73 Amateur Radio Today – November 1962
Issue Contents:
Solid State 1296 MHz Converter
– Transistors on 1296? Good grief what next? Sensitive too! …… W3HIX 6
Deluxe Your Transceiver
– The Lafayette HE-35A for example. S-meter spotting switch etc …… K6UGT 10
Junction Cheks
– Quick way of making sure the junctions are still good onyour transistors …… K2OPI 16
The Continental Six
– Six meters SSB with this low-cost high performance transmitting converter …… W1PYM 18
Build Your Own Mobile Mike
– Transistorized mic pre-amplifier for more mobile punch …… K5JKX 20
73 Tests the Gonset 220 MHz Communicator
– Commercial equipment comes to the 220 MHz band! …… W4API 24
In Defense of the Operator
– A weak defense is better than no defense at all …… W0OBF/2 26
Catch All
– Ha ha …… Rodgers 28
Of RTTY and Filters
– Book length feature …… W3TUZ 32
Premium Tube Replacement Guide
– Equating all those four numbered tubes to better known tube numbers …… W4WKM 46
73 Tests the Lafayette Starflite
– Inexpensive all-band rig. Eighty dollars ninety watts …… W1MEL 50
Complicating the Simplescope
– Modifications and improvements of the Sept. 1961 article …… W0OPA 52
73 Tests the Heath IM-30
– Transistor analyzer kit for $54.88 really does a good job …… W5SJN 58
Simple Squelch
– Squelching that communications receiver used with a VHF converter …… K4UWX 60
Good Old Charlie Queen
– Can this be fiction? …… W1QUE 64
Spotting Simplified
– Getting those “spot” switches to really do the whole job …… W4MLE 66
Coax vs. Open Line
– Coax doesn’t fare so well we’ll warn you …… W9HOV 67
Inverted Vee-beam
– Works out like a bandit. Replace guy wires with a very effective antenna …… W8DLU 70
Choke Evaluator
– Test equipment for the shack not the car …… Ives 72
Those Different Diodes
– Big technical article. Rouser …… Staff 80
A Good Five Cent QSO
– George fights a losing battle with the lids …… W4MLE 90
73 Amateur Radio Today – November 1962
