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4 Current comment 66 Club news
Introduction to Amateur Radio, the News and views from amateur radio
August issue. It is also where we say clubs everywhere. Send us your
thanks to Geoff Watts for the help he programmes, newsletters, etc, and we'll
has given us in producing the all - try and include the information here in a
countries prefix list starting on page 34. future issue.

6 Your letters 69 Free classified ads

People are still saying that this is the Advertise, free of charge, your radio and
most interesting part of the magazine.
You've got us thinking about it now.
44 Starting from electronic bits and pieces. Even whole
radios. This service is for private
scratch advertisers only - no traders, we're
10 Straight and level Continuing his theme of procedures - afraid.
What is the communications place at theory and practice - Nigel Gresley
Barford? Last month's deliberate concentrates this month on contests,
mistake. The Telecommunications BilL and how to go about understanding how
The £12 licence fee! And the "fairly they work
good" opening on VHF and UHF to
Northern Germany and Denmark in 48 In the lab and
June. It's all there. shack: 3
Angus McKenzie, G30SS, continues his
12 SWL discussions on lab testing and
Some new information about the 50MHz measurements. This issue, he covers
expanding reciprocal noise, and says Editor Christopher F. Drake
frequency, somebody has worked a VE1 Technical Editor. Nigel Gresley
station on multi-hop sporadic E Plus, that somebody with what seems to be
the perfect transmitting voice, could be Art Editor Frank Brzeski
summaries of propagation on several of Graphic Design: Gina Satcti
the most popular bands. in fact, disastrously inadequate. G30SS
has discovered that he too, is difficult to Contributors: Angus McKenzie G30SS,
understand! John Heys G3BDQ, John Morris
D.
14 How about hi-fi G4ANB, Stan Crabtree GM30XC, Geoff
amateur radio? 52 American Watts, Peter Dodson, Keith Townsend

Amateur Radio scores a first, with Angus interpretations G4PZA.

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digital audio system. The next step then, spellings, in US-published books and Production Co-ordinator Alison Pezarro
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microwave amateur bands. G30SS extremely useful, if only we could make Willett
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24 Top band frequently use a portable rig, and want Goodhead Publishing Ltd.
to boost your power. Angus McKenzie,
Cross-towner G30SS conducted the tests. Front cover. An lcom HF transceiver,
John Heys, G3BDQ, takes us through the illustrating two points in this issue of
build of an easily put together DSB 58 Dealer profile: Amateur Radio; DXing made easier with
such a rig making the DX prefix list a
transmitter for 160m. An ideal project Dewsbury must Second how many resistors can
for novices, and one that uses valve
gear. Oh, the nostalgia. Our roving reporter Peter Dodson went you count in the front cover picture? Not
along to see Tony Dewsbury at serious, of course, but it does serve to
Dewsbury Electronics. show how important resistors are See
30 Antennae preview Pass the RAE on page 62. Picture by
Coming next month, an important and 60 Don't abuse the Tony Large Photographic
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Read about the problems we've had. Amateur Radio reader Keith Townsend, reproduction of advertisements, neither the
G4PZA, makes a plea for cleaner Publishers nor their advertisement contractors
accept any responsibility for errors in, or non-
language, and more respect for the
34 DX prefix list airwaves.
appearance of the final reproduction of
advertisements.
In conjunction with Geoff Watts, we Advertisements are accepted and reproduced on
publish the full and up-to-date all- 62 Pass the RAE: 5 the understanding that the Publishers'"Conditions
of Acceptance" apply in all cases. Copies of these
countries prefix list Everything you want All about resistors, and how we can conditions are also available from the Advertisement
to know about contacting the many calculate power that is being dissipated Offices.
countries available to the amateur. We in a resistor. Answers to last month's All material printed in this magazine is the
have placed them in the centre of the copyright of the Publishers and must not be
teasers, and some more questions to be reproduced in any form or affixed to as any part of
magazine, so they can be pulled out as a answered next month! Written by Nigel any publication or advertising whatsoever without
separate supplement Gresley. the written permission of the Publishers.

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CURRENT COMMENT
.Pride of place in this month's
Introducing you to this month's issue
the East Suffolk rally a while
offering from Bicester has to be like that. As well as the prefix Otherwise all the usual features back and got it all going. Techn-
our state-of-the-art bang -up -to- list, there's also a brilliant Top are there for your pleasure and ical Bod still doesn't like elec-
date country prefix list. Thanks Band transmitter in the old style delight, and we're getting some trolytics though, and we must
to the generosity of Geoff Watts, by the redoubtable G3BDQ, taking more reviews together for future admit we agree with the RSGB.
the compiler, this has to be the time off from his tinkering with issues. If there's anything which They were trying to get some
most up-to-date guide to who wire antennas. Note, this uses you feel we ought to be looking oil -filled paper ones, apparently,
uses what anywhere in the world VALVES. Ah, bliss, we must build at, please write and let us know for their headquarters station
and we're most grateful to him one ourselves. There seems to so that we can get all the mech- and it sounds to us as though
for the chance to publish it all. be a lot of interest in valves still, anism fired up to get it off the they're on the right lines. We
Every HF operator will want to and we're delighted to publish a ground rather suspect that they won't
keep this by the side of the -
find any, though we have a
wireless, especially for working " funny feeling that a lot of cap -
out where those dratted Russians We have a funny feeling that a lot acitors of that sort had to be
are. thrown away some years ago
of capacitors had to be thrown
What other gems are there
this month? Angus McKenzie
scoops everyone with his story
on digital television; Technical
awayago
some years because they
because they contained a nasty
chemical called polychlorinated
biphenyl (PCB to you and me)

Bod read this with delight when

contained a nasty chemical called which turned out to be
carcinogenic.
it came in, and it's nice to see
something at the forefront of
polychlorinated biphenyl . . ." Ah well, never mind, life goes
on. Hope you enjoy the mag this
technology (or something) in month; remember, it's lovely
the hallowed pages. Angus also circuit using one or two. We'll Most of last month's disasters weather so why not take the rig
has a look at a linear amplifier be publishing our HF amplifier have now been rectified, including out portable somewhere and
with a difference on page 56. design as soon as we've got it to the diodes in the rectifier stack give those of us in boring QTH
Actually, this seems to be a be more than about 10% efficient -
(oh lord, he's still at it any squares somewhere exotic to
bit of an HF bands special issue on 28MHz ... oh well, it'll come, more of this and he's out on his work?
-
this month no, Brian, we didn't it's just a matter of time. Mutter -
ear MD) of the big beast we -
plan it that way, it just came out mutter. found some nice elctrolytics at 73 de Chris Drake

"...and we can now keep our

copiesof Amateur Radio in
special binders ...1 understand
that back numbers are still
available ...I'm on my way to
the newsagent to place a
regular order ... or perhaps 1 will take
out a subscription... Yes I know it costs
only £10.80 for 12 issues ... "

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 Space amateur
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projection TV which, as you House party equipment, you comment on
know, is very much in vogue the NRD 515 as being very
I heard on national radio a
few days ago about the now. weekend nice, but not without its
'Giant Pictures' were Ishall be grateful if you are faults." Question: are these
astronaut/radio amateur who
is intending to take a small, -
promised these being 16in able to give publicity in faults serious enough not to
battery operated, amateur -
by 12in in a 1952 model Amateur Radio to the house consider purchasing one?
that was widely advertised. party weekend at Theobalds I would appreciate some
transceiver with him on his
'The whole family can watch Park College (GLC Enfield) on brief comments on this
next journey into space
in comfort, in normal room November 11th. subject
aboard the NASA space
lighting,' claimed the adverts. All aspects of radio and J. Santman,
shuttle, later this year.
But when I tried to tune in a television will be discussed Cobham, Surrey.
Apart from my interest in
projection set at a well known with practical demonstrations, Personally (and that's how we
listening to this experiment
holiday camp, a few years including coherers and 30 -line deal with reviews anyway)
(maybe even getting the
later, it was distinctly dim. it pictures. During the weekend we find the NRD a bit
chance to take part in it if my
was not an Etronic set, but we will speak with Villa overpriced for what it will do.
ticket should happen to arrive
came from a famous Grifone, the house where The performance in such
in time) I am sure your other
international company. The Marconi lived, just outside things as signal handling and
readers would like to know
truth was that projection Bologne, under my own IF filtering isn't really that
which frequencies would be
television was as much of a callsign, G2FQS. Theobalds is much better for the average
in use and any other
damp squib as paraffin -lamp 13 miles from Charing Cross, SWL than the Isom R70 at a
information that might be of
video. just off the A10, or take a third of the price.
interest in this experiment
It's probably too soon to college bus from Crews Hill We used one professionally
So, could you please' see if
class Mrs. Meilde's set as a Station. Booking is open now, for some time after it was
you can find out anything
about this event? modern antique - pre-war by post or telephone, so don't introduced and it didn't strike
wirelesses, rather than the leave your booking till the us as being good value for
R.Playford,
post-war variety, are most final few weeks! money, to be brutally frank
Hertford, Herts.
As far as we can gather, all sought, though a small ad in Programme: Friday arrive But on the other hand, it's
the bulletin of the British after 4pm for dinner at 7pm. well put together, and nice if
that's been decided at the
Vintage Wireless Society 8.15 Early days. Saturday you have the spare loot -Ed.
time of writing is that Dr.
might help. I would guess that breakfast at 8.30, 9.15 start of
Owen Garriotz I4'5LFL, has
it would fetch little more than broadcasting, 10.30 coffee, 11
been granted permission to
take a 144MHz hand-held with £25 -a colleague tells me world wide radio, 1 pm lunch,
that the antique radio market 2 Savoy Hill and 2L0, 3.30
him. They're currently trying
tea, 4 research and debate,
to decide whether to has been temporarily
6.30 dinner, 8 soiree and open
SWL info wanted
designate certain repeaters as overloaded Don't tell me that
we have wireless pirates, too. discussion on radio and The magazine Amateur Radio
"gateway" units to work is very good Is it possible to
I'd be inclined to hang onto television. Sunday 8.30
through, or whatever. In any help those who come from
such a handsome set After breakfast, 9.15 Radio and
case, we'll bring you the news
all, valves are on the way Broadcasting House, 10.30 CB into SWL by having some
as we hear it. -Ed
back coffee, 11 TV and the pages for them? In these
David Lazell, Television Centre, 1 pm course pages you could show
ends, with lunch. different receivers, new and
The Etronic radio 29 West Leake Road,
The sessions will be secondhand Prices of
East Leake,
Mrs. Meikle's enquiry about Loughborough, enlivened by demonstration components, ATUs,
her Etronic radio (June Leics. and illustration, using models converters etc; how to go
issue) brought back The Editor of Vintage Wireless and archive material. about getting a QSL card
memories more than Bulletin, is Bob Hawes, 63 Antiquities will be on working from the hams you have been
somewhat My father bought
an Etronic table radio,
Manor Rd, London N. I T OJH. - display, a crystal set of 1922, listening to on your receiver,
names and addresses etc.
Ed a 1927 two valver, and
probably the same model as fireworks in the form of a Some of the listeners will
that owned by Mrs. Meikle, replica of Marconi s spark be beginners in electronics,
and its robust nature was transmitter and receiver. so small projects that will
proven by my brother's 1923 crystal set Pictures will be shown on a help them would be of use. I
knocking it to the floor Your magazine is greatly 1929 Baird 30 -line "televisor" suppose I could go on and
almost as soon as Dad fixed it appreciated every month. I and then up to date high on. In this month's mag
up. It still worked -wireless built my first crystal set in power equipment will be used (June) there's not much for
sets were made to bounce in 1923! And I'm still very keen. for shortwave broadcasting.. the beginner. It's more for
the 1940s. We Old Boys have seen some Price for the weekend is from those who have got their A or
Etronic sets were made by changes I can tell you. £28. Phone Waltham Cross B licences.
the Hale Electric Company By the way, I would like to 37255. Yes, there is a piece about
Ltd of Talbot Road, West get hold of a pair of 4000 (or radios and prices, but why
Ealing, W.13, and they higher) resistance not include something in each
obviously had high hopes, headphones. Also, a battery issue, that will be collected
making a singularly handsome eliminator for use with my old for reference? It would be the
radiogram (78rpm) which a prewar valve set If anyone What of the NRD? radio amateur's bible,
friend used as musical has one, could they contact i am considering the especially for SWLers.
accompaniment to TV plays me, and quote me the price purchase of a very good Anyway thanks for a good
that bored him. Frankie Laine and condition? communication receiver, and magazine, and keep up the
one end of the room and 12in Ben Brennan, I have narrowed my choice good work.
BBC at the other. What is 37 Birling Avenue, down to either an Icom R70, W.M. Rigby,
really interesting about this Rainham, Gillingham, Kent, or the JRC NRD515. Morecambe, Lancs.
company was their ideas for ME8 7EY. In your review of receiving We'll work on it -Ed.

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Splattery SSB
LETTERS
On my IC-251, 7uV is an strongly suggests that with only part of a licence,
Gentlemen (may I call you over -S9 signal, while 70uV is amateurs are a load of when with a little bit of effort,
that?) nearly end -stop stuff. See sarcastic snobs who take you can have the whole thing.
It's all very well going on what I mean? And there's delight in the verbal thrashing Hope I've passed the May
and on about splattery SSB nothing wrong with either my of a fellow operator. RAE let my interest in radio
1

on 2 and 70 and claiming it's transmitter or his receiver. Hopefully this impression was lapse when I left the Royal
all due to us halfwits out here The only way of stopping this not intended, but resulted Navy in 1956 as a radio
with more money than sense is for me to go QR' or for him from too much filler. operator.
buying vast linears and then to move house. Frances Woolley, G3LWY, Alan H.J. Field,
shouting into the mike with And I get the problem in ends her editorial notes in the Stroud, Glos.
excitement as soon as we reverse, too, and not only ApriVMay issue of Radial P.S. Two things: KW/Ken-Tec
hear somebody a bit farther from hams. Because it's such (RAIBC) with these words Argosy costs £399 excluding
away than the next parish, a nice spot, the jolly old concerning promoted CBers. VAT, rm told. And, why didn't
but aren't you being just a British Telecoms have stuck Quote: "If we are to continue I write this (instead of capital

little teeny bit lop -sided? up a paging transmitter on to get pleasure from our -
letters Ed)? Well, my
I mean, you can only 151.75mHz, erp 350 watts, hobby, whatever particular scribble is almost as illegible
attenuate spurii just so far exactly 80 FEET away, which aspect of it appeals to us, the as some of your "Pass the
and if a receiver is near just about shuts down newcomers must be absorbed RAE" articles.
enough it will hear them no anything higher than 145MHz into the framework for Thanks Mr. Field Hope you
matter what I'm just a bit for me. Oh well, it wasn't everybody's benefit. It can be pass your RAE too ...
sensitive about this- 1 really much use anyway, what done, it MUST be done, and However, we do like CW.
happen to have a good high with the Home Office QRO NOW." Unquote. Don't know what makes you
QTH (note the "Hill"), a very transmitter banging away on So please, may we think we don't. About 50 per
nice 100 foot mast (planning 146.025 a couple of miles attenuate the waffle and cent of our contacts take
permission and all), and I run distant Now the BBC want to apply gain to the charity. In a place on the key, if you
high power on 2. put up a telly relay all of 90 house divided against itself a discount local FM etc
Consequently, every time I go feet away - lucky I've never thermal runaway is a Regarding books on valves,
on the air somebody accuses used 70 much. certainty. Am sorry to sound try Newnes Radio Valve and
me of splattering over half Anyone want to buy a sour note in a good cause. Semiconductor Data Book
the band, yet by dint of excellent high QTH, OK for Colin C. Stevenson, RAIBC, which if we remember rightly,
borrowing some very classy 160 metres? Shifnal, Shropshire. is available from the RSGB.
testgear from the firm and Wally Blanchard, G3JKV, Isn't "lid" out as well? Aren't they all? CU on the
setting everything up just so, I Tower Hill, Dorking, Anyway, we love.the hobby, wireless -Ed
know rm not shoving out Surrey. and that's the main reason
anything spurious that's less Point taken, but even so we we started to publish the
than 60dB down, 10kHz out, weren't just talking about the magazine and naturally we
or 80dB down at 20kHz out strong signals - the case of are trying to maintain Marconi 1018 info
So why the complaints? "proximity" is true but even reasonable standards. Er, I have recently acquired a
Proximity, that's all. with stations who aren't we've nudged Gresley, and Marconi type 1018 receiver.
Let's say 200 watts gets to putting monumental signals made him stand in the corner Unfortunately I have yet to
the aerial (I can't afford into the Rx we still get the during an Es opening last see it operational. The
LDF4-50 yet), and there's feeling that lots of folk don't week -Ed. problem is simply fixing up
about 15dB gain there, do themselves justice. But and connecting an adequate
hopefully. That's about thanks for your masterly power supply to run it
+36dBW radiated in the main analysis, and we can lend I was wondering if any of
you some nice bolt -croppers Useful valve article
be-24dBW; 20kHz will be
44dBW. My aerial has an
-
bandwidth. 1.01£Hz out it will
for a small fee ...! Whoopee! At last an article
on really useful pieces to use
your staff, or readers could
assist me with this problem.
For those who think they
absolutely clear outlook in all when home brewing, that know the receiver, it is an
directions and up to about 5
Dulling the edge of don't turn up their noses or HF-type, and its range is 3-
miles away I can assume free excellence? toesies when called upon to 25MHz. All valves inside, and
do a job of work
space attenuation, which at
144MHz is something like
93dB. So a listener at that
- Being an annual subscriber, I
obviously feel that you are
doing a great job. However,
I refer of course, to
"Reintroducing Valves", page
the PSU is connected through
an inlet on the side of the
metal casing.
range will get about -57dBW lest a surfeit of praise dulls 61, June issue. Having now I also have a low frequency
from me if he is dead on the edge of excellence, may whetted the appetite, how version which tunes from
tune, -117dBW if he's 10kHz be permitted a small moan? about follow-up articles on 15kHz to 3MHz (also
off, and -137dBW if he's as For two reasons do I wish simple CW (I know you're not Marconi?). Would the
far away as 20kHz. your writers would use words keen on it) transmitters with connections be the same for
Let me assume his aerial sparingly. Firstly, space saved their own PSUs? this one?
has no gain, and that he loses could be used for informative The crafty idea of black Any information on the
another 3dB down his feeder news. Secondly, careless box manufacturers supplying actual receiver (manuals, etc)
them as separates has gone
(that damned RG58 again), so
the figures become -60,
120, and -140dBW, into his
- padding can give a
dangerously wrong
impression. A good example
on long enough. Any ideas
where I can get a book on
would be greatly appreciated.
I am willing to pay (but not
too much) for any manuals
receiver, which will certainly of this appears on page 23 of valve data and equivalents? that are associated with any
be a 50 ohm input impedance your June issue where two Titles, suppliers of books etc? of these RXs.
device. These then produce half -columns are used to The valves themselves are John Cole,
7mV on tune (that'll melt his state that "lid" is in, while well advertised in other mags, 105 Ramsgate Road,
input transistor), 70uV at "handle" is out!! Close but why not yours? Broadstairs, Kent
10kHz off, and 7uV at 20kHz reading of the padding that No, I don't like the idea of We don't know. Can any
away. surrounds this simple truth novice licences. Why be content readers help? -Ed.

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 About the RAE
LETTE' R S
bemoaning the loss of earth isthe point of such Transistors that
and Morse exclusivity of their hobby tricks? also feel that the
caused by the upsurge of
I

actual process of faultfinding pass away in a

Ihave been following the interest? It would seem that is badly covered, eg the blink of an eye
correspondence concerning one of the more constructive questions on keyclicks did not
the RAE in your (and other) What an excellent article on
moans concerns the general ask how you would go about valves by Ken Williams
publication since it started, poor standard of operating on making sure your equipment
and I finally found out what (Amateur Radio June issue).
the air. What about, therefore, did not radiate them, other Certainly my constructor's
the fuss was all about this a revised (multiple choice) than on -air tests, presumably
May. Following this, and pendulum was swinging back
RAE (see below) coupled with not a good idea. towards building gear with
considerable thought, my a practical exam in operating One of the things I found
comments fall into two valves after dabbling in
procedures (or a third RAE interesting, although I am not transistors, mosfets, and ICs
categories, general and paper devoted to the subject) sure of its significance, was with reasonable success.
specific. all administered by the
In general then; access to
the number of people at the My return to valves was
C.l1 G??? May sitting who were taking due to the reasons listed by
the limited amount of Assuming that we are stuck the exam for the third or Mr. Williams, and so relevant
spectrum available obviously with the present system, what fourth time. Obviously some
has to be limited in some too! They will stand much
of its content, difficulty etc? of these were due to poor abuse, and still allow you to
fashion, just listen on 27MHz My experience of exams goes preparation, it appeared that use them after making your
if you need further convincing up to degree level, but never very few had attended classes mistakes, an important point
in that respect. The matter of a multiple choice paper of any kind, but not all of from a beginner's point of
getting further allocation before. My first complaint is these can be due to that. As view. Transistors, as we all
(which is nothing to do with that the C&G don't allow you far as classes are concerned, it know, are not so forgiving,
the RAE) is something I shan't to take the paper away! This would appear that most of passing away in the silent
mention. The use of a radio must surely hamper the the correspondence courses blink of an eye
transmitter is not a right as candidate who fails and are very expensive, I was As for the abuse that valves
some people would have us wishes to use the paper as a quoted between £60 and £150 will stand, no doubt regular
believe. revision aid for the retake. by several schools -a great users could tell a tale or two,
If you believe that, then Surely the C&G can't want deal of money for what I and my tale helps to illustrate
think on the fact that the the paper for the rough considered, in technical their versatility. As a
fourth harmonic of 27MHz is work? Mine was scribbled content, not a very difficult schoolboy ham, I modified an
in the same frequency band incomprehensibly some exam. I was also bombarded old ham TX to run a pair of
used by aircraft instrument distance away from the by literature offering me 6146s in the PA, with EHT,
landing systems (ILS). question to which it referred; steadily cheaper 'special and I mean EHT on the
Obviously, then, de - and anyway, the marking offers' by one school for anodes, and about 750v on
restriction could have computer doesn't care. some weeks following my the screens, I forgot to
catastrophic, even fatal The only reason I can think initial enquiry. connect the bias. On warm
results, as well as resulting in of is so that they can use the up, there was an almighty
As far as the Morse test
chaos. The chosen method same questions again next bang coupled with a blue
goes, I am less qualified to
for restricting access in this time! (Yes, that damn flash from inside each valve.
country is the RAE and the comment, not yet having sat
holiday in Wales came up it (nor indeed started Not quite the northern lights,
Morse test. The reason for again). My second major but just as spectacular. i
the Morse test is obviously to learning). However it would
complaint is that the seem that the main switched off, righted my
provide further restrictions on examiners seem equally wrongs, mumbled a short
access to the HF bands, since requirement is for further
intent on testing your English barriers to access to the HF prayer under my breath, and
you can do so much more comprehension as your radio away they went for several
damage there. bands, and that if it is not
theory. This must possible from an years' faithful service.
If we did away with the discriminate against the Mr. Williams' comments on
administrative point to have a
RAE and Morse test, what technically qualified candidate practical exam (I believe the octal based valves are very
would we replace them with? whose English is not good. (I best sort of test), then the relevant as well. I required
i believe the fairest system have a physics Ph.D. friend such a valve for a recently
Morse test at least provides a
would be a series of grades of who failed an English 'O' reasonable test of motivation, built 10MHz transverter to
licence with both theory and Level 5 times!). Thirdly the and despite all the talk of it work as a driver for the PA.
practical tests to advance papers seemed to bear little having outlived its usefulness, The junk box yielded a good
from grade to grade The next relationship to real life. No I still believe that Morse has old 6V6, something that will
problem, however, is who valves, for instance, and in its place, especially make the old timers smile.
administers these tests? The this paper an almost fanatical considering the high levels of I hope this article will
Home Office can't (or won't), obsession with key clicks. RM present on many bands encourage others to use
and the C&G has enough Another bugbear is the today. valves. They are so easy, so
trouble running the present habit of the examiners of faithful and ideal for all
system which is computer Hugh J.E. Davies, B.SC.,
asking essentially the same construction work. Lastly,
marked RS51181,
question several times, but St Albans, when next need a PA value,
1

To administer a more with different phrasings, or I have it ready and waiting in

Herts.
complex exam for the ever phrasing the answers in such the junk box, the ubiquitous
increasing number of people a way as to confuse the We don't think the RAE is all 807.
who want to sit it would be a candidate - for instance one that good to be sure, but it's Bob Leask, G4CEO,
vast (and expensive) of the questions concerning difficult to know how to get it Bedford.
undertaking. I also wonder if the frequency tolerance of a right and to bring pressure on
many of the people 144MHz signal had the edge whoever does it to sort out
advocating a return to the frequencies of the signal the problems. A most
older (and assumedly more different ways round in the -
interesting letter anyone
difficult) exam are in fact just alternative answers. What on anything to add to it? -Ed

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 STRAIGHT 'AND ' LEVEL.
What a lovely summer we're News and views from the world of the radio to fit everything in. Somewhere
having - much too nice to sit amateur, compiled by the staff of between the Bicester Wireless
slaving over a hot typewriter Amateur Radio. Station and the typesetters at
here in the Bichester Home of Peterborough, there was what
Fine and Socially Aware Journa- had a quick re -read of Ken you might call a communications
seems to spend half its life off
lism Working All The DX Please, Williams' article last month and failure (oh, all right then, a
the air, unless it's our wireless
whatever you do, don't mention made with the gin -pole - after misbehaving. cock-up) and the article by
Sporadic E to us though - all attaching the antennas, naturally. G3XSE kind of disappeared into
we've worked is one iW9, who
we worked last year, and not a
We managed to repair the 16 -
ele for 144MHz and bought a
Catering for hyperspace. Oh. Ah. Yes, well,
it's definitely in this month's
tweet of anything else. Ah well, brand-new Tonna 21 -ele at the ALL readers! issue (he said, crossing every
it shows the E layer is still East Suffolk Wireless Revival - finger).
there... Talking about misbehaving,
there wasn't enough in the petty did you spot last month's delibe- What will this month's de-
The antenna saga has been cash for anything on 1296 MHz rate mistake? You can't say that liberate mistake be? First to
sorted out. Well, at least temp- but we're working on it. this mag doesn't cater for all spot it gets a year's sub.
orarily. A gentleman from levels of readership, you know
So up it all went, nicely Talking of a year's sub, sug-
Birmingham rang us to say that
mounted and guyed, and it looks - some months the deliberate
gestions for the new name of
he had some loft tower sections mistake is pretty subtle, requir-
likely to resist the worst that this feature are coming in quite
left over from his old house, ing at least A -level maths or a
Mother Nature can do to it. We nicely now and we'll declare the
which he couldn't use in his degree in biology to spot, but
also reinstated the 80 metre result next month. Some of the
new one, and would we like last month's deliberate mistake
trap dipole after a very nice suggestions have really made
them? Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes,
gentleman sent us an old (but was for the very beginner - it
would we just; one of the motor- really was a nice simple howler, us hoot and the final result will
perfectly serviceable) KW job be a close one.
ing maniacs from next door was requiring only a very basic ability
to replace the one which splat-
hastily despatched the following to read the English language. We heard a brilliant story
Saturday in the general direction
tered itself all over the front car
park here, so at least we're back Yes, Brian, that's right, it was from someone on the air the
of Brummagem and returned in the mystery of the missing article, other day. An amateur who was
with that. The only mercy was
triumph (or austin? oh gawd) which was supposed to appear working mobile on 144MHz in
bearing five nice tower sections
that the 3 -ele tribander, being
on the chimney of the old boiler on page 23 and didn't Well, the Isle of Man somewhere,
which, we gather, were ex -USAF. what happened was (that's how complete with mag- mount
house, wasn't affected by the
Funnily enough he'd obtained breezes of last month and it's we always start explaining these antenna on the roof, pulled into
them some years ago from an still up there. things to the MD; you know, the side of the kerb with a view
electronic junkyard at a place those sessions where we get, to stopping at a shop and getting
Anyway, we can now hear erm, roasted) that the review of a paper and a packet of ciggies.
called Barford St John - which
HB9HB most of the time and, the IC -251E was a bit longer No sooner had he stopped the
isn't a million miles away from
Bicester, actually, and Nigel
surprisingly, FXOTHF in A146 - than we thought it was and we car than a smartly-dressed chap
at least, when our French cousins had to rearrange the magazine jumped in the back and asked
Gresley drives past it every
Monday evening on the way to condescend to switch it on. It at rather short notice in order to be taken to the airport.
his bowls club (ho, ho, tease, The callsign, 2MT used by
getting old then, old boy, nice
sedentary game at your time of I Marconi's original Wireless
Telegraph Company to introduce
life, getting a bit past anything Britain's first public entertainment
more active, eh? WHACK! He broadcasts way back in the 1920s,
was re -launched by members of
says that there are all sorts of
the newly -formed Marconi Radio
mouth-watering log-periodics, Society last Saturday after a 60 -
discone antennas and heaven year break in transmissions. Club
knows what on the site - it's a
USAF radio site of some sort,
I. member Cliff Deamer, watched by
George Benbow, Chairman of the
apparently and there are some Marconi Radio Society and over
most unusual -looking things 50 members, is pictured making
around. contact with amateur radio
enthusiasts around the world. The
Anyone know what's what at event held at Marconi Space &
Barford, or is it one of those Defence Systems' Stanmore
places you get beaten about headquarters, resulted in contacts
the head if you so much as with more than 150 amateur
mention? It's funny, actually, radio stations, including those
how many interesting -looking behind the Iron Curtain and as
far away as Brazil
wireless stations there are dot-
ted about this fair country of Below: EG Culverwell's mod to
ours and we must admit to the the Datong Morse Tutor which
usual vulgar curiosity about provides a completely separate
gib
what they all do. Any chance of . or/of switch. See letter in last
month's Amateur Radio.
borrowing one for a contest
site??
Be that as it may, the tower
sections were cleaned up and
bolted together and we got a Ys r -

local welder to make up a struc-

ture with a top bearing for the
rotator. Having done that, we

10
 The amateur, not surprisingly, September or whenever it is. something a bit amiss some- about it Yes, we know the exist-
was a little nonplussed and sug- Oh, there's a slight snag - ac- where. Or are we being paranoid ing legislation is inadequate, yes
gested to the said gent that cording to a rumour which we again? We haven't had any furious we know there's a shortage of
perhaps he had the wrong car. heard floating about and sub- letters about the licence fee, manpower in the RI Department,
The man said "Well, aren't you sequently confirmed, the Radio funnily enough, so maybe it but it still hurts.
a radio cab? You've got the Regulatory Division at the Home isn't such a burning issue as we
Ah well, we can but hope that
aerial on the roof!" It was then Office has now been made part thought
of the new Department of Trade
the new Bill finally makes it into
gently explained to him that no,
By the way, talking about law and gives someone some-
it was not a radio cab; he rather and Industry, or whatever it is
letters, keep 'em coming - we where some teeth. We're very
sheepishly got out again. Oh called, and we wonder what it's
need to know what you think of proud of the amateur bands at
dear - maybe we should all set going to do.
up in the minicab trade part-
the hobby, us, and everything Bicester, even though we do
Peeve of the month is the else. Don't spare the brickbats miss whole articles out of our
time and make a bit of extra
new £12 licence fee. It seems if you feel so minded; no -one's magazine from time to time,
cash for the' new linear or very odd that the first anyone and it's a shame to see intruders
whatever...
perfect and we certainly don't
heard about it was when licence pretend to be. trespassing when they've no
Interesting that the Toady
reminders with the new fee right.
We gather that there was a
Party got in again - not from the appared up and down the
country- no-one seems to have fairly splendiferous opening on Oh yes, here's a thing. Just as
political point of view but from VHF and UHF to Northern we were typing this, Technical
bothered to consult the RSGB
the point of view of the Tele- Germany and Denmark in late Bod rushed in - apparently he
or told them about it, which
communications Bi1L Accord- seems a bit weird to us, and we June - we didn't get in on it, and the lads in the lab were
ing to the friendly folk at the being up to our ears in one of listening to the AMSAT net on
Home Office Press Office (no, understand that the general idea
is to finance computerisation of
the other Goodhead magazines 3.78MHz and the Phase 3B
really, they're a good bunch of at the time, but various nice satellite has finally made it into
chaps) the thing had got as far amateur licence records. Well,
fine. it should be a damned sight
squares were worked, apparently. orbit Nice one, chaps, and we'll
as the Lords and apparently the There's not been much to report have to do a feature all about it
idea is to get it underway again better than the system they use
now, which takes ages, but we on the HF bands, alas, so nothing
as quickly as possible. LATER THAT WEEK- we can
find it a bit hard to take it from
dramatic unless we were on the
wrong band at the time. We still
hear the telemetry beacon on
cold, as it were. 145.81 MHz and things are look-
It's unlikely to be in this ses- get bothered by stray CB types
sion of Parliament, we'd imagine, We wish someone had told ing good!
in the bottom end of the 28MHz
because they go into recess us about it, and if the Home band and it doesn't seem to us Enjoy your wireless and see
again quite shortly, so maybe in Office didn't tell the RSGB there's that anyone's doing a thing you next time.

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 Fantastic! Super! Wonderful!
Tremendous! We've actually had For the short wave listener Propagation has been really
up-and-down just lately and looks
some letters for the column - like staying that way for a while.
things are really looking up, and the most inane questions; this on sporadic E at this time of 28MHz has produced some nice
thank you all for the nice things guy had a Ph.D and a whole lot year, so it shouldn't be all that short -skip into Europe and
you wrote and the suggestions of other letters after his name quiet Scandinavia via sporadic E at
you put to us. We particularly but he wasn't on the same times but pretty well nothing
enjoyed the one with "A Rare planet as everyone else and, Mr Wainwright also hands H.
long-distance, and 21MHz has
SWL Letter Please QSL" on it, according to Nigel, you would Lexton Ltd a bouquet for fast
really been in the doldrums
from E.W. Franks of Paignton - have thought he had an IQ of delivery of his RX - he ordered
it at 4.30pm and they delivered
since we're really in summer
he is obviously a fan of o"r pal about 3Y2. However, he was a conditions now. There have
Brian (you know, as in 1 we nice man and even got a G4 it at 7.00pm. Very good!
been some bad blackouts affect-
say "no, Brian it isn' ;Alit at callsign some while ago, so he P.K Sargent sent in a long list ing frequencies up to 21MHz
all"). can't be too much of a Brian, if of things he'd heard on 28MHz- this month, and our spies tell us
you see what we mean. His
"...
welcome name, surprise, surprise, was
Brian ...
very good, sir,- and asks whether
the RSG> run an SWL's club.
that things aren't likely to get
better for some time yet
notes on broadcast Not to our knowledge, although
14MHz continues to be over-
station DXing and Mr Wainwright from Dart-
V. you can be a member of the
RSGB even if you don't have a
crowded and noisy but there's
frequency lists of ford wanted to see articles on usually some choice place work-
the use and benefit of comp- transmitting licence.
aircraft and onents such as filters, linears,
able if you stick at it more or
less 24 hours a day! 7MHz is
marine beacons." pre -amps, active antennas and "Any chance of a noisy during the day and even
He says "go on, give Brian a
whatnot. He bought the World
Radio and TV Handbook and
Private Member's worse at night - it's a great
look-in. He is becoming our from what he says he's been
Bill revoking band but it's very hard going at
hero and asks all the questions burning the midnight oil search- Income Tax for this time of the year what with
the static and noises off and
we would like the answers to". ing for distant stations with SWLs?" what-have -you. We haven't
Mr Franks suggests we give the what sounds like a remarkable heard anything good on 7MHz
SWL more than one page and degree of success (the WR7VH There were letters as well for a few weeks now, which is
put in reviews of interest to is truly superb, and quite indis- from Corporal Watson of 31 unusual for us, and the Yanks at
listeners. pensable for the broadcast-type Squadron, RAF Bruggen, Den midnightish have been very
Well, yes, that's possible and SWL, it's true). Mr Wainwright Marriott of Bexley Heath, Ian weak and watery even though
is another one who asked for Wilkinson from Romford, Barry
we've certainly put that idea in we checked the antenna a
our Pending Suggestions file - details of marine frequencies; Wiggins of Rossington, near couple of times.
you know, the one we take with he also asked what he could Doncaster and, believe it or not,
expect to receive on 50MHz a very well-known Member of
us when the MD summons us
for One Of His Sessions. Mr with the appropriate converter? Parliament who, when not doing "It's still worth
Franks would also welcome his stuff in the House of parking the RX on
notes on broadcast station DX- SOMHz: "We hear Commons, says he "spends the SSB calling
ing and frequency lists of air- that some worked hours and hours with an old
AR88 thoroughly enjoying him-
frequency with the
craft and marine beacons and a VEI station on self and wishing I had a better beam to the south-
so on; he also wondered about
a list of what awards are avail-
multi -hop sporadic antenna!" He asks us not to ish. You never
able to listeners. That's a bril- E on June 20th. mention his name "so that the know what you
liant idea, although we don't There's an constituents don't think I'm a might hear."
quite know where to start - we amateur allocation lazy good-for-nothing!" On the
contrary, sir, glad to hear there's
promise to have a look at that in regions 2 and at least one human MP in Parlia-
Ah well, such is life. Just a
and see what we can come up 3." quick final this month - don't
with. ment - any chance of a Private forget that there's still a chance
Member's Bill revoking Income of sporadic E on 144MHz even
Well, you'll hear some of the Tax for SWL's???
44... chap on his
a 40 Good Men and True who though we're coming into
course who was have permits to operate between August and if you're sitting in
always asking 50 and 52MHz at the moment "Propagation has the shack doing other things,
(and we hear that some of them been really up and it's still well worth parking the
the most inane
questions ..." worked a VE1 station on multi-
hop sporadic E on 20 June -
down just lately,
and looks like
Rx on the SSB calling frequen-
cy, 144.300MHz, with the beam
to the south-ish You never
well done, chaps) and you'll
Many thanks for your letter, also hear things like TV sound staying that way know what you might hear,
sir,and we will see what every- and vision, from various countries for a while." although the VHF types in the
one else says. Oh, and we have under good conditions. There is office tell us that there hasn't
said hi to Brian, as you ask! He an amateur allocation at 50MHz been a lot of action so far this
Everyone sent in very good
doesn't realty exist, but the habit in Regions 2 and 3 but whether
year and everyone's feeling A
suggestions, and we're sorry
of putting him in the text stems you'd hear any is a moot point we haven't got the space this bit peeved!
from when His Ineffable Majesty He asks why signals are few and month to feature all your ideas. Happy listening. Oh, and we
Nigel Gresley, B.Sc and avid far between on 28MHz - well, If this goes on the SWLs will hope you enjoy the monster
consumer of real ale, was work- the sun isn't doing its stuff as take over the mag - seriously, if Prefix List in this issue. We think
ing on selective calling systems well as it was and there isn't things do go well we'll see if we it's the most authoritative that's
for one of the big electronics enough ionisation about to make can elbow Gresley and the gang been published anywhere for a
companies. He tells us that there F- layer contacts possible very out of the way and make a bit long time and it helps amateur
used to be a chap in his course often. However, there should more room for the likes of you band SWLs every bit as much
on them who was always asking be some good openings to Europe and me. as licenced chaps.
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There have been rumours flying about working to its designed specification, Belgium decision will not be reflected
concerning the loss of some VHF and we understand. in Britain, either now or in the future.
UHF bands to our friends in Belgium. Back to Belgium then; this The implications are numerous and
But as we went to press, we'd European country (of 11,775 square far-reaching.
managed to establish that the new miles and a population of nearly 10 We also hear comments from
limits of the 70cm band are 434MHz million people) has now lost the Belgium that amateurs might even
to 438MHz. Also, only 30 watts bottom four, and the top two consider taking this matter to the
output power is being allowed in that megahertz in the 70cm band. Belgium International Court of Justice, as ít is
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band also on 2 metres. is a country where amateurs are a unprecedented for a shared primary
This was to apply from July 15th shared primary user of all bands, user to be deprived of amateur bands
1983. along with radiolocation (radar etc). on such a large scale.
In addition, all bands between one The UBA (Belgium's version of the
and 10GHz are withdrawn completely, RSGB) have estimated that this new
and the power limit on all bands legislation has affected almost 50% of This is almost a
above 10GHz is reduced to 100mW. their radio amateurs. But of course,
the legislation affects them all for
fait accompli
Yet another shock is that
apparently, the PTT are proposing a another reason; the high power
new introductory licence. This would licence (Class C) that used to be This is almost a fait accompli as far
allow the use of 15 watts of FM available has been completely as the withdrawal of the bands in
anywhere within the 2 metre band. withdrawn. Belgium will now be out Belgium is concerned which is a-
All one would need is minimal of line with the rest of Europe, and great pity because it would have beén
technical qualifications. DXing is made much, much more right and proper for amateurs and
difficult as all DX modes are allocated organisations working on behalf of
in the slot between 432MHz and amateurs, to put their case to the
Is Syledis the 433 M Hz. relevant authorities. The ramifications
include a satellite, as we know, and it
real problem? At the time of going to press, we
know there are meetings going on in would be a disaster if this were lost
Belgium, and elsewhere, to discuss to amateurs. Well readers, it's now up
We at Amateur Radio believe this the possible ramifications and effects to both of us to make our case heard.
to be extremely ill-advised. A well- on the amateur radio scene. The - Ed.
known amateur who prefers to remain RSGB want to confirm that the
anonymous due to his Home Office
connections, told Amateur Radio that o Pass
on
"this has got to be nothing short of of
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frequencies which is acceptable, but legislation the following 5et upcollect a as
thee has to possible
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draw ¡n Belgium
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had this confirmed as yet, but we
allocations the for strong le to reta¡nl
believe this legislation has been pert be permitted
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on a t ur radio?
Many years ago I transmitted my first
RSGB took absolutely no interest in what
stereo on 2m, using an extraordinary lash- I have always been interested in the
up. Two microphones were fed through a
was believed to be the first multiplex
highest possible quality of audio stereo transmissions on an amateur radio
control desk and into a limiter and thence transmission, recording, and re-
through a Dolby B processor. The output band, and yet when I wrote it up in detail in
production, and whilst there is no Hi Fi News, I received dozens of letters
from this modulated a stereo encoder direct connection between this and
whose composite output was used to drive from amateurs all over the world who
the transmitting of information on would have liked to have seen it written up
a signal generator with output frequency amateur radio in the normal sense, in an amateur radio magazine.
on 145.5MHz in the days (14 years ago) there is no reason at all why amateur
when this part of the band was not used radio should not be the breeding I was preparing, two years ago, to
carry
normally in London, only coming to life in ground for researching into higher out some prolonged tests on the 23cm
an opening! and higher quality audio transmissions amateur band of multiplex stereo in order
The signal generator output was amplified Angus McKenzie, G3OSS to check the occurrence of multi path and
up to 3w drive for a QQV07/50 PA valve other anomalous propagations, when it
which could give out a healthy 90w for The system worked well, both with occurred to me that should be able to do
1

150w DC input. My stereo test signals and narrow and with wide deviation and whilst some interesting research into the trans-
one station criticised me for spreading, mission of digital signals in order to see if
speech were heard, and recorded in stereo
by G8AMG when he used to live in South others found the whole exercise of interest they would be ruled right out of court. Or
east London; he made a special converter The critic, however, was calling the kettle alternatively could be worthwhile.
from 2m to 100MHz so that he could use black, for his AM transmissions used to
spread like hell every time his incredibly
Analogue to digital
his normal stereo FM tuner. The path
worked very well, but it was not long noisy parrot sqauwked about three feet conversion
from the mic, causing violent flat topping It would be as well to describe in detail
before was goaded by my good BBC
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friends for transmitting some hum in the and over 50kHz band occupancy on the what PCM actually is and roughly how it
peak! works before detailing all the experiments
background. it was quite right that they
should criticise this, for as FM radio critic that my friends and I have been making.
Some years later I repeated the whole Although there are many different stand-
for Hi Fi News, I often criticise them for the exercise again on UHF, again proving that it
same reason! ards for digital sampling, the most usual
can be done quite easily. Strangely, the one is at just over 44kHz. The incoming
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signal is sampled at this frequency to
ascertain its level at the moment of sampling.
It would be as well to describe in detail
what PCM actually is and roughly how it
works before detailing all the experiments
that my friends and have been making.
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Although there are many different standards + 'L

for digital sampling, the most usual one is
at just over 44kHz. The incoming signal is
sampled at this frequency to ascertain its
level at the moment of sampling.
Immediately preceding the sampling stage
there has to be a low pass filter having an
extremely steep cut in response, with its
wall at or below half the sampling frequency.
This filter stops aliasing, since frequencies
above the Nyquist frequency could be
digitised, and then brought back to analogue
at a frequency below the Nyquist frequency.
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"Eight-bit coding
gives a reasonable At very low levels, distortion might be
quality for audible if you listened at an unrealistic
reproduction level, since most digitisation
telecommunication is linear. Imagine a system which digitises
purposes." from one volt downwards with levels at
each millivolt There would be 1001 levels
The accuracy with which the level is from 0 to 1000 representing 0 volts to 1000
sampled is governed by the number of bits millivolts, say, positive. These 1000 levels
available for expressing the number. In could be represented by 10 bits of binary
extremely low quality links, as few as four coding; in other words a 10 -figure number
bit coding has been used, with the resultant in which each single number is either
nought or a one in the binary scale. To
diabolical sound which is intelligible. Eight-
bit coding gives a reasonable quality for
ti 1- 4 .. - -
express any voltage between + and -
volt to a 1 mV accuracy, one will need 11
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telecommunication purposes, 13 -bit coding

being used by the BBC (with a sampling bits in a digital word, thus giving 2001
frequency of 32kHz) on many of their levels, including O.
digital links to transmitters, whereas early
digital sound recordings and any compact
disc playback systems are replaying 14. "Dither is a form of
Sixteen -bit coding is available, even on
domestic digital equipment and all the high
white noise added to
quality new compact disc playback decks the signal at a very
give 16 -bit playback, even if they use 14 -bit
deprocessors, but this is with a technique
low level. . ."
called "over sampling" which allows an A very low level signal will be jerking
extra two bits to be given by interperlative through the mV sample points up and
processes. down as if on a staircase, but the steps will
The characteristics of the digital audio Far left Mike Hatch Simon Whittle and be smoothed out by the steep anti alias
system are of particular interest With Keith Davies operating the PCM link filters on reproduction, which is another
reference to the top bit, (full modulation) from the University of Surrey EARS reason for their presence.
distortion levels should be not far above shack Even so, you might imagine that a level
the noise level, and a 16 -bit system should below 1 mV would not register and this
have distortion of around 0.01 per cent, Top of this page Keith Davies G6VCQ, would be true were it not for the addition of
with noise perhaps at least 10dB lower using a 2m talkback to Angus McKenzie "dither". Dither is a form of white noise
than this. Distortion is not only harmonic, G3OSS The PCM-F1 and SL -F1 video
added to the signal at a very low level to
andits equivalent, intermodulation, for alias recorder are in the centre of the picture, push the lowest level signals over the
tones are produced represented by har- to the right of the television screen
bottom bit some of the time, thus allowing
monics of the input frequency beating with extremely low level signals to register.
the sampling frequency, or any other Above Amateur radio is not all easy
frequency around in the digital processor. going! Here's Simon Whittle risking life An explanation of dither is unfortunately
The art of good design is to keep all these and limb fitting the masthead preamp. extremely complex and many articles have
down to a minimum. And mighty impressive it is too. been written about digitisation in magazines,
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. Why not hi-fi the digital to analogue conversion stage.
This voltage then bobs up and down as the
possible in an amateur radio context. And
what can be gained from doing it anyway?
good quality of
original audio did before it was digitised I enjoyed the really

audio on The digits are clocked through the digital

system at one word per sample for each
'steam' AM amateur radio as it was over 20
years ago. A guy who put out a good
amateur radio? channel being digitised, thus we would get
two 16 -bit words for stereo at just over
transmission from the States was almost
talking to you in your own room if you had
such as The Audio Engineering Society
94,000 times per second a good receiver. There was a major dif-
Journal
ference between good and bad transmis-
The frequency response of the digital sions. With SSB the "put -your -feet -up, and-
system can be fiat from DC up to extremely
close to the Nyquist frequency, and typical
"... how to transmOt relax -back -and chat" contact has been
affected, for many, by the listening fatigue
signal-to-noise ratios in excess of 90dB can the bits as easily as of hearing the restricted bandwidth trans-
be achieved with better than 90dB cross possible in an mitted on SSB.
talk for stereo and virtually no audible
distortion in practice. Digital sound, frankly, amateur radio FM is somewhat better, but the con-
exposes the listener to all the inadequacies context." ventional restrictions on bandwidth hold it
down to a communication-only mode.
of the original sound balance and has often
You may feel that amateur radio is entirely
been criticised by very biased critics who
Various other words have to be trans- a communication/intelligibility medium and
seem terrified of any new technique. It is
mitted in order to operate error correction quality is of no importance. So what of high
true that many a hard digital recording has and concealment within decoding. Various definition amateur television which has
been made when microphones giving a
other types of coding concerning, for been encouraged for over 30 years?
hard sound have been used. But this is not example, the presence or not of pre emphasis
the place to moan about the quality of the are all put into the melting pot, coming Below: General view of the G3OSS
source signal .. .
under the generic term of 'digital house- laboratory at Finchley. Andrew is at the

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Analogue signals are obtained from digital keeping bits', these usually adding up to as camera with Angus McKenzie and
ones by allowing the digital coded number much as 30% or so of the total bits Simon Whittle looking or and looking
to churn out a voltage for the requisite transmitted. So now we have the question after the Microwave Modules TV 7X and

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requirement is ridiculous and that they
should all change over to low definition TV.
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Such a requirement would be an outrage,

for it is the high definition/wide bandwidth
part of the exercise that creates new ideas (and digital audio in this format is becoming Above: This is the modulated digital
and results in much serious research work very popular amongst hi-fi freaks), it pattern on the TV carrier as it appears
Many well known and successful TV equip- seemed only natural tó use this format for when viewed on a monitor.
ment companies were started by keen the experiment. But first, a small bit of
young amateur TV enthusiasts. We are history to put facts right, for my first digital
now living in a digital age, with amateurs transmissions were nearly one year ago .. .

transmitting computer programmes to one nouncements, and without the mentioning

another and computers playing an ever- On August 7th 1982 my two friends of call signs, as it was a recording!
increasing part in our amazing hobby. Simon G8UQX, and Myles, now G4RCE,
It is a great credit to Alan G3NQR, that he
helped me to rig up a Sony colour camera managed his own end entirely unaided
with captions and a video link from the despite the complexity of the set-up.
"We are being Sony PCM Fl to a Microwave Modules ATV
We realised that there had been many
allocated increasingly transmitter, operating on 70cm. We estab-
lished a link, using 2m FM talk back, and FM constraints to the decoding accuracies -
higher frequency on 70cm with Alan Goddard G3NQR, in multipath reception, bandwidth problems
bands, and I am North Harrow. Alan first of all obtained in antennas and equipment, and the fact

astonished ..." Grade 5 colour pictures from us and

hooked up his video receiving line to his
VHS recorder, monitoring signals on his
that we had originally been using an un-
modified Microwave Modules 100w linear
for TV. The manufacturers subsequently
We are being allocated increasinglyhigher colour TV. We then switched over to digital modified the linear for us to make it more
frequency bands, and I am astonished to and radiated a test tone, having made suitable for coping with TV, and also kindly
see that almost no serious digital data appropriate announcements on NBFM. modified the TV transmitter to give improved
transmissions have been carried out, and quality; these modifications are now in
Alan could see as well as us the position
virtually the only ones tht I know of (in their latest models.
of all the bits and end of word bars across
which PCM audio has been used) have
the screen, but some beam realignment
been those in which my colleagues and i
have been involved.
was necessary to obtain the best definition. "Date of the first
The easiest way to transmit PCM is
When Alan brought round his VHS cassette
it unfortunately decoded rather badly with
serious experiments
were to be on May
within the normal television 625 -line carrier.
There are several reasons for this, one of
the most important ones being that by
about 90% errors and so we realised that
we would have to do better. We each
independently took far more trouble in
21st, 1983 ..."
doing this one is keeping within one's aligning all the equipment, and tried again Around Easter 1983, several friends at
licenced regulations, since in every way on Sunday, August 8th. Surrey University, who were licenced, sug-
the transmission has the characteristics of gested that they would very much like to
This time Alan obtained far sharper
a black and white TV picture with line and
pictures of the digits, and also obtained attempt receiving some digital PCM from
frame sync pulses and rows of digits going me, over what was to be a 31 -mile link, as
much sharper definition when he replayed
across the screen from left to right in the fly crows! The date of the first serious
his video tape, and so he then sent his
groups of 16 for each world The Sony PCM experiments was arranged to be May 21st
video recordings of my digital transmissions
equipment used to superimpose all the '83, but we carried out site -to-site signal
back to us with Simon, Myles and i running
digital information onto a normal video strength tests a few weeks earlier, when we
around like mad things in order to see,
carrier which is 625 -line PAL compatible. realised that a very good receiving system
decode and hear and record Alan's trans-
Even the video levels are standardised at would be required on the top of one of the
missions. We were all thrilled to decode
one volt peak long chunks of between 10 seconds and highest university buildings in Guildford
Since I have a Sony PCMF1 A-D/D-A three minutes of perfect decoding and (Tilingbourne House, Surrey Court) to
digital adaptor, and friends of mine at heard qur own test tones and voices have a reasonable probability of success.
Surrey University have such an adaptor coming back with the appropriate an - Equipment in Finchley (my home) had

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 Why not hi-fi 2m talk-back, whilst a Trio 9500 (also
recently reviewed) was used for 70cm
ground level which fed a Dressler GaAs
FET pre -amplifier, which then fed a Micro-
wave Modules converter from 70cm to
identification and beam alignment.
audio on At the Guildford end, G6VCQ, Keith
band 4. The output from this fed a Sony
TTF1 tuner whose output fed an SLF1
amateur radio? Davies, G6EZL, Simon Whittle, G6JCH, David
Hall, and Mike Hatch (who owned and
video recorder (Betamax) as well as a TV
video monitor and the PCMF1 decoder.
changed in that year, my two 21 -element loaned his PCMF1) were joined by many Mike Hatch and other tonmeisters arranged
tonnas having been changed for two 16 - observers, particularly from the tonmeister the output from this digital decoder to feed
element HAAGs, my entire VHF/UHF/ course. They had erected an 88 -element a high quality stereo hi-fi system.
microwave aerial stack having collapsed Jaybeam at approximately 100 feet above
just before Christmas.
By 9am on Saturday May 21st, Simon
G8UQX, and Andrew Harding, an SWL, and Right l
I, had assembled a studio full of equipment
Unmodulated
with AKG condenser microphones, a Calrec digital pattern on
control desk feeding the PCMF1, whose TV carrier as it
output fed one of the switchable video appears when
inputs of the Microwave Modules TV trans- viewed on a
mitter which was feeding their linear and monitor, ie a
up the cable via a bird through -line watt blank carrier. No
metre and sniffer. digits
The sniffer was feeding either the video Below: Angus
input of a modified TV set (Andrew's McKenzie, G3OSS
Amstrad, which he uses with his BBC at the Calrec
computer) or alternatively the waveform stereo mixing
was monitored on a D83 telequipment console which
scope. The other video input was from a feeds the PCM
Sony colour camera. A Trio 9130 transceiver (digital) audio
(the one I reviewed recently) was used for input

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 After comparatively few minutes in which
we first aligned beams, we sent a TV
pattern and soon realised that we had a o

slight problem with ghosting from the spire

of Guildford Cathedral. Careful re-orientation
of the antenna soon overcame the problem.
and we then switched to colour TV which
was received perfectly. Shortly afterwards
we went over to digital, and readers can
well imagine the excitement at both ends
when the Guildford team yelled back to us
on 2m that they were hearing my digital
audio almost perfectly.
A little trimming of video gain and black
level controls on the TV transmitter, and a
little bit more fiddling at the Guildford end
were all that was required to make the link
perfect, apart from an occasional inter-
mittent which turned out to be a 75ohm
BNC plug on a 50ohm adaptor! We main-
tained the digital link for about half an
hour, transmitting both Simon 's and my
voices, as well as making an awful lot of
noise, including playing back our own
recordings of a steam locomotive and
fireworks on Primrose Hill! el i r."..tii
"When SSB was first
introduced, it was
regarded as rather a
crankish type
transmission. Now
most of us are using
it."
The jubilation shown by all of us was
tremendous, and so on returning to the
colour camera it is hardly surprising that
my colleagues just had to pan it on to me
when I was consuming a very sticky and
large Belgian burn. Keith reminded me
then that I always seemed to be eating, or (it.i():` ;
talking about food, and this is what happens
when you give up smoking!
The Guildford team, after dismantling
their gear, took the video recordings down
r ~...
to their tonmeister studio and played every-
thing back quite loud, and they were delighted
link was so reliable, and probably matters Top: Caught in the act of having a
with the results. I also have heard the tape
back on my own system and I cannot hear
would have been as successful on 23cm, cheese roll or something equally sordid
which is the next band to have a go at on camera! G3OSS foreground
any difference at all between the sound
effects as transmitted and as recorded When SSB was first introduced so long laboratory background
down in Guildford, the full original dynamic ago on amateur radio, it was regarded as Above: The G3OSS test card as received
range being heard from the recording. rather a crankish scrambling type transmis- at Guildford and recorded on a Sony
sion; now most of us are using it. I suggest Betamax unit and photographed from
This goes to show that bits are bits which
that it might not be long before different tape.
are 'hither on or off, and if they work their
way ttcough satisfactorily there should not
forms of digital audio are transmitted on
UHF and microwave amateur bands.
be any difference. I hope the fact that my
friends and I have had so much fun and Come on folks, how about adaptive delta
jubilation over this project so far will en- modulation and straight pulse transmissions
courage many others to have a go at digital which could be far more efficient than a TV
audio in the future. It is fascinating that the carrier wave form?

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 Whether you are a short wave listener or a from below. Remember to first drill holes
fully-fledged transmitting amateur, the of slightly smaller diameter and also to
sensible organisation and layout of your counter sink the holes in the base. The top
station can only add to the enjoyment of shelf is placed in position and nailed onto
your hobby. Operating under cramped the uprights which have first been layed
conditions with no thought to the arrange- with glue. The end pieces are simply flush
ment of equipment can be tiring and often with the top, but use a square to make sure
frustrating. The unit described here will the centre support is truly verticaL The
give a smart, modern appearance to your nails should be punched below the surface
station, and also afford ease of operation and the holes filled with plastic wood. The
for a modest outlay. rear piece is now added, positioned 3in up
For the serious-minded amateur, an from the bottom. Glue is used and screws
operating table with some arranged shelving driven in from the back. By ensuring the
is the generally -accepted standard A strong edges are all trim, the assembly will be
desk with drawers on each side is an ideal square. After the back section is fitted the
base. New, the cost would be considerable whole arrangement is very rigid. 'Iron -on'
but a suitable piece of furniture can often strips of the appropriate wood should be
Get yourself a quiet corner be picked up cheap at an auction or dealer. fixed to any unfaced section ends. This is
position (or a room of your Remember the condition is not so import- not essential, of course, but it results in a
ant; you're not playing the business execu- professional appearance. Scrape off any
own!) and make a purpose- tive! The more battered or scored the surplus glue that may have appeared at
built radio desk. Stan woodwork the cheaper it will be, and it will the joints and supply two coats of varnish.
look "used". You can always improve it
Crabtree, GM3OXC advises. with a little time, paint or varnish. The top
With the above layout everything is
conveniently to hand. There should be
of the desk can be covered with vinyl floor
nothing in front of the operator except the
tiles to give a completely new and work- log book and some scraps of paper for
manlike appearance. Another idea which copying transmissions. It can be useful to
will mot cost the earth is an arrangement
take an outlet from the phone socket of the
you can design yourself. This would be two receiver to the back of the shelving and
sets of three drawers (MFI or similar) return under the desk to a small box with a
arranged with a piece of Contiboard stretch- phone socket mounted on it The headphones
ing across them.
then jack into this and the leads do not
interfere with any writing. A similar arrange-
ment could be used for keying. A socket
There should be nothing beneath the desk would then accept a jack
in front of the operator from either an electronic, bug or hand key.
except the log book and It is hoped that this article has provided
some scraps of paper... you with some ideas for setting up a station
- no matter how small. There is really no
need to struggle with a rare DX signal,
Even with a desk of considerable size it is kneeling before a kitchen chair in the
almost impossible to arrange all your lounge. Get yourself a quiet, comer position
equipment so as to be easily operable. A in a little used room and work out an
shelving arrangement is thus very useful. arrangement on the lines indicated above.
Transceiver, ATU, speaker and other items You'll be glad that you did.
can then be conveniently placed to serve
your individual needs. All can be within It is now necessary to fit two or three
easy reach. The unit here was designed strong shelf brackets to the rear of your
to sit on top of a desk and yet still allow desk (as shown in Fig. 1) as the unit should
sufficient space for elbows and log book. be positioned to give a suggested 18in of
The area covered is 60in x 18in and whilst 'elbow room'. With a 28in deep desk this
this may appear longer than the average means that almost half of the unit will need
desk there is of course no reason why it supporting to the rear. The weight of your
should not overlap at the ends. Or you can equipment could well be towards the
simply make it to fit the top of your desk. centre but the brackets are necessary to
The construction is simple if made from make the complete assembly as stable as
standard %in Contiboard lengths. This is possible. Fixing screws through the bracket
recommended as all pieces will be square. holes up into the bottom of the base unit
Assembly is by 'butt' fitting; no involved will ensure the construction is rigid.
joints are necessary and no corner brackets
used It is adequately stable purely by Mount three double, l3amp socket, back
design. boxes as shown. Suitably sized holes will
have been drilled through the wooden back
The vertical pieces are fixed by glue to and now the sockets can be wired using
the base plank and l' in screws driven in strips of 2.5mm cable or other heavy gauge
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 wire. Simply loop all the 'N' marked term-
inals, the 'L' marked terminals and then Fig. I.
connect together all the terminals marked
`E'. Additionally, a wire from the 'E' terminal
Openings I
on the innermost socket could be brought for cables
to a position near the centre of the back
panel and connected to a 3/4in bolt and
wing nut This could then serve as the
earthing point for all equipment not con-
nected to earth via the mains. If you
already have a separate earthing system it
could also be terminated here. 'L', 'N' and :Supporting
'E' terminals of the end socket should be brackets
wired by flexible, heavy duty cable (10amp
or higher) to a fused 13amp plug top for
insertion into the house ring main. Cloth
covered flex used for three element electric
fires would serve for this feed which should I--

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power outlets for all your equipment and [ ] [
also a soldering iron. An an alternative you I
could use a selection of those old 5amp
three and two -pin plugs and sockets that r
have been hanging around the house for
years but the current, square -pin type
have the advantage that each item of
equipment is fused It would be wise to
consult the instruction manual of each
piece to check the loading and 'fit the
relevant fuse in the plug top. The only Fig. 3.
other item which could be usefully fixed to
the back panel is a low pass filter. This Fig.1. A side elevation view of the unit
should be at the opposite end to that of the mounted on a desk Contiboard re-
power sockets. quired. 1 x 60"x 18'; 2 x 60" x 15'; 1 x
35" x 18' cut in the store to three
You are now ready to assemble the lengths of 12"
station. This is entirely a matter of personal
Fig. 2.An angled view of the unit with
taste. Use an arrangement that you have the three power sockets and, the LPF
become used to. The receiver (or trans- mounted
ceiver) should be placed next to the centre
Fig. 3. In this
view the FV 101$ FT101 B
vertical support; the side you choose will
and F12100B are shown with an Eddy-
generally depend on which hand you use stone 730/4 on the left On the top shelf
to tune the main dial. You should end up the central position is taken by an ATU
with a 'flow line' which will take the power with a Rotator Control Unit to the right
from the transmitter (or transceiver) to followed by an SWR meter.
the linear (if used) on to a SWR meter, low
pass filter, antenna tuning unit and eventu-
ally out to the one or more antennas. This
will usually mean you doubling back but it
is tidy to keep all the `RF signals to one side
of the shelving. Don't worry if all the
compartments are not used You will soon
find them usefully filled with books, a mug
for your pens and possibly the station
clock The idea is to ensure there is nothing
of nuisance value immediately in front of
you.

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Most towns and cities ahve their regular effective antiques which w II receive any
Sunday morning 'Chatter Nets' and the Thinking about 160? Then mode of transmission very well, but maybe
coastal resort close by the writer's QTH is the majority of us now have modern
no exception. It has a weekly get-together have a go at this easy-to -build transceivers, which although fine on CW
on or around 1950kHz when up to a dozen and SSB, perform miserably with AM sta-
locals might join in. A lot of the older HF tions. The next consideration during my
transceivers from Japan, many of which
double sideband transmitter, 'thinking' stage was to plump for valves
are still in use, do not have Top Band so rather than solid state in the TX.
inevitably a gaggle of cheap and easy AM ideal for novices, but also for
transmitters dominate the nets over the
country. Many users, by the way, are old-timers nostalgic for A group purchase of new
refugees from 144MHz repeaters and the
like!
crystals would make
equipment with valves. them cheaper, especially
If you have only SSB send/receive
capability on 160 it is difficult to become
for a net frequency.
John Heys, G3BDQ,explains.
part of the Sunday morning gatherings, for
many of the receivers in use are older Valves were chosen for their rugged-
machines set for wide bandwidth and of AM or SSB, and with this in mind circuit ness (no fear of thermal runaway or dis-
course have no BFO running. Frequent scribblings began. comfort when facing crazy SWRs), their
switches from AM to SSB (and what it The purist may now ask "Why double cheapness (from 55p to '75p each- look in
entails) is not something welcomed by the sideband?" To answer this, one must men- the ad columns of most radio mags), and
AM group so my thoughts became direc- tion more talk power, less average DC also because they are not fussy devices.
ted towards the design and construction of power, absence of critical components They can work well within very wide com-
a simple yet effective transmitter which (filters and the like), no carrier phase dis- ponent and voltage parameters. To the
would allow its reception by those using tortion, dual mode capability and finally newcomer to amateur radio they may be
either AM or SSB modes. Double sideband but by no means least in importance, educational too; and a little experience
with reduced (NOT suppressed) carrier is cheapness. making something and getting it to work
about the only emission which allows A large number of amateurs still use old without difficulty may perhaps seduce
satisfactory reception by receivers set for AR88s, HROs and similar desirable and some away from 'black-boxery'.

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 The push-pull balanced modulator is This board is screwed at its ends to
The circuit interesting. It is a modification of the more wooden strips which also facilitate the fix-
commonly described push-pull circuit and ing of a thin aluminium front panel
Just two miniature valves are used in eliminates the need for an audio drive Another piece of the thicker copper faced
this transmitter design and they are both transformer. Each triode section of V2 op- board can be used as the panel if desired
twin triodes, each being two separate erates with its grid grounded to RF (V2a The chassis measures 6in x 41/2in (150 x
triode devices within each glass envelope through 1 n, C8) and the anodes are con- 110mm) and the front panel is 4in high.
(if you like, you can imagine each triode nected in push-pull to a tuned circuit The holes for the valveholders (both B9A
section as a giant FET like the 2N3819 but which has a centre tapped coil (13). When types) and the meter were cut with a hand
capable of handling bigger power levels there is no audio coming from VI the two fretsaw. No elaborate steps to ensure
and unlikely to become a fuse if ill triode sections of V2 are driven with RF rigidity are required because there will be
treated!). The first valve Vl is a 12AU7 from the oscillator but their RF outputs in no fear of frequency jump or drift from vib-
which doubles as speech amplifier and the anode circuit are equal and opposite. ration when using crystal control.
carrier oscillator. The other valve V2 is a They cancel and the RF output is thus
12AT7 which performs as a push-pull quite small. Audio at the grid of V2a (via The front panel accommodates the out-
balanced modulator. Both types of valve put meter, a coax socket, the microphone
the .22uF capacitor C4) unbalances the
are easily available, and indeed thousands output stage which then provides DSB out- input jack and the tuning capacitor for the
V2 output circuit A surplus 200pF or
must still lie in junk boxes all over the put A link winding (L4) wound over the
country. The mean or poverty-stricken centre of 1.3 provides a low impedance thereabouts variable capacitor can be
could ask their local Old Timer friends if used in place of C9 and VC1 but the writer
output to an ATU or aerial. The 1 mA meter
they have any to give away! indicates output and is useful when tuning had a small 100pF variable handy which
was parallelled with a 50pF mica capacitor
L3 to resonance (remembering to give a
Another simplification is the use of crys- (29). Both the frame and the fixed vane
steady whistle when doing this!).
tal control for the carrier frequency. Hap- connections on VC1 are 'hot' to RF and
pily most nets stick to a regular frequency Using 280 volts of HT the peak output they are at equal and opposite potentials.
which suits local conditions, so there from this transmitter lies between 200 and This means insulating VC1 from the front
seems to be little point in having VFO con- 250 milliwatts. The carrier seems to be panel and making the hole for the spindle
trol and attendant complications. A lot of about 30dB down on this and is still strong larger than usual. For really fine (say40dB)
the older (WW2 and just after) crystals for a distance of several miles although at carrier suppression (which is not wanted
may still be found but it is not always poss- real 'out-of-town' distances it cannot be in this design!) a split stator variable would
ible to find one for the desired frequency. detected. This residual carrier is a bonus, be used in this position and its frame could
The writer bought a suitable modem 'rock' for it means that the locals can receive the be put at earth potential. It is the built-in
and this was almost the only item not to transmissions as AM transmission. Those imbalance of the tuning system used
come from his junk box. listeners equipped for SSB can receive the which allows enough wanted carrier to be
signal as SSB on either of the two side- generated in the output circuit
The simplicity of the circuit does not
allow the use of a dynamic or crystal mic- bands. This facility sometimes enables
For those having only constructional
rophone, so instead, a carbon telephone 'QRM dodging', and unless told that it is
DSB many people imagine they are hearing
experience with solid state devices perhaps
mike with its enormous output voltages the most important consideration when
was used Most listeners to the finished TX an SSB transmission.
gathering together components for this
did not realise that a carbon mike was in project is the much higher voltage rating of
use and the tranmitted audio may be des-
Construction the capacitors used in valve equipment.
.cribed as of 'good communications To escape a lot of 'metal bashing' and The decoupling capacitor in the anode cir-
quality'. The microphone came from an enable kitchen -table construction tech- cuit of VI must have at least a working
old GPO telephone handset and was niques, the rig has a chassis made from voltage rating of 300v. Other capacitors
bought on the surplus market more than standard copper clad board, (two-sided) a which need similar ratings are C4, C5
ten years ago. These mikes are the kind material that is both easy to cut and drill and C10.
that you can kick around and they still
work! Some DC for the microphone is
obtained from a voltage divider R1 -R2
across the HT line, and the step-up
transformer Ti was of the type used for-
merly to drive the push-pull output stages
of domestic transistor radios. Only half of
the centre tapped primary of Ti was used.
Almost any small transformer having a
good step-up ratio may be used; the low
impedance winding being in series with the
microphone and the secondary connect-
ing to the grid of VI a.
The basic and straightforward tuned
anode crystal oscillator circuit is used
around VI b and a link winding on the coil
(L2) allows RF at lowish impedance to be
applied via a 1 n capacitor (C7) to the com-
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mon cathode connection of V2 (pins 3 and
8). Even rather elderly and sluggish crys- li
dir N %1
tals should oscillate in this circuit.
Opposite page: Front panel
layout. This TX has a minimum
of controls! The optional output
meter sits above the output
socket.
Right: The above deck layout
V1 is nearest the terminal block
to which the HT and AC heater r_
supplies connect.

25
 Top band Cross-towner circuit
diagram: fig I.

56K
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The microphone transformer was stuck
to the chassis top with rapid -set Araldite
after first roughing the board surface with
C2
T
steel wool. For convenience and easy crys- I 5K
tal change the crystal holder was also
mounted above deck where the only other
item apart from the valves themselves is
the coil 13. A small terminal block was
positioned to the side of one of the wooden 22
sides and the HT, common negative and
the 6.3 volts supply for the valve heaters
come to this from the power supply.
12 AU7
Both the valves used have heaters
which can be run on either 12 or 6 volt sup-
plies. For 12 volt operation pins 4 and 5 are
used, but on a 6 volt supply (AC or DC) the
heater centre taps are used. These come
out on pin 9 of the valves. The circuit
diagram (Fiig.1) shows the heater arrange-
ments for 6 volts, but if 12 volts is used no
25
connection is then made to pin 9 on each iSv
valve; and pins 4 and 5 go to the supply.
One of these pins must be earthed. Always
remember that valve pins are numbered /Zs 25
225.5v

clockwise when looking at the bottom of

the valve (pin end).
The underside of the chassis board
holds most of the wiring and smaller com-
ponents. Some insulated tag points are
useful, to be used where several compo-
nents connect; ie the junction of R6, C5, C6,
and Ll Wiring must be made as short and
.

direct as possible and earth connections

are made by soldering to the copper board
surface. The oscillator coil Ll is placed
horizontally and held in position by stiff
wire connections. It is positioned so that
core adjustments may be easily made. Plan view of the TX: fig 2.
Reference to the top layout diagram
(Fig.2) will help in placing the main compo- MG
nents and particular attention should be jack
given to the correct orientation of the
Meter
valve holders. VC'
C9
these t-wo p.+...y
conneer;ef ra.1
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Cross-towner power supply

circuit diagram: fig 3.

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 'Cross-Towner' power supply
parts list
Rl&R220R 1 watt
R3 220R w.w 2 watt
R4 15K w.w 12 watt
Cl SuF 350v. wkg
C2 64uF 350v. wkg.
Si double pole mains switch
S2 on/off toggle
L Fuse lA
Dl&D2silicon rectifier diodes 2.5A
1,000v. PIV (Tandy)
T Mains transformer diodes
250-0-250v at about 50 mA 1
Setting up and testing and 6.3v lA (larger
transformers with higher an
Very little test will be required when
ratings are suitable and
often found in old domestic
building and setting up this little transmit- valve receivers)
ter. The only things used during the con-
struction and development of the prototype
ight up quite brightly on speech peaks and
were a Dip -oscillator, a Multi-meter (just
there should be little visible output when
voltage and perhaps resistance measure-
not speaking. A bright steady glow in the
ments are needed), the station receiver
bulb will suggest some feedback or self -
and a small flash lamp bulb! A Dip -
oscillation in the V2 circuit and will merit
oscillator which can tune Top Band is
investigation (we all make mistakes or
essential and is needed to make the
leave parts out!). The output meter, which
oscillator coil Ll. Ll has an inductance of
is not essential, was included as an after-
about 65uH and was scramble wound with
thought and it too should kick up with
thin (28-30swg) wire on a slug -tuned 7mm
speech. Voltage measurements (see Table)
dia. former. It must resonate at the crystal
and the application of Ohm's Law show
frequency when tuned with a 100pF mica
that the total HT current drawn by the
capacitor. The output winding L2 was transmitter is about 25mA
made from 15 turns of 26swg enamelled
wire put on the 'cold' end of Ll (that is the No mention has yet been made of this .

end joining R6). When the output circuit of important item. A smoothed HT voltage
V2 is finished it may also be set to fre- between 250 and 280 volts is needed and
quency with the Dip -oscillator using the power supply from an old valved
VC .
broadcast receiver would be ideal. The
transformer used would normally include
a 6.3 volt winding for the valve heaters, and
"On the writer's /e-wave any rectifier valve can be replaced by a
pair of silicon diodes. The current demands
wire this little rig gives a are not high in this design and a trans-
very good account of former able to give at least 60mA will suit.
itself." Some years ago miniature HT trans- After first establishing contact using the
formers which gave this sort of current station transceiver, the stations contacted
could be found, but larger items are of were asked to listen on the same fre-
This TX is best built and tested stage by course quite suitable if somewhat bulky.
stage. This approach ought to inspire con- quency for the 'Cross-Towner'. Despite the
The HT voltage is smoothed Resistor -
fidence in the constructor once the first usual after dark high noise levels around
capacity smoothing is adequate and a
(easy) section is operating. This first sec- 1950kHz, good reports were obtained; sta-
'bleed' resistor with a high wattage rating
tion is the AF amplifier around V1 a, and a must go across the power pack capacitors. tions in Aberystwyth, Derby, Lincoln, Swin-
pair of 'phones with one lead earthed and This resistor will also help in the voltage don, Southampton and Oxford heard the
the other connected to V1a anode via a regulation. A suitable power supply circuit weak but readable DSB. S6 to S7 reports
.1 uF capacitor may be used to test that the is given in Fig.3. For safety's sake always were obtained from other stations be-
microphone and amplifier are working. remember that the high voltages used in tween 40 and 80 miles away from the East
The crystal oscillator follows next, and an this design can be DANGEROUS or even Sussex QTH. At distance the carrier is not
adjustment of Ll's core should induce LETHAL noticed and signals must be resolved as
oscillation which can be heard strongly on SSB. For guaranteed long -haul work (more
the station receiver. The coil core is Power supply than 100 miles) a small linear amplifier
'tweaked' so that a high output (S-meter The transmitter will connect directly would help and thoughts are now being
reading) is obtained consistent with reli- into a half wave dipole antenna, but station directed to this!
able operation when the oscillator is arrangements would normally include an
switched on and off a few times. There is a ATU and some Transmit/Receive switch-
critical tuning point which gives the ing. With power levels under half a watt it is
"Despite the usual high
highest output but which is unreliable, and important that the aerial used is as good as noise levels, good reports
this must be avoided. is humanly possible for the location. The were obtained - from
If RF from the oscillator and AF from Via
proverbial piece of 'wet string' is a non- Oxford, Southampton
are getting to V2 the balanced modulator,
starter when using QRP. etc."
all that is needed is a check that V2's anode On the writer's %-wave wire this little rig
circuit is tuned to resonance. The S -meter gave a very good account of itself. Over Building this rig could prove to be an
will help but the best indication of DSB out- town and up to ten miles or so all the ideal project for newcomers, and also
put will come from the use of the loop and reports back were S9 or better on AM or perhaps for many older-timers who still
lamp. A flash lamp bulb should be connec- SSB. AM listeners not used to DSB with have nostalgic feelings for valved gear. A
ted over the ends of a single turn of stiff reduced carrier thought that the signals group purchase of new crystals to suit a
insulated wire which can slip over and were AM with very heavy but clean mod- net frequency would make them cheaper,
down to the middle of 1.3. Speaking or ulation. The TX was tried out after dark and making copies of this 'Cross-Towner'
whistling into the mike will make the bulb and some long distance reports received might prove an interesting club activity.

28
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'Cross -Towner' power supply circuit diagram Underside view of the

transmitter. The oscillator coil LI
`Cross-Towner' components C12 1 ceramic disc
n and its output winding 1.2 can be
list C13 1 ceramic disc
n seen in the upper left quadrant.
VC1 100pf air spaced variable The simple point to point wiring
RI 60K 2 watt (w.w.) MIC Ex-GPO handset, carbon is not pretty but it results in short
R2 330R 1 watt Tl Transistor driver type or
56K 1 watt lead lengths. Earth connections
R3 similar are easily made to the copper
R4 15K Yi watt Dl Germanium diode 0A7 or
R5 2.2K 1 watt similar faced board
R6 12K 1 watt M 1 mA midget or similar to fit
R7 100K 1 watt panel
R8 560R Yí watt VI 12AU7
R9 100K `2 watt V2 12AT7
R10 2K 1 watt Two B9A bases for valves.
R11 1.5K1 watt L1 and L2 see text
Cl 25uF 15v. 13 70 turns 26swg enam. centre
C2 10uF 300v. wkg. tapped close wound on
C3 25uF 25v. 15/16in. diameter polythene
C4 .22 uF 300v. tube (centre spindle of lib
C5 5n ceramic disc 300v. solder pack)
C6 100pF mica 1./4 2 turns insulated multi -strand
CT In mica over centre of L3
C8 In ceramic disc XTAL fundamental freq. between
C9 50pF mica 1920 and 1990kHz to suit, with
C10 5n ceramic disc 300v. HC6 holder. Messrs QuartSlab
C11 200uF 10v. Ltd.

Top Band `Cross-Towner' - some typical voltage readings

HT supply voltage from
power pack 280v.
Across R2 with the microphone out of circuit 2.6v.
Across R5 4.3v (which means that the current through VI is 2mA)
Across R6 135v (which means that the current through VI is 11mA)
Across R10 25v (which means that the current through V2 is 12mA)
All voltage measurements were made with an ARC Digital Multi-tester.

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L SIS
review of three antennas for the 432 MHz band this
month - the Jaybeam LW24, the PBM18 and the
21 -ele Tonna; we had some time on an antenna
test range and we had already got well into our
stride with measurements.
However, we ran into a few problems. The chief
one was that the antennas were all apparently
producing about 8dB more gain than was physically
possible!
The reasons for this are that antenna measure-
ment techniques are anything but easy - even
though we were using a professional test facility,
there are still a number of pitfalls that it's possible
to fall into, and it seems that the computer at the
test range hasn't had to cope with frequencies like

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432MHz before.

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Rather than fudge it all, we've held over the

*-1% review until next month so that the test range can
be re-standardised and we can get some results
which mean something Just to whet your appetite,
though, all three antennas seem to produce very
good results on test and the differences between
them are more in detail than anything else. In fact
antenna measurement and actual results are a
fascinating subject in themselves and we'll be
reporting in depth next time.
I So, sorry to disappoint you, but we wouldn't
want to publish any old junk. We're very much
looking forward to getting some proper meaningful
figures. So watch this space!

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43 .
 Basic operating procedures becomes a
little more advanced this month, as
Nigel Gresley explains what happens
during a contest. Basically, the idea is
to work as many stations as possible,
so there will be times when the
frequencies are jam-packed
(ham -packed?) with various nefarious
goings on.
Last month, you remember that our heroes "GM4YYY from G6ZZZ, you are five way from Sevenoaks to Aberdeen under
were getting their stations sorted out Well, three one one three in Alfa Lima five to average conditions- so he wants to maximise
one of them was anyway, and getting a Juliet, three K west of Sevenoaks, go the number of contacts if he possibly can.
newish linear amplifier to behave itself. ahead" Let's look at what was actually said. The
Incidentally, for the benefit of a couple of Scot's station, GM4YYY, called Jim after his
people who wrote in, yes we will be looking
"Roger, from GM4YYY, you are five
five zero one four in Yankee Romeo six CQ - just a short call, no messing. Now
at procedures on the HF bands later on, quite possibly a number of stations called
zero golf, the city of Aberdeen, QSL?"
and yes we will be looking at Morse and 66777 - if he's a good signal in points
how to get the best out of it just hang in "Roger roger, many thanks, good luck -
north, they might well have done but we
there. We started with operation on VHF in the contest Golf Mike Four Yankee can look at that in a tick. Let's assume for
since it's where a lot of people begin these Yankee, Golf Six Zulu Zulu Zulu clear, now that this contact took place on a fairly
days, not because we don't like HF or Golf Six Zulu Zulu Zulu calling CQ clear channel. G6ZZZ goes back with the
-
anything just bear with us, fellas! contest and listening" -
contest report he says "you are five three
well come
So, one of the things you may one one three".
So there was a typical contest exchange.
across one fine and sunny weekend as you It's all over in about thirty seconds. You This is a combination of two things. The
tune the SSB end of the 144MHz band is: might well be flabbergasted at how quickly first two figures- 5 and 3 - are the ordinary
. CQ contest, CQ contest, Golf Six and with what little ceremony G6777 has a bog-standard signal report which one station
Zulu Zulu Zulu calling CQ contest and contact with what is a very choice piece of would give to another whether or not it
by. DX by any standards but he's obviously a was a contest; in other words, GM4YYY is
good operator who's out to waste as little readability 5 and strength 3 at G6777. The
What can this mean? Further investigation time as possible and press on rapidly from other three numbers are the so-called
shows that practically every available one contact to the next at a great rate of "serial number 001, or zero zero one - in
frequency is full of such goings-on and knots. other words, if you work one of your locals
there are all sorts of odd things being said. After all, if he can work a dozen or so ten seconds after the contest has started,
Let's take a look at what's afoot stations in that part of the world he's going you're quite likely to give him a report of
Contests are things people either love or -
to score quite a lot of points it's a long "five nine zero zero one".
-
loathe very few feel neutral about them.
Basically, the idea is to work as many
stations as possible as far away as possible,
since the scoring system for all VHF-type
contests takes account of both, and if
you're in for it at all seriously you'll either
lug vast amounts of gear up some Welsh
mountain or wherever and drive yourself
barmy for 24 hours or you'll spend ages
getting the home station in good fettle.
There are several sorts of contest and
you'll get the hang of them all later on in
your career, but the idea this month is to
show you how to operate in a contest,
more or less.
What you will tend to hear is something
like the CQ call we overheard above; it's
just an ordinary CQ call but it doesn't last
long and the word "contest" gets thrown in
ó
o

somewhere. Contest-type CQ calls don't

-
go on for ages, either at most they last
about fifteen seconds unless it's either the
middle of the night and no -one's about or
the band just ain't propagating to anywhere
Surprise, surprise, it seems to be our old
-
mate Jim doing his stuff let's see whether
anything happens:
"G6ZZZ, this is Golf Mike Four Yankee
Yankee Yankee calling and by"
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 As the computer chaps would say, for
each contact you increment the serial
number by one, or, in other words, the
next contact after your first will be given
the serial 002. And so on. GM6YYY is
obviously the 113th contact that G6777
has had since he started operating in the
contest, and so on.
G6777 has also told the Scots laddie
what QTH square he is in, and this is most
important In order to consider a contact
as complete, it is necessary for the other
station to copy the report and serial number
and the QTH locator - and in some contests
you need to pass a physical location as
well, which we'll look at in a bit. The full
QTH locator, of the form AL52j, must be
given and copied by the other station, and
you in turn must copy his details, for the If we use our imagination, we think we Oscar two four golf, Whisky Oscar two
contact to be counted as valid for points. hear a real weakie in the noise. four golf, W024g, go ahead"
G6777 also added the fact that he was "Golf India Six Charlie Golf Mike - amd G6ZZZ obviously copied that So
.

"three K west of Sevenoaks" after the QTH . Golf India Six Charlie Golf Mike - another good contact was complete.
locator. This is not required for all contests, roger, roger, you are four one one one
five, four one one five in Alfa Lima five Tactics are quite important in contests,
and it seems that it's a peculiarly British
two Juliet, Alfa Lima Five two Juliet Do especially if you're in for them seriously-,
requirement since if you asked a continental
you copy? Golf India Six Charlie Golf contest tactics aren't really a subject for
station for his location he'd simply pass
Mike from Golf Six Zulu Zulu Zulu, now and we'll discuss them later, but the
you the QTH locator. It's probably a hang-
over from the days when the QTH locator over" operating implications go something like
is. Unless you (a) have a good site (b) have
system didn't exist, and certainly in the We don't really hear a thing; we sit
majority of VHF and UHF contests these stacks of power and (c) you're in a rare
listening, awaiting events. QTH locator - preferably all three - you're
days it isn't required. wasting your time and cluttering up the
"Please repeat your QTH locator. Please
repeat your QTH locator, from Q6ZZZ" band sitting there and bleating"CQ contest"
if you're just hoping to work a few new
Majority of contests We still can't hear anything... squares or counties or whatever.
in the UK are "Roger, roger, roger, many thanks for
organised by the persevering. Golf Six Zulu Zulu Zulu
RSG B. clear with GI6CGM and listening for To get the best
the station in Yankee Oscar. QRZ the
station in Yankee Oscar, from G6ZZZ" possible signal.. .
Perhaps we ought to say at this point
that the majority of contests in the UK are In other words, it's quite legitimate to
organised by the RSGB - the VHF Contests build the contact up bit by bit - and it's G6Z77 is obviously in for it seriously -
Committee make the rules, publish the log quite common when you have a weak DX it's probably the end -of-year 144MHz Fixed
sheets, mark the results and publish them station calling you on a busy band and the contest, which is always fun and in which
and on the whole they do it very well interference level is very high. What hap- we always come about fourth from the
indeed. RSGB contest rules get published pened was that several stations called bottom! Note that he's also remembered
in Radio Communication, and you need to G6777 He probably went for the callsign that a station ín Yankee Oscar square was
read them carefully to find out whether, for with Golf Mike in it because he may have calling him - that's not to be sneezed at
instance, you need to give a physical heard a bit of Irish accent and sensed that either, and he probably swung the beam a
location or not A few other bodies organise it was going to be a good high -scoring bit just as he was signing with the GI station
them as well; there was a "Worked All contact, or he may have seen somewhere so as to get the best possible signal into
Britain VHF/UHF' contest recently, in which that GI6CGM runs a lot of power from a that part of the world.
we didn't take part, and there was a low- good site and stored the fact up in his
Even if you're not seriously in for the
power 144MHz contest organised by Practical memory for a rainy day.
contest, they're always a good way of
Wireless a couple of weekends before that, Good contest operators are like this; working some new squares or counties or
in which we did incredibly badly for some they seem to have a nose for the best what-have -you, and the cardinal rule under
reason which we haven't yet found out. We contacts, and even a whiff of an accent or a these circumstances is to listen; get a feel
were out portable on what we thought was familiar -sounding call is enough to make for what propagation is like and, if possible,
a prime site in the Chilterns, but either them latch their ears to the rig and pull the listen to one of your locals who's having a
folks weren't beaming our way or the contact through come what may. serious crack at it with a big signal and see
receiver had an off day - oh well, never who he's working and what you can hear.
mind! So G6ZZZ asked for the station with Golf
Anyway, back to the salt mine. We've Mike in the callsign to come again and he Other than that, the only other thing to
seen a fairly ordinary contact just now, but did so; at a guess G6777s beam wasn't know about contests is that you're quite
let's assume that G677.7 has just called CQ pointing towards Northern Ireland at the likely to hear some lousy signals from
contest again and this ís what we hear. time and he was probably turning it as he groups who haven't got their act together.
spoke. He then got the callsign correctly Don't afraid to tell them so, provided that
"Severs' stations calling - the station and gave him a report based on that, which you're quite sure it's them and not your
with Golf Mike in the callsign, come is quite legitimate; his signal report and receiver giving up the ghost. Contests
again please, G6ZZZ" serial number. Jim then asked the GI6 top bring out all the big signals and your front-
All we hear is a lot of white noise .. . go ahead, but obviously he didn't manage end is quite likely to wonder what the hell
to copy the QTH locator and asked him to has hit it
"From Golf Six Zulu Zulu Zulu - rm repeat it Probably the GI6 would have sent
sorry, you're very weak. Please try That's about it for now. Next month we'll
something like: have a dekko at basic CW contacts. 73 and
again, the station with Golf Mike in the
callsign only please, go ahead" "From GI6CMG - the QTH is Whisky good luck in the contest!

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 This first IF of 70MHz may be mixed .

down to a lower one with a second local

oscillator which is variable over perhaps a
500kHz band The second IF might then
have switchable filters followed by ampli-
fication and detection. So that the second
local oscillator can tune over a range
covered by the band pass of the first IF, its
range might have to cover 500kHz, and
note that spuril of this second local oscillator
can actually come out into the first IF and
cause whistles by beating with synthesiser
harmonics.
The first local oscillator is often crystal
controlled, as in receivers such as the
Collins range, or the local oscillator fre-
quency may be the harmonic of a much
lower frequency source in which a phase
lock loop controlled complex circuit is
used to select the appropriate harmonic
and reject others. How about 84.5MHz as a
first local oscillator frequency? 14.0 to
14.5MHz would be frequency -changed up
to 70.5 to 70.0MHz (note that the first IF is
inverted). The image frequency band would
be 154.5 to 155.0.
This particular band is fairly harmless,
but we can think of other local oscillator
frequencies which would be embarrassing!
74MHz local oscillator would allow 3.5 to
4.0MHz to be picked up, but at the same
time, the image response would be, most
delightfully, 144.0 to 144.5MHz!
Just imagine that you were trying to
hook up, working somebody crossband on
2m and 80m, and you can see that you
might well have a problem!
If the filters on your receiver were not
excellent, then you could even pick up a
local 2m signal quite easily. Perhaps the
receiver has the local oscillator running
below the first IF, so that local oscillator

J í' I
frequencies from 70 down to 40MHz would
give a frequency coverage from 0 to 30MHz

o rm a
with the IF at 70MHz. The image then
becomes 110 to 140MHz. If you now work
out image responses resulting from har-
monics of the local oscillator beating with

o If
Angus McKenzie, G30SS,
gudz
We normally think of image ratio problems
various input signals, or their IM products
or harmonics, you will see how many spurii
will arrive at the first IF. Add to these a few
lurking harmonics of the second IF, and a
few beats with the product detector fre-
quency, and one begins to wonder how a
existing in older short wave or medium
continues his discussion on wave receivers, having low intermediate
multi IF set works at all!
laboratory testing and frequencies of around 455kHz, for example. Let's see how
measurements, this month The majority of sets today have all annoying birdies
expanding reciprocal noise, manner of different IFs, and as often as not
crop up
and how someone with what the lowest one would be appreciably higher
than 455kHz. Let's take a look at some
seems to be a perfect trans- typical problems which can occur in practice, Whilst we are on the subject of image
mitting voice, is in fact, and how they have to be checked in the response and other birdies, may I refer
readers back to comments made on
disastrously inadequate. lab.
I

transverters and black boxes in a recent

G30SS, for example, has a High first IF issue of Amateur Radio? Taking just one
hole in the energy output example in practice, let's see how annoying
Quite a number of excellent receivers birdies crop up. My four metre transverter
in his voice, making him are now fitted with a first IF as high as on receive converts 70MHz straight down
difficult to understand for 70MHz, as you know and so we'll have a to 28MHz, the local oscillator crystal being
some people! look at what can go wrong in such a design 42MHz. This 42MHz crystal side chain
if it's badly made or quality controlled. Let develops some third harmonic distortion
us suppose the local oscillator runs high, ie at 126MHz This beats with band 11 between
between 70 and 100MHz, thus beating with 98 and 97.5MHz to give me two or three
the incoming signal of 0-30MHz to give local radio stations apparently in the 70MHz
general coverage. band!

48
 In order to get rid of them I have had to was present at any particular moment, as
severely degrade the performance of the Advantages in using well as which consonant etc.
transverter by steepening up the Q of its
input circuitry, and lose out badly on noise
different types of filter Differences between B and P, M and N, F
figure, thus necessitating an external RF Let's have a look at the filter require- and S, are typical problem areas when
sensed pre -amp. ments for different modes and see what audio bandwidth is severely restricted
advantages and disadvantages there are in However, the use of such a filter as is
Returning to reciprocal mixing, I use for provided on the (say) Drake TR7 with very
the time being an old Marconi 995 valve using different types of filter. An AM trans-
mission, including music, which hopefully steep skirts, makes it possible to receive a
generator for developing a high level station on an LF or HF band which would
might be of entertainment value, can often
moderately noise -free signal, rather than otherwise be almost unreadable with a
one of my modern Marconi 2019 gen- benefit by a filter bandwidth of as wide as
10kHz, this allowing frequencies of up to wider filter, or one having much shallower
erators. The specification that matters side skirts. A filter should almost knife out
5kHz to be demodulated. Many medium
here is how many dB down the sideband interference when it is tuned off it.
noise is per Hz bandwidth when referring and short wave broadcasting stations
to the level of the carrier. transmit as wide a response as this. But how about using filters for VHF and
If we are only concerned with speech
UHF and CW applications? If you are
A specification such as Marconi give for interested in DX, then hopefully your main
their latest magnificent 2019 machine of
140dBc per Hz may at first look impressive
- then a 6kHz bandwidth is a reasonable
compromise, but the skirts must be as interference is band noise and ignition,
rather thn QRM. If you can reduce the filter
steep as possible. One problem starts
when related to 100kHz at least away from rearing its ugly head, though, for as you bandwidth to the point where you just
the carrier. But it gets worse nearer the reduce the bandwidth on AM you are begin to lose intelligibility, or vowel sounds
carrier, perhaps by 10dB. in a bandwidth of cutting HF normally withóut attenuating at LF, and consonants etc at HF, you will
2.5kHz this figure would be equivalent to LF, and so the audio gets more and more find that you will have chosen around
noise some 34dB higher, ie, the generator woofy. It is, therefore, a good idea to have a 2.5kHz bandwidth.
sidebands might be only 94dB down on the bass cut switch when narrower AM filters It's my opinion that reducing bandwidth
carrier level. are being employed, so that the LF end of any further than this reduces intelligibility
As we get nearer the carrier, the sideband the transmission does not overpower the of a weak signal on SSB faster than any
noise specification gets worse and worse, readability of the consonants and sibilants. improvement in signal-to-noise that might
and one can get to a situation where this occur at the same time. It must also be
sideband noise of the oscillator source is in "The use of the remembered that whilst the brain can be
the same territory as is the selectivity 1.8kHz filter very confused by adjacent channel chatter
and interference, it has a remarkable facility
breakthrough of the set being measured, would give a
and so an engineer must be aware of the for pulling out weak speech or CW from
failings of his test equipment. disastrous result if noise which is roughly equivalent to pure
An alternative method to developing an
it was set to white noise, even when this is crackly.

extremely quiet source signal, using (for operate from We did some interesting tests on the
example) a crystal -controlled oscillator in 100Hz to ability of the brain to pick out a CW carrier
a very quiet amplifier, is to use in-line
crystal filters matched in and out to 50ohms
1.91(Hz ..." from white noise where the upper and
lower limits of the noise were varied, whilst
at the frequency required to be clean, for the CW freqency was held constant. We
AM is very wasteful on band width, also varied the level of the CW. Readers
example 28.6MHz, or perhaps 144.25MHz. though, since resolving an AM transmission
The use of such filters at frequencies may be surprised to know that in a 3kHz
up to 3kHz of audio, requires a 6kHz filter wide band extending from 500Hz to 3.5kHz,
above 160MHz or so is extremely awkward, bandwidth. Since to balance the audio
and the filters themselves become less with the CW signal at 1 kHz, the CW note
reasonably you are likely to require an LF was audible even when it was 20dB below
frequency stable, especially with temper- cut below 300Hz, you are wasting 600Hz of
ature variations at higher frequencies, since the RMS level of the noise. At this level, the
bandwidth. CW speed would have to be very slow for
they would be working on incredibly high
overtones. With SSB we only need 2.7 kHz bandwidth the message to be recovered
for a response extending from 300Hz to
This problem is actually quite severe if 3kHz of audio, and thus the background Fascinating listening
you have to measure UHF equipment; for
this reason it is better to use a crystal-
noise in 2.7kHz rather than 6kHz bandwidth
will be 3.5dB less. The use of the narrower
to CW signals
c9ntrolled oscillator and any necessary filter for SSB thus gains in signal to noise With the CW level at 12dB below noise,
multipliers, in extremely quiet circuits, to ratio, compared with using the AM filter for copy was very easy and solid, thus repre-
give the best possible rejection of sideband the same purpose. But a filter not only has senting a signal level of only 0.005 micro
noise, particularly when UHF rigs are being to reduce background noise from receiver volts (five nano volts)! This signal could be
checked circuits etc, it also can reject interference received on 23cm with a GaAs FET pre-
from adjacent transmissions by slicing off amp at mast head and with filter bandwidth
Most receivers have two separate stages the passband at just above and below the at around 2kHz.
of filtering. The first stage may have a required bandwidth for optimum intelligibility.
roofing filter or filters, with very steep What was fascinating in listening to CW
attenuation outside the pass band and are Many rigs are fitted with a choice of was that most of us did not receive weak
usually employed at the first IF, whilst the filters for SSB, say 1.8, 2.4, and 3kHz CW significantly better when bandwidth
second includes various filters at a lower bandwidths. The use of the 1.8kHz filter was reduced, provided interference was
IF. These roofing filters can have two very
would give a disastrous result if it was set not present. found that listening fatigue
I

different purposes; the first to establish the to operate from 100Hz to 1.9kHz, and became intense when listening to CW at
basic bandwidth of the first IF, whereas the would sound much better if it was set to 250Hz bandwidth, since the filter was ringing
second can serve as one skirt of the IF pass the band from, say, 450Hz to 2.25 kHz, very badly, making it quite difficult to hear
selectivity, which can be variable by shifting all these frequencies being those referred differences between dits and dahs, par-
very slightly the frequencies of the first and to the position of a correctly reinserted ticularly when somebody was sending CW
second local oscillators. in the latter case carrier, thus giving correct audio output with insufficient discrimination between
one filter can be high of the first IF, whereas frequencies. these.
the second one can be low of the second Such a narrow filter as 1.8kHz would 500Hz was better, but 1 kHz was better
IF, and by raising and lowering the local tend to cause considerable listening fatigue, still, although of course much QRM might
oscillators' frequencies, total bandwidth since the brain would have to concentrate then cause reduced readability on a
can be changed. hard on determiningwhich vowel sound crowded band.
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 from 450Hz to around 2.8kHz; thus, all output level by 3dB from its original level of
ii701112 eh8 vJ
these differences show that filter positions
and even various microphones can make
X microvolts and tune the receiver, or the
generator, to find the two frequencies
an enormous difference to the readability which give an S5 reading again The difference
ac of any particular voice. between these two frequencies is then
bandwidth for 3dB down.
So the facility for varying bandwidth is As often as not, though, a receiver has a
extremely useful, particularly if its relative series of fixed IF bandwidths for various For 6dB down points, the original X
position to the carrier can also be changed modes, the different filters being switched microvolts is stepped up by 6dB and for
It is worth pointing out that the Datong in by selecting these together with narrow 60dB down, for example, the generator is
range of filters is excellent, particularly if or wide filters. The Drake TR7 has four stepped up to X millivolts, the same procedure
your rig has only one or two filters. filter positions, and most Users would being adopted There are snags sometimes
select one for CW, two for SSB (narrow and in this method, particularly if some of the
Note that different voices may well wide), and the final one for AM reception, AGC voltage is fed back to stages after the
require different filter bandwidths and rela- all these filters working well filter.
tive positions from the carrier. I performed
some tests last year with Charles and Petra There are two important measurements An alternative method is to switch the
Suckling (G3WDG and G4KGC), my wife for filters withina receiver, the first being AGC off and pick off some IF after the filters
Fiona and myself, by recording each of us the determination of the amount of ripple with an appropriate probe to an external
in turn on to a digital recorder using a very within the filter pass band, the other' to and extremely accurate receiver, or
high quality studio microphone, and then measure the steepness of the skirt. The spectrum analyser, tuned to the IF frequency,
obtaining a real time analyser plot of a selectivity can be measured in many ways but itself having a much wider IF than that
random section of each of our voices. to determine the effective filter shape, and which is to be measured The signal generator
one can find the 3dB or 6dB point, then the can then be moved or swept across the
The energy/frequency distributions are
40dB and 60dB down points on either side main tuned -in frequency, and an IF curve
very different, and it can be seen that
of the pass band Shape factor is normally drawn on a chart recorder of the receiver
11

different bandwidths and positions would

given as the bandwidth ratio between 3dB output
be required for the most efficient trans-
down points and 60dB down points, but
mission of our intelligence! With this technique when AGC is (of
many problems affect these measurements.
course) switched off, one has to be careful
"I have good
Furthermore, I have sometimes seen shape
that the maximum allowable dynamic range
diction ..." factor referred to and the ratio between six
and 60dB bandwidths. Selectivity can be
measured in many ways by using or not
of the IF is not exceeded; too high a level at
the top of the curve could possibly clip the
My voice has a hole in the energy output using S meters, and with AGC on or off. later IF amplifiers, causing erroneous
at around 2.5kHz but most inconveniently i measurements. One has to bear in mind
seem to spit out important information It is not necessarily a simply parameter the signal to noise ratio of the receiver IF
significantly above 3kHz This has actually to measure, but here is one suggested stages, and quite frankly some of them are
led to some people having difficulty in method that we use for determining the so poor that using this method to measure
understanding what I am saying on a bad bandwidth of the IF of a short wave IF selectivity is not particularly helpfuL A
telephone line, although I am told that I receiver. We would first calibrate an S fast sweeper which is fast enough to sweep
have good diction. Charles also has a meter at a frequency of, say, 28.6MHz from across the iF, and return before AGC
similar dip in the same region (but not so SI to S9, paying particular attention to switched to 'long' has a time to recover,
deep) and again has a slight peak above passband ripple. We would then send a can be a very useful way of obtaining a
3kHz, and his voice comes over rather signal from the generator which averages clean curve, but the sweep speed must be
-better on a narrow band communcation S5 for example, which measures evenly chosen extremely carefully so as to avoid
system. Petrá s voice, for the most econ- across the centre of the passband. We filter ringing. I have known of many cases
omical bandwidth, reproduced very well would then increase the signal generator where somebody has obtained totally

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erroneous IF bandwidths with a too fast Even synthesiser harmonics, or spurt power, and swept the audio from 100Hz to
sweep speed, used in an attempt to defeat breakthroughs can cause a selectivity to 4kHz, and we could see that peak output
an AGC th<.t was itself also too fast. measure poorer than it might be. One must was reached at 300Hz and 3kHz but with
also be extremely careful to ensure that 1kHz at around -15dB, thus giving an M -
you are not picking up any breakthroughs shaped response.
Measuring from local oscillators, or product detectors By tweaking the input and output filter
sensitivity themselves, which can muck up readings. matching transformers carefully, and by
The perfect IF curve has an almost flat top, the odd twiddle and push at the crystals, it
and then very steep sides, and mechanical did not take very long to correct this
An alternative method for measuring
filters of various forms can produce re- response to a passband of +/-1 dB ref.
selectivity, if AGC can be switched off, is to markable shape factors, but are very
put the output from the last IF into an RF 1 kHz, from 300Hz to around 2.7 kHz. It was
expensive. Various types of ceramic and quite stunning to see how, in the next few
RMS reading voltmeter, and note the noise
crystal filters can be fitted,and they all weeks, my friend obtained so much more
of the receiver from a 50ohm load, and have their own typical characteristics.
then add the output from the signal gen- DX, and had excellent modulation reports,
erator until the noise level increased by resulting from perhaps a maximum of two
I remember once an old timer bringing
3dB. The signal generator is then delivering hours work.
around to me a secondhand G2DAF trans-
a carrier having a level equal to the mitter (an old but highly respectable design
receiver's noise. This is a good way of for the home constructor). He had had
Surprisingly
measuring sensitivity, incidentally. many complaints of very poor speech incorrect
This carrier can then be stepped up in quality, and tried any microphones,but Whilst on this subject, have often noted
I

level by the required number of dBs and with no improvement He did not have that nominal settings for lower and upper
the bandwidth noted, which gives 3dB much test equipment, and so I offered to SSB, with reference to the carrier point,
above noise readings. This method is more have a look at the rig, provided that he had can be surprisingly incorrect, particularly
difficult, as the noise can be bumpy, but in circuit and alignment instructions. on transmissions, but shall cover this
I

this case you are measuring selectivity at a when dealing with transmitters later in this
very low level, which sometimes is not the The measurements were absolutely series.
same as at high levels. Low level selectivity fascinating; we interconnected a low level
often seems narrower. It is sometimes audio oscillator to the microphone input Next month will deal with AGC charac-
I

difficult to obtain selectivity for -60dB state, and put the output of the rig, via a teristics, demodulation of various forms,
because of a number of problem conditions power attenuator, into the spectrum analyser. audio distortion, sinad measurements,
including noisy signal generator sidebands, We first peaked up all the stages, and maximum audio output level, and loud-
poor reciprocal mixing performance of the promptly gained 6dB in maximum power speaker efficiency and quality. I will also be
receiver, and low level leakage across the output. We then set an average level at the discussing problems encountered with noise
filter in/out connections. mic input to obtain a tenth of the full blankers and S -meters.
51
 IIA 1

I NTERPRETATION
American technical literature and Just what do those American equipment often doesn't
equipment is a valuable source of ideas have an earth connection at all, and
expressions actually mean? about all we can usefully say is that It
and materials, but we sometimes
overlook some of the differences And are colour codes the needs treating carefully if there's the
between British and American practice same as they are in Britain? slightest chance of any metalwork you
and the environment in which equipment What else? Oh yes, is there might be able to touch becoming live.
is supposed to work With grateful any point in buying American This is why isolating transformers is A
thanks to Foulsham & Co.. Ltd, who radio books if we can't relate Good Thing, and also why a proper
publish a wide range of American mains transformer and a three-core cable
technical books in the UK, including
between sizes, specifications with a proper earth is an Even Better
some that we find indispensable in the and equivalents? Editor Drake Thing. The good ole U S of A doesn't have
office, we've put together several ideas endeavours to find out. such a thing as a colour code (or should it
about how to get the best out of American be color code?) for mains leads - they're
Next problem is frequency. Most of
books. often both white or grey so WATCH IT if
the time it doesn't matter a lot that a you have some American gear. However,
The first point is that the British AC transformer designed for 60Hz use is
mains supply, which is 240 volts at 50 red and black, if you can find them, seems
getting 50Hz through it instead, but to mean the same the world over; red
Hz (well, most of the time anyway) is many antenna rotator control boxes
potentially somewhat more dangerous denotes positive or high tension or don't-
seem to suffer from overheating touch -me -unless-you -want -a-belt, and
than typical American mains supplies of transformers because of the lower
110 or 120 volts at 60Hz. This isn't due black tends to mean negative or LT or
frequency - we've had a lot of trouble similar. It meant neutral in older mains
only to the higher voltage, but because with AR4Os over the years, and we've
the British 3 -wire system has got 240 leads.
heard a lot about a mod. for them
volts between line (or phase as they although no-one seems to know what it
tend to call it these days) and
neutral, and also between line and earth.
is! In general, the frequency difference Mains fuses can be
What's worse is that there are 240 volts
doesn't seem to cause a big problem in
practice; in theory you need a bigger
lowered in value
between line, or anything with line volts on core and more iron at lower frequencies
it, and any earthed objects. So you do need but most transformers seem to have One other point about the mains is
to watch it, and you really can't be too something in hand to cope. The only fuses. Anything used on 240 volt mains
careful with any mains supply whether it's snags are likely to arise if the gear will take half as much current as the
British, American or Outer Mongolian for contains some sort of internal clock same thing used on 110 or 120 volt
that matter. that's synchronised to the mains supply. supplies, so any mains fuses can usually
We can't think of any amateur be lowered in value by about half as much
equipment that does, mind you, but the if you're using an isolating transformer or a
"...
so your
American kilowatt
thought was there! Some electric motors
wouldn't like it either, and you might
British -type mains trannie. Obviously this
doesn't apply to any fuse downstream of
have problems with American teleprinters, the main transformer, but if your American
linear is going to need for example, but there are known fixes for kilowatt linear design has a 10amp fuse in
a hefty trannie for them. its mains lead, you can safely change that
use in the UK." Let's take a look at colour codes. As
for a 5amp component and give yourself a
bit more protection.
we know, the British code for mains
cables these days is BROWN for line or Next on the list comes general
Any American equipment, or project, phase or live or whatever you want to matters. Data in American books may
needs adapting for the higher voltage call it; BLUE for neutral, or if you like, the not apply over here, especially in areas
and the best way to do that is to use other current-carrying wire, and GREEN/ such as TV standards and allocation in
either a mains transformer with a 240 YELLOW for earth. Many earth wires the radio spectrum. Also, some
volt primary and whatever secondary we've seen are predominantly green with American components specified in
the design needs - preferably not an the thinnest possible yellow streak in them home-brew designs may be virtually
auto-transformer either - or, failing that, but the general idea is green and yellow. In unobtainable here, especially with
a double-wound 240 -to-110 volt isolating this country, the idea of the earth lead is to semiconductors and things like variable
transformer. That little item won't be earth exposed metalwork and the only capacitors and inductors. It can be a
cheap either, if it's of any size. Remember time it carries current is under fault real pain trying to suss out what sort of
that it's got to have the same sort of rating conditions - like when the live lead had home-brew inductor replaces a Millen
as the gear it's being used with, so your shorted to the metalwork So the part number, for instance, when there's
American kilowatt linear is going to need a integrity of the earth cable is jolly no indication of its value and no
hefty trannie for use in the UK important explanation in the description of what

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American practice in drawing circuit dia- specifications and advice on equipment available all across the world "Setting up and
grams tend to be a bit different from ours, using your own Ham Shack" looks particularly interesting although we haven't had the
and you often find that instead of everything opportunity of reviewing it as yet
being retuned to earth or a negative rail or
something there's a line with a chassis letters such as AA, which correspond to verter, and you'll sometimes have to go to
symbol on it. It doesn't matter though - it our HP7, C, which is our HP11 and D, great trouble and expense to get the
just takes a bit of getting used to it! which is the same as a U2 or HP2 or original if one goes on you in an existing
Talking about home-brew reminds me whatever. Also, US flashlamp bulbs have piece of equipment. In the days when we
that in American books you'll find wire type numbers which refer to voltage and fixed televisions for a living, there was a
sizes specified in AWG (American Wire current rating - one very common one, for particular type of gate turn-off switch used
Gauge) and there's no direct instance, is a 'No.47', which is a 6volt by Sony in one of theirs, and nothing in the
relationship between AWG and our very 0.03amp device. world replaces it.
own SWG, which stands for Standard You could fill pages with a glossary of
Wire Gauge - so there isn't a clever
conversion formula which we could
Almost any old American words and their British equiv-
publish. However, it just so happens by the transistor will do alents. You won't ever need more than
about half -a-dozen and you know them
merest fluke that some AWG sizes coincide already at a bet, so we won't bother except
with some SWG sizes, so that 20AWG is the Just to finish with, there are several to remind you that a vacuum tube is a
same as 21 SWG, 21 AWG = 22SWG, 24AWG books that give details of possible sub- valve and the "plate" of a vacuum tube is
= 25SWG, 26AWG isn't too far away from stitutions for semiconductors - Messrs the anode of a valve in this country. The
27SWG and 32AWG, which is a common Foulsham do a couple, as do Babani, and only other thing is that whereas we tend to
one for inductors of one sort or another in the best of all is Tower's International talk about a unit of capacitance known as
American designs, is midway between 35 Transistor (or Diode, or what-have-you - the picofarad, you'll often find that the
and 36SWG. The other problem on the there are several) Selector. The problems States use the micro-microfarad, written
hardware side of things is that screws don't usually happen with integrated uuF. So for uuF, read pF!
and bolts in American designs bear no circuits, which tend to have type numbers
resemblance whatsoever to our metric that are common all over the world, but There's many a good design in American
and BA sizes,but you can usually with transistors and diodes and specialised books, and indeed many a very good piece
substitute something that looks about things like thyristors. You'll often find that of US equipment - it's always worth re-
the same without any problems. The almost any old transistor will do, and it's a membering the differences in order to get
only exception we've found is if you lose fact that transistor substitution isn't half the best out of our cousins' ideas. Now
a nut from an American bolt; you have a the difficult thing it's supposed to be, but then - does anyone out there know the
problem then and it's usually best to use a the more fancy semiconductors can be mod for fixing rotator control boxes so
metric nut and bolt to replace it problematic - SCRs, for instance, tend not that they don't shut down and take five
Batteries and bulbs are different on to have easy substitutes if they're doing minutes to work again when you're trying
this side of the pond too. American something at all tricky like running a to swing the beam on to that UQ2 on
batteries are usually referred to by switched -mode power supply or an in- tropo???
53
 -j L
The idea of this feature is to
provide an easy-to -understand
guide to all the currently
available wirelesses of interest to
the amateur and SWL; we list HF
transceivers, VHF transceivers,
VHF and UHF hand-helds,
mobiles and HF receivers. Where
HF transceivers Collins KWM380 £2195 It ought to be

Icom 1C720A £690 Good performer; good for the price!

includes general KW/Ten-Tec Argosy £? A good name, but
coverage Rx we don't know
Icom IC730 £580 Good, aimed at the rig.
Yaesu FT77 £? Replaces FT7B.
mobile use, but
nice VHF transceivers
Lovely rig - see Trio TS780 £799 Covers 2m and
Icom IC740 £720
70cm; good
review in Issue 3.
Very good rig for
reputation; bit
Trio TS530S £520
deaf!
the newcomer,
reliable Yaesu FT290R £265 Base -cum -portable
We love this one -
2m rig; see review
Trio TS830S £645
in May 1983 issue.
see our review in
Issue 2. Yaesu FT79OR £325 Ditto for 432MHz
We don't know see review in May
TS930S £1000
anyone who has 1983 issue.
approx
Trio TR9130 £395 Very nice 144MHz
one
multimode -
Trio TS430S £736 Very new
-
Nice see review
reliable and solid
Yaesu FT102 £785
!corn IC251E £559 Good 144MHz
in Issue 3.
multimode, see
Yaesu FT980 £1115 New, and we review in next
haven't yet seen ,
issue.
one Icom IC451E £689 Ditto for 432MHz
Yaesu FT1 £1349 It's a lot of radio, Yaesu F1726 £649 Brand new
but a lot of bread
VHF and UHF portables
Yaesu FT902DM £885 Rugged, reliable,. Icom IC2E £169 Super 144MHz FM
nice machine handheld; cousin
FT101 Z £559 Has got whiskers of the IC4E.
now, but a good Review in April
old rig 1983 issue.
F1707 £509 Didn't like this one (corn IC4E £199 We loved this -
much, but it's Review in April
adequate.
1983 issue.
Drake TR7A £1199 A lovely machine,
FDK Palm Il £109 144MHz 6-channel
great signal
FM hand-held
handling
£657 We'd love to FDK Palm IV £109 Ditto'for 432MHz
Drake IRS
review one .. . Azden PCS300 £179 144MHz
we know something about the
radio we've appended a comment
or two -if
the column's blank it
doesn't mean that we'd be sued if
we said what we thoughts but
that we haven't come across one
or heard anything either way
about it
handheld; good Rx 144MHz
synthesised mobile/base
Trio TR2300 £144 Big portable FM station (FM)
144MHz box Yaesu FT730R £285 Ditto on 432MHz -
Trio TR2500 £220 Keypad- 10watts. Rx a bit
synthesised deaf
144MHz handheld; Yaesu 480R £369 Multimode .

review in 144MHz rig; some

April 1983 issue. have had problems
Trio TR3500 £250 As above; review Yaesu FT780R £399 Ditto for 432MHz
in May 1983 issue. Yaesu F1720 £199/229 You can get a 144
Icom 'IC202 £209 SSB 144M or 432MHz head
"portable", s for these
going strong Icom 1C25E £269 Nice 144MHz FM,
Icom IC402 £245 ditto for 432MHz -
mobile rig tiny,
Yaesu FT208R £209 2.5w FM 144MHz two VFOs
hand-held - review Icom IC290E £375 144MHz
in April 1983 issue. multimode with a
Yaesu FT708R £230 1w FM 432MHz 25watt brother
hand-held - review (IC290H)
in Apri11983 issue. Standard C5800E £359 Lovely 25watt
VHF and UHF mobiles - 144MHz
There are many and they change almost every multimode
month, also allow for changes and new KDK FM2030 £199 Compact
introductuions. mobile/base
FDK M700AX £180 144MHz 25watt FM 144MHz 25watt
- nice audio and FM; good
good Rx HF receivers
FDK M75)AX £269 144MHz Trio 81000 £297 Synthesised, good
multimode, 10 watts performer
Trio TR7730 £268 25watt 144MHz Trio R2000 £399 Lots of facilities,
mobile, nice to use Icom IC-R70 £499 See our review
Trio TR7800 £257 Much as above in March 1983
only bigger! issue.
Trio TR8400 £299 A mobile 432MHz Yaesu FRG7 £199 The old "Frog"
FM machine, good Yaesu FRG7700 £330 Reputedly rather
Rx, apparently good.
Trio TR9500 £428 Multimode mobile NRD515 £985 Very nice,
10watt 432MHz although not
Yaesu FT230R £239 25watts on without its faults

55
 PUMA BIT 02
POWER AMPLIFIER
Angus McKenzie,
G3OSS, takes the
diminutive Puma
power amplifier, arid
puts it through its
paces. It's an excellent
device if you frequently
use a portable rig and
want to boost the
power, also for Raynet
use.

Below. the Bit 02, atop the

Puma Bit B battery' pack
for a 2m linear. Right. the
Bit B

ft

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 The Puma amplifier itself behaved I am a little concerned about the bad

extremely well, and the increased power

surprised many local amateurs. I think this
harmonic output measured at 1w drive,
since 2nd harmonic at 290MHz was only -
ros model could be of very great use to
stations involved in Raynet, and the power
boost it gives could so easily make the
difference between an urgent message
31dB, although 3rd and 4th were a lot
better. Even with the unit switched off, the
RF sensing circuit presented enough diode
action to cause some harmonic distortion.
SOUHO being received (or not) in an emergency. I
can see it of real use as an add-on to a
In practice this might be acceptable when
used into a small aerial, but some Ministry
portable. might object if you were pushing what
could be 10 to 15mW into a vertical whip
Only 20mW were required to turn the
from a high up antenna near some Military
amplifier onto transmit, and the through installation.
Most users of small portable and walkie loss on receive or transmit, but switched
talkie 2m transceivers have wished on Summing up then, the BIT 02 is worth
off, is just 0.5dB, which is quite reasonable.
occasions that they could have had a lot looking at for Raynet use, or if you frequently
The input SWR presented to the transmitter
more power to catch somebody who was use a portable rig and want to boost your
is very high indeed at 4.5:1, and Puma
obviously not hearing their calls. power, and can justify the price asked.
should be able to improve on this. If I

Most portable rigs give a maximum bought one, though, I would expect it to be We examined the internal construction
power output between one and 3w, and a a lot better, and it should be the dealer's and noted that the power amplifier transistor
useful power increase would obviously be job to readjust this to better than 2:1, the was a C2539 (21 D), a device that I have not
around 10dB. This particular amplifier has specification acceptable for most rigs. The met with before. The standard of manu-
been quite cleverly designed to give a current consumption is between 0.75 and facture is excellent, and the PA is very well
useful boost with the simplest intercon- 2a, dependent on input drive, and so a two- heat sinked to the chassis. I must criticise
nections. A BNC socket is provided on many ampere/hour capacity battery should last strongly the inadequate instructions, and
small portables, whilst at the other end of many hours of intermittent transmitting. absence of a circuit diagram.
the cylindrical body there is the opposite
50ohm BNC socket onto which one can
plug a rubber duck, a flexi-whip or just a WARNING: A rubber
straight coaxial cable feeding a mobile
whip in a car. duck with an amplifier
Increased power
surprised many
giving up to 17 watts
amateurs power can damage
As will be seen from the photograph, a
small switch by the side of the antenna
socket is the only accessible control, turning
your health.
the amplifier on and off. Operation to In the last few years there has been increasing concern over the radia-
transmit is simply by RF carrier sensing, a tion hazards to people in the vicinity of electromagnetic radiation com-
very weak carrier indeed being all that is ing from poorly-screend transmitters, or short antennas.
necessary to pull the amplifier over to its I feel that I must draw attention to my personal concern that a rubber
transit mode. The only other connection is duck antenna used with an amplifier such as the BIT 02 giving up to 17w
a lead containing a phono plug on its end power into the rubber duck, could cause damage to eyesight or human
for connection to a voltage source between tissue. This possibility is one of the reasons why so many walkie talkie
10 and 14v DC.
rigs are limited to low power, and why the Home Office have limited the
An associated optional accessory, the power on citizens' band
BIT B, is a rechargeable lead/acid, non - If you imagine a situation where the walkie talkie is on a bench with
liquid accumulator pack in a carrying case. the BIT 02 above it, and the rubber duck above that, the user's eyes
Some suppliers insist on this accessory could be only a few inches away from the short rubber duck. It would be
being sold with the BIT 02, but first of all safer if the antenna is always at least one metre away (from anyone)
my review sample did not even begin to when high power is being used, or alternatively the rubber duck is never
work, despite charging precisely to speci-
fication, and secondly although it is extremely
used with high power, a flexi 1/4 wave ship being substituted for it Since
handsomely fitted with a meter and input/ this whip is much longer than the rubber duck, the field in the region of
output sockets for various voltages etc., it the eyes would be greatly reduced for a frequency of 145MHz, although
is surely very highly -priced at over £60 for less so if the frequency were 433MHz.
just over two ampere hours capacity. In Note that you should never get close to any antennas which are
the circumstances I would therefore transmitting high power, the problems getting more and more serious
recommend you to buy a Nicad pack of at higher and higher frequencies.
cells, and make your own container, a Also note that I am not scaremongering, simply trying to bring the
combination which should be much cheaper, facts home realistically to readers.
and probably longer lasting.

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DODSON ON THEof a
The third of
ROB'
Series of profiles
distributors
the
ho Serve
radioamateur
EALER
fraternity.
P:RQEI
Despite their location in the heart of the British car
industry, Tony. Dewsbury is happy in his Regency -style
premises in Stourbridge, especially as he has had a good
run of success after what could be called an
"adventurous" start during the recession. They are
agents for Trio equipment, and also handle ICS
Electronics, BNOS power supplies and linear amps.
Among the others he stocks are DRAW, MM, Daiwa
equipment, AEI, Hoskin, and Jaybeam. Well worth a visit

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We are in the Midlands, home of the British Tony's decision to start a business in club. Having caught the communications
car industry and the first to feel the bite of a that particular area in the economic climate bug, he took his PMG examination as a
recession an optimistic government says that prevailed in mid-1982 was adventurous Radio and Electronics Officer and went to
we are now climbing out of. And it must be in the extreme. With only £500 and a lot of sea with the Merchant Navy in 1961. And
said that the well-groomed lawns and enthusiasm to invest in the new project, he for twelve years Tony sailed the seas,
elegant houses of Stourbridge show few has nevertheless managed to achieve a consolidating his qualifications with the
signs of economic deprivation. In this busy £15,000 turnover in the nine months of his practical all-round experience that was to
little town that lies on the boundary between tenure, not to mention a stock value of prove invaluable in his present venture.
rural greenery and the concrete jungle of some £30,000. And the business is expanding
Birmingham, Tony Dewsbury runs his - within three months of opening, number However, before Dewsbury took the
plunge into self-employment, he did the
radio business in style, not a lot of amateur 176 Lower High Street was proving too
radio distributors can boast Regency-style small to contain stock and sales areas, and rounds as salesman in a Birmingham radio
premises, complete with pillars and bow Tony was having walls knocked down. "If I and TV shop, selling Olivetti computer
windows! had more stock I could increase sales. peripheral equipment and later Thorn
When I move, it will be to larger premises, Ericsson communciations equipment to
Situated at the quiet end of the Lower industry; he even had the job of trying to
High Street in Stourbridge, his shop might but still in this area"
sell his wares to GCHQ in Cheltenham. But
be off-centre for passing trade, but customer - Amateur radio 'happened' for 39 -year - enough was enough, and in 1982 Tony took
parking is a lot easier, shopping at old Tony Dewsbury at the age of eleven in his courage - and his 500 quid - in both
Dewsbury's is not only a little cheaper, but his birth-place of Derby where he listened hands and rented his present shop in
you don't have to carry the boxes so far! to amateur radio enthusiasts at the local Stourbridge.
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 His aims were (and still are) as simple as Tony Dewsbury is a very uncomplicated initial flood of demand for conversions,
his staff requirements were modest. With man with a ready smile, a sharp sense of that aspect of the business levelled out to a
only "the other proprietor", his wife Hilary, humour and the personality that attracts steady line. "I must get the sets at the right
and part-time technical help, he keeps the conversation. Not for him the hassle and price - under £50. Not that we make very I

wages bill as low as possible. Amateur in -fighting of the bigger companies; he much on the deal, but it is viable." And at a
radio is his life. Out-of -shop hours are appears, in the words of David Hamilton, to cost of only £49.95 it is a bit of a steal, as
spent doing the inevitable paperwork at be "just happy to be here" and freely some 300 customers have already found I

his village home at Wolverley near Kidder- admits that were it not for the help and out!
minster. What spare time remains from a support of Lowe Electronics, he wouldn't
12 -hour day is spent with his family, which be. Of course he wants his business to
includes nine-year old son Michael, and succeed and expand - he even predicts Enormous part
operating on 7MHz QRP CW under his that by next year his turnover will reach a
callsign G4CLX which he was allocated in quarter of a million - that is if it doesn't exchange trade
1973. He is an avid 'key man' ("You'd be happen this year. But he doesn't want to
hard put to find a microphone in my house get too big; he doesn't want the sort of
- I'm a professional operator!") although enterprise where top management be- At the moment of writing Tony Dewsbury
his one concession to voice is a 2m mobile is not in a position to offer credit on his own
comes so remote as to lose touch with the
rig in his car, a dignified 31/2 litre Rover of behalf and has to use a finance house.
customers. "Im not here to get rich- justI
modest T vintage. However, his application for a credit licence
want to do my own thing. I want to offer should receive the blessing of officialdom
amateur radio enthusiasts a good service any day now. On the other hand, he does
Tony Dewsbury caught mid-telephone can at the best possible price. What is more an enormous amount of part exchange
and mid-blink for that matter. Obviously a important, must offer a good after-sales
busy man: "Lots of people carry just the
I trade. "It's the lifeblood of the business."
popular lines, but I make it a rule to have the service. I have the backing of Lowe Elec- Tony's views on CB are strictly neutral.
complete range on my shelves" tronics, and if can't handle a problem,
I "I've never used it and I've never sold it. It
they can. It doesn't happen very often!" is a trade within a trade and should not be
mixed with amateur radio." And those who
Tony is an agent for Trio equipment, and use CB? "To each his own. It was a bubble
he ensures that he always carries a full that has flattened out"
compliment of their products. "Lots of
people just carry the popular lines, but For Dewsbury Electronics the all-
make it a rule to have the complete range important aspects of reputation are begin-
on my shelves." He also deals in ICS ning to pay off with mail-order business
Electronics, Morse readers and trainers, coming in from such far-flung places as
electronic keys and code converters. He is South Africa, the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus
the main Midlands agent for BNOS power and even Milawi. This is quite apart from a
supplies and linear amplifiers. Together steady rise in demand for his products
with DRAE power supplies, Microwave from all over the UK: "When I can offer a
Modules and Daiwa equipment, Tony also competitive price, I do."
stocks AEI, Hoskin and Jaybeam antennae. In an industry pressurised by power -
One aspect of amateur radio in which struggles, to talk to a man such as Tony
Tony Dewsbury claims to have been a Dewsbury makes a refreshing change. He is
market leader, is CB conversion. "A lot of content, as a very new boy, to accept his
people tried it, and failed, but with the right morsel of cake without demanding the
equipment it is fairly simple to re-crystal biggest slice. His customers, if they weren't
and re-align certain CB rigs to 29.3-29.7MHz friends before they walked through his
Al I

It must have the right chassis and only elegant portals, certainly are afterwards -
/ three or four types are suitable." After the and will continue to be.

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 Onl'T ABWSE
OR
I IC'E
A plea for cleaner language
and respect for the air-
How long did it take you to become a waves, by Keith Townsend, some lame brain with the effrontery to
radio amateur? How long did you G4PZA. How common is believe that he has the right to decide
whether or not to fill your head with a what the rest will and will not hear.
of AC theory, propagation and this problem? If other Piracy has always been with us in one
transmitter interference? Unless you are readers are experiencing form or another and even the more
some kind of latter day Einstein I am
willing to bet that more effort went into similar things on amateur stringent regulations currently proposed
will never completely eradicate it but I
getting your licence than you are bands, let us know, and for one would rather listen to an
perhaps willing to admit, even to we'll publicise the matter. unlicensed operator who treats the
yourself.
airwaves with a degree of respect than
Then there was the almost Neither can the RSGB be entirely to some of the tiny minority of licensed
interminable wait for the exam results to exonerated in this respect, for, despite amateurs whose wit scarcely rises above
be published, followed by an even more its undoubted value it appears a high-pitched squeak or a whispered
harrowing delay waiting for the Home powerless to persuade the Home Office profanity. Not that all such operators
Office to issue the coveted licence, not to take decisive action to maintain the are licensed and one cannot help but
to mention the fateful decision on standard of what' is, in the main, a wonder just why they are permitted to
whether or not to fill you head with a gentlemanly hobby. I have often heard it continue to behave in this fashion
bewildering array of dits and dahs in said that the problems are attributable almost indefinitely. Surely someone in
your eagerness to really make the world to the 'CB mentality', whatever that authority must care, or if they do not
your oyster. might be. I have never heard such utter then they must be made to care before
rubbish. Like a great many others who the example being set by the few
came to amateur radio via CB I feel becomes the general pattern.
Increasing confidence deep respect, both for my hobby and for
those with whom I share the bands, and
I would remind those who perhaps feel
For the vast majority of us it was all that our presence in some way detracts "You can become a
very worthwhile, as our first faltering
steps into the new world led to an
from amateur radio that we are serious
radio enthusiasts who, having been
real pain in the neck
increase in confidence and a growing bitten by the bug, have worked just as to those with the
enjoyment of a fascinating hobby.
So why do we continue to accept the
hard as they did to obtain a licence.
power ..."
abuse, interference and even obscenity'
of the tiny minority who, for some Dedicated few
reason known only to themselves, seek Straight away I can hear the age old
to bring our hobby into disrepute? cry "What can I do? I have no
No. The fault lies with each and every
influence". The answer is simple. You
one of us. We have the occasional moan can complain. You can become a real
pain in the neck to those with the power
Knock on the door about the IQ Zeros and then promptly
to do something about it. At local level
relapse into a state of blissful apathy.
True, some of us go so far as to have you can make one complaint after
the occasional moan to a friendly RI another to the Radio Interference
Many is the time I have heard the Service and to your Member of
experienced hands tell tales of the officer, but that is about as far as it ever
goes and his protestation of severe Parliament. For those who do not know
terror which accompanied the dreaded his address I can assure you that any
knock at the door which might so easily overwork is invariably enough to send
us back into our shells. letter addressed to him at the House of
lead to the instant suspension of a Commons, London will find him pretty
licence, simply because they had had Surely those who must feel most quickly.
the temerity to mislay their third strongly about the problem are the
harmonic or some equally insignificant dedicated few who have expended time I doubt if there is a single 2m

trivia. Yet here we are, in the middle of and effort in order to improve the operator who has not made use of a
the electronic age, and those who once facilities available to others. The repeater at some time and by far the
struck terror into the heart of the most repeater groups and the RSGB majority do so on a regular basis. They
consciencious appear unable, or are newsreaders, the CW instructors and should be the most concerned, for it is
they just unwilling, to enforce even the others whose efforts invariably seem to they who bear the brunt of the abuse
most rudimentary code of conduct. become the focus of interference from and we should all realise that unless we
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are prepared to do something about it to be ignored by those with the come when they should be denied the
now we will have no right to complain in authority to take action against them right to annoy others.
the future, when they have become and it is entirely our fault that the
unusable. Those whose licences predate
the 1978 ambulance strike will know the
situation is allowed to continue. "We have no
full potential of a properlyi used
If we really want a worthwhile
amateur service then we have to be
alternative but to
repeater and who knows when that kind prepared to defend it with every legal react strongly against
of service will be needed again. Are we
to allow the jammers and the
means at our disposal and it is up to
each and every one of us to awaken the
abuse..."
foul mouths to continue to disrupt sleeping giant that the licensing We should also consider the fairer sex
them simply because authority, in its authority seems to have become. respect. An even increasing
in this
never-ending quest for a quiet life, number of ladies are taking the RAE
refuses to be stirred? We all enjoy a joke on the air, witness
the clown who offered as his call sign, these days and I, for one, sincerely hope
India Delta One Oscar Tango, via GB3CF that women's lib has not reached the
stage at which they are prepared to
"The sort of pastime not so long ago and I doubt if I will ever
come across the person who can meekly accept the kind of language once
in which one's honestly claim to observe every single reserved for the gutter.
identity cannot licensing condition each time he goes on In the long-term interest of one of the
remain secret for the air. Nevertheless the vast majority
display a genuine concern for their
most worthwhile pastimes available to
us today we have no alternative but to
long" fellow operators and if the recalcitrant react strongly against abuse of the
few are incapable of following their airwaves and the right time to do so is
example then perhaps the time has now.
I was always taught that to hold an

amateur licence was a privilege and that Well, what do readers think? It's a fact that the airwaves are abused, and
to lose it was easier than to earn it. we think enforcement of the regulations regarding this matter falls fairly
Experience gained since came on the
1
low on the list of Home Office priorities. Or whoever it falls to. We had
air has caused me to wonder whether heard that with the number of illicit CB sets and related things, there's no
this is really true. Let's be honest. manpower left in the RI Service to tackle the problem, but the fact remains
Amateur radio is the sort of pastime in there's a law to be enforced but nobody seems to be enforcing it. We also
which one's identity cannot remain doubt whether the RSGB could do anything about it either, apart from con-
secret for very long and those who think tinuing to express their disquiet to the Home Office, and keep pressurising
so little of it are becoming so blatant of them to do something. The present cutbacks in the Civil Service, plus the
late that they no longer care who knows

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feeble state of legislation are probably at the bottom of this particular
who they are. Hence there can be no problem. Editor.
acceptable excuse for their continuing

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 PRACTICE
Okay, first of all let's take a look at the bit again. Let's try it. Remember we have a
answers to last month's nasty and horrible
questions. In Question One we asked how
much current would flow if you took it into
PART 5 10K, a 5K and a 1K in series. The voltage
across the 10K is given by V= IR and that's
going to be 10K times 0.9375mA
your brain box to connect a 10K, a 1K and a
5K resistor in series across a 15 volt power We continue our theme of Now don't be put off by the units because
supply, and also what voltages would theory and practice, and since a K, or a kilohm, is a thousand ohms
appear across the individual resistors? and a mA, or milliamp, is a thousandth of
delve deeper into the ques- an amp, we can just multiply the one by the
Well, it's all down to Ohm's Law, and
you'll remember that if you put resistors in
tion of resistors, and how other quite happily - they cancel, don't
they. So, off we go. 10 times 0.9375 on our
series the total resistance you end up with we might approach some calculator comes out at 9.375 volts, and so
is the sum of the resistances of all the practical problems using we know that the voltage across the 10K
resistors. If you've forgotten already you're
condemned to running not more than 10 Ohm's Law. We also look resistor will be 9.375. We didn't really need
milliwatts on any amateur band when you into power - or at least the a calculator, even.
eventually get your ticket! (Please sir,
what's a milliwatt? Be quiet, boy, we're
exact meaning in the eyes Let's do the same with the 5K- here it's
going to be 5 times 0.9375, which is 4.6875
coming to that ...) of the scientist Nigel Gresley volts. Fine - it's half of 9.375, isn't it, which
So in the case of the fiendish question, is the lecturer. is sort of what you might expect since 5K is
the total of 10K, 5K and 1K in series is - er,
now let me see -16K. Now you'll remember
tht we can use the Ohm's Law formula
I = V/R with whatever units we wish
provided we keep everything consistent -
for instance, we can either use the value of
16K as it stands and take out the result in
milliamps or refer to it as 16,000 ohms
(which it is, of course, and you hadn't
forgotten, had you?) and get the result in
amps.
it 16K you'll see that the answer
If we call
will be 15/16 milliamps- just less than one
milliamp, or 0.9375mA to be precise about
it. Not very much current, in other words,
You'll note that if we want the result in amps
it'll be 15/16,000, which is a pretty horrible
sum with loads of noughts in front of it- to
wit 0.0009375.
want to be really posh, of course,
If you
you could think back to the article about
index notation a while back and call that
t 1,111 fit 1

9.375 x 10-4 amps but there wouldn't be the

slightest point in this case because you're A
not putting that figure into another formula
or anything clever like that, you simply
require to know how much current is going
to flow. And, as we've seen, the answer is
0.9375mA
So, we then asked what the potential
across each resistor in the chain would be
in volts? Well, here again it's simply a
matter of Ohm's Law. We know that the
total current through the whole shooting-
match is 0.9375mA and we also know that
the voltage across the resistor can't be
anything other than the product of the
current and the resistance - the old V = IR
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 half the value of 10K

;r
.

So for the 1K, the sum would be 0.9375

times 1. Gosh, that's tricky. 0.9375 volts it
is, unless something's gone drastically
c,
.:,,ti

wrong somewhere. k
We've established that there are 9.375
'' 1+,1.
ti.

volts across the 10K, 4.6875 volts across .;;

the 5K and 0.9375 volts across the 1K We
can check this by. seeing whether all the 1' I

voltages we've calculated add up to the

original voltage across the chain of resistors <-
in series, and of course they do. Isn't
science wondcerful?
élk 41 Mr
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Which led us into Question Two. You'll 7 ,
remember that you had to find a resistór in
order to get the big linear back on the air 1
before the contest but you couldn't establish
the value of it. This sometimes happens,
especially with big wire -wound types that
are a few years old and the markings have
worn off with time. Anyway, you had a 24
volt power supply and you established
that if you connected the unknown resistor
in series with a resistor whose value you
knew to be 8.2K, you measured a voltage of
15.25 across the said 8.2K. So what was the
valué of the unknown resistor?
There are several ways of approaching
this type of problem, and indeed we had a
couple of interesting QSOs about it after
last month's mag came out - some people 4.111114

said that we hadn't provided enough in-

formation to solve the problem. Well, we
did you know - actually, it was a ploy to
get them to buy this month's issue ... 4.
"More of a trial-and- which has to be flowing in it- so R=V/1, does Far left Possibly the complete range of
error commonsense it not? Yes, folks, it does. In this case R is
-
equal to 8.75 divided by 1.86 kilohms it's
resistors you're likely to come across in
amateur radio work Compared
problem than an
Ohm's Law one ..." got to be kilohms because the figure of 1.86
is in milliamps. And so, the unknown
resistor has a value of 8.75/L86, or 4.7
inevitably, with a 50p piece, to give you
an idea of the sizes
This page top: Resistors come into
kilohms. Smart, huh? Hang your head in things in a big way when it comes to
If we have an 8.2K resistor and we shame all those who muttered at us and home building or assembly. Even the
measure 15.25 volts across it, then as sure said we hadn't provided enough gen to editorial chair has had its moments!
as Mr Ohm invented his Law we can solve the problem!! Above: Two versions of resistors which
establish the current flowing in it It's going go bang without a fight any noise, nor
to be 15.25/8.2 milliamps, which pans out Hopefully the big linear came back on
the air and the group won the contest any warning! Resistors are like that
to be very nearly 1.86 milliamps. Now if this unlike valves...
here 8.2K is in series with an unknown Thinks- thanks to Ohm's Law. Let's have a
go at Question Three. You had an importánt
resistor, or indeed in series with any amount =
1/R, and we suggested doing it on a
sked in half an hour, but when you switched
of unknown resistors, it's a surefire fact
on there was an Awful Smell and you found
calculatór - well, when all the values are
that whatever current flowing in one resistor equal you can do it without The common
that a 1,8K resistor had waved bye-bye.
-
flows ih the other, or all the others that's
You had any amount of 4.7Ks, a 240ohm denominator of three 4.7K resistors will
one of the consequences of resistors in have to be 4.7K, and we know that the
and a 560 ohm in the junk box and you
series, as we've seen. So if 1.86 milliamps
needed to make up something resembling resultant value will be 4.7/3 kilohms -
flows in the 8.2K, it follows as sure as night
1.8K out of that lot to get you back on the
that's about 1.56K. Aha - now then, we're
follows day that a current of 1.86 milliamps getting somewhere. If we add 1.56K, or
is flowing in the unknown resistor. air.
1,560 ohms, and 240 ohms-you remember
This is really more of a trial -and-error
Now then. The 8.2K and the unknown common-sense problem than an Ohm's
we had a 240 ohm resistor in the box -
were in series across a 24 volt supply, and what do we find? 1,800ohms, of 1.8K. Great
Law one, but it's the sort of thing that can
we know that there are 15.25 volts across well confront you in your amateur career
- solder 'em in and we're back on the air! It
the 8.2K. So by definition there must be 24 might seem a bit unwieldy, sticking three
and it's as well to know how to tackle it.
minus 15.25 volts across the unknown, resistors in parallel and another one in
Now we learned last time that if you put
which is 8.75 volts - yes, we could have series with them, but it does achieve the
two resistors of equal value in parallel, you
told you that in the first place but we job for now and you can always go and buy
ended up with a total resistance of half the
another one later on or salvage one from
thought we'd try and exercise the old brain value of one of them - hrhmm, let's stick
cells, heh heh. And so, in the usual Ohm's somewhere.
two of our 4.7K components in parallel and
Law fashion, if you know two of the see what we get It'll be 2.35K, which is too Okay, so that's how we might attack
parameters you're in a position to find the high. Oh. some practical problems with Ohm's Law.
other one. Let's bash on and look at another important
Let's stick anothér one in parallel, then. subject which will continue to exercise us
In this case we know the voltage across You remember from the formula last time throughout our amateur career, which is
the unknown resistance and the current that the result will be 1/Rl + 1/R2 + 1/R3 something called "power".

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 Watt, who did all sorts of clever experiments You can calculate the current it'll take
on things like this when he wasn't fiddling by rearranging the equation W = VI into I
about with kettles and inventing steam = W/V, which in this case is 1000/240, and
engines and the like), and its symbol is W. that comes out as about 4.16 amps - well,
that isn't strictly true because the mains
So you might guess that another equation isn't a constant voltage but you see the
for you to remember is V times I equals point Actually, it's interesting to note that
W, or VI= W, meaning that the product of your electricity bill is calculated on power,
voltage and current is power. Let's take a not current - the units are kilowatt-hours.
practical case. Suppose we have a 100 ohm
-resistor and we stick it across a 50 volt
Everyone knows what power is ... Well,
everyone thinks they do but the word does power supply such as you might find in a Substitutes, power
have an exact meaning in science generally
hi-fi amplifier. Now by Ohm's Law we know
that the current flowing in the resistor will ratings, more
and certainly in electronics. A physicist
would tell you that it was the rate of doing
-
be yes, come on, boy, what will it be? I --- resistors, big linears
work and he'd probably go into long V/R, 50/100 or 0.5 amps. Half an amp will
other words.
and 12 volt
definitions of what he meant by "work". All
good stuff but not really necessary for our
flow, in
supplies...
purposes! Now then - we can calculate the power
which is being dissipated in the rersistor,
Basically it means some sort of physical or, if you like, the rate at which the 50 volt Let's end for now by noting that if you
activity like lifting weights or forcing things supply is doing work, will be 50 volts times know any two of the four quantities volts,
to move against their will or moving S- half an amp, which is 25watts. So another amps, ohms and watts you can find the
meter needles 25,000 miles away with your way of saying it would be that the power other two. It just so happens that as well as
400 watts. Let's take an example from supply needs a power rating of at least 25 W being equal to V times I, it's also equal to
everyday life. Suppose you lift a power watts if it is going to survive without getting the square of the current tines the resistance,
supply weighing 30lbs up to a table three hot or blowing up or bursting into flames or 12R, and also the square of the voltage
feet off the floor - you're overcoming the etc. over the resistance, or V2/R Write these on
force of gravity and indeed a physicist a big bit of paper and learn them by heart!
would say that you've done 90 foot-pounds And it isn't the only thing that needs a
So, a couple of nasty sneaky questions
of work. power rating either. If the resistor has half
an amp flowing in it and 50 volts across it, a to leave you with this month;
He's using the word in its scientific power of 25 watts is going to be dissipated 1.. It really isn't your day. There's a sporadic -
sense, of course. If you take three seconds in it Something has to happen to the E opening on 144MHz and you switch the
to lift it up, you could also say that your electrical energy which is represented by linear on; there's a smell and a cloud of
50 volts and half an amp, and the "some- blue smoke from somewhere within, and
thing" is that it gets converted to heat In the thing sits there in a huff instead of
"We've often thought other words, the resistor itself needs a
power rating of at least 25 watts in this
producing vast amounts of power in the
of referring to our circuit otherwise it's going to get rather hot
direction of 9H1. You remove the lid and
discover that a 1K wirewound resistor in
400 watt linear and start smoking and in all probability it'll
expire if you keep it up.
the EHT supply has gone dead short-
running a half- circuit - it's quite a chunky beast and you
don't have a spare.
horsepower Little radio -type resistors such as you
amplifier ..." might have bought last time for the initial
Ohm's Law experiments are usually rated
Rummaging furiously through the junk
box you find a couple of 500ohm compo-
at 0.125 or 0.5 watts, which isn't a lot- we'll nents rated at five watts each, which ought
be looking at different types of resistors in to do, and you solder them in. Just before
rate of doing the work was 90 foot-pounds detail next time, but the vast majority of you switch on you think"I wonder whether
in three seconds, or 30 ftlb per second;
resistors you see will be of this sort of they're big enough?" The original resistor
interestingly enough, this amounts to about rating. If you need higher-power ones you fed part of the circuit which could have
1/20 of a horsepower, since one horsepower have to get hold of what are known as drawn about half an amp at full power, and
is equal to 550 ft.lb per second.
"wire-wound" components - you'll often there was potentially about 50 volts across .

find them in things like power supplies, for the resistor when you were using SSB. Will
It always amuses us to remember that instance - and get used to the fact that the substitute be man enough? Did you get
the electrical equivalent of this, by the way, they get hot in use. to work the 9H1?
is 746 watts - don't worry, we'll come to
exactly what a watt is in a moment - and The power rating of a resistor is a 2. A circuit you are thinking of building has
we've often thought of referring on the air function of what it's made of and how big it been published in this magazine; unfortu-
to our 400 watt 432MHz linear by saying is, generally spealting, but it's a fact that ately, the Bicester Simpletons have boobed
we're running a half-horsepower any electric current flowing anywhere has again and forgotten to tell you what power
amplifier .. . a heating effect and big resistors handling rating the resistors ought to be! It's a
lots of power will certainly get warm. clever power supply and there is about
Anyway, let's get back to where we were. 100mA flowing in a 10K resistor feeding
Feet and pounds are all very well but they something so clever it even makes Technical
won't get us very far in electronics and we Just to bring it a bit nearer home, if you Bod scratch his head. What rating ought
go round and look at any domestic electrical
have to suss out a way of defining electrical the resistor to be?
power. The best way is to think of voltage appliance you'll usually find a data plate
as being the thing that lifts the weight somewhere on it which tells you how 3. You buy a big linear rated to give you
against the opposing force of gravity and much power it will use. Your average one- 200 watts output (huh - you should have
the current being the amount of the weight bar electric fire, for instance, is usually built it). You know that it's probably about
itself; it's a bit crude, but it does lead us to
rated at one kilowatt, or 1,000 watts- this 50% efficient (ie, it needs about twice the
the fact that the electrical unit of power is means that it heats your room at the rate input power as it produces out) and it
the product of the volts and the amps. of one kilowatt, which doesn't help very needs a 12 volt supply. What size fuse
much when you need to decide whether should you use with it?
This parameter is given the name of the it'll do the job but it will help you decide
watt (so named after the great James how much electricity it'll use up. See you soon!

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 Radio Society of Wirral AR Society
Harrow
This society have
e So the sun spots are on their
downward cycle and it will be
endeavoured to define what a
typical radio amateur
a some years before they climb
back to maximum again,
enthusiast really is. And from giving us the best of DX. But
their observations, it appears have you thought of the
that they (we) fall into a possibility of them going
definite number of categories. down to no sun spots at all,
Read on... and staying there for 25 years
THE ENTHUSIAST: This is the
or more? It can't happen, you
would say. Sun spots follow a
sort of person who, after cycle which might vary in
spending 24 hours in a field
on a contest shouting himself
Tell others about what's háppening in your club- give length by a few years,
hoarse, will go home and us the information and we will try and print it here. averaging out at 11 years
over a long period. Well, the
switch on the radio to work
Harrow had an informal sun spot cycle did disappear,
any DX which happens to be evening starting the 15th and for about 70 years, way
around. This character is to and practical meeting on July September. For further back in the 15th century.
be admired as much for his 1st, in the Roxeth Room, information contact the
stamina as his enthusiasm! Harrow Arts Centre, High Secretary Cliff Barber, G4BGP,
Road, Harrow Weald, and on 13 The Sycamores, Baldock, This information, from the
THE WAFFLER A breed
the 17th was a DF hunt and Herts. Tel 0462-893736. news letter of Wirral AR
known to many of us. This
type of person will, after
barbecue. More Society, continues' to say that
having a mere 20 minute intelligence from Peter in 1890, Walter Maunder,
over, hardly notice that the Marcham, G3YXZ, 17 superintendent of the Solar
person he was working has Clitheroe Avenue, Harrow, Department of the Royal
Middlesex. By the way, all Observatory, Greenwich,
disappeared or has rapidly
meetings are held at the reported that for a period of
come up with an excuse to
Centre at which there is a Stourbridge and about 70 years, ending in
do so. DAR Society
licenced bar, free parking, and 1716 there was a "remarkable
THE EXPERT: No matter what where new members are This society notes that the interruption of the ordinary
you have done, or how you always welcome. series of G6 callsigns is course of the spot cycle".
have done it this type of expected to be exhausted by
person will know a better way this summer, and the G4 by
and will usually explain it at In several years, it
early 1984. The Home Office continues, no spots were seen
great length even if you didn't say that from then on, Class
really want to know. at all and in 1705 it was
A licences will be allocated recorded as the most
Stevenage and GO and Class B will get GI
remarkable event that two
THE SQUIRREL Very
welcome at junk sales, this DAR Society callsigns, and these are spots were seen on the sun at
The Stevenage and District expected to the last of the G the same time -a similar
type of person will procure prefixes. And when these are
anything he can get his hands Amateur Radio Society meets occurrence had scarcely ever
exhausted, we'll get callsigns been seen during the 60
on just in case it might be on the first and third
in one of the other prefix
useful. This character may Tuesdays of each month at previous years. We gather
8pm in TS Andromeda, blocks held by the UK that this information has been
not be heard much on the air licensing administration. The
(because he can't find the Shephall View, Stevenage. "rediscovered" by an
ITU allocation for the UK are
rig!) but he could put Morse classes are held prior American solar astronomer
to each meeting starting at as follows: GAA-GZZ, MAA- Jack Eddy, who says that the
together a battleship with the MZZ, VPA-VSZ, ZBA-ZJZ, ZNA-
contents of his junk box. 7.15pm. amplitude of the sun spot
ZOZ, ZQA-ZQZ, and 2AA-2ZZ.
cycle was greatly diminished
THE MR BIG: This character From May until September Anybody like to choose which from 1645 to 1715.
will go for total overkill; he the club will be running a one the HO are likely to begin
will buy the flashiest rig, the series of 2 metre DF hunts on with? Incidentally, G7 and G9
biggest linear, put up the the second Tuesday of each prefixes are already used, as Wirral society comment
largest tower, work month, ie 12th July, 9th test and development that they don't suggest we
everything capable of radio August, 13th September. If licences. sell our HF rigs - but it could
communication and then get there is sufficient interest the happen! Heaven forbid.
July's programme of events
bored and will take up club hope to start an
at Stourbridge included an
butterfly collecting instead. electronic constructors
evening on the fourth
informal meeting on July 4th, However, we note that
This sort of person is usually 3.5MHz field day contest on
Tuesday in each month. The July's activities included a sale
very wealthy. the 17th, a main meeting on of surplus equipment on the
aim is to provide members
THE TRENDY: This type buys with some practical electronic
the 18th, 432MHz low power sixth, and an evening of
the latest rig, uses it for six knowledge by the design and
contest on the 31st, and in microprocessor trouble-
months, then finds something September there is an HF SSB shooting on the 20th. Well
construction of simple field day contest on the 3rd/
else to take his fancy, sells his projects. Dates - 28th July,
worth a listen. These and
equipment and starts again 4th, and a demonstration by other meetings are held at
25th August etc.
with something new. This club members at the the Minto House School,
character has a regular Forthcoming events Stourbridge Carnival on the Birkenhead Road, Hoylake ,
feature in the "for sale" include: Sunday 21st August - 10th. There are no meetings Cheshire, on the first and
columns. club picnic at Hampson Park; in August, by the way, and for third Wednesdays of each
Thursday 8th September - more information on the month, starting usually at 7.45
We think we all know beginners' evening at the society, get in touch with for 8.16pm. The Secretary,
somebody who falls into Fairlands community hall; and Malcolm Davies, GBJTI, at 25 Cedric Cawthorne G4KPY, 40
these categories. Now, which the club intend to run Walker Avenue, Quarry Bonk, Westbourne Road, West
one do you fall into? Be another RAE class this year. It Brierley Hill. Telephone Lye Kirby, is the man to speak to
honest! will be held every Thursday 4019. for more information.
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Braintree AR hear from anyone with old
Society and unwanted copies of
The club meets every first electronics, computing or
and third Monday of each radio magazines. He is
month at the Braintree collecting them for students
Community Centre, Victoria from developing countries
Street, Braintree (next to the where such literature is either
bus station in the town unobtainable or prohibitively
centre). Doors open at expensive. Mike can be
7.30pm, with formal activities contacted on Eastbourne
starting promptly at 8pm. 762252 evenings or 25887
Annual membership fee is £5 daytime.
inc 55p CA fee, and a door
fee of 20p per meeting is Cheshunt and AR
charged for members and range of HF, VHF and UHF Vale of White Club
visitors. Further info is géar which has been operated Norse AR Society The club meets every
available from Jeff Roberts, at several special event The new venue for the AGM Wednesday evening at the
G601X, 27 Medley Road, stations recently in aid of Church Room, Church Lane,
(and meetings thereafter) will
Rayne, Braintree, Essex CM7 local charity. Details of be The Canteen and Social Wormley, 8pm or
8TQ. Tel: Braintree 44857. membership from WE thereabouts. August 3rd event
Club, Milton Trading Estate,
Interesting note from club Bidmead, G4EVV, 4 Pine Milton, Oxon. Go to the main is a 2m portable on Baas Hill
member Danny, G3YXJ: When Grove, Northville, BristoL entrance of the estate, turn Common, 10th August is a
in QSO with foreign stations, left inside the main gate, and straightforward natter night,
have you ever noticed how it is the second building on 17th August is an equipment
often you will be addressed Bury Radio Society the left with the car park just evening, 24th August is yet
as "dear ... ?" Meetings are held each
beyond The club is, in fact, a another natter, and 31st
This may sound strange to Tuesday at 8pm in the Club August is a junk sale. Among
Room at Mosses Youth and public house and the club
our ears, since we normally shall be using the restaurant September's happenings are a
reserve this adjective for Community Centre, Cecil
and the bar, and another visit to Brookmans Park MF
members of the opposite sex, Street, Bury. Main meetings
room for smaller meetings. transmitting station on 14th,
but in AR parlance there is on second Tuesday of each
Club secretary is Ian White, and a talk by John Nelson of
good reason for this more month. Society secretary is
G3SEK, 52 Abingdon Road, the RSGB on the 28th. Club
general use. Our continental CC Hardisty, G8XUR, 16
Thomfield Road, Tottington. Drayton, Abindon, Oxon. Tel: secretary is Roger Frisby,
neighbours find it easy to (0235) 31559. G40AA, of 2 Westfield Road,
express the close Tel: Tottington 6934.
Hoddesdon, Herts. Tel: (0992)
relationships which exist in 646795.
the family group, as there is a
suitable word in their Echelford AR Stourbridge
language for "you"; for Society District AR Society Swale AR Club
Meetings of the society are Meetings are held on the first Pre-RAE and CW classes are
example, in French "tu" is
held every second Monday and third Mondays of each still going well, and a special
used (as in "je t'adore"), and
in German "du" is the and last Thursday of each month at the "Garibaldi", event station, GB2QBT, is
equivalent word month at The Hall St Martin's Cross Street, Stourbridge. planned for August Bank
So how can this be Court, Kingston Crescent, There are no meetings Holiday operating on HF and
translated into English? In Ashford, Middlesex. Club Nets scheduled for August VHF in the afternoon. A 2m
earlier times "thee" or "thou" are on Sundays at 1000 local However, an HF SSB Field Day contest has also been
might have been used, but time, frequency 1.93MHz Contest is planned for the provisionally organised for
±QRM. 2m net Wednesdays weekend of the third and early 1984, for which
these have now been
replaced by the less 2000 to 2100 local time on fourth of September, and the certificates and a small
expressive "you". So, in order 144.575MHz (FM). All are club demonstration station is plaque will be supplied for
welcome to participate in to be featured as part of the the winner. Details have still
to show the close friendship
which exists in AR, our these nets whether they are Stourbridge Carnival on to be arranged, but anyone
members or not Details of Saturday 10th September. requiring information should
continental friends simply add
the society available from Alf There was a good deal of contact (by SAE) B Hancock,
"dear" before our Christian
name. It is only polite and Othen, G8FSZ, 5 Milian Close, support from the club's G4NPM, of Leahurst,
courteous to return the New Haw, Addleston. Tel: newer members at the Augustine Road, Minster
Byfleet 48307. 144MHz Low Power Contest Sheppey, Kent ME12 2NB. A
compliment, and this is
particularly easy with .CW, on 8th May and special club call, G4SRC, will be
using the abbreviation "dr" thanks must go to G8ZZH for operated during the contest
for "dear", or "Ibr" for
Loughborough his sterling work in arranging with a premium for working
"Heber". Now you know!
Technical College the contest, and also for the that station.
The Department of Electrical best DX of the day.
Engineering is to host a radio
North Bristol AR amateur's course (C&G 765)
Club on Tuesday evenings, Southdown AR
NBARC is a fairly large club commencing 13th September Society
(around 130 members) with 1983. Tutor will be Doug Meetings are held on the first
the use of very good Doughty, G3FLS, who from 6- Monday of each month at
premises as a meeting room, 7pm will give instruction in The Chaseley Home for
a permanent shack, smaller Morse, and from 7-9pm in Disabled Ex-Servicemen,
lecture rooms and a small tea theory and regulations. Southcliffe, Eastbourne,
bar. Meetings are held every Course fee is a mere £16.50 Sussex. Details of activities
Friday from 7pm at SHE, 7 and further information can and membership from T
Braemar Crescent, Northville, be obtained from the Rawlance, G4MVN, 18 Royal
Bristol. RAE and CW classes department at Radmoor, Sussex Crescent, Eastbourne,
run continuously and the club Loughborough, Leics LE11 Sussex. Southdown member
owns and operates a full 3BT. Tel: (0509) 21581. Mike, G3MHF, would like to

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EG 7400 4P wanted circuits, 859 1688. (Eltham).
factory fitted. Complete all acc- £250. Also KW Atlanta transc-
essories ready to operate. Super service manual W. N.Y. for Solar- SALE Avanti PDLII antenna eiver. Power pack requires new
DX rig £475. Plus £10 securicor.
tron CD1400 will hire/buy (and new in box £75 ono. Buyer pay
plug -ins). G Williams, 85 Salt-
mains transformer, handbook,
J H Clarke, Arlington, The Park, post. Phone Cardigan 0239 wiring diagram for PSU £80.
house Rd., Barrow-in-Furness,
Ashtead, Surrey KT21 EG. 1 614391 from 6.30pm. G30PQ QTHR. Tel: (0652)
Cumbria. Tel: 0229 29152 (after
FOR SALE Heathkit SB-100 6pm). DX -100L realistic communi- 688692.
transceiver, SB600 speaker, cations receiver. Covers 15Kh- FOR SALE 2 metre FM mobile
HW-15 SWR bridge, D104 micro- WANTED DR49 or DR31, offer-
30MHz £50. John Shrimpton, transceiver. Type standard C8800,
ing DR28 plus cash. Also seeking
phone and stand, Diamond 10- Lowfield Nursey, St James Rd, fast slow scan. Memory repeater
80m trapped vertical. £220 ono simple aerial tuner/amplifier as
Goffs, Herts. EN7 6TR. Tel: Cuffly access tone. Original cost £350,
for quick sale. Tel: Griffin, 0733- described in "P.W." Jan. 1983. 873974.
Constructor's offers welcome. Tel: will accept £150. Will deliver
203169. within London area or home
01-959-7715 (North London). HELP! Wanted any information
circuit diagrams, service manuals, counties. Siman Ball, 46 Michel -
EDDYSTONE 730/4 sell around
HAM INTERNATIONAL jumbo ham Gdns., Strawberry Hill,
£120 or swop nine inch monitor modifications for Eddystone 840
for sale 560 channels, USB, LSB, Twickenham. Tel: 01-892-3072
VDU composite input. Receiver C valve. General coverage receiver
AM, FM, 10kc-shift, 26-27MHz (eve), 01-568-7495 (daytime).
was aligned by makers last year. HF by redundant nearly OAP. R
£200 or will swop for two metre Pattinson, 135 Meriden Court,
Ring Bacup (Lancs) 4928 after 7. BARGAIN. Trio TR2300,
transceiver with digital display. Birmingham New Rd., W'Hamp-
FOR SALE MIZUHO KX-2 sky Tel: Manchester(061) 789 3677 nicads, helical, charger; Azden
ton, Staffs. WV4 6BP.
coupler, receiving A.T.U., tunes (R Matthews). PCS 2800 10M FM, digital dis-
5-30MHz £16. Swop FR101 4 WANTED 10 or 11 metre Yagi, play, scan rptr shift; signal
OFFERS, Lafayette HA -600A communication corporation R537
metre converter for similar 6 amateur mini beam (any number of ele-
shortwavereceiver, RCVR (1 18-144MHz). Value over
metre converter. Phone 0224 150KHz-30MHz in five bands, ments considered) Tel: 85491
643131 evenings or weekends. £420, sell for£200 ono. Richard,
.

240 volts, AC or 12 volts DC, GW6TAM. 0554-820282 eve-

WANTED SSB adaptor for operating manual, Rogers 24 YAESU FL200B transmitter and nings only.
Grundig satellit 2100. Tel: Marmion Road, Coningsby, matching FR100B receiver £80
Worplesdon 235456. Lincoln, LN4 4RG. Coningsby each or £140 the pair. Mr D FOR SALE. Yaesu FT902DM
(0526) 42899 evenings. Yeoman, 24 Oakleigh Drive, All Mode £725. Sony 2001, £90.
PARTLY built transceiver to Daton Auto Speech proc £60.
Helford circuitry. Built I.F. Board, 16 M/M Carpenter sound pro-
Peterborough. PE2 OBD. Tel:
Trio 2300 with nicads etc £1 10.
V.F.O. p/selector TX and jector besides requiring 110v 0733 232211.
1ST All little used. Good condition. A.
amplifiers complete with case 50cps supply also requires atten- DX302 receiver all bands USB E. Chivers, G3YFQ, 1 Sycamore
fitted. S meter and power supply. tion. Almost as heavy as AR88. LSB digital as new. Boxedm Close, Bushey, Herts. Tel. 0293-
RX works on 80 Et 20 needs Exchange for Collins Hallicrafter, plus Datong active antenna AD270 41461.
attention. Phone for further info. AR88 National HRO or similar complete. Cost £340 sell for EXCHANGE. Mercury out-
£50. No offers. V T Brown, 242 communications receiver S.A.E. £160. Reason for sale. Phone Mr board, 20hp 10inx4in boat trailer
Little Wakering Road, Wakering, please. John R Gage, 80 Church Sharon 01-550-2346. for communication RX O.W.H.Y.
Southend. Tel: Southend 218466. St., Rugeley, Staffs. WS15 2AH.
FOR SALE Trio TS830S trans- Findley, 27 Keytes Lane, Barford,
EDDYSTONE 640 £40 also ZENITH Variac transformer type ceiver 7 months old, cost new Warwick.
Garrard 301 turntable in SME 100R. Input 230v 50cps. Output £697, will accept £625 ono. WANTED. Belcom LS102 L or
plinth with arm £80. RX antenna continuously variable 0-270v. 8 Also SP230 matching speaker similar. 26-30MHz coverage, in
tuner £20. Phone: Bookham amps overload protected & fused cost £39 will take £50 ono. Also good condition. I am willing to
54813 evenings. cased. Offers. Buyer collects. Teac 3XR reel to reel tape recorder, spend around £160 plus postage.
S.A.E. please. John R Gage, 80 auto reverse, cost £400 used
WANTED clandestine radios, 1
Please write to: Mr R. K. Matthew,
Church St., Rugeley, Staffs. hour. Will accept £325. Various
spy .sets. B2 AMK II, 123, 122, C-3-4, Thorncliff House, North
WS15 2AH. other small items for sale. Please Hyde Lane, Heston, Hounslow,
128, AP4, BP3, BP5, AMK III,
HF1 56. Any S.O.E. Whaddon sets. WANTED FRG7700, Trio 1000, enquire. Mr R M Dotchin, 2 The Middx.
Crscent, Shortstown, Bedford.
Also any miniature or compact Trio 2000 or similar .5-30MHz VALVES. Two MS4B MET, P2
MK42 OUJ.
equipment. Please write John communications receiver in 30 (1), PM 24 M (1), boxed. 70
Baker, 94; Shoot -up-Hill, London, exchange for telescope. Equator- YAESU FRG7, digital readout others, e.g. 2D 13A FC 13, Z 63,
NW2. ial mount, all accessories. 2 x SSb filter battery box in vgc CCH 35. Many others. Condition
Barlow lens, erecting prism, sun £120. Prefer buyer collects. unknown. Offers. 3 Lay Road,
PATHFINDERS £80, CR100, screen, focal length 1250mm, Datong D75 RF speech processor Aylesbury, Bucks. Phone 86923.
R107 both rough £15 each or magnification 625x. Cost £344 as new £25 ono. Tel: Blandford
exchange plus cash for 7700 in 1978. Tel: 055 934 614. (Dorset) (0258) 53930. SONY ICF 2001 PLL synthe-
R1000, 770R, R216, SX200N or sized receiver, 76-108MHz FM,
APN9 less tuning units. D Everall, WANTED circuit diagram, ser- FOR SALE Yaesu general cover- 150KHz-30MHz, AM/SSB/CW
36 Eleanor Road, Waltham Cross, vice sheets etc. for early President age receiver FRG7 digital readout with SSB compensator, computer
Herts. EN8 TDL "Adams" transceiver. Postage and also Yaesu ATU plus 2 metre controlled tuning system, direct
photocopy expenses paid. T converter all little used, manuals. key input manual and scan tuning,
AR88 for sale, good condition Balderstone, 38 Hawkenbury Accept £158 (includes securicor). six preset memory, mains
£55. Tel: Weston -Super-mare Road, Tunbridge, Wells, Kent. Steele, Mayberry, Chilbolton, adapter, £1 15 ono. Tel. 01-521-
21248. TN2 5 BJ: Stockbridge, Hants. 0334 after 6pm.

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 DAIWA SRII VHF FM 2 metre WANTED: STEPHEN -James FOR SALE DX302 receiver HARRIER GB 8 PSU 8 Mic,
receiver with 6 scanning chan- multi tuner Mk.1 or Mk.2 or any 10KHz-30 MHz digital frequency SWR/ATU, mobile Starduster
nels, crystals installed, also other good quality ATU, please display plus Datong AD270 in- antenna. Swap wm RX, SWL
Philong PP1205GS power sup- telephone Boston (Lincs) 0205 door ariel with pre -amp and ATU, broadband pre -amp, test
ply for mains use £40. Barking 820414 after 7pm. mains unit all mint and boxed meter, W.H.Y. Buyer dismantles
01-594-7587. will swop for good hand held, 2 and collects Starduster. Prew,
CEEFAX ORACLE adaptor for
YAESU FT707 transceiver, mtr radio £160. Phone 01-550- 25 Springfield Road, Stirling. Tel:
TV £125. Casio 401 14 instru-
fully crystalled up, and YM35 2346. 0786 62290.
ment keyboard organ £145.
mobile mike, good condition MMC 435/600 AN converter AZDEN PCS3000 2m FM YAESU FT107 M HF transceiver
£425 ono. 021 445 5392. £18. 4M Europa transverter£30. transevr, 25/5w, scanner, 8 still boxed. £560 quick sale. T.E.T.
4M converter £10. Goodmans memories, plus remote control 5 band HF vertical antenna trap
COMPLETE 2MTR station tuner amp £30. IC2E £100. 44 cable, mint condition £150.
consisting FT290R coiled. £55. Tel: Banbury (0295)
Nicards Townfield Road, Flitwick, Beds. Sommerkamp FT767DX 8 band
charger, carrying case, rubber 67409 (evenings).
Flitwick 714591. HF trancvr. with CW filter fitted
duck antenna 30 watt Alinco EXCHANGE DX302 quartz syn-
RACAL RA17L communications 100w output, £350. Tel: 0234
linear 8 element crossed 1/ASI thesised digital receiver 10KHz-
receiver with 50m long wire, any 741736 (G4NXZ).
plus inteconecting leads and 30MHz mint. Also Mattel Intelli-
trail 1-30mc/g excellent condi-
switch box one lot for £300. tion, handbook, 8140 ono or P/X F,OR SALE Geloso G209R. vision games computer with 12
G4SLG. Tel. Lincoln 0522 £125. Hammurland HQ170A cartridges and Seiko World Timer
air gun, after6.30pm. Mr Rogers,
751920, 3 months old. £200. H.R.O. inc coils p/pack watch for Yaesu 7700 or similar.
119 Kingsley Close, Shaw, New-
bury, Berks. £65 ono. BC348 £48. All good W.H.Y. K Meckin, 71 Senhouse
CEARS STEREO tape deck
St., Workington, Cumbria, Tel:
new condition. Pair Sharps condition. Wanted Racal SSB
ROTEL240 CB Mic 8 RF gain, adaptor, and preselector 197B. 0900 65614.
stereo speakers CP270E, 2 -way tone, pa, and plenty more brand
25w exchange Bearcat scanner Phone 0908 566222 8am-2pm. FOR SALE Trio JR5005 (10-
new in box £65. York 863 CB 0908 314095 after 2pm.
or any good scanner. Sear, 35
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specs as above, brand new in 80m) and 9R-59DE (550Kh-
The Oval, Didcot, Oxon. box £60. JVC TV, radio cassette R1155's several good working 30mm) receivers in good condit-
3060 with SW, MW, FM TV can order, original appearance with ion, plus Ferrograph tape recor-
WANTED AR88D in good der, plus stereo amplifier. £85
be used in most countries, brand DF controls magic -eye 8 Jones
working order can collect 50 the lot. Buyer collects. Phone 01
_miles. Northampton. Ring 0234- new boxed £145. 01-551 2151. plugs £25 each. Wanted AR88
or AR88D in good condition. 727 3199.
711031 evenings. *WANTED DESPERATELY by Plus rough one for spares. Phone
hopeful new G4 (GO), Yaesu SHURE 444T desk mic £25.
WANTED: 4 METRE linear. St. Albans 39908.
Katsumi 1024
SP901 and 3 Clement Triband El Keyer £65.
FTV707 MX4. 70TV. FT620. 01-
856-4123. Yagi, TA33JR DX penatrator or ORIC BBC and Electron pro- Yaesu hand mic £5. Trio 130S 8
similar. 2 elements also con- grams: Morse tutor £4, locator AN AC PSU £325. Welz ant.
EXCHANGE OR sell, com- sidered, price around £50. Tel. gives distance, bearing and tuner £25. KW pepmeter £25.
munications receiver, DX200 as Clive (0279) 28857. Write Box points £4. BBC RTTY £4. Texas 10-2m converter £5. FAA FLI
new condition, boxed for AM CB 40, Harlow, Essex. TI99/4 locator£5. G8KMV QTHR. £30. Hi -mound squeeze manip-
transceiver, sidebander etc. Tel: 0438 54689 evenings. ulator £8. B J Payne, 78 Carver
Must be -good example will sell TRIO R-600 communications Hill Road, High Wycombe. Tel:
above receiverfor£120 ono. Call receiver including Yaesu FRT- TR220G 2m FM portable twelve 0494-30018.
Eddie, Day 01-257-5032, even- 7700 ATU plus some amateur channels fully xtald S10, S13,
radio books £205 ono. Davies, 4 S18 to S23 inclusive c/w. Nicads FRG 770 with memory plus
ings 01-624-2546.
Bryn Terrace, Gorseinon, Swan- charger carrying case, manual FRT 7700 plus long -wave filter.
FOR SALE FT101 E fan cooled sea. Tel. Gorseinon 891458. boxed £80 ono. G6NXM Roger Plus morse tutor amd key for
with KW109 ATU to match £350 Fareham 238305. £320. All as new. Tel: (01) 997-
ono. Also Trio 7800 40 watt, 2 SALE OR SWOP for 2X81 9995 after 6.30pm. Address: 9
meters with memory back up. 32K Ram pack and printer £50 YAESU FT227RA 2 metre rig Winscombe Crescent, Ealing,
Never used on TX 4 months old. ono, or swop for Harrier WT2 CB 143.970-8.025MHz watt 8 10
1 London W5.
£150 or swap lot for HF linear hand-held. R. Playford, 21 watt with powersupply plus 9
Lammas Road, Watton-at-Stone, wave whip base antenna. Must WANTED: circuit (with valves
with cash adjustment. Tel etc) and/or components ready
Mansfield (0623) 550227. Hertford, Herts. SG14 3RH. Tel. sell to update station £225.
(0920) 830491 (evenings). Telephone: Orpington 20723 built for filter system designed to
FT901 DM £545. FV901 DM anytime. remove sideband interference
£145. FC901 £95. CPU2500RK NEARLY NEW microwaves only on CB channels 1-40. Details
£150. MM2000 £95. YC305 modules M MS1 morse tutor with YAESU Ft2F 2m. FM TCVR. to: Jennings, 82 Bayard Avenue,
£50. SR-C830/M15 Marine hand- talk back AT from 2-20wpm, S8,20,21,22,23. RO, RRo R4, Downs Barn, Milton Keynes.
held, base charger, 5, 6, 9, 16,
needs 12 volts power supply. 144.48, 144.6, 144.8.
R5, R6, R7, MK14 7LN.
25 £80. No offers. May, Liss
Bargain at £85 complete. Please 10w/1 w, Mic. Auto T/B mobile
phone 039-52-78181. FT102 with FM -AM board fitted
(073082) 2153. mount, manual, perfect condition.
£70 ono. Ring Steve G4DFN, narrow CW filter etc. Plus FV102
WANTED: CIRCUITS and MICROWAVE modules AN
Coventry 612431. DM (remote VFO) and MD1 base
converter MMC 435/600. Guaran-
details or possible modifications microphone. All only 6 months
to R208 R209 and AM type 61 A teed unused but now surplus. WANTED URGENTLY case for old. Original packing and manuals.
receivers, also Leowe-Opta type Offered at £23 to include car- Hammarlund SP600, any condit- Cost over £1200 new at £900
Mr A. riage. Please phone 039-52 ion. Your price. will collect. For
62881 stereogram, I ono. Tel: John on 0385 853552
Reynolds, 15 Kendal Green, 78181. sale: Yaesu FRDX400. Good con- anytime.
Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 9SF. EXCHANGE: SONY ICF 2001 dition. 4 filters FM. AM SSB 160-
6 metres. Handbook original HARRIER CBX Midland 3002
WANTED: ALL types of MF, general coverage receiver (covers
packing 8 box. £140 ono. Ring legal CB radios. Plus two three
HF, equipment for Carlisle Sea
10m to 160m ham bands) will
01-736-6581, evenings. Brian. amp P.S.U.S. Exchange lot for
Cadet Corps. Also, B.28 receiver, exchange for Cobra 148 GTL DX
Yaesu FRG7 Comm 8 receiver.
open to offers or swaps. Petty or Ham International Multimode FT48OR transceiver, still under Tel:. Bracknell 52601.
II USB-LSB-AM-FM (970 chan-
Officer M. Brownlee, 80 Enner- guarantee. £230. %th whip. Mag
nels). A. Woodham, 84 Duff mount. £10. Yeth whip. £10. Rota- EXCHANGE a Heathkit portable
dale Ave, Botcherby, Carlisle,
CA1 2TR. 45552.
Street, Macduff, Scotland, AB4 tor£30 5 element beam. £10. All oscilloscope for Yaesu receivder
1 NR. Telephone 02261-32676. first class. or Icon. Any other ham receiver.
EXCHANGE REQUIRED: A J Stapleton, 89 Almond Ave., MrJ A Cusken, 42 Wallace Road,
Have Kenwood TS520SE (Lowe) ICOM IC255E FM 25 watts 2 Bodmin, Cornwall.
Gelli-Ty-Sign Risca, Gwent. Tel:
will straight swop for TS700S mtr 144 to 148, v.g.c. £165 ono. 0633 614845.
Icom 251E Yaesu FT225RD also Workshop manual. Also M. M. 10 POWER amplifier AML-100w,
Kenwood R600 and FRT 7700 metre td 2 metre transverter, COMMUNICATIONS receiver SSB/CW, AM -FM, power input
ATV swop for TS700G FT221 RD new model (S.0. 239's) 12 wks DX200 150kh to 30MHz, cost 13.8u.d.c. £60 or W.H.Y. in rec-
or FDK Multi 2700. G4OLC old, £85 or will exchange both £169. Not 12 months old, hardly eiving equipment or A14. Ex -
(G8XZM) QTHR, 0670-813352. for 2 metre multimode FT 47OR used. Gift with box and handbook. army set. Mr Bryan Barnwell,
Northumberland, will travel or similar. Ring John (G6 SKA) No reasonable offer refused. Tel: 166, Ark Lane, Denniston, Glas-
100 miles. any time 0385-853552. Runcorn 64592 after 6pm. gow. Tel: 041-554-4005.

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MATTEL Intellevision TV game

ceiver, PSU/SPKR, Ext VFO, - 160-10m with Shure 201 mic valves wanted; Vibroflex bug key with five cartridges hardly used
Shure mic, 500w p.e.p, 350w and spare 6146's KW202 receiver, information; graph oscilloscope £145 or will consider exchange
CW, two -speed tuning, vgc. Q Mult notch filter speaker and type 303C. All expenses paid. for anything interesting, radio or
£200; carriage extra. Paul manuals. Both mint £160 each, G2HKU. 'Hamlyn', Saxon Avenue, W.H.Y. Phone Dartford 75461.
Lockley, 52 Bunkers Hill Lane, £300 the pair. G4KKG QTHR. Minster, Sheerness, Kent. Tel:
Bilston, West Midlands, WV14 Tel: Yeovil (0935) 25327. (0795) 873100. WANTED Pye pocketphone
6J R. PF1 Xtal's for 70cma IE Rb14,
MINOLTA SRT101, £0000. WANTED 3 element triband EXCHANGE portable b&w TV RB10. If you have them already
Exchange for HF transceiver(valve) antenna 10-15-20mtrs. D C Lowe, 5 inch screen with built in AM Et for use it is appreciated. Good
must cover 1.8MHz -
30MHz. G6EFA, Oakdale, Biddenden, Nr FM radio runs on mains, batteries price paid for two good sets.
Mint cond. Can always add; Cash 'Ashford, Kent. Tel: Biddenden or cigarette lighter in car. For ZX Phone or write to Stephen Balon,
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for good rig- camera has many 291303. Spectrum computer, or Sony ICF 18 Knowley Street, Leigh, Lancs.
filters, flash etc. B. Barwick, 31 2001 SW radio, or FC902 ATU. WN74ER. Tel: (0942) 675445.
Pemberton Drive, Bradford, Yorks. NRD505 and matching speaker Will sell for cash, offers Malvern
(Buyer collects.) 64327. WANTED a circuit diagram or
£860. FRG7 internal dig. readout manual for R1155 (75KHz-
YAESU FCT707 A.T.U., FP707 2.155B and 5KHz AM filters £165. 18MHz) receiver, will pay for
P.S.U. YM35 mic, all WARC Regency 16 channel programm- MIDLAND 2001 CB transceiver postage and a small price if
bands, A.1. condition £575. Also able air band receiver manual/ with Y2 wave antenna will swop needed. Tel: Upper Farringdon,
Midland 3001 FM.CB. fj mic Et scanner, mains/battery; scan/ for general coverage receiver or Hants 79 306. Ask for Darren
SWR/ATU Er 5-7 amp power search; scan delay £1 75. Datong 2 metre receiver or W.H.Y. Tel:
supply, Er Wotpole antenna £50, UC1 up converter £65. Wanted Cambridge 834263. Evenings or RTTY Creed 444 as new only
or swap the lot Er FRG7RXEr cash Redifon R408 receiver. K Burton, weekends. 595 hours use from new. 45-45
adjustment for ICOM 720A Er 159 Redworth Road, Shildort, and 50 band gears service manual
P.S.U. Tel. Fillongley (0676) Co. Durham, DL42JP. Tel: 0388 AR88D working vgc., £50 ono. spare paper. ST5 TU dual -machine
41012 (After 11.00am.) 777398. Also Ken KP202 6 channel 2MFM auto start as a pair £1 75 might
YAESU FRG7, six months old, handheld with NICADS, charger, split. TR2200 GX Nicads charger
mint condition. Ideal starting TRANSVERTER 27-6.6Mhz toneburst and Helical whip crys- £80 ono. DAIWA CNA 1001 ATU
receiver. £150 ono., Datong Audio AM-SSB with RF gain, clarifier talled S20, S21, S22, R5, R6, as new in box £110 ono. G6SYZ
filter FL2 £50. Call 021-472- 12 volt £140. Ring Dawlish (0626) R7. £45 ono. Tel: G8HSS, 01- QTHR. Tel: 020 888 738. (Port
0218 evenings. 86321. 446 4648. Isaac, Cornwall.)

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 NATO 2000 with power pack P.M.R. System 6 vehicle WANTED HRO, AR88, early YAESU FRG 7, as new, boxed,
as new £130. Phone Dewsbury mobiles with Pye base station Eddystone anything HRO. Have manual, guaranteed with A.T.V.
0924 465822. 'HiBand' FM (Suit mod for 2 for sale. Many broadcast receivers and aerial. Bargain at £135. Tel:
FT101 (& FM, toneburst, RPT,
metres?) £450 the lot. John Butler, from 1920-1955. R107 going Radcliffe on Trent 2327.
Deeside (0244) 813163 (day) but needs love £30. Realistic
shift, K Tone) 2m transverter. CODAR CR70A RX540 to
Trap dipole 2 match £350. W1191
534231 (evening.) DX200 as new in box £85. Will
10m, 560KHz to 30MHz CW
sell or exchange any of above for
wave meter £10. G whip 10, 15, WANTED HF. VHF RX-TX. 55B facility, ideal beginners rec.
any early communications rec-
20 & 80m £25 UK101 and Swop professional spray gun. with PR4ORF preamp with head-
eiver. Ring Ashley James 045
assembler/dissembler, + UART Compressor motor app 21/2 CFM. phones covers CB band. Snip at
3882164 (Stroud. Glos.)
& sound clip & PIA new mon 8k Electric motor% HP PH. Vehicle
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£20 the lot. Can deliver in Bristol
RAM £150. G3YSG, Little Wick test meters. Complete photo- SAVE £20 buy my new and area). J.R. Buswell, 41 William
Green 2492. graphic b&w dark room inc paper unused Harvard 410T40 channel St. Totterdown, Bristol BS3 4TY.
TRIO JR310 receiver 80m - and chemicals. P Chivers, 29 hand held FM CB with carrying Tel: 0272 715948.
10m vgc. £50 ono. MM28-144 Chessel Cres., Bittering, South- case and new Duracells. £40.00 MML 144/25 25w linear plus
converter £10. MM pre -amp ampton. Tel: (evenings) 0703 ono. Unwanted gift. Phone Truro FT29OR etc. £40
preamp. Suit
144MHz E5. Codor preselector 25679. 864465 after 6pm please. ono. SEM 2 metre transmatch
80m -10m £3. Pye AM10D not REALISTIC TRC 1001 stroller A.T.V. plus 3 way SEM antenna
working for spares £3. Tel: HYGAIN CLR2 5/8 wave ver- switch. Best offers taken. Plus
accessories include rubber duck
0954-31358. G6EUY QTHR. tical antenna designed for use PA3 on board preamp new Unused.
extension mike, Magmount,
27MHz CB. Tuned for UK FM CB. Ring 01-247 6097 G6RBY.
TRIO R1000 receiver £215. Usable on 28 MHz. Good cond.
power leads £50.00 ono. York
SX200N scanner £200 both as 861 and antenna £30.00 ono. TS130V TRANSCEIVER,
£20.00. St Albans 32759 Eves & Cybernet Beta 2000 and antenna
new. Also Uniace 200 CB trans- w%ends. SP120 speaker unit and Azden
ceiver excellent cond. and per- £40.00 also legal base antenna mic, new condition, £360,
formance £75. Can demonstrate YAESU FRG 7700, FRT 7700 Call John, Barlaston (078 139) GM4DHJ, QTHR. Tel: 041 889
all equipment buyer collects. A J ATU, FRV 7700E converter£275. 2536. 9010, (Paisley).
Newman, 10 West Town Grove, Ham International Concorde II FT 101ZD-6 BAND fan, mike, WANTED Y0901 P Yaesu
Brislington, Bristol. Tel: Bristol modified for 26-27 ??? £90. All in ext speaker, exc. condition £520, multiscope. Good price offered.
712084. (Buyer collects) absolute mint condition. Tel: FT101 ZD FM board, new £30, Will travel to collect. Please tel.
WANTED transformer 240v 0243-788075. Daiwa 7/8 double loaded mobile 01-850 4848 evenings, week-
AC input to give about 3000v DC
200W £17, 15-20A PSU, home ends. G4NDW. Dave.
LOWE 6CH 2m RX fitted PA3 brew needs finishing £65, 12"
at 800ma or 50 once rectified. amp £35. Coder PR40 1.5-35 SWL STATION comprising
Also required Eimac SK2216 vent-axia wall fan, new £95,
MHz preselector £20. Sentinel electronic timers, example 0-30 Heathkit (ex BBC) SB-310 9
chimney and SK2210 base for 2m converter MW output £25. band 3 hambands plus broad-
mins adjustable £20 each. MFJ
3XC1500/8877 G8WRB QTHR 160 MTO MW converter £10. K casts and Global AT1000 ATV.
ATU, BAL, UN-BAL£50, HK707
or call Dave on 01-521-0727. Pryce, Rose Villa, Brixton, Both vgc £75. or exchange for
key £8, HK 704 key, new £9.
EXCHANGE homebuilt VHF/ Plymouth, Devon P28 2AC. Tel: 100W varmint valve,' base 10- electronic organ components.
UHF RX tunes 50-470MHz AM, Plymouth 880674. 11 m amp £135. G4RTC. Tel:. J. Barton, 94 Brize Norton Road,
FM no gaps, mains/12v for Jake 01-803 6678. Minster Lovell, Oxford. Tel:
Kenpro KP202, Palm II, C146A, WANTED Belcom LS 102L, Witney 75220.
FT207, or modified pocketfone must be in good condition and CB RADIO, power pack
type TX/RX for 2 metres. Phone full working order. Cash paid for antenna, half breed, gutter mount Ant Products,
02074-4342 evenings weekends. good radio. Tel: Tadley 6020 or DU27, swap for 2x81 Puss, some All Saints Industrial Estate,
write to Stewart, P.O. Box No. 3, software or RAE home course. Baghill Lane, Pontefract,
YAESU-480R 2m multimode Spencers Wood, Reading. RG7 Tel: Hertford 54531. West Yorkshire.
TX/RX boxed 6 months old used 1 BT. Will collect. Telephone 0977 700949
only as base station £295. Yaesu WANTED: for the Wireless
headphones SWR bridge 2m SIGMA Four Tagra BT -104 Museum, old radio books, maga- AMATEUR ANTENNA
Silver 70-70cros 16 dbd
8Ely-13v.5A PSLI- Himond key 27MHz 2000W £45. Ring Yateley zines, catalogues, QSL cards Gain Beam £31.95
872167 after 7pm. components, valves, morse keys, Tiger LY6 9 dbd
HK708 £60. Package deal 5350. 2 Meter Beam £12.95
Tel: G4 DTI. Wokingham 792102. loudspeakers, any old knobs! Tiger LY8 11 dbd
Evenings and weekends. 6/8 AMP power pack ham Collection arranged. Details 2 Meter Beam
Tiger LY10 14 dbd
£19.50
Concorde II turner expander 500, please to Hon. Curator. G3KPO, 2 Meter Beam £32.95
WANTED 10 metre rigs FM mike LA 60 linear ROS 4, SWR 34, Pellhurst, Ryde, IOW. TWO YEAR GUARANTEE ON ABOVE
SSB multi mode preferred con- power meter ROS 28 antenna ZL 12 Mk 2 13 dbd
verted CB or amateur max output TRIO TS130S PSU £350, KW Gain Beam Antenna £32.95
matcher, 3 way antenna switch, ZL8 Mk 2 9 dbd
50w. Halsey, Darbourgh St.,
1 2 low-pass filters, Electronica Pepmeter£25, Katsumi El Keyer Gain 5'-7" Long Boom £19.95
York. Y02 JH. Phone York
1
special 3 element beam all perfect Mk1024 E64, KWLP filter £5, ALL ABOVE HAVE STAINLESS STEEL
PARASITIC ELEMENTS
23893. Working hours Monday £250. B J Edwards, 4 Middle- Yaesu Yeta hand mic £5. Yaesu Norcone 512 Wide Band
to Saturday. wich Rd., Holmes Chapel, FCYOY and tuner £50. pr Trio,
1 Discone Antenna £25.95
pr Yaesu, h/phones £5 each Superior Amateur Radio Station Log
WANTED Heathkit SB - 10U Cheshire. 1
Book post paid: £3.00
from the stock of the late G3HIW. Securicor Delivery Extra £4.50
sideband unit, unmodified and
SALE Cobra 148 GTL DX 26. Contact Brian G4EJY 0494- Send cheque or money order today, made
operating. Buy/swop FB Bolex payable to Ant Products or write enclosing
standard -8 camera. Model C80 515 528.045 AM/FM/CW/USB/ 30018 QTHR. S.A.E. for full details.
LSB, built in SWR meter facility
Yvar F2.5/12.5mm lens. Zipp
for CW key in beautiful condition
pocket case. Phony, -anterbury
0227/65200 or 20 Newhouse
Close, Thanington, Canterbury,
£120 ono. or will swap for 2
metre transceiver. All letters
LISTA- R IG
answered. John F Zissler, 34 The daily advertiser for all amateur radio enthusiasts. For
Kent. your free copy simply send two first class postage stamps
Freiston, Fairstead, Kings Lynn.
REALISTIC DX 302 commu- to List -A -Rig (AR), 65 Cecil Avenue, Hornchurch,
nications receiver, quartz syn- BARLOW Wadley XCR.30 HF Essex.
thesized digital read out. 10KHz, portable 0-30MHz a top line
30MHz. Less than a year old,
boxed; perfect £140 ono. exclud-
portable £95 or would consider
HF transceiver with small cash G3 RCQ ELECTRONICS
ing carriage. Tel: 0424-214485, adjustment as exchange. Phone Amateur radio equipment bought, sold, exchanged.
Bexhill on Sea, Sussex. 0723 (Scarborough) 351456. Tel: Hornchurch 55733, evenings 6/9pm and weekends.

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 VINTAGE RECEIVER for sale. *TRIO TS 700G for sale or 93AMHz Reftec transceiver EXCHANGE Hitachi stack hi-
Eddystone B34 alias Model 358. p/exchange for TS120v/s or KW with professional co-linear ant- fi, comprising of 50 watt amplifier
49Kcs to 30MHz coverage. Good Argonaut QRP HF rig. Some Xtals enna under guarantee. Going 2 with tape, phono tuner and aux-
working order with transformer. for 700G fitted also Tonna 13 metres. Phone Ipswich 830147. iliary input sockets, MW, LW and
Best offer secures. Norwich ELE £t rotator for sale. E Harvey, FM tuner with LED signal strength
666467. FOR SALE FT29OR £220 or
Southwater, Horsham 730934 meter and digital frequency read-
after 7pm please. will part exchange for good Liner
FOR SALE Trio double con- out, Dolby B cassette deck with
2, TR 7010 or similar. Please
version communications receiver normal/Cr02/Metal tape facility,
HAM International multimode phone Dudley (0384) 55766 after
3.5MHz 29.1 MHz WWV in box. APSS controls and twin LED
26.510-28.310MHz, AM, FM, 6.00pm week and anytime
5 months old. Original needs meters. Pair of two way matching
SSB plus variable k/c beam £25. weekend.
slightly realigning plus Ross speakers. All in excellent condit-
Bremi 200 watt valve linear £60. ion. Boxed with all leads, aerials,
switched stereo mono phones, Icom255E25 watt FM Mobile
Would exchange for good 2 metre instructions and lightweight
new £75. Or any near offer. Buyer £185.00 cassette recorder
multimode. Tel: Silverstone battery/mains £10.00. C15 Uni- headphones. Would like HF SSB
collect. Mr. E. Vaughan, 108 857755.
Micklefield Road, High Wycombe, versal oscilloscope needs attent- rig, eg. Yaesu FT107, FT707 or
ion£15.00. Brand new 12AVQ/S Icom IC710 preferably with PSU.
Bucks HP13 7EY. TS-520SE, matching ATU,
Ring Southampton 81433 any-
MC -50 HS Vertical 10/15/20 mtrs plus
LAKE "Manxman" 850 FM CB desk microphone, 30
metres of UR67, HF-5 aerial plus 40.ft low loss feeder £55.00. time and ask for Andy King.
for sale £15, or swap fort m band Phone 0423 66430 evenings.
7/8 whip with gutter-mount or manuals. Complete station in HARVARD 410T 40CH hand-
De G4SXU.
mag-mount. 32 Cornelius Drive, excellent condition £450. Contact held CB £30. Discone multiband
Pensby, Wirral, Merseyside. Tel: Dave Bobbett on Coggeshall (it's FUTABA27MKH TX 3, RX's 8 antenna 50-500MHz £10.
051-648-4166 after 5pm. near Colchester!) 0376-62630. Servos, 2 Nicads charger £70 or Swansea (0792) 467384
swap gen coverage 9X. Tel: evenings.
ROBOT SSTV monitor like
WANTED Comms RX FRG new, boxed. Radiomobile 40 ch
0642 558836 (Stockton
7700 R1000, R2000 or similar. Cleveland.) ZX81 & PSU with professional
CB large SWR power meter 10-
Will consider RA17 or similar keyboard £t 32K RAM Er ZX99
100w. Matcher KW low pass
1 HANIMEX television game tape control system with instruct-
quality bottle job. Must be gen. filter. 18ft obiter antenna. SWL colour or black and white. Re-
Coy. SSB/CW £200-£400 (800- ion books 'etc. & software £160
ATU Stephen James type. All bound target moving target.
1600DM) or info on Dutch/German ono. Mr R Heyword, 733 Heol
boxed like new sell or exchange Tennis, football, squash or pract-
ham shops. Cpl. T J Watson, No Pendyrus, Ferndale, MidGlamor-
for SX200N scanner or what ice. Hardly used, good condition
37 Squadron, RAF Bruggen, oan CF43 3PE.
have you. Tel: 051 638 5554. £12.50. Michael Greasby, 52
BFPO 25.
Wightman Street. Undercliffe,
REALISTIC UVF/UHF direct Bradford. BD3 OLD. Write or TRIOJR 310 80-10MTR ama-
WANTED older type of rec- entry programmable scanner Pro - teur band RX. Excellent receiver
eiver for person wishing to learn phone Bradford 630920 (0274)
2008 68-88MHz 144-148MHz after 4.30pm. in first class condition and work-
more about amateur radio. Can 148-174MHz 410-450MHz 450- ing order £85. Also FC 707 Yaesu
anyone help me please? All letters 470MHz 470-512MHz as new, ATU 10-250 ohms, 150 RF rated
WANTED any crystal set parts
answered. Kenneth Webster, 12 half price £100. Mr Jim Gyseman, of 1920s ERA. Crystals, cat's 80-10 mtrs. Dummy load SWR/
Staveley Grove, Ingrow, Keighley, Caretakers House, Wrotham whiskers etc. by disabled col- PWr meter 4 months old £50.
West Yorkshire. Secondary School, Wrotham, lector, anything considered. Mr Both now surplus to requirements
Sevenoaks, Kents. Tel: Borough Ray Williams, 62 Kingscliffe Road, and in unmarked condition.
POINT CONTACT transistors Green 884207.
wapted, and a few very early Grantham, Lincs. NG31 8ET. Tel: Manchester area. Ring 061-928-
0476 66047. 3939.
junction types. Andrew Wylie, MML 144/25, 25W out for
18 Rue De Lausanne, 1201 2'% in. Plus 10dB preamp, mint WANTED TRIO
FOR SALE Amstrad CB 901 AT230,
Geneva, Switzerland. condition. Suit FT29OR etc. Also with bwo antennas and power D1 AWA CN2002, TRIO TS930..
HQ180XE HAMMARLUND SEM 2 metre transmatch, will pack £85. And city boy SW/MW/ Vintage Valve and Crystal Rec-
GC/RX for sale excellent condi- match anything! £45 the lot or LW/UHF radio £30. Atari video eivers....J G Barnes, G3AOS, 5
tion original carton and manual will split. Tel: 01-247-6097 day, game with three games £125, Prospect Drive, Hale Barns,
CW/AM/SSB. One owner little 01-4464932 evenings. G6RBY. never used and 2 channel hand- Altrincham, Cheshire. WA15 8T0.
used .54/30mcs. H R Tempest, set £20. Alastair Graham, 27
YAESU FT107M 9 band HF Crichton Rd., Pathhead, Scotland, FT227 RA 10W FM trans-
Broughton Hall Skipton, York- transceiver FP107 power unit
Midlothian. Tel: 0875 320 642. ceiver, very sensitive, 5/25KHz
shire. (0756-2267). excellent condition £575 or step/scan, reverse repeater, auto
CR100 HF receiver, good exchange for older rig or W.H.Y. SHACK CLEAROUT. RTTY toneburst superb condition,
working order, £30. Also VHF/ cash adjustment. Tel: Worthing station £65. 40w+ 144MHz £160. IC2025 2M.SSB trans-
UHF scanner, realistic Pro -53 0903 41109. amplifier £20. 10 amp PSU £47. ceiver, extra crystals, satelites,
£40 ono. 01-504-3670. HARVARD 40CH handheld IC4E handie with external mike/ beacons, superb condition,
CB £45 new. Cobra 120 channel speaker, case £160. All Ono. £110. David, G4RMC EXG8ZNC
CREED TR101/2 Desk -Fax Wisbech 584640. QTHR. Telephone Garston
£5 pair. 7B teleprinter £23 656 AM/CB sideband, both good
condition £35. Rubber Duck (Hens) 79567.
tape transmitter £9 BC221 fre- WANTED: DATONG multi -
quency meter £18. Marconi supplied with Harvard. Please mode audio filter. J. Moore, 174 NO 19 SET £30. Heath Kit
VTVM £3. TS-87/AP RF Watt- phone evenings only. Mrs Sear, Woodclose Road, Chelmsley- Mohican communications re-
meter£5. AN-APR4 radar search 9, Sands Road, South Moreton, Wood, Birmingham 37 5AA Tel ceiver, 5 bands£35. Admiralty
receiver 38-1000MHz £30. Pan- Didcot, Oxon. Tel: Didcot 021-770-8895. receiver, Murpay B40D modes
oramic adaptor £10. Reading 814038.
EXCHANGE Opympus 0M1 FSK, CW, SSB, high quality, 1Q
695697. YAESU FRG -7 communica- 200mm 50mm lens motorwin- valve set, £50. Marconi loop
KW2000'B' transveiver, PSU tions receiver as new, £120 or der 2x converter, extension ariel £10. Would buyers collect?
and speaker, '0' multiplier, offers. Telephone Wolverhamp- tubes, zoom, flash with' bounce A. H. Billington. 50 Chipsey
speech -processor, hand mike, ton 20636. head plus aluminium case for Avenue, Bugbrooke, Northants.
hand book also circuit diags. of Yaesu FRG7700 with ATU ex- 830492. -
KENWOOD TR2500 new,
TX/RX PSU and processor, unused, boxed, etc. £205. Call changer, collects. Allan Wood, 8
Crampton Court, Top Valley,
YAESU FT227RA 2M FM
£200. R.P. Neave, G4 DAN, 24 (0277) 354378, Ingatestone, transceiver for sale four memories
Mayfield Road, Writtle, Essex, Essex. Wanted AT230 tuner. Nottingham. and scan, £150, also J Beam C5/
CM1 3EL 0245 421031 after 2M Colinear ant. £35. Tél. 01-
6.30pm. REALISTIC PRO -2008 VHF/ SEARCH -9 2 metres £35.
UHF programmable scanner. 66- Heathkit RFIU signal generator 882-0206.
WANTED: AR88D in reason- 88MHz, 144-174Mhz, 410- 100KHz to 200MHz £35. Bear - RADIO AMATEUR examina-
able physical appearance. Elec- 512MHz, eight memories, no cat four-six hand-held scanner. tion. Let me help you teach your-
trically unimportant. Price range crystals needed. Direct access to R5 -0/P XTAL fitted £45. Realis- self, at home with my low cost
£40 tó£60. Will travel approx 30 18,160 frequencies. Includes tic 200 receiver as new £15Q. correspondence aid. Pay as you
miles to inspect and collect. Tel Tandy base antenna 144- .150 to 40MHz. "Moorings", learn. Send for details. G4EGO,
Ed after 7 on Rayleigh, Essex 512MHz, £100. Telephone Halvarras Road, Playing Place, P. Pennington, 146 Elmsvale
(0268) 770716. Oxford 66075. Truro TR3 6HD. 0872-862575. Road, Dover, Kent, CT17 9PN.

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 FOR SALE KW 2000B no mods YAESU FRG -7 ideal starting
very clean condition £160 ono. receiver. Mint condition £130
Buyer collects. Phone Lea Valley
712631 after 5pm.
EXCHANGE Acorn Atom 12K
ono. Datong AD270 £15. Tel:
01-527-7528.
70CM ANTENNA 70/MBM
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Et 12K computer & PSU and VIA 46 £10. Signal generator 370-
& programs for Yaesu FT 708R or 560MHz £25. Mr Dent, 65 Tibbs
similar 70cms handheld in excel- Hill Road, Abbots Langley, Wat-
lent condition. Ring during office ford, Herts.
hours 0274 723101. REES Mace Marine general
coverage receiver 60KHz-31 MHz,
AR77E rack model complete
with service manual and spare 8 bands variable selectivity BFO Microwave Modules 2
valves. Smoothing circuit requires
with PSU £45. Wanted HF SWR/
PWR meter ATU Yaesu FC902 or
attention. Will anybody fix it or
similar. Tel: Reed, Boston Spa
Dewsbury Electronics 5
buy it? Also 1930s Ultra radio
844305.
T401. Tel: Orpington 25119 evgs.
or wk/end.
Datong Electronics 9
WANTED information please
about 8 -digit vacuum display unit
WANTED Y0901 P Yaesu Labelled only "ISE-DP89A-5479 Metalfayre 11
multiscope. Good price offered. (Japan)", especially as receiver
Phone 01-850-4848 evenings, frequency display. All postage, South Midlands
weekends. Dave G4NDW. photocopy* costs refunded of
course. Please tel: 03553-2472.
Communications Ltd 20/21
WANTED handbook for Trio
JR5005 amateur band receiver DRAKE SPR4 solid state com-
munications receiver dual gate
Jaybeam Limited 31
also general coverage receiver
prefer valves Racal Collins Eddy- FET circuitry linear dial 1 KHz
stone Trio etc. must be available readout notch filter. Programmed
Thanet Electronics 32/33
close to Sheffield area. Phone all broadcasting and amateur
Sheffield (0742) 343492. bands etc. Recently overhauled Wood & Douglas 43
radio shack, excellent £125. Tel:
WANTED preselector for Lichfield 54033. International Correspondence
RA17LMK2. SSB adaptor for
RA17LMK2. For sale/exchange
1C251 E fitted Mutek Icom desk
mike. In excellent working order.
School 43
HRO, BC348, 9R59DS. Wanted Manual bargain at £470. A G
770R, 770V or 990 etc. VHF and Fisher, G6CVJ, 108 Heston Garex Electronics 43
VHF RX gear. Dave 0908 566222 Grange, North Hyde Lane, Heston.
Ex. 35. Between 8am and 2pm. Tel: 01-572-0465. Cambridge Kits 47
GRUNDIG Satellit 1400SL. HAVE Pentax MX with f1.4
professional full short wave cover- lens and a filter, other lenses, British National Radio & Electronics
age up to 30MHz, including all
broadcast and amateur bands.
including telephotos etc. total
cost £950, new and .unused,
School 47
USB/LSB, BFO and digital fre- wanted swap for FT 101 ZD and
quency readout. Also VHF/FM ATU FT530 and ATU or I.c. Y30. Reg. Ward & Co. Limited 47
less than yr old £110 ono. Tel:
1 Must be in first class condition.
Frome (Somerset) 63939 even- Ken James, 2 Marian Road, Mutek Limited 65
ings or weekends. Llandudno, Gwynedd. W30 HL 1

YAESU FRG7700 with EDDYSTONE 730/4 receives Arrow Electronics 68

FRA7700 active aerial and excellent condition. Circuit &
FRV7700E VHF converter 118- manual £80 ono. Liner 2 SSB Dave Cole 72
130 and 140-160 M Hz. Mint con- transceiver 144MHz £75 ono.
Garex twomobile FM mobile trans-
dition, six months old, displaced
ceiver 2 metres £65 ono. Europa
G2DYM 72
by new transceiver. Original cost
transverter 28/144MHz £55 ono.
over £400, accept £325 ono.
Chorleywood 4441.
Mr White, Rose Cottage, Shenley, Ant Products 72
Brook -End, Milton Keynes. Tel:
FOR SALE Hallicrafters VHF 0908 501310. Spangles Travels 72
receiver CHL46130-G/S36 HARRIER CBX, base anten-
27MHz-143MHz £50. Tel: na, mobile antenna, SWR meter, OCT International 75
Wokingham 782236. matcher, power mike, coax, plugs
WANTED Manual for Robot
etc. Cost £160 sell for £100 or 021- Radio & Electrical 76
400 SSTV scan converter. Tel
swapfor2 metre rig ora good HF
Wokingham 782236. beam antenna for 10-15 or 20 -
Innes Fairbairn, 1 Callander
STANDARD CS8 2m multi - Place, Cockburnspath, Berwick-
mode portable, with Nicads, shire, TD13 5XY.
charger, case etc. only ten months
old £180. Also Sanyo G2005
FOR SALE: Codar CR -70H Now turn to page 71 for your
perfect condition, £25. 34
music centre only £75. Jon
Jenkins, G4LJW, Bedford (0234)
Wenny Estate, Chatteris, Cambs. opportunity to include a free
781323. YAESU FT 707 frequency private classified ad in the next
WANTED copy of Practical
coverage 80-1 1 mtrs FM conver-
sion fitted 9 months old, match-
issue of Amateur Radio!
Wireless for July 1979 containing ing power supply unit FP707,
review on Yaesu FRG -7. H Davies, and antenna tuner FC707, just
14 Martland Avenue, Aintree, been serviced, £550 or ex-
Liverpool.. L10 6LT. Tel: 051- change FT101 ZD or similar. Lin-
526-8608. coln 694983. It pays to advertise in
WANTED b&w video camera YAESU FV-101 Z external
in good working order. Tel: Bristol VFO as new, offers. Tel 0792 AMATEUR RADIO
558980 (after 6pm.) 403526.

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