73 Amateur Radio Today – August 1980
Issue Contents:
The Soft Mount
-mobile mounts enter the space age …… W2QFC 32
Notes from Big Sky Country
– the further adventures of Dr. Hess …… W6CK 36
Meet the Little Giant
– everyman’s sheet-metal tool …… K4JHN 46
On Ten FM
– home of the free land of the brave …… WB2EQG 52
The Rains of Morvi
– duty in disaster for Indian hams …… VU2ST 60
Those Fabulous Fifties
– an era in retrospect …… W1FK 64
Trash All Your Worries
– Baron Von Rhonstead and the RFI caper …… WA5TUM 70
Two Dollars a Tone
– an inexpensive subaudible generator based on the S2559 …… K8SCL 74
The World Above 430
– part I: getting there is easier than you think …… W9CGI 80
Over There
– notes from Kilroy …… W9IWI 86
Busman’s Holiday
– combine hamming with pleasure on your next vacation…… K4BKK/vP1RS 96
A Soft Approach to Logging
– electronic data base management for hams …… Minor 100
RTTY with the H8
– a Heath-based RTTY system …… W5IFQ 106
A Different Kind of Charger
– take a Gel/cell to lunch …… WB6MXD 115
“No Problem… No Problem”
– tales of DX contesting with VP2KC …… W4LVM 122
73 Amateur Radio Today – August 1980