73 Amateur Radio Today – July 1962
Issue Contents:
The 420 MHz Band
– Inside dope on this interesting band by real expert …… W4HHK 6
Six Meter Nuvistor Converter
– Designed to plug in Drake receiver but will work with anything …… K8NIC/5 12
VHF Construction
– Heed well this article and you may save yourself a lot of misery …… WA2INM 14
The Eico 720 on Six Meters
– You just add a separate pi-net coupler and there you are …… WA2KTJ 18
Finding True North
– Handy if you are lost in the woods …… KH6BW 20
Modifying the HE-35
– Revisited …… WA2INM 22
All Band Nuvistor Pre-selector
– This little gadget makes quite a difference …… K8AOE 22
Transistorize that Meter
– Making VTVMs out of those VOMs …… Henry 26
Rambunctious Radiations
– It’s the location that counts not the antenna …… W4KOC 30
The Windom
– Resurrected and placed carefully on a pedestal …… W4WXY 34
The Whistler
– Or how to use an island as an antenna …… W2SKE 38
Power Booster
– Replace that 6146 with a 6DQ5 and watch the signal increase …… K5JKX 42
The Engineer and the Transistor Radio
– Humor …… Rodgers 46
Vermin Traps and Dragon Eggs
– How to keep the bugs out when you are building that rig …… W2TBZ 50
Selectivity Plus
– 105 Hz selectivity with a simple audio filter …… W6EUM 58
Propagation Charts
– What time to where in all probability …… K2IGY 62
An Old Friend in a New Suit
– The ARC-5 rides again …… W7CSD 64
Dear Friend
– Keeping those Indians on the reservation …… K0OFB 66
73 Amateur Radio Today – July 1962
