prevent does the positive voltage on the
charge they have." the chassis from assuming an ex- reservoir capacitor go?"
"That's true," agreed Smithy. "In cesively high static voltage, which it "To the voltage stabilizer."
fact, you can expect a nominal 12 could do if it were completely "Right. Let's do battery operation
volt car battery in good condition to floating. The 15 volt secondary of next."
offer anything between say, 12 and the transformer connects by way of "Fair enough," said Smithy, poin-
17 volts or so. But all that means is another fuse to a standard bridge ting to the battery plug in the
that there has to be a voltage rectifier. An unusual aspect of the diagram (Fig. 3).
stabilizing circuit in the power supp- design is that one section of the He paused to collect his
ly of the receiver which can handle receiver on -off switch appears after thoughts.
these changes in voltage. Since a the rectifier. When the switch sec- "Well now," he continued, "the
voltage stabilizing circuit is very tion closes, it connects the positive 12 volt battery connects to two
desirable just for ordinary mains side of the rectifier output to the different points in the power plug,
running, there's no serious extra ex- 2,200 NF reservoir electrolytic. The and this time there are no links
pense incurred in using the same negative electrolytic terminal con- between any of the pins. So, when
stabilizing circuit for battery nects to the negative output of the the battery plug is fitted there is,
operation." bridge rectifier, and these two cir- first, no mains going to the
cuit points then go to chassis transformer primary and, second, no
through the link in the power input connection to chassis for the
MAINS -BATTERY SELECTION plug and another fuse. Got it?" negative bridge rectifier output
"How do you select mains or
battery supply?"
"Different manufacturers have
different ideas here," said Smithy.
output
"With this present set, the selec- A F
stage
tion is done by having the power in-
500mA
put plug wired up differently for
mains and battery operation. Let's Off
look at mains operation first. As you To voltage
can see, the a.c. mains input goes to stabilizer'
the top two pins of the 6 -way power
plug." (Fig. 2.)
"There's a shorting link," put in
2200íF
Dick quickly, "between the middle
and bottom right hand pins of that
plug."
"There is, indeed. Now the top
two pins of the plug go to the mains
transformer primary via a fuse.
Although the set has got a mains Fig. 2. Power supply circuit conditions for mains operation

JUNE, 1979
 tremely efficient and fast -acting
A.F. output
stage
stabilizer circuit, but a much easier
solution is to simply run the a.f. out-
put stage from the non -stabilized
off supply."
To voltage y. "But wouldn't the a.f. output
stabilizer current peaks tend to modulate the
On
unstabilized voltage?"
"Oh yes," agreed Smithy. "But
2200}1F " O OIyF I 6A
the stabilizer circuit deals more ef-
ficiently with sudden voltage
changes at its input than it does
with sudden current changes at its
output. To some extent, the
stabilizer pass transistor acts also as
Fig. 3. When battery operation is selected, the 12 volt battery a decoupling resistor."
connects direct to the voltage stabilizing section. The negative
sides of the reservoir capacitor (together with the 0.01 u F
capacitor) and the bridge rectifier do not now have any signifi-
cant connection into the receiver circuit STABILIZER SECTION
"Pass transistor," repeated Dick.
"What do you mean by pass tran-
sistor?"
"A voltage stabilizer circuit incor-
point or the negative side of the you spend the rest of the day play-
porating one or more transistors
2,200NF electrolytic. You don't ing it up. Come to think of it, why on
normally has one transistor which
need the reservoir capacitor when earth am giving you all this gen
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passes all the supply current," ex-

the power is obtained from a low when I'm supposed to be working?"
plained Smithy. "That's the pass
impedance source such as a car "Well, you aren't doing any work
battery, and there's no point in hav-
transistor. If you look at the
while you're waiting for something stabilizer section of this power
ing the bridge rectifier fully in cir- to happen with this 'slow picture' supply, you'll see that there is a
cuit. What happens now is that the
p.n.p. transistor which functions as
negative battery input goes to
Smithy looked down at the the pass transistor." (Fig. 4.)
chassis through the same fuse
television receiver, which continued Dick looked at the part of the
which was in the rectifier output cir-
to reproduce an excellent picture. circuit at which Smithy was poin-
cuit, whilst the positive battery input
He reached over to its volume con- ting, and groaned.
goes to the same on -off switch sec-
trol and turned its knob anti- "Blow me," he complained, 'the
tion as did the positive output of the
clockwise whereupon, with a click, transistors here are those fiendish
bridge rectifier."
the receiver became switched off. '2SB' and '2SC' types."
"And from there it goes to the The sound ceased and the picture "They're no problem," retorted
voltage stabilizer?" collapsed. Smithy, reaching up to the shelf
"It goes to the voltage stabilizer." "I'll turn it on again after a over his bench for a book. "What do
"Just a minute," remarked Dick while," he remarked. "Perhaps the you think we've got Tower's in here
suddenly. "Didn't you say that all fault will come on if the set is for?"
the stages in the receiver work switched on and off a few times in a Smithy handed the Workshop
basically from the stabilized voltage short period." copy of Tower's International
rail?" Transistor Selector to his assistant,
"Why," asked Dick, "does the a.f. who proceeded to turn the pages
"I did." output stage take its supply from
quickly.
"Well in this circuit, one doesn't." the unstabilized positive voltage?"
"Here we are," he said, running
returned Dick triumphantly. "The Smithy sighed. When Dick was in his finger down the columns in the
audio output stage runs from the search of information any hopes of Selector. "Now, the 2SB337 is a
unstabilized positive supply both peace were impossible until his germanium p.n.p. power transistor
with mains and battery operation." curiousity was fully satisfied. in a T03 case, and it's got a max-
Smithy looked down at the cir- "There are two reasons for this," imum collector current rating of 7
cuit, then turned to his assistant. replied Smithy. "A minor reason is amps. Let's have a look next for the
"That's very observant of you," that the a.f. output stage does not 2SC281 ."
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Dick polished his finger nails on running it from the unstabilized "And the 2SC281," he went on,
an imaginary lapel. voltage means that the stabilizer cir- "is an n.p.n. silicon transistor in a
cuit has a little less current to deal TO1 case. This is quite a small job,
"I'm pretty good at spotting with. But the main reason is that the
things, you know."
with a maximum collector current of
a.f. output stage has a standard 100mA. Well, that's got the tran-
"As you so rightly say ..." Class B configuration which draws sistors sorted out. Let's now have a
"I can see anything unusual a high peaks of supply current with look at that stabilizing circuit."
mile away." loud signals when the volume is He concentrated on the circuit
'Well, this supply connection turned high. If the a.f. output stage and then started to frown in puzzle-
were run from the stabilized supply ment.
"That's why I'm so good at ser- these current peaks could slightly "What's up?" asked Smithy.
vicing. I've got this talent for ..." modulate the stabilized supply "There's something queer here,"
"Will you flaming well belt up?" voltage, giving picture judder and stated Dick. "For a start, the base of
roared Smithy. 'Darn it all, I've only things like that. One answer to this the small n.p.n. transistor goes to a
got to give you a bit of praise and problem would be to have an ex- potential divider across the stabiliz-
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ed supply. Right?" zener diode. Since its emitter is go-
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 MYSTERY UNCOVERED structions. The needle of the Smithy looked at his watch and,
He reached out and turned the testmeter, switched to an ohms despite Dick's growing impatience,
volume control knob on the televi- range, was hardly deflected from its sat impassively on his stool. Much
sion receiver in order to switch it on. left-hand end stop as Dick applied to Dick's irritation, he refused to
Once more the sound channel was the test prods to the resistor. answer any further queries but
heard from the speaker. After a "Stap me, Smithy," he said ad- merely kept glancing at his watch.
period the irritatingly faultless pic- miringly. "That was an inspired "Now," he remarked suddenly,
ture appeared on the screen. Smithy guess. This resistor's completely "that set has been turned off for all
watched it abstractedly and then open -circuit." of five minutes. Let's find out what it
glanced down at the service manual "Good," grinned Smithy. "I was does when switch it on again."
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circuit. Suddenly his eyes narrowed lucky; it could have been a bad con- He once more operated the
as he surveyed the power supply tact in the on -off switch or a wire volume control switch and, yet
section more closely. come adrift or something fiddling again, the local sound channel was
"Eureka!" like that. Anyway, put in a new heard from the speaker.
"Hey?" 10052 resistor and then we'll see But, this time, it was accom-
"Eureka!" how this set performs." panied by the virtually immediate
"Blimey," complained Dick, After a trip to the spares cup- appearance of the picture on the
"what's got into you? And why on board Dick soon had a new 100 S2 screen.
earth are you raving on about resistor soldered into circuit. He "I'm beginning," said Dick
resistance wire?" returned the power supply section thoughtfully, "to see what you're
to its correct place on the receiver driving at now."
"I've just realised what this 'slow chassis, put the receiver switch to
picture' business is all about," "We've cured the 'slow picture'
the "off" position and looked expec- fault," chortled Smithy. "This set is
replied Smithy. "Seeing that you've tantly at the Serviceman.
wished yourself onto me for the mo- wired up so that, when it operates
"Plug that set back into the from the mains, the picture appears
ment you might as well make mains again," said Smithy, "pop in
yourself useful. Get the back off that almost immediately at switch -on.
an aerial and switch it on." When the set is turned on by means
set, dig out the power supply sec-
Obediently, Dick did as he was of its own on -off switch the picture
tion and locate the 100 S2 resistor told. Once again, there was an im-
which connects between the bridge tube heater is powered by the
mediate appearance of the sound at stabilized 11.5 volt supply. Putting
rectifier and the second part of the switching on with, after a delay, the the receiver switch to the 'off' posi-
receiver on -off switch. This is the production of a picture. Smithy
one." tion connects the tube heater via
beamed at the set cheerfully. that 10052 resistor you changed to
Smithy pointed to the resistor in "I don't see what you're looking the bridge rectifier, whereupon the
question. (Fig.5.) so pleased about," commented heater continues to run at reduced
Puzzled, Dick unplugged the Dick. "The set's working just the power, ready to give a picture again
receiver from the mains, removed same as it did before." when the set is next switched on.
the aerial and took off the cabinet But Smithy's obvious mood of Now, the set -owner had got used to
back. After some minutes' work he euphoria could not be shaken. He the picture coming on straightaway
was able to locate the 100 0 gazed happily at the picture on the at switch -on so that when, after that
resistor. TV screen for another minute or so
"Right," said Smithy briskly, "put
100û resistor had gone open -
then leaned over and turned the set circuit, the picture took some time
the set switch to the 'on' position, off at the volume control switch. to appear he considered that he had
so as to break any external circuit to "What the heck," asked Dick,
that resistor. Then measure its
a 'slow picture'. A very good
"happens now?" customer diagnosis, that!"
value." "Nothing," replied Smithy airily. "Come off it, Smithy," snorted
Dick took up Smithy's testmeter "We just sit and wait for a few Dick, "it had you baffled all along."
and proceeded to carry out his in - minutes." "Well, it did for a bit," confessed
Smithy. "Anyway, to round things
off, let's just see what power does
actually get to the tube heater in the
switched off condition. The only rec-
11 5V stab. on tifier in the bridge which can then
conduct is the one in the lower
Tube heater right-hand arm, with the result that
the heater is being supplied with
240V rectified alternate half-cycles."
A.C. (Fig.6.)

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"This has certainly been an un-
I.6A usual fault," commented Dick.
"Hey, just a minute; think could
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make up a little rhyme about it!"

"Oh no," groaned Smithy. "Don't
say you're back at your old game of
dreaming up limericks."
But Dick was not to be forestall-
Fig. 5. Tube heater switching circuit. The arrow points at the ed, and he held up a finger for
100.52 resistor which Smithy asked Dick to check silence.
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Principles of 405 line

Fig. 6. When the receiver is switched off, alternate half -cycles reception
from the transformer secondary pass through the tube heater, Principles of 625 line
following the circuit path shown here. The current (assumed to reception
flow from positive to negative) appears when the upper end of Nature of the television
the secondary is positive
signal
Receiver tuner units
A.F. and video amplifiers
Deflector coil assemblies
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 Resistance in ohms is equal to collector resistors whose values are resistance of that value) then the
voltage divided by current in amps. of the order of 500:Llto 20kß. The maximum r.m.s. audio power we
So runs the Law of the good Georg mathematics involved in determing will get from the amplifier and
Simon Ohm, who lived over the the current in these resistors from speaker combination is 49 divided
years 1787 to 1854. One hundred the voltages dropped across them by 50 (voltage squared divided by
and twenty-five years later we can is, in consequence, not too difficult resistance). This is just under 1

still put Ohm's Law to good use in at all. watt. With a 1 5ß speaker the audio
the constructional design work that power is 49 divided by 1 5, or, near
we carry out. as dammit, 3.3 watts. An 80
To start off with, let's indulge in a OUTPUT POWER speaker will give 49 divided by 8,
little algebraic re -shuffling so that which is 6.1 watts. And a 5LJ
we can express the Law in its other Power, in watts, is equal to speaker produces a maximum r.m.s.
two forms: voltage is current mul- voltage multiplied by current in output power of 49 divided by 5, or
tiplied by resistance and, perhaps amps. Since, from Ohm's Law, nearly 10 watts.
the most useful form of all, current current is voltage divided by All these figures are very ap-
is voltage divided by resistance. resistance we can reach the conclu- proximate because, in practice, the
sion that the power dissipated in a amplifier output swing won't be
resistor is equal to voltage squared right up to the supply rails and the
EASIER UNITS divided by the resistance, One impedance offered by the speaker is
Since we don't frequently bump useful application for this equation pretty nominal anyway. But they
into amps in much of the elec- is in determining, roughly, the max- give us a good guideline as to what
tronics we deal with, it is usually imum r.m.s. output power which can be expected from a particular
easier for us to think of Ohm's Law can be obtained from an audio amplifier and speaker. To be prac-
in terms of milliamps, whereupon amplifier in the mid -fi category. tical, it would be prudent to assume
we can say that current, in Nearly all a.f. amplifiers these days that the actual maximum r.m.s. out-
milliamps, is equal to voltage divid- have an output voltage which, un- put power is, say, some 70% to
ed by resistance in kilohms. If we der no -signal conditions, sits at ap- 80% of the calculated figure.
find that 1 volt is dropped across a proximately half the supply voltage. With a given amplifier, as speaker
1k11 resistor, then the current flow- When handling a signal the output impedance goes down output
ing through that resistor is mA. 1
voltage can then swing very nearly power goes up. So also, unfor-
Should there be 2 volts across the to the positive rail on positive audio tunately, does the amplifier output
1kß resistor, then the current is half -cycle peaks and very nearly to current. There will be a limit to the
2mA. Similarly, 1 volt across a the negative rail on the negative output current which the amplifier
200 f2 resistor denotes a current of half -cycle peaks. The output of the can produce, this being expressed
5mA in the resistor, and so on. amplifier normally couples to the normally in terms of the minimum
When we want to find the speaker via a high value electrolytic speaker impedance which may be
current flowing in a resistor it is capacitor. connected to its output. Connecting
normally much simpler to check To take a nice easy example of a speaker of lower impedance could

the voltage across it than it is to how to assess amplifier power, let's then cause damage to the amplifier
measure the actual current itself. imagine that the amplifier Supply if it does not have automatic
This is because we can easily obtain voltage is 20 volts. The amplifier overload protection.
a voltage reading by applying our output can then swing up to 10
testmeter prods across the resistor. volts positive and negative and, as a COMPONENT ANALYSER
To measure current we would in result, has a peak value of 10 volts.
For many years H. W. Sullivan
most instances have to break the This corresponds to an r.m.s.
voltage of 0.7 times 10, or 7 volts. Limited have been well known in
circuit in which the current flows
the precision measurement field as
and insert the current -reading And when we square that r.m.s.
value of 7 volts we get a figure of
manufacturers of bridges, poten-
meter in series. Determining current
49.
tiometers, detectors and measure-
by measuring voltage is particularly
ment standards. The company now
of advantage in checking circuits If we couple the amplifier to a announces a completely new
such as transistor amplifier stages. speaker having an impedance of automatic instrument, the AC5555
These often have series emitter or 50D (which we will treat as a Automatic Component Analyser,
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designed and manufactured at their The mains operated fourteen - BREAKDOWN TESTER
premises at Archcliffe Road, Dover, range AC5555 measures the The second photograph il-
Kent, CT1 7 9EN. This instrument is parallel capacitance and conduc- lustrates another comprehensive
suitable for production and goods tance or the series inductance and item of test equipment, this
inwards inspection as well as for resistance of the test component at originating from Avo Limited, also
laboratory applications. What is a frequency of 1kHz. The maximum of Archcliffe Road, Dover, Kent.
more, it has some almost spec- reading on each display is 19999, This new instrument is a Leakage
tacular capabilities, as the following and the instrument measures and Breakdown Tester and has the
description shows. capacitance up to 2001LF with an type number RM215-F/3. It per-
ultimate resolution of 0.01 pF, while forms a particularly important role
The Sullivan AC5555 accepts a inductance may be measured up to in factory applications, especially
wide range of components, whether 200 henrys with a resolution of 10 now that the Health and Safety at
they be resistors, capacitors or in- nanohenrys. Resistors can be Work Act lays down rigid re-
ductors. It automatically selects the measured either as resistance up to quirements for the safety of elec-
range and function, and displays 2M n or as conductance. With the trical installations.
the value and unit on two digital resistance and conductance ranges, The RM215-F/3 is portable and
displays. When the instrument is resistance values of 100 millionths compact, and can be used for
switched on, it is in the fully of an ohms to 10,000M (1 may be general flash testing work as well as
automatic mode and no setting -up discriminated. the measurement of breakdown
procedure is required. This is the Five terminals are provided on voltage. It will also detect leakage
normal mode of operation and to the front panel for connection to the current in the testing of electrical
test a component it is only component under test. With such a components and systems.
necessary to connect it to the in- The instrument operates from a
sophisticated piece of measurement
strument, whereupon the value is equipment, a simple robust connec- standard supply voltage of 120 or
displayed irrespective of the com-
tion system is essential. H. W. 240 volts at 50Hz and will provide
ponent type. The method of opera- Sullivan have designed a special a continuously variable a.c. test
tion is thus so simple that it is vir- Test Jig, the AC5556, and a lead voltage between the limits of 50
tually impossible to make mistakes. set, both available as optional extras volts and 4 kilovolts. It is sensitive
The auto -function facility makes the for use with the AC5555. The Test to current passed by a component
instrument particularly useful for Jig is extremely easy to use and under test and can be adjusted to
the identification of unknown com- accepts discrete components with operate in either leakage or
ponents in laboratory or production axial or radial leads and having a breakdown operational mode.
areas. body length up to 95mm. For other A failure interlock ensures that
With some applications, such as applications, such as the testing of when a component fails under test
the testing of a batch of com- transformers or printed circuit the test voltage is automatically
ponents which have nominally the boards, the screened test lead is us- switched off. The design of the in-
same value, the operator can if re- ed. strument ensures that the output
quired lock the instrument into a The AC5555 is suitable for rack current is limited to a safe value,
particular range. This manual mode mounting and has dimensions of even with the test leads short-
of operation gives a shorter display 430 by 195 by 275mm, and you circuited together. The tester has a
response time than is given with the can obtain an idea of its appearance low internal resistance, a very im-
automatic mode. from the accompanying photograph. portant requirement when testing

Apply any component to the

H. W. Sullivan AC5555
Analyser and it will
automatically determine
whether it is a resistor, a
capacitor or an inductor,
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is shown here in use with
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Breakdown Tester, in-
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