73 Amateur Radio Today – May 1969
Issue Contents:
Who’s Who in Amateur Radio
– Celebrities in our ranks …… W8GI 4
Stacked Gamma Matched Turnstile
– About 10 dB on 2m omnidirectional …… WA9LPC 8
VHF Vacation Special
– 2m slot antenna made out of aluminum foil ……W2ZRX 10
S-unit Attenuator
– For calibrating S-meters and antenna gain …… WA5SWD 14
In the Beginning
– Not for serious amateurs or heat patients …… K1YSD 20
Don’t Kill Your Generator
– Just wound it a little maybe …… W1EZT 24
Working DX Without Six Elements
– Persistence and sneakiness substituted for power …… K5PAC 26
The Short-vee Antenna
– 10-15-20m 56′ on a leg and it works …… W3FOJ 28
The Little Wonder
– 80-10m antenna… Looks a lot like the Joystick …… W5ZBC 30
Easy Tuning of the Quad
– Multi-element quads can be awfully difficult …… W4AZK 32
The Antennascope
– An effective tool. It’s okay if you know how to use it …… VE3CEA 36
Two on Top
– 80m vertical which tunes both ends of the band ……W6AJZ 40
Measuring Antenna Gain
– You don’t just ask around for signal reports …… W2EEY 42
QRP – A New World To Conquer
– Where 1.000 watts is a full gallon …… W6TYP 46
Report on The Galaxy 550
– Great new transceiver…Read all about it …… W6AJZ 48
Feeding & Tuning Three-band Quad
– Boomless quad novel approach. etc …… WA4VWY 52
To Patch or Not to Patch
– Here’s the latest news on patching …… W5LHG 56
Direct-reading SWR Indicator
– Tired of switching back and forth? Lazibones …… K3WRW 60
Asymmetrically Feeding Long Wires
– Strange things happen when you move the feed around …… W2EEY 62
Tests the James Research Units
– And finds them outstanding and mild …… WlEMV 13
Compressed Vertical for 160
– If you have room for a 120′ tower pass this by …… W6FPO 70
Class A Transistor Amplifier Design
– Seven steps to total and complete success. Probably …… WA5SWD 72
$4.98 Novice Special
– Why spend more for a nice 15m antenna? Why not? …… WA7CSK 74
How to Fly Your Kite
– Simple 160m antenna for Field Day or expeditions …… E14R 77
In Search of a Better Angle
– Angle-of-radiation is of critical importance. Read …… K9YOE 78
FSK Exciter
– Another bone for the RTTY fiends …… W4LLR 84
Telephone Beeper
– Handy gadget for the new phone patch laws ……W6BLZ 88
KW Dummy Load Cheap
– Start using this instead of your antenna …… WB2PTU 92
Mini-bomb
– Another of his little 10 kW linear amplifiers almost …… W0SKY 94
DX From DL Land
– What’s it’s like over on that end …… DL4BR 96
Phonetics for the Pileups
– How to get your call letters through the mess …… KH6IJ 98
Extra Class License Course
– Part 4 of the Extra Class Study Course. Learn ….. Staff 100
Economy Chronometer
– Some hams are pretty doggone cheap …… W0EDO 118
4×150 Socket
– Another shortcut for the cheapskate ham …… WA3AQS 120
All-band Curtain Array
– 160-10m and only 112 feet long …… VK4SS 122
How to Tune a Circuit
– Figuring capacitance and parallel capacitance …… K5LLI 123
Mobile Antenna for Vacation USA
– Not much trouble and works slickeydoo …… WB2WYO 130
73 Amateur Radio Today – May 1969
