73 Amateur Radio Today – January 1978
Issue Contents:
The Go-first-class Digital Tester
– build this outstanding in-circuit logic monitor …… W7BBX/4 24
The Unbeatable Base-loaded Three-element Rotary Vertical
…… W3KBM 22
Negative Numbers On A $9 Calculator
…… WB6IXT/7 32
Sideband Exposed!
-the mysteries of SSB unveiled -why not understand it once and for all? …… W2FEZ 34
IC Timer Review
…… W3HB 40
Forget Ohm’s Law
…… Stanfield 46
Brew Up A Signal Generator
…… Staff 50
Reprogram Your IC-22S
…… W6UTE 54
Try The ID VIP Method
…… Hargett 58
Build A Deluxe QRP Transmatch
…… WB4VlQ 61
Dodge That Hurricane!
…… WB4IXK 62
Guilty? Or Not Guilty?
…… WA6HDK 69
Transformers for Purists
– have fun designing and building your own transformers …… WA7NEV 70
Simple Scanner For the IC-22S
…… KH6EM 74
Cool It!
…… K4Kl 78
How to Get Better Satellite Pictures
– improving weather satellite recording systems …… W3KH 82
To Err Is Human
…… WB2TOC 86
The $500 Egg Timer
– how to use your computer for practical around-the-house things …… Mickle 92
You’ll like SOL!
…… WB6JYK 94
How To Keep Your Computer Happy
…… WD9DDV 98
It’s Super Clock
– software to enclockify your computer …… W4CQI 102
Improve the AX-190 Receiver
…… WA3TLD 106
Hooking the Kids
…… DiBlasi 114
Tune Your Tower To 80/160
…… K9SOG 118
Clean Up Your Act
…… Staff 136
Where Oh Where
…… W2XQ 138
Power Supply Regulation
…… WA3TLD 140
The Op Amp Encyclopedia
– part I of a lonnnng series …… K4IPV 142
How to Build a Bionic Elephant!
– and have it smell like a rose …… WB6IQS 146
Transistor Primer
…… K1UZ 149
I Love My GTX-1
…… WA4HVH 150
How It Was
…… W6lM 152
Build This FM Signal Generator
…… W9HDA 154
“I Must Have One of Those Somewhere”
– confessions of a junk box junkie ……WB7CTH 158
Is It Glass Or Iron?
…… WA2SUT/nNN0ZVB 160
Build A Simple Capacitance Meter
…… W8DCC 164
Simple Sequential Decoder
…… W7JSW 166
PC Techniques
…… Staff 168
Space Age Junque III
…… W9CGI 170
The Ham CBer
…… WA4BBU 172
Laying Our Your Shack Scientifically
– human engineering comes (at last) to amateur radio …… W3ZVT 174
Hands-free Mobile Mike
…… W9KXJ 178
Heath HT Goodies
…… WA1IZS 180
Try A Sensor Keyer
…… WB4TED 184
Logical Logic
…… N6WA/wA6JMM 188
Pulses Galore!
…… Plevcan 194
73 Amateur Radio Today – January 1978