73 Amateur Radio Today – December 1976
Issue Contents:
Go Tone for Ten
– simple subaudible encoder …… WB6GON 22
World’s Simplest Five-band Receiver?
– using an AM transistor radio …… K3QKO 28
How Do You Use ICs?
– part IV …… WA2SUT/nNN0ZVB 36
Hamming 101
– another Cabrillo College pioneering program …… Inman 40
A Super Cheapo CW IDer
– for FM repeaters and RTTY …… K4EEU 46
The ZF Special Antenna
– double-d “beam” …… ZF1MA 51
CT7001 Clockbuster
– the ultimate clock / calendar (for now) …… WB5DEP 52
Saving a CBer
– a new resource for hams …… WA2KBZ/jY9KS 62
A Ham’ s Computer
– CW/rTTY the easy way …… K7YZZ 78
What’s All This LSI Bunk?
– an ostrich’s eye view of the microprocessor …… Leventhal 84
The Soft Art of Programming
– part III …… Didday 92
Getting By the Friden-8800 Communications Gap
– interface made easy …… VE3DWC 100
New Improved Repeater Monitor
– 2 transistors …… WA5RON 106
Put Snap in Your SSTV Pictures
– using a $20 freq standard …… W2FJT 112
What’ s All This Wire-wrap Stuff?
– talk about cold solder joints! …… K2STV 116
Exploding the Power Myth
– to set the record straight …… W9IK/XE1ZX 120
Exploding the SWR Myth
– to set the record straighter …… G3OGR 122
Bring a Dead Band to Life
– beacon CQer …… WB8BEL 125
The IC-22 Walkie
– portabilization with nicads …… WA1UQC 126
The Latest in Counters
– an inexpensive modularized 50 MHz system …… WA1UFE/8 140
The 5 Minute COR
– simplest yet? …… WA3SWS 152
See the World and Get Paid!
– part II …… Hargett 154
Watch DX with a Spectrum Analyzer
– seeing is believing …… Dewey 162
DXing with a Weather Map
– a new 6m DX technique …… W9CGI 166
73 Amateur Radio Today – December 1976