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axial T-connector, make the TF 2650 Solid State FET 1 50 A, r.f. up to 1 GHz and temperatures up to 500 °C.
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Electronics, Television, Radio, Audio
DECEMBER 1977 Vol 83 No 1504
Contents
35 Frequencies, technology and society
36 Teletext decoder modifications by Richard T. Russell Front cover, showing a micro-
computer using Intel devices
42 News of the month on a single p.c. board, intro-
Thè electronic arm of the law duces our second article on
Ferrograph swap microcomputer design in this
Improvements in tape and disc reproduction issue.
Photographer Paul Brierley
46 The Bizarrm by Ernest Lowinger
50 World of amateur radio
51 Letters to the Editor
Matrix H decoding
Using a microprocessor
Minimization in logic design
55 -
Microcomputer design 2 by Phil Pittman
IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
60 Logic design -
by B. Holdsworth and D. Zissos
Traffic information broadcast -.
65 High speed analogue -to- digital conversion by O. J. Downing
and P. T. Johnson ing. Latest developments in the
BBC's proposed system using a
70 H. F. Predictions multiplicity of low power m.f.
transmitters on a single
73 Analogue function generator by G. J. Phelps frequency.
Circuit ideas
78
Inductance bridge Fuses -
their physical function-
"No loss" capacitor ing, design and characteristics. A
Variable slope low -pass filter detailed look at a somewhat ne-
83 Synthesized f.m. transceiver - by T. D. Forrester

glected component.
Power into loads: why we don't

86 New products apply the maximum power
90 Sidebands by "Mixer" transfer theorem to active devices
in linear circuits.
134 Appointments vacant
152 Index of advertisers
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frequency response characteristics of three the range of human hearing they give rise
cartridges in the Series II Improved arm. to undesirable side -effects which are g
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of the low frequency resonance. Although The best pick -up arm in the world
LASTIC FASTENERS
FOR ELECTRONICS
,,-,---^ SELF -ADHESIVE CABLE CLIPS are a quick
, - !
"
and simple means of securing cables, cords and
small looms to flat surfaces. No drilling or
1 fixing screws necessary. The peel -off backing is
removed immediately before placing the clip.
The coating adheres to most clean, flat surfaces
r" and withstands a wide range of humidity and
temperature. Cable clips are moulded in natural
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damage to the cables.
CABLE STRAPS are semi -permanent fasteners

for strapping wires and cables into tight, Opp
compact looms. The ratchet fastener is adjust - 41
able and can be released by pinching -in the III
sides of the fastener head. Cable straps are lri\
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made from black nylon.

WIRE TIES are a flexible means of fastening
wires and small cables into orderly, compact
looms. They are quick and easy to fit and can be
.»110 re -used, greatly reducing re- looming times.
Wire ties are made from nylon and are available
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` colour.
The P.C. BOARD GUIDE is a self -retaining
edge support for printed circuit boards. It has
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firmly and securely. The guide is available in 00 ó
two types of material - yellow acetal or grey ,,
Noryl, for high temperature and voltage appli- ; -
cations.
r P.C. BOARD SPACERS are simple to fit, one-
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boards. Made from natural (off white) nylon and
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glass, hardboard and glass. 'Shank, head and
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I
through the head into the space between the
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DRIVE FASTENERS hold' two or more panels standards for only
together. Easily fixed, normally by thumb
pressure. No special tools required. Boat
shaped DRIVE Fasteners are for panels of thin
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1". il4
£2.95 +(8, Vat)
and medium thickness and are removable. When we introduced the Super 30 last
Ribbed Drive Fasteners are used in blind holes year it was the best general purpose
where hole length exceeds length of shank.
soldering iron at its price in Britain --it
PLASTIC HOLE PLUGS are quick, inexpensive still is at only £2.95p. (plus 8 %fl VAT)
means of plugging unwanted uorlees Hole ivl T he ORYX Super 30otfers you allthese
shaped heads tgivera neat finish. The snap action features as standard Neon safety
. .r
+ seal. Hole-Plugs are made
non -corrosive.
vibration resistant light, Long life element. iron coated
screw -on tip, Stainless steel shaft,
Styled handle, Two minute element
change and a stainless steel clip -on
LOKUT ANCHORS are used to strengthen
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engagement in materials where self- tapping
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widney Dorlec (Northern) Ltd.
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TEL 01 -977 0878
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SWTI
CT 64
VISUAL DISPLAY TERMINAL
* 16 Lines per page * Scrolling or Page Mode Operation

* 64 or 32 Characters per line * Control Characters decoding - 32 Combination
* Upper and lower case letters * Prints Control Characters
* Full 8 Bit Memory * Usable with any 8 Bit Ascii Computer
* 28 Character Ascii Set
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* Reversed Background - [:fcimureniï uri
* 110/220 Volt 50 -60 Hz Power Supply
Complete with:- Chassis and cover, cursor control, 10 -1 200 Baud serial interface and keyboard.
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Optional monitor show in photo available.

Now you can buy it. The Terminal that has all the features that people have been asking us to include. The CT -64 has all
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scroll, no scroll, solid cursor, blinking cursor, page selection and a beeper to warn you of end of page; all are provided
for your use in the CT -64.
You may also switch from upper case only, teletype style operation to upper -lower case typewriter style operation. You
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covers is also available to make a complete system.
Price effective 1/11/77 Visual Display Terminal CT -64 £230 Kit Form
Matching Monitor CT -VM £140 Assembled
A UHF Modulator is also available which allows you to plug into the aerial socket of your T.V. On some T.V.s unless the
line length is limited to 32 characters some definition will be lost.
MOD Modulator £4.50

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Please send me details of your full range of computer equipment and software
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cartridges and reels of tape up to a maximum reel size of 1'/a"1
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the 201 is something
The LR70/71 bulk erasers are currently used in Broadcast quite personal ...
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Moderately priced and available from The M 201 Hypercardioid moving coil
LEEVERS -RICH EQUIPMENT LIMITED microphone is designed for recording or
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Cables: Leemag London SW18. Telex 923455 Wembley separation characteristics in extreme
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Specifications:
Frequency Response: 40 -18000 Hz.
Output Level at 1 kHz: 0,14 mV /n bar
-56 dbm (0 dbm 1 mW/10
dynes /cm2). EIA Sensitivity Rating:

-149 dbm. Hum Pickup Level:
5 Il V/5 II Tesla (50 Hz). Polar Pattern:
Hypercardioid. Output Impedance:
200 SL. Load Impedance: > 1000 f2.
Connections: M 201 N (C) = Cannon
XLR-3 -50 T or Switchcraft: 2 +3 =
200 52, 1 = ground. M 201 N = 3 -pin
DIN plug T 3262: 1 +3 = 200 52
2 = ground. M 201 N (6) = 6 pin
Tuchel.
Dimensions: length 6 ", shaft 0 0,95 ".
Weight: 8,60 oz.
137 Standard Ranges_in a variety of

sizes and stylings available for 10 -14
days delivery. Other Ranges and
special scales can be made to order.
Full Information from:

BEYER DYNAMIC (GB) LIMITED
HARRIS ELECTRONICS (London) 1Clair Road, Haywards Heath, Sussex.
138 GRAYS INN ROAD, W.C.1 Phone: 01 /837/7937
Tel: Haywards Heath 51003
WW - 035 FOR FURTHER DE T,\Il,.s WW -031 FOR FURTHER DETAILS
IMCDNSDLES
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IMBDXES MINI DESK BIMCONSOLES
Moulded in Orange, Blue, Black or Grey
IMBDARDS ABS and incorporating guides on all sides

for holding 1.5mm thick pcb's. 1mm Grey
Aluminium panel sits recessed into front of LOW PROFILE BIMCONSOLES
IMDRILLS console and held by screws running into
integral brass bushes. Stand -off bosses in
base for supporting small sub- assemblies
1mm
nium
Grey Alumi-
panel sits
recessed into front
IMDICATDRS etc.
luded.
cluded.
4 self adhesive
rubber feet also in-
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of console base,
which is moulded in
Orange, Blue, Black
BIM1005 or Grey ABS and
(161x96x58mm) sits on 4 self adhe-
£ 1.97'
ABS & DIECAST BIMBOXES sive rubber feet. Incorporating guides
BIM1006 for holding 1.5mm thick pcb, the base also
either ABS or Diecast Aluminium
5 sizes, in
(215x 130x75mm) has stand -off bosses for supporting small
ABS moulded in Orange, Blue, Grey or Black
£2.70' sub -assemblies etc. and ventilation slots.
Diecast Aluminium available in Grey Hammertone Front panel is held by 4 screws which run
or Natural into integral brass bushes.
All boxes incorporate guides on all sides for holding 1.5mm thick pcb's and BIM6005 (143x105x55.5[31.5] mm) £2.14'
stand -off bosses in base for supporting small sub -assemblies etc. Close fitting BIM6006 (143x 170x55.5 [ 31.5] mm) £2.73
flanged lids held by screws running into integral brass bushes (ABS) or tapped 81M6007 (214x170x82(31.5] mm) £3.75'
holes ( Diecast).
ABS Diecast Hammertone Natural

(100x50x25mm) BIM2002/12 £0.87' BIM5002/12 £ 1.20' £0.97'
(112x62x31mm) BIM2003/13 £0.97' BIM5003/13 £1.50' £1.20'
(120x65x40mm( B1M2004/14 £1.05' B1M5004/14 £1.86' £1.49'
(150x80x5Omm( BIM2005/15 £1.18 BIM5005/15 £2.38'
£1.91
(190x110x6Omm) B1M2006 /16 £1.84' BIM5006/16 £3.41 £2:85'
Also available in Grey Polystyrene (112x61x31mm) with no slots and self tapping
screws BIM2007/17 £0.82'
ALL METAL
' MULTI -PURPOSE BIMBOXES
Moulded in Orange, Blue, Black or Grey All aluminium, 2
BIMCONSOLES
piece desk consoles with either 15° or 30° sloping fronts, sit on
ABS with 1mm thick Grey aluminium
4 self- adhesive non slip rubber feet. Ventilation slots in base and rear panels permit
recessed front cover which is retained by efficient cooling.
4 screws running into integral brass bushes. Colour Code Top Panel Base 15° Sloping Panel
1.5mm pcb guides are incorporated on all A Off White Blue BIM7151 (102x140x51 [28] mm) £ 7.66'
sides and as with all ABS boxes they are B Sand Green BIM7152 (165x140x51 [28] mm) £ 8.51'
85 °C rated. 4 self adhesive rubber feet C Satin Black Gold BIM7153 (165x216x51 [28] mm) £ 9.35'
also included. BIM7154 (165x211x76[33] mm) £10.21'
BIM 4003 (85x56x28.5mm) £1.13' BIM7155 (254x211x76[33) mm) £11.05*
BIM 4004 (111x71x41.5mm) £1.42' BIM7156 (254x287x76[331 mm) £11.92'
BIM 4005 (161x96x52.5mm) £1.87' BIM7157 (356x211x76[331 mm) £12.76'
1110
BIM7158 (356x287x76[33)mm) £13.60
30° Sloping Panel
BIM7301 (102x140x76[28j mm) £ 7.66
BIM7302 (165x140x76[28]mm) £ 8.51'
BIM7303 (165x183x102 [28j mm) £ 9.35'
BIM7304 (254x140x76[281 mm) £10.21
ow° BIM7305 (254x183x102(28] mm)
BIM7306 (254x259x102[28jmm)
£11.05'
£11.92*
BIM7307 (356x183x102[28)mm) £12.76'
BIM7308 (356x259x 102 [28] mm) £13.60'
DIL COMPATIBLE BIMBOARDS

MAINS . 2 .
BIMDRILL Bimboards accept all sizes of DIL packages

Operates
from
directly
220- 240Vac
and supplied with
as well as resistors, diodes, capacitors and
LED's etc. They have integral Bus Strips
running up each side for carrying Vcc and r-
am' c.. BIMDICATORS
2 metres long -cable ground as well as Component Support
fitted with 2 pin Brackets for holding lamps, fuses and
DIN plug. Will switches etc. Available as either single or au
drill
brass, steel and multiple units, the latter mounted on
aluminium as well as pcb's etc. Has integral 1.5mm thick, matt black aluminium back
biased -off switch and accepts tools with 1,2 plates which stand on non slip rubber feet v'
and 3.2mm dia shanks £9.72' and have 4 screw terminals for incoming
Accessory Kit including 1mm, 2mm, .125"
twist drills, 5 burrs and 2.4mm collet £2.20'
power.
Bimboard 1 contains 500 individual sockets
r Remember we are \\
whereas the multiple units containing 2, also one of Europe's
3 or 4 Bimboards incorporate 1,100, 1,650 largest manufacturers
or 2,200 individual sockets, all arranged of Filament, Neon
12 VOLT BIMDRILLS on a 2.5mm(0.1 ") matrix. and LED indicators.
2 small but powerful 12V dc drills, easily Bimboard 1 £ 9.72' Bimboard 2 £22.68' Send for our
held in hand or used with lathe /stand Bimboard 3 £32.40' Bimboard 4 £42.12 BIMDICATOR DATA
adaptor. Both drills have integral on /off
switches and 1 metre long cable.
Mini Bimdrill with 2 collets up to 2.4mm
capacity £7.56'
Major Bimdrill with 3
collets up to 3mm
capacity £12.96' *All quoted prices are 1 off
Mains to 12 Volts
and include Postage,
adaptor, lathe, stand
and accessory kits also Packing and VAT. Terms
are strictly cash with
available, details on
request. INDUSTRIAL MOULDINGS l IMI TED order unless you have
2 Herne Hill Road, London SE24 OAU authorised BOSS account.
For individual data sheets
Telephone: 01 -737 2383 on all BOSS products
Telex: 919693 Answer Back 'LITZEN G' send stamped, self
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HIGH POWER DC- COUPLED AMPLIFIER

* UP TO 500 WATTS RMS FROM ONE CHANNEL
* DC- COUPLED THROUGHOUT
MO * OPERATES INTO LOADS AS LOW AS 1 OHM
*
IUIIIIIIIIII FULLY PROTECTED AGAINST SHORT CCT,
MISMATCH, ETC.
* 3 YEAR WARRANTY ON PARTS AND LABOUR
The DC300A Power Amplifier is the successor to the world famous DC300 which is so widely used in
Industrial, and Research applications in this country. It is DC- coupled throughout so providing a power
bandwidth from DC to over 20,000Hz.The ability of the DC300A to operate without fuss into totally
reactive loads while delivering its full power, and maintaining its faithful reproduction of Pulse or complex
waveforms has established the DC300A as the world's leading power amplifier. Each of the
two channels
will operate into loads as low as ohm, and the amplifier can be rapidly connected as a single ended
1
amplifier providing over 650 watts RMS into a 4 ohms load, and still providing a bandwidth
down to
DC. Below is a brief specification of the DC300A, but if you require a data sheet,
or a demonstration
of this fine equipment please let us know.
Power Bandwidth DC 20kHz 150 watts db. 0db. Slewing Rate volts per microsecond
1
8
Power at clip point I1 chan) 500 watts rms into 2.5 ohms Load impedance ohm to infinity
+0. - 15 DC to 20kHz.
1
Phase Response watt 8S2

1 Input sensitivity 1 75 V for 150 watts into 811
Harmonic Distortion Below 0.05% DC to 20kHz Input Impedance 10K ohms to 100K ohms
Intermod. Distortion Below 0.05% 0.01 watt to 150 watts Protection Short. mismatch & open cct. protection
Damping Factor Greater than 200 DC to kHz at 8f1
1 Power supply 120 -256V. 50.400Hz
Hum & Noise 120- 20kHz) At least 10db below 150 watts
1
Dimensions 19" Rackmount, 7'. High, 9 ¡" Deep
Other models in the range: D60- 60 watts per channel D 1 50A - 150 watts per channel
Other models available from 100 watts to 3000 watts
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Saxmundham, Suffolk IP17 2NL. Tel: (0728) 2262 2615 Paris 75019, France
Tel: 206 -60 -80 or 206 -83 -61
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wireless
world
Frequencies, technology and society
Editor: To judge from all the preliminary the day? Signal -to -noise ratio can be
TOM IVALL, M.I.E.R.E. discussions about WARC 1979 one "traded" by modulation and encoding
would think that radio systems began methods so that channels are utilized
and ended with frequency space. Of more efficiently. Spread spectrum
Deputy Editor:
PHILIP DARRINGTON course, when there's a shortage of it techniques are one possibility and more
Phone 01- 261 8435 the various users making their claims attention could be given to
and counter -claims become determining human tolerance to
preoccupied with the subject and noise -type background interference
Technical Editor: develop an almost pathological from pseudo- randomized signals as
GEOFFREY SHORTER, B.Sc.
Phone 01- 261 8443 concern for spectral lebensraum. But if against background interference from
we are going to need more intelligible signals.
communication, broadcasting and But all this assumes a continuation
Projects Editor:
MIKE SAGIN other radio systems in the future we of present trends in society. A
Phone: 01 -261 8429 can't afford to ignore the other, equally fundamental question affecting all
important, dimensions of a communication technology is what will
communication channel: space, time happen in the future. Can the present
Communications Editor:
RAY ASHMORE, B.Sc., G8KYY and signal -to -noise ratio. And to make process of industrialization and
Phone 01 -261 8043 use of these, our traditional thinking economic growth continue indefinitely
and methods of transmission and in a finite environment, or shall we be
News Editor:
reception will have to be supplemented forced into a state of "global
JOHN DWYER by fresh ideas and new technology. equilibrium" at a lower level of activity
Phone 01 -261 8620
By "space" is meant simply the as predicted by the famous MIT study
physical volume occupied by a radio "The Limits to Growth "? The
Production: transmission. If you physically confine well -known economist the late Dr E.
D. R. BRAY
transmissions you can have many F. Schumacher thought that our
using the same frequencies without present system could collapse as a
Advertisement Controller: interference. Furthermore, signals can result of three impending crises: a
G. BENTON ROWEI,L be kept within coaxial cables, revulsion of human nature against
waveguides, leaky feeders and optical "1984" technological, organizational
fibres, and it makes sense to use such and political patterns; a breakdown of
Advertisements: methods when transmitters and the living environment which supports
Phone 01 -261 8622 receivers are fixed. There are people, human life; and exhaustion of the
for example, who maintain that world's non -renewable resources, in
broadcasting is a misuse of tole radio particular, the fossil fuels. Energy, on
LEO KEMBERY
Phone 01-261 8515 spectrum because the transmitters and which depends all industrialization and
many receivers can be connected by economic growth, could indeed be a
cables. The dimension of time can be decisive factor. Ichiro Miura, the
CHRIS PRIER used in a variety of ways. For example, director of communications policy in
Phone 01 -261 8037 Japan's ministry of posts and
where pauses occur in a message, as
between spoken phrases, the gaps telecommunications, thinks that
Classified Manager can be occupied by portions of other because of this the widely predicted
BRIAN DURRANT messages automatically switched into "information- oriented society" will not
Phone 01 -261 8508 or 01 -261 8423
them. Redundancy in certain in fact succeed industrial society and
signals can be used to reduce the that we may well revert to the
EDDIE FARRELL (Classified Advertisements)I maximum information rate and hence "resources society" which preceded
Phone 01 -261 8508
the bandwidth required. Television industrialization (Telecommunication
broadcasting is a notorious consumer Journal, September 1977).
of time and bandwidth. Since many tv If the natural limits of the
JOHN GIBBON (Make-tip and copy)
Phone 01 -261 8353 programmes are little more than environment do restrict economic
homogenised pap dished out of cans, growth and as a result the structure of
why not send them out at night, to be society is modified, then obviously the
Publishing Director: recorded on video tape machines fitted requirements for electrical
GORDON HENDERSON in receivers, so that the spectrum space communication - both in amount and
could be used by other services during pattern - will be greatly changed.
Teletext decoder modifications

New circuits to take advantage of the latest facilities
by Richard T. Russell
Since the original articles on the mounts above digital board 1 in the area is the provision of a push- button
Wireless World Teletext decoder between the analogue board and the "reveal" switch on the front panel.
appeared (November 1975 to June 1976 left -hand end of the cabinet. The new
issues), a new teletext specification has board, which will be referred to as
been published' which describes a digital board 3, is principally intended to Control codes
number of extra facilities and allocates work with a decoder using the 74S262 The latest list of control characters,
some of the hitherto unused control (X887) charactbr generator r.o.m., showing their binary equivalents, is
characters for use with four new display which provides the full upper and lower given in Fig. 1. The control codes which
modes. These are: graphics hold, double case teletext character set. A small are detected and implemented by digital
height, separated graphics and back- modification will allow the board to be board 3 are shown in capitals. There are
ground colour, and were described in used with a decoder using the 2513 nine of these in all. Usually these
the February 1977 issue of Wireless r.o.m., although since it occupies the control codes are allocated in pairs, one
World, p, 61. These new facilities are area used by the add -on lower -case of each pair to establish the specified
intended to enhance the appearance of board, an alternative location for this mode and the other to end it. The
teletext pages and remove some of the will have to be found if the new board is exception is the conceal mode. There is
limitations imposed by the original to be fitted into a decoder of this sort. no reveal control character; instead the
specification. The photographs show Most of the connexions to the new normal revealed condition is established
typical examples of their use. board are to the existing edge contacts on the occurrence of any character in
Another facility not provided by the linking digital boards one and two, an,d the shaded portion of the table (i.e.
original design, although present in an therefore installation is particularly characters 0/1 to 0/7 and 1/1 to 1/7
earlier specification and used by both simple in a decoder using these boards. inclusive).
Ceefax and Oracle, is the "concea- The only external modification required A significant point, which has
led-display" mode. This allows, by the considerable importance in the detail of
action of a control character, selected Fig. 1. Control character codes. the circuitry adopted, is that before the
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characters to be-displayed as spaces advent of graphics hold, all control
until "revealed" by the viewer, and is b7 0 O characters were displayed as spaces.
useful in a question and answer Bits b6 O O This meant that the transition between
situation. All these new facilities are b5 0 1 two display modes was invisible, and
provided by the additional circuitry to b4b3b2b1 0 1
could take place anywhere within the
be described. control character rectangle. Now that
At the time of writing, Oracle (the 0000 0 the control character rectangle may be
IBA's teletext service) makes extensive 00 0 1 t Alpha^ Graphics filled with a "held" graphics character,
use of these facilities on test pages with red red it is important that a change in display
some use on normal information pages, 0 0 0 1 Alpha^ Graphics mode (e.g. a colour change) takes place
green green
whilst Ceefax (BBC) is just beginning to Graphics at the boundary of the character
use some of the new facilities on an 00 1 1 3 Alpha^
yellow yellow rectangle, not part way across the
experimental basis. 0 1 00 4 Alpha^ Graphics character. Certain of the display modes
blue blue
are said to be "set at" the occurrence of
0 0 Alpha^ Graphics
New board 1 1 5 magenta magenta the control character, meaning that the
The new circuitry comprises 25 t.t.l. 0 0 6 Alpha^ Graphics mode changes at the left -hand bound-
integrated circuits, which decode the
1 1
cyan **cyan ary of the control character rectangle.
apropriate control characters and 0 Alpha^ Graphics
1 1 1 7
white white Others are "set after" the control
implement the new display modes. CONCEAL 'character, meaning that the mode does
These i.cs have been numbered 101 to 1 00 0 a Flash DISPLAY not change until the right -hand edge of
125 to avoid confusion with i.cs 1 to 90 1 00 1 9 Steady CONTIGUOUS the character rectangle.
GRAPHICS
used in the original decoder design. SEPARATED
There is sufficient room in a decoder 1 0 1 0 10 End box GRAPHICS
using the cabinet and printed boards 1 0 1 1 11 Start box Circuit description
described in the original articles to As mentioned, it is required to change
NORMAL BLACK
mount an extra board containing the 1 1 0 0 12
HEIGHT BACKGROUND certain of the modes at the left -hand
new circuitry, and the number of DOUBLE NEW edge of the control character rectangle.
1 1 0 1 13 HEIGHT BACKGROUND
connexions between this board and the To achieve this, it is necessary that the
rest of the decoder has been kept to a o HOLD
1 1 1 1 4 GRAPHICS data at the output of the page store have
minimum to simplify installation. In a RELEASE been stable for a period sufficient to
15
decoder of this sort, the new board 1 1 1 1
GRAPHICS decode the control character. In the
37
original design the left -hand edge of the A 4- line -to -16 -line decoder could have Graphics generator. A completely new
character rectangles corresponded to been used for this purpose but, since graphics generator is included on board
the point at which the data latches on only nine of the control codes are of 3, the original on digital board 2 being
the outputs of the page store were interest a saving can be made by made redundant. The reason for this is
clocked. This does not provide the inverting bits b3 and b5 and using a twofold. Firstly, the necessity to provide
necessary period, so with the new board 4- line-to -l0 -line decoder IC113, (7442). the held graphics function means that
the character rectangle is redefined as Bits b3 and b5 are inverted so that the the graphics character has to be stored
being one clock -pulse later than before. inputs to IC113 corresponding to the in a latch so it can replace a control
Conveniently this means that the wanted control codes are in the range character when required. Secondly, the
rectangle edges correspond to the 0000 to 1001 (0 to 9). Binary inputs in the separated (or "non- contiguous ") gra-
negative edge of the signal on IC1, pin 8 range 1010 to 1111 res' It in none of the phics facility requires a more complex
(January, 1976 issue), and all mode outputs being enabled. graphics generator. To have incorpo-
changes are made synchronous with As explained, the display modes must rated the original graphics generator
this edge. For simplicity, the alphanu- change at the edge of the display circuit would have entailed an excessive
meric characters are not moved by a rectangle. This is achieved by feeding number of interconnexions.
corresponding amount, and this means the inputs to IC113 from a D -type latch The graphics generator operates as
that these characters are displaced IC112, clocked by the signal from IC1, pin follows. The six -bit latch IC102 contains
slightly to the left with respect to the 8 inverted in (118,8). Bits bl and b2 are the held graphics character. This is
character rectangles. This is of no fed directly to the inputs of this latch defined as the last character having bit
consequence, however, as there is still a from the page store output latch IC28 on b6 at logic 1, so the clock (pin 9) is gated
gap bétween the character and each digital board 1 (February 1976 issue). with b6 in (116,3). This latch also
edge of the rectangle. Bits b3 and b5 are fed to IC112 via NAND synchronizes the graphics character
As can be seen from Fig. 1, all the gates (101,8) and (101,11) which perform with the character rectangle. Data
control codes of interest have bits b6 the dual function of inverting them, and selector IC107 selects either bits bl, b3,
and b7 at logic 0, and bit b4 at logic 1. gating them with the valid character b5 or bits b2, b4, b7 according to the
These bits are gated together by (106,13) signal at IC188, pin 10. If this signal is at state of pin 1, which is a logic 0 for the
and (101,3), and gated additionally with logic 0 (i.e. "invalid ") pins 12 and 13 of left -hand half of the character and a
a mixed blanking signal at IC101, pin 6, IC113 are clocked to a logic 1, thereby logic 1 for the right -hand half. On the
giving a logic 1 at IC100, pin 10 for valid disabling all its outputs. outputs of IC107, therefore, are the three
control characters (Fig. 2). This leaves There remains the reveal signal to be bits corresponding to the three vertical
bits bl, b2, b3 and b5 to be decoded into generated, which as mentioned corres- cells in that part of the graphics
a separate signal for each control code. ponds to codes 0/1 to 0/7 and 1/1 to 1/7 character (Fig. 3). IC104 is a 16 -line to
inclusive. Gates (106,1), (118,2), (111,3), 4 -line data selector (multiplexer), the
(116,11) and (116,8) provide this signal, address inputs of which (pins 11 to 15)
Examples of the new facilities, which is synchronised with the charac- are driven from a vertical (line) address
obtained using the modified decoder. ter rectangles by D-type latch (117,15). which runs from 15 at the top of the
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characters to be displayed against to colour in the graphics node
a colour- background.
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character rectangle, through 0, to 8 at the outputs of IC113 are fed to a latch rectangle (counting from top to
the bottom (10 lines in all, or 20 comprising (120,8) and (119,8). This bottom). When separated graphics
counting both fields). This is the same latch is additionally set to the characters are vertically adjacent this
address which feeds the character contiguous condition by the inverted gives a larger gap between the rows (2
generator r.o.m. on digital board 2. mixed blanking signal at IC124, pin 8 as lines) than between the cells within a
Assuming IC121, pin 9 is at logic 1, the all rows start in the contiguous state. character (1 line) but this is unavoid-
gates in IC109 act simply as non- invert- The specification states that the able.
ing buffers. The inputs to IC104 are contiguous /separated graphics mode In the separated -graphics mode IC106,
connected to the appropriate outputs of shall be part of the structure of the held pin 6 goes to a logic 0, thereby allowing
IC107 to give the correct allocation of graphics character, so the contiguous/ the signal on (124,6) to be fed to the
lines to the three graphics cells - 3 to separated signal is fed to D -type strobe input of IC104, pin 9. This signal
the top cell, 4 to the middle cell and 3 to flip -flop IC121, clocked by the signal at provides the gaps between the graphics
the bottom cell. This symmetrical IC102, pin 9. cells in the horizontal direction (Fig. 3).
arrangement gives a slightly better When separated graphics are in use
appearance than the 4 -3 -3 scheme there are gaps between the graphics Display colour. To simplify the back-
adopted in the original decoder. cells in both the vertical and horizontal ground colour circuitry, and to arrange
The decoded control signals for directions. In the vertical direction this that the display colour changes at the
contiguous and separated graphics at is achieved by IC109, the outputs of boundary of the character rectangle, a
which are held at 0 in the separated new display -colour selection circuit is
Fig. 2. Circuit diagram of the new mode thereby inhibiting the graphics on included on the new board. For
digital board 3. lines 1, 4, 7 and 10 of the character convenience the aphanumerics /
1,12 (c8)
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graphics selection is also included. The D- inputs of this latch are applied bits bl, function is required, the signal is fed to a
circuits on digital board 2 which b2 and b3, all delayed by one character logic -0 sensitive preset, clear or enable
originally performed these functions are and inverted. By inverting the inputs input, causing a change to take place
no longer used. and using the Q outputs of the latch, the immediately it goes low. Examples of
If any control character in the shaded clear input (pin 1) may be used to set the this are hold and conceal. For the set
portion of Fig. 1 occurs, then the red, display colour to white at the beginning after function, the signal at the output
green and blue components of the of each row. the fourth latch in IC115 is of IC113 is fed to a positive -edge sensitive
display colour obtaining for the next used to store the alphanumerics / input causing the mode to change on
and subsequent characters (display graphics signal (which is a function of, the trailing edge of the signal. Examples
colour is a "set after" display mode) the state of b5) in the same way. of this are double height and release
correspond directly to bits bl, b2 and b3 which are fed to the clock inputs of
respectively. For example, if bit bl is 1 Background colours. It may be helpful D-type flip -flops.
then the colour includes red. It will be at this point to explain how the set at On the occurrence of a new back-
remembered that this group of control and set after requirements are met. The ground control character the current
characters is the same as that defining occurrence of a control code of interest display colour is adopted as the new
the reveal condition, and a correspond- causes one output of IC113 to go low for background colour. Both new backg-
ing signal is available at IC117, pin 15. By exactly one character period (or more if round and black background are "set
gating this signal with the "charac- two or more identical control charac- at" modes, so what is required is a 3 -bit
ter -rate square wave in (111,6) a ters occur in succession). Both edges of latch to store the background colour
suitable signal is obtained for clocking this signal are synchronised to the edges with level- operated preset and clear
the display colour latch IC115. To the of the character rectangle. If a set at inputs. One device which meets this
IC124 (c21) 73,4

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generator. In the separated -graphics
mode, only the small squares are
illuminated.
otherwise. This signal, fed via (119,12)
and (119,6) normally blanks control
characters. However, if graphics have
been selected (and during a control
character this can only occur in the held
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requirement is the four -bit counter
74177, and this is used as IC110. It is used
simply in its parallel load mode and the
graphics mode) the blanking is disabled
by the signal at (118,6).
The select graphics signal at (122,10)
can only go to a logic 1 under the
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clock inputs are disregarded. The black following circumstances. Gate input
background signal is combined with (122,8) must be at logic 0, that is, the
inverted mixed blanking in (123,8) to display must be in the graphics mode,
ensure that all rows start with a black and neither a 'blast- through' alphabetic
background. character (122,11) nor a control Fig. 4. Symbols generated by the Texas
The data selector IC105 switches character in the graphics release mode 74S262 character generator.
between the background colour on its A (122,12) must be selected. Blast- through
inputs (in r,g,b form) and the display characters are identified by b6 being 0
colour on its B inputs according to the and b7 being 1. During a control switching between single and double
white output signal from digital board 2 character in the graphics hold mode height characters across a particular
(IC67, pin 6). Mixed blanking is fed to the (116,4) and (116,5) are both at logic 1. row, and the second is arranging that
strobe input, pin 15. Output (116,6) is therefore also at logic 1 any row containing double- height
and (122,13) is forced to logic 0. If in characters is read from the page store
Concealed display. Conceal is a set at graphics rather than alphanumerics twice in succession, the row which
mode and reveal a set after mode. mode, (122,8) is at logic 0 and (122,10) would normally occupy the position of
Consequently, the conceal signal is fed goes to a logic 1 to select the held the second of the pair of rows being
to the clear input of a D -type flip -flop graphics character for display. At the ignored, i.e. not read from the store.
(114,1) and the reveal signal to its clock same time the normal control character Additionally, on the second row of the
input, pin 3. Inverted mixed blanking is blanking is inhibited by (118,6) as pair any characters which are not
fed to the preset input (pin 4) to ensure mentioned. double- height characters must be
all rows start revealed. The signal at pin Earthing the test -point (119,1) dis- displayed as unboxed spaces.
6, which is logic 1 for conceal, is gated ables the control character blanking so Double height is a set after mode and
with the signal from the manual reveal that all control characters are displayed the signal at (113,11) is fed to the D -tÿpe
switch in (120,6) and fed via (119,6) as a (except when hidden by being in the clock input (121,3). Normal height is a
blanking signal to digital board 2. same colour as the background). This set at mode and, gated with inverted
can be useful for fault diagnosis, mixed blanking in (123,11), the signal at
Held graphics. Graphics hold is a set at especially with the 74S262 character (113,10) is fed to the clear input (121,1).
and graphics release a set after mode. generator which includes special The data selector IC108 switches the
The other half of IC114 is used as the characters for all the control codes (Fig. vertical (line) address of a character
hold /release latch with the hold signal 4). With the 2513 character generator from the normal 0,1,2,3.. to one
from (113,3) fed to pin 13 and release the control characters will appear as changing at half the rate (i.e. 0,0,1,1.)
from (113,4) to pin 11. The connexion to various alphanumeric symbols. thereby expanding the top -half of the
pin 10 presèts the latch to the release character to fill the whole row height.
condition at the start of each row. Double height. This is the most complex On the first of a pair of double- height
the signal at (119,13) is a logic 1 of the new display modes as it involves rows, and on all normal rows, the only
during a control character and logic 0 two distinct processes. The first is the purpose of IC103 is to subtract 1 (add 15)
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from the vertical address in order to

move the alphanumeric characters First row of Second row of Normal row
down one line. If this is not done, double- height pair double-height pair
characters (from the 74S262 r.o.m.) can
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run into graphics in the row above. This 125,5
does not apply to the 2513 r.o.m.s and a
small modification of this part of the 125,6
111111 11111111111111
circuit to inhibit the subtract 1 function
will be described later. 125,8
The section of the double -height
circuitry described so far results in the
first row of the pair being displayed
correctly - normal height characters
122,4
125,12
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being displayed conventionally and
double- height characters having their 124,3
upper -half stretched to fill the rect-
angle.
123,3
The function of IC125 and the f
associated gates is as follows. If there

are no double- height characters in a
row, (125,8) and (125,12) remain at logic
O. Although both flip -flops are clocked
At the end of the last line in the Fig. 5. Waveforms for the
after every row, their J and K inputs are
at logic 0 in each case, and in this second double -height row IC125 is again double-height mode.
condition the outputs remain unchang- clocked. This time (125,7) is at logic 1 as
ed (Table 1.). Pin 1 of IC123 is therefore at is (125,14). (125,8) changes back to a
logic 0 but (125,12) remains unchanged. character should be taken to be a space.
logic 1 and the most significant bit of
At this point (120,12) is at logic 0 so This is arranged as follows. When in the
the line address is fed, inverted by alphanumerics mode, IC115, pin 7 is at
(122,4), to IC11, pin 11 on digital board 1. (123,3) changes to a logic 1, thereby
clocking the row address. Shortly logic 0. If (118,3) is at logic 0, i.e. the next
The positive -going edge of this signal
clocks the row address once per row in afterwards (120,12) goes to logic 1. This character is not a valid held graphics
the normal way. causes (120,11) to go to 0 and (123,3) to character, IC111, pin 11 goes low and the
return to O. At the same time (122,1) held graphics character is cleared to a
If a double- height character is
goes to 1, (124,3) gees to 0 and (125,12) is space character. On a change from
present, IC125, pin 6 will pulse to a logic 0,
cleared back to a zero via. (120,11) this double to normal- height, or from
thereby changing (125,8) to a logic 1. normal to double- height, pins 12 and 13
This has no immediate effect but at the causes (123,3) to go back to 1. In this
way a narrow negative -going pulse of IC124 will be momentarily at the same
end of the last line in the row, when the
appears at (123,3) of a duration equal to logic level due to the delay through the
signal at (122,6) goes low, this is
the total delay around the loop (120,11), RC network. A short negative -going
prevented from reaching IC11 pin 11 and
the row address is not incremented. 122,1), (124,3) plus the clear -to -Q delay pulse will occur at (124,11) which will
Instead, as (125,14) is now at logic 1, pin of IC125 This narrow pulse is sufficient similarly clear the held graphics
12 of IC125 changes from logic 0 to logic to clock the row address again, for the character via (111,8) and (111,11).
1. This signal feeds (108,2) and, when a second time in quick succession. In this
double -height character is selected, it way the hidden row is skipped as Reference
becomes the most significant bit of the required. Figure 5 shows the waveforms 1. Broadcast Teletext Specification, Septem-
vertical character address. That is, associated with the double- height ber 1976. Published jointly by the B.B.C.,
instead of the address counting 0,1,2,3.. circuitry. I.B.A. and B.R.E.M.A.
it counts 8,9,10,11... What is required, The teletext specification states that
however, is for the address to count after a change in either the alpha -
5,6,7,8 to display the lower half of the numerics /graphics or the normal/ Notes on installation and testing will
character correctly. This is achieved by double -height modes the held graphics appear next month
(103,7) and (103,11) going to logic 0,
thereby subtracting a further three
from the vertical address. The
double- height characters are now batteries and convert back to a.c. by means
of inverters. Chloride Transipack Ltd,
displayed correctly.
The signal at (125,12) is also gated
with the output of the normal/
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J-1 1 o 1 o performance must not be affected by mentioned includes tone receivers, modems,
transients, voltage fluctuations or power touch -tone dialling, companders, filters and
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portable gas detector. According to its in-
Can you hear the ventor, Mr R. L. Dries, the idea for this came
'News of picture?
Another spectacular tape recording develop-
to him when he had taken the top off a
transistor 12 years ago, and found that the air
contaminated it.
The first devices he made which used this
the Month ment, again from Japan, is the use of video

recorders to tape high quality sound. Sony
are about to sell in Japan a black box for
phenomenon were too heavy to carry and
consumed too much current, he said. He had
to wait until the i.c. arrived before he could
make the device as portable as he wanted. So
attachment to their Betamax video cassette
recorder which will encode sound signals far he had tested about 400 gases and it had
serially and put them on the half-inch video worked on all of them. Each detector will
tape. Pre -recorded cassettes will be available only respond to one kind of toxic or inflam-
which, when decoded through the playback mable gas, so the customer has to say what
section of the circuit, will give a dynamic he wants the device to do. The detector and
range of 95dB. The dynamic range for self - the electronics are then made to suit. -
recorded material will be about 85dB, say The detector and electronics can be in the
Sony. Other measurements are: distortion same case, or a remote sensor can be fitted.
0.03% from 2Hz to 20kHz; unmeasurable "You can put half a mile of cable on the
wow and flutter (because of storage and detector, it makes no difference." He could
time -base correction); and frequency res- not say anything about the detector other
ponse 2Hz to 20kHz %dB. The sampling than that it was a p -n p -n p -n multiple
rate is 44.1kHz and, for the domestic version sandwich. The detector reverted back to
of the device, three words are put into each normal after the gas went away, so there was
line, each word having two 13 -bit infor- no ageing effect. Full scale deflection was a
mation portions and six parity bits. The box contamination of one part per million. "It will
accepts line -level audio inputs on the record detect the unburnt combustibles in smoke. It
side. The selling price of the equipment, will work in an inert atmosphere and doesn't
which can be attached to any conventional require oxygen to make it work."
helical -scan recorder, will be around the At the presentation of the awards Lord
same as the player, around £800. Seebohm, chairman of Technical Develop-
Hall effect heads It is reported that the Japanese broad- ment Capital Ltd, a subsidiary of Industrial
casters may transmit high quality sound and Commercial Finance Corporation Ltd,
signals after normal transmission hours. said that 155 people had made submissions.
A new type of tape recorder head has been These will be received by the television set "Before introducing the prizewinners I want
developed which will give higher output, and decoded to the amplifier and speakers to stress that the TDC award is not for the
better signal to noise ratio and improved through the black box. Sony expect that the innovation itself. The new products are
distortion figures, say the makers, Hitachi. Betamax will now attract a great deal of important ingredients ... but they are far
The head uses the Hall effect principle, professional attention since, although it from being the whole story ... In choosing
whereby a current flowing through a would not normally be good enough for the winners of our competition we have
material along the y axis and subjected to a professional video use, the new technique taken all aspects of the business into ac-
magnetic field acting along the z axis will will make it one of the best sound machines count." The winner, who showed a method of
produce a potential difference across the x available, and one which offers a three -hour injecting concrete blocks with insulation,
axis. The effect is most marked in a playing time. It was first introduced in Japan received £10,000 and each of the runners -up
semiconductor. The induced x axis Hall in May 1975. In November 1964 Sony intro- received £1,667.
electric field, if the current along the y axis is duced what they say was the world's first
constant, is proportional to the magnetic home use video recorder, the CV2000, and in
field strength. If the magnetic field strength
October 1969 they announced the first video
is varying, as when a recorded tape passes
cassette system, the U-matic.
over the head, then the electric field appearing The IBA announces that its director of Ferrograph swap
across the semiconductor will vary accord- engineering since 1966, Mr Howard Steele, is
ingly. leaving to join Sony Broadcast at the begin- The impending closure of the Ferrograph
In the Hitachi stereo cassette head there ning of 1978. factory in South Shields has forced the
are four sections, enabling simultaneous National Enterprise Board to arrange a mar-
stereo recording and playback. In other riage between Ferrograph and North -East
words, cassette users will be able to monitor Audio Ltd (NEAL). Wilmot Breeden, who
off tape as they record, as reel to reel have owned Ferrograph since 1968, sold the
machines have allowed for years. According
the provisional specification the record and
Electronics takes two company for nearly £1/2 million. The an-
nouncement came in mid -October.
playback heads, with casing, are only 10mm prizes Ferrograph had been struggling for some
wide along the direction of tape travel, and time. Although the old Ferrograph Series 7
the distance between record and playback Two of the four prizes awarded this year by tape recorder had been well thought of, the
heads is a mere 2.6mm. Technical Development Capital Ltd, a fund- BBC, for example, using it extensively, suc-
According to a New Scientist report the ing organisation, for outstanding innovation cessors to the machine, the Super 7 and Logic
head is the subject of over a hundred patent went to electronics companies. BSH Elec- 7, had met with a less than enthusiastic
applications round the world. The improve- tronics (Manchester) Ltd shared the runner - response. Had Wilmot Breeden closed the
ment in signal -to -noise ratio is 3dB over up prize with two other firms, one of them South Shields factory, moving production
conventional inductance coilheads. The SEMA Electronics Ltd of Dundonald, down to Bognor Regis, only the Ferrograph
semiconductor used is a thin film of indium - Ayrshire. test set and the Studio 8 tape recorder would
antimony. Hitachi's provisional specification BSH's development was of a .device for have remained in production. There were
says that at a flux level of -20dB ref. turning a rear windscreen-heater into a car also long lines of communication between
250r. W b, m the output level at 1 kHz would be aerial. The inventor, Mr J. J. Kropielnicki, got South Shields, Bognor and Wilmot Breeden's
a-ound 280µV. the idea for his Bi -Fi aerial when he was Birmingham headquarters.
Hall effect devices are frequently used in having trouble with his own, conventional, Ferrograph's difficulties were com-
measurement but it is only recently that they car aerial. His wife came and asked why he pounded by problems elsewhere in the elec-
have been applied to domestic equipment. didn't use "the aerial in the back window," tronic division of Wilmot Breeden: the
Matsushita, for example, have developed and he set about designing a system that Wayne Kerr factory at Bognor Regis, for
linear and switch -type silicon monolithic would allow him to do just that. The device example, went on a three -day week last
Hall i.c.s with a Hall element and amplifier on has the advantage that it cannot be torn off January "due to a run down in orders." The
a single chip, This can be used for keyboard the car, like conventional whip or rod aerials, electronics division made losses of £1 million
switches, microswitches, rotation detectors thoúgh we have r10 information about its last year attributable partly to Rendar and
for tachometers, tape recorders and so on, efficiency with a variety of rear windscreen- partly to Ferrograph.
and for position detectors for movie cameras heaters. The Bognor factory went back to full -time
and sewing machines. SÉMA's prize Was for developing a light, working after 12 weeks, and a spokesman
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Geoffrey Parr award of the Royal Television That standard places the onus for the pro-
told Wireless World, performance had now tection of flammable gases on the user of the
improved in other parts of the division. Society for his physics group's work in im-
proving tv reproduction of colour films. In material so hazarded, and that is one reason
The National Enterprise Board was an- why the Navy feel the British Gas Corpo-
xious that Ferrograph's South Shields fac- 1972 he won the Pye Travelling Scholarship
for work on the standardisation of reproduc- ration should carry out any necessary pro-
tory should not close. Its 140 or so employees tective work themselves.
live in an area which is suffering from even tion chromacities. He is a fellow of the
SMPTE, an honorary fellow of the BKSTS, British Gas say that when they first
worse unemployment than other parts of the thought of building the terminal the hazards
UK. The NEB approached NEAL with an and a fellow of the Royal Television Society.
of radio waves were not much known or
offer to take a 49% stake in NEAL if they thought about by the scientific community.
would take on the factory. The NEB holding It was only after construction began in 1972
means a new injection of £400,000 into NEAL,
that enough work on the subject had been
whose founder and managing director, Alan Radio and the danger of done to make it clear that it could be a
Helliwell, was chief engineer or chief
executive at Ferrograph for the four years to explosions hazard, and this was long after the Navy had
1972.
sought planning permission, in 1970. The
gas terminal receiving supplies from the British Standard was published in April, 1974.
As well as audio tape recorders, Ferro - A
Frigg field is so close to a new Royal Navy Ironically, when British Gas sought a site for
graph make audio test equipment and marine
communications base that the radio waves their terminal they investigated Crimond,
echo sounders. NEAL will take over the and discovered the Navy had already got it.
whole range except for the ARAI cathode from the base might cause a serious ex-
plosion, according to the British Gas Corpo- Since "hundreds of millions of pounds,"
ray tube response unit, though this may be according to BGC, have already been spent
supplied in future under an o.e.m. arrange- ration. Yet the Admiralty, who decided to go
ahead with the project, for which they have on St Fergus, and Shell and Esso will also
ment with Wayne Kerr. The Studio 8 re- build terminals there for passing products on
corder is a professional machine designed to received a Nato grant, in 1969, before the St
Fergus gas terminal three miles away was from the Brent field, there is no question of
compete with the £3,000 -plus Studer closing that down either. A committee of
machines. It was developed in Bognor Regis even contemplated, say they have no inten-
tion of closing the base down. The terminal representatives from the Energy Depart-
and is now made under subcontract. All other ment, Defence Ministry, British Gas and
Ferrograph manufacture, NEAL's own fac- will eventually supply 40% of Britain's gas.
The Navy's plans for the base at Crimond, .Total will now have talks and safety meas-
tory in Newcastle, and the sales office in ures will be agreed, though it is not known
London will be moved to South Shields. Grampian, according to the Ministry of
Defence, were known to Total and the British how long this will take.
Mr Helliwell told Wireless World that after
a slow start the sales of the Studio 8 were Gas Corporation before they went ahead
doing "very well." As for the rest of the with the terminal. The base is due to open
company: "We have quite a long job in front formally next January, but test transmissions
have been carried out and are continuing,
of us. We're not going to do it overnight. Our
aim is to try to get it back to what it was ten though at reduced power while an inves- Sinclair pushing tv
years ago within three to five years, though if tigation is carried out.
it takes five years I shall be disappointed." The Navy told Wireless World that Production problems at the beginning of the
One of his first tasks would be to make the although the frequencies and powers to be year caused Sinclair to depart from the target
existing product range more attractive. used were not publicly available, this infor- dates they announced for the pocket
He expected that, at the end of next year, mation had been given to the parties con- television set when it was launched at the
NEAL would contribute half of the com- cerned with the building of the gas terminal beginning of January. (See WW March, p.37.)
pany's turnover. His approach would be to when planning permission for the base was Although Clive Sinclair had said that the sets
attack several markets from the base of the going through. would be in the shops in February, that did
same technology rather than, as the Ja- It has now been well established that radio not happen until June, four months later.
panese had done, attacking one market with waves, particularly those received near to a The delay was partly attributable to faults
several technologies. The latter course was, powerful transmitter, can cause the ex- in the case moulding, each one of the first
in any case, rather expensive. It would be plosion of inflammable gases. Currents in- batch of which had to be altered by hand.
little more expensive to market Ferrograph duced in metal pipes by the waves can cause There is also some doubt about the quantities
and NEAL combined than NEAL alone since, a dangerous spark, and a British Standard, now in production. By August they were
for example, they only had to buy space for BS4992, has been published on the subject. making about 800 a month, and 1,000 a
one exhibition stand to show both products. month after that. During September they had
hoped to make 1,500 a month but the failure
of delivery of tuner circuits cut that figure by
a third. At an October press conference to
launch a new calculator range and pocket
multimeter, Clive Sinclair announced that
Light on records production was "now 2,000 a month," and he
expected it to reach 4,000 a month within two
Teac showed a record player that used a laser - months.
beam instead of a stylus at the recent All - Even allowing, however, for a little
Japan Audio Fair in Tokyo. Production hyperbole in these figures the assertion that
won't begin for five years but the price is "demand exceeds supply" is probably cor-
expected to be around £320 a unit. The rect. All the sales are being made either here
development is expected to result in a large or in the United States, roughly half each,
reduction in record wear. and Sinclair expects the tv to account for half
the company's turnover eventually.
The calculator market which built the
company up is now very competitive, and
Sinclair executives were finding this year's
going a bit hard, which is why they welcome
BBC's Wood the success of the television and are keen to
get production up to its (as yet undisclosed)
commended maximum. There are immediate plans to
The Society of Motion Picture and increase capacity to about double the present
Television Engineers (SMPTE) has awarded figure.
Mr C. B. B. Wood, head of engineering infor-
There were reports that there had been
mation at the BBC, a special commendation some difficulty in the supply of the AEG
award for "his many outstanding con- Telefunken tube, which the German com-
pany are contracted to supply only to Sinclair
tributions to motion pictures and television." for this application. Clive Sinclair denied this,
Wood worked at the BBC research depart- The two winners of the TDC award - and there do not at the present appear to be
ment for 26 years, during which time he had see "Electronics takes two prizes." Top:
worked on television film recording. After any plans to find second sourcing for the
the introduction of colour tv he was awarded
the inside of the Bi -Fi car aerial device, tube, though this may change next year if, as
the MBE in 1971. In 1968 he received the and (below) the SEMA gas monitor. Sinclair hopes, the production of the sets
goes well ahead and the market opens up.
After Christmas test marketing of the set will
start in Europe.
Sinclair said at the October press con-
ference that the investment by both the NEB
and the company, which now totals over £2
million, had resulted in large increases in
turnover; in November, he said, turnover
would be "at least double" that for the same
month last year. And profits were also "in-
creasing very rapidly."
The cost of producing a colour version of
the set may be prohibitive, at least for the
present, but, in view of Sinclair's growing
interest in the instrument market, it would
not be all that surprising to see a pocket
oscilloscope being launched at some future
date.
Beeb's light drama to be

lighter
The BBC is conducting a one -year experi-
ment in electronic news gathering. The first
use of the new equipment was for an inter-
view with Mrs Margaret Thatcher on Oc-
tober 10, just before the Conservative party The BBC's experimental e.n.g. unit. See
conference and it now averages two or three "Beeb's light drama to the lighter."
stories a day. Solar power nearer
A Range Rover has been equipped with a
Philips LDK11 camera, Sony 3800 '/,in U- Bell labs are developing solar cells made from
matic cassette video recorder and Sony liquids and solids which may be more
Trinitron monitor, radio telephone, and economical than all -solid cells. They are also
transmission links. An intermediate Mi- years. A film unit costs about £20,000 to put easier to make and may last longer, say Bell.
crowave Associates 13GHz "window" link, on the road, but the operating costs of the Efficient but expensive solar cells may be
with a range of about 1/2 mile, will be able to electronic unit are believed to compare fa- made from joining two single crystal solids,
transmit to the e.n.g. unit. From there a more vourably with those of film units, since there and less expensive but less efficient cells can
powerful 2liGHz link will carry the signals are no processing costs and the "stock" can be made from the junction of polycrystalline
to the top of London's Millbank Tower, and be re -used almost indefinitely. Ten minutes materials. The latest liquid junction Bell cells
cable takes them to Television of film cost about £20. All in all the compa- also use polycrystalline materials but are
Centre. Other base stations, which have rative total costs of e.n.g. as against film are cheaper to make: "Junctions in all -solid cells
already been tested, will be used when about the same over the five -year period. are difficult to form since layers of crystals
necessary. Where a cable link already exists The small new cameras have other advan- must be aligned precisely," say Bell. "Liquids
for outside broadcasts, at such places as tages besides being easily carried. According conform to solids easily."
Downing Street or Heathrow Airport, the to BBC engineers the hin. tubes are more The new cells comprise two electrodes in a
video cassette can be played straight down sensitive than those of larger cameras, giving water -based solution. One of the electrodes is
the cable. Another choice is to send the a picture even in bad light. In this respect a semiconductor, the other carbon or any of a
cassette to the Centre by dispatch rider, as they perform about as well as film cameras, number of common metals. When light falls
already happens for cans of exposed film. but they have the added advantage of giving on the semiconductor current flows from one
The BBC plan to do live inserts into a better colour balance. Editing is all - electrode to the other via the liquid. The
television news broadcasts. This has been electronic, and will take about the same time solution is of sulfide polysulfides in water,
done in the past with the o.b. units, sending as film editing does now, though no time has and it remains relatively unaffected by the
signals back over temporary links. to be spent on film processing, which can process. This accounts, say Bell, for the long
The BBC have been carrying out tests with take from 40 minutes to an hour. life of the cell, up to four years in one case. In
various types of equipment for the past two The Corporation is doing a great deal more one experiment using cadmium selenide as
years, and talks with the unions have been lightweight production for drama and cur- the semiconductor electrode over a twen-
going on for the past 18 months. Film camera rent affairs than on news, which represents tieth of the incident light was converted into
crews have been retrained to operate the only about 9% of output. According to a BBC electricity, about two- thirds the efficiency of
electronic equipment. The Range Rover will spokesman, 67% of tv output was now being the equivalent crystal cell.
have a crew of two, plus a reporter who will produced electronically, and they aimed to An 8% efficient solar cell is reported to
travel separately and the despatch rider, if enable drama producers, for example, to use have been made by annealing with a single
needed. The LDK11 camera is rather larger locations as easily as they now did the studio. 30ns laser pulse, according to a report from
than the latest cameras available for such This can have important benefits on pro- the 1977 Photovoltaic Solar Energy con;
uses. Nevertheless its weight compares well ductivity. Whereas a production unit might ference in Luxembourg. The result is a silicon
with that of a 16mm camera. Crews can only shoot four minutes of film a day because ion -implanted solar cell. Another cell, a
either connect the camera to the recorder on there might be doubt about the light con- 50mm thick silicon cell uniformly thinned by
the van, or carry the recorder with them for ditions, for instance, with electronic produc- etching in sodium hydroxide has a claimed
playing back later from the vehicle. The tion this can be increased to 12 minutes a day efficiency of 14%.
reporter can play back the whole tape and or more because the results can be seen A Rugby engineer, Mr A. T. Freeman, has
send cues and editing instructions to immediately without processing. Two - built a solar powered car which does not
Television Centre via the radiotelephone. camera units using lin tubes have been store the energy in conventional batteries.
Cue numbers are visible on an elapsed -time operating in drama for about three years. The The solar cells, made by Ferranti, are
readout, and are generated by an SMPTE next step would be electronic field produc- mounted in a canopy above the vehicle's seat
code on the tape. tion using lin helical scan tape recorders and produce a maximum of 35W. Eventually
The BBC are not giving any figures for the instead of the heavy tin tape machines now .
he wants to produce a commuter vehicle
cost of the experiment, though it is believed in use, which do not offer still- framing. which will have a roof area of 50ft , produc-
that the equipment of the van cost about The BBC has just bought three Ampex ing 250W, and a maximum speed of 15 m.p.h.
£70,000, and another £30,000 was spent on VPR1 recorders for news and current affairs The cost at the moment would be £5,000 for
associated equipment at the centre. This in Newcastle and Manchester, and these and the panels but he is hoping this will eventu-
total of £100,000 will be written off over five other machines may be bought for drama. ally come down to £50.
who applies to join the police, or for an award

under the Criminal Injuries compensation
The electronic arm of the law legislation, or for a gaming licence, is also
checked.
In addition, a recent book* by Patricia
Hewitt of the National Council for Civil
Liberties points out that criminal records are
Suffolk Police hive installed over £100,000 held by the central and regional criminal also available to anyone who knows how to
worth of computer equipment at their record offices and by police forces: these work the system. For this reason the prac-
headquarters at Martlesham, near Ipswich. comprise indices to records of persons con- tice, not confined to security firms, of hiring
The equipment, to control the force's more victed of serious offences, wanted and mis- ex- policemen has become widespread. The
than 200 vehicles, to record incidents, to sing persons, stolen vehicles, disqualified most outstanding example must be the BBC's
switch messages between teleprinters in a drivers and persons with suspended sen- appointment of Robert Huntley, former head
communications network, and to hold local tences." of the bomb squad, as security adviser.
criminal, firearm, and stolen property re- In addition, each day a new tape is carried Anyone applying for a BBC post might
cords, was commissioned in November 1975 from the vehicle registration computer at therefore expect the corporation to have
and installed beginning in the summer of the Swansea to Hendon for feeding into the access to a great deal of information which
following year. computer. This is necessary because the would otherwide be closed to them. Yet
Currently 96 of the police vehicles are Swansea computer works on tape and that at when the police computer was being set up,
fitted with terminals which link them with Hendon on disc, for speedy access. This in 1971, the then Home Secretary, Mr
the computer. Fourteen v.d.u.s are in div- transfer means that, by 1979, the names of 26 Reginald Maudling, told the Commons that
isional control rooms at Ipswich, Bury St million people owning licensed vehicles will access to it would be restricted to the police.
Edmunds and Lowestoft, and at force be on the file, along with address, date of
headquarters. The message switcher controls birth, details of the vehicle and other codes Passport details
18 teleprinters distributed among the 13 saying whether, for example, the car is "of Scotland Yard's computer provides a good
sub -divisions and force HQ, and also a long term interest to the police." The total example of the dangers computers may pre-
journal printer. The processor used is the number of entries will be over 36 million. sent. In February this year The Times
GEC 4080, supported by 256 kbytes of core This contradicts a government assurance revealed that nearly 1.5 million names of
store, two 35 Mbyte discs, magnetic tape, line that the information used for one purpose criminals "and their associates" will have
and logging printers, and communications would not be transferred for use in another. been fed into the computer by 1985. Stewart
interfaces operating at 2,400 baud to the There are some 220 central government Tendier wrote that Scotland Yard refused to
v.d.us. and 75 baud to the teleprinters. administrative tasks which are computer - say whether this would include the names of
The Suffolk police regard the installation based. The public sector has around 3,500 those suspected of subversion. A £900,000
as one of the most advanced of its type, even computers at its disposal, roughly a quarter contract for the computer was announced
though they are aware that computer tech- of the private and public sectors' combined last year but no other details, including the
nology has advanced some way since the total. The Home Office and Metropolitan name of the winner of the contract, for which
system was commissioned. The force serves a Police joint automatic data processing unit, 25 companies competed, have been released.
community whose industry is expanding for example, has five central processors, 500 However, Computer Weekly revealed in
rapidly and includes the port of Felixstowe. staff and a capacity of 768 kwords. The Home December last year that the contract had
The new police headquarters, housing 250 Office has spent £14 million on computers in gone to Computer Technology Ltd, one of
police and civilian workers, is a showpiece, the last ten years. In January, 1973, Computer their biggest ever orders.
and, like the computer system, has been Weekly reported that detectives on a murder Notably, the records include passport de-
designed to meet Suffolk's needs well into the enquiry had searched the memory banks of a tails and details of bankruptcies. "By 1985,"
future. Department of Health and Social Security said The Times, the computer could be stor-
Suffolk is one of the latest forces to em- computer, looking for a letter. Also, the ing information equivalent to one-fifth of the
brace the computer. Recent reports in the Balcombe Street bombers were partly population in the area of the Metropolitan
specialist and daily press have mentioned the tracked down by tracing a computer dating Police's jurisdiction." Although thé kind of
growing police use of computers in Glasgow, form from a Time Out advertisement which information stored is supposed to be subject
Staffordshire, the West Midlands, Devon and one of the bombers had filled in as a joke. to the guidelines in the white paper, and
Cornwall, Lincolnshire, Tayside, the Thames The police national computer also has a therefore not secret, Scotland Yard refused
Valley, and, of course, Scotland Yard. Many fingerprint file for those convicted and sen- to say why the information was classified, or
more of the country's 43 police forces are tenced over the last 40 years (the Re- whether it was true that an astonishing
taking advantage of the computer, and there habilitation of Offenders Act, 1974, is sup- two- thirds of the names on the biggest sec-
is no doubt that one day they will all be posed to ensure that a conviction vanishes tion of the records was of suspects and
computerised. Those not already so may be from the record after five years) as well as associates rather than people with criminal
using their local authority's computer for the those awaiting trial, a total of 2.25 million records.
same purposes. people. Those detained under the Prevention A further report in September said that
of Terrorism Act also had their fingerprints the names of tens of thousands of those
Stations linked taken and stored even though 19 out of 20 of suspected by the special branch "for reasons
The arrival of the blue serge computer is them were acquitted. (See Wireless World, of national security" were to be fed in. The
mainly attributable to the shortage of police September 1975, p.406.) A Police Review special branch was allocated up to 600,000 of
manpower, and to the related switch in editorial once described the information in the total capacity of 1,300,000 names for such
emphasis in recent years from crime detec- police files as "frequently libellous ". purposes.
tion to crime prevention, or, as the bobbies No one doubts that the tracing of bombers
inimitably put it, "pre-emptive policing." But and murderers after the event, still more the
while this is a desirable end, serious doubts BBC prevention of their atrocities beforehand, is
have been raised by the means. This is why the government white paper of benefit to the community, though more
There is nothing a computer can store that stresses that the disclosure of criminal and often the beginning of the spiral is the mere
could not be stored on paper. The difference other records from the computer is not tracing of stolen cars. But, the objectors say,
is in the amount of storage and the ease with "given to anyone, however responsible, these worthy objects may become the excuse
which it can be made available. Data banks unless considerations of public interest jus- for producing just the kind of peephole
can hold enormous amounts of information tify it." Yet the number of people with society the bombers would resort to if they
with very little trouble, and when what was authorised access includes public bodies or ever found themselves in control. Be it noted
previously held in paper files is so easy to authorities about to employ doctors, dentists, that, after nine years' work, the FBI has
store there is an overwhelming temptation to nurses, youth leaders or teachers, civil abandoned a national police computer it was
add all sorts of other details as well. servants, atomic energy and Post Office to set up in the United States, largely because
All of the 800 police stations in England temporary or permanent staff, magistrates, of the privacy issue.
and Wales are linked to a national police justices of the peace, barristers, solicitors and
computer, based on a Burroughs main frame, their clerks. Astonishingly the paper also
at Hendon. This project went ahead in 1969 admits that "the police also maintain the
and began to operate in 1974. According to practice, which does not have specific statu-
the Government white paper on computers tory authority, of helping social services *Privacy: the information gatherers. Patricia
and privacy, "its purpose is to automate the departments in considering applications Hewitt, National Council for Civil Liberties.
storage and retrieval of certain of the records from adoptive and foster parents." Anyone £1.25.
The Bizarrm
Low -cost pickup arm using mono -filament suspension needs no
special tools
by Ernie Lowinger
Many pick -up arm designs for home thread suspension. It defeated me the If a cartridge is offset 4) degrees in a
manufacture have already been de- first time I met it as an A -level maths pick-up arm, Fig. 2, but is tracking a
scribed in the journals. Most very problem years ago. This time I derived groove tangentially, there will be a force
beautiful, all very sophisticated and the equation M= Wag /h, where M is the F due to friction along the cartridge's
requiring the use of a lathe and appro- moment, W the total mass of the arm, 2a longitudinal axis. This force can be
priate precision. For some time I have the distance between the threads, and h resolved into a pull along the arm P
sought the design for an arm that could the suspension height (see Appendix 1). from the pivot, and a pull S at right
be made with a minimum amount of The principle is simple enough; the arm angles to the arm which tends to make
costly precision tools. is supported by only two threads, Fig. 1. the stylus ride the inner wall of the
My aim has been to produce an arm The resulting friction is due only to the groove harder than the outer
with performance as good as there is, torsional hysteresis of the threads and
with a reasonable appearance, from the lead -out wires. I have made two S = Fsin(I) (see Appendix
inexpensive materials which are easily arms utilising this principle. One uses II)
found, using tools I have to hand: elec-
P= Fcos(I)
fine nylon fishing line for suspension.
tric drill, drilling stand, assorted drill The other uses the signal wires
bits and a few BA taps. themselves to support the arm. Now F is proportional to the tracking
I have tried miniature ball races and In addition to having low inherent weight and it has been shown2 that the
found them too temperamental. A uni- friction the principle also offers constant of proportionality can be
pivot is out, hydraulics and knife edges, automatic bias compensation. The anything between 0.2 and 0.9,
too. For some time I toyed with the idea moment on the arm is proportional to depending on the record and this can be
of a thread or wire suspension. The idea the sine of the angle of rotation of the increased by 80% more on highly
finally took form when I saw two arm, i.e. M0 sin9. If is centred on 90°
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modulated grooves in the case of
mentions of a thread -suspended bias then for a sweep of 23° of the 9 -inch certain cartridges. It is quite likely that
compensation device in some old WW arm there is only 4% variation in M. a resulting variation of 10:1 can occur
and HFN & RR copies'. This was not my across one record. One might well ask,
first acquaintance with this form of Bias compensation is it worth the bother?
To arrive at some concrete dimensions Anyway, to start somewhere the
for the threads and the values of a, h and equation has become
First design, in whch the arm is carried W it is necessary to look into this bias
by the signal wires. business. S = kGsin4)
where G is the tracking weight and k a

constant. Taking a mean value for k of
0.5, a 9-inch arm with an offset angle of
23° and a range for G between 1 and 3
grams, S ranges between 0.2 and 0.6
grams. This means a moment at the
pivot of a 9-inch arm of between 1.8 and
5.4 gram- inches, if you will forgive the
mixed units. This is the range of the
values for M in the equation M= Wag /h.
The crunch
The effective mass Me of a pick -up arm
(moment of inertia divided by the
square of its length) and the compliance
C of the cartridge combine to give a
resonant frequency f of bounce on the
stylus suspension, according to
f- 2m \/MeC
I have read3 that f should be kept
between 6 and 14Hz and to achieve this
with the range of cartridge compliances
likely to be met, the arm less cartridge
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10gm. Generally speaking, this implies a tendency to movement in the horizontal
fairly massive counterweight kept close plane. They are completely effective but
to the pivot point. This is because the wire frame to carry them is a bit of a
inertial moment and therefore effective contorted shape. With its easily
mass is proportional to the mass of the adjusted suspension, height and
counterweight but the square of its therefore bias compensation, very low
distance from the pivot. friction and complete lack of wobbles
There is, however, a counter this arm is magnificent but looks very
constraint. If M= Wa2/h, we may have Heath -Robinson-esque. I use it at
to keep W down to keep a and h present with an ADC Q36 tracking at 1'/4
convenient and still have the right M. In gm again.
the event, it has been quite easy to keep Both arms were simple to make but
the effective mass in the 7gm region incredibly fiddly to assemble and set up.
with an all -up W of 58gm, and if we take The horizontal pivot point does not stay
a as 3/16 in (i.e. the threads are %in in one place as the arms move across the
apart), then h becomes about half an record, variation in the friction
inch. This can be increased to lin for a component P along the arm causes
value of 1.8 for M. However, if you want some change. This, however, is not a
to increase M, I think it would be better problem as long as the arm is set up to
to increase 'a' than reduce h much more, give zero tracking error at the end-of-
otherwise the stress on the wire may be side, as is usually the case.
excessive (see Appendix 3). Second arm has its own cross -member
and uses nylon threads.
It wobbles Friction
You might think that, dangling there on To keep friction low the important thing
the end of its thread, the arm would be is to use sufficiently fine lead out wire,
rather unstable. You are right. and finding it was a bit of a job. Writing
However, analysis shows that the to SME for a free sample would be
wobbles are predictable and amenable that jolts on the turntable can set it admitting defeat so I kept looking. For
to control. wobbling. However, the movement only arm number one I found some four -way
Going back to the first principle, there lasts a second or so and, more screened and sleeved wire supposedly
are three modes of oscillation in the important, does not cause any audible for pickups, but stiff as a salami.
system that cause trouble, Fig. 3. modulations. Wow. However, when you strip off the
A - The lower rod AB can rotate Type (b) wobbles are the worst. I sleeving and screening, you get four
about its own longitudinal axis. found the easiest way to control them pretty colóured p.v.c. covers
B- The lower rod AB can swing at was to drape some cotton thread over a each containing 10 strands of 47 -gauge
the end of the two threads moving in piece of wire and fix one end to the pivot copper wire, untinned, and these are
tandem about an axis at right angles point of the arm. The other carries. a quite flexible.
to the projection of the two threads in ' small weight. The two or three'/ein lead For the second arm I used 3 x 48g Litz
plan, Fig. 4. split shot do quite well. The friction of wire, enamelled and silk covered. This is
C- The lower rod AB can swing the thread running over the wire seems about as fine as one would wish to use,
about the upper rod CD and its to be enough to damp them out somewhat fragile and a trifle tricky to
longitudinal axis. completely. As the arm is only free to solder. Four pieces are cut to length and
Not sure which would be the best wobble in one direction, one thread and then given different colours with fibre
orientation for the threads, I made two weight is enough. tip pens.
arms. In the first, Fig. 5, the lower rod The disadvantages of this arm are Measuring lateral and vertical
AB forms a part of the rod itself. The that the vertical pivot point can be friction is a bit of a problem because of
four signal wires emerge from small rather high above the surface of the the constant lateral moment. However,
holes in the arm tube. Two of the wires record for low tracking weights and I must confess to not having seriously
actually carry the arm. The remaining small anti -skating forces, Fig. 6. Also tried. Inspection of the only sources of
two are loosely coiled to contribute as bias adjustment is rather fiddly and so friction, the lead -out wires and nylon
little torsion as possible. The wires are rarely undertaken. On the other hand it support threads, would I am sure
held firm in the arm by simply tying a is simple and neat and performs well convince the reader as it did me that in
large knot which jams in the hole, just with a G820SE tracking at 11/4 gm, 2a the case of arm number one the friction
behind the cartridge, through which the %in and h lin. at the stylus is approximately sweet
wires enter the arm. At the other end In the case of arm number two, the F.A. and with arm number two, even
the wires are 'knitted' into a tubular suspension is turned through 90° about less.
hollow cross tree. The suspension a vertical axis, Fig. 7. The arm itself has
height can be varied by tweaking the to have a cross tree to take the ends of
wires in and out of the holes. This cross the support threads. These threads are Materials
tree is now the upper rod CD. It acts as 11/2-lb breaking strain nylon mono - Arm: You can buy 12 -inch lengths- of
the pivot axis for vertical movement of filament. This has very little inherent 10 -gauge fine -wall aluminium, tube
the arm. So we have no trouble from the damping property so I had to be a from any good model shop for about 10
type (c) wobbles. Type (a) wobbles do bit more careful. The cross tree acts as pence. It weighs about 5 gm and can be
happen. This is because the centre of the axis for vertical movement of the bent with bare hands. It is quite strong,
mass has to be below the line joining the cartridge, and so type (a) oscillations do too. It is 3 /16 -in o.d. and nine - inches
stylus tip and the support peint on the not happen. Both types (b) and (c) occur serves for the arm, the remaining three
arm, to stop it falling over. So you end in this arrangement, the last- mentioned inches take the counterweight.
up with a sort of compound pendulum. taking the form of the whole arm Counterweight: I used about 'Mn of
This wobble is difficult to eliminate. By swinging about a line joining the stylus 11/4in brass bar. Aim for about l'/soz
keeping the centre of mass quite low tip and the upper end of the support weight.
down the period of oscillation is kept threads. These wobbles caused
long and partially damped by the considerable wow and flutter when left Support pillar: '/sin aluminium tube
sogginess of the support wires. The undamped and required two threads of from Band I TV aerial.
method used for damping type (b) the type already described, at right Cartridge retaining clip and finger lift:
wobbles helps a little too, but I found angles to each other, to damp all 16 -gauge aluminium sheet.
Support base: I happen to have some through one hole in the screw, a hole in circumference of a circle of radius a
, green perspex '/sin thick and some clear the perspex platform immediately centred on the upper support, and the
'/yin. below, then up through the adjacent lower ends of the threads similarly fixed
hole 3/s in away and up through the about a circle centred on the pivot point
Arm 1 appropriate hole in the screw. Now form of the arm, then the couple on the arm,
Cross tree: 12 -gauge brass tube from another' /16in blob at the other end of the ceteris paribus, remains Wag /h.
model shop. line. Carefully turn the adjustment The theoretical pivot for both lateral
screw and the nylon line should fit and vertical movement of the arm, is a
Arm 2 neatly in the grooves in the screw. point halfway between the centres of
Thread carrying platform: 'Mn clear Three full turns gives about an inch the upper and lower circles.
perspex and 6BA threaded brass rod. adjustment. With regard to stability, there will
Fit the platform to the support pillar always be one direction in which such
Cross tree in arm: 10 -gauge welding rod. an arm would be free to wobble. It will
and pass the nylon loop under the cross
Damping frame: 18 -gauge steel wire. tree in the arm. The arm will 'already therefore require one stabilizing thread
Various 8, 6 and 4 BA screws and nuts, have its signal wires inserted. The wire arranged as in the Type I arm. The
and that is about it. can now be threaded through the lateral stability will be enhanced
support pillar. however.
It would be nice to terminate the A simple way of making such an arm
Construction wires in a smart plug- socket will be to use a modified Type I arm with
I can say nothing that will improve on arrangement at the bottom of the all four signal wires doing the
the 'constructional
" information support pillar. After a long search I supporting. The stress on the wires, and
published by HFN & RR and WW in the found a miniature seven -pin their slight tendency to creep will be
past4 and construction of this arm is plug /socket that does reasonably well, correspondingly reduced.
clearly much indebted to the work of Fig. 8. I filed the threads of the plug part
Bickerstaffe. The March and April 1971 and soldered the arm wires to it. It just Conclusion
articles are particularly useful as fits in, and is retained in the bottom of
regards the arm itself and I will not try the pillar by an 8BA screw. The screw They might not require a lathe, but
and improve on them. Suffice it to say also carried a fly lead to earth the pillar instead require extensive wrestling with
that the arm must be bent to give a 23° itself. (The arm is earthed by a fly lead almost invisible bits of wire and thread.
offset angle and the pivot region should from one of the cartridge earth tags.) However, they work, and better than I
be on the same horizontal plane as the The socket part is soldered to the twin had ever hoped. They are not beautiful,
stylus tip. As cartridges tend to vary a screened lead which leads to the but they have a certain rustic charm.
bit in dimensions it will have to be set up amplifier. They are certainly cheap.
for the individual case. The head is There is a lot of unscreened signal
undercut, and various holes are started wire floating about. I was worried about
off with a sharp metal spike. The tube this and made up some screening cans
wall is very thin; once it is penetrated from aluminium film canisters. References
the actual-size hole can be made with an However, during use I found that they
appropriate drill worked between finger made absolutely no difference and with 1. Bickerstaffe, J. Torsional stability and the
and thumb. In the case of very small the cartridges I use and 68 -kI2 input unipivot, Wireless World vol. 72, 1966, pp.23-
drills, wrap the shank in scotch masking impedance at the preamp there is no 6 & 62 -7. Building a woggle arm, HFN&RR
tape to a thickness of %in. I found this hum at full volume. So I threw the October 1971.
the most accurate and least damaging screens away. Bartholemew, David. Unipivot arm. HFN &
way to cut holes in fragile tubing. The pillar base is a sandwich of green RR April 1972.
perspex top and bottom and clear in the 2. Snell, R. and Rangabe, A. Frictional drap
A hand vice is required for drilling all
and bias compensation, HFN & RR, February
the other components. Brass and middle. Total thickness'/zin. The whole 1970.
perspex both tend to snatch when being is solvent welded with chloroform. You 3. Wright, J. S.Approach to pick -up arm
drilled. Low revs and a very slow feed can get this from your chemist but you design, Wireless World, vol. 73, 1967, pp.178-
rate are essential. Even so I frequently will have to sign the poisons book. 82.
saw the hand vice whirling round the Drill the %in mounting hole 8%in from 4. Bickerstaffe, J. Pick -up arm design. HFN &
drill shank at 900 rev /min. The the record spindle. RR, January to July 1971.
drill would be well and truly bent and
the vice and workpiece then hurled Further development continued on page 64
through the window, or worse into
one's guts. The pick -up arm can be suspended by
Threading the signal wires into the any number of threads. If their upper
arm is fairly straightforward if one uses ends are regularly spaced about the Type 1 arm in use.
nylon thread or 5 -amp fuse wire to pull
through. Similarly the hollow cross tree
in arm number one. In arm two, the
solid cross tree is glued into the arm
with Araldite.
The support platform in arm two is
fiendishly hard to set up the first time
but easier when you know how.
Assemble the height- adjustment screw
in the platform. Take a good foot of
nylon line. (You only need a foot but
you have to buy a hundred yards; still,
it's cheap enough.) Form a blob at one
end, about Y1,, in diameter, by
holding the end near a gas
flame. This is a finnicky task and
you burn through a few foot lengths of
line before you get a good secure blob.
Now pass the unblobbed end down
5(1 Wireless World, December 1977
Top Band signals he heard regularly and include: FX3TEN on 28.227MHz;

is convinced do not emanate from FX3VHF on 50.1MHz; FXOTHF on
World of 10 -watt
If only
transmitters.
to sort out the current
confusion, and if the Home Office have
144.741MHz; FX3THF on 144.905MHz;
FX7THF on 144.985MHz; FX9UHF on
432.5MHz; FX4UHF on 432.83MHz; and
Amateur no objection to the use of high -power

transmitters for s.s.b., should they not
authorise at least a similar legal 400W
FX6UHF on 432.870MHz. French v.h.f.
activity generally appears to continue
to increase rapidly as indicated by the
p.e.p. output for c.w., f.s.k., and n.b.f.m.? recent story of 200 stations on 144MHz,
Radio Or is this a case where it is left to
"self-regulation"?
Many amateurs believe that our radio
36 on 432MHz and 3 on 10GHz for their
1977 National VHF Contest.
A novel constructors' contest has
and tv set makers could do more to been announced by the East London
make receivers, broad -band mast -head RSGB Group. This is for home -cons-
amplifiers and audio equipment far less tructed items of audio, electronic or
susceptible to high r.f. fields - but it is radio equipment "totally enclosed by a
asking a lot for domestic equipment to 2oz tobacco tin with lid." Optionally the
be capable of operating directly in a power supply need not be enclosed in
100kW e.r.p. beam of a nearby the tin.
transmitter.
The power game At the other end of the scale, David
The power race that has taken such a Johnson, G4DHF, recently made more
firm grip on m.f. and h.f. broadcasting in than 40 contacts on the 144MHz band H.F. transmitting aerials
so many countries (appropriately during a low -power contest at distances Bob Haviland, W4MB, recently analys-
enough Babel, Iran now has a 2MW m.f. up to 300km: he was using a ed the aerials used by 500 stations
station) has not left British amateurs home -made transceiver based on the contacted on 21MHz. Just over half
unaffected. Without wishing to be a SL600 series of integrated circuits with were using Yagi beams (80% of them
spoil -sport one cannot help feeling that an r.f. output of about 25mW. 3- element, 5% 2- element); second most
the authorities never foresaw the power popular group were the verticals
levels that have been made possible by (mostly multiband types using traps);
exploitation of (or misunderstanding Scanning the bands just under 15% were various forms of
of?) the Post Office ruling some years The British Amateur Radio Teleprinter "quad" loop arrays (nearly all of them
ago that British s.s.b. stations could use Group reports a membership increase of 2- element); dipoles (including inverted -
up to 400 watts p.e.p. output, although 40 per cent during the past year to over vees) formed 12% of the total; "long
this was clearly meant to be directly 550. John Jones, GW3IGG, suggests wires" only 1.8%. Height of the elements
comparable with the 150W d.c. input for that the advent of visual display units varied from 10ft to over 120ft (12% over
a.m., f.m. and c.w. modes. for "teleprinter" display has brought 80ft, average 10ft). In Europe the
Today some British amateurs are many new operators to r.t.t.y., even simpler aerials form a higher percentage
using power amplifiers that for any though most stations are currently still of the total. A check on 100 stations on
mode other than s.s.b. would be rated at using hard copy machines for two -way 14MHz and above showed 38 using
over 1kW d.c. input; for example the contacts, and he wonders if the ground -planes and other "verticals "; 31
Heathkit SB220 which is usually listed increasing interest in such display units were using various types of dipole
as 2kW p.e.p. and the popular K2RIW and microprocessors is beginning to (including W3DZZ trapped dipoles and
design of a 432MHz stripline amplifier make the very term "radio teleprinting" G5RV multi -band dipoles); only 13 were
with two ceramic tetrodes, considered seem too restrictive for moden usage. using 3- element Yagi arrays; 7 were
in the United States as a "kilowatt" Reginald Wigg, G6JF, has worked some using 2- element "quads ".
amplifier. Such amplifiers often have 136 different countries on r.t.t.y. and is
two 4CX250B or 8930 valves for u.h.f. or the top British station in BARTG's
two 3 -500Z or similarly rated valves for "quarter century award" listings.
h.f., with power supplies built to provide Leading station is the Belgian ON4BX
over 2.5kV at up to 800- 1000mA on with 154 countries. Brian Hodgson, In brief
peaks, occasionally with heavy r.f. G3YKB, has taken over the editorship The 1978 president of the RSGB will be
speech clipping to increase significantly of the group's newsletter (now appear- Dr Dain S. Evans, G3RPE, who for a
the duty cycle of the transmissions. ing in an attractive new format) in number of years has been one of the
While such equipment may be succession to Dennis Goacher, G3LLZ leaders of the "more activity on
operated under legal conditions for who has produced the newsletter for Microwave bands" group that has done
s.s.b. it must be extraordinarily difficult eight years. much to popularise 10GHz in the United
to get them down to anywhere near The Home Office has now resumed Kingdom .... By August 31, the number
150W d.c. input when used for other licensing the additional amateur repea- of UK amateur licences had risen to
modes. On u.h.f. such equipment, ter stations forming "Phase 2" of the over 22,750 (Class A 16,205; Class B
combined with high -gain aerials, can RSGB's current plans but has stated 6559) .... ITU international prefixes
provide effective radiated powers as that it is not prepared to consider any now include J3 for Grenada and H4 for
high as 50- 100kW, without taking into applications beyond this present phase the Solomon Isles .. The Braun SE401
account the clipping "gain ". for the time being. It has expressed series of 144MHz multi -mode transcei-
Again, the more stringent power concern at the high sites being chosen vers is believed to be the first
limits imposed by our licences for for some of the repeater stations. commercially -built, amateur equipment
1.8MHz (10W d.c. input and on s.s.b. However, preliminary planning for to use a v.f.o. which used a 641is
26.67W p.e.p. output) do not appear to Phase 3 is continuing. With London PAL -type delay line as a integral part of
prevent many amateurs using on that now served by three u.h.f. repeaters, the a stable phase - locked -loop system ....
band medium power h.f. transceivers UK FM Group is considering closing It was exactly 50 years ago, at the
that have no facility for reducing power down the GB3LO v.h.f. repeater which Washington Radio Conference of
and which, I am assured, often cannot continues to be subject to many abuses October -November 1927, that 350
readily be operated within the autho- by a group apparently wishing to bring delegates of 74 countries first defined
rised power levels. An American repeater operation into disrepute. internationally the harmonically relat-
1.8MHz enthusiast, recently visiting the French beacon stations have been ed amateur bands from 1.7 to 56MHz.
UK, was prepared to identify certain allocated the prefix "FX" and will PAT HAWKER G3VA
Since the phase -shift between left and based on an inadequate knowledge of
'Letters to
right channels does not significantly widen aeronautical voice communications systems
the subjective "stereo-head -phone" stage and equipment and the role of voice
width in the same way as when listening on communications in air traffic control.
conventional stereo loudspeakers, it is thus There is nothing inherently wrong with
important that the encoding locus should a.m. mode or with 2.7kHz bandwidth. My
the Editor pass through left -only and right -only if only
to achieve good compatibility for the many
thousands who listen to f.m. stereo (H
experience with audio quality on 747 class
civil airliners and all the control towers that I
hear is that audio quality is quite good and
"quad ") on headphones. It is thus not an background noise level is low. There may be
"unnecessary design restriction" as Mr Ger- problems with aircrews whose command of
zon seems to suppose. At least SQ and (in the English language may be less than is
theory) RM, QS and BMX (Nippon Columbia desirable. There may be faults in the system,
UD4) also give full headphone separation in i.e. the architecture of the communications
stereo at least for pop- surround and dramatic -
system, which is a "party line" no control
programme material, some broadcasts of on "access" to the communications channel.
which have been surprisingly impressive on Basic aeronautical transmitters and receivers
"binaural" listening. are OK. We may not be using them properly
1111111111=11 Secondly, the deliberate curvature of the H all the time.
matrix locus allows non -conjugate decoding I suspect the final Tenerife accident report
or at least some measure of compatability will show that the reception of one of the
when using decoders of other systems, e.g. control instructions was partially "blocked"
CONTROL OF SOLAR even a simple "10-40" blend SQ decoder may by another aircraft transmitting at the same
be used if the connections to speakers are time. This is not a fault of the equipment but
HEATING rearranged. Connections are: SQ- Lebecomes rather one of "system architecture." The
approximately equal to H front, SQ -Ra be- Tenerife communications channel was not
comes H centre -back (two speakers in series noisy or significantly bandwidth limited.
Congratulations to Mr K. D. C. Passey (Let- in the left-back and right -back positions can I. Switzer
ters, October issue) for highlighting the be fed with this "ambience" signal, which in Switzer Engineering Services Ltd
importance of an electronic control system theory contains little matrix H centre-front Mississauga
for solar energy pre- heating of domestic since SQ (blend) right -rear is almost 160° Ontario, Canada
water. However, it is also important that the from the front on the phase -amplitude
complexity of any control /recording system sphere), SQ -L Fbecomes H due left, and SQ -R F
be kept within practical limits, so that the becomes H due right.,
extra cost of the control /recording system The deliberate curvature of the H-matrix
and its maintenance does not exceed the locus is by no means caused by a departure
extra saving over a less sophisticated elec- from "optimal" three -information-channel USING A MICRO-
tronic control. source encoding. For instance, the bent locus
The necessity for limiting pressure drop is produced by the matrix below from PROCESSOR
due to lime deposition may of course be only three microphones: (i) omni -directional
avoided completely by using an indirect solar plus (ii) figure -of-eight oriented left -right There are some difficulties in using the
heating system. plus (iii) another figure -of -eight oriented 8080-based microcomputer discussed in J.
We are at present conducting tests on a front -back, approximately as below, Skinner's article, "Using a Microprocessor"
A
prototype electronic control system measured clockwise from centre -front. (June and September issues).
specifically designed for solar applications, (The equation is covered by the BBC patent.) The interrupt input to the 8080 is wired to a
which uses a true double differential tech- Thus it follows that since H does not have to switch (START) which is used to allow the
nique, where the pump "turn -off" condition be produced from pairwise -panpot four - 8080 to get past the halt instruction (HLT) at
is determined completely by the pump address 5. For this to operate properly it is
channel sources, the "third -matrixed (nar-
requirement and the selected flow rate. It rowband) channel" technique to restore necessary to have an interrupt instruction
would be quite possible to monitor various port wired to input a single -byte, eight -bit
most of the 3-.2 channel matrix "lost" infor-
functions by connections to points within the mation is as applicable to H as to J; and is not instruction to the 8080 during the interrupt
circuitry and to have a display panel some therefore a function of locus- straightness as acknowledge cycle. This is not shown. It is
distance from the control proper.
We plan to start work in the near future on
has been suggested by Mr Gerzon et al. readily accomplished with another 8212
a control system based on microprocessor
Finally, the difference in rate -of- change integrated- circuit. A no- operation
of curvature (phasebending) between the (NOP = 00 ,6 = 0006) should be the instruc-
techniques which should certainly afford the front -half H locus and the rear, could well be
user the kind of assistance advocated by Mr tion hard-wired at the interrupt instruction
the reason that stereo headphone listeners port.
Passey. can get some impression of front -back stereo
F. B. McKee Mr Skinner's 808e configuration may be
perspective. useful in some applications, but it eliminates
McKee Soiaronics Ltd. T. W. J. Crompton,
Southminster the use of the interrupt for other, more
Crawley, sophisticated tasks. Perhaps there will be
Essex. Sussex. further articles which cover this important
topic. If interrupts are to be preserved a sense
flag could be used to replace the interrupt
connection. In this way a single bit is input
MATRIX H SURROUND and tested under software control. This
requires the use of a spare bit position at an
SOUND DECODING RADIO AND AIR SAFETY input port. If this is not available, a single
input port is quickly constructed. Mr
Skinner's circuit is simple and just what may
In commenting upon certain statements in Letters printed in your August, October and be needed for a simple application where
Michael Gerzon's multisystem and J matrix November issues brought to my attention the thousands are to be manufactured without
decoder (July issue), might I point out that editorial in your June issue "Radio and air further changes or add -ons. Readers should
not everyone can afford room -space or ex- safety." As an experienced broadcast be aware, however, that there are other uses
penditure for two stereo speakers, let alone engineer with direct involvement in v.h.f. of interrupts.
the four or six proposed for the J matrix. broadcasting and as an experienced and After providing the register codes in
Popularly, stereo listening is being accomp- active airplane pilot, I tend to agree with the three-bit octal (base eight) notation it is sad
lished on headphones (two or four channel). letters which you published. Your editorial is to see that the programme is encoded in
hexadecimal (base sixteen) format. This is
not Mr Skinner's fault, but rather the fault of
=omni
1
all 8080 manufacturers. The octal format is
0.63ej75,0.36e*'T,-0.53e175 coso= fig. 8 (iii)
much easier to encode and understand.
0.53 e 'j7' 0.36e "` 0.53e '
, ,
l shill =fig.8 (li) As per the information in Table I in the
article, each of the 8080's registers is given a
three -bit binary code which is easily unimportant as the articles suggest. On the
translated into an octal equivalent, MINIMISATION IN other hand, while I agree that the
A= 111 =78, D= 010 =28, etc. The data mathematical steps advocated are simple
transfer instructions provided in the article LOGIC DESIGN enough when you are familiar with them,
are good examples of the use of octal familiarity involves remembering a lot of
notations. I have been following your series of articles highly forgettable detail. Each occasional
The data transfer between registers is on logic design with interest, but find some of
foray into logic is likely to involve mugging
broken down as follows: the underlying assumptions puzzling. The the whole thing up again, which defeats part
01 ddd sss methods are said to be mainly for the use of of the object of the exercise. In contrast I
where the ddd is the binary code of the inexperienced designers, although specialists
have found mapping methods, which are not
destination register and the sss is the binary developed at length in the series so far, easy
may use them to improve their technique in
code of the source register. Each of the three to remember and usefully graphic and
dealing with more sophisticated assemblies.
groups shown above is then translated into instinctive.
To this end a trade -off is presented where
an equivalent octal code: R. M. Hutton
reliability, simplicity and transparency of
MOVAD= 01111010, = 1728 London S W4
design are won at the expense of a certain
MOVHA = 01100111 =147 extravagance.
MOVLA = 01101111 =157 The authors reply:
Minimisation is said to be relatively
MOVAE = 01111011 =173 unimportant in the days of i.cs, where what First of all we would like to point out that at
MOVEA = 01011111 =137 counts is to minimise chips, not gates. no time have we suggested that minimisation
It seems much easier to code the instructions However, since the sort of circuit discussed of the number of gates or the number of chips
in octal than in hexadecimal. The last two can often be part of something larger, a single used in a logic system is unimportant.
examples prove the point by showing that gate saved here and there can quite easily Clearly, considerations of space and power
when destination and source registers are lead to the elimination of a chip. Nor do the consumption are two important aspects
interchanges, the octal digits representing extravagances seem to be always small. Take which the designer must balance against the
the registers are interchanged in the Example 2 in the July issue (p.65), a circuit charge for his time occupied in producing a
instruction code. This is not apparent in hex which allows a pulse on input M to gate a simpler solution. However, what we are
notation; 7B to 5F. single pulse from a train on input X to input saying is that a formal method of approach to
Memory addressing is also simple, Z. It uses, besides a dual J -K flip -flop, a
logic design is essential to the inexperienced
remembering the rule that memory is treated designer and also to the student, whose
.
3-input NAND, two 2 -input NANDS and two

as 256 word blocks with a high address and a inverters. These can be replaced by a single difficulties we have frequently encountered.
low address with the same grouping of bits as For example, the solution presented for
OR gate as telow (assuming t.t.l.1 clock
shown above: polarities): Example 2 seems to us to be an intuitive
XX XXX XXX solution. A design method has not been
The rule is that when the low address goes X
presented and we can only assume therefore
from 377 to 000 the high address is that there isn't one. Intuitive solutions are
incremented by one; 001 377 to 002 000, 125 fine if the designer can come up with one that
M CK
fits the specification, but it is very useful to
377 to 126 000, etc. CK CLR
I was pleased to see that Mr Skinner's have a formal method of approach available
prográmme listing is on a line -by-line basis as 1-J Q when one's intuition fails. As the logic
problem becómes more complex intuition
opposed to other programme listings which
tend to cram too much on each line.
Jonathan A. Titus
Tychon Incorporated
0- K
CLR
1or0- becomes more difficult to apply and it seems
to us that under these circumstances a
formal approach to design through the state
Blacksburg This configuration would never stem from diagram is absolutely essential. Our
Virginia, USA. the advocated design method for two experience with students has been that once
reasons. First, it uses the Clear inputs.They they have grasped the design method
were dealt with in connection with RS described in these articles they are very
flip -flops but not included in the J -K quickly able to develop quite complex logic
equations -
which hardly meets the systems with a minimum amount of
practicalities of the t.t.l. and c.o.s.m.o.s. difficulty.
DIRECT SENSING OF families. Secondly, the method assumes Obviously we are aware that the Clear line
RADIO WAVES? common clocking. of a JK flip -flop can be used as an additional
Example 1 is more debatable. Unless I have control line. It is not possible to cover all
misunderstood the problem, state S3 is stable these points in a series of articles of this
For some two years I have been plagued by because its effect is to inhibit further nature. However it is easy to set up a truth
clearly defined environmental "noises" clocking pulses. If so, the authors have table for the JK flip -flop incorporating the
which I have come to believe to be of demonstrated the vulnerability of their Clear signal which leads to the following
electromagnetic as opposed to acoustic method in even the most expert hands by equations
origin. Advertisements in the national press wasting four gates (quite possibly a chip) in
have yielded dozens of letters from people all Qt` "t= [Cl(J +KQ)]'
providing redundant stability, since their Qt +ni= (Cl +JQ +KQ)t
over Britain who appear to experience .circuit would work with KA =6 and JB =4.
similar phenomena which are often attribut- A further gate can be saved as shown below. and similarly it is equally possible to draw a
ed to medical /psychological causes. My own This is achieved by altering the assign- state diagram for the flip-flop which
observations, however, indicate that my ments of A and B to the various states. The
sensation of "noise" is due neither to causes authors skate over, that topic as not K +
within myself nor to acoustic stimulation concerning the inexperienced designer:
from outside. presumably they are not addressing Q=0 Q=1
In order to test my theory I wish to themselves to their specialist readers at this
construct a tuner -amplifier to feed a J. CI
point.
loudspeaker or cathode-ray oscilloscope but I imagine that in practice the inexperienc- incorporates the Clear signal as shown
since the frequencies are in the audio band ed designer means the infrequent designer above.
(400 to 1100 Hz) the design of a suitable tuner like myself. I. have not found minimisation as B. Holdsworth and L. Zissos
presents some difficulty. Since my know-
ledge is limited and rusty, I would be most
C
grateful to any interested reader who could
offer me technical assistance. I shall be only
too pleased to answer any letters. A
Donald Wood B
A 6
Oaklands
5
Dorstone
Hereford
Editor's note: Mr Wood's letter was 6
K
A 4
K
accompanied by a confidential report from a
highly reputable research organization
which lends some support to his belief.
53
the range 0 -99. Person A controls the test: current of X10 -"A which is uncomfortably
person B is tested. A quotes a certain number, low although possible. I would like to think
PROGRAMMABLE e.g. 57, which he has stored at a certain that there is some analogous internal capa-
CALCULATORS register. B observes random numbers ap- citance, which describes the separation of
pearing and, as soon as the chosen number charge carriers normal to the planes of equal
AS REACTION TIMERS has appeared and disappeared, he must press internal voltage, which might have the effect
the R/S key as quickly as possible. After the of increasing this small displacement current.
chosen number has appeared, the prog- At any rate, the phase of this current appears
ramme branches to a series of NOP instruc- to vary with the bird's heading, at a
My letter in the August issue on calculators frequency of twice the flap frequency of
as stopwatches aroused a little interest. Here tions; B's score is found, as in the first
method, by pressing the LRN key. Of course, about 7Hz in pigeons (i.e. narrow band f.m.).
is a project which grew out of the programme As a matter of interest New Scientist
if the random number generator is arranged
for the digital clock. The question arose: describes bird navigation as "a central prob-
what are the minimum intervals of time to to give number up to 10 digits, the test is all
the more exacting. With my programme for lem of avian biology!" Any offers?
which the Texas SR56 can respond? My Whatworth,
guess was: the time required to go from one random numbers which may have up to 10 B.
digits, we may have 18 numbers displayed in Addles tone,
operation to the next without performing Surrey.
a minute, each display lasting between V
any operation (a NOP instruction). How
could this be used? In a reaction timer. and ' second. (Part of the time, when the
A programme was written in which the
calculator is crunching numbers, the display
is blank.) Reading a 10 digit number in the
calculator displayed a count -down sequence:
5, 4, 3, 2, 1, using the "pause" instruction. We
available time, and deciding that it is, or is
then had.a counting loop in order to have a not, the specified number, requires a certain
mental speed.
pause of length different from that of the
T. Palmer LOSS OF INFORMATION
intervals between the previous digits. "0"
was then displayed for about' second, using Acton Technical College CONCEPT
London, W3.
the "pause" instruction. The person whose
reaction time is under investigation has to I have noted the comments in your August
press the R/S key immediately he realises issue both in the leader and in Mr
that the "0" has disappeared. The programme Greenbank's letter.
has a string of NOP instructions after the The first point you both make is that I did
BIRDS' not express the "loss of information" concept
instruction to display "O." When the prog-
ramme has been stopped by pressing the R/S
SIMULATING (Letters, June 1977) in engineering terms, i.e.
key, to find the score it is necessary to press GEOMAGNETIC SENSE those that can be objectively quantified.
the LRN key. This shows the location in the However, in the context of a letter to a
programme memory at which the prog- magazine I do not feel that this was the place
ramme was stopped. An operator who is With some trepidation I refer to the mag- to expand these ideas any further. This does
quick on the draw scores a low number. If he nificent correspondence entitled "Electrody- not mean that we do not or can not measure
cheats, and presses the R/S key while "0" is namically induced e.m.f.," which spanned "loss of information" objectively. Now, as in
still in the display, he reads the location after nearly two years from its inception in my previous letter, I do not propose to go into
the "pause" instruction, which in my prog- "Cathode Ray's" articles "Electricity and great depth on the measurement of "loss of
ramme is stored at location 14. Magnetism ?" (September and October 1974) information" but perhaps if any of your
Locations 15 to 94 have NOP instructions. via the spirited introduction of the aeroplane readers are both interested and suitably
It takes between 1 and 2 seconds to run problem by Todd and Taylor of Brunel Uni- equipped they may care to try the following
through them; this gives an idea of the versity (July 1975). May I engage the atten- test which is one of many ways of ascribing a
resolution of which the calculator is capable. tion of those readers who would agree with figure to "loss of information ".
At location 95 we have a few instructions to C. R. Masson (Cambridge), "Cathode Ray," Submit the equipment under test to two
set up the calculator for another run. When D. H. Preis (Harvard), B. J. C. Burrows signals, one of large amplitude which
the operator is ready for another test, it is (Culham), D. Midgley (Hull) and me! in order reasonably stresses the equipment and .a
only necessary to press the R/S key to start to help solve what seems like a very non - second which is of higher frequency and
the count -down sequence. Wireless World problem - the geomagnetic smaller amplitude. At the output of the
In a group of students, the calculator can sense in birds? equipment under test the large signal is
find the one with the best reaction time. I have made a computer simulation of an filtered out so that the smaller signal may
Those with poor scores (including me) simply "electrodynamic" model of bird flight. Due to then be examined. In this test one is
cannot - despite practice - bring them down wing- flapping the voltage -gradient varies, concerned with distortion of the small signal
to the score of a good sharpshooter. My depending upon the instantaneous direction during and after stress conditions caused by
interest was in writing the programme. I of the wing with respect to the direction of
the geomagnetic field. The simulation re-
the large signal - for example, in the case of
an amplifer, driving an electromechanical
have not used it to study the effect of alcohol
on my reaction. This one may be new to the solves wing movement in three axes and the load.
wife. earth's field in two axes. The difference in dynamic range between
The programme is entered after storing 5 in There are two effects, however, which I am the two input signals may be as large as 90dB.
Register O. The programme starts at location unable as yet to incorporate: This test is the basis of a range of tests which
00. 1. What is the effect of the vertical electric can characterise the ability of a piece of audio
field ( -100 V.m ') upon the small computed equipment to reproduce a given dynamic
RCL; 0, PAUSE; dsz; 0; 0; 1; 0;STO; 0; dsz; 1;
voltage gradient induced in the wing (vary- range at one instant in time. This ability is
PAUSE; NOP NOP; 5; STO; 0;
ing between z -200 µV.m ' and + 100 p.V.m ')?
0; 0;
crucial to the reproduction of music. I would
R /S: RST at location 99.
A simplistic argument runs like this: the propose however that conducting these tests
If we wish to find the time necessary for a external electric field is confined to the bird's on a piece of equipment after it has been
NOP instruction, we can write a programme surface, in the manner of Faraday's ice -pail, designed is rather like shutting the garage
with 95 NOP steps and a few instructions to by induced charge. This charge gives rise to a door after the car has been stolen.
add 1 to Register 1. We can run the prog- leakage current which is limited by the low I was most interested by Mr Greenbank's
ramme for 60 seconds and stop it with the conductivity of the surrounding air to disclosure that during amplification
R/S key; we then note the contents of Reg- and which varies with movement of "latch -up" periods of 100% intermodulation
ister 1 (and the line at which the programme the wings in common mode for both wings. I occur. Intermodulation is a term that
stopped). We repeat the programme with 50 fancy that a more advanced treatment would describes what occurs when two signals
NOP steps. We can then write two simult suggest that movement normal to an electric modulate each other, i.e. produce input
aneous equations from which we can find the field gradient invokes a magnetic field at dependent intermodulation products e.g. f,
time for a NOP instruction and the time right angles which would modify the ap- - f + 1.,2f; - fp etc. As far as I have
required to add to Register 1. In my calcu-
1 parent direction of the geomagnetic field. Deco able tc, observe when an amplifier is
lator, the NOP instruction takes 0.0137 se- 2. A varying voltage gradient in a bird's "latched -up" it does not respond to input
conds. flapping wing demands ion movement to signal in any predictable way.
Instead of a count -down sequence preced- provide a "displacement" or "polarisation" J. Vereker
ing the display of zero, we could arrange a current along the wing. If one uses values for Naim Audio Ltd
slightly more demanding test. A programme wing "external" capacitance of the order of Salisbury
is written which displays random numbers in 10pF, one is left with a value of displacement Wilts.
performance) is restricted at the top of the I hope more people can be made aware of
audio spectrum. the moulded lead quality control /non-
AURAL SENSITIVITY TO The output structure of the disc input standard hazard.
POLARITY stage of the "Advanced pre -amplifier" is a K. A. Yates,
simple emitter-follower; this is much better Glenrothes,
at sourcing current than sinking it, and so Mr Fife.
I suspect that Dr Lipshitz (October Letters) Jung's graph shows a curtailment of output
and I are getting round to dealing with capability at full drive and high frequencies,
apparent misunderstandings rather than real indicated by the abrupt rise of harmonic
differences of opinion on the question of distortion that is typical of clipping. Examin-
polarity maintenance. ation will show that deformation of the
The polarity effects that Dr Lipshitz output waveform only takes place on the
described do exist and have been known to downward half- cycle, due to the limited
exist for some 30 years and I discussed the current- sinking capability, and in this respect ELIMINATING
generally accepted explanation. The wave- the effect is quite different from what is ADJACENT-CHANNEL
forms of speech are known to be asymmetri- normally known as slew-limiting.
cal and either by coincidence or evolution the It is at this point important to note that INTERFERENCE
asymmetry just about compensates for "full drive"' is some 40dB above the nominal
asymmetry of the opposite polarity in the ear operating level of the stage, so the effects
drum system. To maintain the compensation I find the July 1977 issue article on eliminat-
discussed here are unlikely to be obtrusive in ing adjacent channel interference by
that nature apparently intended, it is the day -to -day performance of the preamp- P. L. Taylor to be most interesting. I have
necessary that our radio transmission lifier. Mr Jung's graph shows that if the test
systems maintain this polarity relation, a been attacking the problem for some time
signal amplitude Is reduced by 12dB there are and have also developed a system to
positive going sound pressure wave at the no output- restriction effects in the audio
studio microphone producing a positive attenuate in -band interference on double
band. sideband transmissions. This has been
going sound pressure wave in the listening Finally, I have tested the effect of Mr
room. Polarity changes anywhere in the demonstrated to operate well with in -band
Jung's modification (reduction of Reto lk12), modulated carriers and numerous in -band
system will produce a change in the quality and while the graph he displays is certainly
of the reproduced sound. However, the effect
tones. Noise is also reduced. However, I have
correct in its essentials', I feel it would be been unable as yet to satisfactorily eliminate
is subtle and I think that it requires more meaningful to plot maximum available cross modulation between noise and the
equipment of professional quality if it is to be output swing against frequency. If this is
detectable. wanted signal, and, of course, depending on
done, it will be seen that the modification has how noise theory is interpreted and
I think Dr Lipshitz will agree that the its maximum effect at about 6kHz, where extended, this may or may not be possible.
experiments that he describes only tend to another 3.2dB of output voltage is available, As the system is somewhat complex this is
support this explanation. giving a corresponding increase in input not the place for its description. However, I
James Moir overload margin. However, the improvement find the reactions that I have been receiving
James Moir & Associates diminishes either side of this frequency,
Chipperfield to it to be surprising and rather depressing,
falling to 1.0dB at 1kHz and to 2.4dB at and unfortunately some of these reactions
Herts 10kHz. Readers must judge for themselves would also apply to Mr Taylor's design.
whether this is worth the extra 14mA drawn The first reaction from Canadian Govern-
from the power supply; confirmed lily -gilders ment officials is that interference and noise
may care to note that the same improvement do not pose any problem as current
can be implemented without increase in the equipment provide noise -free reliable links.
current drawn by replacing R with a Next, the system only applies to dotible
constant -current source delivering 6mA. sideband transmissions. This form of radio
D. R. G. Self communication is now obsolete and is being
ADVANCED London E.17 legislated out of existence to be replaced by
PRE -AMPLIFIER DESIGN The distortion figures shown for below 3kHz seem single sideband. A reaction from Canadian
rather high - in particular it is most suspicious
that the t.h.d. at 1kHz is shown as being higher at
industry is that it is too complex to warrant
risking development money and would
1.25Vr.m.s. than at 5Vr.m.s. I assume that the data
I found Mr Jung's letter in the September necessitate synchronous receiver operation
shown includes the imperfections of the test
issue most interesting; it is gratifying to equipment.
which has proved unpopular in the past.
encounter someone who constructs and From Canadian universities and research
measures the circuit under discussion before establishments comes the comment that the
commenting on it. However, I think it is system cannot possibly work for noise
important to distinguish clearly between the because Shannon set the God-given limits
two types of restriction of output swing that twenty years ago and any suggestion that his
occur at high frequencies in the type of disc theory can be developed to show more than
pre-amplifier being discussed. It is, I think, 3dB advantage for double over single
better to stick with the accepted nomencla- CEE22 MAINS sideband transmission is rank heresy;
ture and reserve the term "slew limiting" for CONNECTORS common interference reduction is of no
that effect arising from the open -loop be- interest. Incidentally, the one exception here
haviour of an amplifier, and caused by finite STANDARD OR FIASCO? is McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
currents charging and discharging compen- Double sideband amplitude modulation
sation capacitance. Do manufacturers of electrical equipment produces a unique signal having a "mirror
The other form of output restriction, which using the CEE22 mechanical size and shape image" frequency spectrum and constant
Mr Jung deals with under the same heading, connector have any requirement to use a phase. Interference can be detected in very
is rather different, being peculiar to closed - particular pin configuration? Many of the much the same way as used to be employed
loop amplifiers with significant shunt ca- mains leads for these equipments (if not the in old movies for a man to tell whether or hot
pacitance in the feedback arm. This is of majority) are of the moulded variety, and he was real. If he saw his reflectipn in a
course precisely the situation that occurs in consumers tend to implicitly trust these mirror he was real, if no reflection was there
an RIAA equalised input stage where the leads. he had to conclude that he was a ghost.
gain is designed to be relatively low so that a Although it is becoming less common, There is the possibility. that a double
high overload margin may be obtained single pole switching is still in use and sideband signal can be lifted out of
(assuming that a gain control of some kind is production. The danger lies in the fact that interference and noise to an extent that is an
then placed before any further voltage gain). while the equipment is switched off or when order of magnitude greater than current
The core of the problem is that the the mains fuse is blown the internal circuit is communications theory implies. It is not that
feedback -loop shunt capacitance falls in still live if the live and neutral leads are the theory is wrong, it is that it is limited. Mr
reactance as the frequency being handled reversed. God forbid the results if the earth Taylor's system shows one approach, my
increases, and so an increasing current lead is transposed! own shows another.
demand is placed on the output section of the To date I have found three different L. Illingworth
amplifier; if this cannot be satisfied then a manufacturers issuing equipment with German & Milne
form of clipping results, and the output live /neutral transposed leads. Two of these Montreal
capability (and hence the input overload put no names on the leads. Quebec. Canada
55
Microcomputer design
2 - Practical hardware and software
by Phil Pittman, B.Sc., in association with NASCO Ltd
Having now looked at the various when power is applied and allows the programme or data store, 1K x 8 of it :is
elements which constitute a microcom- user to communicate with the system. generally reserved as a character store
puter system we shall move on to Commands may be entered via the for the tv screen information. However,
examine the detailed construction and keyboard and interpreted and executed because this screen memory is accessi-
operation of a practical system. The by the monitor programme. This then ble by any programme in the system it is
example chosen is based on the micro- allows the system to function as a possible to achieve some interesting
computer kit shown as a block diagram general purpose computer where user graphic effects by this conventional
in Fig. 1 (see panel in November issue). programmes may be keyed in to the video interface.
This system is intended as a "home" r.a.m. memory for subsequent execu- A serial interface is implemented in
computer kit for amateur and education, again under control of the monitor the kit in order to provide a serial data
tional use. By using commonly available programme. The monitor supports such stream to and from the cassette system.
domestic equipment as peripherals, for functions as: entering information into The keyboard is connected via a parallel
example a standard television set for a memory, displaying memory contents interface controlled by the monitor
display and an audio cassette player for on the tv screen, loading memory from software.
storing and loading programmes, a low cassette tape, storing memory contents The essential parts of this hardware
cost system has been produced. The Z80 on cassette tape, starting programme system are shown in detail in Fig. 2.
c.p.u. connects to the memory and the execution from any given memory Before considering the operation of the
i/o components via the three bus address and stopping programme exe- system it is useful to examine the timing
arrangement described last month. The cution when a predetermined point is of a general Z80 system. Fig. 3(a), (b)
1K x 8 e.p.r.o.m. is programmed with a reached. and (c) show the bus timing relation-
system monitor programme. This pro- Although the entire 2K x 8 r.a.m. is ships for a programme memory access,
gramme automatically starts running available to the user of the system as a data memory access and i/o access
respectively. Note that each c.p.u.
machine cycle is made up of a number of
timing states. A complete instruction
of the
Fig. I. Bloch diagram
cycle may consist of one or more
commercial microcomputer hit. Television machine cycles, each consisting of at
set
least three clock cycles, depending on the
J complexity of the particular instruction.
2Kx8
t
Television
interface
The simplest Z80 instruction requires
four clock cycles (or "T" states). During
the T1 state the memory or i/o address is
placed on the address bus. The "me-
r.a.m. circuits mory request" or "input /output
request" signal indicates whether the
address is for a memory or i/o opera-
z8o
cPu
I tion. T2 is the time allowed to retrieve
the memory or i/o data. The data
travels on the data bus during T3 time.
The "read" and "write" signals indicate
3 -bus
structure whether a read (or input) or write (or
output) operation is in progress. This
control structure, although described '
for the Mostek Z80 microprocessor, is

Parallel Serial fairly general for most processors.
i/o ports i o ports
Other signals, more specific to the Z80
operation, will not be described here.
Referring to the circuit of Fig. 2,
notice that because each bank of
Keyboard
OQ00\
QQQD Audio
cassette
memory is 1K x 8, the address decoding
is relatively straightforward. To address
recorder 1024 memory locations requires 10
address bits and so lines AD- A9 are
common to all banks. In order to select
56 Wireless World. December 1977
i.
íCLOCK MEMORY
0<
O
r. a. m. A10 o
r +sv- MICROPROCESSOR Atl 74 LS138 o
o
I
MK4102 MK4102
Al2-. 3
2
O-^
O-+
I
330
Ao-Ag - -- 8 positions AO-Ag
MREO o
Address bus
f
1
AO-Ag
RFSH -"
RIW + D1 DO RIW D1 D0
A10
All -.111.
Al2
RFSH -- MK4102 MK4102

M K 2708
e.p.r.o.m.
> A0 A9 - -8 positions -- 7-> AO -Ag AO-Ag
-
DO RIWi D1 DO CS DO - D7
WR
RESET
Z80
MK3880
lt 0 0
8216 8216
DIEN CS DIEN CS
RD
MREO
MRED
L
DO-D7 Data bus (
IORO
INT
J
r +5V
L
330 DO-D7
A/B f-Ao
MK 3881
p.i.o. c/o 4- A
CS f--A 2
Port A Port B
i INPUT/
I OUTPUT
L_
Fig. 2. Partial circuit diagram of the So far we have looked at the basic puter kit is included in order to show
commercial microcomputer kit. hardware components of a 'microcom- some of the facilities available for
Integrated circuits are labelled with puter system, showing how they relate verification of programmes, once writ-
their type numbers and other to one another. Although one particular ten.
annotation corresponds to Mosteh's application has been considered, the Any computer programme exists as a
technical literature. Negated names, hardware arrangement is capable of sequence of instructions within the
e.g. MRÉQ indicate that the function being universal. However, without main memory of the machine. These
is active when the signal is low. At software the hardware has no "person- instructions are sequentially executed
this stage it is not necessary to follow ality". Software gives life to the hard- by the central processing unit to
the circuit in detail. ware and will form the subject of the perform the desired task. Each instruc-
following discussions. tion is represented within the memory
as a binary number, which is decoded by
the c.p.u. in order that the instruction
the appropriate bank, lines A,0 Al2 are may be executed. The instructions to be
decoded via a 3 to 8 line decoder. The Stored programme concepts used are selected, by the human pro-
resulting memory map is shown in Fig. The previous section has presented the grammer, from what is called the
4. The monitor p.r.o.m. is located in hardware of the microcomputer kit "instruction set" of the c.p.u. The
address range 0 -1K because on po- after developing some of thé concepts instruction set is the repertoire of
wer-up or system rest, programme involved in its design in the previous binary codes which the c.p.u. is capable,
execution is forced to resume at address article. In order to perform any useful by virtue of its design, of "recognising ".
zero. Consequently this is a convenient function, the hardware must be given a The Z80 microprocessor, for example,
method to automatically begin execu- programme to be stored in the micro- has an instruction set consisting of 158
tion of the monitor programme. computer's memory. This then gives the basic instructions.
Since there very few i/o circuits in the system a unique "personality ". In the In order to run a complete
system an address decoding scheme is following paragraphs some of the basic programme the c.p.u. must go through a
not necessarily required for these, i.e. principles of programme execution and process of repetitively fetching instruc-
port addresses may be chosen such that programme flow are introduced. A tions from the memory into an internal
individual address bus bits can select summary of the use of the "operations store called an instruction register (see
the appropriate device. monitor" programme of the microcom- Fig. 5 November issue) and then decod-
57
Fig. 3. System timing of the Z80
microprocessor, for (a) programme
Machine cycle
memory access, (b) data memory
T1 T2 T3 14 T1 access and (c) i/o access.
CLOCK
ADDRESS BUS PC
A o -A15
(a)
MREQ
instruction fetch. Then, before another
fetch occurs, the programme counter is
RD I incremented so that the following
DATA BUS instruction in sequence will be fetched
DBo ~DB7 next.
INSTRUCTION FETCH Once an instruction is in the c.p.u.,
the instruction decoding logic (Fig. 5,
November) activates the appropriate
Memory read cycle Memory write cycle
internal circuits and an execution phase
begins. Executing the instruction may
T1 T2 13 T1 T2 T3 be a completely internal operation
CLOCK
within the c.p.u., e.g. performing an
arithmetical, logical or data transfer
ADDRESS BUS operation on data contained in the
Ao -A15 microprocessor's registers. Alternative-
ly, the execution of an instruction may
MREQ
(b) require the movement of data in
another area of system memory. If this
is the case then the c.p.u. must put the
RD
WR
new memory address on the bus for the
transfer. This state of affairs may be
DATA BUS further complicated by the fact that the
DB0 -DB7 data memory address may either exist
MEMORY READ OR WRITE CYCLES in registers within the c.p.u. or may first
have to be supplied to the c.p.u. from the
"instruction memory ", i.e. the pro-
gramme memory may, in fact, consist of
T1 T2 Tw* T3 T1 a mixture of instructions and data or
CLOCK
addresses. The instruction contains a
binary "operation code" which tells the
ADDRESS BUS PORT ADDRESS c.p.u. exactly what to do during the
A0-A7 instruction phase and whether to
IORO
interpret subsequent information as
data, address or a new instruction.
RD (C)
The following examples illustrate
Read cycle some of these possibilities. The c.p.u.
DATA BUS } has several internal 8-bit general pur-
pose registers which will be referred to
as A, B, C, D etc. Suppose we want to
WR
Write cycle construct a programme to simply add
DATA BUS OUT } the contents of B to A and then put the
typical
result into register C. A
INPUT OR OUTPUT CYCLES sequence of instructions could be
1. Add B to A
2. Load C from A
This simple programme requires two
o ing and executing the instructions. This instructions as shown, each residing in
e.p.r.o.m. "fetch- execute" cycle is the basis for all one location of the programme
1K programme operations. memory.
e.p.r.o.m.
expansion The "fetch" part of the cycle is Since the source and destination of
2K accomplished by the processor's placing the data for each instruction are
r.a.m. the memory address of the next contained wholly within the c.p.u.'s
3K
r, a.m.
instruction in sequence on to the internal registers, no additional infor-
4K
address bus and initiating a "memory mation need be supplied during the
read" operation. The instruction at this execution phases of the instructions.
address then travels via the data bus Suppose now that it is desired to add a
into the processor, where it is subse- constant, n, to the contents of register A
quently executed. Upon completion, the and then again put the result into
next instruction must be fetched, and so register C. The programme instructions
on. Consequently there must be some could be:
64K mechanism provided within the c.p.u. 1. Add n to A
for supplying sequential instruction 2. Load C from A
addresses for successive fetches. This is This programme must supply the
in fact provided by the programme number, n, to the c.p.u. from the
counter register. It is the contents of the programme memory. Consequently the
Fig. 4. Microcomputer system memory programme counter which are placed programme memory would appear as
map. on the address bus at the start of an. follows:
Address
Table 1: Microcomputer kit software commands
p Add
T ssss fff f Tabulate memory contents from address ssss to ffff
p +1 n Consecutive memory D ssss ffff Dump memory to cassette from address ssss to ffff
locations L Load memory from cassette
p +2 Load M nnnn Modify memory location nnnn
E nnnn or E Execute programme (from address nnnn)
p +3 B nnnn Set a breakpoint at address nnnn
S nnnn or S Single step execution (from address nnnn)
This time, the number, n is embedded
within the instruction stream and so a These simple examples have illus- on the binary state of the particular
total of three memory locations is trated two important points: the way in status bit.
required for the two instructions. In the which data and /or addresses may be In the programme shown below the
above examples the "load" instructions included in programme instructions and c.p.u. tests the value stored in register A
are identical, having the same data how the c.p.u. is guided by the instruc- to see if it is less than 10. If so it
source and destination. However, the tion operation codes into interpreting subtracts 6 or otherwise leaves the
"add" binary instruction codes must be the sequence of information in the number unchanged:
different in order to instruct the c.p.u. to programme memory. The examples
get the data from the appropriate place. have shown how instructions are exe- 1. Compare A with 10
In the second example the programme cuted one by one, from start to finish of 2. Jump if carry = 1
sequence would be as follows: first, the a programme. However, one of the 3. Subtract 6 from A
programme counter contents (p) would principal features of a digital computer 4. Next instruction
be issued by the c.p.u. in order to fetch is its decision -making ability. In other
the "add" instruction. By decoding this Here the "compare" instruction has a
words, the c.p.u. has the ability to select similar effect to that of subtracting 10
the c.p.u. would then "know" that it its own path through a programme
must fetch data from the next sequen- from A although the A register contents
depending on the results it gets from will remain unaltered. However, the
tial memory location. Now, during the processing en- route.
execution of any instruction the pro- carry bit of the a.l.u. (effectively a 9th
In general this is achieved by certain
gramme counter will be advanced by a.l.u. bit) will be set to 1 if the number 10
instructions being able to examine the is greater than the contents of the A
one. Consequently the data address will logical state of various bits within the
be given by the new value in the register. The conditional jump instruc-
a.l.u. Then, depending on these states, tion can examine the carry bit and
programme counter. When this is the c.p.u. may either continue with the
fetched the c.p.u. completes the thereby decide whether to continue
next instruction in sequence or be normally or to jump out of the normal
instruction execution and proceeds to diverted to a new area of programme
fetch the next. flow to another point in the programme.
memory. Diverting the c.p.u. in this The programme memory would look as
Another variation of this situation is manner is accomplished by loading a
given in the next example. Suppose it is shown below.
new value into the programme counter.
required to add the contents of register More specifically, the Z80 c.p.u. has, When the jump instruction is fetched,
B to those of register A and then store as part of the a.l.u., several single -bit all three memory bytes, i.e., including
the result in another external memory "status registers" which remember the 16 -bit jump address, will be read into
location specified in the programme. conditions relating to the previously the c.p.u. However, if the test is true
The programme could be: executed arithmetic or logical opera- then the value (p + 7) will be put into
1. Add B to A tion. These include the carry bit from the programme counter causing the
2. Load memory address mn from A. the adder, an arithmetic overflow bit, an "subtract 6" instruction to be missed.
The memory address mn may be indication of a zero result, the sign (if The instructions used in the above
typically a 16 -bit number, therefore relevant) of the a.l.u. result and an examples are but a few of the many
requiring two 8 -bit memory. locations. indication of the parity of the result in which are common to most micropro-
Consequently, the programme may the a.l.u. Instructions in the c.p.u's cessors.
appear as shown below: programme "jump" group are able to Before continuing to look at further
interrogate any of these bits and either programme writing techniques it is
Add
load the programme counter with a new relevant to complete the discussion of
p
value or leave it unchanged, depending the microcomputer kit facilities by
p+1 Load
Memory representation
p+2 m
p+3 n Address
p Compare Compare instruction operation code

This time the "load" instruction code p+1 10 Operand (10) for compare instruction
instructs the c.p.u. that the destination
address is contained in the next two p+2 Jump if carry Conditional jump operation code
memory locations and so the pro-
gramme counter is incremented and p+3 p + 7 16 bit jump address to p + 7
sent out two more times before the
c.p.u. has fetched all the information it p+4
requires. Now in order to complete the
execution of this instruction, the p+5 Subtract Subtract operation code
address value (mn) must be sent out p+6 6 Operand (6) for subtract instruction
from the c.p.u., on the address bus, in
order to access the required data p+7 Next instruction Next instruction in sequence
memory location. During this cycle the
data (contents of register A) is placed on
the data bus so that it may be written
into memory.
59
number system for both displaying and

Table 4: Typical display format from kit
Table 2: Hexadecimal number system entering numerical information. Each
command entered via the keyboard by (.) T 800 813 (Entered by user)
Hex Decimal Binary the user must consist of a single letter
0 0 0000 identifier followed in most cases by one
0800 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77
1 1 0001 . or two 4 -digit hex numbers. If two such
2 2 0010 parameters are required they must be DD EE FF
0808 88 99 AA BB CC
3 3 0011 separated by a space. The kit
4 4 0100 automatically generates the space
5 5 0101 between the letter identifier and the 0810 Al B2 C3 D4
6 6 0110
7 7 0111 first parameter. To cause the command
8 8 1000 entered to be executed, the user must this time, the kit software prints out the
9 9 1001 type a "carriage return" (cr) character.' current contents of the c.p.u.'s pro-
A 10 1010 When the system is ready to accept a gramme counter and accumulator
B 11 1011 new command it "prompts" by issuing a registers. Also, the remaining c.p.u.
C 12 1100 full stop (.). registers are automatically saved in
D 13 1101 The "tabulate" (T) command allows r.a.m. so that they may be examined
14 1110 the user to display the contents of the
E
15 1111
later with the "M" or "T" commands. In
F
system's memory by specifying the this way the programmer is able to "see
upper and lower address limits con- inside ", the c.p.u. chip at any desired
cerned as part of the command. An stage in the programme and then
example of this is shown in Table 4. modify the registers accordingly, if
examining the features offered by the Note that eight hexadecimal memory required, before continuing.
kit's own software package. bytes are displayed per line, preceded by The "execute" (E) command is used
the address of the first byte on that line. to start execution of a programme from
The "dump" (D) command works in a a desired address. If no address is
A practical software system similar way but causes the information specified with the command then exe-
The 1Kbyte e.p.r.o.m. programme of the 'to be recorded on to the cassette tape cution will continue from the address
kit is intended as an aid to debugging system. As it does so, an additional item which was in the programme counter
and executing programmes written by of data, called a "checksum" is calcu- before the previous breakpoint was
users of the kit. This software supports lated for each line of data. This check- encountered. Register values saved at a
seven basic commands as outlined in sum is not displayed but is recorded on breakpoint will be restored automati-
Table 1. tape for subsequent checking by the cally prior to execution.
Before proceeding with a description "load" (L) command. The "single step" (S) command is
of these commands it is useful to The "load" command reads pro- similar to the "executive" command but
introduce the concept of the hexadeci- grammes or data from cassette and causes only one instruction to be
mal number system. When working at stores the relevant memory values in executed before stopping.
machine code level with computers it is the system's memory at the addresses The above facilities enable pro-
obviously very tedious to work in pure specified at the beginning of the infor- grammes to be debugged on the kit in a
binary notation since the numbers are mation blocks. Checksums are again way that would not be possible other-
very cumbersome and difficult to calculated by the processor and corn- wise. The value of these will be illus-
visualise easily. Similarly, it is incon- pared with those on tape. If they differ, trated in a more practical way in a
venient for the computer to work with a the computer assumes that there has future article on programme writing
decimal system since binary bit patterns been a tape reading error and stops and debugging.
are not readily convertible to and from further loading. At this point the user
decimal numbers. Consequently a sui- can take whatever action is desired.
table compromise is the hexadecimal The "modify" (M) command allows SPECIAL TERMINOLOGY
system which works to a base of 16. memory locations to be examined or
Here the symbols 0 to 9 are no longer modified via the keyboard. Variations To access. The noun "access" used as a
adequate by themselves and six addi- on this command enable the user to verb, meaning to gain access to a
tional symbols are required for repre- examine a single byte, replace it with a memory location in which binary infor-
new value, delete a wrongly entered mation is already stored or can be stored.
sentation of hex numbers. These are To open up a set of connections to allow
chosen to be letters A to F. of the value, continue to the next consecutive
reading from or writing into this location.
alphabet. Table 2 shows the equivalent memory address or terminate the
binary and decimal values for the hex command. Instruction. An expression that defines a
digit set. The advantage now is that A programme "breakpoint," as it is computer operation and identifies its
numbers can be easily converted called, may be set using the "B" operands.
between binary and a notation which is command. A breakpoint is a very
valuable facility when initially checking Programme. A prepared list of instruc-
less tedious to write because each hex tions, written in a special "language" or
digit corresponds directly to 4 bits of the out a programme to see if it runs code, to be carried out in sequence by a
binary value. Table 3 shows examples of correctly. The address value given as computer or other programmable device.
a 16 -bit and an 8 -bit binary conversion part of the breakpoint command repre-
to and from hex. sents the point at which it is desired to Instruction set. The total list of
The software of the kit uses this stop a programme being executed. At instructions that can be performed by a
given microprocessor.
Operation code. The symbols within an

Table 3: Examples of binary /hexadecimal conversions instruction that represent the particular
operation to be performed (e.g. add).
Binary 0001 1010 1110 0110 Register. A small- capacity store intended
(a)
Hex
--- --v-
A
for temporarily holding a small number of
1 E 6 binary digits such as a word.
Decimal (1x164) + (10x162) +,(14x16) + (6)
Jump. A departure from the normal
(b) Hex 4- 3F y ..s-. sequence of instructions in a programme
0011 1111
to a different part of the programme
Logic design 10 This article is the second part

of Article 7, which appeared
in the September issue.
More synchronous and ripple- through counters

by B. Holdsworth and D. Zissos j-
'Chelsea College, University of London fDepartment of Computing Science, University of Calgary, Canada
Decade binary ùp' counter. Examina- pulses and trip an alarm, using the binary decade counter can be converted
tion of the unused states in Fig. 5(a) Boolean function representing these to a decimal number using a 4 -10 line
shows that they can be represented by states, f = BD + CD. A suitable circuit for decoder as shown in.Fig.6.
the Boolean function BD + CD suppressing the clock pulses is incorpo- Consider the transition in such a
The flip -flop equations are the same rated with the counter implementation counter from 0001 to 0010 and assume
as for the scale -of -16 ùp' counter, in Fig.5(b). that flip -flop B changes faster than
namely, JA = Ka = 1, JB = KB =A, A decade of binary 'down" counter flip -flop A. The sequence of changes
Jc = Kc = AB and JD = KD = ABC, with can be designed using the same that take place are:
the modifications shown below, which technique and the corresponding D C B A
are required to inhibit the S9 to Si0 flip-flop equations are: JA = KA = 1, 0 0 0 1
transition and initiate the S9 to So tran- JB= AC +AD, KB =A, Je =AD, Kc =AB 0 0 1 1 (transient state)
sition. and JD = KD = ABC. The output of a 0 0 1 0
The transitions from S9 to S10 and S9
to S0 are shown below:
DC B A DC B A
Sc 59 11I 0 0 1
S10 1
0 I
0 1
Sio'I.0; o o o
0001
To inhibit the set of flip -flop B, Sh =
ABS9, where S9 = ABCD+ (BD) +
(CD). Simplifying: S9 = AD, hence: SB
= ABAD = AB (A +D) = ABD.
Therefore, J = A.
To initiate the Sg 1001 0111
reset of flip -flop D, Rp = S9 = AD.
Therefore, K = A.
If the counter should assume one of
the unused states due to circuit 0101 1011
misoperation then a suitable corrective
action might be to suppress the clock
5
(a) 1101 0011
Fig. 5(a) shows the state diagram for a decode binary ùp' counter,
and at (b) is the circuit implementation.
-
21 22 23
A
Jq JB ,11111. Jc JD
(b)
KA
A
KB Kc -
A
KD
-
D
20 o
231
21
Decoder a 5
1101
22 6
O. 7
23
8 9 1001
D B A
Fig. 6. A 4 -10 line decoder.
o o o
o O
o, 1
0001
o 1 o 1
o 1 O O
1 1 O o
1 0 1
1 1 1100
1 1 O
"I able 8. The XS -3 Gray code. o o State diagram for a XS -3 Gray code counter is at (a) and (b)
1
Fig. 7.
shows the circuit.
To decoder
(b)
Hence a spike will occur on the output least significant digits first, as shown obtain the corresponding expressions
line marked 3 during the transient state. below. It is assumed that there are five for J and K.
Clearly this can occur at any point in digits in each code combination, the (2) Optional products defined by the
the binary counting sequence where fifth and most significant, always being unused states, (if there are any,) can
more than one flip -flop is required to o. now be used to reduce the J and K
change state during a transition. The 1
expressions. For the state diagram and
difficulty can be eliminated by using a codes, see Fig.7(a).
Gray code counter, in which only one
flip -flop changes state at each transi- Examination of the unused states in
tion. O 0 1 0 Fig.7(a) shows that they can be
Decade Gray code ùp' counter. As an represented by the Boolean expression
example of the design of a Gray code The complete XS3 Gray code obtained BC +A -C.
counter, the XS3 code will be converted using this procedure is shown in Table 8.
to a Gray code which will be used as the A convenient procedure for designing The flip -flop equations are:
basis for the counter design. The a Gray code counter
conversion is carried out by obtaining (1) Determine the S and R expressions SA = S1 +S5= ,ABCD +IBCD
the exclusive -OR sum of each pair of for each flip -flop and, using the JA = BCD +BCD +(BC) +(AC)
digits in the code starting with the two equations SQ = JQQ and RQ = KQQ, = BD +BCD
RA = S3 +S7 =A$CD +ABCD_
KA = BCD + BCD +(BC) +(AC)
Up /down
= g5+ BCD X counter
output
Up /down
= S6=ABCD control
SB circuit
JB = ACD+(BC)+(AC) Y
= AD
RB = S2= ABCD (a)

KB = ACES +(BC)+(AC)
= AD
Sc = so= ABED
Jc =AB6+(3C)+(AC)
= ABD
Rc = S6=ABCD
Kc = ABD+(BC)+(AC)
= ABD
SD = S4 = ABCD
= ABC +(BC) +(AC)
t-
JD
= AB C
RD = S9=ABD
0-
KD = ABC+(BC)+(AC)
=C Fig. 8(a) shows the input /output cha-
The circuit implementation of the
racteristics required of an up /down
counter, with the state diagram at (b).
counter is shown in Fig.7(b). The control circuit is shown in (c).
The output of the counter can be
converted directly to decimal with the
aid of a 4-10 line XS3- Gray -to- decimal
decoder, which is available as a chip.
If the above procedure is adopted for

the design of an XS3 -Gray code decade
'down' counter the following flip-flop
equations are obtained:
JA = BD + BCD, JB = AD, Jc =ABD,

Jn = C.
(b)
KA=BD+BCD, KB=AD, Kc=ABD.
KD = AB.
Count up Stop count
& set R to
So
The unreduced, and hence the reduced, R=0 c=X R =1 c =0
J and K values of the flip -flops in one
direction are the same as the K and J QR=00 01
values of the flip -flops in the reverse XA Y
direction, i.e. to reverse the direction of
count it is only necessary to interchan- 10 11
ge the J and K inputs of each flip -flop.
It should be noted that the method of Stop count Count down
8. set R to
design employed does not always S3 0 S2
produce the simplest flip -flop equations R =0 c =0 R=1 c=Y
but it has advantages when applied to
the implementation of ùp -down' Gray'
code counters.
control signal R. It will be assumed that error of 1 for an odd number of changes
Ùp-down' control step -up and step -down signals do not in R and no error for an even number of
Ùp-down' counters are counters in appear simultaneously. changes in R.
which the pulse count is stepped up or The control signal must not be The logic circuit used to perform the
stepped down by each input pulse allowed to change during the presence function described above is event
according to whether 'the value of an of the input data. In this case, the driven and the methods used in the third
external control signal R is 0 or 1. In control signal will be generated from article of this series will be employed in
practice, the input signals that step the the input data and a race condition can its design.
count up or down will appear on two be prevented by using the first pulse in
separate lines X and Y, as shown in each pulse train to change the value of Step 1 Figure 8(a) shows the input /out-
Fig.8(a). The designer has to generate R. Since each time the value of R is put characteristics.
the clock pulses that will drive the changed an input pulse is not counted Step 2 A suitable state diagram is shown
counter flip -flops and the 'up-down' this method results in a maximum count in Fig.8(b).
Step 3 State reduction is not attempted

so that clarity of design is maintained. x
Step 4 Turn -on set of Q =1;t.-7
Turn-off set of Q= RX
Turn -on set of R =QY
Turn -off set of R = QX
The sequential equations are:
Q= RY +Q(R +X)
-I
R= QY +R(Q +X)
and c= SoX +S2Y= QRX +QRY
The circuit implementation is shown in (a)
Fig.8(c).
Ùp -down' XS3-GRAY code counter. So S1 S 53 54 S5 56 57
-
11 1 I ¡
Combining the flip-flop equations for

'up' counts when R =0 and for 'down'
counts when R =1 the following results -
X ;o , ^ 41 n 61 8
are obtained for the XS3 -Gray code

counter: A
1
O o
JA = (BD +BCD)R +(BD +BCD)R
= JqR + KAR
KA' _ (BD +BCD)R +(BD +BCD)R 1
B
= KAR +JAR 0 0 0 o
Similarly
Je' = JBR +KBR
KB' = KBR +JBR
.
1
and so on for Je', Kc', Jo', and KD', where

J' and K' are used to denote the flip -flop
C O 0 1 1 1 1 L_
inputs in the ùp -down' mode. t-+
b) (
Fig. 9(a) is a 3 -stage ripple- through counter, and at (b) are the timing diagrams.
Asynchronous binary counters

For counts of powers of 2 the basic X
arrangement consists of T flip-flops, (or

alternatively JK flip -flops with J and K
permanently connected to 1), connected 1
J JB Jc
in cascade as shown in Fig.9(a). As can
be seen from the diagram the output of
each flip -flop provides the clock signal 1
K K
1
Kc
for the next. The input signal X is used
as the clock pulse for the first flip -flop.
(a)
The time-diagrams for a scale -of-8
(up) counter are shown in Fig.9(b),
where all changes of state are assumed
to take place on the trailing edge of the
clock pulses. Examination of the time
diagrams shows that flip-flop A changes X
1
so
- - - Si i
52 5 541 S5
56i
57 S8i 59
state on each trailing edge of the input 0- 3 e 9 o-

pulses X. The output of flip-flop A is
used as the clock pulse for B and a
change in state of this flip -flop occurs
on the trailing edge. of the A pulses.
Similarly the output of B provides the
o-
clock pulse for C and this changes state
on the trailing edge of the B pulses.
The various states of the counter are
indicated on the time diagram and the
binary digits associated with each state
are marked on the time diagrams for the
signals A, B, and C.
It is a simple matter to show that the
above circuit will count down if the
signals A and B are used as the clock
pulses for flip -flops B and C respective-
ly.
L
Scale -of -ten Ùp' Counter.
This circuit requires four flip -flops, as
shown in Fig 10(a). The associated time
diagrams are displayed in Fig.10(b). Fig. 10 is a scale -of-ten ripple- through counter. Timing diagrams are at N.
Starting with all the flip -flops in the 0
state, the count follows the normal
binary sequence up_ to and including
the count of eight. On the trailing edge
- -i
of the tenth input pulse, flip -flop A
makes a transition from 1 to 0, which J <. Je Jc C
J
would normally induce a transition in
flip -flop B, changing its state from 0 to 1.
However JB =15=0 at this instant and
consequently flip-flop B remains in the
_ h - KB
B
Kc =s Kp
reset condition. At the same instant it is ( a )

also necessary to reset flip -flop D and it
changes state from 1 to O. All the
flip -flops are now in the reset condition
and are ready for the arrival of the first
pulse of the next counting cycle.
Scale -of- twelve Ùp' counter
The basic circuit of a scale -of twelve
asynchronous counter is shown in
Fig.11(a), whilst the time diagrams
X
1
A
-
5c
1
--,
2
Sz
3
S3;
4 s 54 SS
6 7
S7
8
Sa
9
59;
10
510
11 1?
describing its behaviour are shown in

Fig.11(b). Flip -flops A, B, and C count 0 0
from 000 to 101 inclusive. With D = 0 the
counter reaches the state ABCD = 1010 B
(S5), and when the next X input pulse is 1
received it must go to the state 0 1 n O

ABCD = 0001.
Flip -flop A is controlled by the X
pulses and changes state to A = 0 on the
trailing edge of the sixth of these pulses.
Flip -flop B remains in the B =0 state 0 O C 1 0
since JB = C = 0 and flip -flop C takes up
the state C = 0 since Jc = B = 0 and D
Kc =1. The change of C from 1 to 0 1
represents the trailing edge of the clock 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
pulse for flip -flop D and hence there is a

change of state for this flip -flop such t
that D =1. ( b)
After another six X pulses the state of
flip -flop D is restored to 0 and the Fig. 11 shows the form and timing diagrams of a scale -of-12 asynchronous counter.
counting cycle of twelve states is
completed.
Continued from page 49

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High -speed analogue -to- digital

conversion
Recent developments and applications
by 0. J. Downing, Ph.D and P. T. Johnson, B.Tech. , University of Bradford
Digital signal processing and data transmis-

sion, particularly for television and radar
systems, have stimulated a demand for faster
and more accurate analogue to digital
converters. Much of the current research and
development in this field has given Britain a
significant technological lead. Converters
capable of coding to 8 -bit accuracy with
sampling rates greater than 30MHz have
been demonstrated and have opened up
many new applications. The two authors
have spent several years researching a-to-d
convertors at Bradford University with the
intention of producing a cheap manufactur-
able converter particularly suitable for tv
signals. This article describes some of the
most recent systems including the author's
prototype 2 +2 +2 +2 serial coder design,
opposite, and suggest ways in which gross
coding rates greater than 400Mb /s may
shortly be achieved.
It has been said that the solution to one Thick -film integrated and hybrid a -to -d input signal requires three basic
problem begets ten more. Certainly, in and d -to -a convertors have been avail- operations. Firstly, the input is sampled,
the realms of digital signal processing, able for some time. In these devices the according to the Nyquist criterion, at a
the inherent attractions of digital conversion techniques such as ramp - rate greater than twice the highest
operation have led to a steadily growing counting, feedback successive ap- spectral component contained in the
range of more demanding applications proximation, and dual -slope integration input signal. A low -pass filter in the
for the devices and interfaces. require a trade -off between the rate at input path is often used to ensure this
One recent example of the power of which input signal samples are trans- condition. The instantaneous value of
digital signal processing is the television lated into binary digits (the conversion the sample must be accurately stored
signal standards converter DICE' rate), and the accuracy to which the for a length of time which enables the
(Digital Intercontinental Conversion output bits represent the instantaneous converter to decide which output code
Equipment). In this equipment a com- value of the input signal (the dynamic it should produce. Secondly, each
plex and extensive sequence of accuracy). Although developments in sample amplitude is compared with a
operations are performed on a digitized component technology are relieving number of preset reference levels to
tv signal using high -speed logic. This these restrictions to some extent, the determine the amplitude. This quanti-
system has resulted in corresponding majority of existing high -speed con- zation process commonly uses linearly -
improvements in mean signal quality, in verters use combinations of serial and related levels, although expansion or
the amount of maintenance and setting parallel conversion techniques. Inte- compression of the dynamic signal
up required, and in the general effec- gration, however, does offer mainly range by the use of non -linear quanti-
tiveness of the equipment when com- trouble -free and stable circuit zation law has been used in the logar-
pared with the analogue counterpart. operation. The aim of many a -to -d con - ithmic encoding of speech signals.
Digital techniques are now being used verter designs therefore, has been to Finally, the digital outputs of the com-
in the design of television, radar and obtain higher conversion rates and dy- parison circuitry are re -coded into a
communication systems, and in the area namic accuracy using integration tech- more convenient form. The resulting
of transient signal measurement with niques which require few precision parallel bit streams are latched to
similar benefits. components and do not need a great remove time -skew between them.
In all of these applications, however, deal of adjustment. Typically, a converter producing an
the major attractions of digital n -bit parallel binary output for each
operation depend on speed, accuracy, Pulse -code modulation input sample requires 2^ - 1 accurate'
stability, reliability and cost of the The derivation of a pulse -code- reference levels. The processes of
analogue -to- digital conversion process. modulated output from an analogue sampling, quantization and coding are
Fig.1. Sampling quantization and
-V coding processes for pulse -code
Input signal
modulation of video signals.
3V
1 1 - 0 Sampled sign\al/ 4
4
1-o 7 Fig. 2. (a) Diode gate sampling switch
J
z
1
100 -
Ouantized signal
\ /
l'
Output codes Coding V
range - 2
ó and (b) m.o.s.f.e.t. switch with
Sample Output
. feedthrough cancellation.
,--,----
N
1
D
O
011
010-
o01-
, ,/
Ii
/
O
1
2
3
4
011
000
110
111
000
V
4
i
- Fig. 3. Parallel quantizer using
comparators and a precision resistor
000 o
chain for the reference levels.
o 2 3
SAMPLING PERIODS (time)

Fig. 1
shown in Fig. 1. Subjective tests with

digitalized and reconstructed System I
Bifilar -wound PAL tv signals suggest the need for at
on ferrite bead least eight bits per sample at sampling
rates around 13MHz. For many radar
Balanced
ECL sampling
pulse
O O applications much higher sampling
rates are required, often with similar
quantization accuracy.
eg:
LH0033
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Sample and hold techniques
(a)
Input
30p
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Hold
In principle, the process of sampling
and holding a signal is accomplished by
switching the signal into a capacitor
store which charges to the current
signal amplitude. The switch is then
opened whilst the quantizer operates on
the sampled value. In practice, the time
taken for electronic switches to change
from low and high resistance states, the
parasitic reactances associated with
these devices and, in high speed samp-
lers, slewing of the input signal all com-
* - 5V to +12V pulse
bine to limit the maximum speed and
t SOOps risetime
accuracy.
To reduce the decay of the stored
15ns
monostable
charge during the holding interval, the
Fig. 2
capacitor is buffered by a high -
impedance amplifier and its capacitance
Sampled Running code to is maximised. However, to ensure that
input signal binary converter the capacitor charges to the signal
amplitude during the sampling period
16 Wire -OR its value must be minimized. In general,
precision 15 connections
resistors comparators 15 the sampling period must also be
latches
minimized because quantization cannot
begin until sampling is complete. Be-
15V
16 -k CK cause the input signal continues to slew
during the time taken for the sampling
switch to open, any shifting of this
7V
8 CK
-D point caused by noise or sampling
clock jitter will cause an error in the
sample value. Furthermore, the relative
magnitudes of the input and switching
signals can shift the sampling period
and cause a further error called "aper-
ture uncertainty ". If any coupling exists
between the switch and the hold store, a
proportion of the sampling pulse can be
fed to the store capacitor and cause a
corresponding error in the voltage.
Two types of sampling switch that
have recently become popular are the
diode gate and the m.o.s.f.e.t. switch,
see Fig. 2. In the first - mentioned the
diodes are reverse biased during the
hold interval but are forward biased by
V
16 - a current pulse from the transmformer
during the sample interval. Voltage
sources are included to ensure that the
Y Y diodes do not become forward biased by
Fig. 3 high signal slewing during the hold
interval. The use of matched low -
resistance high -speed Schottky diodes
67
Sample
pulse
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Delay Delay Delay

Sampled
input
signal X X + Single -bit
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0
Comparator
CK
D O
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f1 -bit latch
8
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Fig. 4 MSB1 B2 B3
minimizes sample pulse feedthrough Fig. 4. Serial -successive approximation comparator and precision reference
and charging time, but aperture errors quantizer. This system only uses one level per output bit. The result of each
are still determined by the slew drive comparator and precision reference comparison is used to decide whether a
rate of the driving pulse and drive tran- level per output bit. voltage, equal to the reference level for
sistors. Aperture errors of less than that comparator, should be subtracted
100ps at sampling rates in excess of from the stage input signal. The output
50MHz are possible with samplers of to settle, their outputs are latched some from the subtractor is used as an input
this type. A recent development has time after the sampling period. Re- to the following stage. A successively
made use of the m.o.s.f.e.t. possible coding of the output into binary can be more accurate representation of the
in high -speed samplers2.'in the circuit accomplished by simple combinational input sample amplitude is built up by
shown, sampling pulse leakage caused logic as shown. Although this technique subtraction of binarily related
by gate- source capacitance is cancelled is accurate and using e.c.l. comparators reference voltages as the residue
by feeding a complementary pulse conversion rates approaching 100MHz propagates along the cascade.
directly onto the sampling capacitor. with four bits per sample are feasible, Variations in propagation delay are
Cancellation levels up to 40dB have the component cost is high; for an n -bit removed by latching all outputs on the
been achieved with an aperture error binary converter, 2n 1 comparators - leading edge of the next sampling pulse.
below 300ps. and resistors are required. Because each stage must complete its
At the other end of the scale, the operation before the next commences,
Serial and parallel quantizers serial successive approximation con- the available time for stage operation is
An obvious technique for quantizing a verter shown in Fig. 4 uses only one severely restricted. For example, a tv
signal is to apply it to the commoned converter may require accurate stage
inputs of several comparators, the operation in less than 8ns. One solution
reference levels for which are derived Fig.5. Single stage of a folding encoder. is to add a delay line into the signal path
from a precision resistor chain as shown This system uses a cascade of fast of each stage at the point marked x x on
in Fig. 3. Because the comparators have precision rectifiers. Fig 4. By correctly timing the latch pulse
Bit output
Sampling O
clock
0. Delay I
/\.om pa rator
2R
d.c offsets
Balanced
Balanced output
input to
next stage
STAGE TRANSFER FUNCTION
2R Precision off set

Fig. 5 High -gain amps. rectifier
to each comparator and re- designing tunately, the precision subtractor with a function of the system has a typical
the latch it is possible to arrange that stable zero -offset is a problematic part repetitive form, but, in this case,
whilst the first stage is determining the of this design. produces a Gray -coded output.
most significant bit of the present Therefore, conversion errors occurring
sample, the second stage is determining Folding encoder at major output transistions, say be-
the second m.s.b. of the preceding An alternative form of serial converter tween binary 01111 to 10000, are less
sample and so on. This allows each which has been successfully used com- noticeable because only one bit changes
stage to have nearly a complete samp- mercially, the so-called folding encoder, per least -significant transition. The
ling interval to settle. Because each uses a cascade of fast precision rec- circuit is also susceptible to a high
stage must be accurate enough to drive tifiers. Fig. 5 shows that the transfer degree of integration.
the rest of the cascade, only the first
stage requires maximum accuracy.
Fig. 6. Eight bit series /parallel a -to -d Hybrid series -parallel converters
Furthermore, this design has the ad-
vantage of automatically producing a converter with digital error correction. A solution to the compromise between
binary-coded output. speed, accuracy and cost is a combi-
A further modification, which allows Fig. 7, Recirculating parallel coder. nation of serial and parallel conversion
the use of a common reference voltage Residue from the first four-bit techniques. An eight-bit 15MHz design
for all stages, is to give the subtraction quantization is fed back to the same developed by the BBC3 uses a four -bit
process a precise gain of two. Unfor- quantizer/ coder. quantizer /coder, 'producing the four
m.s.bs of the output, feeding a four -bit
d -to -a converter, see Fig. 6. The output
of the converter is subtracted from a
Sampled delayed version of the input sample to
input
VR,
Analogue
delay
I '9 VR2
produce a voltage equal to the error
caused by quantization to 24 levels. This
residue, after amplification, is coded in a
Over -range
second four -bit quantizer /coder to
produce the least -significant four bits of
the output. Errors caused by propa-
4 -bit
d to a
gation delay in the two sets of four -bit
4 -bit 4 -bit outputs are removed by suitably
_on verter parallel
parallel
quantizer quantizer timed latches. This design is interesting
because it uses extra comparators in
CK Delay
the second stage to detect under -range
and over -range input voltage errors
Under -range produced by a marginally accurate first
Delayed sampling stage. The comparators also correct the
pulse
l.s.b. outputs by digital subtraction or
8-bit latch & adder/subtractcr
i addition 4.
The recent development of an inte-
grated comparators, latch, precision
b 1 b ó current switch and binary- coding logic
Fig. 6 Digital outputs has enabled the speed and accuracy of
this technique to be greatly improved.
Current -Subtraction Use of a current- summing d -to -a con-
node
Analogue verter coupled with current subtraction
delay allows significantly faster operation,
Input
-o
Re-sampling
Samping I
V to I
converter
V to I
converter
30MHz, than the corresponding
voltage -based design. We have experi-
mented with a modified version of this
design at the University of Bradford, see
ef (Common-base
Fig. 7, where the residue from the first
amp. four -bit quantization is fed back via a
m.o.s.f.e.t. resampling switch into the
same quantizer /coder. It is possible to
code to eight -bit dynamic accuracy
4 -bit with sampling rates almost as high as
Parallel Precision
lu antizer switched the 4 + 4 converter but using only half
current sources
-O as many comparators, and precision
resistors.
Another home -produced design
v
which is faster, more accurate and more
Running code
outputs economical, uses a cascade of four
high -speed two -bit coders. Inter -stage
voltage gain and I to V conversion by
current summing are not required. The
maximum conversion rate of this sys-
tem exceeds 30MHz. Fig. 8 shows the
circuit and the residues from each stage
produced by the quantization of a slow
Sampling
clock ramp sampled at 20MHz. Dynamic ac-
o curacy measurement of this converter
suggests that the addition of a simple
Fig. 7 b G b b b10, error corrector to the final stage could
allow a further one- or two -bit stage to
be added which would reduce the
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Fig. 8. (a) Single stage of a Stage 3
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2 +2 +2 +2 serial coder. (b) (x 16)
Analogue output after coding a slow
ramp.
(b)
Fig. 9.Fast d -to -a conversion using

binary- weighted switched currents
which are summed using (a) virtual
earth technique, (b) a R -2R precision
resistor network. The photograph
shows a practical design which
combines the two techniques.
(a)
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output
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(b)
maximum conversion rate to around Resampling this waveform, using a se-
25MHz and offer a, so -far rather elusive, cond delayed clock, after the glitches
ten -bit high -speed converter. have settled, reduces the problem and
also simplifies the design of the sub-
11F predictions
Digital error correction sequent low-pass reconstruction filter.
The technique of error correction can be
used in most forms of a-to -d converter Future developments
although it is usually only used in high The commercial development of any
speed designs where the increased ac- new technique depends on market con-
curacy and stability justify the added ditions. At present, although a consid-
complexity. The principle is to measure erable range of exciting and attractive Circuit reliability is the product of the
the conversion error in terms of either applications have been proposed for probability of ionospheric reflection and the
positive or negative least significant bits high -speed digital signal processing, probability of achieving a desired signal to
and to correct the coder output accord- particularly the prospect of digital noise ratio and is thus at a maximum
ingly. Error detection is usually incor- broadcast tv systems, the cost of exist- somewhere between FOT and LUF. The term
porated in the final stage of serial ing a -to-d converters is prohibiting their FOT, which is the French equivalent of OWF
quantization where the converter is (optimum working frequency), is thus a
large -scale exploitation. Of the con- misnomer since it relates only to skywave
attempting to resolve to a least verter types described in this article, the probability. However since LUF is dependent
significant bit. Any errors that have serial cascade is perhaps the most on many factors which cannot be generalised
been introduced earlier in the cascade attractive for future development. The it is found satisfactory in practice to take
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will cause the signal amplitude at the idea of an integrated n -bit coder with FOT as being what it says it is.
final stage to lie outside its nominal subtractor, buffer, and latch on a single
range. These errors can be measured chip, which could be cascaded to any
precisely by the addition of extra com- length, has obvious merits. MHz
parators. Digital arithmetic controlled Techniques will shortly be capable of
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References
1. Digital video processing /DICE, IBA
Technical Review, No. 8, Sept. 1976.
2. Downing, O. J. and Johnson, P. T. New
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3. Fletcher, R. Video analogue to digital
hence, stray capacitance associated conversion, pp.47 to 57. IEE Conference
3
with the current source has less effect in
slowing down current transitions. Un-
fortunately, precision binary- weighted
publication 119, International Broadcasting
Convention 1974.
4. Verster, T. C. Method to increase the
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current generators are difficult to accuracy of fast serial /parallel analogue to 20
produce. In the second technique the digital converters, pp.471 to 473, IEEE Trans.
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advantage and disadvantages are on Electronic Circuits, No. 13, 1964.
5. Davies, C. and Fryers, A. S. Analogue to
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digital conversion, Private communication
promise is to combine the techniques and IEE colloquium, Nov. 1976. 8 MIL NM
and sum groups of binarily related 6. Henning, H. and Edsen, J. Broadband 6 11111._,
switched currents in a reduced resistor
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if data propagation error is limited by
latching the input data with a delayed
sampling clock, different propagation
delays in the resistor or current net-
works, and parasitic reactances
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Analogue function generator

A straight -line approximation design
by G. J. Phelps, B.Sc.
This article describes a versatile func- feedback diodes are brought into five, and seven volts, for example.
tion approximator, whose analogue conduction, so the effective amplifier Switching between the first two and
input and output signals are related by gain alters. A typical characteristic for filtering, as above, will produce a
a segmented characteristic. The func- the circuit is shown in Fig. 1(b). zero -to -five -volt signal depending on
tion characteristics are made up of a This scheme has two major draw- the m.t.s.r. However, if we now consider
number of straight lines (segments), backs. Firstly, diode action affects its switching in the same way between the
each one joining the next, at "break temperature stability, and secondly, last two (five and seven volts), the
points," to form a continuous line. A altering one of the feedback resistors output of the filter will be somewhere
variable characteristic is obtained by means the resetting of all of the between five and seven volts, depending
adjusting the position of intersection resistors that follow it. A different on the m.t.s.r. This process may be
of any two segments. approach is needed in order to obtain expanded still further.
versatility. The circuit described in this text has
The generation of an analogue ten adjacent d.c. levels. Each level can
function from an input variable has be switched on and off, and there is a
many applications, especially in the Mark -to-space -ratio averaging criterion that only adjacent pairs of
fields of measurement and process If we were to apply a zero -to- five-volt levels can be switched, as in the
control. An example would be the square wave to a simple single -time- simplified three -level case above.
linearization of a signal from a constant CR smoothing network, Interpolation between each level, by the
non -linear transducer in a control any variation of the mark-to -space ratio m.t.s.r. process, is the basis of the
system. ( m.t.s.r'.) would cause a change in the function generator design.
The circuit described can be used to output of the CR smoothing network. A
generate many functional relationships This output change has two extreme Signal -to -time averaged b.c.d. circuit
between its input and output signals, limits, namely zero and five volts, which
using a straight -line "fit" technique to correspond to a total absence of a pulse The input to the signal -to -time averag-
produce the required characteristic. (zero percent m.t.s.r.), and a pure d.c. ed binary- coded -decimal (b.c.d.) circuit
Straight line approximators are not level of five volts (100% m.t.s.r.), being lies between set limits. If we choose this
new. The diode function generator', applied to the input of the CR network. input to vary over zero to nine volts,
which is a typical example of past Indeed, the output of the network varies relative to the circuit common, and
designs, consists of the type of circuit linearly with respect to the m.t.s.r. consider the 0 to 100% variation of the
shown in Fig. 1(a). As more of the Now consider three d.c. levels: zero, input, we may divide it into nine equal
intervals defined by ten input voltages
(i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9V). Call
these ten voltages, break voltages.
The ten break voltages correspond to
the ten break points of the straight -line
function generator, which composes its
required function out of a nine -segment
line ( "fit "). As will be seen later, each
break point of the function can be
individually adjusted (without affecting
I vout l
any other), so that many different
functions may be generated in a highly
versatile manner.
The input to the circuit is scaled and
fed into the non -inverting inputs of a
string of nine comparators (see Fig. 2).
Each comparator is set to "trip"
(change state) at successively increased
voltage levels.
Vin Fig. 1. (a) A typical diode function generator
in which the amplifier gain alters as more of
(b) the feedback diodes are brought into
conduction. (b) shows a typical
characteristic for this circuit.
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Fig. 2. Signal -to- time -averaged b.c.d. circuit time within the period that the voltage levels are then summed up by a
consisting of nine comparators, each set to combined signal spends between break summing amplifier (see Fig. 3). After
change state successively as the input voltages. It can be seen that this time,
voltage -level increases. The output from the passing through a second -order RC
encoder i.c. is in inverted-b.c.d. (see text).
relative to the period of the triangular filter, the resulting signal appears at the
wave, is a direct function of the output of a buffer amplifier (IC ").
magnitude of the input signal. Each Finally, the signal is scaled by the
time the combined input voltage crosses output amplifier.
The scaling is set such that, as the a break voltage, the comparator for that The actual function generation of the
input voltage passes the break voltages break voltage will trip and change the circuit is achieved by mark -to -space
of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 volts, b.c.d. output of this section of the ratio averaging, as mentioned earlier.
comparators 1 to 9 trip in turn. circuit. It can therefore be seen that the However, here the magnitude of the
The output of each comparator average state of the b.c.d. output, in input signal determines which voltages
passes into an encoder i.c. (SN74147) terms of time, will yield the exact are switched on and off and what
and the resulting inverted-b.c.d. output position of the input signal relative to m.t.s.r. is applied to the switching
from this section of the circuit contains the ten input break voltages. voltages. The user, however, dictates
information about the input signal and Note that for a static input signal, the the magnitude of each of the voltages
the input break voltages. The exact typical b.c.d. output will consist of two switched, and therefore the way the
value of the input signal relative to the adjacent b.c.d. states; the m.t.s.r. of average of the voltages changes as the
ten input break-voltages is obtained by each state being determined by the m.t.s.r. of each voltage varies. There -
using a time averaging technique. A input magnitude relative to the ten tore; the final output of the circuit (after
triangular wave, of peak -to -peak break voltages. scaling) consists of a nine segment
amplitude equal to the intervals (in this characteristic having ten break points,
case 1V) between the ten break Output and function generation section see Fig. 5. Note that each segment joins
voltages, is added to the input signal. The output circuit converts the time smoothly with its adjacent segments.
This resulting signal, which is applied to averaged b.c.d. signal of the previous Note also, that the break points are all
the input of the comparators, will lie state into a meaningful output. Basic- independently adjustable. This means
between two break voltages (assuming ally, each b.c.d. state fed into the output that virtually any (but not every)
that the input signal is not mid -way section switches on one of ten voltage characteristic/function may be appro-
between two break voltages), see Fig. 4. levels, all of which are pre -set by ximated by a nine segment fit using this
Consider now one period of the potentiometers to the functional cha- circuit.
triangle waveform, and observe the racteristic required by the user. The It would not be difficult to expand on
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+5V Fig. 3. Output circuit board. Bc.d. outputs of

the circuit shown in Fig. 2, feed ten voltage
levels, all of which are set by potentiometers
R20 to represent the characteristic of the
R19 CALIBRATION
POTENTIOMETERS
required function (see text).
SPAN
M
R39
R6
R40 R49 R78
IC14 IC15
+5V -
R41
1
- -.NAN-
R42 +15V
4>°- 2
3
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R43
B 4 R38 --WV-4 R51 R52
B VV 5 R44
6 - --/V\M- C16
7
8 - R45AN-4 -15V
D -1>0- D
9
10
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R47
- '-'1AA/- 50
R48
R7
iv f
+15V
R53 R55
IC17
+5V
-15V +17.5V
R54
-15V Output
100 Fig. 4 shows how the time (tX I - the time

which the input signal plus the triangular
90 wave (see text) spends between break
" -
voltages is directly proportional to the
7
80
magnitude of the input signal. That is,
T A A A A Vx /Vy m tr /ty.
Vp _
ó 60
50
m
za 40
30 Fig. 5. An examplecharacteristic for the
analogue function generator described in
20
the text.
10
TIME
EGMENTS
1
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
4
Vout
5
6
7
8
9
I.fty
TIME
Vx
-=_- tx
2 4 8
Vin
tx Vy ty 3 5 6
BREAK POINTS
7 9
Tr11
O +20V
T1
O+15V
IC20 O+5V
a.c. OoV
mains
IC21
z Ì O 15V
Fig. 6. Main power supply circuit. potentiometers, showed a negligible and complex shape. This may sound
change due to ambient temperature difficult, but it is really very easy.
fluctuations. Consider the arranged input /output
the above idea, and produce a fit There are many applications for this characteristic (or transfer function) of
composed of more than nine segments. circuit. They include linearity correc- the analogue function generator to be a
tion of non -linear signals, generation of single period of the first waveform in
Design considerations mathematical functions, and the gene- Fig. 8. Remember, that this complex
ration of voltage programming func- function has been pre -programmed into
For the circuit to be able to resolve tions.
small changes in the input, and convey the analogue function generator by use
the information to the b.c.d. signal, the of the adjustable trimpots R68 to R77.
Generation of periodic waveforms Now, by using a ramp generator
hysteresis effect at the input (differen-
tial) of the comparators at small The .following is as an application attached to the input of the analogue
differential signals (specifically at the example of the analogue function function generator, the output of the
break points) must be considered. The generator being used to produce last -mentioned generator will follow
design should also allow for the slew continuous functions, of variable period Fig. 7. Power supplies for the mother board.
rate of the comparators so that the
relatively fast t.t.l. can respond to the
fast -changing differential input signals +20V0
to the comparators.
In this case a resolution of 0.1% was r13
desired and, with a maximum consider-
ed input hysteresis voltage of 5mV, this O +17-5V
set the maximum signal to the
comparators, for 100% input to the +15VO O +15V
complete circuit, at five volts. The slew
rate of the comparators was effectively
speeded up by lowering the frequency
of the triangular wave to about 200Hz. 4
This gives ample time for the compara-
tors to respond to a 5mV input O +12V
differential.
The non -inverting input to the -25
comparators is protected by using +5V O O +5V
zener diode tied to the -5V rail (see
circuit). The choice of comparators and
b.c.d. encoder i.c. also necessitates the ovo CV
incorporation of diodes D2 to D10
inclusive. This arises due to the lack of
input protection diodes on the l.s.i. chip, 5V
and the possible 'harmful' voltage
surges at the comparator outputs. The
final output of the circuit is provided r15
with full zero and span adjustments so
that the output can be calibrated.
The function generator is conside-
rably accurate, because the conversion -15V0
is largely digital. The prototype, which O 15V
used metal film resistors and cermet
77
Integrated circuits
the programmed characteristic as the p.A741C
ramp rises, returning back to the start of 1
4-12
-3
µA710
the characteristic as the sharp edge of 13 SN74147
the ramp falls. Therefore the output of 14 SN7404
the analogue function generator will be 15 SN7442
a continuous complex function, of 16 -18 pA741C
programmable shape and period equal 19, 21 1.1.A7815 regulator (1A)
to that of the ramp input. Fig. 8 shows 20 µA7805 regulator
examples of repetitive waveforms .
22, 23 p.A741C
generated in this manner. All available from Bi -Pak Electronics, Ware,
except IC,:, which can be obtained from
Aries Electronics, Maidenhead
Component list Transistors
metal oxide unless 1 -10 2N3709
Resistors (all 2%
11 2N3055
otherwise stated)
Fig. 8. Examples of periodic waveforms 12 -14 2N3053
which can be produced by the analogue 15 2N2904
1 39k function generator Transformer
2 100k Primary: 240V r.m.s.
3 22k Secondary: 2 x 20V r.m.s. at 300mA
4, 5 3k Barrie Electronics, London
6 6.8k
7 1.2k 63 470, 10% carbon Capacitors (µF unless otherwise stated)
8 -17 825, 1% or better 64 1k 1 220n
18 1.5k 65 1.5k 2, 3 2.2
19 -37 (odd) 39k, 10% carbon 4, 7 680E
20 -38 (even) 4.7k Variable resistors (Cermet trimmers) 5 10E
39-48 2k 6 22E
66, 67 10k
49 220k 8 6.3E
68-77, 79 1k
50 1.2k 9,10 10n
78 50k
51, 52 220k, 10% carbon
1k Reference
53, 54
2k Diodes 1 Crump, A. E. Diode
function generators,
55
56 200 1 6.8V 5% 400mW zener Wireless World, Dec. 1967, pp. 59458.
120, 10% carbon 2 -20 1N914
57
21, 22 100V 2A bridge rectifier two p.c.bs for the function
A set of
58 1.2k
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59
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60, 61
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Matrix HJ: technical refinement and political jostling?
Last month the BBC strongly reacted to a the change to FU as "slight" and combining details of this ", drew comment from the IBA
recent FCC subjective evaluation of sur- "most of the worthwhile features of H and J ". engineers at the meeting.
round reproduction system by publicly The tentative HJ is actually in the form of The attitudes of the two organizations are
criticising the FCC Laboratory "not for what tolerance zones on the phase-amplitude or well illustrated in two recent pronounce-
they have done so much as the limitations energy sphere. "Zones are really the only ments. "The penalty of the extra channel
that they pose ". The report, part of an FCC way" the BBC now say, because of the may be very much smaller than initially
Inquiry into "Quadraphonic" broadcasting, variety of microphone techniques. The zone supposed" (Alan James, IBA, IEE meeting,
showed SQ was preferred to other two broadly encompasses those points covered October 13th). "We are filled with doubt as to
channels systems and H and QS in musical by phase -reduced centre -front H and J loci. whether a three channel system would ever
preference tests for "quad ", stereo and mono. Front left and right points are reduced in get off the ground in Europe. Stranger things
And in what could be viewed as preparation phase from 75° to 60° and also in amplitude. have happened of course. But the way to
for a united front to the FCC Inquiry, as well "To give credit where it is due" said the 'prove the pudding is well known. We would
as a response to recent criticism of Matrix H lecturer, "the format was jointly agreed with like to see someone conduct a one -year test
broadcasts, the BBC Matrix H surround Michael Gerzon and the BBC ". They hope to of the three channel system and we would
formula has been changed. sort it out by the end of the year and plan like to know at the end of the year how many
From about half way through the prome- further experiments within its confines. If three channel tuners and three track cassette
nade concerts the centre front phase dif- this is "firmed up" it would then appear to decks the service had attracted" (C. B. B.
ference - until then 48° - was changed provide an opportunity to argue the FCC Wood, AES Annual Dinner, 13th September,
"fairly significantly ", C. B. B. Wood head of tests to be invalid. 1977).
engineering information told WW "and the In answer to a query by David Read on
sort of figures we are talking about are 28 °, First discussions with the J team were kept
a secret at the BBC's request, a move that circuit alterations to the BBC Matrix H
29° and 30 ° ".
could have an advantage in giving a better decoder design (June issue, page 34) Meares
The change from Matrix H to HJ follows said that although he had not put pen to
criticism of the stereo compatibility of Matrix impression of unity than might actually be
the case. There is certainly not much ap- paper on the effect, he couldn't tell the
H broadcasts, particularly of the proms, now
parent unity between the two broadcast difference between an HJ encoding and an H
no longer described as completely "unim- encoding through an H decoder. In any case
paired". organizations. Whilst not disagreeing so
much with Meares' analysis of the FCC re- further changes may still be made. BBC
The BBC had kept the change quiet to Research Department tell us that due to
avoid prompting listeners but at an IEE port, they certainly were at odds over the
feasibility of a narrow band third channel unequal loading on the phase shift circuits in
lecture on the 13th October, the change was the BBC H decoder circuit, they recommend
made public. They almost got thi.ough the system. With the BBC refusing to take the
issue any further and the IBA revving to go, a directly- coupled emitter follower be in-
proms without any response: the 30 letters serted following each of the three summering
received were largely "self cancelling" they given the manpower, the pointed remark by
said. At the meeting David Meares described Meares, "We look forward to hearing more circuits. Emitter load should be 10k11.
Long duration c.m.o.s. high to reset the bistable and zero the
Circuit monostable
The duration of a pulse from standard
c.m.o.s. monostable i.cs is affected by
counters. Pulse duration is ap-
proximately 2"-' x 2.2 x Rt x Ct seconds
and the variation, in normal room tem-
peratures, is about 0.5%. Variation in
Ideas temperature changes and other short
term variations. When accurate pulse
duration is required, a more stable
supply voltage will increase this figure.
Apart from stability, this circuit has
the advantage of long variable pulse
circuit can be made using a 4060 14- times with good linearity. Application
stage counter and oscillator, and half of notes ICAN 6086 and 6539 from RCA
a 4027 dual JK flip -flop.
give details of a crystal control which
Initially, the dividers are held at OV can be used to produce even more
by a high on their reset line. A monost-
stable, fixed durations.
able pulse is triggered by a positive edge
which sets Q to a high, clears the reset R. Price,
line, and allows the counters to operate. Medical Physics Department,
After 2"-1 counts, the +2" output goes Leeds University.
Variable slope
low -pass filter
An important feature of audio pre -am-
plifiers is a low -pass filter to limit the
bandwidth at high frequencies. It is o
desirable to incorporate a variable slope Trigger input
device as this allows the amount of o monostable
Output
filtering to be selected for a particular O
programme source. A Sallen -Key design
is suitable for second order filtering and
the circuit may be realized with any
suitable form of unity gain amplifier.
This circuit uses an enhanced source
follower which offers a high input
t
+5 -15V
s
n
4
Pin no.
X
7
impedance, low input bias current, 5 5
and low distortion. The low bias current 6 4
enables the gate of the f.e.t. to be 14Stage 7 6
directly coupled to the slider of the counter 12
Reset 8 14
potentiometer. Resistor R4 prevents any 9 13
10 15
R1 12 1
10k +12. 13 2
14 3
Inductance bridge sitivity of the system. The third winding

is followed by an amplifier with a gain of
This circuit was developed to replace a about 500. If this is fed into a transistor
high cost differential amplifier used threshold detector it is possible to detect
with a.c. bridge circuits. A pulse trans- inductance changes of less than 0.1pH in
former with 3 windings is connected in 30µH.
270p series with the lower limbs of the bridge. If the unknown limb is used in a noisy
Decade resistance box Rv, and variable environment the interference can be
inductor Lv, are uséei. for fine balancing filtered and fed into the known limb
while the ratio R1 /R2 provides a course through capacitor C to produce a can-
adjustment. As the bridge is brought cellation.
-12V towards balance, the inductance of the G. C. Kervill & T. Austin,
noise occurring from the slifer and R3 transformer drops rapidly to its leakage Sacol Controls,
restricts the fractional setting of R2 to value which causes an increase in sen- Southampton.
about 0.1. This ensures that there is an
ultimate roll off above audible frequen-
cies, and also prevents any stray capa-
citance at the amplifier input from
forming a high Q filter.
With the values shown the turnover
frequency is about 6kHz and the
attenuation with minimum slope is
about 2dB at high frequencies. Combin-
ed with a simple CR network, the slope Av*, 500
can be adjusted between 6 and 18dB/
octave but the author's preference is to
use a second switched Sallen -Key filter
with fixed slope to give a total variation
from O to 24dB /octave.
R. J. Tidey,
Oxford.
79
Microprocessor 5V clock R7
Tr2
R2
Tri
2N3906
+5V
generator R5 5k6
2N3906
R1 5k6
Many microprocessors require a clock 2k2 2k2
with a full 0 to 5V swing. Standard C C1
c.m.o.s. circuits are unable to provide Re Rg R11 R3 R4
68 0 15k 27k 680
sufficiently fast rise and fall times and, 330p
27k 330p
although t.t.l. has the required speed, C4 C2
the high level needs forcibly pulling up C RC T 33p C RC T 33p
to the 5V rail. The 74121 monostable has A1 -05 A1 C
a output which may drive a fast

switching transistor, which in turn pulls B
M2 M.
the Q output up to 5V during a logic 1 as 74121 ,21
R5
shown. An appropriate threshold for Try R10 5H
47 Ct)
47 1
is provided by the potential divider R2, 2

R3. Capacitor C2 ensures that the tran-
sitions are shorter than 50ns, and ex-
cessive overshoot or ringing is
prevented by the damping resistors R4
and R5. For the M6800 microprocessor,
two non -overlapping clock phases are
required with a frequency of ap- 2
proximately 1MHz. These waveforms
may be obtained by connecting two will be no spare A inputs to 5V, but the ola's specified requirements for the
monostables in a ring. The values spare clear inputs must be tied to the M6800.
shown for the timing components give supply rail. Also, R, and Rs should be Tim Perkins,
approximately 500ns pulse lengths. If a increased to 3k9S1. The circuit will drive MRC Neurological Prostheses Unit,
single 74123 is used for M1 and M2 there loads of 150pF and keep within Motor- London S.E.S.
Line charged h.v. pulse H.V.

circuit
On the positive half cycle of the mains,
CI charges to peak line voltage through
D1. On the negative half cycle, C2 is ignition
charged through D2, D3 and R1, to the coil
peak voltage of diac D. When the diac
fires at about 30V, C2 discharges par-
tially through the gate circuit of the
thyristor. The thyristor then turns on
and discharges C1 through the primary
of a car ignition coil, which generates a
20kV pulse in L2. This sequence repeats
50 times per second.
The light sensitive resistor prevents
the circuit firing if illuminated by a light
source such as the flame in an oil burner
which is ignited by a h.v. spark.
A. Refsum,
The Queen's University of Belfast.
Earth referenced V to I +10V

Circuits often require a voltage con-
trolled current source in which a vari-
able load is connected directly to earth.
Most operational amplifier configu-
rations produce either a current source
or sink referenced to the supply rail.
This circuit produces a voltage control- Vin
led current which may be injected to the
earth rail via the load.
The operational amplifier and Tr1 act
as a voltage controlled current sink. The
balanced tracking of the current mirror
Tr2 and Tr3 is used to convert this sink
current to a source current. The circuit (yin >0)
has good thermal stability and a
linearity to within 3% for output currents
up to 3mA. This circuit also develops the
full supply voltage across the load.
B. Wilson & K. Patel,
University of Technology, Baghdad.
80
"No loss" capacitor
This simple circuit provides a "perfect" 999p
capacitor at frequencies below about Out
100kHz. The principle has been used to
construct fixed -frequency capacitance (b)
standards for use in an accurate ca-
pacitor bridge. An oven mounted
prototype provided a stability of one
r -1
t000p (no loss)

p.p.m. and a residual phase angle dif- "
1
n0 Ì Ì OOut
ference from pure capacitance of one
micro -radian. All capacitors are silver I I
mica types.
B. J. Frost,
Paignton,
S. Devon.
Automatic micropower tact or junction type such as an 0A90 or

0A73, should be selected for a suitable
battery charger reverse leakage current. The battery
In micropower equipment it is
sometimes necessary to switch between
can be a manganese -alkaline type or a Books Received
Zn -Ag0 watch type cell.
an intermittent power source, such as a M. Hadley,
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must be kept charged. The circuit
shown offers this facility with very few
components. When the solar cell vol-
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Advanced Data -Transmission Systems by A. P.
Clark is based on research, and lecture courses in
Sequence generator simple programmer can also be con- digital communications at Loughborough
University of Technology. The book is intended for
This sequence generator uses a gated structed using two 7493 binary practising or student engineers and deals with
shift register made from a 7475 D -type counters. The outputs can be used as a principles and techniques rather than practical
latch, and four exclusive OR gates. A signal source for a synthesizer, or as a considerations. Mathematical analysis is used
sequencer for a lighting unit. where necessary together with worked examples.
The emphasis is on future systems and, although
The clock pulse should be narrow to many of the systems described have not been built,
Clock input avoid race -round effects. If desired, a
To D they have all been studied by computer simulation
O 74175 can replace the 7475, as this has a and theoretical analysis. The main purpose of these
7486 clear input which may be useful for techniques is to enable the maximum transmission
Ex/or rate to be achieved over a linear channel, for an
At D 74 resetting. acceptable tolerance to noise, and an acceptable
7475
O P. D. Maddison, degree of equipment complexity.
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and distortion in a sampled baseband signal.
Chapter 3 develops the theory of optimum
Clock detection and estimation of a sampled baseband
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D1 -
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Inputs
(control)
F- To sequence
control inputs
where appropriate. The final two chapters describe
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Synthesized f.m. transceiver

The receiver and transmitter sections
by T. D. Forrester, G8GIW
Part 1 of this article described the noise and consequently it helps to enough to be lifted by a 0.2µV signal at
synthesizer and oscillator sections of the ensure a good dynamic range. Tr6 is 145MHz.
transceiver and discussed the method another dual -gate m.o.s.f.e.t. This Tr7, Trs and Tr9 act as the a.f. power
employed for channel and mode selection. device converts the 145MHz signals to amplifier, developing 200mW into an 81Z
This second part describes both the trans- load.
mitter and receiver sections and concludes
the i.f. frequency of 10.7MHz. It has a
resistive drain load and feeds the Tr10 and Tr11 form the frequency
with some tips on construction and the
alignment procedure. 10.7MHz crystal filter, which gives the
receiver all its selectivity. It must Fig. 5. Circuitdiagram of the receiver
The receiver part of the transceiver uses therefore be a top quality item. section of the transceiver. Selectivity is
standard and well -proven circuitry and The bulk of the receiver gain is determined by the bandwidth of the
should have no alignment or construc- produced after the filter by the SL612 10.7MHz crystal filter in the i.f. circuit.
tional problems. Figure 5 shows the and the HA1137 f.m. discriminator. This
circuit diagram for the receiver. also helps to ensure a good dynamic Correction: -First frequency multiplier
Tr5 is a dual -gate m.o.s.f.e.t. which is range combined with excellent sensi- stage requires a 1000pF decoupling ca-
used as a r.f. preamplifier. It has just tivity. The squelch control is a built -in pacitor between top of tuned circuit and
enough gain to overcome the mixer function of the HA1137 and is sensitive earth.
10.7 MHz
10.7 MHz I.F. AMP. F.M. DEMODULATOR
R.F. PRE -AMP MIXER R67

VVv
R49 =C34
R51 77ii11177
D20 C29
C64 5.
C36
L3 R53
o
Aerial
o I
R41 C20 R42C21 C66 R45 C24
C27
R65
C38
R56 R66
Input from C37

frequency --10-1
sythesizer
R5
x2 x3
A.F. AMPLIFIER
LOCAL OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY
MULTIPLICATION
R71
1a
24MHz
input from
synthesizer
R.F. output
145- 146MHz
2.5W
multiplication circuit needed to convert diagram of the

Fig. 6. Circuit the transmitter and receiver at a later
the 22MHz signal to the required transmitter multipliers and power date.
134MHz local oscillator frequency. Tr11 amplifiers. The synthesizer logic was built on a
is a Class B doubler, bringing the piece of Vero -Board measuring 334 x
frequency up to 44MHz, and Tr10 is a 4in, and hard wired between i.c. pins
Class C tripler, which converts this to 145MHz signal, present at the Tr14 using sub -miniature wire. This method
approximately 134MHz. collector, to a level of 2.5W; again Class of construction was chosen as it allows
In terms of sensitivity, noise figures, C is used in the power stages to easy modification and also enables the
dynamic range and selectivity, the maintain a high level of efficiency. board to be made smaller than a
performance of the receiver is excellent; If the transmitter is to be used from a conventional p.c.b.
indeed it is very much better than some good portable location, it is advisable to The v.c.o. associated with the
of the commercial transceivers avail- use a band -pass filter to reduce any synthesizer was built on a separate
able to the radio amateur. harmonics to an acceptable level. double -sided p.c.b., one side of the board
Fig. 8 shows the microphone com- being used for a ground plane the other
The transmitter pressor and deviation control circuits of side being used for interconnections.
M stated previously, the transmitter is the transmitter. Using the varicap shown, the v.c.o.
based on a Mullard design, which was Frequency modulation is applied to operates from 18 to 36MHz for a control
developed some years ago. It has been the varicap diode via the preset voltage of 0 to 12V respectively.
slightly modified to ease alignment potentiometer R82, which adjusts the However, other types of varicap diode
problems associated with transmitter level of deviation. The SL622, IC13, is an may be suitable, providing the v.c.o. is
frequency multiplication. The circuit audio compressor. This ensures that the capable of operating over the range of
diagram for the transmitter multipliers level of deviation remains constant over 20 to 25MHz.
and power amplifiers is shown in the wide range of microphone inputs. The transistors used in the v.c.o. are
Fig. 6. general purpose, types 2N3707. Other
Tr12 acts as a Class B grounded -base Construction types such as the BC 108 and the BC 109,
frequency doubler for bringing the As the synthesizer is the heart of the are equally suitable.
24MHz synthesizer frequency to transceiver, it was decided to build this The power supply for the synthesizer
48MHz. Tr13, with its collector tuned to unit first, thereby enabling it to drive logic must provide a well -regulated and
the 145MHz band, .acts as a Class C noise -free 15 volts. This is to ensure that
frequency tripler. the 4059 is sufficiently fast to cope with
Tr" is a 145MHz amplifier which has Fig. 7. A suitable regulated 15V power the 6MHz clock. A suitable power
a little forward bias applied in order to supply circuit for the transceiver. It supply is shown in Fig. 7. This supply is
minimize the amount of r.f. drive requires an unregulated 12V power designed to provide 15V at 100mA over
required. Tr15 and Tr16 amplify the supply. a voltage input range from 9 to 18V.
Note that the 74LS74 requires a 5V rail,
Stab. not 15V as with the c.m.o.s. devices. To
1N4001 1N400 +15V interface the 5V logic of the 74LS74, a
output
+12V pull up resistor, R7, is used.
The receiver is built on a double -sided
p.c.b. and contains all the circuitry
shown in Fig. 5. Again, one side of the
p.c.b. is used as ground plain, this is to
simplify board design and minimize the
possibility of instability occurring.
When building the r.f. and mixer
stages it is important to keep lead
lengths as short as possible in order to
minimize lead inductance, which can be
appreciable at v.h.f. frequencies.
85
To Tx transrn t rai'.
The 10.7MHz stages, consisting of the
SL612 and HA1137, must be logically
laid out. This means keeping inputs
away from outputs. Also, as there is
50T
a considerable amount of gain at
10.7MHz, attention should be paid to R77
the screening of the receiver, otherwise
there might be i.f. breakthrough.
The i.f. filter probably represents the C5y Balance
most expensive item in the receiver and IC13 microphone
could cost as much as £20. However, at SL622 input
the time of writing there were many ITT
and STC surplus crystal filters on the Reg
market at very competitive prices. As SET DEV.
the filter gives the receiver all its a.f.output
selectivity, care must be taken to ensure to varicap
R26,C6
that the i.f. signal cannot leak around it,
otherwise the receiver may be blocked o
off by a strong local station on another
channel.
?
The layout of the transmitter
multiplier and p.a. stages is not unduly Fig 8. Microphone compressor and quietening, and the mute should lift on
critical, providing all leads which carry deviation control circuit for the signals down to 0.5µV. After connecting
r.f. current are kept short, that is, less transceiver. an aerial to 1,3 and selecting a popular
than '/sin, (this includes the 1nF disc channel, stations should be heard. It
capacitors associated with the supply may be necessary to trim C64 slightly to
decoupling). Clip -on heatsinks should from normal transmit on channel 00 to match the aerial correctly. It may also
be fitted to the driver and p.a. stages to normal receive and checking that the be necessary to adjust the value of R65
keep the collector temperature below 'output shifts from 24.1666 to slightly, to remove any crossove
70 °C. 22.38333MHz, (a 10.7MHz shift down in distortion present in the output stage.
The actual method of assembling the frequency at 2 metres). The transceiver is now completel:
four boards into a complete transceiver Likewise, to check the transmitter ready for use on the air.
is left to the discretion of the 600MHz repeater shift, switch from
constructor, but it is a good idea to fit normal transmit to repeater transmit Conclusion
the synthesizer logic into a screened and check that the frequency shifts Through the extensive use of integrate
box with leads for power in, 24MHz in, from 24.16666 to 24.06666MHz, that is, a circuits in the synthesizer, and receive
control wires in, and error voltage out 600kHz shift down in frequency at 2 i.f. section, it is hoped that alignmen
only. This is to reduce the possibility of metres. Again, when testing the problems associated with multichannt .
any noise generated by the synthesizer inverse- repeater receive, check that the transceivers have been lessened consi-
logic interfering with the receiver. frequency shifts from 22.3833 to derably. That is, it is only necessary to
The transmit /receive switch- 22.2833MHz, that is, another 600kHz adjust the reference crystal to
ing has also been left to the discretion of shift down in frequency at 2 metres. 1.000MHz and the transceiver will be
the constructor, although in the If all appears well with the synthesi- exactly on frequency, no matter which
prototype, electronic transmit /receive zer, then it can be connected to the channel or mode is selected.
switching was used, with the exception transmitter. Set the mode switch to It is also possible to build the
of the aerial changeover, which was a normal transmit on channel 20 and synthesizer separately and to use it to
sub -miniature relay. adjust L.9 (Fig. 6) for maximum voltage drive commercial rigs, thus avoiding
across R72 (about 1V), ensure that the many expensive crystals which could
drive to Tr13 is on 48MHz (not 24MHz), cost about £5 per channel (a 22- channel
Alignment then adjust C68 for maximum voltage transceiver would have £110 worth of
The first unit to be adjusted is the v.c.o. across R75 (above 0.1V) and check that crystals inside it). By comparison, a
(see Fig. 4). This is accomplished by the collector of Tr13 is tuned to 145MHz synthesizer of the type described could
connecting the control wire of the (not 96MHz). It is only necessary to be built for as little as £30 and it would
varicap diode to earth, then adjusting tune Co C7, C and C in turn to also produce all 40 channels in addition
produce maximum output on 2 metres. to offering repeater and inverse
the slug in L1 for a frequency of
approximately 20MHz. After this The transmitter r.f. stages are now
complete, and it only remains to apply
repeater operation -
obviously a great
operation, connect the control wire to saving.
vcc and check that the frequency rises audio to the varicap diode to produce a
to above 25MHz, then tune L2 for f.m. transmission on 2 metres. Adjust- Correction notes. The 220k0 resistors R8 to
ing R62 (Fig. 8) sets the level of R 25 (see Fig. 3) on the 4560 inputs (pins 15, 1,
maximum output at 24MHz. 3, 5, 14, 2, 4 and 6) are pull -down resistors
When the v.c.o. is aligned, connect it deviation, and should be adjusted by which should be between the inputs and
to the logic in the synthesizer and set monitoring the transmission on a earth, and not as shown. Connections should
the thumbwheels to channel 00 and the receiver of suitable bandwidth. also be made direct between the inputs and
mode switch to normal transmit. If all is To align the receiver, set the the thumbwheels and mode lines; 15 to a, 1 to
well the control voltage should settle to synthesizer to normal receive on b, etc. The right -hand pin on IC, shown as
a value between 2 and 8V and the channel 20, and then adjust L7 (Fig. 5) pin 3, should read 'pin 8'. Further details in
output frequency should be for maximum voltage across R Inject next issue.
24.16666MHz. If the frequency is a signal on 145.5MHz at the aerial input
slightly out, then C2 requires adjust- and adjust C64, C65, and C67 in turn for Printed circuit boards
ment to set the reference accurately at maximum sensitivity, reducing the level A set of p.c.bs comprising two double
of the signal as the receiver is tuned up. sided and one single sided is available for
1.0146666kHz. Switching the thumb - 01 inclusive from M. R. Sagin at 23
wheels to 01 should cause the frequency Finally, to achieve the best noise
Keyes Road, London NW2. The boards
to increase by 4.1666kHz at 24MHz, figure, adjust the coupling between C27 accommodate components for the
(25kHz at 2 metres). and Le for maximum sensitivity. The receiver, transmitter, synthesizer and
To check the receiver í.f. and repeater receiver alignment is now complete and v.c.o.
shifts, it is only a matter of switching should require less than 1µV for full
New
Products
Synthesized
communications
receiver
A communications receiver, designated (as described in pp.65 -6, Sept. 77 issue), 10ms (typical). Specifications include a
the PR2250, is claimed by the makers, enabling fast and accurate searching to sensitivity on s.s.b. of 15dB signal -to-
Plessey Avionics & Communications be carried out. noise- plus -noise for a 1µV (e.m.f.) input
Ltd, to be the first receiver unit - as The tuning dial has two tuning rates, and a typical noise figure of 1OdB from
distinct from system (see p.85, Nov. 76 one for fine tuning and one for search- 100kHz to 30MHz. Intermediate
issue) - to take most of the tedious ing, both providing frequency steps of frequency and spurious signal rejection
manual labour out of surveillance and 1OHz. The keypad enables a new is greater than 8OdB down.
monitoring operations. The receiver, frequency to be selected quickly by
which covers I.f., m.f. and h.f. bands simply punching in the desired Although this product represents a.
from 1OkHz to 3OMHz, is a solid -state frequency in kHz. A non -flicker l.e.d. step forward in British -made pro-
high -stability synthesized instrument display indicates the receive frequency fessional communications equipment,
capable of being digitally controlled in MHz. Push button controls also pro- at a price of about £6,500 - which
from either a keypad on the front panel vide selection of a.m., f.m., c.w., u.s.b., doesn't include the microprocessor - it
I.s.b. and i.s.b. modes, bandwidth filters, remains to be seen whether it can sur-
or from an external serial data stream.
An optional microprocessor module, a.g.c. and a.f.c. All of these selections, vive the competition if the Japanese,
claimed to be unique in this type of and the frequency, can be stored in a who are proving to be very proficient at
equipment, may be programmed to built -in 16- channel memory so that they producing this type of equipment at low
allow the receiver to interface with can be recalled almost instantly. cost, succeed in entering the pro-
many The synthesizer, a patented Plessey fessional communications equipment
different control systems.
Tuning is by this keypad or a photo - design, allows tuning from one end of market. Plessey Avionics & Com-
the frequency range to the other in munications Ltd, Ilford, Essex.
diode, and l.e.d. dial scanning- system WW 301
AG C
DET
00 kHz
x
8 kHz
MIXER I MIXER2
x- F AMP
6 kHz
AM
DET
SUB 65 MHz
OCTWE
FILTERS a41
T2 kHz
PROD
DET
191 LO 2nd LO
PL.LS P. L.L
PROD
SYNTHESIZER DE T
p
100Hz
FREQUENCY
x
l DISPLAY
tOOHz +TA MHz
UNCTIONS
REMOTE
KEY- INTER-
FACE
PAD
BEO
CONTROL
o REF
Simplified bloch schematic diagram of the PR225O receiver under external control.
Digital printer ments on a digital readout which is R.f. transistor

updated four times per second. An in- A r.f. transistor, the BF199 manufac-
A microprocessor controller is used in expensive 9V battery having an operat- tured by AEG -Telefunken, is suitable
the SP302 five -by -seven impact dot - ing life of about 72h is used to supply the for video i.f. amplifier stages. It is a
matrix printer to enable it to perform device. Dawe Instruments Ltd, Concord silicon n -p -n epitaxial planar transis-
functions such as double -width printing Road, Western Avenue, London W3 tor having a feedback capacitance of
and double and triple spacing, which, OSD. only 0.32pF. Absolute maximum ratings
the makers claim, are not available on WW 304 include a VcEO of 25V, VaBO of 40V, VEB0
competitive units. Tab functions are of 4V, lc of 25mA and IB of 2mA. Total
fitted as standard and may be externally power dissipation is 300mW and the
controlled by simple software. The R.f. analyser junction temperature is 150 °C. Other
standard input baud rate is 110, but All the elements to form a complete characteristics include a typical gain
other rates can be internally set. The transmission and reflection measuring bandwidth product of 500MHz and a
unit prints at a rate of 50 characters per instrument are contained in the Wiltron typical hfe of 88. The BF199 is packaged
second. It will print multiple copies and 640 r.f. analyser. The unit comprises a in a T092Z case. Norbain Semiconduc-
is also capable of using ordinary 3'/sin swept r.f. generator covering 1 to tor Division, Norbain House, Arkwright
adding- machine paper. The SP302 1500MHz, logarithmic amplifier with Road, Reading, Berkshire RG2 OLT.
measures 244 x 127 x 305mm and has a detectors, one of which is for reflection WW 306
power requirement of 25W from 115 to measurements, and a display (built by
230V at 50 or 60Hz. Syntest,169 Millham Tektronix). The display is in the main-
Street, Marlboro, Mass. 01752, U.S.A. frame of the instrument, the other ele-
WW 302 ments of the system being in the form of
plug -in units. System noise level is
around -60dBm and the r.f. output is A -to -d converter
calibrated to + 10dBm, so that a 70dB The LD130 three -digit analogue -to-
dynamic -range is obtained. Several digital converter i.c., from Siliconix, has
Low -cost DMM marker systems, for level and been reduced in price by 45% from £6.36
frequency, are provided; a nice refine- to £3.45 (for quantities of 100 or more).
A calculator -sized 3'/2 -digit multimeter, ment is the 'tilt' facility for frequency This follows the company's improve-
the PDM35 introduced by Sinclair marker pips to enhance visibility on the ments in high -volume manufacturing
Radionics Ltd, is available in the UK at skirts of responses. The output level is techniques. Sampling rates for this
£29.95 plus 8% v.a.t. The meter measures held to within 0.2dB over the 1500MHz device vary from 1 to 60 per second and
155 x 75 x 30mm and weighs only 175g. range, and over the often -used 400 - accuracy is quoted as 0.1% ± 1 digit,
Its design is claimed to be based on the 500MHz sections it is constant to within with a lmV resolution. Siliconix Ltd,
results of an international survey which 0.1dB. Wiltron, 825E Middlefield Road, 30A High Street, Thatcham, Newbury,
tried to determine the features required Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A. Berks RG13 4JG.
from a multimeter by the majority of WW 305 WW 307
users. As a result, the meter does not
have an alternating- current range. The
PDM35 has four direct -voltage ranges,
from lmV to IkV, and six direct-current
ranges, from 1 n to 200mA, with a
10m0 input impedance on the voltage
ranges, and a maximum resolution of
0.1nA on the current ranges. Accuracy
in each case is 1 %± 1 digit of the reading.
Its alternating- voltage range is suitable
for frequencies from 40Hz to 5kHz from
1 to 500V r.m.s. with an accuracy of
1 % ±2 digits. The meter also has five
resistance ranges from 1S2 to 20M12 with

an accuracy of 1.5% ± 1 digit, and five
junction -test ranges. Sinclair Radionics
Ltd, London Road, St. Ives, Hunting-
don, Cambs PE17 4HJ. WW 302
WW 303
Sound level meter

The db -306 Metrologger is a pocket -
sized sound -level meter incorporating a
minicomputer which measures and dis-
plays A- weighted sound levels over a
selected 64dB range. It also indicates the
equivalent continuous sound level, the
maximum sound level sampled and the
time duration of the measuring period.
The instrument, which utilizes a mi-
croprocessor, is normally supplied with
a 1/4in ceramic microphone that can
either be mounted on the Metrologger
or be positioned up to 100ft away.
Sound levels are displayed in 1d$ incre- WW 303 W W 304
Microcomputer SD203), high speed f.e.ts having low 'on' square, has standard graduations of
resistances (SD210 to SD215), and dual- 0 -10 over 270 degrees and 0-100 over 300
development system gate f.e.ts for v.h.f. and u.h.f. mixer and degrees. However, for both dials,
A microcomputer system known as the amplifier applications (types SD300, graduations can be supplied to custo-
muPro -80 comprises a complete 8080A SD303 to SD308). Also available is the mer specification, and may be used over
microcomputer, a control and display eight -pin d.i.l. type SD6000 which con- 360 degrees. Argo Electronic Compo-
panel, an in- circuit emulator, a dual sists of two dual -gate devices in a single nents Limited, Stiron House, Electric
floppy -disc system and a software encapsulation. It is intended for use in Avenue, Westcliff-on -Sea, Essex, SSO.
package. The software package in- varactor and conventional tuners for WW 312
cludes a multi -purpose real -time v.h.f. f.m. circuits. One device is cha-
executive and a high -level relocatable racterised as a mixer, and the other as a
output assembler, having a number of r.f. amplifier. Mullard Ltd, Mullard
sub -routines with Algol -type state- House, Torrington Place, London
ments such as 'if', 'then begin', ènd' and WC1E 7HD.
Crystal oscillators
'else begin'. This package also includes a WW 310 A high -power v.h.f. crystal oscillator,
disc operating system and a text editor. the model CO -284W, provides a stable
User programmes can be operated in a fixed -frequency output of 1W ( + 30dBm
time -share mode. The control and dis- into 5O 2) at any frequency from 5 to
play panel enables memory or register 300MHz, and 0.5W ( + 27dBm into 5052)
contents to be examined or changed, High -current r.f. in the range 300 to 500MHz. The
break points to be set and the last 64 inductors standard stability is ± 0.0025% from 0 to
70 °C, with optional stabilities of
instructions to be executed and traced. Two encapsulated r.f. inductors, intro-
All of the functions are provided for ±0.0003% from 0 to 50 °C, or -55 to
duced by Plessey Windings, are 125 °C. Although the oscillator is factory
without the use of any of the system designed to carry higher- than -normal
memory locations, such that all the 64K set to within 10p.p.m. of the specified
direct currents without degrading the frequency, adjustment to within 1p.p.m.
memory locations, 255 i/o ports and inductance value.Type 11207, which has
interrupt lines are available to the user. is available as an option. For pha-
an inductance range from 50µH to 10mH
Microsystem Services, Duke Street, se- locking applications, electronic
and a typical Q- factor greater than 100,
High Wycombe, Bucks. measures only 7mm in height and 19mm tuning (v.c.x.o.) is also optional. Other
WW S38 models in this v.h.f. family are available
in diameter. Its superimposed d.c. value
(the direct current which will cause the with lower -level sinewave (5 to
500MHz) or e.c.l.- compatible (5 to
inductance to reduce to 95% of the zero 200MHz) outputs. Lyons Instruments
d.c. value) is from 85mA to 1.2A, Limited, Hoddesdon, Herts.
TV aerial isolators depending upon the inductance value.
WW 313
Three aerial- isolation assemblies, types Type 11206, measuring only 61mm in-
L1910, L1911 and L2114, have been height and 14.5mm in diameter, has an
designed for use in the 7552 coaxial inductance range from 1mH to 100mH,
inputs of television receivers. The Q- factors from 75 to 200, and its super-
assemblies accept both 9.5 and 9mm imposed d.c. ranges from 7 to 60mA.
diameter plugs and are suitable for v.h.f. Plessey Windings, The Plessey Com-
and u.h.f. receivers. Type L1910 has a pany Ltd, Ilford, Essex.
single input and single output, type WW 311
L1911 has a single input into a diplexer
board giving two outputs, one v.h.f. and
one u.h.f., and type L2114 has a single
input and output but includes a built-in
high -pass filter. Radio interference im-
Locking dials
Two precision locking dials, types LK25
munity in the frequency band from 470 and LK50, have been made by Argo
to 775MHz is greater than 25dB, and Electronic Components Limited. The
from 775 to 860MHz is greater than LK25 is a miniature dial (measuring 22
20dB. Signal attenuation figures at x 25mm) having a photoanodized face
10MHz range from 0.5dB for the L1910 with graduations of 0 -10 over an arc of
to 25dB for the L2114. The assemblies 270 degrees and 0 -100 over an arc of 300
are accepted by many national safety degrees. The LK50, which incorporates
authorities in Europe, Scandinavia and a dial measuring approximately 2in WW 309
South Africa. Belling & Lee Ltd, Great
Cambridge Road, Enfield Middlesex.
WW 309
D.m.o.s. f.e.ts
A range of d.m.o.s. f.e.ts, available from
Mullard, is comprised of silicon -
insulation gate f.e.ts of n- channel en-
hancement mode. The devices are man-
ufactured by a double- diffused process
which gives them frequency perfor-
mances up to 2GHz. Characteristics
claimed include high gains, low noise
levels, good linearites, low intermodu-
lation distortion, and low feedback ca-
pacitances. Types available include TO-
72 devices for general purpose r.f. am-
plifiers up to u.h.f. (types SD200 to WW 308
89
Push -fit terminals 9.7mm (max. height) by 4mm diameter. Tweezer pliers
It is available in maximum values from
Push -fit terminals in the Terminette 100µ to 1004., with the lowest adjust- Stirex k -40 tweezer-pliers are moulded
range include both stand -off and able values being about 25% of the in glass -filled propylene and have
lead-through types which are supplied quoted values. Power ratings are adjustable locks and self- opening
in matched sets of pins and p.t.f.e. 370mW at 40 °C, tolerances are ±30%, handles. The locking device can be
insulators. The insulators are supplied and the temperature coefficient of res- moved up or down the handles so that
in a variety of colours and are istance values vary from 1 x 10 -3 per the jaws can grip and hold objects up to
chamfered on the lower edge to enable degree Kelvin, for up to Ike, to 2.5 x 7mm in diameter. They may also be
an easy push -fit into a prepared hole. used without the locks. The pliers,
10 -3 per degree Kelvin for up to 100kS2.
Subsequent insertion of a pin will Lemo (U.K.) Ltd, 6 South Street, which have finely serrated jaws with tip
rigidly lock an insulator into a chassis. Worthing, W. Sussex BN11 3AE. widths of 4mm, are 165mm long overall.
Terminals are available for chassis hole WW 317
They are non -hygroscopic, non- magne-
sizes from 0.062 to 0.156in and in metric tic, resistant to most acids, and they
sizes. All types meet the requirements of weigh only 14g. Tele- Production Tools
DEF5334B and some of these have Limited, Stiron House, Electric Avenue,
NATO references and can be released to Westcliff-on -Sea, Essex SSO 9NW.
MOD05 -29. H & T Components Limited, WW 319
Crowdy's Hill Estate, Kembery Street, Temperature- operated
Swindon, Wiltshire. switch
WW 314
A temperature -operated switch, from High- current relays
Lee Green Precision Industries Ltd,
operates in temperature ranges be- Relays in the Ideco range have up to
tween 50 and 80 °C. The Thermotrigger, four change -over contacts and are
DMM kit as it is called, is made from vanadium available in ratings up to 10A. Most of
The Model 2000 easy -to -build kit pentoxide, the resistance of which the relays are plug -in types having five,
assembles into a bench /portable 31/2- changes abruptly from a high value at a eight or eleven -pin bases.
digit multimeter having an accuracy, low temperature to a low value at a high Contact materials include gold- plated
when correctly calibrated, of 0.1 %± 1 temperature. Temperature coefficient pure silver, silver -cadmium oxide or
digit, and an input impedance of 10MS2. of resistance changes are -5% in the silver -palladium. The springs are
It has five functions, giving 28 ranges, pre- transition region, -8% in the tran- phosphor bronze, with mechanical lives
and is provided with 100% overrange and sition region, and -20% in the post- of about 50 million operations, and coil
overload protection. The alternating - transition region. Lee Green Precision voltages range from 6 to 110V direct or 6
and direct -current and resistance Industries Ltd, Grotes Place, Black- to 240V alternating. A. B. Relays Ltd,
functions each have six ranges, enabl- heath, London SE3 ORA. Orgreave Crescent, Sheffield S13 9NQ.
ing resistance measurements from 10 to WW 318 WW 320
20M12 and current measurements from
100nA to 2A to be made. The direct- and
alternating -voltage functions each have
5 ranges providing voltage measure-
ments from 1001iV to 1kV. Overrange
load indication, polarity and zeroing are
all automatic. Price is less than £70
including tax. Sabtronics (UK) Ltd, 50
Galton Road, Westcliff -on -Sea, Essex.
WW 315
Silicon rectifiers
Silicon -controlled rectifiers in the
MCR100 series, from Motorola, are sen-
sitive to gate- trigger currents up to a
maximum of 2001.1.A. These devices,
which will pass a forward r.m.s. current
of up to 800mA, are supplied in peak
reverse- and forward -blocking -voltage
ratings from 100 to 600V in 100V steps.
The reverse- and forward-blocking cur-
rents are no more than 10011A at 125 °C
and the maximum holding current is
only 5mA. Motorola Ltd. Semiconduc-
tor Products Division, York House,
Empire Way, Wembley, Middx HA9
OPR.
WW 316
Miniature trimming
resistor
A high- resolution ten -turn trimming
resistor, from Lemo (UK) Ltd, measures WW 317
4iÌ
Table talk ratio of the gain of an amplifier at 1kHz

to its gain at 20kHz may be 3dB and, if
While desultorily casting around for
Sidebands something revolutionary to invent dur-
ing the afternoon, my colleague froze,
the peas from his knife rolling in a
you work it out, you can see that this
can mean either voltage or power
assuming that the output impedance is
steady stream across the table, un- still the same. It does mean that the
unheeded. "Why not ?" he said, as our power output is halved and the voltage
by mixer ravioli and chips grew cold, "Why not

design a computer graphics thing for
the telly ?" We stared at him, as he
output is 1/ V2 that at 1kHz, but this is
-3dB in each case.
Perhaps I can now stop the argument
caught the peas with his fork, tempo- that started twenty years ago and refer
rarily at a loss for words, and then we all people to this piece in the future. "
started talking at once. "But," . . .
"Whatdya mean ... ?" ... "You can't ..."

... and similar meaningful human com-
munication. Would you care to
As the last chip disappeared and re- phrase that?
chocolate sponge spoons were wearily Far too headstrong, that's the basic
taken up, we had decided that to do the
job properly you would need a main- problem with colonials, particularly
with those in America. Give them their
M.1.s.- Mine's lots safer frame computer about the size of our
head and heaven only knows what
As Arnold Postlethwaite once said, "It's office, and our management people are
they'll get up to. I dare say that, after a
-
not t'fall as 'urts thee, lad it's t'sudden
stop at t'bottom." Arnold was speaking
a bit funny about that sort of thing. But
the idea was a good one. For example, little time to reflect on the working of
this Declaration of Independence thing,
with difficulty at the time, having just you could rearrange all the furniture
and view it from different angles, in they're already beginning to regret the
fallen downstairs, hitting every tread on whole nasty business. We've been good
the way down and was, one felt, hardly
in a position to come on with the
perspective. That cabinet for all the hi-
fi equipment can be seen from all
to them - some would say we've been
too generous by half. They've come
homespun philosophy. viewpoints and you may then see that it
would completely block Grandpa's view over here and we've been so glad to see
But a little philosophy, homespun or them back that we've let them make
not, would seem to be appropriate to of the tv when the turntable lid was up.
their motor -cars here and pretended to
those deliberating on the microwave Exhibition designers would find it help- marvel at their talking pictures and no
landing systems of the future -
tronic assistance in avoiding "t'sudden
elec-
ful and architects could completely
remodel Bruddersfax town hall or the one's ever said an unkind word. Well,
not many, anyhow.
stop at t'bottom." Amid clamorous pro- Humber bridge without spending a
penny on concrete until it looked about They're good chaps, taken as a whole,
testations of thinking only of the good although perhaps a little slow on the
of passengers, all the parties interested right.
Not that it's a new idea, of course but, uptake when they're wanted, but they
in the final choice of British, American have had this attitude of late that has
or German systems are intent on mak- using a microcomputer and a domestic
tv as display unit, it could be a lot more denoted a certain, well, greediness.
ing sure that they finish up on the gravy They have turned up here and bought
train, morally as well as financially (I useful than playing ludo. Personally, I
never believed all that about NAAFI things. Things like England, for in-
use the word 'morally' in the sense of
tea, but I'm beginning to wonder about stance. And it's got to stop - they'll be
'moral victory' and in no other manner). wanting to take Yorkshire back to San
Whichever system is adopted by ICAO, our canteen's ravioli.
Francisco next and reassemble it stone
the manufacturers who 'lose' stand to by stone.
make very nearly the same profit as As a warning not to be so selfish,
they would if their own system were then, several British companies have
chosen, since those who propose the Watt voltage? already decided that the best and wisest
Doppler method can make scanning Many years ago in the dear, dead days way to deal with these youthful high
equipment equally well, and vice versa. of my youth and long before I learned spirits is to do the same sort of thing
So, it appears that the choice of a not to argue with 'experts', I had to back to them. Racal, for example, has
system is being held up for nebulous show one of these experts who was also taken over not only Milgo, but Dana
reasons of national pride, rather than an M.P. one of the new signal Electronics as well. I expect they'll give
for commercial and technical consider- generators made by the company for
ations - Doppler and scanning -beam
both seem to work well in most situat-
which I worked. Its attenuator was
calibrated in decibels relative to 1N V
them back in a little while, but it's the
example that's important. EMI has had
companies over there for some time
ions. Computers don't seem to be able to across 500 and, because he felt that he now and lots of our firms have colonial
come up with a clear -cut choice, parti- had to say something intelligent, the outposts. Goodness knows how they
cularly when told that airports have chap said "Ah, but are they voltage or manage it, what with Indians and the
suddenly sprouted imaginary buildings, power decibels ?" Well, that took me weather, but they all come from good,
and it seems that aircraft have got to go aback a little, but I came back, quick as pioneering stock.
and actually land at various 'trou- a flash, and said that it didn't matter It's all very well to be independent -
blesome' airports and find out the hard because the calibration was the same all young people need to break away
way. Let's hope they get on with it and for voltage or power. The ensuing ar- once in a while - but freedom has to be
reach a decision soon; one based on the gument, which was thickly be- spattered used properly. Let us hope that they
facts and not political manoeuvrings, as with expressions to do with going back have learnt their lesson now. After all,
has happened so often before. Let us to school and with the possession of we've done our best to keep them out of
also hope that, when automatic landing infinite Z between the ears did not reach trouble. Geordie George from up in
is eventually a common procedure, the an amicable conclusion, but I was saved Washington all the way down to young
reliability of the equipment is not open from the Star Chamber by the fact that Robert (Hope, that is) have actually
to question. The alternatives of landing someone's power supply exploded and gone there and kept an eye on them and
on the runway or twenty feet under it diverted his attention. still they keep saying they are indepen-
must not hang on the life expectancy of The fact is, of course, that so long as dent now. They even managed to con-
a 100kS1 resistor or the cleanliness of a the impedances do not change, decibels vince poor old George. Well, they can't
plug and socket. can be either voltage or power. The say they weren't warned.
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I PRE -AMPLIFIER CP -P1
A fully encapsulated stereo pre -amplifier /tone control module incorporating four separate amplifiers and
stabiliser circuit which may also be used to power the CP -fß1. Equalisation networks associated with
il EQUALIZATION a
the low noise input stages may be switched in for disc replay and provision is made for optimum cartridge
loading. The magnetic input noise level is >70db down on 3mV and distortion is <0.02 %. The 33db
overload margin is extended to >40db when used in conjunction with the CP-FG1. It only takes
TONE CONTROL connection to a few pots and switches and to a
-
18V supply to make a complete 'state of art'
AMPLIFIER pre -amplifier.
CPPI-
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CP-FG1
I VARIABLE Hi /Lo This fully encapsulated audio function module incorporates some unique features. Two stereo filters
('rumble' and 'hiss') are provided, each with its own slope control and choice of three cut-off frequencies.
FILTERS A stereo separation control allows variation of the apparent image width to suit listening conditions. This
1
can provide a degree of realism not possible from conventional systems. Signal to noise and distortion
1
performance is in line with that of the CP-P1.
I I STEREO IMAGE
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CONTROL CIRCUIT
iCPFGI'
C P -T M 1
A peak programme monitor circuit which. when used with a suitable meter movement, is capable of
capturing the peak- transient information in an audio signal and storing it long enough for it to he
PEAK PROGRAMME displayed by the meter movement and noted by the user. When used in any of the the Magnum
MONITOR Systems, it can ensure that the available signal to noise and distortion performance is realised
CP -DR1
This dynamic range controller has two main applications. Firstly it may be used to compensate for any
compression or peak limiting which may have been applied to radio broadcasts or commercial
FIXED OR VARIABLE gramophone recordings and thus restore lost realism.
COMPRESS /EXPAND Secondly, it may be used to make 'noise free' tape recordings as an additional 30-40db of dynamic range
can be encoded and recorded onto most cassette recorders and then decoded and recovered on replay.
2:1 1:2 The unit may also be used as a compressor for listening in high noise environments (the motor car?) or for
the preparation of 'constant volume' background music.
CP -LX1 and LX2

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CROSSOVER
r CP2 -15/20
Encapsulated into a generous heatsink are two 15/20 Watt r.m.s. amplifiers. By virtue of their
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1 5 -40W /CHANNEL channel with 8 Ohm speakers. Alternatively, both the amplifiers in a module may be used to drive a single
speaker, effectively doubling the power to 30 Watts r.m.s. with 15 Ohm speakers or 40 Watts into 8
POWER Ohms.
AMPLIFICATION These amplifiers operate in 'Class A' up to 3 -4 Watts before entering 'Class B' and hence give excellent
crossover performance. Protection is provided against overload and short circuit operation and
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CP -FG1. Audio Function Module £13.22 CP -MC1. Printed Circuit Board for CP -P1 and CP -TM1 (optional) and
CP -TM1. Peak Programme Monitor E8.60 controls £6.86
CP -DR1. Dynamic Range Controller /Tape Noise Eliminator .. £41.40 CP -MC2. Printed Circuit Board for CP -FG1 and CP -AR1 (optional) and
CP -LX1. Single Point Linear Phase Active Crossover Network . £9.73 controls £6.75
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0.30 138 164 0.57 BD135 0.37 2N2222A 0.25 2N3565 2N3794
CA3090 4.00 LM1800 1.78 S5765825 1.40 TBA700 1.62 24 pm 0.35 0.20 0.20 255129 0.20 ACY22 0.60
CA3130 0.98 LM1808 1.82 SN76533N 1.20 1847000 1.81 28 on 13E195 0.15 2N2368 0.25 2N3566 0.20 2N3819 0.36 255192 0.75 ACY30
0.45 BFX84 0.34 2N2369 0.25 2N3567 0.80
LM307A 0.67 LM1828 1.75 SN765445 1.44 TBA7020 2.30 40 pin 0.55 RAMS 0.20 2538544 0.25 2N5222 0.18 AF106 0.55
1M3079 0.40 LM3307N 0.85 SN76545N 1.65 TBA750 1.98 TRIACS MM2101-2N BF Y51 0.25 2N2646 0.75 253571 3.70 2538564 0.25 2N5245 0.34 AF109
3.00 252905 0.37 0.75
LM304 2.45 LM3302N 0.85 SN76546N 1.44 TBA7500 2.07 Plashc MM2102.2N 2.10
135965 0.40 253572 3.50 2538594 0.21 255447 0.15 AF115 0.65
LM3075 0.65 LM34015 0.70 55765505 0.35 .TBA800 1.25 400V 6A 0.70 MM2111.2N 3.00 25697 0.30 2N2906 0.28 2N3638 0.16 2N3905 0.22 2N5449 0.19
LM3085 0.85 LM3900 0.75 55765525 0.52 TBA810 1.25 400V 8A 0.75 MM2112-25 3.00
LM309K 1.85 LM3905 1.60 557657014 1.65 TBA820 1.25 400V 1240.85 MM740920D 12.67
LM3176 3.00 SPECIALIST CONSUMER
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TRANSISTORS NEWNES TECHNICAL BOOKS
- FULLY
PANEL Type Price Type Aise Type
BRAND NEW
Price Type
GUARANTEED
Price Type Price Type Price
No. 229 BEGINNERS No. 238 TRANSISTOR
EOM) BC109C E0.08 8C550 'E0.14 BF52 E0.14 TIP2955 E0.96 293708 '(0.07
METERS AC127
AC128
AC128K
£0.15 BC147 'E0.10
£0.15 BC148 'E0.10
£0.28 BC149 'E0.10
BC556
BC557
BC558
'E0.14 BIP19
'(0.13 BIP20
'60.12 BIP19/
£0.38
£0.38
TIP3055
TIS43
TIS90
E0.76 2N3708A '10.07
E0.24 293709 'E0.07
'E0.22 293710 '10.07
GUIDE TO
ELECTRONICS
POCKET BOOK
PRICE £3.90t
AC132 E0.20 BC1S7 'E0.10 BC559 '£0.14. 20MP £0.50 UT46 'E0.22 293711 '10.07 PRICE £2.251
4" RANGE AC134 E0.20 BC158 '0.10 B0115 £0.50 BRY39 £0.45 Z1
07 'E0.10 293819 £0.20 No. 225
Size 41/4" x 31/4" x 11/4" AC137 £0.20 BC159 '£0.10 BD116 £0.50 81.11o5 E1.70 ZTXTX108 '60.10 293820 10.40 No. 230 BEGINNERS 110 THYRISTOR
Value No Price AC141 E0.22 BCt67 '(0.12 80121 E0.85 BU105/02 £1.515 ZTX 109 E0.10 293821 £0.80 GUIDE TO
AC141K £0.30 BC168 'E0.12 80123 E0.55 BU204 E1.70 ZTX300 '10.12 2N3823 £0.60 PROJECTS USING
0 -50UA 1302 £5.75 AC142 E0.20 BC169 'E0.12 B0124 ZTX500 'E0.14 294058 'E0.12 TELEVISION
0 -100UÁ 1303
£0.70 BU205 E1.70 SCRS & TRIACS
£5.75 AC176 E0.18 8C169C'E0.12 BD131 £0.35 BU208 E2.40 2N1613 E0.20 294059 '10.14 PRICE £2.25t PRICE £2.50t
0 -500ÚA 1304 £5.75 AC176K £0.28 BC170 'E0.10 80132 £0.40 BU208/02 £2.96 2N1711 £0.20 294060 'E0.14
0 -1 MA 1305 15.75 AC178 £0.25 BC171 '(0.10 B0131 E1222 £0.38 2N1889 £0.46 294061 'E0.12 No. 231 BEGINNERS
0-50V 1306 AC179 £0.25 BC172 'E0.10 132 MP £0.55 MJE2955 £0.95 291890 £0.45 2N4062 '10.12 No. 227
£5.75 £0.30 2N4284 'E0.18 GUIDE TO
AC180 £0.20 BC173 'E0.12 BD133 £0.50 MJE3055 £0.80 2N1B93
TRANSISTORS 110 COS /MOS
AC180K £0.28 8C177 £0.18 80135 £0.40 MJE3440 £0.52 292147 £0.75 2N4285 '10.18
2" RANGE AC181 E0.20 BC178 E0.18 BD136 £0.40 MP8113 £0.52 292148
292160
£0.70 294286
E0.80 2N4287
'10.18
'10.18
PRICE £2.25t DIGITAL IC PROJECTS
FOR THE HOME
Size 21/e" x 11/4" x 11/2" AC181K £0.28 BC179 E0.18 8D137 E0.42 MPF102 £0.35
Value AC187 E0.18 BC180 £0.25 BD138 £0.45 MPF104 £0.35 292192 £0.35 2N4288 '10.15 No. 233 BEGINNERS CONSTRUCTOR
No. Price AC187K E0.20 BC181 'E0.25 BD139 £0.84 MPF105 E0.38 292193 E0.35 2N4289 'EO.18
0-50UA 1307 £4.50 AC188 £0.18 BC182L'E0.70 BD140 £0.80 MPSA05 '0.30 2N2194 £0.38 294290 '10.78 GUIDE TO PRICE £2.25f
0 -1000A 1308 £4.50 AC188K £0.20 8C183 'E0.10 BD139/ MPSA06 '0.30 2N2217 £0.22 2N4291 '10.15 RADIO
0-500ÚA 1309 £4.50 AD140 £0.80 BC183L'E0.10 140 MP £1.20 MPSA55 'E0.25 2N2218 E0.22 2N4292 '10.18 PRICE £2.25t No. 226
0-1 MA 1310 £4.50 AD142 E0.85 BC184 'E0.10 BD155 £0.80 MPSA56 'E0.28 2N2218A £0.20 2N4293 '£0.18
0-50V 1311 AD143 £0.75 BC1841'E0.10 80175 E0.80 0C22 E1.50 2N2219 £0.20 2N4921 10.55 No 234 BEGINNERS 110 OPERATIONAL
£4.50 AD149 E0.50 8C207 'E0.11 BD176 £0.50 2N2219A £0.24 294923 '10.85
0C23 £1.50
GUIDE TO AMPLIFIER PROJECTS
AD161 £0.42 BC208 'E0.11 130177 E0.88 0C24 £1.36 2N2904 £0.18 295135 '10.10
MR2P TYPE AD162 E0.42 BC209 'E0.12 B0178 £0.58 0C25 £0.80 2N2904Á £0.21 2N5136 '10.70 COLOUR TELEVISION FOR THE HOME
40161 BC212 'E0.11 B0179 £0.75 0C26 £0.80 292905 E0.111 295138 '10.10 CONSTRUCTOR
Size 42x42x30mm 162MP £0.55 BC212L 'E0.11 BD201 / 2N 2905Á £0.21 295194 £0.56 PRICE £2.25t
Value No Price AF114 E0.21 BC213 'E0.11 202 MP 61.70
0C28 £0.80
2N2906 E0.18 295245 £0.40 PRICE £2.507
0 -50UA 1313 £4.95 AF115 £0.21 8C2131_ 'E0.11 BD203 £0.80
0C29 £0.96 2N2906Á E0.19 295294 £0.34 No. 235 ELECTRONIC
0-1MA 1315 AF116 E0.21 BC214 BD204 £0.80 0035 10.90 2N2907 £0.20 295296 10.56 DIAGRAMS No. 242
£4.95 AF117
'E0.12
BC214L'£0.12 0036 2N2907Á E0.22 295457 £0.32
£0.21 BD203 10.90
PRICEE1.80t ELECTRONICS
AF118 E0.40 8C237 'E0.18 204 MP E1.70 0070 £0.24 2N29606 '£0.05 295458 £0.32
EDGEWISE AF124 £0.30 8C238 '60.18 BDY20 £0.80 0071 £0.15 2N2926Y '60.08 2N5459 £0.38 No 236 ELECTRONIC POCKET BOOK
Size 31/2" it Ye" n 21/4"
1 AF125 £0.30 BC251 '£0.15 BDX77 E0.90 TIC44 2N29260 'E0.08 2N5551 '10.36 PR ICE £3.751"
Cut out 21/4" x 11/4" AF126 £0.30 BC251A'E0.18 8E457 E0.37 TIC45 '10.36 2929268 'E0.08 296027 £0.39 COMPONENTS
Value No. Price AF127 E0.32 BC301 E0.28 13F458 £0.37 TIP29A £0.44 29292613 'E0.08 2N6121 10.70 PRICE E1 .807
AF139 E0.68 BC302 £0.28 8F459 E0.38 TIP290 £0.52 2N3053 £0.18 2N6122 10.70 No. 239
0 -1MA 1316 £3.80 AF180 £0.40 BC303 £0.25 'E0.30 TIP29C £0.62 29 3054 E0.40 40311 £0.35 No. 237 PRINTED
0 -5000A 1317 E3.80
13F594
£0.40 40313 10.85
30 PHOTOELECTRIC
AF181 E0.80 BC304 E0.38 8E596 '60.25 TIP30A 10.60 2N3055 CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY CIRCUITS & SYSTEMS
AF186 £0.55 BC327 '£0.18 8E839 E0.26 TIP30B £00
.6 2N3414 'E0.16 40316 £0.95
MINIATURE AF239 E0.50 BC328 '(0.16 BFR40 '(0.25 TIP30C £0.70 2N3415 '10.18 40317 10.40 PRICE E1 .80t PRICE £1.80t
AL102 E7.20 BC337 'E0.16 BFR79 'E0.25 TIP31A £0.46 2N3416 'E0.25 40326 £0.40
BALANCE /TUNING AL103 E1.20 9C338 'E0.15 BFR80 'E0.28 TIP318 .47 2N3417 'E0.25 40327 £0.45
AU104 E1.18 BC440 £0.30 BFX29 £0.25 TIP31C E0£0.4í 293614 E0.86 40346 £0.45
METER
Size 23x22x26mm
AU110
AU113
BC107A
E1.00 BC441
£1.00 BC460
£0.08 8C461
£0.30
£0.38
£0.38
BFX30
BFX84
BFX85
E0.30
£0.23
£0.24
TIP32A
TIP32B
TIP32C
E0.49 2N3615
10.51 293616
£0.53 293646
E0.90 40347
£0.90 40348
'E0.09 40360
£0.85
£0.80
£0.36
THYRI STORS
Sensitivity
100 /0/ 100MA BC107B E0.09-BC477 E0.20 9FX86 £0.25 TIP41A £0.40 2N3702 'E0.08 40361 10.38 600me TO 18 Cese Amp
'E0.08 40362 10.35 7 TO 48 Cese
BC107C E0.05 BC478 E0.20 8FX87 E0.22 TIP41B £0.61 2N3703 Volts No Price Volts No Price
No Price 8C108A £0.08 BC479 E0.20 BFX88 E0.22 TIP41C £0.63 2N3704 'E0.07 40406 10.46
1318 'E0.07 40407
10 THY600 /10 £0.13 50 THY7A /50 £0.48
£1.95 BC108B £0.08 BC547 '£0.12 BFX90 '(0.55 TIP42A 10.53 293705 £0.35 20 THY600 /20 100 THY7A /100
'E0.08 40408 £0.13 £0.51
BC108C £0.08 BC548 'E0.12 BFV50 £0.14 TIP42B 10.55 293706 £0.52 30 THY600 /30 £0.19 200 THY7A /200 £0.57
BC109B £0.08 BC549 '(0.12 BFY51 £0.14 TIP42C £0.57 293707 'E0.08 40409 £0.76
BALANCE /TUNING 50 THY600 /50
100 THY600 /100
E0.22 400 THY7A /400 £0.62
Size 45x22x34mm £0.25 600 THY7A /600 £0.78
Sensitivity
100 /0/1000A
FULL
74 SERIES TTL ICs
SPECIFICATION
200 THY600 /200
400 THY600 /400
£0.38
£0.45
800 THV7A /800 £0.92
No Price GUARANTEED ALL FAMOUS MANUFACTURERS

1319 (2.00 Type Price 'Type Prie 'Type Price Typa Price Type Price Type Price 10 Amp TO 48 Caw
7400 £0.14 7409 £0.15 7441 £0.84 7482 £0.85 7493 £0.40 74122 10.50 Volts No Price
7401 £0.14 7410 E0.14 7442 E0.84 7483 £0.95 7494 £0.88 74123 E0.70 1 amp TO 5 Came 50 THY10A /50 £0.51
MIN. LEVEL METER 7402 £0.15 7411 £0.23 7445 £0.90 7484 E0.95 7495 £0.75 74141 £0.80 Volts No Price 100 THY10A /100 £0.57
Size 23x22x26mm 7403 £0.15 7412 E0.23 7446 E0.80 7485 E1.20 7496 £0.80 74154 E1.30 50 THY1A750 £0.28 200 THY10A /200 £0.82
Sensitivity 2000A /404 E0.15 7413 £0.27 7447 £0.78 7486 E0.30 74100 E1.00 74180 E1.10 100 THY1A /200 £0.27 400 THY10A /400 £0.71
7405 10.15 7414 10.58 7448 £0.80 7489 E2.50 74110 £0.50 74181 E2.00 200 THY1A /200 £0.28 600 THY10A/600 £0.99
No Price 7406 £0.30 7416 7490 74118 74190 400 THY1A /400 £0.36 800 THY10A /800
1320 £0.28 7475 £0.48 £0.42 £0.90 E1.50 E1.22
£1.95 7407 E0.30 7417 £0.28 7480 £0.50 7491 £0.75 74119 E1.65 74198 12.00 600 THY1A /600 10.45
7408 £0.16 7440 E0.15 7481 £0.56 7492 £0.45 74121 £0.30 74199 E1.90 800 THY1A/800 10.58
Vu METER 16 Amp TO 48 Cesa
Size 40x40x29mm
Sensitivity 130UA
Type Price Type Price
CMOS ICs
Type Price Type Price Type Prie Typo Price
Volts No
50 THV16A /50
Price
£0.54
No Price 3 amp TO 66 Case 100 THY16A /100 £0.58
CD4000 £0.20 CD4012 £0.20 CD4022 £0.95 CD4031 £2.20 CD4046 E1.30 CD4071 £0.23 200 THY16A /200 £0.62
1321 12.00 CD4001 £0.20 CD4013 E0.52 CD4023 E0.20 CD4035 £1.80 CD4047 E1.10 CD4072 £0.23 Volts No Price
50 THY3A /50 10.25 400 THY16A /400 £0.77
CD4022 £0.20 CD4015 E0.98 CD4024 £0.80 CD4037 E0.96 CD4049 £0.56 CD4081 E0.22 600 THY16A/600 10.90
£0.55 C04025 E0.20 CD4040 CD4082 £0.23 100 THY3A /100 £0.27
CD4006 CD4016 E0.52 £0.95 CD4050 £0.56 800 THY16A /800 E1.39
CD4007 £0.20 CD4017 E0.98 CD4026 E1.65 CD4041 £0.62 CD4054 £1.20 4510 £1.30 200 THY3A /200 £0.33 .
CD4008 £0.95 CD4018 E1.00 CD4027 E0.50 CD4042 £0.52 CD4055 E1.85 4511 £1.80 400 THY3A /400 10.42
CD4009 £0.58 CD4019 E0.55 CD4028 E0.98 CD4043 £0.98 CD4056 £1.35 4516 [1.40 600 THY3A /600 £050
800 THY3A /800 10.65
MINI- CD4010
CD4011
£0.58
£0.20
CD4020
C04021
E1.10
E0.98
CD4029
CD4030
E1.15
£0.55
CD4044 £0.94
CD4045 E1.40
CD4069 £0.40
C04070 E0.40
4518 £1.25
4520 E1.25 30 Amp
Volts No
TO 94 Case
Price
MULTI- LINEAR ICs Amp TO 66 Case
50 THY30A /50
100 THY30A /100
200 THY30A /200
£1.18
£1.43
E1.63
5
METER Type
CA3011
Prie
E1.05
Type
1M304
Price
E2.00
Type
MC1352P E1.40
Price Type
72702
Price
£0.46
Type
748P E0.35
Price Volts No
50 THY5A/50
Price
£0.36
400 THY30A /400
600 THY30A /600
£1.79
£3.50
Size 60x24x9Omm 5N760139 E1.40 100 THY5A /100
CA3014 E1.70 LM308 E1.40 MC1456G £1.40 uA703A £0.25 C0.48
Sensitivity 1000 Ohms /V CA3018 E0.75 LM309K £1.50 MC1466L E4.50 uA709C E0.25 SN76023N £1.40 200 THY5A /200 £0.50
AC VOLTS 0 -10, 50. 250. CA3020 E1.70 LM320-5v E1.85 MC1469R £2.95 72709 E0.48 SN76110 E1.50 400 THY5A 400 £0.57
1000 CA3028 E1.02 LM320.12vE1.85 MC1496G £0.98 709P E0.25 55476115 E1.90 600 THY5A /600 £0.69 Nu Price
DC VOLTS 0 -10. 50, 250. CA3035 £1.70 LM320.15v E1.85 NE536 £3.50 uA710C £0.40 SN76660 £0.75 800 THY5A /800 10.81 BT101,500R 10.00
1000 CA3036 E1.35 LM320-24v E1.85 NE515A E3.50 72710 E0.30 SL414A E1.95 BT102,500R £0.80
CA3042 E1.50 LM380-14PE0.98 NE540 E1.50 uA711C £0.32 TAA550B £0.35 BT106 E1.25
'DC CURRENT 0- 1.100mA CA3043 LM381 NE550 E0.95 72711 (0.32 TAA621A E2.00 BT107 10.93
E1.85 E1.55
Resistance 0 -150K ohms CA3046 E0.80 LM3900N E0.65 NE550D NLA uA723C £0.60 TAA661A £1.85 BT108 10.98
No Price CA3052 E1.80 MC724P E1.50 NE555 £0.40 72723 £0.60 TAD100 E1.30 5Amp TO 220 Case 2N3228 CO 70
1322 £5.95 CA3054 £1.35 MC1303L E1.48 NE556 £0.82 uA741C E0.24 TBA5400 E2.20 Volts No Price 293535 1070
CA3075 E1.50 MC1304P E2.95 NE561 £3.95 72741 E0.24 TBA64113 E2.25 400 THY5A /400P £0 57 BTX30,50L £033
CA3081 E1.60 MC1310P E1.80 NE5628 £3.95 741P £0.24 TBA800 £0.80 600 THY5A /600P £0.69 BTX30 400L £0.46
CA3089 E2.10 MC1312PO E1.90 NE565A E1.75 uA747C E0.70 TBA810S E1.05 800 THY5A /800P £0.81 C106:4 £0.60
CA3090 £416 MC1330P £1.20 NE566 £1.70 72747 (0.79 T8A820 E0.90
CA3123 £1.90 MC1350 E1.20 NE567 E2.50 uA748 E0.35 TBA9200 E3.40
HIGH SENSITIVITY LM301 £0.39 MC1351P E1.20 A702C [0.45 72748 £0.35 TCA270S E3.90
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AT OPEN 9 to 5.30 MON. /SAT.
PUSH-BUTTON
MPA
111
STEREO
30
OUR PRICE ONLY
FM TUNER Enjoy the quality of a magnetic cartridge with
your existing ceramic equipment using the new
M.P.A. 30, a high quality pre-amplifier enabling
magnetic cartridges to be used where facilities
£2045 Fitted with Phase Lock-loop Decoder
* FET Input Stage
exist for the use of ceramic cartridges only
It is provided with a standard DIN
The 450 Tuner provides instant program selection at the touch * VARI-CAP diode tuning input socket for ease of connection.
of a button ensuring accurate tuning of 4 pre-selected stations, * Switched AFC Full instructions supplied.
any of which may be altered as often as you choose, by simply * Multi turn pre-sets
changing the settings of the pre-set controls. * LED Stereo Indicator
Used with your existing audio equipment or with the BI-KITS
Typical Specification:
STEREO 30 or the MK60 Kit etc. Alternatively the PS12 can'
be used if no suitable supply is available, together with the
Transformer T538.
SensitivityAt volts
Stereo separation 30db
VAT
The S450 is supplied fully built, tested and aligned. The unit is Supply required 20-30v at
easily installed using the simple instructions supplied 90 Ma max.
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PA100 121/2% Postage & Packing add
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£13.75/
STEREO 30
Frequency Response + 1c113 20Hz
A top quality stereo pre-amplifier 20KHz Sensitivity of inputs
and tone control unit. The six 1 Tape input 100mV into 100K ohms
2 Radio Tuner 100mV into
push-button selector switch pro- 100K ohms COMPLETE AUDI(
vides a choice of inputs together 3. Magnetic P U 3mV into
with two really effective filters for
high and low frequencies, plus tape
output.
P U
50K ohms
Input equalises to R AA curve with
1d13 from 20Hz to
1
Supply -- 20-35V at 20mA.

20KHz
NEW 7+7 WATTS
R.M.S.
MK. 60 AUDIO KIT: Comprising
2 x AL60's.
81-M80. 1
and knobs.
x
SPM80.
1 x
Dimensions
1
front panel 299mm

PA100. 1
Kit of parts to include

35mm
)r.,,
x 89mm
- --
x AL30A P & P 4bp
1
on/off switch, neon indicator, 10w R.M.S. AUDIO

stereo headphone sockets plus
instruction booklet. COMPLETE'
PRICE £35.00 plus 85p postage.
AMPLIFIER MODULE
The AL30A is a high quality audio amplifier module
£16.
The Stereo 30 comprises a complete stereo
TEAK 60 AUDIO KIT: replacing our AL20 & 30. The versatility of its design
makes it ideal for record players, tape recorders, stereo pre-amphfier. power amplifiers and power supply. This,
Comprising Teak veneered cabinet with only the addition of a transformer or overwind will
amps, cassette and cartridge players. A power supply is
size 163/4"x111/2x3,/,; other available comprising a PS produce a high quality audio unit suitable for use with a
together with a transformer
parts include aluminium chassis, T538, also for stereo, the pre-amp PA1 2 wide range of inputs i.e. high quality ceramic pick-up,
heatsink and front panel stereo tuner. stereo tape deck etc. Simple to install,
bracket plus back panel SPECIFICATION: capable of producing really first class results, this unit is
and appropriate sock, 4 Output Power low.' Simply 22 to 32 volts. supplied with full instructions, black front panel knobs, !!!!
R.M.S.
ect. KIT PRICE £13.25 main switch. fuse and fuse holder and universal
plus 85p Load Impedance 8 to Input Impedance 50K. mounting brackets enabling it to be installed in a record
postage. 6ahms. plinth, cabinets of your own construction or the cabinet
Sensitivity 90mv or Nil Total Harmonic Distortion available. Ideal for the beginner or the advanced
output. Loss than .5° [Typically constructor who requires Hi-Fi performance with a
.3.01. minimum of installation difficulty (can be installed in 30
Frequency Response Max. Heat Sink Temp mins). -
60Hz to 25KHx 2db. 80 C.
TRANSFORMER £3.25 plus 50p p & p
TEAK CASE £5.45 plus 70p p & p
ONLY £3.65 Dimensions 90 o 64 o 27mm
NEW PA12 Stereo
Pre-Amplifier corn-.
pletely redesigned
AL 60 * 25 Watts (RMS) P 1 for use

AL30A Amplifier
Modules. Features Maude on/off volume.
with
* Max Heat Sink temp 90C. Frequency response Balance, Bass and Treble controls. Complete_
20Hz to 100KHz * Distortion better than 0.1 at 1 KHz * Frequency Reonse 2014,20KHr with tape output.
Supply voltage 15-50v * Thermal Feedback * Latest (-3dB). Bass and Treble range,
Design Improvements * Load -
3,4,8, or 16 ohms *
Signal to noise ratio 80db * Overall size 63mm. 105mm.
12dB. Input lrnpedence 1 meg ohm.
Input Sensitivity 300mV. Supply
requirements 24V .5mA. Size 152mm
x 84mm x 33nun.
13mm.
Especially designed to a strict specification Only the
finest components have been used and the latest
solid-state circuitry incorporated in this powerful little
Power supply for AL30A,
amplifier which should satisfy the most critical A F
enthusiast £4.35 P512
Input voltage 5 -20v A C Output voltage 22-30v D.0
PA12, SA450, etc.
OUR PRICE
Stabilised Power Supply Type SPM80 1
Output current 800 mA Max. Size 60mm x 43mm x 26mm E1.30

SPM80 especially designed to power 2 of the AL60 Amplifiers,
is Transformer 1538 £3.20
up to 15 watts (R.M.S.) per channel simultaneously. With the
addition of the Mains Transformer BMT80, the unit will provide
outputs of up to 1.5A at 35V. Size- 63mm. 105mm. 30mm. P.O. BOX 6
Incorporating short circuit protection. WARE
Transformer BMT80
£5.40. + 86p postage HERTS.
£3.1..5 SHOP 18 BALDOCK ST WARE, HERTS ,
AT OPEN 9 to 5.30 Mon./Sat.
g;s Wireless World, December 1977
THE DYNAMIC DUO
The C15/15 is a unique Power Amplifier providing Stereo 15 watts per channel or 30 watts Mono and can be used with any car
radio /tape unit. t is simply wired in series with the existing speaker leads and in conjunction with our speakers S 5 produces a system
I 1
of incredible performance.
A novel feature is that the amplifier is automatically switched on or off by sensing the power line of the radio /tape unit hence alleviating
the need for an on /off switch.
The amplifier is sealed into an integral heatsink and is terminated by screw connectors making installation a very easy process.
The S15 has been specially designed for car use and produces performance equal to domestic speakers yet retaining high power
handling and compact size.
C15/15 Data On S 1 5
15 Watts per channel into 40 6" Diameter
Distortion 0.2% at 1 KHz at 15 watts 51/4" Air Suspension
Frequency response 50Hz - 30KHz 2" Active Tweeter
Input Impedance 80 nominal 20oz Ceramic magnet
Input sensitivity 2 volts R.M.S. for 15 watts output 15 Watts R.M.S handling
Power line 10 - 18 volts 50 HZ - 5KHz frequency response
1
Open and Short circuit protection 40 Impedance

Thermal protection
Size 4 X 4 X inches
1
C15 /15 Price £17.74 + £2.21 VAT P & P free 5 1 5 Price per pair £1 7.74 + £2.21 VAT P & P free
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DIY SPEAKER KITS SPEC/ PORTABLE

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15 -WATT KIT IN CHASSIS FORM MONO
When you are looking for a good sneaker. why
not build your own from this kit.
:. - r ; "- TO PERSONAL DISCO
Its the unit which we supply r,',f'1 o s' 0 (n e 1041 SHOPPERS

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with the enclosures illustrated
below Size 13" 8- (approx.)
woofer (EMI),tweeter, and
20 x 20 WATT STEREO AMPLIFIER
Superb Viscount IV unit in teak- finished cabinet. Silver fascia with alimunium
See Below
1 with built -in pre -amplifiers
Here'S the big -value portable disco console from
RT -VC! It features a pair of BSR MP 60 type auto-
matching crossover components. rotary controls and pushbuttons, red mains indicator and stereo jack socket.
Function switch for mic. magnetic and crystal pick -ups, tape, tuner, and
'2990 return. single play professional series record decks.
Power handling capacity Plus all the controls and features you need to give
15 watts rms. 30 watts peak. auxiliary Rear panel features two mains outlets. DIN speaker and input P & P £2.50 fabulous disco performances. p &a( 6.50
sockets, plus fuse. 2U + 20 watts rms, 40 + 40 watts peak.
f1700 PER STEREO PAIR Simply connects into your
E6400
PbP1340 existing slave or external amplifier.
*FREE To cash or cheque personal shoppers
A 4 channel Stereo Adaptor to all buyers of the Visicount 20 x 20
45 WATT MONO DISCO AMP
EASY -TO -BUILD Amplifier at £2990 limited offer. Available separately at £395 [3500
WITH ENCLOSURE +[1.00p&p +p &p
Specially designed by RT -VC
SPECIAL DEDUCT10/ DEDUCT157. E2.50 far
for cost -conscious hi -fi
OFFER For example
Size approx roam
gun speaker system II or ill . .. n. 'r.. -. -n.-- 13F 51" 61"
111
-
enthusiasts, these kits Viscount Amphfler, on complete stereo systems using* Here's the mono unit you need to start off with.
incorporate two teak - MP601yDe turntable complete starred Products
simulate enclosures. two EMI13" Gives you a good solid 45 watts rms, 90 watts peak
8' (approx.)
.
ADD -ON STEREO CASSETTE TAPE DECK KIT

woofers, two tweeters and a pair of matching output. Big features include two disc inputs, both
Designed for the experienced D.I.Y. man. This kit comprises of for ceramic cartridges, tape input and microphone
crossovers. Easily constructed, using a few
a tape transport mechanism, ready built and tested record /replay
basic tools. Supplied complete with an input. Level mixing controls fitted with integral
electronics with twin V.U. meters and level control ready for push -pull switches. Independent bass and treble
easy -to- follow circuit diagram, and crossover
mating together with the mechanism. controls and master volume.
components. Input 15 watts rms.
- Mic. 0.85mV r 20K OHMS: /IIlI
30 watts peak, each unit. f28" Specifications Sensitivity
Din. 40mV
:
400K OHMS: Output - 300mV RMS per

70 Er 100
Cabinet size 20" 11" 93" PER STEREO PAIR
channel 1 KHz from 2K OHMS source: Cross Talk --30db:
WATT MONO
(approx.). + p & p f 5.50 Tape Counter -3 Digit - Resettable: Frequency Response -
DISCO AMP
1 j
Nó Size approx. y < z E ¡,,
40Hz- 8KHz±6db: Deck Motor -9 Volt DCwith
COMPACT' FOR TOP VALUE

electronic speed regulations: Key Functions -
E1995
1.7
Record. Rewind, Fast Forward, Play, Stop & Eject. p & p f2.50
1 14- 4' 10;"
Sloping facia,you can use the controls
without fuss or bother. Brushed alumimium fascia
How about this for incredible bookshelf value
Pair of Dynamic microphones £3.95 + E1.00 p & p. and rotary controls. Five smooth acting, vertically
from RT -VC! A pair of high efficiency. units Optional extras :
Mains transformer (2.50+ f1.00p &p. mounted slide controls - master volume. tape level,
for only f 7.50 - just what you need for low -
mic level, deck level, PLUS INTER -DECK FADER for
power amplifiers. These infinite baffle
STEREO CASSETTE record /replay fully built perfect graduated change from record deck No. 1 to
enclosures come to you ready mitred and e275
I
P.C. board incorporating 41.C.s. No. 2, or vice versa. Pre -fade level control (PFL)
professionally finished. Each cabinet measures GRUNDIG 51" tape 1800 ft. E120each. li f E
5 foT OO
lets YOU hear next disc before fading 70 watt DI
t
12" 9" 5" (approx.)
per PAIR STEREO 8 WATT SPEAKERS it in. VU meter monitors output level. 100 watt £65
deep, and is in wood stereo 8" bass units with 3§" approx. tweeters power handling '12" Output 100 watts RMS 200 watts peak. p fi p (4.00
simulate. Complete with Pair
eß 0 8 watts imptohms. Size t6j "',.11" 81" approx.
95 p
two 8" (approx.) speakers f850 `w
DQ v7
SLIMLINE REC0110 PLAYER PUNIS. asxeprs BSR Turntable
c000maR s" approx., l wan fia :: spaaLar r270
for max. power handling +p&p AM. FM. TUNER P.C.B. with Mullard L.P. 1186. 1185 1181 modules r950 BSR BD595 SERIES
of 7 watts. Sh P 1
f1. Bo Belt drive turntable unit.
£2.20 100e Multiturn Varicap tuning pots 6 for
Only HEAVY DUTY FIBRE GLASS COPPER CLAD BOARD
25- x I7" x yj ' Approx. per sheet only
6190 2 speed. semi automatic
operation
DECCA DC1000 Stereo Cassette Record deck P.C.e. complete with C295
SPEAKERS Two models - Duo Ilb, teak
switch oscillator coils and tape.heads and circuit diagrams.
E24B5
veneer, 12 watts rms, 24 watts peak, AM. FM. STEREO MULTIPLEX CAR RADIO /cassette player in £3600 +p&p£2.55
183 - 133" dash fixing Negative earth 5 watts output
I.C. Stereo 8 Track to Cassette adaptor convene, any track E1895

laptirox.). 8
player to cassette player.
PER PAIR
£34 PRACTICE GUITAR
+p &pf6.50 AMPLIFIER WITH
BSR TURNTABLES BSR automatic record
Duo Ill, 20 watts rms.
BSR MP60 TYPE player deck (Chassis form) BUILT -IN SPEAKER
40 watts peak,
Single play record player with cueing device and This budget practice
27 13" 11("(approx.)
(Chassis form) E1 5.95 stereo amplifier. has been
C52 PER PAIR ceramic specially designed for the
less cartridge.
pFt pf7.50 P a P £2.55 head. P & P £2.55 amateur. who requires a quality
Cartridges to suit above self- contained unit with all facilities. 2 inputs
TURNTABLE illus. diamond stylus, and 1
ACOS MAGNETIC
EASY TO BUILD Poplar BSR MP 60 de luxe plinth And 9 for mic or guitar. the 2nd for record player or
STEREO £4.95 + cassette deck, it also can be used for cine -sound
RECORD PLAYER KIT type, complete with cover. p & p
CERAMIC STEREO E1.95 amplification. 2 volume controls. for each input.
Ideally suited for the magnetic cartridge, Ready wired '4.50 1
constructor who requires also base and treble controls. Power output with
a complete stereo unit at
internal speaker. 10 watts RMS, with remote
30 x 30 WATT AMPLIFIER KIT speaker (not supplied) 20 watts E3250
a budget price, comprising
Specially designed by R T -VC for the
ready assembled stereo RMS. Size aoorox_ 1 7 9 1 1 , p b p t 3 00
experienced constructor, this kit comes
amp. module, Garrard auto /manual
complete in every detail. Same &
deck with cueing device, pre -cut and
facilities as Viscount IV amplifier.
finished cabinet work. Output 4 watts
per channel, phones socket and
ecord / replay socket p &
26
p f4.05
Chassis is ready punched, drilled and [2.50
formed Cabinet is finished in teak
veneer. Silver fascia and easy-to-
£2900 á r1 '; HOME 8 TRACK
CARTRIDGE PLAYER
Automatically switches Output
NOW AVAILABLE fully built and tested. 125 My
handle aluminium knobs:
CAR Output 30 + 30 watts rms. 60 +60 peak.
13500 p & [2.50 programmes monitored by indicators,
with manual override track selection. This unit will
RADIO match with the Unisound modules and is compatable
KIT DECCA 20 WATTS STEREO SPEAKER with the Viscount IV amplifier with Sim teak
Complete with speaker, baffle and fixing strip. This matching loudspeaker system is hand made,
cabinet. approx. 9' 8" 3' p & p E2.50£16.
- - .
I he Tourist IV for the experienced constructor

kit comprises of two B "diameter approx.
only. The Tourist IV has five push buttons,
base drive unit, with heavy die cast chassis
tour medium band and one for long wave band. PYE STEREO
laminated cones with rolled P.V.C. surrounds.
The tuning scale is illuminated and attractive
small aluminium control knobs are used for two 3; ' diameter approx. domed tweeters GRAM CHASSIS F'+-':, al._
manual tuning and volume control. The modern
style fascia has been designed to blend with
most car interiors and the finished radio will
comp with crossover networks
[4.00 p & p stereo parr
'2000 Complete with
circuit diagrams) _ _ '
4
slot into a standard car radio aperture.
Order giving your credit card number ONLY Complete ready to install -Wave bands LM, VHF
Size approx. 7" - 2" , 4;', 12 units pos or neg
earth (altered internally) p & p [1.50
Output 4 watts into 4 ohms.
(12
50
ALL PRICES INC.VAT AT 12,%
R STEREO, VHF MONO Controls for tuning volume
balance, bass and treble. Power output 7 watts
al FREE TO PERSONAL SHOPPERS BUYING
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NEW PRODUCTS!
NRDC- AMBISONIC 45J
SURROUND SOUND DECODER

The first over kit specially produced by Integrex for this British NRDC backed surround sound system which is the result of 7 years' research
by the Ambisonic team. W.W. July, Aug., '77.
The unit is designed tó decode not only 45J but virtually all other 'quadrophonic' systems (Not CD4), including the new BBC Matrix H.10
input selections.
The decoder is linear throughout and does not rely on listener fatiguing logic enhancement techniques. Both 2 to 3 input signals and 4 or 6
output signals are provided in this most versatile unit. Complete with mains power supply, wooden cabinet, panel, knobs etc.
Complete kit, including licence fee £45.00 + VAT
Or ready built and tested. £61.50 + VAT
INTRUDER 1 RADAR ALARM

With Home Office Type approval
As in "Wireless World ", designed by Mike Hosking, 240V ac mains operated and disguised as a hardbacked book. Detection range up to 30
feet. Complete kit. Exclusive designer approved kit £46.00 + VAT, or ready built and tested. £54.00 + VAT.
Wireless World DoIb.ynoise reducer

Trademark of Dolby Laboratories Inc
Typical performance
Noise reduction better than 9dB weighted.
Clipping level 6.5dB above Dolby level (measured
1
at 19'. third harmonic content)
Harmonic distortion 0.1 % at Dolby level typically

0.05% over most of band, rising to a maximum of
0.12%
Signal -to -noise ratio: 75dB (20Hz to 20kHz, signal
Featuring: at Dolby level) at Monitor output
switching for both encoding (low -level h.f. compression) and decoding
Dynamic Range >90db
a switchable f.m. stereo multiplex and bias filter.
provision for decoding Dolby f.m. radio transmissions (as in USA). 30mV sensitivity.
no equipment needed for alignment.
*suitability for both open -reel and cassette tape machines.
check tape switch for encoded monitoring in three -head machines. Complete Kit PRICE: £39.90 +VAT
IAlso available ready built and tested Price £54.00 +VAT,
Calibration tapes are available for open -reel use and for cassette (specify which) Price £2.20 +VAT
Single channel plug -in Dolby

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PROCESSOR BOARDS (92 x 87mm) with gold plated contacts are available with
all components Price £8.20+ VAT
Single channel board with selected fet Price £2.50 +,VAT
Gold Plated edge connector Price £1.50 +VAT
Selected FETs 60p each +VAT, 100p +VAT for two, £1.90 +VAT for four
Please add VAT @ 12'/2% unless marked thus', when 8% applies (or current rates)
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INTEG RE H
S- 2020TA STEREO TUNER /AMPLIFIER KIT
SOLID MAHOGANY CABINET
1
A high -quality push -button

FM Varicap Stereo Tuner combined
with a 24W r.m.s. per channel Stereo
Amplifier.
Brief Spec. Amplifier Low field Toroidal transformer, Mag, input, Tape In /Out facility (for noise reduction unit,
etc.), THD less than 0.1% at 20W into 8 ohms. Power on /off FET transient protection. All sockets, fuses, etc., are
PC
mounted for ease of assembly. Tuner section uses 3302 FET module requiring no RF alignment, ceramic IF,
INTERSTATION MUTE, and phase -locked IC stereo decoder. LED tuning and stereo indicators. Tuning range
88-- 104MHz. 30dB mono S/ N @ 1.2..V. THD 0.3 %. Pre -decoder 'birdy' filter.
PRICE: £58.95 +VAT
NELSON -JONES STEREO FM TUNER KIT

A very high performance tuner
with dual gate MOSFET RF and
Mixer front end, triple gang
varicap tuning, and dual ceramic
filter /dual IC IF amp.
Brief Spec. Tuning range 88- 104MHz. 20dB mono

quieting @ 9.75uV. Image rejection -
70dB. IF rejection Mono £32.40 +VAT
- 85dB.
IC
THD typically 0.4 %.
stabilized PSU and LED tuning indicators. Push -button With ICPL Decoder £36.67 +VAT
tuning and AFC unit. Choice of either mono or stereo with With Portus- Haywood Decoder
achoice of stereo decoders.
Compare this spec. with tuners costing twice the price. £39.20 + VAT
STEREO MODULE TUNER KIT

A low-cost Stereo Tuner based on the 3302 FET RF
module requiring no alignment. The IF comprises a ceramic
filter and high- performance IC Variable INTERSTATION MUTE.
Sens. 30dB S/N mono @ PLL stereo decoder IC. Pre -decoder 'birdy' filter
THD typically 0.3% Push -button tuning
Tuning range 88- 104MHz PRICE: Stereo £31.95 +VAT
LED sig. strength and stereo indicator
S -2020A AMPLIFIER KIT

Developed in our laboratories from the highly successful
"TEXAN" design. PC mounting potentiometers,
switches, sockets and fuses are used for ease of
assembly and to minimize wiring
Power 'on /off' FET transient protection.
'Typ Spec. 24 +24W r.m.s. into 8 -ohm load at less than 0.1% THD. Mag. PU input S/N 60dB. Radio input S/N
72dB. Headphone output. Tape In /Out facility (for noise reduction unit, etc.). Toroidal mains transformer.
PRICE: £33.95 +VAT
ALL THE ABOVE KITS ARE SUPPLIED COMPLETE WITH ALL METALWORK, SOCKETS, FUSES,
NUTS AND BOLTS, KNOBS, FRONT PANELS, SOLID MAHOGANY CABINETS AND
COMPREHENSIVE INSTRUCTIONS
BASIC NELSON -JONES TUNER KIT £14.28 +VAL PHASE -LOCKED IC DECODER KIT . . £4.47 +VAT
BASIC MODULE TUNER KIT (stereo) £16.75 +VAT PUSH -BUTTON UNIT £5.00 +VAT
PORTUS- HAYWOOD PHASE -LOCKED STEREO DECODER KIT £8.00 +VA I
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TIL209 0.10
0.80
TRANSISTORS
0.15 8C182 0.11' 60y60 1.70 8U133 1.60' TTL 7400 SERIES T HYRISTORS
AC127 2N29260 0.09' CMOS-
0.16 13C1821 0.12' BDY61 1.65 13U204 1.60' 252926R 0.10' ply IA 34 A 411 64 M 104 164
AC128 0,18 BC183 0.10' 80x62 1.15 BU205 1.90' PLASTIC
AC128K BC183L 0.16 252926V 0.09' 7400 0.16 J480 0.56 11051 ISludl 1c10611022011t02201 n022011102201 1102201
0.26 BDY95 2.14 BU206 2.40' 2N2926G 0.10' 40000E 200 0.35 0.50 0.45 0.40 0.58 0.60 068 1.14
AC141 0.22 BC184 0.11' BDy96 4.96 6U208 2.80' 253053
0.20 7401 0.16 7482 0.75
Ac141K 0.20 40018E 0.20 7402 0.16 7486 0.32 400 0.40 0.60 0.50 045 0.88 0.88 0.90 1.40
0.34 BC184L 0.12' BDY97 2.45 MJ480 0.80 253055 0.50 500 0.65 005 070
'AC142 0.18 BC186 0.20' 40028E 0.20 7403 0.16 7489 2.80 1.09 1.19 1.26 1.80
BF179 0.30 MJ481 1.06 253137 1.10 40068E 1.05 7404 0.18 749049 0.49 BIM 01107 81108 Bí109 81116 211)525
AC142K 0.32 8C187 0.24' 8E180 0.30 MJ490 0.90 2N3440 0.56 £1.00 £1.60 E1.60
AC176 0.16 BC207B 0.12' 13E181 40078E 0.20 7405 0.18 7491AN 0.65 E1.00 E1.00 E0.50
0.30 MJ491 1.15 2N3442 1.20 400813E 0.93 7408
AC176K 0.32 BC212 0.11' BF182 MJE340 0.40' 253570
0.18 7492 0.57
0.30 3.80 40098E 0.52 7409 0.18 7493 0.45
AC187
AC187K
AC188
0.18
0.36
0.18
BC212L
8C213
BC2131
0.12' 8E183
0.12' 8E184
0.14' BF185
0.30
0.20
0.20
MJE520
MJE521
0C43
0.45
0.55
0.95
2N3702
253703
2N3704
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40108E
40118E
40128E
0.52
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0.20
7410
7412
413
0.16
0.25
0.40
7494
7495
7496
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0.87 TRIALS - Plastic TO -220 Package Isolated
AC188K 0.32 8C214 8F194 0.10' 0C44. 0.32 2N3705 0.10' 40138E
0.82 Tab
'AD 149 0.6C BC214L 0.15' 0.32
0.50 7414 0.72 74100 1.07
8E196 0.12' 0C45 253706 0.10' 40148E 1.00 7417 44
A0161 0.35 BC237 0.16' BF197 0.43 74107 0.35 6.5A 854 10A 154
0.12 0C46 0.20 253707 0.10' 40158E 0.95 7420 0.16 74121 0.34 lei NI lil
AD162 0.36 8C238 ' RÍ --- UI
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BF224J 0.30 293708 0.09" 4016BE 0.54
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AF114 0.20 6C300 7425 0.30 74122 0.47 100v 0.60 0.60 0.70 0.70 0.78 0.78
0.83 0.83 1.01 1.01
AF115 0.20 BC301 0.32
BF244 0.17' 0071 293709 0.09' 40178E 1.00 7427 0.30 74123 0.65 200V 0.64 0.64 0.75 0.75 0.87 0.87
0.97 1.01 1.17 1.17
8E257 0.30 0072 0.22 293710 0.10' 40188E 1.10 7430 0.77
AF1 16 0.20 BC302 0.40 0.16 74141 0.78 400V 0.78 0.80 0.83
1.01 0.97
1.13 1.19 1.70 1.74
AFI 17 0.20 BC303 6
6,336 0.35' 0084 0.40 293711 0.10' 401913E 0.50 7432 0.28 74145 0.88 WY 0.96 0.99
1.01 1.10 1.21 1.26 1.42 1.50 2.11 2.17
AF118 0.50
BF337 0.32' 0C139 1.30 293715 1.70 40208E 1.12 7437 0.30 74154 1.30 N.9. Column lal wont Inlelnal Irllter III w0 Missal IrlppN
BCY30 "''5 BF338 049. OC140 1.30 293716 1.80 4021BE 1.03 744 IAN 0.78 74164 0.93
AF 124 0.25 BCY31 0.55 BFyy30 1.25 OC170 0.23 293771 1.80 4022BE 0.95 7442 0.85 74165 0.93
AF125
AF126
AF139
AF239
0.26
0.25
0.35
0.37
BCV32
BCY33
BCY34
BCY38
0.60
0.55
0.55
0.50
BFW59
BFW60
BFX29
0.30
0.38
0.29
TIP29A
TIP30A
TIP31A
0.44'
0.52'
293772
293773
0.54 293819
1.90
2.10
0.28'
40238E
40248E
40258E
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0.88
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744769 0.81
7448 0.81
74174 1.40
74175 0.94
74180 1.06
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TIP32A 0.64 254347 10309K E0.95
AL102 1.45 BCY39 1.15 BFx30 0.30 TIP41A 1.10 40288E 1.55 7470 0.32 74181 2.70 TO-18 NPN RECTIFIERS D0.4
0.23 0.68 294348
AL103 1.30 BCY40 0.75 BFX84
TIP42A 0.72 1.20 40278E 0.62 7472 0.26 74191 1.33 NPN 10.3 POWER TRANSISTORS PACKAGE
AU107 3.30' 8CY42 0.30 BFX85 0.25 254870 0.35' 40288E 0.91 7473 0.30 74192 1.20 TRANSISTORS Medium voltage IOA 50V 0.45.
2N404 0.40 294871
AU110 1.75' BCY54 180 BFX86 0.25 29696 0.20 0.35' 402913E 1.10 7474 0.32 74193 1.35 Fully tested but High ,Gam Type Please specify
AU113 1.60' BCY70 0.12 BFX67 0.20 25697 254918 0.60' 40308E 0.55 7475 0.47 74194 1.20 m rked Similar unmarked Similar IDA 100V 0.60.
0.18 0.20 0.20 2N4919 0.70' 40418E 8C107.8
BC107 0.12 BCY71 BFX88
2 0.15 0.80 7476 0.36 74196 1.64 to 293055 except to 9 Polarity
BC107B 0.12 BCY72 0.12 BFX89 0.90 2N4920 0.50' 40428E 0.83. BVCED = 50+ 25pcs E1.20 l0A 200V 0.60.
BC108 0.12 1.10 25N701136 1 0./t p 1.00 100 pcs
80115 0.55 BFY11 403413E E3.50 Stud Cathode or
99
251132 FIFE (gain} = 20+
BC1088 0.12 BFY18 0.50 0.16 1Ñ4923 40448E 0.94 10.3 HARDWARE 10A 400V 0.75.
80131 0.36 251302 0.40 at 3A, VCE SA-
BC109 0.12 BFY40 0.50 40468E 1.12 Mica Washers,
130132 0.40 251303 0.40 LINEAR I.C.s T <1 3V at 3A Stud Anode
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8C1098 0.12 BD135 0.35' BFY41 0.60 40498E 0.54 E1.00 Solder rag. Nuts. Ideal for Power
BFY50 0.20 251304 0.45 5 lxs
BC109C 0.15 80136 .39' Re.ielpre 405OBE 0.64 25 pee E4.00 Bolts Supplies. Inverters.
BFY51 0.18 251305 0.45 301A 0.40' MC1352P 0.75'
BC117 0.16 B0137 0.40' 251306 0.50 E24 S4rias 4069BE 0.30 307 0.55' 50 pcs E7.50 50 sets for 65p etc
BC119 0.26 80138 0 80'52 0.19 10ohm-1 meg 40700E 0.50 MC1353P 0.75 100 pes E13.00
0.16 80139 BFY53 O .26 2N1307 0.50 4 wan 380 0.90 MC1458P 0.77
BC125 0.58' 0.60 1.5p 40718E 0.26
BC126 0.20' 8D144 2.20
BFY64 0.35 251308 1/2 wan 40728E 0.26 381 MC1496L 0.82
BC140 0.32 80157 0.60 BFY90 0.90 2N1309 0.60 40818E 0.20 3900 0.70' SAS560 2.25
251711 0 24 40826E 709 0.35 SAS570 225
8C141 0.28 80181 0.86 BSX19 0.18 252102 0.44 0.26 741
BC742 0.23 0,92 135x20 4510BE 1.42 0.35 TAA300 1.61
BD182 O .18
BC143 0.23 BD183 0.97 BSX21 0.20 252217 0.30 45118E 1.50
748 0.35 TAA310A 1.38
MEMORIES
BC147 0.09'
252369
0.28 2N2369A
0.14 45168E 1.35
NE555 0.45 TAA550 0.45 DIODES 0690 0.08
BD184 120 BSY52
0.14 SPECIAL NE565 2.00 0A91
BC148 0.09' 80232 0.60 BSV53 0.38 252483 NOTICE 45188E 1.26 TAA611812
21024-6 3.60 0.08
BC149 0.09' 83233 BSY54 0.33 252484 0.20 452013E 1.20 NE566 1.50' 05538- OA200 0.09
0.48 0.18 Don I rmss All 2112A -44.75 300 0.50
BC157 0.09' BD237 0. 55 0.74 252646 colleges schools
5E567 2.00' TAA861 0.65
6508
N914 0.04'
,BC158 0.09' 0.30
0.50
universities and CA3045 0.85' TBA530 1.85' 7.95 600 0.55 N4001 0.04'
BD238 0.60 SY65
BBSY55 0.20 0.50 1865300 1.80' 2102 2.50 900 0.60
BC159 0.09' 80410 0.60 BSY954 0.16 2N2712 0.16 arnaleur radio and
CA3046
2107 10.00
N4002 0.05'
BC160 0.32 electronic clubs CA3130 0.90 184560 2.60' 1200 0.65 N 4003 0.08'
BDx32 2.30 BU105 1.80' 2529044 0.20 Also available MC1304P 1.60' 186570 2112 4.50
8t161 -0.38- 098 BZX61 Series N 4004 0.07'
801'10 1.50 BU 105702 1.90' 252905 0.18 may deduci 10% Popular valves 2513 8.50
9C168 0.09' 80Y11 2.00 BU108 3.00' 2529054 oft all orders tendo
MC1307P 0.8r 1CA27050 0.26 N4005 0.08'
0.22 MC1310P 0.95' 1.95' 2602 2.50 BZX83 Series 0.11 N 4006 0.09'
BC169 0.12' BDY20 0.80 8U109 2.50' 252906 0.18 and electrolytic MC1351P 1.20' ZN414
BC169C 0.14 BDY38 0.60 .BU 126 1.60' 2N2925 0.96 8ZY88 Series 0.11 N4007 0.10'
0.14' 0485 0.12 N4148 0.04'
MARCONI TEST EQUIPMENT P. F. RALFE ELECTRONICS

TF329G circuit magnification meter £125
ROHDE & SCHWARZ EQUIPMENT
TF455E Wave analyser. New. £135
10 CHAPEL STREET, LONDON, NW1 HUZ Field Strength Meter. 47- 225MHz.
TF1101 RC oscillators. £85 TEL: 01 -723 8753 AMF TV. Demodulator 470- 790MHz.
TF1099 20MHz sweep generators PEST EQUIPMENT Selective UHF v /meter, bands 4 &5. USVF.
TF 1041 B & C. VT Voltmeters ADVANCE SG62B signal gen. 50KHz- 220MHz 1
£65 Selectomat. RF Voltmeter. USWV.
TF1 102 Amplitude modulator. 500MHz AIRMEC 399 Video oscillator 15Hz -1 5MHz BN 15221. £450
TF1020A Power meter. 100W. 250MHz. £85
£70 .
AIRMEC 254 High -power oscillator /amplifier Standard attenuator .0-100db .0- 300mHz.
TF1 152A/ Power meter. 25W. 500MHz. E75 BOONTON 80 Signal generator. 2- 400MHz.
1
TF890A/ 1 RF test set. E425 £105 .

DPR.
BOONTON 230A RF Power Amplifier £325
TF801 B /3S Signal generator. £175 UHF Sig. gen. type SDR 0.3 -1 GHz.
BPL Capacitance decade (5) CD133. 100pf -1 uF £45
TF141 7 200MHz counter (imperfect). GERTSCH Frequency meter and deviation meter 20- 1000MHz £750
TF1400 Pulse generator UHF Signal generator type SCH. £175
TF675F Pulse generator £250 UHF Test receiver type USVD. £325
GR Standard sweep generator.
400KHz- 230MHz £485
TF1370 Wide-range RC oscillator £125 HEWLETT PACKARD 693D sweep oscillator POLYSKOP SWOB I.
TF2163 UHF attenuator DC -1GHz. E95 £350
HEWLETT PACKARD 432A Power meter POLYSKOP SWOB II.
TF2200 Oscilloscope DERRITRON. Digital Wheatstone Bridge SBTF. T.V. Signal generator, vision -sound
TF2904 Colour gain delay test set
.
£110
MUIRHEAD K -134 -A Battery op. wave analyser modulator and transmitter.
TF1058 UHF/SHE signal generator PYE EHT scalamp voltmeter 0 -40KV
£125
ICL type 2640 Paper tape readers 250cps.
New E95
ALL EQUIPMENT IS AVAILABLE FOR HIRE Westrex 8 -hole paper -tape punches E95
AT VERY REASONABLE RATES. PLEASE Sound -proof case available. E15
TELEPHONE YOUR REQUIREMENTS.
MUFFIN INSTRUMENT COOLING FANS
Made by Rotron Holland These are very high quality. quiet
running fans. specially designed for the cooling of all types
POLARAD TYPE TSA. SPECTRUM of electronic equipment Measures 4 5x4 5x 5
ANALYSER. C/w type STU /2M plug -in
1
115V AC. 11 Watts. The list price of these is over £10 each
unit covering from 950 to 4500 MHz. p "s We have a quantity available brand new for only E4.50
RADIO CORPS PB1 pulse & bar generator. £45 each
SIEMENS Level oscillator 12- 160KHz
EVER -READY NICKEL-CADMIUM SCHNEIDER type cí252 100MHz counter (red) 500V TRANSISTORISED INSULATION
BATTERIES. E200
SCHOMANDL type FD1 frequency meter £125 TESTER
Size 'O' (HP2) 1.25V, 3.5 AH Only small quantity SOLARTRON type CD1212 oscilloscope £145 Lightweight small size i1 3x 7x4crosi 55a115 insulation
available at £2 + Op post.
1 Bruel & Kioer type 3301 Automatic Frequency Response from 0 2-1 00M11 or 500V pressure Runs from
standard 9V PP3 Brand new £16.50
Recorder 200Hz -20KHz .
APT POWER SUPPLIES. Stabilised and Airmec 201A Signal Generator 30KHz- 30MHz.
regulated. 6V (variable) at 3A. Brand new MUIRHEAD -PAMETRADA D489EM Wave Analyser TELEVISION MONITORS
£25. HEWLETT PACKARD 5090B recording receiver £125 Phillips studio quality precision colour monitors and Pye
TEKTRONIX 545 main frames. £210. Choice of plug -in units monochrome 4057525/625 lines
BECKMAN TURNS COUNTER DIALS extra.
TEKTRONIX 585A oscilloscope with 82 P DC -80MHz
PACE ELECTRONICS VAR !PLOTTER
Miniature type (22mm diem.) Counting up to Type 1100E
I
15 turn 'Helipots'. Brand new with mounting TEKTRONIX type 526 Vectorscope £580 £175
instructions. Only £2.50 each TEKTRONIX type 180A Time -mark generator £110
WANDEL & GOTTERMAN Signal Gen. 10Hz-30MHz MUIRHEAD DECADE OSCILLATORS
Wandel-& Ootterman Equipment NOTICE. All the pre -owned equipment shown has been type 890A.
Level Meter 0.2- 1600KHz carefully tested in our workshop and reconditioned where 1Hz-110kHz in four decade ranges.
Level Oscillator 0.2- 1600KHz necessary It is sold in first -class operational condition and most Scope monitored output for high
Level Transmitter .3 -1350 KHz items carry our three months' guarantee Calibration and accuracy of frequency. Excellent
Carrier Frequency Level Meter certificates can be arranged at cost Overseas enquiries
welcome Prices quoted are subject to an additional 8% VAT
generator. Reduced to £75.
Wireless World, December 1977 10'3
92 BROAD STREET
Eleetrooìes CHESHAM, BUCKS.
Tel: Chesham (02405) 75154
NASCOM 1
(LONDON) LTD. Telex: 837571
MICROCOMPUTER KIT FOR ONLY £197.50 (ex. VAT)

We are proud to announce the launch of our NASCOM I Microcomputer kit at a seminar being held at the
Wembley Conference Centre on November 26th.
BASIC FEATURES SEMINAR DETAILS

-Z80 Microprocessor 9.55 a.m. -5.00 p.m.
-2K RAM Highlights include:
-1K EPROM operating system software 10.00 -10.20 Introduction to Home Computing
-Visual display through ordinary domestic TV 10.20 -1 .00 Introduction to
1 Hardware
-Full keyboard software controlled 11.20-12.00 Introduction to Software
-Program storage through standard cassette re- 12.00-12.30 Introduction to NASCOM I
corder 2.30- 3.10 Interface

-Teletype interface included 3.10- 3.50 Applications
-Expandability to 64K bytes + high level language 4.10- 5.00 Question Time
as future products All ticket holders will have a chance to win a
NASCOM kit on the day. The winning number will
I
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PHONE OR WRITE FOR YOUR TICKETS We have held back 50 tickets for Wireless World
PRICE £3.50 readers who have just learned of the project in this
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IB3GT
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0.55
2006
20x7
0.60
0.90
EZ80
EZ61 0.35
P033
P082 0.45
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1200 AC range
9 6,000 0/V 5846Y 1.00 2840 0.80 6188 4.80 PY83 0.50
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® PC86 0.65 PY88 0.50
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6ÁJ5
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0.65
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2BH7
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0.50
0.75
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PCC84
piC85
PCC88
0.45
0.45
0.65
TT21
TT22
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6.30
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0.70 0.55 0.70
6ÁL5 0.30 3065 PCC89 UAI42
AC /DC voltage ranges 60- 300mV- 1.2 -6 -30 -120- 300 -600 -1 200V 6605 0.65 3503 0.70 ECC84 0.35 PCC189 0.65 UB681 0.50
Resistance ranges
9 300L- 10- 100.1000K 6606 0.80 3565 0.80 ECC85 0.45 ECL86 0.55 , PC180 CIAO UBC81 0.50
Accuracy. 5% DC, 2 5% AC (of full scale deflection)
1 6676 0.60 3585 0.70 ECC86 1.25 PCFBT 0.40 UBF80 0.50
6006 0.50 35C5 0.70 ECCBB 0.60 E105 0.45 PCF86 0.65 00189 0.50
Mirror scale and knife edge pointer. Taut suspension of movement. Transistor 605x60 0.75 3505 0.60 ECC89 0.60 EF86 0.35 PCF20(I 0.85 UCC84 0.75
amplifier is used for all AC ranges thus achieving a common linear scale for both AC 606 0.40 35W4 0.60 ECCI89 0.80 EFI83 0.35 PCF201 0.85 UCC85 0.50
and DC ranges 6066 0.38 5005 0.70 ECF80 0.45 EFI84 0.40 PCF802 0.55 UCF80 0.75
60E6 0.45 ECF82 0.45 EFL200 0.75 PCH2O0 0.75 UCN42 0.80
Meter protected by a transistorised cut -out relay arcuit. Range selection is
is
achieved by clearly marked piano keys. Power source 5 1.5V dry cells.
6866 ran
0.75 EAF42 :.4.55
0.70
ECF86 0.75
0.75
EL36
EL36
0.60
0.60
PCL82 0.40 ÚC181
0.40 'ÚC182
0.40
0.40
6BN6 0.80 E0F42 ECF801 PCLBT
Dimensions 95 x 225 x 120mm 6826 0.55 EAF801 0.65 ECF802 0.75 E181 0.60 P -8:áo- UCLB3 0.70
6827 0.70 EBC41 0.75 ECH42 0.85 1182 0.6Q' CL85 0.60 L141 0.75
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0.75 EC86
0.55 EC88
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0.40
0.75
0.75
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ECL80
ELM
ECL82
0.50
0.40
0.75
0.42
EL95
EL500
EM80
EM81
0.70
0.80
0.55
0.60
P133
PL36
PL38
PL81
0.40
0.60
0.65
0.55
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U141
ULM
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0.50
0.70
0.50
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oscilloscope. Well proved design based on standard
octal valves makes servicing and maintenance
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661.667
6SL7GT
6SM76
0.35 EC91
0.60 ECC81
0.55 ECC82
0.55 ECC83
2.80
0.45
0.38
0.38
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P183
PL84
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0.50
0.50
0.50
0.70
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ÚY42
ÚY82
ÚY85
0.55
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straightforward and inexpensive. Because of its
bandwidth of 10 MHz the instrument is suitable for
general electronic applications and educational MINIMUM EXPORT ORDER £100
purposes where a sophisticated instrument would be
0 both too expensive ana delicate 3m tube giving a 50 1976/1977
x 50mm clear display. Amplitude and time base
lit calibrations. Sensitivity 30mm /v max. Triggered and
LARGE STOCKS
,10L
free -running time base, suitable for displaying pulses OF
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from O u sec to 3 m sec A mains operation.
AVAILABLE 30p
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Price £55.00 ex. works, plus VAT SEMICONDUCTORS

-' -- -.- -y Packing and carriage 'U K only I. 3 00
T20+20 AND T3O + 30 Designed by Texas engineers and described in Practical Wireless. the Texan was an immediate success. Now
20W, 30W AMPLIFIERS developed further in our laboratories to include a Toroidal transformer and additional improvements. the skmline
T20 +20 delivers 20W rms per channel of true -b -Fi at exceptionally low cost. The way so build design is based
on a single F / Glass PCB and features all the normal facilities found on quality amplifiers including scratch and
fumble filters, adaptable input selector and headphones socket In a follow -up article In Practical Wireless further
modifications were suggested and these have been incorporated into the 130 +30 These include RF
interference filters and a tape monitor facility Power output of this model is 30W rms per channel
Pack T20 T30 Pack 120 T30

I. Sel of low noise resistors ... EI.60 E1.70 9. Fibreplaas PCB E3.50 E3.90
2. Set of small capacitors E2.60 E3.40 10. Set of metalwork. lining parts E5.20 E6.20
3. Set of power supply capacitors E2.20 E2.50 1 I. Set of cables. mains lead , ... E0.40 £0.40
4. Set of miscellaneous parts . E3.50 E3.50 12. Handbook £0.25 £0.25
5. Se of slide. mains. P.B. switches E1.50 E1.50 13. Teak cabinet 15.4" s 6.7" g 2,8i' £4.50 £4.50
6. Sel of pots.. selector switch £2.80 £2.80
7. Sel of semiconductors. ICs. skis. E7.25 £7.75 One each of Pack I -13 are required for complete stereo
8. Toroidal transformer -240V prim. amplifier. Total cost of individually purchased

e,s.screen E5.60 E7.20 packs 120 +20 E40.90. T30 +30 E45.60.
SPECIAL PRICES FOR COMPLETE KITS
T20 +20 KIT PRICE £33.10 T30 +30 KIT PRICE £38.40
WWII TUNER
Following the success of our Wireless World FM Tuner Kit this cost reduced model was
E designed to complement the T20 +20 and T30 +30 amplifiers and the cabinet size, front
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panel format and electrical characteristics make this tuner compatible with either. The
frequency meter of the more advanced model has been omitted and the mechanics simplified,
however the circuitry is identical and this kit offers most outstanding value for money. Facilities
included are switchable afc, adjustable, switchable muting, LED tuning'indication and both
continuous and push- button channel selection (readily adjusted by controls en the front panel)
SPECIAL PRICE FOR COMPLETE KIT £47.700 AVAILABLE AS SEPARATE PACKS - PRICES IN OUR FREE CATALOGUE
POWERTRAN SFMT TUNER

** The requirement was a simple, low cost design which could be constructed easily without
special alignment equipment but which still gives a first class output suitable for feeding any of
our very popular amplifiers or any other high quality audio equipment. Not finding a suitable
published circuit, the requirement was met by design and development work in our own
laboratories and this tuner, which uses a pre -aligned front end module can be set up with the
aid of nothing more sophisticated than a multimeter. A phase -locked -loop is used for stereo
decoding and controls include switchable afc, switchable muting and push- button channel
selection (adjustable by controls on the front panel). This unit matches well with the 120 +20
G and 130 +30 amplifiers.
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PRICE FOR COMPLETE KIT £35.90 AVAILABLE AS COMPLETE KIT ONLY
E Wireless World Amplifier Designs. Full kits are not available for these protects bur
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component packs and PCBs are stocked for the highly regarded Bailey and 20W class AB SEMICONDUCTORS as used in our range of quality audio equipment
C7 Linsley -Hood designs together with an efficient regulated power supply of our own
design Suitable for driving these amplifiers is the Bailey Burrows pre-amplifier and our 25699 £0.20 8C107 £0,10 0F257 £0.40 MPSA05 E0.25 TIP3oC £0.60
circuit board, for the stereo version of st features 6 inputs. scratch and fumble filters and 253055 £0.45 BC108 £0.10 BF259 £0.47 MPSA12 £0.35 TIP414 £0.70
wide range tone controls which may be either rotary or slider operating For tape systems 2N3442 E1.20 BC109 £0.10 BFR39 E0.30 MPSA55 £0.25 TIP42A £0.80
a set of three PCBs have been prepared for the integrated circuit based high performance 253711 E0.09 BC109C £0.12 BFR79 £0.30 MPSA65 £0,35 TIP41B £0.75
stereo Stuart design Details of component packs are in our free Catalogue 253904 £0.17 BC125 £0.15 BFY51 E0.20 MPSA66 E0.40 TIP42B £0.90
253906 £0.20 BC126 E0,15 BFy52 £0.20 MPSU05 E0.50 15914 (0.07
255087 £0.25 BCt82 (.0.10 CA3046 £0.70 SBA750A E1.90 1N916 (0.07
255089 £0.25 B C 2 I 2 £0.12 M301AN E0,55 SL301 E1.30 5920 E0.10
2H5457 £0.45 rei
30W Bailey Amplifier BC1821 £0.10 LP1186 E6.50 SL3045 E1 .20 <
2N5459 £0.45
BAIL Pk F i Glass PCB
1
BAIL Pk 2 Resistors. Capacitors Potentiometer set

BAIL Pk 3 Semiconductor net
E1.00
E2.35
E4.70
255460
255461
2N5830
£0.50
£0.50
£0.35
BC184L
BC212L
BC214L
8CY72
E0.11
E0.12
0.14
MC1310
MCI 351
Mf1741CG
E2.20
E1.05
£0.65
SN72741P
SN72748P
STCR53
£0.40
£0.40
E2_40
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20W Linsley.Heod Class AB £0.13 MFC4010 E0.95 TIL209 £0.20
LHAB Pk F Glass PCB
1
E1.05 40361 £0.40 BD529 £0.65 MJ481 E1.20 TIP29A £0.40 FILTERS
LHAB Pk 2 Resistor Capacitor Potentiometer set E3.20 40362 (0.45 BD530 £0.55 M1491 E1.45 TIP30A (0.45 FM4 E1.00
LHAB Pk 3 Semiconductor set (3.35 14004 (0.35 BDY56 E1.60 MJE521 E0.60 TIP29C (0.55 SFJ10 7MA £1.50
Regulator Power Supply
60VS Pk F /Glass PCB
1
(0.85
60VS Pk 2 Resistor Capacitor net
boys Pk 3 Semiconductor set
60VS Pk 6A Toroidal transformer (for use with Bailey)
60VS Pk 6B Toroidal transformer (far use with 20W LH)
£2.20
E3.10
E8.80
£7.25
NEW PROJECTS
Bailey Burrows Stereo Pre-Amp
BBPA Pk F /Glass PCB (stereo)
1
E2.80
LINSLEY -HOOD LOW DISTORTION OSCILLATOR
BBPA Pk 2 Resistor. Capacitor. Semiconductor set (stereo)
A Wien bridge audio oscillator (10Hz- 100KHz) with sine or square wave output mV-1 V) published in
z BBPA Pk 3R Rotary Potentiometer set (stereo)
E6.70
E2.85 Wireless World September, October 1977.
(1
BBPA Pk 35 Slider Potentiometer set with knobs (stereo) E3.10 Pack Fibreglass PCB
1
£1.65
Stuart Tape Recorder Pack 2 Capacitors. 2% metal oxide resistors E2.60
z TRRP Pk
TRRC Pk
Replay Amp F ' Glass PCB (stereo)
1
Record Amp F/ Glass PCB (stereo)

1
£1.30
E1.70
Pack 3 Transistors, IC, IC socket, thermistor
Pack 4 Potentiometers and switches
£3.90
TROS Pk Bias Erase/ Stabilizes F Glass PCB (stereo)
1
E1.20 E2.80
z ERIC F. TAYLOR PRE -AMPLIFIER
A low noise low distortion IO 005''L stereo pie- amplifier for use with magnetic pick -up
SQ QUADRAPHONIC DECODERS equalization)
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these state -oftne -art co-cults described by CBS ar e offered as kits of superior quality with Pack 1 Fibreglass PCB (Stereo) E1.45
close tolerance capacitors metal oxide resistors and Fibreglass PCBs designed for edge Pack 2 Metal oxide resistors. capacitors (Stereo) £3.20
connector insertion Further information on these kits is given in our FREE CATALOGUE Pack 3 Transistors, ICs, IC sockets, zeners (Stereo)
MI Basic matrix decoder £4.20
E5.90
L I Full logic decoder E17.20 For further details of these please ask for our NEW PROJECTS LIST
L2A Full logic decoder with variable blend E22.60
L3A As L2A but with high performance discrete r omponent front end ' E30.10
(or with carbon film resistors) E25.90 QUALITY: All components are brand new first grade full specification guaranteed devices. All resistors
SEMI -30 Decoder complete with 30W rear cha noel amplifiers Complete kit matches (except where stated as metal oxide) are low noise carbon film types. All printed circuit boards are fibreglass
T30 +30 amplifier £40.75
.
drilled roller tinned and supplied with circuit diagrams and construction layouts
AFTER -SALES BACK -UP: Servicing facilities (very rarely required for our kits) are available for all in*
Value Added Tax not included in prices complete kits Further details will be sent on request
UK Carriage FREE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE WRITE OR
PRICE STABILITY: Order with confidence) Irrespective of any price
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changes we will honour all prices in this advertisement until January 1st. TELEPHONE FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE z
1978, if this month's advertisement is mentioned with your order Errors DEPT WW 17 a
and VAT rate changes excluded.
POWERTRAN ELECTRONICS
U.K. ORDERS: Subject to 121/2% surcharge for VAT (i.e add Ye to the
price) No charge is made for carriage. or at current rate if changed
SECURICOR DELIVERY: For this optional service (U.K. mainland only)
add £2.50 (VAT inclusive) per kit.
SALES COUNTER: If you prefer to collect your kit from the factory, call PORTWAY INDUSTRIAL ESTATE ANDOVER
at Sales Counter (at rear of factory). Open 9 a.m. -4.30 p.m. Monday -
Thursday. ANDOVER, HANTS SP10 3NN 64455
AUDIO KITS OF DISTINCTION FROM POWERTRAN

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0 EW! DE LUXE EASY TO BUILD LINSLEY -HOOD 75W AMPLIFIER
-X-
Available as
Separate Packs
Details in
Free Catalogue
SPECIAL PRICE FOR COMPLETE KIT £99.30

The standard model of our kit for Mr Linsley -Hood s 75 watt design has for a long time offered exceptional _tt
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performance for a very modest cost (lust look at prices for comparable high quality high power ready -built unitsil RTTTT
Features of the amplifier include very low distortion (less than 0 01%). 75W rms per channel power output rumble
filter variable slope scratch filter variable transition frequency tone controls tape monitoring facilities and individually
TI 1P 1
adjustable inputs This model is based on 5 circuit boards which not having the controls mounted on them can if Internal view of De Luxe Kit
desired be effectively used separately in high performance audio systems not based on our metalwork
Our new De Luxe model uses 14 boards which interconnect with gold plated contacts and have the potentiometers and switches fitted ro Them There are 3 boards for each power amplifier board tor the power supply and 7 1
boards for the stereo pre -amplifier This system almost elrmmates internal wrong. making construction delightfully straightforward and as each board can be easily removed in seconds from the chassis checking and
maimenance is so simple met even newcomers to electronics will be able to cope competently with the kit Additional features of our new model are inclusion of latest circuit improvements generouslysized heatsinks for heavy
duty use even in tropical climates and metal oxide resistors throughout for longterm stability and reliability
PACK PRICES FOR STANDARD KIT STANDARD LINSLEY -HOOD 75W AMPLIFIER
Pack Price Pack Rice
I. Fibreglass printed circuit board for power amp 11. Fibreglass printed- circuit board for power supply
£1.15 £0.85
2. Set of resistors. capacitors. presets for power 12. Set of resistors, capacitors, secondary fuses.
amp E2.50 semiconductors for power supply E5.40
3. Set of semiconductors for power amp E6.50 13. Set of miscellaneous parts including DIN skts..
4. Pair of 2 drilled. finned heat sinks E1.10 mains input skt.. tuse holder. interconnecting
5. Fibreglass printed-circuit board for pre -amp cable. control knobs E6.20
E1.90 14. Set of metalwork parts including silk screen
6. Set of low noise resistors. capacitors. pre -sets for printed fascia panel and all brackets. fixing parts.
pre -amp E4.10 etc. E8.20
7. Set of low noise, high pain semiconductors for I5 Handbook £0.30
pre -amp E2.40 16. Teak cabinet 18.3" x 12.r, o 3.1" ... E10.70
8. Set of potentiometers (including mains switch'
E3.50 2 each of packs -7. each of packs 8-16 inclusive are
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9. Sal el 4 push-button switches. rotary mode switch required for complete stereo amplifier Total cast
10. Toroidal
screen/
transformer
housing
complete
primary: 0
with
£5.40
magnetic
117234 V:
of individually purchased packs E90.80
SPECIAL PRICE FOR COMPLm ï F KIT £79.80
secondaries: 33.0.33 V. 25.0 -25 V ... E10.95
LINSLEY -HOOD CASSETTE DECK -X- Pack Price Pack Price

I. Stereo PCB (accommodates 2 rep. amps. 2 meter Io Set of capacitors. rectifiers. I. C. voltage regulator
amps. bias /erase osc. relay) E3.35 for power supply (Powertran design) £2.80
2. Stereo sel of capacitors. M.O. resistors. II. Set of miscellaneous parts. including sockets. fuse <
potentiometersfor above E7.95 holder. fuses. interconnecting wire. etc E3.40
3. Stereo set of semiconductors for above E8.50 12. Sel of metalwork including silk screened fascia
4. Miniature relay with socket E2.90 panel. internal screen. fixing parts. etc E7.10
5. PCB. all components for solenoid. speed control 13. Construction notes £0.25
circuits £3.80 14. Teak cabinet 18.3" a 12.7" x 3.1" ...E10.70
6. Goldring -lento mechanism as specified E18.50
7. Function switch. knobs E1.90 One each of packs 1.14 inclusive are required for
8. Dual VU meter with illuminating lamp E6.95 complete stereo cassette deck. Total cost of
9. Toroidal transformer with E.S. screen prim. individually purchased packs £83.00
SPECIAL PRICE FOR COMPLETE KIT £79.60 0-117V. 234V. Sec. 15V E4.90
Published in Wireless World (May, June. August 1976) by Mr. Linsley-Hood. this design. although straightforward and relatively low cost nevertheless provides a very high standard of
performance. To permit circuit optimization separate record and replay amplifiers are used, the latter using a discrete component front -end designed such that the noise level is below that
of the tape background. Push button switches are used to provide a choice of equalization time constants. a choice of bias level,5,end also an option of using an additional pre -amplifier for
microphone use. The mechanism used Is the Goldring -Lenco CRV, a unit distinguished in its robustness and ease of operation. Speed control and automatic cassette ejection are both
implemented by electronic circuitry. This unit which is powered by a toroidal transformer and uses metal oxide resistors throughout offers an excellent match for the Wireless World Tuner
and the Linsley-Hood 75 Watt Amplifier.
Pack Price Pack Price

Frequency meter. meter drive components.
WIRELESS WORLD FM TUNER * I. Fibreglass printed board for front end
2.
demodulator. AFC and mute circuits .
Set of metal oxide resistors. thermistor,

IF strip.
£2.15
10.
fibreglass printed circuit board . £10.35
ff. Toroidal transformer with electrostatic screen.
capacitors. cermet preset for mounting on Pack Primary: 0-I lV 234V. secondary: 15V E4.90
I
1 E4.80 12. Set of capacitors. rectifiers. voltage regulator
3. Set of transistors. diodes. LEO. Integrated for power supply £2.10

circuits for mounting on Pack 1 £5.25 13. Sel of miscellaneous pails. including sockets.
4. Pre -aligned front end module. coil assembly. tuse holder, fuses. interconnecting wire. etc
three section ceramic filter £8.50 E2.05
5. Fibreglass printed circuit board for stereo 14. Set of metalwork parts including silk screen
decoder £1.10 printed fascia panel. acrylic silk screen printed
6. Sel of metal oxide resistors. capacitors. cermet tuning indicator panel insert. internal screen,
preset for decoder E2.60 fixing parts. etc. £8.30
7. Set of transistors LEO. integrated circuit tor 15. Construction sates £0.25
SPECIAL PRICE FOR COMPLETE KIT £70.20 decoder £2.90

8. Set of components for channel selector switch
module including fibreglass printed circuit
16. Teak cabinet 18.3" x 12.7" x 3.1"
One each of packs 1.16 inclusive

. £10.70
are required for

complete stereo FM tuner. Total cost of
board. push -button switches. knobs. LEDs.
Designed in response to demand for a tuner to complement the Ayorld -wide acclaimed preset adjusters. etc. E9.40 individually purchased packs £81.15
Linsley -Hood 75W Amplifier. this kit provides the perfect match The Wireless World 9. Function switch. 10 turn tuning potentiometer.
(Skingley and Thompson) published original circuit has been developed further for knobs £5.80
inclusion into this outstanding slimline unit and features a pre -aligned front end module.
excellent a m rejection and temperature compensated vancap tuning, which may be controlled either continuously or by push -huron preselection Frequencies are indicated by a frequency
meter and sliding LED indicators, attached to each channel selector pre -set. The PLL stereo decoder incorporates active filters for birdy suppression and power is supplied via a toroidal
transformer and integrated regulator For long term stability metal oxide resistors are used throughout
EXPORT ()VIERS: Odo minimum order charge! Prices same as for U K customers but
no Value Added Tax charged. Postage charged at actual cost plus 50p documentation and
EXPORT A SPECIALITY! handling. Please send payment with order by Bank Draft, Postal Order, International
Money Order or cheque drawn on an account in the U K Alternatively for orders over
Our Export Department can readily despatch orders of any size to any country in the F500 we will accept Irrevocable Letter of Credit payable at sight in London
world Some of the countries to which we sent kits last year are shown in this
advertisement To assist in estimating postal costs our catalogue gives the weights of all
packs and kits This will be sent free on request, by airmail, together with our 'Export
OUR CATALOGUE IS FREE
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RADFORD HD250
High Definition Stereo Amplifier
HART
ELECTRONICS
The Only Firm for Quality Audio Kits
A new standard l
for sound reproduction in
the home! We believe that no other
Are proud to offer the only amplifier in the world can match the overall
DESIGNER APPROVED kit for the specification of the HD250.
J. L. Linsley -Hood High Quality Rated power output: 50 watts ay. continuous per channel into any impedance
from 4 to 8 ohms, both channels driven.
Cassette Recorder Maximum power output: 90 watts ay. per channel into 5 ohms.
Distortion, preamplifier: Virtually zero (cannot be identified or measured as it is
below inherent circuit noise.)
Distortion, power amplifier: Typically 0.006% at 25 watts, less than 0.02% at
rated output (Typically 0.01% at 1 Khz)
Hum and noise: Disc, -83dBV measured flat with noise band width 23 Khz (ref
5mV); -88dBV "A" weighted (ref. 5mv)
Line -85 dBV measured flat (ref 100v)

-88d BV "A" weighted (ref 100v)
Hear the HD250 at
SWIFT OF WILMSLOW
Dept. WW, Swan Street, Wilmslow, Cheshire
5
(Tel: 2621 3)
Mail Order and Personal Expon enquiries: Wdmslow Audio, Swan Works, Rank
Square, Wilmslow (Tel. 29599)
As these circuits are capable of such an 700M2 Individual High Quality VU Now available ID 100 power amplifier and ZD22 pre -amplifier
excellent performance we feel that it is Meters with excellent ballistics
not sensible to sacrifice this potential by
£8 48 + El 06 VAT. Per Pair.
designing a kit down to a price. We have
therefore spent a little more on
professional hardware allowing us to 700C/2 High Quality Custom built steel
design a very advanced modular system Case. Complete with Brushed
This enables a more satisfactory electri-
cal layout to be achieved, particularly
around the very critical input areas of the
replay preamps. These are totally stable
aluminium front plate. mains switch
record microswitch. turned record
level knob, plastic cabinet feet, all
bolts, nuts and mounting hardware
carbon film RESISTORS
ON BANDOLIERS OR PREFORMED 12 5mm
with this layout and require no extra All necessary holes are punched and
stabilising components. Many other all surfaces are electroplated AT NO EXTRA COST
advantages also come from this system Complete step -by-step assembly
which has separate record and replay Ieti
instructions are included. The cover
amps for each channel plugging in to a is finished in an attractive black
master board with gold- plated sockets crackle surface. (16.50 + f2.06
The most obvious is the reduction of VAT
crosstalk and interaction which could
cause trouble on a single plane board,
with our modular system the layout is LENCO CRV CASSETTE MECHAN-
compact but there is no component ISM
crowding. Testing is very easy with High Quality. robust cassette transport for
separate identical modules and building Linsley -Hood recorder Features fast
with the aid of our component-by-com - forward, fast rewind, record, pause and
ponent instructions is childlishly simple, full auto stop and cassette ejection
but the finished result is a unit designed facilities. Fitted with Record / play and
not to normal domestic standards but erase heads and supplied complete with
tothe best professional practice Data and extra cassette ejection spring for
All printed circuits are of glassfibre above horizontal use Price 01 60 + AERO SERVICES LTD.
material. fully drilled with a tinned finish
for easy and reliable soldering. Compon-
ent locations are printed on the reverse
side of the board and are arranged so that
E2 70 VAT.
Total cost of all parts £83 58.
Special offer for Complete Kits £81 50 +

&I 41A Westbourne Grove
London W2 5SF
Tel. 01 -727 5641 Telex 261306
all identification numbers are still visible
E10 19 VAT
after assembly.
71x Complete set of parts for Master
Optional extra solid teak end cheeks, E3
Board, includes bias oscillator, relay,
pair + 38p VAT.
controls. etc. £9.83 + E1.23 VAT
72x Parts for Motor Speed and Solenoid Reprint of 3 Linsley -Hood Cassette
Control for Lenco CRV deck. This is
the proper board layout as given in
Recorder articles. 45p post and VAT free Audio Connectors
the articles. E3.52 + 44p VAT. We also supply complete kits to make a
73x Complete set of parts for stereo fully integrated 30 watt stereo amplifier Broadcast pattern jackfields, jackcords, plugs
Replay Amps, and VU Meter drive using the Bailey Power Amplifier circuit and jacks.
£8 12 + E1 02 VAT and the Bailey / Burrows Pre -amplifier
74x Complete set for stereo Record with the Quilter Tone control modifica- Quick disconnect microphone connectors
Amps. £6.74 + 84p VAT. tion. Amphenol (Tuchel) miniature connectors with
75x Complete set of parts for Stabilised Printed circuits and components are
- Power Supply to circuit given in availble for the Stuart tape circuits These
coupling nut.
Article. This uses a special low hum articles described a high quality tape link
field transformer with better charac-
rerschmann Banana plugs and test probes
circuit for use with a reel -to -reel deck
teristics than the commonly used Reprints of the three articles are available XLR compatible in -line attenuators and
toroid. £8.79 + E1 10 VAT. from us price 40p. Post Free (No VAT)
! reversers.
Low cost slider faders by Ruf.
ALL PARTS ARE POST FREE Future Film Developments Ltd.
Please send 9 x 4 SAE for lists giving fuller details and Price breakdowns
36 -38 Lexington Street
Penylan Mill, Oswestry, Salop London W1R 3HR
Personal callers are always welcome 01 -437 1892/3
but please note we are closed all day Saturday
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HY5
-240 The HY5 is a mono hybrid amplifier ideally suited for all applications All common input functions
(mag Cartridge, tuner etc ) are catered for internally, the desired function is achieved either by a
multi -way switch or direct connection to the appropriate pins The internal volume and tone circuits
merely require connechngto external potentiometers (not included) The 1-1Y5 is compatible with all
Watts!
power amplifiers and power supplies To ease construction and mounting a P C connector is
Preamplifier I L P
supplied with each pre -amplifier
FEATURES: Complete pre -amplifier in single pack -
Multi- function equalization -- Low noise -- Low
distortion -- High overload -- two simply combined for stereo
APPLICATIONS: HI -F, -
Mixers -- Disco -- Guitar and Organ - Public address
SPECIFICATIONS:
INPUTS Magnetic Pick -up3mV
Ceramic Pick -up 30mV Tuner 100mV. Microphone 10mV.
Auxiliary 3- 100mV, input impedance 47k0 at kHz 1
OUTPUTS Tape 100mV: Main output 500mV R M S

(ACTIVE TONE CONTROLS Treble t 12d13 at 10kHz, Bass t at 100Hz
DISTORTION 0 1% at 1kHz Signal /Noise Ratio 68dß
OVERLOAD 38dB on Magnetic Pick -up, SUPPLY VOLTAGE - 16 50V
._Price £5.22 + 65p VAT P &P free
HY5 mounting board B1 48p + 6p VAT P &P free.
HY30 The HY30 is an exciting New kit from L P it features a virtually indestructible C with short circuit
and thermal protection The kit consists of C
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heatsink. P C board, 4 resistors. 6 capacitors.

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mounting kit, together with easy to follow construction and operating instructions This amplifier is
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15 Watts into 80 .
ideally suited to the beginner in audio who wishes to use the most up -to -date technology available
FEATURES: Complete kit -- Low Distortion -
Short. Open and Thermal Protection -- Easy to Budd
APPLICATIONS: Updating audio equipment -- Guitar practice amplifier -- Test amplifier -- Audio
oscillator
SPECIFICATIONS:
OUTPUT POWER 15W R M S into 80 DISTORTION 0 1% at 15W
INPUT SENSITIVITY 500mV FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10Hz -16kHz -- 3d8
SUPPLY VOLTAGE 181/
Pries £5.22 + 65p VAT P &P free.
HY50 The HY50 leads L P 's total integration approach to power amplifier design
I The amplifier features an
integral heatsink together with the simplicity of no external components During the past three years
the amplifier has been refined to the extent that it Must be one of the most reliable and robust High
1L6P
25 Watts into 80 Fidelity modules in the World.
FEATURES: Low Distortion -- Integral Heatsink -- Only five connections -- 7 Amp output transistors
NY 50
- No external components
APPLICATIONS: Medium Power Hi -Ft systems -- Low power disco -- Guitar amplifier
SPECIFICATIONS: INPUT SENSITIVITY 500mV
OUTPUT POWER 25W RMS in 80 LOAD IMPEDANCE 4 -16,) DISTORTION 0 04% at 25W at
1kHz
SIGNAL /NOISE RATIO 75dß FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10Hz -45kHz -- 3dB
SUPPLY VOLTAGE -. 25V SIZE 105 50 25mm
Price £6.82 + 85p VAT P &P free
HY120 The HY1 20 is the baby of L P B new high power range designed to meet the most exaction
I
requirements including load fine and thermal protection this amplifier sets a new standard in modular
design
FEATURES: Very low distortion -- Integral Heatsink Load line protection -
Thermal protection - -
60 Watts into 80 Five connections -- No external components
APPLICATIONS: Hi -Fi -- High quality disco Public address - -
Monitor amplifier -- Guitar and
oryu
SPECIFICATIONS:
INPUT SENSITIVITY 500mV
OUTPUT POWER 60W RMS into 80 LOAD IMPEDANCE 4-160 DISTORTION 0 04% at 60W at
1 kHz
SIGNAL /NOISE RATIO 90dB FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10Hz -45kHz --3dB. SUPPLY VOLTAGE
t. 35V
Size 114 x 50 x 85mm
P rice E15.84 + £1.27 VAT P &P free.
HY200 The HY200 now improved to give an output of 120 Watts has been designed to stand the most
rugged conditions such as disco or group while still retaining true Hi -Fi performance
FEATURES: thermal shutdown - Very low distortion -- Load'Iine protection -- Integral Hea ink --
No external components
120 Watts into 80 APPLICATIONS: Hi-Fi -
Disco -- Monitor Power Slave - -
Industrial - Public address
SPECIFICATIONS:
INPUT SENSITIVITY 500mV
OUTPUT POWER 120W RMS into 80 LOAD IMPEDANCE 4 -160 DISTORTION 0 0514, at 100W ai
1 kHz
SIGNAL /NOISE RATIO 96dB FREQUENCY RESPONSE 10Hz -45kHz -- 3dB SUPPLY VOLTAGE I
-45V
SIZE 114 100 x 85mm
x
Price E23.32 + £1.87 VAT P &P free.
HY400 The HY400 is L P.'s "Big Daddy of the range producing 240W into 41)1 It has been designed for
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high power disco or public address applications If the amplifier is to be used at continuous high power'
levels .i cooling fan is recommended The amplifier includes all the qualities of the rest of the family to
lead the market as a true high power hi- fidelity power module
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240 Watts into 40 FEATURES: Thermal shutdown -
Very low distortion -- Load line protection No external
components
APPLICATIONS: Public address -- Disco -- Power slave Industrial -
SPECIFICATIONS:
OUTPUT POWER 240W RMS into 40 LOAD IMPEDANCE 4 -160 DISTORTION 0 1'rß. at 240W at
1 kHz
SIGNAL 'NOISE RATIO 94d8 FREQUENCY RESPONSE 1OHz-45kHz - 3dB SUPPLY VOLTAGE
'45V
INPUT SENSITIVITY 500mV SIZE 114 a 100 x 85mm
Price £32.17 + £2.57 VAT P&P free.
PSU3b srntab',e lui two 0030 s E5.22 plus tibp VAT P P free
POWER PSUSU suitable lui Iwo HY50 s E6.82 plus 85p VAT P P free
PSU 70 surlabie fur 2 HY 120 s (13.75 plus 10 VAT P. P free
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PSUgo suitable lof one HY200 E12.65 plus 11 01 VAT P, P fier

SUPPLIES PSU BU suitable lui two HY2000 s or one HY400 E23.10 plus l t 85 VAT P,
I P free
TWO YEARS GUARANTEE ON ALL OF OUR PRODUCTS

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r. TRANSISTORISED 3cm RADAR AMPLIFIER SWITCH: with 24v waveguide AUTO TRANSFORMER: 230v. 50c /s, 1000 watts. Mounted in strong steel case
switch, .9 x .4 cm ins. with crystal CV.2355 and spark gap VX.1046. £16.20 + £1.00 CRYSTAL TEST SET TYPE 193: Used for checking crystals in freq. range
Çpost. '3,000-10,000kHz. Mains 230v 50hz. Measures crystal current under oscillatory
TRANSISTORISED VIDEO INDICATOR (used with above amplifier): 111" conditions and the equivalent resistance. Crystal freq. can be tested in
C.R.T. £10.80 + £1.00 post. conjunction with a freq. meter. £27.00, carr. £2.00.
RADAR RECEIVING ANTENNA TYPE X443 Mk. D: Suitable for detecting CATHODE RAY TUBES: 5" screen, tube CV -1536 £4.32 + £1.00 post. Type 95.120
signals on X, K. J and Q bands. 9gHz- 60gHz. Complete with waveguide horns, square face 5" x 3" £8.10 + £1.00 post.
associated crystals. Transistorised amplifier and geared motor, etc. £135.00, carr. WEATHERPLOTTER RECEIVING SET AN /GMH -5: Facsimile reproducing
approx. £5.00. system for weather maps. Further details on request, £459.00 (inc. 8% VAT).
CLASS 'D' WAVEMETER NO: I: Crystal controlled heterodyne frequency
VACUUM & PRESSURE SEAL TEST EQUIPMENT: Complete with 3 x 4" meter covering 2-8mHz. Power supply 6v. d.c. Good s /hand cond. E9.20 + £2.00
gauges indicating 0-20Ibs p.s.i., 0 -30Ibs vacuum. With stand, hand pump, etc., carr.
£32.40 + £3.00 carr. RING TOROIDAL DUST CORES: Size 21/2" outside, 14" inside, 5/16" thick. Box
INSULATION TEST SET 0 to 10 KV, negative earth, with Ionisation Amplifier, of two £1.10 + 30p post.
100/230 Volts. AC £45.90, carr. £3.00. ROTARY INVERTERS TYPE PE -218E: Input 24 -28v. d.c. 80 amps, 4,80orpm.
UNISELECTORS: Reversible action. Twin coils 12012 25 -way 6 -bank. £4.90 + Output 115v. arc. 13 amp 400 c /s. 1Ph. P.F.9 £21.60 + £3.00 can-.
75p post. FREQUENCY METER BC -221: 125- 20,000kc /s complete with original calib-
FAMOUS 1154 TRANSMITTER as used in Lancasters in World War Il ration charts. Checked out, working order. £22.70 + £2.00 carr.
(collector's item). £12.50, carr. £4.00. RECTIFIER UNIT: 200 -250v. arc. input, 24v. d.c. at 26 amps output continuous
. RACAL RA-17 RECEIVER 500KHz-30mHz, s /hand, good condition, £365.00 rating. £37.80, Carr. £5.00.
(including VAT 121/2 %). ,PAPER TAPE: 1/2" (teleprinters, etc.) Box of ten rolls £1.50 + £1.00 post.
EVERSHED SAFETY OHM METER: Max IOmA. Test pressure 30v. Complete in CREED TELEPRINTER TABLE: £25.00 + £5 carr.
leather case. £27.00, post £1.00.
AVO TRANSISTOR ANALYSER CT.446: £37.80, carr. £2.20.
KAY MARKER SWEEP OSCILLATOR I54C: 50kHz- 110mHz 50 ohms imped-
MARCONI FREQUENCY METER 1026/4: 2000- 4000mHz 'as new' condition. ance. Sweep rate 0.01- 1000Hz variable. Meter indicates 1v. rmf. Crystal Pulse
£32.40 or secondhand condition £24.30. markers 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, 40, 60 and 80mHz. £135.00 Carr. £3.50.
I: 1026/2: 100- 160mHz £32.40 'as new' or s /hand £24.30. Carriage for all type £2.00. ATTENUATOR UNITS STC: Impedance 75 ohms. Two different types: (A) Push
ANTENNA MAST 36ft: Aluminium, diameter at base 3 ", tapering to 2" at top, button 0 -0.9 decibels in steps of 0.1dB and (B) Push button 0-90 decibels in steps
complete with red hazard lights, stays, guys, etc. Normally used with direction of 10dB. Both types price £5.40, post 70p.
finding equipment. Approx. weight 3cwt. £106.90 (including 121/2% VAT), MARCONI SIGNAL GENERATOR 801 /DS: 10-480mHz. E3I8.60.
carriage rates on request. With rotating Antenna suitable for 200-400mHz £16.90
extra (including 121/2% VAT). BARGAIN MAPS
BURGLAR ALARM BELL: 6 -8v. d.c. £3.24 + £1.00 post.
MEGGER (Record): 500 volts £21.60 £1.00 post.
Large stocks of unused U.S.A.F. surplus maps, weather charts, etc.
including: -
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MUIRHEAD ATTENUATORS: 75 ohms 0 -8Mc /s 3V MAK 3 ranges 0 -5, 0 -25, ONC-El U.K. in full and part N.W. Europe. Scale 1:1,000,000.
0 -50dB. £3.24 + 75p post.
JNC -9N N. Europe, U.K., Scandinavia. Scale 1:2,000,000.
REDIFON TELEPRINTER RELAY UNIT NO. 12: ZA -41196 and power supply NM
t 200-250v. a.c. Polarised relay type 3SEITR 80- 0-80v. 25mA. Two stabilised valves
CV -286 Centre Zero Meter 10-0 -10. Size 8" x 8" x 8 ". New condition. £10.80, carr.
JN -21N Europe (Mediterranean). Scale 1:2,000,000.
SIZE: 58" x 42', colour. Many others. Please send S.A.E. for list.
Price each 70p (inc. p +p)
.10
£2.50. 25 x Maps (either same type OR assorted) £10.00 + £1.00 p+ p.

SOLARTRON PULSE GENERATOR TYPE G1101 -2: £81.00, carr. £2.50. 10 x Maps (either same type OR assorted) £6.00 (inc. p +p1
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TELEPRINTER TYPE 7B: Pageprinter 24v. d.c. power supply, speed 50 bauds per
min. S /hand cond. (excellent), no parts broken £21.60, carriage £3.50. - Above prices include VAT at 625 (except where stated)
Carriage quotes given are for 50 -mile radius of Herts,
Visit our new shop in We High Street'
at (old A10) opposite Church. 100s of
individual bargains for callers. If you wish
iie to collect any of the above items please
telephone prior to calling to avoid
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NEW COMPONEÑTS TV GAMES IN FULL COLOUR

Resistors 5% carbon E12 10 to 10M. AY.3 -8500 £6.95. Black Ih
'5W 11/2p. 1W 3p. Preset pots sub- and white TV games kits
miniature 0 1W E3 1000 to 4M 7. vertical Standard model E11.95.
9p, horizontal 9p. Potentiometers Economy model £6.95. .
0 25W E3 4K7 to 2M2 log or lin single Colour TV games kits

30p, dual 95p. Polystyrene capacitors Standard model £19.45. Economy model
E12 63V 22 pf to 8200pí 3'/2p. Ceramic £14.95. Colour Generator kit. adds colour
capacitors vert 50V E6 22pf to 4700pí to most black and white games £7.50.
3p. Rifle kit £4.95. Send SAE for giant. free
Polyester capacitors 250V E6 .01 to data leaflet.
.1mí 5'/2p, .15, 22 7p, .47mf 11p.
Electrolytic* 50V 47. 1, 2mf 5p, 25V BATTERY ELIMINATOR BARGAINS
5, 10mí 5p. 16V 22, 47mf 6p. 100m1 3-WAY MODELS
7p. 220 mf 9p, 470mf 11p, 1000mf' Switched 6 /7'/2/9V 300mA E2.99.
18p. Zener diodes 400mW E24 3V3 to 100MA RADIO MODELS
33V 81/2p. With press -stud connectors. 9V E3.45.
MAINS TRANSFORMERS 6V £3.45. 9 +9V £5.15. 4'h +4'/2V
6 -0 -6V 100mA 94p. 9 -0 -9V 75mA 94p. £5.15. 6+6V £5.15.
BUDGET HI -Fl DEPARTMENT 12-0-12V
0/12/15/20/24/30V
50mA 94p. 15OMA CASSETTE MODELS
71/2V with 5-pin din plug £3.65.
1A £3.85.
0/12/15/20/24/30V 2A E5.15. 6 -0-
You can now purchase this fantastic Hi -Fi system complete for only 6V 11/2A £2.75. 9 -0 -9V 1A £2.39. 12 -0-
FULLY STABILIZED MODEL E6.40
12V 1A £2.69. 15-0 -15V 1A £2 89 Switched 3/6/71/2 / 9V 400mA
£147.95 at what must be a fraction of it s value today. 30 -0-30V 1A E3.59. BATTERY ELIMINATOR KITS
System consists of:- the famous MATS, TFS60 Tuner /AMP; a really PRINTED CIRCUIT MATERIALS 100mA radio types with press stud
50 sq ins. pch. 4Op 115 FeC £1.05. battery terminals 4%2V£2.10. 6V£2.10,
top quality receiver from one of Japan's leading manufacturers, Etch resist pens: Economy type 45p. 9V E2.10. 41/A/ +41/2V £2.50. 6V +6V
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15 watts per channel FM /MW /LW, two NAD 6 speakers fitted with AR Dalo type 83p. Small drill bit 20p. E2.50. 9V +9V £2.50.
Laminate cutter 75p. Etching dish 68p. Stabilised 8 -way types transistor
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units and a Goldring belt -drive turntable with magnetic cartridge stabilized to give low hum
S -DECS AND T -DECSt 3/41/2/6/7'2i/9/12/15/18V 100mA
complete with an attractive plinth & cover of ultra modern design. S -DeC £1.94. '?"---i, model E3.20. Amp model E6.40.
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T -DeC E3.61. Heavy dirty 13 -way types 4'/ / 6 i 7 /
Leads etc supplied free. u -DeCA £3.97. '- 8'/ i 11 i 13 / 14 / 17 / 21 / 25 i
LION PRICE: Complete MATS, System £147.95
or purchased individually:
TF60 Receiver: £69.90. NAD6 Twin Speakers £55.
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u -DeCB
16 dil IC
£6.67.
urners £1.91. \-
BI -PAK AUDIO MODULES
-- -, 28 / 34 / 42V lA £4.85, 2A £7.95.
Car Converter kit Input 12V DC Output
6 /7'h /9V A regulated E1.95.
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Stabilized power kits 3.18V 100mA

£3.60. 3.30V 1A £9.95. 3 -60V 1A
Goldring Turntable (cartridge Plinth & Cover) £29.95. '
S450 Tuner E21.95. AL60 £4.86.
PA100£14.95. MK60 audio kit E36.45. '£10.95.3 -60V 2A E13.95.
Stereo 30 £17.95. SPMBO E3.75. JC12,JC20,JC40
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Leading suppliers of TELEVISIONS. RADIOS, TAPE RECORDERS, BUDGET HI-FI, CASSETTE BMT80 04.25. AMPLIFIERS -,, 177
RECORDERS, SPEAKERS, AMPLIFIERS, TUNER /AMPS., VIDEO and MUSIC CENTRES and JC12 6W IC audio amp
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ACCESSORIES, EXPORT TELEVISIONS and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. ALL AT KEEN PRICES.
SINCLAIR CALCULATORS*
Cambridge Scientific programmable cal-
culator E13.95. Prog. library E4.95.
Mains adaptor E3.20. Cambridge
with pcb. E1.95. Also
new
Mo95.
£3.95.
JC it 20W
with pcb
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11
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Lion house
Scientific E8.95. JC20 10W integrated circuit amp with
FERRANTI 2N414 pcb E2.95.
IC radio chip £1.44. Extra parts and pcb Send sae for free data on all three models.
, i,.- worlds malo/ HI li manufacturers for radio E3.85. Case £1. SAE for data and associated power and pre -amp kits
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Open 9 am lo 6 pm Monday to Saturday (Thursday until 7 pmt Marl order only. No callers. Send sae for free data on kits Post and packing 30p Prices
®r--i sib 9 include VAT. Official orders welcome. Overseas customers deduct 7% VAT on items marked'
and 11 %on others
U.K. RETURN OF POST MAIL a IDER SERVICE, ALSO WORLDW IDE EXPORT SERVICE
BSR HI -FI AUTOCHANGER R.C.S. SOUND TO LIGHT KIT BAKER MAJOR 12" £15.00 El
STEREO AND MONO £17.50 Post 75p 1.000 watts per channel.
Post
Kit of parts to build a 3 channel sound to light unit
Post 35p
£14 C^ 30.14 500 c /s. t2in double cone.
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Plays 12 ", 10" or 7" records, Auto or Easy to build. Full instructions supplied. Cabinet E3. woofer and tweeter cone together
Manual. A high quality unit backed by î' 1 with a BAKER ceramic magnet
BSR reliability with 12 months'' 1ä' assembly having a flux density of
guarantee. A.C. 200/250V R.C.S. LOW VOLTAGE STABILISED 14 000 gauss and a total flux of
POWER nPACK KtITSerdiode. 145.000 Maxwells Bass resonance
Size 131/2-11 %in. 3 speeds.
Above motor board 3%in. £2.95 45p
' 40 c/s Rated 25W NOTE 4 or 8 or
16 ohms must be stated
Below motor board 2'/2in.
with STEREO and MONO CARTRIDGE -
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t printed circuit rectifiers and double wound Post
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mains transformer. Input 200/240V a.c + Module kit, 30- 17.000 c/s with
B.S.R. SINGLE PLAYER similar to above with stereo cartridge Output voltages available. 6 or 7.5 or tweeter, crossover.
£19.00
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and cueing device. large turntable £13.50 9 or 12V d.c. up to 100mA or less. Size 3 x 21/2 x 11/2in baffle
B.S.R. P128 with magnetic cartridge. Balanced arm Please state voltage required. and instructions Post E1 6(l each
Cueing device Bias Compensator £24.50. Post E 1
Please state 4 or 8 or 16 ohms.
PORTABLE PLAYER CABINET
Modern design Rexine covered.
R.C.S. POWER PACK KIT
12 VOLT, 750mA. Complete with printed £3,35 BAKER "BIG -SOUND" SPEAKERS. Post £1 00 each
Vynair front grille. Chrome fittings circuit board and assembly instructions. Post 30p 'Group 2T 'Group 35' 'Group 50/15'
Size 17 x 15 x Bin, approx. £4.50 Post 75p 12 VOLT 300mA KIT. E3.15. 9 VOLT AMP KIT. £3.35. 1 12in 12in
£14.00
15in
£26.00
Motor board cut for BSR or Garrard deck 30W £12.00 4Dw 75W
HEAVY METAL PLINTHS

With P.V.C. Cover. Cut out for most B.S.R.
or Garrard decks. Silver grey finish.
£6.50
Post £ 1 50
R.C.S. GENERAL PURPOSE TRANSISTOR
PRE -AMPLIFIER
Ideal for Mike. Tape.
P U
- BRITISH MADE
Guitar. etc Can be used with battery
,
4 or8or 16 ohm 4or8or
BAKER LOUDSPEAKER, 12 INCH. 60 WATT.
GROUP 50/12, 4 OR 8 OR 16 OHM HIGH POWER
16 ohm Bor 16 ohm
Model "A" 200 -300V d.c. operation. Size. 1% x % x

9 -12V or H T line 1
FULL RANGE PROFESSIONAL QUALITY
Model
Size 121/2 y 143/4 x 71/2in.
Size 16 x 13% x lin.
"B" £7.50 %in. Response 25 c/s to 25 kc /s. 26 dB gain
For use with valve or transistor equipment.
£ 1.45 RESPONSE 30- 16.000 CPS
MASSIVE CERAMIC MAGNET WITH
£21.00
El 60
Post
Extra large plinth & cover, teak wood base. Post 30p
Full instructions supplied. Details S.A.E.
Size 20" x 17'/2 "x
9" E19.50. Callers only ALUMINIUM PRESENCE CENTRE DOME
RCS DRILL SPEED CONTROLLER /LIGHT DIMMER KIT. TEAK VENEERED HI -FI SPEAKERS AND CABINETS
COMPLETE STEREO SYSTEM E14.50 Post £2
Twofull size loudspeakers 13% x 10 x 3'/.in. Player unit clips Easy to build kit. Will control up to
500 watts AC mains.
Post 35p £3.25 For 12in. or 10in. speaker 20x13o12m
For 13x8in or 8in speaker E8.50 Post Et
to loudspeakers making it extremely compact. overall size
only 13% x10 x 8 %2in., 3 watts per channel, plays all records
For 61/2in. speaker and tweeter 12x8x6in E5.80 Post 75p
RCS STEREO PRE-AMP KIT. All parts to build this pre -amp. Many other cabinets in stock Phone your requirements
33 r.p,m,. 45 r.p.m. Separate volume and tone Inputs for high, medium or low imp per channel, with volume
control and P C Board. Can be ganged to make multi -way mixers.
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controls Attractive Teak finish SPEAKER COVERING MATERIALS. Samples Large S A E
240V a.c. mains £22.50 E1 carriage

£2.95 Post 35p LOUDSPEAKER CABINET WADDING 18m wide 20p ft
ELAC HI -FI SPEAKER MAINS TRANSFORMERS ALL

250- 0 -250V 70mA. 6 5V, 1A
POST 50p.
E3.45 R.C.S. 100 watt
250-0.250V 8OrnA, 6 3V 3 5A. 6 3V 14, or 5V 2A E4.60
8in. TWIN CONE 350 -0.350V BomA, 6 3V 3.5A. 6 3V 1A or 5V 2A E5.40 VALVE
300 -0-300V 120mA. 2x 6.3V 2A E8.50
Dual cone plastic toll surround. Large
ceramic magnet. 50- 16.000 c /s. Bass
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- 220V 45mA. 6.3V 2A

C T.: 5V 2A
E1.75 AMPLIFIER
HEATED TRANS. 63V 'h amp E1.00
resonance 40 c /s. 8 ohm impedance. CHASSIS
3 amp E1.40
bÌe
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15watts RMS Post 35p£5.95 GENERAL PURPOSE LOW VOLTAGE Tapped outputs 2 amp. 3, 4. 5. 6. 8. 9.
10. 12, 15. 18, 25 and 30V E5.30
Four inputs. Four way mixing. master volume. tr andbass
lamp 6.8.10 .12.16,18,20,24,30,36,40,48.60 E5.30 controls Suits all speakers This professional quality amplifier
SMITH'S CLOCKWORK 15 AMP 2 amp 6. 8, 10, 12. 16. 18, 20 24, 30, 36. 40, 48. 60 E8.50 chassis is suitable for all groups. disco. P A where high quality
TIME SWITCH 3 amp. 6, 8, 10. 12. 16, 18. 20, 24. 30, 36. 40. 413. 60 E11.00 power is required 5 speaker outputs A/C mains operated Slave
0 -6 HOURS £3.30 Post 35p 5 amp. 6. 8, 10. 12. 16. 18. 20. 24, 30. 36. 40.48. 60
12V 100mA E1.00 20V. 40V, 60V. amp 1
E14.50
E3.50
output socket Produced by demand for a quality valve amplifier
100V line output to order Send for leaflet
Single pole two -way. Surface mounting Price £94 carr £2 50
with fining screws. Will replace existing
12v, 750mA E1.00 12V. 300mA E1.00 Suitable carrying cab £16.50
20V. 3amp E2.45 10y, 30V. 40V, 2 amp E2.75
wall switch to give light for return home. 30V. 5 amp and 17V-0-17V. 2 amp 40V, 2 amp E2.95 Horn Tweeters 2 6kc
1 s. OW 8
1 ohm or 16 ohm £3.90
garage, automatic anti -burglar lights, etc. E3.45 20V. amp 1 E2.20 De Luxe Horn Tweeters 3 -18kc / s. 30W. 8 ohm. £7.50.
Variable knob. Turn on or off at full or 0 5, 8, 10. 16V. 'h amp E1.95 20V- 0 -20V. amp 1 E2.95 CROSSOVERS. TWO -WAY 3000 c/s 3 or 8 or 15 ohm
intermediate settings. Brand new and fully 20V, K amp E1.75 30V- 0-30V, 3 amp E7.00
20V. 3 amp 12.50 2 of 18V. 6 amp E11.00 E1.90. 3 -way 950 cps /3000 cps. £2.20.
guaranteed. 30V. 1'h amp E2.75 LOUDSPEAKERS P.M. 3 OHM 7x4in £1.50; 61/2in E1.80;
TEAKWOOD LOUDSPEAKER GRILLES will eavily fit to baffle AUTO TRANSFORMERS, 5V to 230V or 230V to 115V t 50W
1 1 E5.00 8x5in £1.90; 81n £1.85. .
board Size 101/2 x Thin----45p.

250W E6-00. 400W E7.00 500W.. £1.00 SPECIAL OFFER: 80 ohm 21/4in., 2 %in 35 ohm. 3in 25 . .
FULL WAVE BRIDGE CHARGER RECTIFIERS ohm. 21/2in 3in., 5x3in 7x4in 8 ohm, 2' in., 3in 31/2in
,
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6 or 12V outputs, 11/2 amp 40p 6x4in 7x4m 5x3in

5m 15 ohm, 3'/ein dia,
"MINOR" 10 watt AMPLIFIER KIT amp E1.00
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R.C.S. 2 amp 75p 4 ,
CHARGER TRANSFORMERS. 11/2 amp E2.75 3 ohm, 2 %in.. 31/2in., 5in. dia. £1.50 each
This kit is suitable for record players. guitars. tape playback. 4 amp E5.30 PHILIPS LOUDSPEAKER, 8in 4 ohms. 4 watts. £1.95
electronic instruments or small P.A. systems. Two versions 12V, 11/2 amp Half Wave Selenium Rectihe, 25p RICHARD ALLAN TWIN CONE LOUDSPEAKERS
available Mono. £11.25; Stereo, E18. Post 45p. Specification 8in diameter 4W £2.50. 10in diameter 5W £2.95;
10W per channel; input 100mV: size 91/2 x 3' x 2in. approx.
S A E details. Full instructions supplied. AC mains powered
R.C.S. 12in diameter 6W £3.50. 3 /8/15 ohms, please state
PIEZO ELECTRIC HORN TWEETER. Handles up to 100
BOOKSHELF watts No crossover required. E7.95.
VOLUME 80 Ohm Coax 8p yd. SPEAKERS Tweeter Volume Control 15 ohms OW with one inch long
13 X 10 x hin
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threaded bush for wood panel mounting. '/.in spindle 85p.

CONTROLS FRINGE LOW LOSS 15P yd. 50 to 14.000 cps
5k0 to 2M0 LOG or LIN L / Ideal 625 and colour 8 watts rms. 4, 8 or 16 ohms
BAKER 150 WATT
35p. D P 60p. STEREO L/S
85p. D P £1. Edge 5K S P
PLUGS 10p. SOCKETS 10p.
LINE SOCKETS 18p. £10 pair - Post I 1 30 PROFESSIONAL
Transistor 45p. OUTLET BOXES 50p.
GLOBAL SPEAKERS £4.95 ea. MIXER AMPLIFIER
All purpose transistorised
These little marvels of modern sound reproduction are ideally
ELAC 9 x 5in HI -FI £3.455 suited for today's domestic audio set -up. Two of these smart
Ideal for Groups, Disco
and P A 4 inputs speech and music 4 way miring
spheres, each with 5 watt deep throated ceramic magnets, will
SPEAKER TYPE 59RM Post 35p
produce superb stereo reproduction.
Output 4 8/16 ohms a c. Mains Separate treble and
his famous unit now available 10 watts 8 own bass controls Master volume control
The globe shaped cases in high gloss mouldings of red and
£ 72
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Guaranteed. Details S A E 1 50 carr
green, are finished with chrome frontal trim and provided
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E.M.I. 13'/2 x 8in. SPEAKER SALE! with screw -on rubber inset protective bases. In addition, 21/2 100 WATT DISCO AMPLIFIER
metres of strong lead volume. treble bass controls. 500 M V or 1 volt input
With tweeter and
crossover. 10 watt.
Ditto
15 watts
already fitted with phono
F is supplied.
Four loudspeaker outputs 4 to 16 ohm All transistor £59
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£185 £22.50 each VOLTMETER
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with remote electronic
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3 MHZ £250.
H.P. UHF GENERATOR Model 612A 450-1230 MHZ E360.
H.P. WAVE ANALYSER type 302A £160.
R. & S. SWEEP GENERATOR BN4242 5OKHZ-12MHZ £175
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501 .C.s and other useful components for
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KAY SWEEPER 1.5MHZ-22OMHZ CW or Sweep £120. £1 P &P 75p. CREED 7B
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50MHz Pulse Generator PM 5712
£495.00
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Offset, Delay, Prepulse & Gate. Repetition £495.00
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R.F. Signal Generator B4B7 30KHz- Heavy Duty Mk 5 (with case) £40.00 TM 6456 (dual trace).
30MHz. Output 2:- 75. Int. Mod. AVO Model 8 Mk. Ill and '8X' £53.00 TM 6457 (TV diff).
400Hz. 0-80 %. Provision for Ext. Mod. AVO Model 9 or Test Set No 1 £55.00 Full specs. on request. 6 MONTH
Audio o/p 0-10V at 400 Hz. into 6000 DYNAMCO WARRANTY £250.00
£185 Digital Voltmeter DM 2023 c/w DC
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£200.00
HEWLETT PACKARD
£450.00 State CRT
request
- 10 X 12cm. Full spec. on
£475.00
R.F. Signal Generator HF134.
100KHz- DVM type 3430A 3 diga 5 ranges 100mV
240MHz 750. Int. mod. 1KHz @ 30 %. to 100V. FS input resistances 10Mohms
Overload protection £145.00 PROBES
Ext. mod. facility £150.00 Digital Multimeter 34702A with Display )(1 Pan No. 90 £7.00
HEWLETT PACKARD X10 Part No. 91
10515A Frequency Doubler. Extends the 34740A. 4 digit display. 4 ranges both £9.00
usable frequency range of signal AC & DC plus 6 ranges of ohms. AC X1 & X10 ( switchable) Part No 95
generators. Operating on input function covers 45Hz to 100KHz. Ohms £11.00
frequencies 0.5MHz to 500MHz it ranges are 100ohms to 10Mohms FS LED
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MHz R.F. o/p 0.1µV -0.2V 50ohms
Impedance £455.00 TEKTRONIX
612A- U.H.F. Signal Generator 450 - DC30M Hz Oscilloscope 545A c/w CA & L
1230MHz. 0.1µV -0.5V (50ohms) A.M. Plug -ins £445.00
Internal & external. Pulse mod. facilities.
SUPERB CONDITION £1250.00
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TF1060 U.H.F. Signal Generator 450-
1250MHz. Sine wave and pulse a.m.
£400.00
Signal Generator TFS87. 15KHz -30MHz
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Solid State Generator 60588. Freq. range Resistance 100 ohms -10M Ohms. DC &
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Military version 10-485MHz SOLARTRON
£450.00- £800.00 A.C. Converter LM 1219. 30mV -300V Type 485 350MHz Portable, Dual Trace.
TF1370A 10Hz- 10MHz.
R.C. Oscillator mean reading. Freq. range 10Hz -10KH 5mV /div. lnsec /div sweep rate. Delayed
Square Wave up to 100KHz High Outputs P.O.A. sweep. Auto focus. variable trigger hold
up to 31.6V £225.00 D.C. Digital Voltmeter LM1420.2 on 50 ohms internal input protection
Phase /A.M. Signal Generator TF 2003 2.5µV -1 Kv in 6 ranges. ±0.05% DC £3,250.00
0.4 -12MHz £150.00 accuracy £235.00 Type 549 (Mainframe) DC-30MHz
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995A/3S. Ministry type No. CT402 R.M.S. and mean A.C. sensing. Accurate Erase. 5cm /pS writing speed. Calibrated
1.5MHz- 220MHz. R.F. o/p 2µV- 200mV. measurement irrespective of harmonic sweep delay. Various plug -in units
Internal & External Mod. Facilities V. good distortion accuracy -± 0.25 %. Freq. available £750.00
condition £385.00 20Hz -20KHz £350.00 Type 551 DC- 27MHz. Main frame and
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o /p, 0.1µV to 2V Solid State £875.00 Autoranging. 110dB series mode reject P7 long persistence CRT. Single trace.
AM /FM Signal Generator TF995B/2 on. No common Mode error P.O.A.
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Random Noise Generator 1402
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Timer Counter TC17A 6 digit, DC to AC/DC Resistance Box. 5 decade E70.00
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measurement 10Hz-512MHz 6 digit LED R.F. Power Meter TF 1 1 52 / 1 £75.00
display UNUSED CONDITION £275.00 R.F. Power Meter TF1 1 52A/ 1 £80.00
FLUKE Coqr Gain and Delay Test Set TF2904
5nsec Pulse Generator Model 2101 c/w Industrial Counter Totaliser 1941A. 5Hz-
loads and connectors £575.00 625 line £505.00
40M Hz 40mV sensitivity R.P.M. R.F. Power Meter TF2502 3 and 10 watt
Time Mark Generator 2901 £450.00 measurement £150.00
Pulse Generator Model 110 E95.00 ranges DC-1GHz £355.00
VENNER L.F. Extension Unit. TM6448 for use with
3MHz Freq. counter TSA 6674 £80.00 OA 1094A series ...
£200.00_
TRANSMISSION TEST RACAL
Frequency Period Meter 5Hz -10MHz
RHODE & SCHWARZ
EQUIPMENT 9520. Period Average measurements
AIRMEC /RACAL £110.00
Universal Counter Timer 9838.
Wave Analyser 248A. 5- 300MHz
£250.00- £300.00 Measuring functions: Frequency.
Single and multi period. Ratio and
-
Wave Analyser 248. Freq. range 5MHz-
300MHz £145.00' Multiple ratio. Time interval single line -
Modulation Meter 409 .. £295.00 and double line totalising. 10 Hz to 100
Type 210A Modulation Meter. 2.5- MHz Frequency. 10 Hz to 5 MHz Period.
300MHz, AM Range 0-100 %. FM Range 1p. S to 10. sec. Time change E285
O to !
100KHz in 4 ranges VHF Field Strength Meter HFV 25-
300MHz in band. Measurement range
GENERAL RADIO
£185.00-£245.00 VOLTMETERS 1
100dB (p V) 50 ohm impedance £1,780

Type 1900A Wave Analyser c/w Graphic
BOONTON Standard Stereodecoder MSDC BN41 93
R. F. Voltmeter 91 C. Measurement range £850.00
Level Recorder 1 521 B
1mV to 3V. Frequency range: 20 KHz to Polyscop £950.00
Spec: 1900A. 20Hz- 50KHz. 3
1200 MHz. (with 'T' Adaptor supplied).
I
bandwidths 3, 10 and 50Hz Tracking Selektomat USWV £800.00

Supplies also with R.F. probe and tip and Frequency Indicator FKN £475.00
averages 30mV -300V F.S.D. Input £455
50U termination. Weight 12 lbs. Type MSDC Standard Stereodecoder
impedance 1M ohm 3 meter speeds BRUEL & KJOER
Spec: 1521B 4.5Hz- 200KHz 1 mV
30Hz -15KHz £850.00
Heterodyne Voltmeter 2006. For Type MSC Stereocoder BN41 92/2
sensitivity. Linear dB plot of r.m.s. ac- measurements of voltage, frequency and
voltage level 20, 40 or 80 dB range
£1,250
modulation factor AM and FM. High RECORD
HEWLETT PACKARD
£2,000.00 impedance FET probe 500 termination
and 60 dB attenuator included. Sensitivity
Chart Recorder - 500 pA Movement lin.
E70.00
& 6in. per hour
Sweeping Local Oscillator 3595A Plug -in
for use with 3590A Wave Analyser Freq.
500V -
50V F.S.D. 100 KHz to 230
MHz, Built in reference voltage and
WAVETEK
Programmable Phase Meter 775 E795
range 20Hz to 620KHz £650.00 loudspeaker for identification
MARCONI INSTRUMENTS Electronic Voltmeter 2409. True R M.S.
Distortion Factor Meter TF142F Average and Peak. 2Hz to 200KHz. END OF YEAR
Fundamental Freq. Range 100Hz -BKHz.
Dist. measuring ranges 0 -5% 0-50 %.
Sensitivity 10mV 1kV. - £250
SPECIAL
FLUKE
Measures all spurious components up to
DC Differential Voltmeter 891A. Input
30KHz
RADIOMETER
£60.00- E80.00 ranges, 1, 10, 100, 1000V, DC with OFFERS at bargain
10% overanging. Infinite input resistance Quantities ófese.equipments
t
Wave Analyser FRA 2 T3 Special version 0-1100V. Absolute accuracy ± 0.01 % of prices available on short delivery until
of FRA 2 with facilities for Intermodulation input. mV full scale Null Sensitivity.
1 31st December, 1977
measurements and selective Resolution ppm of range
1 E395 OSCILLOSCOPES
measurements of frequency responses. MARCONI
GENERAL RADIO
Freq. range 30Hz to 16KHz incremental Electronic Voltmeter 1806A AC DC 9 TF2203 Single Beam DC -15MHz £120
'
with following 1dB points '
freq. 0Hz to ±60Hz. Selectivity 3 curves
1.25Hz
12.5Hz ±63Hz. Voltage range 100pV-
Resistance + 2% accuracy. Wide
frequency range -
up to 500 MHz 1
TEKTRONIX
531A c/w CA Plug -In DC- 13MHz. Dual
£175' Trace £175.00
Auxiliary Oscillator Range 0Hz to
1 KV.
1.6KHz and 1.5 to 1.6KHz o/p - 10V

impedance
HEWLETT PACKARD
R.F. Voltmeter 3406A 20µV sensitivity -
533A
Trace
c/w CA Plug -In DC- 13MHz. Dual
£186.00_
continuously variable 1
average response. mV sensitivity. mV 535A c/w CA Plug -In DC- 13MHz. Dual
Kohms 16uF
(EMF) £275.00 - 3V F.S.
1
8 ranges. 10KHz - 1
1
.2 GHz
£485
Trace .......
545 c/w CA Plug -In. DC -24MHz
£200.00
£225
BRIDGES RHODE & SCHWARZ OSCILLATORS
AVO /BPL ADVANCE
Selective Microvoltmeter. USVH
Type CZ457 /5 Component Comparator.
Used for testing or calibrating resistors,
.1521. 10.KHz -
30 MHz. 0.2 V -E675 BN
IV J_1A 15Hz- 50KHK___ £40.00
£245.00 F. s. d. of lowest range V MARCONI
capacitors and inductors
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MARCONI INSTRUMENTS TF1101 20Hz-200KHz £85.00

TFT245 CCT Magn Meter c /w Oscillator MISCELLANEOUS AF POWER METER
TF1246 £685.00 ADVANCE MARCONI
WAYNE KERR Digital Panel Meters. DPM. 102, 103, TF893A £150.00
COMPONENT BRIDGE B521 (CT375) 112P, 201, 204, 301, 302, 303. 306, AF ATTENUATOR
Resistance 10 ranges from 1M ohm to 343 Price and apace. on application MARCONI
1000M ohm. Capacitance 10 ranges AVANTEK F338C ....., £60.00
from 50kyF to 500pF. Inductance 10 Unit Amplifier Type OF 101. Gain control
ranges from 1µF to 500 KH Capable of modules designed for use with UA
measuring components in sau £105.00 amplifier or other systems. Weight 'hoz. Sown on these
Universal Bridge B221A (CT530). 0.1% 500 impedance. Frequency response 10-
Accuracy. Measures R, G, C & L. Mains
£275.00
500MHz E150
Unit Amplifier Type UA 103. Frequency 'st pesages are
operated
response 10- 500MHz. 10-70dB of gain requiretis It the ite
Low Impedance Adaptor Q221A for use n°You
with above £75.00 by cascading modules. 500 impedance not shown
£50 please
FREQUENCY Unit Amplifier Type UA 301 Frequency
£75
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give
to 400MHz Nominal gain 7dB
COUNTERS Unit Amplifier UA 305. 2- 400MHz us a
ADVANCE Response. Nominal gain 13 dB £100 ring.
Counter TCI6 5Hz- 80MHz. 5 digit Full specs. on the above devices available
£110.00 on request.
Timer Counter TC14 9 digit. Display BIRD
storage. DC - 250MHz Time limits Coaxial Resistor 8053 10W RF coaxial
selectable 0.1,rs -100s Multiple period load resistor E20.00
average 10 -10 -. Sensitivity 10mV, Wattmeter Termaline 6835 3 ranges 0-
100mV, 500mV. Overload protected 120 / 0-600 / 0 -1200W 30- 500MHz
£475.00 £425.00
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VA LV E PLUMBICON TUBES TYPE TF 80113/1/S SIGNAL GENERATOR. Range 10

R F aes
output DI V IV Source
!Ei; XQ.1020R C 5MHz Inoutput impedance Internal modulation at RHODE & SCHWARZ
61065 1.25 EL84 0.35 Py83 0.50 Mullard -£150 each 1
TF
KHZ at up to
5016/2.
90%
Spec as for 801D but minor circuit
2 -g DIAGRAPH TYPE 2DU 30- 420MHz 500
Directly measures muluterminal networks, phase
AR8 0.80 6186 0.50 PY88 0.50 5Ú4G 0.60 6567 0.55 30F11 1.00 differences. Few only left E160.
EL90 0.50 PY500A1.35 shift, phase angle with complementary POWER
ARP3 0.60 PY801 0.55
5V4G 0.65 6SG7 0.60 301'113 1.10 TF 6956/1 or A/2 or A /2M or AS SIGNAL SIGNAL GENERATOR TYPE SMLM high frog
ATP4 0.50 EL91 1.60 5Y3GT 0.85 6ßJ7 0.60 30F114 1.10 GENERATORS. Very high class AM /FM 5MHz to
EL95 0.70 00V03-10 1 resolution. internal external mod up to 3v out
81 211 3.00 5Z3 1.00 6S37GT 0.50 35L6GT 0.80 220MHZ. Detailed spec and price on application FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER TYPE XUA.
DAF96 0.60 EL504 0.80 2.00 5Z4G 0.70 66K7 0.60 35W4 0.80 TF 995/35 with additional amplifier to give extra high
EL821 3.00 QQVO6-40A 30Hz -30MHz with FREQUENCY INDICATOR
DET2212.85 5Z4GT 0.75 6SL7GT 0.55 35Z4GT 0.70 output between 15 and 6 Mc /s ' TYPE FKM 15.30MHz. 30- 100MHz
DF 96 0.60 EM31 0.75 14.00 6A87 0.80 6SN7GT 0.55 5005 0.70
EM80 0.55 QV03-122.00 UHF SIGNAL GENERATOR TYPE SMLM
DK96 0.80 6AC7 0.60 6507 0.65 50CD6G 1.20 TF 14005 DOUBLE PULSE GENERATOR from 30 to 303MHz
0192 0.50 EM8I 0.60 R19 0.80 6666 0.75 6V6GT 0.60 75 1.00 WITH TM 8800 /S SECONDARY PULSE
EM84 0.40 5104/1K 2.50 UHF SIGNAL GENERATOR TYPE SLSD from
0196 0.70 6AK5 0.45 6X4 0.45 75C1 0.80 UNIT. For testing radar, nucleonics. scopes. 300 to 300- 940MHz
DY86/87 0.45 EM87 1.00 SC1/400 4.00 6ÁK8 0.40 6X5G 0.45 76 0.80 counters. filters etc SPEC. TF 14005. Rep. Freq
EY51 0.45 SC1/600 4.00 FREQUENCY INDICATOR TYPE FKM from 30
DY802 0.45 6615 0.30 6X5GT 0.55 78 0.75 10Hz to 100kHz, pulse width 0.1 to 100 sec.,
to 1,000MHz
E88CC /011.30 EY81 0.45 SP61 0.85 6AL5W 0.65 6Y6G 0.95 80 0.75 delay -1 5 to +3000v sec.. rise time 305 sec.
EY86/870.50 TT21 6.50 8562 0.75 UHF SIGNAL GENERATOR TYPE SDR from
E180CC1.30 64M5 1.60 6Z4 0.65 SPEC. TM 6600/S. As for TF 1400S except
300 to 1000MHz to 8 ranges
E182CC3.50 EV88 0.50 U25 1.00 6ÁM6 0.85 6 -3012 0.90 723A/8 9.00 pulse width 0 5 to 25,, sec delay 0 to +300,,
EZ40 0.60 U26 0.85 Prices on application
E810F 8.00 6658 0.85 787 0.80 803 6.00 sec. E230.
EA50 0.45 EZ41 0.75 1)27 1.00 6405 0.50 7Y4 0.80 805 18.00
EA76 2.00 EZ80 0.30 U191 0.75 6AQ5W 0.85 902 0.60 8 07 1.00 TF 144 H SIGNAL GENERATOR
E ABC 800.40 EZ81 0.35 U801 0.80 6656 0.80 906 0.75 813 6.50 TEKTRONIX
EAF42 0.70 GV501 0.80 UABC80 0.50 6616 085 829B 5.50 HIGH FREQUENCY SPECTRUM ANALYSER. SAMPLING OSCILLOSCOPE TYPE 661 with plug-
11E3 11.00 MARCONI TYPE 10946/S Basic Freq range 3 to 30
E891 0.30 GZ32 0.65 UAF42 0.75 6AÚ6 0.40 1266 0.60 8326 4.50 in type 4S
dual trace sampling unit and probes.
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GZ33 2.50 UBC41 0.80 Mc /s and with LF unit from t00Hz to 3MHa Measures 545A. Bandwidth DC to 30MHz (3dB down at 30MHe)
EBC33 1.00 6AV6 0.50 12615 0.70 866A 2.80
EBC41 0.75 GZ37 2.00 U8F80 0.50 64X4GT 0.80 12ÁT6 0.45 9316 5.00 relative amplitudes up to 60de. 0:dB. depending on plug-in unit. Specification and
EBF80 0.45 KT66 4.00 UBF89 0.50 6AX5GT 1.00 12607 0.45 954 0.50
TF 934 DEVIATION METER. 250MHz
price on request.
EBF83 0.45 KT88 5.00 UBL1 1.00 687 0.75 12AU7 0.40 956 0.50 570 CHARACTERISTIC CURVE TRACE
EBF89 0.40 MH4 1.00 UBL21 0.75 6666 0.40 957 0.90 517A OSCILLOSCOPES wide band high voltage
12AV6 0.70 TF1041 VALVE MULTIMETER. DC voltage from
S cathode ray oscilloscope designed for observing and
EC52 0.40 ML6 1.00 UCC85 0.50 68E6 0.45 126X7 0.40 1625 1.00 300mV to000V AC voltage from 300mV to 300V at
0A2 0.45 UCF80 0.80 0.70
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photographically recording waveform having extremely
ECC81 0.45 6BG6G 1.00 12846 0.50 1629 up to 1.000MHz. short rise Imes
ECC82 0.40 082 0.46 UCH42 0.80 68J6 075 128E6 0.60 2051 1.00 TF1370 R.C. OSCILLATOR FOR SQUARE & SINE
ECC83 0_40 PABC800.40 UCH81 0.50 0.60 5763 2.00 REDIFON SSB TRANSISTORISED TRAN
68076 12667 0.60 WAVE. Freq -31.6V rms 1060I MHz square wave SCEIVER GR410. 2-16 c /s. 200 -250V. channels.
ECC84 0.35 PC86 0.65 UCL82 0.45 6807 2-30 12C8 0.55 5933 3.00 0 -73 2pp IOHz- 100KHz Attenuator range -50d13 to
4
ECC85 0.45 PC88 0.65 UCL83 0.70 6BW6 280 12E1 4.25 6057 0.85 + 10dB. Impedance 75. 100, 6000 E145.
1 DOW p c. p.
ECC86 1.25 PC92 0.85 UF41 0.75 1.00 6060 0.85 DANA EXACT FUNCTION GENERATOR MODEL
68W7 12J5GT 0.40 121. Frequency range 0 2H to 2MHz (7 ranges).
ECC88 0.55 PCC84 0.45 UF80 0.40 0.40 12K7G1 0.60 6064 0.85
ECC 1890.80 PCC85 0.50 UF85 0.50
6C4
6C6 0.55 12K8GT 0.70 6065 1.20 SIEMENS voltage controlled to 10V sweep generator ms to 10 1
PCC89 0.55 UF89 0.50 LEVEL OSCILLATOR TYPE BEL 3W518. Frequency sec.
ECF80 0.45 6086 0.50 12Q7GT 0.50 6067 1.00
TEXSCAN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM ANALYZER
ECF82 0.45 PCC1890.65 U141 0.75 6CH6 3.00 12SC7 0.55 6080 3.50 from 10KHz to 7MHz Modulation is external, output
1
PCF82 0.40 UL84 0.50 from +10d8 to -60d8 to 8 steps and in continuance MODEL 9990. Frequency range 10MHe to 300MHz
ECF801 0.75 6CL6 0.75 12ßG7 0.55 6146 3.50
with wobbler step generator Imp output 150. 145. with market controls
ECH42 0.85 PCF84 0.65 UY4I 0.55 606 0.50 124J7 0.55 61468 4.20
0.65 UY85 0.50 135. 75. 65 ohms FURZEHILL SENSITIVE VALVE VOLTMETER
ECF81 0.45 P C F 8 6
PCF201 0.90' VR105/30 6E68 0.80 1204 0.40 6360 2.00
LEVEL OSCILLATOR TYPE REL 3W29. Frequency TYPE V2004 full scale from 1OmV to 1000V to 6 steps
ECH84 0.50 6F8G 0.75 1457 1.00 8020 5.50 from 0 3 to 1200Kc /s. Mod est output from +16d8
ECL80 0.60 PCF801 0.65 0.50 with output amplifier.
to -60dB. Impedance output 75, 140. 600 ohms TRAINING SET for Radio Operators with 10 key
ECL82 0.40
ECL83 1.20
PCF802 0.55
PCF8051.10
VR150/30
0.50 Add 121/2 % for V.A.T. terminals and control frequency and volume.
TRANSMITTER RECEIVER. Transmitter Type M9.
PCF8060.85 X61M 1.50
ECL86 0.55
EF36 0.75 PCF8081.00 X66 0.75 6612 0.65 19405 0.75 9001 0.40 SPECIAL VAT FOR receiver Type M 7 with fixed frequency (X.tal 37, 40 or
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1903 10.00 9002 0.65 VALVES

EF39 1.00 PCH2000.80 Z8000 3.00 ÁF17 1.00
1906 6.00 9003 0.70 813189 250.00 TEST molar MHz).
0.70 PCL81 0.60 Z80111 3.50 6633 4.20 TEST SET FT2 for testing Transceivers A40. A41 A42
EF40
EF41 0.75 PCL82 0.45 Z900T 1.50 666 0.45 1965 17.00 9004
9006
0.40
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M503-2J42 EQUIPMENT and CPRC26
20F3 0.60 65.00
EF80 0.35 PCL83 0.70
PCL84 0.50
1A3
1L4
0.60
0.30
6J4WA
6J5
1.75
0.75 20F4 1.10 C.R. TUBES K301 7.00 8% PLEASE UNIVERSAL WIRELESS TRAINING SET No 1 Mk
2 YA 8316 to train 32 operators simultaneously on key
EF83 1.50 25L6GT 0.80 15.00 KRN2A 6.00 ADD 8%
EF85 0.45 PCL86 0.80 105 0.55 6J5GT 0.55 DG7 -5 and phone Complete installation consists of 3 kits
PCL805/85 154 0.40 6J6 0.35 30C15 1.00 DG 13 -2 22.00 725A 25.00
EF86 0.45 30017 1.10 MW13 -35 2J/52A 75.00 packed in 3 special transit cases
EF89 0.35 0.60 155 0.40 6J7 0.70
1.10 CV2339 45.00 HARNESS "A" & "6" CONTROL UNITS "A" "R"
EF91 0.65 PFL200 0.70 1T4 0.40 6J7G 0.50 30018
1.00
35.00
CV5228 17.50
PLEASE SEND "J1" "J2," Microphones No 5 6 7 connectors
0.75 PL36 0.60 1028 0.80 6K7 0.55 30F5 VCR 139A 10.00
EF92
EF95 0.45 PL81 0.55 202 0.80 6K7G 0.35 306112 1.20 381,1 8.00 STAMP WITH frames carrier sets etc
PL82 0.50 21321 0.55 0.65 30F114 1.00 10.00
EF183 0.40 6K8GT 5FP7
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EF804 2.00
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E132 0.60 P1509 2.00 3S4 0.50 POSTAGE: -E2 20p. E2 -£3 30p; £3 -£5
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DEC PDP8L SYSTEMS Delayed strobe and 2 -key rollover. Mounted in attractive CENTRONICS 102A twin -head printer
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DEC PDP11 /04 SYSTEM
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DEC TU10 PAPER TAPE EQUIPMENT FACIT 4070
Magnetic Tape Deck in Eft. cabinet. High -speed punch, BRAND NEW in original packing
DEC PR11 HONEYWELL KEYBOARDS complete with accessories. £950.00
High -speed Paper Tape Reader complete with PDP11 4 -bank alphanumeric ex- equipment keyboards. 50
Interface keystations. diode-encoded, 7 -bit positive logic, positive Also available: FACIT 4.060
strobe. TTL /DTL- compatible. Power requirements 5V and 4001 Punches and Readers: Teletype BRPE High-
DEC POWER SUPPLIES 100mA. Layout similar to IBM 029. Price £25.00 + £1 speed electromechanical punches. Elliott medium and
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DEC RK8E /RK05
Disk drive and control.
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Terminals
* Teletype -compatible *12" Diagonal Screen * TTY
Format Keyboard *64 ASCII Character Set * 5 x 7
Dot Matrix * Switch -selectable Transmission Rate
up to 9600 baud * Switch -selectable Parity * HAZELTINE 2000
Standard CCITT V.24 Interface full
Superb buffered terminal with edit facilities. 1998
HAZELTINE 1000 HAZELTINE 1200 All the features of the character capacity (27 lines of 74). detachable ASCII
Compact terminal providing 12 line by 80 character keyboard including 10 -key numeric pad and 13-key
Model 1000 but with double screen capacity of 1920
display (960 chs.). full /half Duplex, MOS -shift register characters (24 lines of 80). Reverse block image Cursor.
edit /cursor control cluster. Selectable transmission
memory with constant refresh. Underline cursor. full /half Duplex or batch.
New List Price £900. New List Price £941. New List Price £ 1649.
NEW LOW PRICE £495 OUR PRICE £725.00 OUR PRICE £895.00
ALL UNITS FACTORY-REFURBISHED TO AS -NEW STANDARD AND COVERED BY 90-day warranty
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EL81 1.00 14308 0.f8 PL802 3.20 uU12 X41 1.00 ACY20 030 8Y126 0.18 0C28 0.89
EL83 1.00 14339 1.2s PM84 075 UY41 0.70 X6I 2.00 ACY2I 0,30 BY127 0.21 0C29 0.73
EL84 0.41 N379 /5/ PY31 0.50 UY42 0.70 X63 1.40 ACY22 018 BYY23 1.16 0C36 1.00
EL86 0.60 N709 841 PY33/2 050 UY85 0.00 X65 2.00 ACY28 021 BYZIO
C OR PORATI ON L TD.
020 0C38 0.50
EL90 0.88 P6I 0.N PY80 0.50 U10 1.00 X66 2.00 AD140 0.50 BYZII 0.30 0C41 0.58
EL95 0.80 PABC80 0.45 PY81 0.80 1.112/14 1.15 X76M 075 AD161 0.53 BYZ12 0.30 OC42 0.73
EL360 2.50 PC86 09/ PY82 0.40 U16 1.00 X 119 0.50 ADI62 0.53 BYZ13 0.30 0C43 1.37
7A GLOU CESTER ROAD, LITTLE HAM PTON, SUS SEX. Tel. 6743 E1.506 2.60 PC88 /.86 PY83 0.80 UI7 1.00 X142 1.00 AF102 1.04 BYZ15 2.03 0C44 0.12
EL509 2.50 PC92 9.65 PY88 0.600 1118/20 2.50 X150
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PRICE SHOWN INCLUDE V.A.T. AT 21/2 % 1.00 AFI06 0.58 CG12E 023 0C45 0.13
UA2 0.85 6AX4 0.75 6L6GC 1.75 12A l'6 0.45 30P18 8E-63 2.00
EM80 1.00 PC95
PC97
1.01 PY301
0.75 PY500
0.50 U19 4.00 X719 0.55 AFII4 0.30 CG64H 0.23 OM 1.31
OSO EM81 1.00 1.50 U22 085 Z145 0.87AFI15 0.30 FSYIIA 0.28 (JC70 0,14
OB2 0.40 6B8G 0.75 6L7(M) 1.50 12AT7 Q40 30PL1 1.25 CL33 2.00 EC52 1.00 EM83 1.00 PC900 0.06 PY500A 158 U25 1.00 Z152 040 AFI17
0C3 0.50 68A6 0.45 6L12 058 12AU6 0.23 ESY41A 0.26 OC71 013
0.50 30PL12 0.54 CV8 0.60 EC53 1.00 EMM PCCM 11.311 PY800 0.80 Z329 070 AFI21
OZ4 0.55 6BC8 0.90 6LI8 0.q 12AÚ7
1.00 U26 0.90 0.35 GD4 038 0072 0.13
0.48 30PL13 1.30 CV63 1.00 EC54 1.0/ EM85 1.20 PCC85 0.47 PY801 0.80 U31 0.50 Z7I9 0.40 0074 0.26
1A3 0.60 6BE6 0.60 61.19 200 12ÁV6 0.00 30PL14 AF124 0.36 GD5 0.32
1.50 CV988 0.25 EC86 0.04 EM87 1.45 PCC88 SOI PZ30 0-50 U33 1.75 Z729 0.50 0075 0.13
IASGT 0.55 6BG6G 1.00 6LD12 0.48 12AX7 0.48 30PL15 1.30 CYIC 1.00 EC88 0.84 PCC89 AF125 0.50 GD6 032
EMM803 2.50 0-49 QP21 1.10 U35 1.75 Z749 1.00 GD8 OC76 0.18
IA7GT 0.60 6BH6 1.00 6LD20 0.80 12BA6 0.50 35A3 CY3I EC90 AF139 0.76 0.23
0.75 1.00 0.50 EY5I SOS PCC189 0.60 QQV03/ 10 U37 2.00 Z759 OSO GD9 023 0077 0.32
IB3GT 0.55 68J6 0.75 6N7GT 0.70 128E6 0.85 DI AF178 0.79
35C5 0.80 0.50 EC92 1.00 EY8I 1.50 PCC805 075 2.00 U45 1.20 0078
IC2 1.00 6BK7A 0.85 6PLI2 0.40 120917 0.55 35D5 0.90 D63 0.50 EC97 0.75 PCC806 0.70 QS75/20 1.00
Transistors AF180 058 GDII 0.23 0.18
IDS
EY83 I50 U47 1.00 and Diodes AF 186 0.64 GD12 0.23 0078D 0.18
0.75 6BN8 1.00 6P15 0.41 12017 1.15 35L6GT 090 DAC32 0.80 ECC32 1.00 EYM/7 045 PCF80 080 QS95/10 1.00 U99 0.90 IN1124A 0.81
IG6 AF239 044 GDI4 0-58 JC79 0.47
1.00 68Q5 0.41 6Q7G 0.75 12E1 350 35W4 0.55 DAF9I 0.35 ECC33 2.00 EY88 I.M PCF82 0.45 Q5150715 1.80 U50 0.65 I N4744A 0.16 0081
IH5GT ASY27 050 GD15 0.47 0.13
0.80 6BQ7A 1.40 6Q7GT 075 12J5GT 0.40 35Z3 0.80 DAF96 1.00 ECC35 2.00 EY91 0.56 PCF84 070 QV03/ 12 2.75 U52 1.00 IN4952 058
1L4 0.25 6BR7 6Q7M 575 1217GT 070 ASY28 0.38 GDI6 0.23 OCBID 0.13
1.00 35Z4GT 070 DC90 0.70 ECC4O 1.00 EY500A 1.45 PCF86 0.57 QV04/7 3.00 U76 0.70 0012
ILDS 0.70 6BR8 6R7G 070 121(5 2N404 0.21 ASY29 0.58 GET119 0.30 0.13
1.25 1.50 35Z5GT 0.80 DD4 0.80 ECC81 0.48 E235 15/ PCF87 090 QV 06/20 4.70 U78 0.95 OC82D 0.13
1LN5 0.70 6BW6 3.50 607(M) 1.00 12K7GT 0.50 214966 081 BA1O2 0.53 GET573 0.44
5085 0.95 DF33 0.75 ECC82 0.48 EZ40 1.00 PCF200 1.35 RIO 500 7181 0.80 1241756 0.58' BA115 GET587 050 0083 0.23
INSGT 0.75 6BW7 0.85 6SA7 0.70 121(8 0.75 5005 0.70 DF91 0.30 ECC83 048 EZ41 LIN PCF201 1.00 011 1.00 U150
0.18
IRS 0.50 68X6 6SC7GT 1.00 12Q7GT 0.50
1.00 2N2147 059 BA116 0.21 GET872 1-11 0054 0.28
0.40 50CD6G 4.00 DF96 1.00 ECC84 0.50 EZ80 0.35 PCF800 150 R16 2.00 U153 0.60 0C123
154 0.40 6BY7 6567 12SA70T 075 2N2297 026 BA129 0.14 GET873 018 0.26
0.45 0.70 50EH5 085 DI-163 075 ECC85 050 EZ81 0.40 PCF801 0.49 817 1.50 U191 0.50
1S5 0.35 6BZ6 65917 0.70. 12SC7 050 2142369 0.10 BA130 0.12 GET882 058 0C140 1.11
1.50 50L6GT 1.00 DH76 0.50 ECC86 200 EZ90 0.95 PCF802 0.75 R19 0.75 U192 0.40 2142613 GET887 0C169 0.50
114 0.30 6C4 0.50 6317 0.70 12SG7 0.55 DH77 ECC88 0.72 PCF805 R20
0.45 BA148 020 0.20
661(11 1.00 0.60 FC4 1.00 2.25 0.90 U193 0.60 0C171 0.40
IU4 0.70 6C6 0.45 651(7 1.00 12SH7 0.50 DH81 ECC9I
2143053 0.38 BAI53 0.18 GET889 020
72 0.70 1.00 0.35
FW4/500 238 870
PCF806 R52 0.75 U251 1.00 2N3121 2.90 8CYI0 GET896 0.28 0C172 0.41
1U5 0.85 6C9 2.00 6SK7G 0.70 12SJ7 0.00 DK32 ECCI89 1.00 FW4/800 053
1 77 0.45 0.80 250 PCH200 1.00 RK34 1.00 U281 0.75 2913703 0.23 BCYI2 GET897 028 0C201 1.00
21)21 0.55 OC10 0.71 6íQ7 0.70 1251(7 0.W 85A2 DK40 ECC804 0.90 GY501 0.58
1.40 1.00 125 PCL82 1.54 SP9 1.50 1/282 0.70 2N3709BCY33 023 0.23 GET898 020 0C204 0.50
2G K5 0.75 6CB6A 065 6U4GT 1.00 12SN7GT 075 85A3 1.40 13K91 0.50 ECC8O7 2.80 GZ30 0.75 PCL83 0.75 SP13C 0.75 U291 0.502143866 1.18 BCY34 GF-X113 0.21 0C206 1.05
2X2 0.70 6C12 0.55 6U7G 0.55 12SQ7 080 90CV DK92 ECF80 0.26
5.50 1.00 0.65 GZ32 1.60 PCL84 9.40 TH4B 1.00 U301 1.00 2N3988 0.58 GEX36 058 ORP12 0.61
3A4 055 6CD6G 4.00 6U8 0.50 12SQ7GT 080 108C1 0.40 01(96 ECF82 0.50 GZ33 PCL86 BCY38 0.26
1.00 2.00 0.66 TH233 1.00 U329 1.00 25323 GEX45 SF1237 0.50
387 0.55 6CG8A 0.90 6V6G 0.50 12SR7 0.75 0.58 BC107 0.14 0.38
150C2 0.85 DL63 0.70 ECF86 0.88 GZ34 2.811 -PCL88 1.50 TP2620 1.00 U339 0.50 AA119 0.18 BC108 SM1036 0.58
3D6 0.40 6CL6 0.75 6V6GT 1.00 13D8 2.00 0.14 GEX55 0.87
215SG 0.60 DL82 1.00 ECH35 2.00 GZ37 2.00 PCL800 129 TP22 1.00 U381 0.60 ST1276 058
8Q4 0.80 6CL8A 0.95 6X4 0.95 14H7 0.75 ECH42 AA12D 0.18 13009 0.14 GT3 0.30
303 1.20 DL92 0.65 1.00 HABC80 680 PCL801 1.25 TP25 1.00 U403 0.90 SXI/6
3Q5GT 0.70 1.00 6X5GT
AA129 0.18 BC! 13 0.30 MI 0.18 0.21
6C M7 0.50 1457 1.00 305 1.20 DIM 1.00 ECH81 0.55 HLI3C 0.M PC1,805/85 UABC80 0.45 U404 075 AAZ13 0.21 BCII5 0,18 MAT100 0.45 U14706 0.30
354 0.65 6CS6 0.65 6Y6G 0.95 18 1.25 807 DIJO ECH83 1.00 HL23 0.85 UAF42
1.10 1.00 570 0.70 U709 0.40 AC107 0.18 BCII6 0.30 MATI01 0.50 XZ30 0.30
3V4 1.00 6C U5 0.90 6Y7G 1.25 19AQ5 9.65 ECH84 0.75 HL23DD
956 0.50 DM70 1.25 010 P044DD 2.00 UBC41 0.70 U801 1.00 AC113 0.30 BC118 0.28 MATI20 045 1543 0.21
4C86 0.75 6D3 0.75 7A7 198G6G 1.11 ECL80
1.011 1625 2.50 DM71 1.75 0.55 HL41 1.00 PEN25 LOO UBC81 0.55 U4020 1.00 AC114 0.47 8E154 OA9 0.14 Y728 0.21
4GK5 0.75 6DE7 0.90 786 1966 0.50 ECL82 0.30
1.00 1821 1.00 DW4/350 1.15 0.50 HLAIDD 1-W PEN45 1.00 UBF80 0.50 VLS492 9.50 AC126 0A47
5CG8 0.75 6DT6A 787 1.00 19911 4.14 0.14 0E158 021 0.12
0.85 5702 1.20 DY51 2.00 ECL83 1.50 H1A2DD LW PEN45DD 150 UBF89 029 VP2 1.50 AC127 0.20 8E159 030 0A70 0.18
5R4GY 1.00 6EW6 0.85 7D6 2.00 19Y3 0.40 5763 2.75 DY87/6 045 ECL84 0.90 HN309 1.70 PEN46 1.00 UBL21 2.00 VP4(5) 2-00
5T4 2.00 6E5 1.00 7F8 2.00 20D1 0.70 6057 2.00 ECL85 PEN453DD
AC128 026 0E163 Q23 0A73 0.18
DY802 0.50 0.80 HVR2 1.00 UC92 0.50 VP13C 0.60
5U4G 1.00 6F1 0.80 7117 1.00 20D4 2.50 6060 200 ECL86
AC132 0.23 8E173 0.44 0A79 0.11
E8OCC 4.75 0.84 HVR2A 1.00 200 UCC84 090 l'P23 065
5V4G 1.00 6F6G 0.70 7R7 2.00 20F2 0.85 6067 200 E80CF 6.00 ECLL800 HY90 0.55 PENA4 1.00 UCC85 0.45 VP41 0.90
AC 154 0.30 13E180 0.35 0A81 0.11 ALL
5Y3GT 0.65 6F12 0.70 7V7 2.00 20LI AC156 0.23 13E181 0.47 0A85 0.11
1.20 6146 4.70 E80F 5.50 10.00 KT2 890 PENDD/ UCF80 0.80 l'R105 0.50 AC157 0.30 BFI85 047 OA86 0.23 PRICES
5Z3 1.40 6FI4 0.90 7Y4 0.80 20P1 1.00 6463 2.09 E83F 350 EF22 1.00 KT8 3.00 4020 1.00 UCH2I 2.00 VR150 0.75
5Z4G 0.75 6F15 7Z4 ACI65 0.30 BFY50 0.28 OA90 0,14 INCLUDE
0.85 0.80 20P3 1,08 7025 2.00 E88CC 1.20 EF40 1.00 KT32 1.00 PFL200 8-N UCH42 1.00 VT81A 0.75 ACI66 0.30 BFY$1 OA91 0.11
5Z4GT 1.00 6F16 8D2 0.50 20P4 1.84 7193 0.23
1.00 0.00 E92CC 4.50 EF41 1.00 KT4I 1.00 PL33 1.00 UC H81 050 VU111 1.00 AC 168 0.44 BFY52 0A95 0.11 Y.A.T.
6/30L2 0.90 6F18 0.60 8D8 0.50 20P5 150 0.23
7475 1.20 EIBOCC 5.00 EF73 1.75 KT44 1.00 PL36 0.89 UCL82 0.55 VU120 1.00 0A200
AC169 0.38 BTX 34/400 0.11
6ASG 1.40 6F23 1.00 9BW6 0.90 25A6G 171 9002 0.55 E180F 5.50 EF80 0.40 1(163 070 PL81 0-49 UCL83 1.00 VU120A 1.00 AC176 0.64 2.31 0A202 0.12
NOTHING
6AC7 0.70 6F24 0.80 9D7 0.70 25L6G 1.M 9006 845 E182CC 5.50 EF83 1.70 KT66 100 PL8IA 0.75 UF91 0.70 VU133 1.00 AC177 0.32 BY100 0.21 OC 19 1.44 EXTRA
6AG5 0.35 6E25 1.00 9U8 0.45 25Y5 080 A1834 1S0 E188CC 4.50 EF85 0.45 KT7I 1.00 PL82 9.50 UF42 1.00 VX6020 1.00 ACYI7 0.30 BY101 0.18 0022 0,44
6AG7 0.70 6F26 0.36 10C2 0.70 25Z4G 0.50 A3042 0.N E280F 12.50 EF86 0.50 KT8I 2.00 P1.83 0.50 UF80
6M-I6 0.70
0.40 W76 0.50 ACY18 0.23 BY105 0.21 0C23 0.44 TO
6F28 085 10014 0.50 25Z5 0.75 AC2PEN 1M E1148 0.60 EF89 0.55 KT88 6.75 P1.84 O5/ UF85 0.50 W81M 1.20
6AJ5 0.70 6F32 1.00 IODI 1.00 25266 090 AC2PENDD EA50 EF9I
ACYl9 023 BY114 021 0C24 0.44 PAY
0.40 0.70 KTW61 1.50 PL302 0.9/ UF89 0.52 W 107 1.00
6AJ8 0.55 6G6G 1.00 IODE7 0.80 28D7 2.00 1.10 EA76 1.30 EF92 0.70 KTW62 1.50 P1509/500 UL41 0.90 W719 0.45 MATCHED TRANSISTOR SETS
6AK5 0.45 6GH8A 0.80 I0F1 0.87 30A5 0.75 AC6/PEN IM EABC80 044 EF93 0.45 KTW63 150 1.00 UL46 1.00 W729 1.20 LPI5(AC113,ACI54, AC157. AA 120), 6lppe pack.
6A K8 0.48 6GK5 0.75 10F9 0.85 30C 1 080 AC/P4 I5O EAC91 0.55 EF94 0.50 L63 0.65 PIS05 2.55 UL84 0.54 W D709 1.00 1/0011D and 2/0081, 50p.
6AL5 0.25 6GK6 2.00 10F18 0.65 30C15 1.00 AC/PEN(7) EAF42 1.00 EF95 0.45 P1.508 1.30 UM80 /0044 and 2/0045, 50p
6AM6 LNI19 0.55 1.00 XE3 0.60 1
0.70 6GU7 0.90 101.14 0.45 30017 056 121 EAF801 1.50 EF97 0.90 114152 0.55 PL500 256 URIC 1.00 XFY12 /008213 and 2/0082, 56p. Set of 3.11C83, 74p.
0.60
6AM8A
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0.70 6H6GT 050 IOLDII 0.75 30018 2.25 AC/THI 1.S0 Ea34 0.50 EF98 0.90 LN309 0.75 PL519 1.80 UU5 1.15 XH15 0.60 watt Zenners, 2.4v. 2.7v, 3v, 3.6v, 4.3v, 4.7v, 5.1v, 13v. 15v,
1
6AN8 0.70 6J5GT 065 101.12 0.45 30E5 0.70 ISO EB91 0.25 EFI83 0.45 LZ319 0.89 PL801 074 UU9 052 XSG15 1.20 16v, 18v, 20v. 24v, 30v, 12p each.
6AQ5 6.68 6J6 055 IOPL12 0.55 30LI 0.39 ARP3 G00 EBC4I 1.00 EF184 0.45 12329 090
6AQ8 050 6J7G 050 10P13 0.80 30L15 0.75 ATP4 0.50 EBC81 1.00 EF804 6.25 M8162 2.00 All goods are unused and subject to the ma ufaclurers' guarantee.
6AR5
6AS7
080
1.50
6J7M
61Ú8A
0.65
090
10P14
1OP18
2.50
0.54
30L17
30P4.IR
0.70
0.88
AZI
AZ31
SSO
I-M
EBC90
EBC9I
0.60
0.65
EH90
EK90
0.65
0.60
MHL4 1.00
MHLD6 099
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6AT6 0.60 6K7G 0.50 I2Á6 1.00 30PI2 0.74 AZ4I 050 EBF80 1.00 EL32 1.00 MKT4 1.20 Any parcel in ured against damage in transit for 5p extra per parcel. Conditions of sale available on
6AU6 0.50 6K8G 0.50 12AC6 060 30P19/ B36 8.73 EBF83 0.45 EL35 3.00 MUI2/14 1.15 request. Many others in stock too numerous to list. Please enclose S.A.E. for reply to any enquiries.
6AV6 0.66 6K8GT 055 12AD6 050 30P4 016 8719 050 EBF89 0.40 EL37 3.00 t)p(40 LOS All prices sub ect to change without notice.
6AW8A 1.15 6L1 250 12AE6 080 30P16 0.50 B729 OJO EBL21 2.00 IdI 1.00 14150 1./0 Special offer of EF50 valves, soiled but new and tested. El each.
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LOW POWER L.T. TRANSFORMERS cary. C2. Can be supplied in metal case with two
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PRIMARIES 2302400 core 240v mains lead Carrying handle NFD Vohs
No sec 20c 3A wire ended E3, pp 75p. No. 2 pries
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£31.00, cary £3 025 500vÁ0 50p
27v IA terminal connections E1.50, pp
1
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50p. No 3 sec 12v 2A terminal connections BY FAMOUS MAKERS ALL PRIMARIES 1 470vAC 60p
(ELECTRONICS) LTD, E1.50, pp 50p. Np. 4 sec 12v to wire end 125
connections El, pp 50p. Na. 5sx 20v to wire 240v OPEN TYPE TAG CONNECTIONS 360.ÁC 65p
end connections El -110, pp 50p. No. 613v 3A
Type MT33 Sec 300.0 -300v 150M /A 2
9 & 10 CHAPEL ST., LONDON N,W.1 and 15v 1Á'C core type table top connections
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Sec 3000300v 120 M/A 6 3.0T4Á 5 -6 3v 2 5 360.ÁC 75p
01-723 7851 E3.75, p1) 75p Miniature type sire
01-262 5125 45x36z30mm. size 24 -0.24.
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2A .5A MTA Sec 300 -0-300.
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ADJACENT TO EDGWARE ROAD MET. LINE STATION 35p_
100M /A 6.3v 3.5A. Sv 2A or 6.3v 1A, EÁ.76. 3 440.ÁC E1.00
DD 75p MYI O. Sec 250 -0250. 120M /A 3 5 250.ÁC E1.00
PLEASE ADD 8% TO ALL ORDERS INC. CARR. MUTAPPED OUTPUT 6.3v 3.5A. 5v 2A or 6 3v IA. E3.50, pp 75p 4 250vÁ0 f1.0o
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CURRENT RANGE OF NEW LT. TRANSFORMERS 5v 2A or 6 3v IA, E4.50, pp 75p 5 4a0.Á0
OPEN TYPE TAO CONNECTIONS
Fernell tl' M 7 dc 60 m/a 13.1 to Sec E1.50
1061 single erldstl
ended 2/311 7.511 I5ß push pull 350 -0350., 100M /A. 6 3v 3 5A, 5v 250R. 2 440.ÁC E 1.50
ALL PRIMARIES 220 -240a 6 3v 1A E4.00, pp 75p MT6 Sec 250-0. 256.ÁC
20 -1 to 1001. 2/311. 7.5ít. 1511 tl.66, pp 84 E1.00
Type Sec Taps Amps 50p. Type MRT /2 4 watts DC 50 m /a. Single 250. 100M /q 6 3v 3 SA, 5v 2A or 6.3v tA, 15 250.ÁC E1.75
Price Carr E3.25, pp 75p. MT2 Sec 350- 0 -350v
24-30-40-48-60v 12 E24.60 ended 7.7 -1 to 801. Push pull 15 -1 to 80.1. PP up to 2 5MFD 25p, 2 to 1.MF0 Sop
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E2.00 2/30, 7 511, 1511 E1.25, pp 35p Both types 80M /A 6.3v 3 5v 2A or 6.3v 1A E3.50, pp
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2 24- 3040-48 -60v 10 E22.31 E2.00 8% on total
3 24.30- 40-48.60v with data sheet. Eletone rypa01' for Mollard 75 D Shrouded type t Sac 500 -0d OOv
8 E18.11 E1.75 200M /Á, E4.0í0, pp f t. Half shrouded drop HIGH CAPACITY ELECTR
4 24-30-40-48-60v 3 watt amplifier. Primary bad. 5.00011 Sec £S
5 £12.47 £1.75 thru. Sec 350 -0 -350. Sprauge 3600mid 150v DC 85 dege
5 24- 30- 40- 48 -BOv 3 Eí.30 El bed. 15 and 3.7511 with date sheet E3, pp Sv 2 SA. E3, C El, pp
24- 30 -40- 48.60. 75p. Douglas 0728EL fully shrouded po pp 75p. Single ended Sec 240v 20M /A. 6 3v 351) 58.OWmPo 256 DC wkg 7íp,
6 2 E6. /0 E1 00 1A. E7.60, pp 50p Single ended, sue 250. 35p Mollard 5600 mfd 40v
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6.8-10-12-16-18-20-24-36-40-49-60v 1.75KÚ CT EL34x4. Sec to suit 3.75 7 5. PP OC wkg
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AAY30 0.13 ASZ17 1.25 BC179 9.20 BDI39 0.43 8F621 237 GM0378A 1.50 0C16 1.25 0C206 1.75 ZTX531 0.20 2NI893 033 2N3819 0.36'
AAY32 0.15 ASZ20 0.75 - BC182 0.11 BD140 0.47 8F628 1.38 KS100A 0.40 0C20 2.00 0C207 1.25 ZTX550 0.16' 2162147 1.40 2163820 046'
AAZ13 0.25 ASZ21 1.50 BC183 0.11 BD144 2.00 8F661 0.25 MJE340 0.58 0C22 2.50 OCP71 1.25 1N914 0.07 2N2I48 1.65 2N3823 0.60
AAZI5 0.31 AU113 LW BC184 0.12' BD181 1.38 BFS98 0.250 MJE370 0.65 0C23 2.75 ORP12 0.83 1N916 0.07 2N2218 0.13 2N3866 1.00
AAZ17 0.25 AUY10 L70 BC212 0.14 BDI82 1.48 BFW10 0.90 MJE371 081 0C24 3.50 R20088 225 1N4001 0.06 2N2219 0.42 2N3904 0.21
AC107 0.75 BA145 0.15 0C213 0.14 BD237 0.80 BFWII 0.90 MJE520 0.65 0C25 0.90 R2009 225 1N4002 0.07 2N2220 0.35 2N3905 0.22'
AC125 030 BA148 0.15 BC214 0.17 BD238 0.85 BFX84 0.38 MJE52I 0.75 0C26 0.90 0201013 225 1N4003 0.08 2N2221 0.22 2N3906 0.22
AC126 0.25 BA154 0.10 BC237 0.17' BDX10 0.75 BFX85 0.41 MJE2955 1.25 0C28 2.00 TIC44 0.36 1N4004 0.09 2N2222 0.25 2N4058 0.20'
AC127 0.25 BA155 0.12 BC238 0.12' BDX32 225 BFX87 0.33 MJE3055 035 0C29 2.00 T1C226D 1.30 IN4005 0.13 2N2223 2.75 2N4059 0.15
AC128 0.25 8A156 0.13 BC301 0.45 BDY20 1.42 BFX88 022 MPF102 0.30' 0C35 1.50 TIL209 025 IN4006 0.15 2N2368 017 2N4060 0.20
AC141 0.20 BAW62 0.05 BC303 0.60 BDY60 0.75 BFY50 0.28 MPF103 030 0C36 150 TIP29A 0.50 IN4007 015 2N2369A 021 2N4001 0.17
AC14IK 0.30 BAX13 0.07 BC307 0.20' 8F115 0.39 BFY51 0.26 MPF104 0.30 0C41 0.50 T1P30A 0.60 1N4009 0.15 2N2484 0.21 2144062 0.18
AC142 020 BAX16 0.07 8C308 018' BF152 0.25 BFY52 0.26 MPF105 030' 0C42 0.50 TIP31A 0.62 1N4148 0.07 2N2646 0.50 2N4124 0.17
AC 142K 0.25 BC107 0.12 8C327 0.22' 8E153 0.25 BFY66 0.30 MPSA06 0.25 0C43 1.50 TIP32A 0.75 IN5400 0.14 2N2904 0.35 2N4126 0.17'
AC176 0.25 BC108 0.12 BC328 0.18' 8F154 0.25 BFY90 1.32 MPSA56 025' 0C44 0.50 T1P33A 1.00 1N5401 0.16 2N2905 0.35 2N4286 0.20'
AC187 0.25 BC109 0.13 BC337 0.19 8E159 0.35 BSX19 0.34 MPSU01 0.32' 0C45 0.50 TIP34A 1.20 1S44 0.06 2N2906 0.25 2N4288 025'
AC188 0.25 BC113 0.15 8C338 0.18' BFI60 0.30 BSX20 0.34 MPSUO6 040' 0C17 0.45 TIP41A 0.70 1S920 0.00 2N2907 0.21 2N4289 025'
ACYI7 065 BCII4 0.18 BCY30 1.00 8E167 0.39 BSX21 0.32 MPSU56 0.45 OC72 0.45 TIP42A 0.90 1S921 0.08 2N2924 0.15 2N5457 035'
ACY18 0.65 BC115 019 BCY3I 1.00 '0F173 0.30 0T106 1.25 NKT401 2.00 0073 1.00 T1P2955 1.00 2G301 1.00 2N2925 0.17' 2N5458 0.35
ACY19 0.65 BC116 019' BCY32 1.00 8F177 0.38 BTY79/400R NKT403 1.73 0074 0.75 T1P3055 0.50 20302 1.00 2N2926 0.13' 2N5459 025
ACY20 0.65 BC117 0.22' BCY33 0.90 8E178 0.45 3.19 NKT404 1.73 0075 0.60 T1S43 0.35 2G306 1.10 2N3053 0.25 3N125 1.75
ACY2I 0.65 BC 118 016 BCY34 0.90 8E179 0.48 BU205 2250 NE555 0.45 0076 050 Z6140 025' 2N404 0.60 2N3054 050 3N141 0.85
ACY39 1.25 BC125 0.18 BCY39 3.00 8F180 0.45 BU206 2.25 0A5 0.75 0077 1.20 ZSI70 0.12 2N600 0.25 2112055 0.65
AD149 0.70 BC126 0.25 BCY40 125 BF181 0.45 BU208 2.50 0A7 0.55 0081 0.75 Z6178 0.54' 2N697 0.16 2N3440 0.60
ADI61 0.75 BC135 0.15 BCY42 0.30 8E182 0.45 BY100 0.45 0A10 0.55 0081 100 ZS271 022' 2N698 0.30 2N3441 0.80
ADI62 0.75 BC 136 0.19 BCY43 0.32 8F183 0.45 BY126 014 0A47 0.14 0082 0.75 Z5278 0.56' 2N705 080 2N3442 1.20
AF106 0.45 BC137 0.16' BCY58 0.23 BF184 0.39 0Y127 0.15 0A70 0.30 0083 0.55 ZTX107 0.1I 2N706 0.12 2N3525 0.90
AF114 0.25 BC147 0.10' BCY70 018 8E185 0.37 BZX61 0.20 0A79 030 0084 0.60 ZTX208 0.10' 2N706 0.21 2N3614 1.20
AFI15 0.25 BC 148 0.10 BCY7I 0.22 8E194 0.12 Series 0A81 0.30 0C122 1.50 ZTX109 0.12' 211930 0.26 2N3702 0.15'
AF116 0.25 BC149 013 BCY72 0.17 8F195 0.11 BZY88 0.13 0A85 0.30 OC123 1.55 ZTX300 0.12' 2N1131 026 2N3703 0.15'
AF117 0.25 BCI57 0.12 BCZ11 1.50 8F196 0.13' Series 0A90 0.08 0C139 2.25 ZTX301 0.13 2N1132 0.26 2N3704 0.15'
AF139 0.40 BC158 0.11' BDI15 0.60 8F197 014' CRSI/05 0.45 0A91 0.08 OC140 1.95 ZTX302 0.17+ 2N1302 0.37 2N3705 0.15'
AF 186 1.50 8C159 013' BDI21 1.50 8E200 0.32 CRS1/40 0.60 OA9S 0.06 OC141 2.25 ZTX303 017' 2N1303 0.37 2N3706 0.14'
AF239 0.45 8C167 0.13 BD123 1.50 BF224 0.20 CRS3/05 0.45 0A200 0.10 0C170 0.75 ZTX304 019' 2N1304 0.45 2N3707 0.18'
AFZ11 2.75 8C170 0.10 BD124 1.00 BF244 0.35 CRS3/40 0.75 OA202 5.11 OC171 0.75 ZTX311 0.12' 2111305 0.45 2N3708 0.14
AFZ12 2.75 BC171 0.14 BD131 0.51 BF257 0.37 CRS3/60 0.90 0A210 0.75 0C200 1.00 ZTX314 0.20' 2N1306 0.50 2N3709 0.15'
ASY26 0.45 8CI72 0.11 BD132 0.54 13F258 0.42 12EX66 140 0A211 0.75 0C201 L50 ZTX500 0.13' 2N1307 0.50 2N3710 0.14'
-ASY27 050 - BC173 0.15 B0135 025' 13F259 0.45 GEX541 1.75 OAZ200 055 0C202 1.25 ZTX501 0.14 2N1308 0.60 2N3711 0.15'
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A2087 10.48 EISOCC 5.36 EF83 1.75' GT IC 6.95 OZ4 0.75' QV03-12 3.00 UCHBIt 0.50 3E29t 5.50 OBW7 1.12' 12AT6 0.45 2050 2.50
A2134 4.81 El 80F 5.00 EF851 0.50' GU50 9.69 PC881 0.85' QV04-7 2.50 UCI.82t 050 354t 075 6BX7GT 496 12AT7t 0,45. 4212E 118.95
A2293 4.10 E182CC 5.71 EF86t 0.45 GU51 9.90 PC88t 0.85' QV08-100 85.60 UCI.83 1.20 3V4t 1.00 613Z6 1.78' 12AU6 0.50' 4212H 118.95
A2426 8.20 E186F 7.90 EF69 0.60' GXUI 10.43 PC95 0.70 QY3-65 42.80 UF41 0.75 4.85A 25.35 6C45 040' 1 2AU7t 0.45' 5544 54.00
A2521 8.53 EI88CC 5.06 EF91t 0.65 GXU2 17.20 PC97 088 QY3I25t UF42 1.25' 4.125At 12.00 6CB6At 0.50' I2AV6 0.60 5545 59.00
A2900 4.85 E280F 16.90 8192t 0.75 GXU3 21.42 PC900t 0.75 QY4-250 5120 UF800 0.50' 4.250A 36.00 6CD8GA 440 I2AV7 294 5551A 62.70
A3343 18.43 E283CC 7.85 EF93t 050 GXU4 21.94 PCC84t 0.45 QY4-400 58.30 UF85t 0.50 4-400A 37.00 6CG7 1.72' 12AX70 0.45' 5552A 64.70
AZ3I 1.10 E288CC 12.58 EF94t 0.55' GY501 1.32' PCC85 0.45 QY5-500 127.50 UF89t 0.50 4B32 10.00 OCHS 4.42 I2AY7t 0.82 5553A 22520
AZ41 1.15 EA52 14.20 EF95t 0.30 GZ32 , 0750 PCC88 065' QYS-3000A U1A1 1.00' 4C35 40.00 6CL6t 0.73' 12B4At 1.00' 5642 3.16'
BK448 62.70 EA76 1.54 EF98 1.25 GZ33 490 PCC89t 1.00' 212.110 UL84t 0.60' 4CX250B 17.50 6C W4 472 12BA6 0.50' 5654 3.53'
BK484 84.70 EABC00 0.40 EF183t 050' GZ34t 1.24 PCC 189t 0.65 Q206-20 10.40 UM80 1.00' 4CX350A 31.35 6D20 020' 320E6 0.60 5651 180
BSN 27.25 EAC9It 0.N" EF184t 0.50' GZ37 400 PCC805t 0.950 RIO 5.00 UY41t 075 4CXI50A 21.00 6DK6 2.49' 12BH7t 060' 5670 2.86'
BS810 27.75 EAF42 1.260 EF9045 450 KT61 3.50' PCC8061 0.95 R17 1.65 UY851 0.65 4X150D 25.00 60Q6B 3.04 12BY7t 0.80 5675 9.09
BT5 31.15 EAF801 L750 EF8056 7.00 KT66 400 PCE82t 1.05' RI8 3.95 VL5631 8.22 58-254M 11.25 60A8 2.21' 12E1 4.00 5687 450'
BT17 55.64 E641 1.75 EH90 0.75' KT88 475' PCF90 0.72' R19 1.90' 2231-250023.10 58-255M 11.25 6E88 2.12 12E14 19.80 5696 1.94
BT'19 19.00 EB91t 0.30 EK9Ot 0.65 KTW6I 1.75 PCF82t 0.50 R20 1.00' X05-500 1&80 5C22 40.00 6EW6 0.80 13E1 43.55 5718 3.36
BT29 169.70 EBC33 1.75 EL32 150' KTW62 1.75 PCF86t 0.65 RG3-250 21.51 X02-6400 64.95 51.180E 495.00 6F6 0.75 191-14 16.88 5725 3.40'
BT'69 173.65 EBC41 1.25 ELM 1.50 KTW63 1.75' PCF87t 1.00' RG3.250A 23.28 XGQ2-6400 5R4GYt 1.00' 6F23 122' 19115 2250 5726 5.71
8175 72.25 ®C8I 1.10 EL33 3.50' M8079 8.60 PCF200t 1.05 1203-1250 20.95 74.15 SU4G 1.00 6E28 096' 2469 30.50 5727 3.50'
8T95 66,80 EBC901. 0.65 EL36 0,75 M8080 3.80 PCF201t 1.05' 1204-1250 27.50 XR1-1600A 5U4013 1.00 6F33 10.75 30C15 1.20 5749 3.30'
CB131 I.50' EBF80 045 EL41 125 M8081 6.33 PCF801t 0.55' RG4.3000 19.00 5V4Gt 0.65+ 6H1 800 30C17 1.20 5751 2.93+
CL33 2.00 EBF83 1.25 E1A2 1.75' 949082 4.65 PCF802t 0.72 113.09 XRI-3200 54.00 SY3GT 0.85' 6F12N 075 30C18 128 5763 3.00'
CY31 1.00' EBFBSt 0.40' EIA1 1.14 M8083 5.61 PCF805 1.28' RR3250 34.77 XRI.3200A 5Z3 1.50' 6H3N 075' 30F5 1.90' 581 4A 2.60
CIK 10.00 E81.31 2.50' E183 1.25' M8091 7.71 PC F806 0.60 01123-1250 62.37 54.00 5Z4G 1.00 6H6 075 305L1/2 1.90 5840 4.40
C3A 10.00 EC90t 045' ELMS 0.35' M8096 3.75 PCF808 1.28' SIIEI2 18.00 XRI.6400 59.10 5Z4GT 1.00 6243 075 30FLI2 1.44 5842 6.90
C3JA 10.00 EC91t 2.80 EL86t 050 M8097 3.56 PCI.82t 0.50' 5130 2.00 XRI.6400A 6.30L2 1.00 6361 0.35' 360114 128 5476A 9.38
DA41 16.85 EC92 125' EL9Ot 0.75 M8098 3.20 PC1.837 0.92 SI3OP 2.50 59.10 6A134 075 6J7 0.75' 30L 0.88' 5879 3.16'
DA42 8.81 EC157 208.00 EL91 3.85 M8099 5.20 PCL84t 050' STV80-40 10.00 YDI120 206.00 6AB7 0.75 6K4N 0.75' 30L 15 1.32 5886 10.50
DA100 31.86 ECC33 3.50 E1.951 0.80 M8109 5.92 PC 1-831 0.00 STV280-80 Y01240 206.00 6AC7 0.75 6K6GT 0.75 30L17 122 5963 1.87'
DAF91t 0.40 ECC35 3.50 E.150 16.25 M8136 &I2 PCL860 0.65 2000 Z759 6.50 6AF4At 0.70 6K7 0.75 30P4 0.92 5965 220
DAF96 1.00 ECC40 1.25 EL360 2.75 M8137 6.23 PCL805/85t SWI 2.50 ZMI000 4.60 6AG7 075' 6K8 0.750 36 p19 092 6005 3.65'
DET22 15.12 ECC81t 045' EJ500/504 I50 M8140 4.50 0.80' SU42 9.00 ZM1001 5.38 6AH6t 0.70 601136 479' 35PL1 1.32 6021 4.46
DET24 41.00 ECC82t 045 E1509 2.16' M8141 4.85 PD500 3.00' T003-10 15.00 ZM1020 8.55 6AK5t 030 6L6G 2.50 30PL13 1.44 6057 6.23
DF91t 0.40 ECC83t 0.45' E1821 4.42 M8142 4.00 PE66-40N 27.30 11303-10E 17.50 ZM1021 7.00 6AK6 0.95' 6L6GA 1.50 30PL14 1.08 6058 8.40
0F96 1.00' ECC845 0.50 E1.822 5.61 M8144 3.75 PFL200 0.88 TD03-10F 17.50 ZM1022 8.23 6AL51 0.30 6L6GT 0.75' 30PL15 1.44' 6059 4.00
DK91t 0.55' ECC85t 055 E1400 1.10 M8149 5.10 PL36t 0920 TT 15 22.00 ZM1023 7.66 6AM4 2.30 6L6GC 1.75' 35W4 s.60 6061 4.25
DK92 125 ECC86 2.00 E9461 1.00' M8161 5.76 P1.81 055' 1T21 7.00 ZM1040 11.57 6AM5 3.85 6L7 0.75 5005 0.70 6062 3.75
DK96 1.10' ECCOSi 0.60 EM84 1.00' M8162 5.75 PL81At 1.00 TT22 7.00 ZMI041 9.67 6AM6t 0.65' 6N2P 0.75 75B1 3.15 6063 3.65
01.92 0.75' ECC89 075+ EM85 1.25 M8163 4.55 PL82 060' TT 100 37.50 ZM1042 11.08 6A15 2.50 6N3P 0.75 75C1 1.55 6064 5.60
DL94 1.20' ECC91t 025 EM87 150 M8190 4.60 P1530 0.55 TY2-125 40.20 ZX1051 87.00 6AN8At 0.70 6N7 0.75 85A1 7.50 6067 6.12
DI.88 1.10 ECCI89 1.00 EN32 15.66 M8195 3.70 PL84t 0.60' TY4-400 54.00 IB3GTt 0.55 6AQ5t 0.75 6P25 150 85A2 ISO 6072 3.77
DISIO 8.25 ECC807 1.75 034915 0.55 M8196 3.40 P1.504 /500t TY4-550 68.40 1524 10.00 64R5 070' 6Q7 075' 90AG 7.26 6087 11
DLSIS 825 ECC808 225 EN92 5.81 M8204 3.50 096' TY5.500 160.00 11335A 17.00 6A561. 0.80. 6R7 075 90AV 7.16 6097AxBxC
01516 825 ECF601 0.60 EY51t 0.75 M8212 8.63 P1,5085 1.322 TY6.800 145.00 1863 45.00 6AS7Gt 150' 6SA7 0.75 90C1 1S0 40.00
DL519 8.25 ECF82t 0.60 EY81 1.65' M8223 2.30 PI500t 2.16 TYO-S000A IRSt 0.55 6AT6t ' 065 6SC7 0.75 90CG 5.74 6I46A 4.27
DM70 1.25 ECF86 0.75 EY83 1.750 M8224 2.60 PL5195 2.96 188.00 165 0.40' 6AUSGT 426' 6SF7 075 90CV 5.99 6146B 4.65
DM71 1.25 ECH35 2.00 EY84 3.95 M8225 2.60 PL801 1.10' TY6-50008 1T4t 0.40 6A1J61- 055 661-17 075 92AG 726 6159 6.00
DMI00 150 ECH42 1.15' EYe61 050' M8248 6.72 P1.8021 1.80 200.00 2A515 10.00 6AV5GT 3.74' 6537 6.75' 92AV 7.16 6189 6.08
DY86/7t 045 ECH81t 0.56' ETU I.75 MU14 100 PY33 0.69 TY6-5000W 2C39At 9.00 6AVBt 1.00' 6SK7 0.75' 95A1 4.15 6201 4.84
DY802 0.68 ECH83 0.85' EY500A 126 14X119 20.00 PY81t 0.72 166.00 2C43 18.00 6AX5GT 1.30 66L7GTt 0.55 95A1 4.15 6442 15.00
ESSL 21.89 ECH84t 0.85 EY802 0.82' MX123 34.50 PY82 0.45' TY7-6000A 2D21t 0.55 6B7 0.75 6SN7GTt 9.85' IS4362 1.80 6883B 4.93
E80CC 4.97 ECL801. 0.60 EZ35 0.55' MX145 27.15 PY83 0.60 206.00 2E26 3.00 6B8 075 6SQ7 0.75 15083 3.30 6973 2.61
E80CF 6.40 ECL81 0.75 EZ40 1.25' MX151 11.69 PYBOt 0.68 TY7-6000W 2142 60.00 6BA6t 0.50 6557 0.75' 150C2 150 7025t 1.20
E8OF 5.71 ECI52 4.06 EZ41 1.25 MXIS2 74.00 PY500At 1.36 175.00 2155 175.00 6BA7 5.12 6667 0.75 I50C4 2.30 7551 3.65
EBOL 5.48 ECL83 1.64' EZ805 0S0 MX161 76.50 PY800BIt 072 TZ40 15.00 2170A 205.00 68A8A 3.75 61156 2.00 211 5.00 7586 6.79
E81CC 5.76 ECIJ84 040 EZ81t- 025 94X163 12.10 PY801 0.72' 01520 250 23700 212.00 6BC4 371 6U81 0.40 723ABt 8.00 7587 12.54
E811. 5.75 ECUS 0.05' EZ9Ot 045' MX164 12.56 QQV02-6 9.60 U19 8.11 2K25t 6BE6t 0.45' 6U8At 055 603 10.00 7609 31.80
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E90CC 5.06 EF4I 1.20' IG740-2D 11.75 0A4 1.10 QQVp7-50 U841 1.25 3829 10.00 6BM6 85.00 7C6 125+ 833A 25.00 8136 1.54
E90F 5.16 EF42 LN :0400.1K 13.50 082t 0.45 30.70 UBC410 0.75' 38.240M
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7423
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2AP1' 8S0 4EPI1 25.00 VCR139A &N 7402 0.20 7425 0.35 7460 0.20 7496 0.90 74136 0.69
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74174 1.57 TAA690S 3.60
88A unskined 0.15
7427 0.35 7470 0.35 7497 3.67 74141 0.85 74175 1.00 TBA480Q 1.61'
3BPI 7.50 SBPI' 5.00 \'CR517B' S.N 7404 0.26 7428 0.50 74100
B9A skirted O20
3DP1 5.00 5CP1' 5.00 VCR5I7C SN 7405 0.23
7472 0.36 1.75 74142 3.00 74176 1.10 TBA520Q 220
Int Octal 0.20
7430 0.20 7473 0.36 74107 045 74143 3.00 74178 1.65 TBA530 1.98
3EG1' 7.00 5CPIA 40.00 7406 0.55 7432 0.36 7479 0.40 74109 086 74144 3.00 74179
Mazda Octal 0.20 1.65 TBA540Q 2.30+
Nuvist0r 0.25
3FP7 3.00 SFPISA 5.00 Aube Bases 7407 0.55 7433 0.37 7475 0.59 74110 0.57 74145 1.00 74180 1.65 TBA 550Q 3.22
3GPI 6.00 5UP7' 5.00 -Surplus 7408 0.28 7437 0.42 7476 0.42 74111 0.86 74147 2.45 74190 1.48 TRA S60C22
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36.00
31.00
7410
7412
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7440
0.37
0.22
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7482
0.60
0.85
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74118
1.89
0.95
74148
74150
200
1.75
74191
74192
1.48
1.25
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pin DIL 7441AN 0.92 7483 1.00 74119 2.00 74151 0.90 74193 1.25 TBA720Q 2.30
18 0.17 3KP1 15.00 DH7-11 68.00 7413 0.45
Veivescreening 7442 0.78 7404 1.00 74120 1.10 74154 2.00 74194 1.25 TBA750Q 2.070
Nei* 35.00 VCR97 5.00 7416 0.40 7447AN 1.20 7486 0.40 74121 0.45 74155 0.90 74195 STBA990Qi90
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7450 0.20 7490 0.52 74122 0.60 74156 0.90 74196 1.20 TC 4270Q
7420 0.20 7451 0.20 7491AN 74123 74157
0.85 1.00 0.90 74197 1.00 TCA760A 118
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7400 l6p 74107 36p CD4000AE 20p 1458 0031 0p Amp. Ira. Coop 8 pin DiL 70p AC125 359 BFY50 22p *2N2926G 12p
74H00 28p 74109 89p CD4001AE 20p 301A Est Comp. B pm DIL 36p AC126 26p BFY51 22p 253053 22p *SIGNAL
74S00 63p 7411055p CD4002AE 20p
31.30 COSMOS / Bi -Paler MosFet 8 pin DIL 1OOp AC127 25p BFY52 22p 253054 850 0A47
741600 30p CA3140 BIMOS 8 pin DIL 1000 oA81 20p
74111 90p CD4006AE 95p CA3160 Int Comp. 8 pin DIL 110p
AC128 25p BFY90 120p 253055 85p
0A85 20p
7401 18p 74116 200p CD4007AE 20p LM318N High speed 8 pin DIL 200p
AC141 2Op BRV39 45p 253439 870
0A90
7402 18p AC142 20p BSX19 20p 2N3442 1400 9p
74118 84p CD4008AE 107p LM324N Quad Op. Amp. 14 pin OIL 120p AC176 25p BSX20 20p *2N3565 30p oA91
7403 18p 74120 120p CD4009AE 61p NE531V High slew rate 8 pin DIL 140p AC187 25p ABU105 140p *253643 48p 0A95
7404 23p 74121 32p CD4010AE 60p
3900 Quad. Op. Amp. 14 pin OIL 70p AC187K 30p BU10B 250p *253644 480 OA200 8p
74H04 36p 709 Ext. Comp. 8/14 pin DIL 36p 0A202 10p
74122 54p CD4011AE 20p 741 Int. Comp. B/14 pm OIL 22p
AC188 25p *9U205 200p *2N3702 12p
IN914 4p
7405 25p 7412376p CD4012AE 20p 747 Dual 741 14 pm OIL 70p
AC188K 30p *6U208 300p *253703 l2p
15916 fp
7406 43p AD149 49p *MJE340 85p *253704 12p
7412573p CD4013AE 55p 748 Ext. Comp. 8/14 pin OIL 36p AD161 45p MJ481 175p *253705 12p IN4148 4p
7407 43p 74126 70p CD4015AE 90p 776 Programmable Op. Amp TO-5 1600 A0162 45p MJ491 200p *253706 12p
7408 25p 74128 75p CD4016AE 50p LANEAR Llxe' AF114 30p MJ2501 225p *253707 12p
7409 27p RECTIFIER
7413270p CD4017AE 100p Tone Generator 16 pM OIL 600p ÁF115 Sop MJ2955 120p *253708 12p
*B1100 z
7410 18p 74136 75p CD4018AE 110p 4CA3028A 04f. Cascade Amp. 165 95p AF116 30p MJE2955 130p *253709 12p
*61126 12p
74H10 28p 1CA3046 5 Transistor Array 14 pin DIL BOp AF117 30p MJ3001 225p 253773 3000
74141 75p CD4019AE 52p ACA3048 Quad. Low Noise Amp 16 pm DIL 200p AF127 25p MJE3055 70p 253866 90p .a6Y127 lOp
7411 24p 74142 320p CD4020AE 120p 4CA3053 Diff. Cascade Amp. TO5 700 AF139 43p *MPSA06 30p *253903 18p N4001 5p
7412 25p 74145 90p CD4022AE 100p CA3080E Op. Transcond Amp. 8 pm DIL Sop AF239 48p *MPSA12 50p *253904 160 N4002
7413 36p *MPSA56 N4004
74147 190p C04023AE 22p 1FA3089E FM IF System 16 pm DIL 225p BC107/B 9p 32p *253905 20p
N4005
5p
6p
7414 75p +1CÁ3090 FM stereo Multi. Dec. 16 pin 8C108/ß 9p AMPSU06 62p *253906 18p
74148 160p CD4024AE 80p ICL8038CC VCO Fun. Gen. 14 pin
DIL 4000
BC109 /B 10p *MPSU56 75p *254058 15p 54007 7p
7416 33p 74150 140p CD4025AE 22p LM339N Vol. Quad. Comparator 14 pin
DIL 370p
200p BC109C 12p 0C28 120p *2N4059 lop N5401
DIL
7417 36p 7415172p CD4026AE 170p LM377N Dual 2W Aud. Amp. 14 pin OIL 175p *ßC117 22p 0C35 90p *254060 130 N5404 18p
7420 18p 741 53 85p CD4027AE 65p *LM 380 2W Audio Amp 14 pin DIL 99p 4ßC147 Sp 0C36 SOp *254123 22p 55407 23p
7421 40p 74154 150p CD4028AE 98p ALM381 Stereo Preamp 14 pm OIL 175p *ßC148 AOC71 20p *254124 22p
7422 22p ALM389N Aud. Amp. +3 Trs Array 18 pin *BC149C 10p
0p *R20088 200p *254125 22p
74155 90p CD4029AE 120p *M252 Rhythm Generator 16 pin
OIL
DIL
160p
800p *6C157 11p *R20108 200p *254126 22p ZENER
7423 37p 74156 90p CD4030AE 55p *MC131oP FM Stereo Dec. 14 pin DIL 1800 *BC158 10p *TIP29A 40p *254289 20p 2 7V to 33V*
7425 30p 74157 90p CD4035AE 131p AMC1351P Lim / Det. Aud Preamp 14 pin DIL 97p *ßC159 11p *TIP29C 55p *254401 27p *400mW 9p
7427 37p 74159 190p MC1495L Multiplier *TIP30A 48p *1W 18p
CD4040AE 120p 14 pin DIL 4500 01C169C 12p *254403 27p
7428 36p 74160 120p CD4042AE 90p *MC1496L Bel. Mod /Demod 14 pin DIL 100p *ßC172 11p *TIP30C 50p 254427 90p
7430 18p AMC3340P Electronic Attenuator 8 pin OIL 160p ßC177 150 TIP31A 52p *255087 27p
74161 120p CD4043AE 100p AMC3360P 'AW Audio Amp. ßC178 17p TIP31C 52p *255089
7432 36p 8 pin OIL 160p 27p
74162 120p CD4046AE 140p AMFC40008 1/4W Audio Amp. PCB 120p 8C179 18p TIP32A 58p 2N5296 55p BRIDGE
7437 36p 74163 120p CD4047AE 100p NE555 Timer 8 pin DIL 4op *BC182 12p TIP32C 82p *255401 Sop
7438 36p 74164 120p NE558 Dual 555 *ßC183 12p TIP33A 90p 2N6034 RECTIFIERS
CD4049AE 63p 14 pm DIL 1000 1800
7440 19p 74165 220p CD4050AE 57p NE561 PLL with AM Demod. 16 pin OIL 4250 *ßC184 130 TIP33C 115p 256107 550 *1A 50V 25p
7441 75p 74166 160p NE562 PLL with VCO 16 pin DIL 425p BC187 30p TIP34A 115p 256247 190p *1A 100V 27p
CD4054AE 120p NE565 14 pin DIL *ßC212 TIP34C 150p
7442 70p 74167340p CD4055AE 140p NE566
PLL
PLL Fun. Gen.
200p
*9C213
11p
1Op TIP35A 225p
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7443 140p 74170 250p
8 pin DIL 200p *IA 400V 32p
CD4056AE 135p NE567 PLL Tone Dec. 8 pin DIL 200p Á6C214 14p TIP35C 290p 256292 850 AlA 600V 36p
7444 140p 74172 720p CD4059AE 600p RC4151 Vol to Fre. Convertor 8 pin OIL 400p BC461 36p TIP36A 270p 40290 250p *2A 50V 30p
7445120p 74173 180p CD4060AE 130p SN72710 Di6. Comparator 14 pin DIL 50p BC478 30p TIP36C 340p 40360 400 *2A 100V 35p
7446 100p 74174 120p CD4069AE 27p
*SN72733 Video Amp 14 pm OIL 120p BCY70 18p TIP41A
TIP41B
65p 40361 45p *2A 200V 40p
7447 85p *SN76003N Pwr Aud Amp with mt HS BCV71 22p 70p 40362 45p
7417585p CD4071AE 27p *9N76008 10W Amp in 4 ohms
16 pin DIL
5 pin Plastic
245p
250p BCY72 lip TIP41C 78p 40364 1200
*2A 400V 45p
7448 80p 74176 120p CD4072AE 27p *SN76013N Pwr Aud Amp with mt HS 16 pin DIL ßD124 1300 TIP42A 70p 40409 65p
*3A 200V 60p
7450 18p 140p *3A 600V 72p
74177 120p CD4073AE 30p *SN76019 10W Amp in 8 ohms 5 01 Plastic 250p ßD131 63p TIP42B 76p 40410 65p *4A 100V 840
7451 20p 74179 160p CD4081AE 21p *SN 76023N Pwr Aud Amp with oft HS 16 pm DIL 140p ßD132 65p TIP42C 82p 40411 300p í4A 400V 90p
7453 20p 74180 110p *SN76033N Pwr Aud Amp with int HS 16 pin DIL 230p *ßD135 48p TIP2955 78p 40636 130p
6A 50V 90p
CD4082AE 27p *SP8515 Preacaler 450MH:+ 10 *80136 50p *TIS93 30p 40594 880
7454 18p 74181 298p CD4093AE 95p *TAA621A Aud Amp for TV
16 pin DIL 8750
*60139 52p *ZTX108 10p 40595 97p
6A 100V 96p
QIL
7460 18p 74182 82p CD4502AE 138p *TAA661B FM IF Amp -Limiter/Oat QIL
225p
120p *80140 58p *ZTX300 13p 40871 BOp
6A 200V 108p
7470 36p 6A 400V 120p
74184 160p CD4510AE 130p *TBA641B Audio Amp QIL 2500 BDY56 200p *Z15500 75p 40872 84p 400V
OA 270p
7472 30p 74185 150p CD4511AE 180p *TBA651 Tuner 5 IF Amp 16 pin QIL 200p BF115 22p *ZTX502 l8p 1
25A 400V 400p

7473 34p *TBA800 5W Audio Amp. QIL ßF167 23p 2N457A 190p PET.
74186 920p CD4516AE 112p *TBA810 7W Audio Amp
90p
ßF170 23p 25697 22p ,18F2448 360
7474 34p 74190 160p CD4518AE 130p *TBA820 2W Audio Amp
QIL 1000
ßF173 25p 25698 45p *BF256B 70p
OIL 800
74LS7A 56p 74191 160p CD4520BE 100p *TCA940 10W Audio Amp. OIL 2000 BF177 260 25706 20p *MPF102 400
7475 45p 74192 120p CD4528AE 120p *TDA2020 20W Audio Amp QIL /DIL 325p ßF178 28p 25708 20p *MPF103 400 TRIACS
7476 36p *ZN414 BF179 33p 25918 40p *MPF104 40p Plastic
74193 160p CD4560BE 250p TRF Radio Receiver TD -18 1100
BF180 33p 25930 18p *MPF105 400 Amp Volts
7480 50p 74194 120p' ZN425E 8 bit D/A Convener 16 pin OIL 4300
251131 *253819 25p 400 85p
7481 ßF184 22p 18p 3
95p 74195 95p MEMORIES Basic data sheets on above at 20p each +S. A. E. Á8F194 10p 2N1132 18p *2N3820 500 6 400 99p
7482 90p 74196 120p 1702A 850p *ßF195 9p 251304 75p 253823 57p 6 500 107p
7483 90p 2102 180p OPTO- ELECTRONICS *6Fí96 120p
74197 120p Phototransistors L. D. Ro
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7484 110p 74198 250p 2102-2 200p Á8F197 15p 251306 75p *255457 40p 10 500 140p
OCP70 90p ORP12 ßF200 32p 2N1307 75p *255458 40p 15 400 160p
7485 120p 74199 250p 2107 1000p OCP71 12Op ORP60 BF257 32p 2N1308 75p *255459 400 15 500 1800
7486 990p
34p 74221 160p 2112-2 370p 2N5777 45p ORP61 ßF258 36p 251309 75p *255460 700 40430 130p
900p
7489 320p 74251 140p 2602 180p 8F259 45p 251613 25p *255485 400 40669 130p
7490 40p 74265 90p 5101-1 650p 0.2" Red 18p ßF337 3Op 251711 25p DIAC
7491 LEDS Green 20p 251893 MOSFETs 86100 3op
85p 74278 290p 8080A 950p TIL209 Red 16p
*BFR39 30p 3op 35128 96p
7492 55p Yellow 36p *BFR40 Sop 2N2102 55p
74279 140p 8212 200p TIL211 Green 20p Tri -state: Red /Green/ *8Fß41 300 252219 20p 35140 95p
7493 40p 74283 190p 8224 400p *6Fß79 2N2222 35141 95p
7494 90p 74290 150p 8228 700p
TIL32 Infrared 75p Of 160p 30p 20p
35187 180p HEATSINR
*BFR80 30p 2N2369 14p
7495 lop 74293 150p 8245 450p SEVEN SEGMENT DISPLAYS BFR81 30p 2N2484 30p
40603
40673
63p
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For T0 -220 Vol
7496 84p *BFR88 30p 252904/A 25p Regs and Trans,
74298 200p 8251 800p 3015F 190p FND 500 Red 130p 40841 Bop lors 17° C/W 25p
7497 340p 74365 150p 8255 800p BFX30 34p 2N2905/A 25p
DL704 Red 140p FND 507 Red 130p BFXB4 3op 252906/A 24p WTe
74100 120p 74366 150p AY-5-1013 600p DL707 Red /Green 140p 30p *2529266 7p *11543 34p CRYSTAL
74104 65p TIL 321 Red 150p BFX85
74390 200p RO-3-2513 800p DL747 Red /Green 225p TIL 322 Red 150p BFX86 30p *2N2926B 7p 2N2160 12op *1MHr 370p
74105 65p74393 225p X887 1600p Driven: 75491 -84p, 75492 98p; 9368/9374 BFX87 30p *2529260 lOp 252646 48p
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LM309H 100mA 5V TO5 75p 8A 50V Plastic 130p 8A/600V
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Intel 8085 Microcomputer System User's Manual
Motorola Booklet From the Computer to the Microprocessor
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The decade that HIGH QUALITY

LOW DISTORTION
changed our view OSCILLATOR

An ideal instrument for testing
hi -fi systems.
Designed by Mr J. L. Linsley
of colour TV! Hood

Kit price, £19.50. Made and tested, £23 (+ tax at 8%)
Specification - p.p. and insurance £1.00

Frequency range: 10 Hz -100 kHz in 4 steps
Output: OmV -1 volt in 3 steps
1
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Other instruments: MILLIVOLTMETER, FREQUENCY METERS, 60 V A I
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TELEVISION looks back at "Ten Years of KITS 10 -100 W.F.M. TUNERS, KEF SPEAKER UNITS and the latest Mr.
Colour" in our main feature which is a compila- Linsley -Hood oscilator (WW, Sept. -Oct. '77) at £36, including metal case
tion of 3 articles dealing in detail with the and front panel.
SA. E. for further information to
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also FREQUENCY SHIFTER
"Dealing with VCR Servo Systems"
plus AND STABILIZER OWNERS
We have been having reliability problems with muliplier ICs of two particular batch codes. The faults
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replacement.
Look into All other batch codes and Motorola devices are quite satisfactory.
STEREO DISC AMPLIFIER 2. Superlative performance for broadcasting disc monitoring and
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10 OUTPUT DISTRIBUTION AMPLIFIER 2. I floating input. 10 independent foaling outputs tor
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PEAK PROGRAMME METER and PEAK DEVIATION METER. Ernest Turner 642. 643 and
TWIN meter movements from stock. PPM2 drive circuit under licence from the BBC meeting
current and proposed specifications. Reviewed Studio Sound September 1976.
CHART RECORDER Continuous charts of studio or deviation levels.
December 50p issue SPECTRUM SHIFTER. Frequency Shifts between

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team working on electronic cash
charge of a broadcast colour studio For details of these challenging and highly rewarding positions registers and calculating machines.
and all associated control, telecine please write or telephone:-
and recording areas. In addition to
normal operation and maintenance On the job further training and every
the person appointed will be expected L. Smith, Personnel and Recruitment Manager opportunity for advancement given.
to play an active role in the develop- AMEECO (PERSONNEL SERVICES) LTD.
ment of new facilities incorporating Ameeco House, Bentalls, Basildon, Essex A good starting salary, with rapid
j
digital techniques. Telephone: Basildon (0268) 284361 progress will exist in this career job.
9.00 -5.30, 5 -day week, generous
For further details and application holidays.
form, please write to CHIEF
EDUCATION OFFICER (BRB), lv Telephone or write to: Mr.
DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL, Norman, Geller Business
COUNTY HALL, EXETER, EX2 Equipment Ltd., 15 Percy Street,
4QG, DEVON. London, W.I. Tel: 01 -580 1614.
176651
/714.
Appointments 138 Wireless World, December 1977
SENIOR
Do us a service ENGINEER
and put us to the test Links
Outside
Broadcast Unit
Service and Test Engineers Hanworth
The above vacancy exists
It's skilled work, calling for at the Hanworth Division of
As aircraft and electronics
Thames Television.
equipments become more sound practical experience of Duties involve the
sophisticated and our servicing radio and electronics theory, ranging maintenance and operation
programme expands, the need for from audio to microwave and of microwave links and
experienced Service and Test including the use of advanced test communications equipment,
Engineers increases. equipment for fault diagnosis. planning and surveying
At Stanmore, we are involved Training in this field will be given microwave paths.
in the provision of spares and the to suitable, less experienced Candidates should have
repair, maintenance and overhaul of engineers. extensive engineering
The Company offers excellent knowledge together with the
a variety of British and American
appropriate qualifications.
airborne electronic equipment. salaries and benefits together with Salary for this position will be
We need Engineers who can first-class working conditions in not less than £6,000 per
successfully maintain the high well- equipped workshops. This annum.
standards and efficiency required Unit is conveniently situated in For further details and an
both in the aircraft and the pleasant surroundings within easy application form please
workshop. reach of the At and Mt. contact
Mr. I. D. McGuinness,
If the job sounds interesting and you'd like Staff Relations Officer,
MARCONI to put us to the test, write with details of
experience to:
Thames Television Limited,
306 -316 Euston Road,
ELLIOTT Mrs. E. Wagg,
Marconi -Elliott Avionic Systems Ltd.,
London NW1 3BB.
Telephone 01 -387 9494
AVIONICS
A GEC-Marconi Electronics Company
22 -26 Dalston Gardens, Stanmore, Middlesex
HA7 IBZ. Tel: 01-204 3322.
extension 338.
7654
JOIN THE DIGITAL

REVOLUTION MARINE
Do you have several years experience in the design of high speed digital
signal and /or data processing equipment? If so why not contact Pye TVT ELECTRONICS
Limited, where new appointments are to be made at Senior Development
Engineer level ?
TECHNICAL
The work will take place in our modern Studio Engineering Laboratory OFFICER
and the successful candidates will be involved in all aspects of the project
An electronics Technical Officer is required to
assigned to them. assume duty as soon as possible after 31st
January. 1978, in the Marine Geoscience
A degree or equivalent qualification is required for these positions together Group of the Department of Geology. Duties
will include the maintenance and development
with proven digital design experience. Software design experience is an of marine geophysical equipment, both in the
advantage and experience in the broadcast TV equipment field is highly laboratory and at sea. Some experience in this
field would be a recommendation. The
desirable. Occasional travel overseas will be necessary. successful applicant will spend several 2 -3
week cruises per year aboard the University's
Benefits are all those normally associated with a progressive company research vessel -Thomas B. Davie."
and include in approved cases relocation expenses to this pleasant part of Inaddition to a salary on the scale R4040 o
180 - 5100 x 240 - 5580/ / a 240
East Anglia. x 360 - 6660 per annum plus a
pensionable allowance of 10 %.of salary, the
Please write or telephone Dave Barnicoat, Personnel Officer,
:
University offers a veriety of excellent fringe
Pye TVT Limited, PO Box 41, Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3JU benefits.
Telephone Cambridge 45115 Further details may be obtained from the

Professor of Marine Geoscience, Department
of Geology. University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch, 7700 South Africa.
PyeTVTLimfteci Applications giving names of two referees

must reach The Regi , University of
Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch
7700, by 31st January, 1978
The Broadcast Company of Philips The University reserves the right to appoint
a person other than one of the applicants or to
177211 make no appointment. 7722
A member of the Pye of Cambridge Group
Wireless World, December 1977 139 Appointments
DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT
E
Army contract
..
Fern anti wins
Ferranti landspace
order.
JOBS F_.1
1200 MORE
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FERRANTI S t0 Ferran
Come and ma e
headlines with us.
Headlines like these are only possible when you're acknowledged internationally
as one of the world's leaders in avionics. To keep us at the forefront we need highly
motivated design /development engineers keen to make their mark. And at Ferranti
there's plenty of opportunity to do just that. On projects like the Tornado, Sea Harrier,
Jaguar and Lynx.
And headlines like these also mean expansion. Which explains why we're
looking for more graduate mechanical and electronic engineers to join our airborne
radar and inertial navigation teams. They must have the design /development
experience to spearhead the progress of equipment from drawing board through to
production.
We are particularly interested in talking to engineers with backgrounds in the
design of:-
Digital /analogue circuitry. Advanced instruments.
Microwave and laser techniques. Optics.
Small digital computers. Airborne structures and light mechanisms.
So if you're keen to make your mark on avionics, you'll find you're very much
on our wavelength.
Think about it. Then ask the family how they'd like living in Edinburgh, freely
acknowledged as one of Europe's finest cities.
Salaries are negotiable and, of course, we operate a contributory
pension and life assurance scheme and pay realistic
relocation expenses.
For an application form, write to
John McPhee at the address below:
Ferranti Limited
Ferry Road
Tel: 031 -332 2411.h

EDINBURGH EH5 2XS
These posts are open to both

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male and female candidates.

(7000)
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APPOINTMENTS
IN
Printed Circuit Design ELECTRONICS

Take your pick of the
permanent posts In:
Engineers MISSILES
COMPUTERS
MICROWAVE
-
-
-
MEDICAL
COMMS
MARINE
HARDWARE - SOFTWARE
To meet the challenge presented by future telecommunications For expert advice and Immelll
systems, S.T.C. one of the leaders in the field of electronic telephone ate action on career improve-
switching equipment, require Printed Circuit Design Engineers to work in ment, 'phone, or write to,
the Equipment Design Department. Mike Gernat BSc
Using logic information supplied, the job is to design and check

printed circuit layouts to meet circuit parameters and manufacturing
`Technomark,
F ngine,ing und Technical Rerrnirm,
constraints, and to digitise and edit these layouts. To assist their work, 11 Westbourne Grove
London W2.01229 9239,

the Designers will have access to the most advanced interactive graphic 709
design aids.
The required qualifications are a minimum of ONC Electrical or ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Mechanical Engineering or equivalent, with previous experience in
Printed Circuit Design and Mechanical Drawing Office practises. We are TELEVISION
offering competitive benefits and very good prospects to the right men or TECHNICIAN
Is required in the School of Film and
women. Television to assist in the daily operation
and maintenance of a colour television
The positions are being offered at the New Southgate location of studio equipped to broadcast standards. A
S.T.C. which is on the outskirts of North London. The location is well sound knowledge of colour television
systems is essential and some experience
established and pleasantly situated with all the extra amenities and with studio equipment would be an ad-
facilities that a large Company can provide. vantage. Candidates should hold C & G
Part II Certificate or equivalent although
Part Certificate holders may be consid-
For further information please 'phone or write to : ered.
I
Mike Randal (Department 32210), The salary will be in the range E3376-
E3855 according to qualifications and
Switching Main Exchange Products Division, experience. 4 weeks' holiday. Pension-
able appointment.
Standard Telephones and Cables Limited, Oakleigh Road South, Interested applicants should write
New Southgate, London N11 1HB. 01-3681200 Ext. 3066. giving full details of previous ex-
perience, etc., to: Mr. H. Denyer,
Royal College of Art, Kensington
Standard Telephones and Cables Limited Gore, SW7 2EU.
(7678
A British Company of ITT

CHELSEA COLLEGE
(7655) University of London
ELECTRONICS
TECHNICIAN
Grade 3 required as soon as possible by the
IMPERIAL COLLEGE
ELECTRONIC
Department of Pharmacy. The job involves
TECHNICIAN the repair and maintenance of scientific
equipment with some construction and
GRADE 5 design work. Experience and /or electronic
ENGINEERS
qualifications are necessary Salary in the
required to assist in the maintenance and range £2930-E3276 per annum (inclusive
operation of the S R.0 sponsored AEI EM 7 of London Allowance and Supplements).
1 MEV high voltage electron microscope. Application forms from the Manager of
The successful candidate will work under the Technical Services. Department of Pharma-
guidance of a Grade 7 Technician to
maintain and improve a wide range of Required to join a progressive research team as cy, Chelsea College, Manresa Road, SW3
6LX. Closing date 30th November 1977.
electromechanical. electronic and vacuum
systems. so that a knowledge of electronics
Research Engineers. Applicants should be conversant
and electron optic instruments would be ail with electronic _circuit design, both analogue and digital.
advantage. The nature of the work is not
routine and candidates must be prepared to A knowledge of stepping motors and servo systems an PUBLIC ADDRESS
adapt to changes in work requirements. The advantage.
duties of the successful candidate will also ENGINEER
include involvement in cine film and video
tape editing.
This is a challenging position and will appeal to those Applications are Invited for persons with
knowledge of public address work at con-
Salary range E3377 -E3761 including Lon- engineers who enjoy combining both their theoretical ferences and exhibitions. A driving licence is
don weighting.
and practical abilities. A B.Sc. or equivalent is the essential.
An intelligent practical person with limited
Applications giving details of qualifications
and experience together with the names of required qualification. experience and willing to learn would be
considered.
two referees should be sent before 30
November 1977 to Mr. G. J. Green, De Please write with full personal and career details or A good salary with opportunity for overtime
will be offered to successful applicants.
partment of Metallurgy and Materials
Science. Imperial College of Science and
telephone for an application form 01 -205 7050. Please write giving age and previous ex-
perience to
Technology. Prince Consort Road. London
SW7 2BP. (76951 GRIFFITHS HANSEN (RECORDINGS)
Personnel Officer LIMITED
12 Balderton St, London W1Y 1TF 176641
DESOUTTER BROTHERS LIMITED
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL
The Hyde, Hendon, London NW9 THE POLYTECHNIC OF CENTRAL LONDON
MEDICAL SCHOOL School of Engineering and Science
requires an
AUDIO- VISUAL TECHNICIAN Lh CAP/741 APPTS. L[ TECHNICIAN

to take charge of the Audio- Visual Aids
FIELD & BENCH GRADE 3
Department. Salary within University of for an expanding group working in com-
London VA Technicians' scale E2929 to FREE LISTS munication and computer fields. Experience
£3276 inclusive of London Allowance ENGINEER 101 Design, Development in electronics and workshop practice
Superannuation benefits. and Test Jobs. necessary. OND or ONC or 2 A levels or Ord.
Permanent and Contract C &G with at least 3 years experience
Applications. giving the names of two required for work on radio required. £2790 -£3120 + suppl max.
referees. to the Secretary. University College
telephone equipment To £6,000 £208 Apply to the Establishment Officer,
Hospital Medical School (WW). University
Street. London, WC1E 6JJ, from whom 177081 PCL, 309 Regent Street. London, W 1 R 8AL
further particulars may be obtained 573 -4541 01-580 2020. Ext 212
711,1 (76091 637 5551 7703
Technician Engineers
The Plessey Development Laboratory at Havant, Hampshire, is sub -contractor for the most advanced
VHF communications system ever to be developed for the British Army. This system - known as
"Single Channel Radio Access" - allows mobile subscribers to use the Ptarmigan trunk telephone
network for both voice and data messages.
We are now proceeding with the second phase of development, creating new career opportunities for
Technician Engineers who wish to advance their knowledge.
What jobs are on offer?
We are looking for Technician Engineers with a minimum of 5 years' relevant experience in industry or
H.M. Services to work in the following fields.
VHF Radio Equipment Development and Evaluation
Successful candidates will be responsible for getting development models of transmitters and receivers
working and characterising their electrical and environmental performance under awidevarietyof conditions.
Development of Special Purpose Test Equipment
This new development of automatic test equipment for use in the Army's Electronic Repair Vehicles will
interest candidates with a knowledge of ATE and associated programming techniques.
Development and Evaluation of Digital Logic Modules
Candidates with a special interest in digital circuits and systems will find opportunities to work under the
guidance of experienced senior engineers on the most up -to -date techniques, including microprocessors.
What qualifications?
The type of work we do needs people with plenty of solid practical experience of transistorised equip-
ments, a common sense approach and a willingness to work with others towards a common goal.
However, if you have the experience we are looking for, it is likely that you will also possess a City &
Guilds Full Tech. Cert., ONC or HNC.
Salaries and ct: reer prospects
We operate a separate career structure for Technician Engineers which offers plenty of opportunity for
promotion. You could become a Principal Technician Engineer in charge of a small section, while the
exceptional younger person would be encouraged to qualify to transfer into the Professional Engineering
grades. Because our plans for business expansion are soundly based on a full order book for a wide range
of both government sponsored and private venture products, we can offer you both job stability and the
up -to -date experience which is essential to our future growth.
Technician Engineers are recognised as important members of our teams and are rewarded accordingly.
These jobs will carry salaries up to £4,000 p.a.
Situated in a semi -rural environment near Portsmouth, Chichester, the South Downs and several
seaside resorts, we are well placed for housing, educational and recreational amenities. Relocation
assistance will be given and there is a comprehensive range of large company benefits.
Please write with brief career details or telephone for an application form. L. Wise, Recruitment
Manager, The Plessey Company Limited, Martin Road, West Leigh, Havant, Hants. Tel : (070Ia) 63gi.
Applications are invited from either sex.
i PLESSEY (7663))
Instrumentation
THE UNIVERSITY OF
LIVERPOOL
DEPARTMENT OF INORGANIC,
PHYSICAL AND
INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
Technologist TECHNICIAN
The successful applicant will work on
the maintenance, repair and
Salary c. 4,500
construction of a wide range of
scientific instrumentation. involving
high stability power supplies.
amplification of low level signals
Redland Technology provide Research and Development (including. lock-in amplification). R.F.
techniques and digital and analogue
services for manufacturing divisions of the Redland Group techniques. Salary in a range up to
who manufacture materials and building components for the E3367 per annum (under review).
construction industry. Application forms may be obtained

from the Registrar, The University,
The post available is for an electronics engineer or physicist P.O. Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX.
Quote ref RV/ 590 /WW
to work in the instrumentation section of the research ,7679)
centre, set in pleasant countryside at Graylands,

Horsham, Sussex. Immediate opportunity in
Amman, Jordan. for
The successful candidate will be responsible for designing
and constructing specialised instrumentation systems and ELECTRICIAN/
for advice and consultation services on suitable techniques ELECTRONICS
for process control and materials testing. He /she will be TECHNICIAN
to join staff of new Army museum.
provided with technical support staff. Will have sole charge of sophisticated
The work involves the measurement of a wide range of British designed electrical system
including electronically controlled
parameters, but particularly load, vibration, noise, audio- visual installation. Appointment
temperature. A microcomputer is available to analyse data for approx. one year, during which
time applicant will train Jordanian
recorded on FM tape. Projects often result in the national. An interesting and
development of novel solutions which, where appropriate, responsible post. Salary by
arrangement. All Jordanian expenses
will be patented. paid.
Please write in first instance Box
Minimum qualifications are a degree or HNC in an No. WW7730.
appropriate subject plus at least two years relevant
experience. Car ownership would be an advantage as some CAPITAL
travelling will be necessary. APPOINTMENTS LTD.
Please write in the first instance to :
Dr. R. A. Hazelwood, Redland Technology Limited, FREE JOBS LIST

Technology and Product Development Centre, Graylands, for
Horsham, Sussex. Tel Horsham 2351 Ext 281
:
FIELD SERVICE ENGINEERS.
BASIC SALARIES TO
£5,000 + CAR
Redland Technology
p7otl
77, 30 Windmill Street. London. WI

01 -637 5551
WILTSHIRE
AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY
SALES Area Physics Service
Medical Physics
MANAGER Technician
for Mainline Electronics (GRADE IV)
Required for this new department which provides an Area
The Mainline division of Crellon Electronics has been
physics service (centred on the City of Bath) and serving
formed to supply electronic components to the amateur ultimately three health districts. The person appointed will be
market. assisting with the provision of physics service chiefly to the
The division requires a Manager (male or female) with clinical measurement activities in the Area. An interest in
entrepreneurial flair and drive to take over sales and electronic techniques and instrumentation desirable.
-
marketing. Salary: £2346 -£3267 per annum plus supplements.
Applicants, who must have considerable experience in Job description and application forms are available from
this field will be fully responsible for the total promotion the Area Personal Officer, Wiltshire Area Health
of the division's products - and directly concerned with Authority, Rowden Hill House, Chippenham, Wilts SN15
its profitability. 2AN. Tel. 0249 -51251 ext. 236.
_
Closing date, 2th December, 9 7 7.
Salary around £5,000 plus a generous profit sharing
1 1
scheme Which should produce over £7,500 p.a.
MARINE ELECTRONICS FIELD EN- RADIO - TELEPHONE ENGINEERS

Write or telephone: Experienced in V.H.F. mobile
GINEER experienced install & ser- equipment. Top salaries for top
Alan Thompson vice SSB VHF radar, autopilots ability. We are a young progres-
Main line Division electronics. Able to work on own sive company currently the busiest.
initiative. Home and abroad. Must and fastest expanding radio -tele-
i
Crellon Electronics Ltd. live in or near London. The right phone firm in London, Ring Lon-
380 Bath Road, Slough, Berks. person could advance to manage- don Communications on 01 -328 5344
Tel: Burnham (06286) 4434
ment level. Teleseonic Marine Ltd.. ask for Mike Rawlings or Bill
243 Euston Road, NW1. (7680 Clarke. (7956
7658
H.M.G.C.C.
has vacancies for
ELECTRONIC
ENGINEERS
to work in fields of:
a. VHF /UHF communications equipment design.
b. General circuit design analogue and digital.
Qualifications
Candidates should have one of the following academic qualifications
i. Degree in Science or Engineering
ii. Degree standard membership of a Professional
Institution
iii. HNC or HND in a scientific or engineering
subject
or equivalent qualifications.
Experience
For the grade of Higher Scientific Officer the following post -qualification is
also required, 2 years for candidates with 1st or 2nd Class Honours degrees
and 5 years for other candidates.
Salaries
Scientific Officer (under age 27) £2462 -£3840
Higher Scientific Officer £3567 -£4767
A pay supplement of £313.20 per annum is included in the above salary

scales. An additional supplement of 5% of total earnings subject to a
minimum of £1 30.50 per annum and a maximum of £208.80 per annum is
also payable.
Application forms may be obtained from:

The Administrative Officer
HM Government Communications Centre
Hanslope Park
Hanslope
Milton Keynes MK1 9 7BH
(1682)
CATHODIC
Metropolitan Police Office
PROTECTION
Tape Recording
Specialist
TECHNICIAN
Wisbech up to £3957
... to work in the Tape Laboratory, Camberwell, London, on
copying and processing tapes, and preparing tapes for specialist
tape recorders. Duties also include giving evidence in Court about Applications are invited from suitably
work carried out on tapes, and occasionally analysing various qualified persons for the above post based in
phenomena of tape recordings using specialist analytical equip-
ment and then acting as expert witness in Court. The successful Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
candidate will be responsible for own case work (initial training The successful applicant will be required to
given) and will work in close collaboration with Police Officers and
with the various Constabularies which will necessitate travel carry out resistivity surveys, potential sur-
anywhere in the country. veys, locations and Pearson surveys, con-
Candidates (aged at least 21.) must have ONC in Engineering tinuity and insulating flange tests and all
(with a pass in Electrical Engineering "A ") or C &G Radio, TV and
Electronics Technicians Cert. No. 272, or an equivalent or higher
patterns of interference tests. Responsi-
qualification. In addition, they should have a thorough under- bilities also include negotiating with
standing of tape recorders and recording techniques; have
experience of work in professional broadcast studios on audio and
Electricity, Water, Post Office and all other
video tape recorders; and be fully conversant with checking tapes Authorities concerned with Cathodic Pro-
for quality and defects. tection.
Salary starting between £3490 and £4460 (according to age) Candidates should be experienced in all as-
and rising to £4765. Promotion prospects. Non -contributory
pension scheme.
pects of Cathodic Protection including in-
For further details and an application form (to be returned by 8th
stallation and maintenance of impressed and
December, 1977), write to Civil Service Commission, Alencon sacrificial schemes, ground bed installations,
Link, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 1JB, or telephone Basingstoke
(0256) 68551 (answering service operates outside office hours).
transformer rectifiers, test posts, and all
Please quote T/9625. general duties associated with Cathodic
176561 Protection.
Salary within the range £2769 -£3456 plus
Phases I and II pay policy supplements.
Excellent conditions of service including
sick pay, holiday and pension schemes. The
region operates a car mileage scheme.
Apply to Mr. J. G. Hagger, Area
ELECTRONICS ENGINEER Personnel Officer, Eastern Gas,
(LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEMS)
We are a leading company in the field of thyristor controlled lighting and associated
Newmarket Road, Cambridge CB5
equipment, including standby power sources. power distribution and industrial control. A high
percentage of our production is exposed.
8JE. Tel. Cambridge 65341, as soon
We require an Electronics Engineer to carry out design and development on both existing and
as possible. 76861
new products- The work encompasses all aspects of design from initial concept and prototypes
to final production. and may include some project work.
Applicants should have a minimum qualificiation of HNC together with some industrial design
EASTERN GAS
experience involving analogue and digital techniques. The ability to work with minimum
supervision is essential.
Contact: P. J. Harrison, Technical Director.
Poaron Controls Limited

60/62 Greenhill Crescent SOUTH OF SCOTLAND ELECTRICITY BOARD
Holywell Industrial Estate
Watford, Herts WD1 8RL HUNTERSTON
Tel. Watford (0923) 37144
Telex 922080 7726
'A' & 'B' NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS
require
INSTRUMENT
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
TECHNICAL STAFF GRADE 5

CRAFTSMEN
AVERAGE SALARY £77 for 40 hours per week on a 3
Vacancy for electronics technician to construct and develop specialised shift 5 cycle week pattern or £69 for 40 hours per
electronic and electrical equipment, and to assist research groups with
electronic instrumentation in the field of control, measurement and week for 1- week -end in 4 day stagger pattern.
data -handling.
Salary range £3377 -£3856 per annum inclusive of London weighting
will be supplied to craftsmen writing for the
Full details
.
and permitted supplement. Four weeks' holiday plus additional days at

standard application form and quoting reference
Christmas and Easter. Superannuation scheme. Sports and social
67/IND174/77 to the Manager, Hunterston 'A' & 'B'
Nuclear Power Station, West Kilbride, Ayrshire LA23
facilities. 37 and half hour, 5 day week.
9QJ.
Apply to Mr. G. J. Green, Department of Metallurgy and Materials
Science, Imperial College of Science and Technology, South Ken- The above vacancies are open to male and female appli-
sington, London SW7 2BP. cants.
( 7694 )
(76841
Appointments
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
ENGINEERING
Within the International Telecommunications
Satellite Organisation (INTELSAT) two types
Satellite Systems Engineers
of satellite earth station are used - You will be involved with the study of radio communications is essential, and
Standards A' and 'B'. Cable and Wireless is satellite systems, and in the preparation experience in satellite communications
the world's largest operator of both types of of specifications and procurement of systems engineering would be
INTELSAT earth station. Our involvement earth station sub -systems. You should advantageous. Candidates with
encompasses ownership, operation, specialised experience in related fields
maintenance, consultancy and the lease of
be numerate and hold a degree or
equivalent in electrical engineering, (such as digital radio, antenna theory or
earth stations to clients. The Satellite
Division plans and coordinates the electronics or a related discipline. microwave propagation) will also be
procurement and commissioning of earth Experience in microwave techniques or considered.
stations, including our own design of
Standard 'B' station, and is involved in
systems studies for our own network and for Satellite Earth Station Planning Engineers
projected domestic satellite schemes. Rapid You will be concerned with the planning Engineers would be an added
growth in this high -technology field means of satellite systems and the preparation advantage. Experience in microwave
outstanding opportunities are availab,e to techniques or radio communications is
of specifications, tender evaluations,
men and women in the following key posts: essential, and experience in satellite
procurement and installation of earth
station sub -systems. You should hold communications systems engineering
an HNC or equivalent in electrical would be an advantage. Candidates
engineering, electronics or a related with field operations experience but
discipline, and membership of the without planning experience will also be
Institution of Electrical Engineers or the considered.
Institution of Electronic and Radio
All posts are London -based, but as international company, and includes
most of our business is overseas, you relocation assistance where necessary.
will make short trips abroad. Please telephone or write with full CV to:
Starting salaries (currently under Recruitment Manager,
review) will be around £5,000 rising to Dept. A907/749,
£6,000 in annual increments. Cable & Wireless Limited,
Subsequent promotion, leading to Mercury House, Theobalds Road,
salaries of £7,600, is possible. Benefits London WC1 X 8RX.
are those to be expected of an Tel: 01- 242 4433 ext. 4059.
Cable & Wireless

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The Directorate of Radio Technology, Central London, provides Candidates must have qualified for corporate membership of
the technical expertise and engineering support for forming and IEE or IERE, and in addition have several years' professional
implementing management policy, and is concerned with all experience. They must have at least two years' experience in a
aspects of spectrum engineering. It is also involved in the relevant field, and should have a broad outlook enabling them to
technical preparations for the 1979 World Administrative Radio appreciate the general principles of frequency spectrum
Conference. engineering.
The successful candidates will each lead a section dealing Starting salary between £5705 and £691 5, depending on
with one of the following activities: the forward planning, qualifications and experience. Non -contributory pension scheme.
management and regulation of civil frequency bands; radio Promotion prospects.
propagation over the whole frequency spectrum; specifications For further details and an application form (to be returned by
and equipment type approval for fixed and mobile services, 9 December 1977) write to Civil Service Commission, Alencon
including microwave links; the application of computer Link, Basingstoke, Hants, RG21 JB, or telephone Basingstoke
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techniques to frequency management problems; the nationwide (0256) 68551 (answering service operates outside office hours).
radio interference service; the provision of technical advice on Please quote T(D)85/1.
radio services' licensing; and the operation of an international
radio monitoring service.
HOME OFFICE 7
Engineering Directorate of Radio Technology

Opportunities Telecommunications
Pye Business Communications Limited, a member of
-
the Pye Group of Companies part of the international
-
Philips organisation markets, installs, commissions
and services a wide range of communications
Officers
equipment.
The Engineers appointed to the following positions .to be responsible for the study of radio propagation matters over the
will enjoy the excellent employment conditions whole of the radio frequency spectrum above 10k Hz and for the forward
associated with a major company. planning, management and regulation of frequency bands allocated to
FIELD MAINTENANCE ENGINEERS broadcasting, fixed, maritime and land mobile, and space services.
i) To cover Northern England, resident in Central Duties also include: preparing specifications and type -approval of
Yorkshire, to work on Intercom and CCTV systems. equipment for fixed and mobile services; application of computer
ii) To cover Southern Area, preferably resident in techniques to frequency assignment problems; development of
Greater London, to work on Intercom and CCTV
equipment for the location and suppression of radio interference; technical
systems, Radio and Inductive Paging equipment.
iii) To cover Midlands, resident in Birmingham advice on all aspects of licensing of radio services and advice in connection
close to Spaghetti Junction, to work on CCTV with the international radio monitoring service.
equipment for which experience of digital techniques
is essential. The vacancies are in Central London
INSTALLATION & COMMISSIONING and Stanmore, Middlesex
ENGINEER Candidates (aged at least 25) must have ONC in Engineering (with a pass
- Southern Area, resident North of the Thames, for in Electrical Engineering 'A') or in Applied Physics or an equivalent
Private Telephone systems, Intercom and Public qualification. In addition, they must have had at least 7 years' experience
Address systems and Paging Equipment.
A Final C. & G. Telecommunications Certificate,
of skilled work on radio, radar or other electronic work.
ONC or equivalent is essential for the above Salary in London starts at £4765 and rises to £5200; £190 less at
vacancies, together with a clean driving licence. Stanmore. Good promotion prospects. Non -contributory pension
Company cars will be provided. scheme.
BENCH MAINTENANCE ENGINEERS For further details and an application form (to be returned by 8 December
to work at our Wembley Depot on RF and Inductive 1977) write to Civil Service Commission, Alencon Link, Basingstoke,
Loop Paging Receivers and /or CCTV equipment.
Hants RG21 1JB, or telephone Basingstoke (0256) 68551 (answering
Minimum qualification of Intermediate C. & G.
Telecommunications Certificate required. service operates outside office hours). Please quote T/9647.
Please apply to :
Mrs. Ann Macnab, Personnel Manager, HOME OFFICE

Pye Business Communications Limited,
Cromwell Road, Cambridge CB1 3HE
Telephone Cambridge 45191
Pye Business
Communications Ltd
e'ram.a Pw tiCarntrov
CHELSEA COLLEGE CHELSEA COLLEGE

University of London
Research
Officer
University of London
ELECTRONICS
ELECTRONICS TECHNICIANS
TECHNICIAN GRADE 5 Ideal opportunity occurs for a suitably qualified person to
Vacancies exist in our Electronics undertake interesting and varied projects and investigatory
Grade 3 required for the construction and Workshop and Electronics Research
maintenance of electronic equipment in the work in the field of electromagnetic interference.
Electronics Undergraduate Teaching Labo-
Laboratory. Interesting prototype The ideal applicant, male or female, will be aged 22 -40 with
design and development plus servicing
ratory, and also to assist with laboratory graduate or HNC qualification, experience of Radio
classes and Audio Visual Aids requirements. or experimental work. Relevant exper
fence essential. Salary in the range frequency measuring techniques
calibration.
- measurement and
Day release for an approved course of study £3377-£3856 per annum (inclusive of
could be arranged. Relevant experience and London Allowance and Supplements). ERA is an independent engineering organisation
ONC or equivalent required. Salary £2930- Application forms and further details specialising in the profitable application of
13276 inclusive. Further information and frm Mr. M. E. Cane (5E), Depart-
application forms from Mr. M. E. Cane electrotechnology within industry, commerce and the public
ment of Electronics, Chelsea Col-
(3ET), Department of Electronics, Chelsea
lege, Pulton Place, London SW6 sector.
College. Pulton Place, London. SW6 5PR. Competitive conditions of employment amid pleasant rural
7701 5PR. (7710)
surroundings offer attractive career prospects.
SENIOR ELECTRONICS ENGINEER - Contact the Personnel Manager ERA Ltd., Cleeve Road,
THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. for Department of Space Re-
Electronics Technician (Grade 5) search, programme of satellite Leatherhead Surrey. Leatherhead 74151.
required, in School of Chemistry and related experiments, in par- 7662
Electronics Workshop, to work on ticular for Spacelab H. At least 7
the construction and maintenance years experience of designing ana-
of electronic equipment. The appli-
cant must be conversant with
digital and analogue intergrated
circuits, printed circuit techniques
and electromechanical equipment.
Preference will be given to the
applicants Who have substantial
knowledge M, and service exper-
ience on,
Qualification -
multichannel -analysers.
HNC or equivalent
and candidates must have a mini-
logue and digital circuitry re-
quired, familiarity with high re-
liability applications, computer
interfacing techniques and micro-
processors
minimum
an advtantage. HNC
qualification necessary.
Salary scale £2889 -13367 p.a. (under
review) apply Assistant Secretary.
Personnel Office, University of
Birmingham, P.O. Box 383, Birm-
ingham B15 2TT Ref 105 /C /287.
C
ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN (Grade
ELECTRONIC TECHNICIAN Grade
required in the Chemical and Bio-
5
mum of 7 years appropriate exper- 6) required by Physiology Dept for chemical Engineering Department
(7678 the design and construction of for the electronic workshop. Good
ience. Salary on a scale 12,889 -
E3,367 p.a. Applications in writing, biophysical instrumentation to be knowledge of fault- finding and ser-
giving details of age. experience, ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN (Grade, used in muscle research. Ex- vicing standard electronic instru-
qualifications and state of health to 5) required in Department of Psy- perience in analog, digital and ments required, together with the
Mr. G. Spink, School of Chemistry, chology. University of Reading. computer interfacing circuitry ability to work on prototype cir-
The University, Leeds LS2 9JT. Final C.G. Electronic Servicing or desirable. This is a grant sup- cuits. Salary in range £3,377 to
(7720 equivalent qualification desirable. ported post. Salary in range 13,802- /3,856 including London Weighting,
Salary in scale £2889 43367 pa £4,435 inc. of London Weighting. Application form and further de-
VERY EXPERIENCED Electronic (under review). Apply with full Application form from Personnel tails from Personnel Officer (Tech-
Engineer for electronic, keyboard details and names of 2 referees, Officer (Technical Staff FF15) nical Staff RES)_ University College,
and amplification services. Salary quoting Ref. T.W.W. 46A, to Assis- University College London, Gower London. Gower Street, WC1E 6BT.
negotiable. Phone Maurice Placy- tant Bursar (Personnel), University St., London WC1E 6BT. (7692 (7716
quet 01-749 3232. (7614 of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading,
Berks, RG6 2AH. (7672
Marconi Instruments
ELECTRONIC
TECHNICIANS
Opportunities for the experienced and some-
times inexperienced in St. Albans and Luton.
Work situations range from fault finding on PCB's
and components, to batch product testing of
equipment that utilise very advanced techniques
including microprocessors and the repair/
calibration of all manner and types of test
instruments.
Attractive salaries and, where appropriate,
relocation are offered for the right candidates.
Further information may be obtained in confidence
from John Prodger
Marconi Instruments Limited,
Longacres, St. Albans, Herts.tel:St. Albans, 59292
A GEC -MARCONI ELECTRONICS COMPANY

7702
ITN
DATEK SYSTEMS LTD.
A leading Company in the Phototypesetting Industry
requires a:
SENIOR
SENIOR TEST ENGINEER
ENGINEERS
The position requires a man with several years' ex-
perience of digital systems with the ability to fault -find
£5712 p.a.
74 series T.T.L. to chip level. A background in the data
prep or V.D.U. market would be most appropriate and A senior television engineer is required to augment the
an academic level of at least H.N.C. would be expected. existing shift maintenance team which is responsible for
The job involves some field service support in the U.K. the day -to -day electronic maintenance of a wide range of
and overseas. Salary up to £5,000 per annum. broadcasting equipment. The duties would include the
maintenance of such items as Vision Mixers and Routing
Switchers, Digital Standards Converters, Oracle Com-
JUNIOR TEST ENGINEER puters, Character Generators and many other devices.
Applicant should preferably possess an HNC or
This position requires a young engineer with a degree or equivalent and several years of appropriate experience.
Dip. Tech. in Electrical Engineering with an electronics Reference Number 8211.
bias. A further vacancy exists in the electronic development
Some experience in T.T.L. logic or microprocessors section which has a five -day week work pattern. A
would be useful. Salary about £3,000 per annum. variety of projects using latest technology, are already
under way and for the right person an interesting future
The Company offers four weeks' holiday and sickness
is assured. Applicants for the post should possess
and pension scheme.
academic qualifications to HNC standard plus a
Phone or write for application form to: minimum of four years' appropriate development ex-
perience. Reference Number 3213.
Miss L. Bux Application forms are available from Independent
DATEK SYSTEMS LTD. Television News Ltd., Personnel Office on 01 -637
849 Harrow Road, Wembley, Middx. 3144. Please quote the appropriate reference number.
Telephone: 01 -904 0061 The closing date for these vacancies is three weeks after
publication.
732. 7704
Classified 148 Wireless World, December 1977
ARTICLES FOR SALE
THE TTL DATA LOW PROFILE RELAYS, .1" Pin Spacing, AT A FRACTION OF ORIGINAL COST
Contacts Coil Voltages Price Each
COLOUR,
TELETEXT
UHF AND TV SPARES.
7T IN COLOUR. MANOR
BOOK FOR Available SUPPLIES " EASY TO ASSEMBLE "
1 Changeover 6v, 60v, 110v 60p KIT. Including TEXAS Decoder.
Changeover (H / Duty) 6v, 24v, 48v. 60v, 10v 80p Aerial Input, completely external
DESIGN
1 1
1 Changeover (Latching) 6v, 12v, 24v, 48v. 60v 60p unit, no further connections to set.
2 Changeover 6v, 60v 60p Full facilities, mixed TV pro-
ENGINEERS 2 Changeover (Latching)
4 Changeover
6v. 12v. 24v, 48v, 60v
6v, 24v. 48v, 60v, 10v
80p gramme and Teletext, Newsfiash.
Update, and many special features
1 80p
y Texas Instruments High Quality Manufacture. Brand New. Each with Protective Dust Cover. Add 20p P & P with not found in other units. Demon-
CE: £5.
all Orders (Data Sheet Supplied). or send S.A.E for details stration model in operation at 172
Power Electrolytics. 800uí 450v (Value not stamped on Can). Single end connections with write for further information,
screw terminals. 21/2" dia. x 41/2" high inc. studs. Min. Order 4 for £2.00 inc. VAT (add 80p COLOUR BAR
.RADIO, TV & AUDIO TECH- P &P).
NEW COMBINED
NICAL REFERENCE BOOK LINWAY ELECTRONICS GENERATOR PLUS CROSS HATCH
843 Uxbridge Road, Hayes End, Middx., UB4 8HZ Tel. 01 -573 3877 KIT (NU) UHF Aerial input type.
by S. W. Amos. Price £24.70. Eight vertical colour bars plus R-Y.
MICROPROCESSOR / VISIT OUR SELF -SERVE RETAIL PREMISES AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS
(9.45 to 6.00, closed Wed.) 7717 B -Y Luminance combinations, Grey
MICROPROGRAMMING scare etc. Push button controls,
HANDBOOK by B. Ward. Battery operated. £35', Case £2.40',
I
Battery Holders 78p', p/p £1.
Price £4.00. CROSS HATCH KIT, UHF Aerial
WORLD RADIO TV HAND- QUARTZ CRYSTAL input type, also gives peak white
SOWTER TRANSFORMERS; and black levels, Battery operated,
BOOK. J. M Frost. ?rice UNITS from FOR SOUND RECORDING ANp £11' p/p 45p. Add -on Grey Scale
£5.50. 040 MNt
REPRODUCING EQUIPMENT
We are suppliers to many well -known companies, kit £2.90' p/p 35p. Add-on Colour
BUILD YOUR OWN WORK- studios and broadcasting authorities and were Bar Kit (Mk 3) £25', Cases £1.40'
ING ROBOT by D. L. Heiser-
FAST DELIVERY established in 1941 Early deliveries. Competitive p/p 95p. Cross Hatch Unit, com-
1$16H STABILITY paces. Large or small quantities Let us quote.
plete and tested in De Luxe case
man. Price £3.70. 5171A
SOVVTER TYPE 3176
£18.00' p/p £1.
TO DEE A recent release
THE RADIO AMATEUR'S MULTITAP MICROPHONE TRANSFORMER ' Wireless World " TV Tuner and
HANDBOOK 1977 by Primary windings for 600 ohm. 200 ohm and 60' FM Tuner Projects by D, C. Read.
A.R.R.L. Price £6.60.
ohm wah Secondary loadings from 2K ohm to 10 K Kits of parts available. CRT test
-
WRITE FOR ohm Frequency response plus /minus hdB 20 Hz and reactivator kit for colour and
THE MEMORY & MICRO- LEAFLET AT1 to 25 KHz. Contained in well finished Mumetal box.
33mm diameter by 22mm high. with colour coded mono £18.80' p/p £1.20. UHF Signal
PROCESSOR DATA BOOK and leads, low distortion DELIVERY (small Strength Meter kit £18' p/p 90p.
McRNIGHT quantities) EX -STOCK HIGHLY COMPETITIVE 625 TV IF Unit for Hi -fi amps or
FOR DESIGN ENGINEERS CRYSTAL Co. Ltd. - PRICE. FULL DETAILS ON REQUEST tape recording £6.80 p/p 70p. Decca
by Texas. Price £3.40. E. A. SOWTER LTD. Colour TV Thyristor Power Supply
HAROLD INDUSTRIAL Transformer Manufacturers end Designers
TOWERS' INTERNATION- ESTATE. HYTHE. 7 Dedham Place. Fors Stneet Unit, incl, H.T.- L.T., etc. Incl. cir-
AL TRANSISTOR SELEC- EL. HYTHE 848961 SOUTHAMPTON SO4 srr, Ipswich IP4 1JP. Tel. 0473 52794 7269 cuits £3.80 p/p £120 Bush CTV 25
'STD CODE 0703 Power Supply Unit incl H.T., L.T..
TOR by T. D. Towers 1977. (6044] etc. £3.20 p/p £1.20. Bush CTV 25
£5.00.
Price Convergence Panel plus yoke, blue
SOUND RECORDING lateral £3.60 p/p 90p, Philips Single
PRACTICE by Borowick, J. T.V. TUBE REBUILDING PLANT, RECEIVER UNIT small personnel Standard Convergence Units com-
Western-Whybrow Engineering have type battery operated covers 500Kc plete, incl. 16 controls £3.75 p/p
Price £16.60. designed and manufactured the 85p. Colour Scan Coils, Mullard or
to 1SMc /s sont in 4 bands uses 4
.* Prices include postage * latest in T.V. Tube Rebuilding valves plus BFO in superhet circ, Plessey, £6 p/p 90pp Mullard AT
Plant, for example the Western 3- requires 1.5v and 67.5v o/p for ear- 1023 /05 Converg. Yoke £2.50 p/p
THE MODERN BOOK CO. station Recirculating Oven, con- phone. Uses a single 4 way coil 75p. Mullard or Plessey Blue Later-
trolled by Recording Temperature unit, as 25.1 ratio dial cal 0 to als 75p p/p 35p. BRC 3000 type
SPECIALISTS IN SCIENTIFIC Programmer and available with Scan Coils £2 p/p 90p. Bush CTV
100 and supplied with copy of cal
& TECHNICAL BOOKS fully automatic or semi -automatic chart and circ approx size 6f" x 25 Scan Coils £2.50 p/p 90p, Delay:
19 -21 PRAED STREET activation and tip -off unit is un- 34" x H" made for use by Army Lines: DL20 £3.5 DIAS £1.50,
rivalled for the quality production £10.80. U.H.F. Rx unit for ground DL1E. DIA 85p p/p 45p. Lum. de-
LONDON W2 1NP of rebuilt colour tubes for a lay lines50p p/p 40p. GO Tripler
Phone 723 4185 use 225 to 400Mc /s crystal con-
medium sized operation. Western -
trolled, double conversion single £6. BRC 300 Tripler £6.60 p/p 75p.
Closed Sat. p. m. 44 Whybrow provide a complete ser- Others available. Philips G8 De-
1
vice including training, installation, chan 230v I/P 19" rack mt. with coder part -complete, £2.50 p/p 75p.
and all associated supplies. cire £30 V.H.F. Test Set type 210 GEC 2040 Ex- Rental Panels, De-
INVERTERS Western -Whybrow Engineering provides o/p over range 20 to coder £5.00. Time Base £5.00. p/p
To operat -ris4ru
equipment fron 12v WECO Works, Praa Sands Cross. SBMc /s in 4 bands C.W. or Pulse
90p. VARICAP TUNERS, UHF: ELC
to 24v DC on automatic Stand-by Penzance, Tel: (073 676) 2265. Mod 0/P also as int noise gener- 1043 £4.50, ELC 1043/05 £5.50, VHF:
(7688 ator, reqs 250 and 6.3v with charts ELC 1042 £4.80, Philips VHF £3.80.
and clic. Was used for testing Gee Salvaged UHF & VHF Varicaps
Nay equip. £10.80. COAX RELAY £1.50 p/p 35p, SPECIAL OFFERS:
ass etc with relay coil 6.3v ac, L.p. 6 Psn Varicap Control Unit £1, 7
LINCOLNSHIRE E.T.V. CON- filter 420Mc /s, directional coupler Psn De Luxe Control Unit £2.50,
SORTIUM, BISHOP GROSSETESTE meter for use with coupler, good p/p 35p. UHF Transd. Tuners incl.
Sine wave, voltage stabilised. Frequency COLLEGE, Lincoln (0522) 27347 Ex. for 100 /150 watts with connectors Glow motion drive £3.80. 4 Pan and
controlled. Suitable for maintaining 40. FOR SALE: Ampex V.T.R. £12 per set. OSC DRIVER Ass I/P B Psn. Push button Land. £4.20
mains supply during power failure, running 5103, Edit with spin physics heaa 6/11 Mc/s o/p 72/134Mc/s with p/p 95p Helical Pots 100K, 4 for
6AH8, 5763x2, 832. with circ £10.80.
.
equipment where the mains is not available, £250, Ampex V.T.R. 5003 /195, Re- £1.20 p/p 30p. Thorn 850 Dual Std.
or insulation from the mains. diffusion Colour Monitor CH2210 DRIVER PA. UNIT I/P 72/134 0/P Time Base panels 50p. Philips 625
Contrólted - battery charging incorpora- 1200, Decca Monitor MVA 2400 £80, 216/4O2Mc /s with 3 type 4X150A IF panel incl. cct. 50p p/p 70p
ted. Pye colour monitor LDM 0286/01 valves rated 100 watts into 50 ohm VHF Turret Tuners AT 7650 for KB
MAINS-STORE £250, R.B.M. 20in monitor £70, Sony with circ £18 BLOWER UNITS for
Send for information to Featherlight, Philips 19TG170, GEC
V60D, and V6OH "once used" £3, use with P.A. 115v £4. AUTO TRANS 2010 etc. £2.50. Fireball Tuners,
Interport Mains -Store Ltd. 230/115v at IKva £13. AERIAL
30 Old Bond Street, London WI
Inch video tape Sony /Scotch/ Ferguson, HMV, Marconi 80p. p/p
Memorex, 3,000 ft for Ampex 5000 DRIVE radio compass drive unit all tuners 80p. Mullard Mono Scan
Tel: 01 -727 7042 or 0225 310916 with two 24v dc motors enclosed
7675 series, £10. (7666 Coils for Philips. Stella, Pye. Ekco,
unit with drive shaft, as o/p to Ferranti, Invicta £2.00 p/p 85p.
drive 24v desyn ind suitable for Large selection LOPT5, FOPTs
GUNN DIODES TYPE 3,000 C.P.O. Telephone Relays
30p. Crampin, Grimsby
small beam £8.50. CRYSTAL UNIT
dual 100Kc and LMc /s in LOX case
available for most popular makes.
MANOR SUPPLIES, 172 WEST END
Barrier diodes 100
56345.
13 0472
(7705
with circ £2.80. CRT Visor with
magnifer size approx 5" x 3" x 8"
new £3. PANEL METER fsd 1 Ma
LANE, LONDON, N.W.6. Shop
Premises. Callers welcome. Thou-
sands of additional items available
special scale marked yell, green, not normally advertised. (Nos, 28,
LINSLEY -HOOD 75 watt power amp yell 2" dia new £1.30. K Band 159 Buses or West Hampstead -
modules, fully built and tested. travelling wave tubes type M2114 -H Bakerloo Line and British Rail).
from £13.50 each. Linsley -Hood 75 by M.E. Corp £30 ea, also mist Mail Order: 64 Golders Manor
watt amplifiers constructed and re- w.g. fittings RG91 etc. H.P. Type Drive, London, N.W.11, Tel: 01-
paired. Brand new guaranteed, 562A Digital Printer with elec- 794 8751. V.A.T. Please ADD 123%
spares by return.
£1.85, BDY56 tronics one only £65. PROG BOARD TO ALL PRICES (EXCEPT WHERE
SUITABLE FOR W.W. MICROWAVE
BD529 55p, BD530 55p, BF258 40p. 320 way with approx 40 preset MARKED' V.A.T, 8 %) (60
BFR39 30p, BFR79 30p, Interference boards and qty of jumper leads
VOICE LINK & INTRUDER ALARM
ALL UNUSED TESTED
suppression kit, with instructions, removed from dig card test set .M1111,
PROJECTS. £1.45. Inclusive prices post and approx size 6" x 5" £40. The fol-
cXY 11A £3 -75 packing free. SAE for list and
details of kits. I. G. Bowman, 59
lowing for callers Dish Ae ass 3
DISCOUNT PRICES
Cm with w.g. drive motors etc £10
BAV 46 E 1 -75 Fowey Avenue, Torquay, S. Devon. to £15 ea. Prices include carr and Single connecting wires and cables. Range
THE PAIR
OLD SCHOOL
£5 -00 (7699 Vat, all items in good cond. SAE
for list 18 or enquiry. A. H. Sup-
of types, sizes, colours, including Heath
resistant
GRANT DESIGN LTD plies, 122 Handsworth Rd, Sheffield Speaker flex 13/02 mm white.
GUESTWICK NORFOLK NR 20 SOD TELETYPE 33KSR sprocket feed. S9 4AE. Phone 444278 (0742),
Good working order, £180. Tel: R.F. Coaxial cables. Multicore. cable. etc.
AERIAL MASTS, 32ft, complete (7857
etc. £20 each. -

with guidelines, insulators, fixings.
Marconi TF144G
RF signal generator, two Marconi
Chorley (02572) 78838 Hayes, (7704 Also comprehensive range of semi-
conductors, capacitors. resistors, preset and
sliddend. controls, motors, transformers
-
battery holders, etc.
TF985 generator, two Marconi BARGAIN PACK 100 transistor. High
--
TF958 value voltmeters. Westa- power, audio, RF, gen purpose, fine Trade and manufacturing enquiries to
lite variable d.c. power supply selection of branded makes, all
AVO Model 3 valve tester
deviation meter
oscillator. All
- FM
beat frequency
equipment in ex-
new and marked- Value at least
£15. Only £5 inc p&p, CWO (UK
only). Instant refund if not de-
HALLICRAFTERS
SYNTHESIZERS .
ex U.S. Gov, £50 with manual plus

,
FREQUENCY
2Mhz -34Mhz
Electronic Equipment Co. Ltd.
Springfield House
Tyssen Street
cellent condition. For further de- lighted. A. Philpott, 171 Great carriage. Also wide range of elec- London E8
tails ring Martin Keefer on 01- _Brays, Harlow. Essex CM18 6DT. tronic surplus. Skipton Electronic Tel. 01 -249 5217
864 9720 (evenings). (7631 (7616 Supplies Ltd. Tel. 0756 -4397.
Wireless World, December 1977 149 Classified
ARTICLES FOR SALE
EXCLUSIVE OFFER
digital clocks HIGHEST QUALITY 19"
in kit form or assembled RACK MOUNTING CABINETS
Over 60 types available Irom 12" to 90" high
Also twins. triples & consoles Below are only a few
types Please send for full list
Ref Ht" Width" Depth" Price
AUDAX PE 10 21 13 E10.00
* Available alarm or
in LL10 54 21 18 E20.00
HD129D26 7.50 non -alarm version TT 64 25 26 E45.00
HD13D34 8.95 * Green display SL 71 25 28 E50.00
HD13D34H 12.50 * Easy assembly PT
TL
72
75
20
22
21
21
E20.00
E20.00
HD13037 12.25 * Full instructions ST 85 22 24 E70.00
HD10D25AV 7.50 * Complete with attractive Racal cabinets for RA -1 7 ,
11 7 E30.00
wood finish in teak or
HD11P25BC 6.95 walnut (state prefer.
HD17B37 17.50 AUDIO AND INSTRUMENTATION-
ence)
HD21B37 18.50 TAPE RECORDER-REPRODUCERS
10.95 Plessey ID33 Digital Units. 7 track',"
HD20B2534 Plessey M5500 Digital Unit. 7 tracks 'n"
HD20B26H4 14.65 Ampex FR -1100. 6 speeds. stereo'."
HIF13E 5" 5.25 Ampex FR600. 4 speeds. 7 tracks 4'
D.R.I. RM1. 4 speeds. 4 tracks 4"
HIF21E 8" 6.95
Non-Alarm: Ell 4.50 Alarm: £15.50 EMI TRW 2 speeds. I track \S"
EMI BTRI, speed. track 4"
1 1
EMI R30IG. 2 speeds. 2 tracks 4"

CELESTION Prices include VA. T. Add 75p for p &p. Minnow CMP-100.6 speeds. 7 tracks V.'5. 1"
7.50 Leevers Rich DA 2P. 2 speeds. 2 tracks 14"
HF1300 II
HF2000 9.75 For assembled clock add £2.00 to above prices. Leevers Rich Console 2 track '4". 2 speeds
Send CWO to: Prices of above £70 to £500

Also Transport Decks only available
COLES
4001 5.90 HEP Electronics
We have a large quantity of "bits and pieces" we
3000 6.25 30 Hertford Road, Canvey Island, Essex -
cannot list please send us your requirements, we
can probably help -
all enquiries answered.
Tel: 037 -43 62003 7fi61
EMI
35040HM 7.95 All our aerial equipment is
12 "14A/1200 14.95 professional MOD quality
14" x 9" 14A770 12.50 TRANSISTORS BRIDGE Tone Coded Voice Frequency Teleprinters P.U.L .
Rhode & Schwarz ESM Tunable VHF Receivers

13" x 8" BASS 8.95 HIGH PERFORMANCE BC 107 8p 15805(1A 5041 16p
30,180 Mies MAIN
BC 118 11p LINEAR I.C.
AUDIO MODULES BC 132 10p M252 61 AA E6.00 * Rhode & Schwarz HFH Field Strength HF Loop
9p Aerials £141/.111
DALESFORD BC 204B CAPACITOR
MIC. PRE -AMPS £8 00 BC 348 99 (MIXED DIELECTRIC)
Rhode & Schwarz SKTU Noise Generator OIM /cs
D20/1064" MID 9.95 MAGNETIC PRE -AMPS £7.50 BC 351 10p 0 17600V Sp
Narda 504 Freq. meters 2007500 M /cs
006.99
£43.00
D30/ 1 10 5" BASS 9.95 CHANNEL MODULES £38.00 BD 131 32p WIREWOUND
C'ossor CT451 Electronic Volt obgl meters LMN
BU 205 E1.90 RESISTORS .
D50/153 61/2 BASS 10.95 TONE CONTROLS £7 00 BU 208 E2.10 0 5 OHMS to 27E
B &K 2409 Electronic Multimeters £55.11
050/200 8" BASS 10.95 Eddystone 770 /VHF Receivers Tuneable 150/500
MIC. TRANSFORMER £5 50 ME 1075 9p 2 5W Radial Lead 5p
M'cs LIMAS
D70/200 8" BASS 21.75 POWER SUPPLIES £1200 iIP 29
xN 1152
30p
7p
5W Radial Lead
IOW Axial Lead
6p
7p
* Sleigh & Chester Multi- purpose Trolleys with Jacks
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£324.91
Rhode & Schwarz fibreglass HA Diversity Dipoles
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KEF
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8.50
10.75
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1 million capacitors 1 million
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-- } million
former Doubler Connector's
274 9511.
£88. 01-
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a quantity of Technical Manuals of Electronic
Equipment. not photostats. 1940 to 1960. British and
American. No lists. Enquiries invited.
10.95 transistors and diodes, thousands
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8139
DN12
11.95
24.95
7.25
other components. Write, phone or
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fields and Mayco Disposals Ltd.,
- COMPONENT CLEARANCE; New/
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Data Efficiency Respoolers 240v
Belling Lee 100 Amp Interference Filters
Airmec 201 Sig. Gen. 30 KC3730 MCS
C28.00
£70.50
E70.06
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Oscilloscopes Gen. purpose 3" 635.55
Ferrites, Units Valves. S pages.
.
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Autophon VHF Receivers 207120mc, (140.50
Snlartron CD 524 Oscilloscopes C90.00
TELEPHONE ANSWERING Machines Marconi TF2331 Distortion Meters ... £100.00
MOTOROLA
.
for Sale. New £120. Answers and TELETYPE 33 Spocket feed.

KSR AVO VT Voltmeters CT-471A E75.00
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Collins KWT6 SSS 500w Transceivers
Collins KWT6 200 ei /w AM Transceivers
STC Rx5 2725 mcs Receivers Diversity
E1000.00
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LAB CLEARANCE: Signal Genera- Hewlett Packard 6188 Sig. Gen. 18.7 2 GHZ £120.00
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'
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system. Replies to Box No. WW Peterborough. Tel 265219. (7632
assembly. Rock Electronics, Har- Council, Maesincla Caernarfon, by 7673. (7673
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
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PAGE PAGE PAGE
AEL Crystals Ltd 30
Famell Instruments Ltd. 91 Powertran Electronics 104, 105
Ambit -Toko 24
Ferranti Ltd. 15 Precision Petite Ltd. 18
Ambit International 32
Future Film Developments 106
Aspen Electronics Ltd. 92 Q. Max Electronics Ltd. 28
Astra -Pak 92
General Inst. Microelectronics Ltd. 16 Radio Components Specialists 109
Audio Amateur 111
Genrad Ltd. 11 Radio Shack Ltd. 133
Audix Ltd. 82
Greenwood Electronics Ltd. 13 Ralfe P. Electronics 102
Avo Ltd. 29 R.C.S. Electronics 14
Harmsworth Townley & Co. Ltd. 13 Rola Celestion Ltd. 113
Barr & Stroud Ltd. 2
Harris Electronics (London) Ltd. 20, 28 R.S.T. Valves Ltd 126
Barrie Electronics Ltd. 111
Hart Electronics 106 RTVC 99
Bayliss, A. D. & Sons Ltd. 8
Hi -Fi Designs 131
Bear Microcomputer Systems Ltd. 133 Samsons (Electronics) 124
Hi -Fi Y /Book 94
Science of Cambridge
Bell & Howell Ltd. 17 71
Bentley Acoustic Corp. Ltd. 124 Scopes Instruments Ltd. 112
Icon Designs 31
Scott J. Electronic Eng's. Ltd. 10
Beyer Dynamics (G.B.) Ltd. 20
ILP Electronics Ltd. 98,107
Bib Hi -Fi Accessories Ltd. cover iv Semi Conductor Supplies Ltd. 128
Industrial Tape Applications 129
Service Trading Co. 115
Bimos (RCA) 7
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