73 Amateur Radio Today – January 1987
Issue Contents:
Announcing: 73 Magazine’s DX Dynasty Award
– We decided that it was about time someone started DXCC over from scratch! Here’s how you can join in the frenzy of DXing’s newest and hottest award …… Staff 27
A Power Supply Primer: Part II
– Now that you’ve rectified the wall socket’s ac you’ve got to do something about all of those crazy ripples …… K4IPV 28
Operators Aren’t Standing By
– Solve your remote-control problems once and for all with this under-priced over-featured DTMF decoder …… Piechocki 34
The Glue Ribbon Solution
– Here’s one you haven’t thought of: Create your own conductive epoxy to make low-resistance bonds to just about anything …… WB0NRU 38
Microwave Building Blocks: The Solfan Special
– Complete plans for building your own microwave rig -you’ll be on the air this weekend! …… WB6IGP 40
World SSB Championships
– Results of the 1986 40-meter fracas; rules for the 1987 tests …… KE7C 53
Inside ICOM
– What’s really different about the IC-751A? …… N1BLH 20
144-mHz Antenna Test
– Three For Two Cushcraft vs. Tonna vs. Cushcraft …… KT2B 22
Top SCORE
– MJC’s Sweepstakes Contest Operating Results Enhancer software for the PC …… KW1O 24
Beginner’s Luck
– Heil’s handbook for the rank amateur …… KA1MPL 26
73 Amateur Radio Today – January 1987
