73 Amateur Radio Today – September 1986
Issue Contents:
A Rotatable What?
– How to spin 90 feet of crank-up tower on a lazy susan …… WA2VUN 28
HF Antennas: All Bands All Wire
– Another round in the crusade against coax—these three 9-band doublets contain no artificial ingredients …… W0VM 32
Watts My Line
– Coax parallel feeders or microstrip this Basic program lets you design your own custom transmission line …… K4IPV 36
Scaling the Wet Noodle
– Antennas in one-quarter time: Experiment with your favorite 160-meter ludge on 40 meters …… W5RRH 40
The Missing Link
– Control your entire HF station from the convenience of your HT’s tone pad …… WB2REM 42
Dishing It Out On 10 GHz
– Microwave feed systems and antennas that really cook …… WB6IGP 46
High and Dry
– You’ll literally go through the roof over this beam mounting scheme …… WA2OLZ 50
The Ramada Radiator
– It fits in a suitcase covers all bands and costs under $10 to build …… WA8WVF 52
Texas Tango Antenna
– Get two bands for the price of one with a tuned-coaxial-stub dipole …… K5BTV 54
Trap An Amazon Aerial
– In the jungle there are no Radio Shacks. Here’s how to home-brew your own traps …… WB4YOD/pW8ZAF 56
Resonate Wire Antennas
– Amateur radio’s roots: Take a piece of wire and stick it in your rig. (Well it’s a little more complicated than that) …… W0VM 60
Lazy U Dipole
– Here’s what happens when a dipole gets the bends …… VE7BS 64
CoCo’s Compu-charger
– Could this be the world’s smartest NiCd conditioner? …… K2OAW 70
Does All
– ICOM’s IC-1271A VHF/uHF multimode transceiver …… KT2B 22
Tells All:
– The Heathkit HO-5404 station monitor …… N1BLH 24
73 Amateur Radio Today – September 1986
