73 Amateur Radio Today – April 1978
Issue Contents:
Ecstasy In Multimeterland
– build this autoranging marvel …… WA4AIH 24
How To Succeed On 1296
– cat-food can 50-watt amplifier …… W4UCH/2 32
How Do You Use ICs?
– part IX …… WA2SUT/nNN0ZVB 44
You’re Still Using Tubes? Yeccch!
…… W6HPH/g5AWI 50
The Challenge Of 10.5 GHz
– use it or lose it to Smokey …… W1SNN/wR1AFE 60
In Search Of the Ultimate
– an incredible counter calibrator …… W6YUY 66
Super Deluxing the TR-33
…… WA6JFP 72
Feeding A Hungry Microcomputer
…… W6GXN 76
The Exterminator
…… Lasher 84
At Last! A Use For Your Computer!
– RTTY filter design program in BASIC …… Stewart 88
Now Anyone Can Afford A Keyboard
…… Eaton 92
Godbout Strikes Again
– ECONORAM: an outstanding value ……WA7NEV 102
The Klingons Are Coming!
…… WB9LSS 104
The Experimenter’s Dream Calculator
…… Reid 114
Toward A More Perfect Weather Picture
…… Cawthon 116
Is TTL Already Obsolete?
– CMOS vs. TTL …… WB5IRY 120
Simple CW Interference “Filter”
– diode code regeneration …… W8FX/4 132
How Sunspots Work
– basics for the Novice …… WA4FDE 136
Schottky: A New IC Generation
…… McClellan 158
Use Noise To Tune Your Station
…… W6DOB 160
The Double Whammy Mobile Clarifier
– tune out the wife and kids …… K8JS 168
Danger! Microwave Radiation!
– just how much is dangerous? …… WB6JPI 170
73 Amateur Radio Today – April 1978