73 Amateur Radio Today – August 1966
Issue Contents:
More Power on Six
– Drive this linear with your AM or SSB exciter …… WA9JGU 6
James Dandy Mixer
– A very simple yet useful test instrument …… W2DXH 12
A Poor Man’s 220 Transmitter
– It puts out half a watt; good for local work …… WB2EGZ 14
Another Solid-state 2m Transmitter
– With very inexpensive transistors …… VE2DG 20
The Mini Monitor
– Every ham should have one …… W3UZN 22
Audio Test Amplifier
– This is very useful too …… W9SEK 24
The Chicken Method
– But aren’t we all chicken? …. K4ZZV 26
A Tubeless VFO for VHF
– An old idea but a good one …… W1DFS 28
A Toroidal Multi-band Tuner
– MBT’s have hundreds of uses …… W6SFM 30
The Perfect Squelch
– Very simple tone-control squelch …… W5VCE 36
A Digital Readout VFO
– It’s linear within 2 kHz and designed for 5-5.5 MHz …… WA9AXX 38
A 50 kHz Calibrator
– Fine for those old surplus receivers …… W6GXN 42
Junk Box Pre-amplifier
– Perk up your old receiver at no cost …… WA4ZQO 46
The Heath SB-100
– Heath’s new HF transceiver works very well …… K2EQB 50
High-frequency Power
– Don’t throw away that 400 Hz generator! …… WA6NlL 54
Tech Schools for Ham Training?
– They’re good for commercial training too …… W0RA 58
The Knight TR-106 and V-107
– Knight’s new 6m transceiver and VFO make a nice pair …… WA1CCH 62
A Curtain Going Up
– Why not use a Bruce curtain and work more DX? …… W2EEY 66
Another Look at the Like-New Circuit
– A few changes make this good circuit even better …… W2DXH 72
Gus: Part 14
– Gus goes to Aldabra and around the U.S.A …… W4BPD 76
Coaxial Connector Handbook
– Part two of WA6BSO’s series on coaxial systems discusses the types and uses of coax fittings …… WA6BSO 93
73 Amateur Radio Today – August 1966
