73 Amateur Radio Today – November 1962

73 Amateur Radio Today – November 1962

Issue Contents:

Solid State 1296 MHz Converter

– Transistors on 1296? Good grief what next? Sensitive too! …… W3HIX 6

Deluxe Your Transceiver

– The Lafayette HE-35A for example. S-meter spotting switch etc …… K6UGT 10

Junction Cheks

– Quick way of making sure the junctions are still good onyour transistors …… K2OPI 16

The Continental Six

– Six meters SSB with this low-cost high performance transmitting converter …… W1PYM 18

Build Your Own Mobile Mike

– Transistorized mic pre-amplifier for more mobile punch …… K5JKX 20

73 Tests the Gonset 220 MHz Communicator

– Commercial equipment comes to the 220 MHz band! …… W4API 24

In Defense of the Operator

– A weak defense is better than no defense at all …… W0OBF/2 26

Catch All

– Ha ha …… Rodgers 28

Of RTTY and Filters

– Book length feature …… W3TUZ 32

Premium Tube Replacement Guide

– Equating all those four numbered tubes to better known tube numbers …… W4WKM 46

73 Tests the Lafayette Starflite

– Inexpensive all-band rig. Eighty dollars ninety watts …… W1MEL 50

Complicating the Simplescope

– Modifications and improvements of the Sept. 1961 article …… W0OPA 52

73 Tests the Heath IM-30

– Transistor analyzer kit for $54.88 really does a good job …… W5SJN 58

Simple Squelch

– Squelching that communications receiver used with a VHF converter …… K4UWX 60

Good Old Charlie Queen

– Can this be fiction? …… W1QUE 64

Spotting Simplified

– Getting those “spot” switches to really do the whole job …… W4MLE 66

Coax vs. Open Line

– Coax doesn’t fare so well we’ll warn you …… W9HOV 67

Inverted Vee-beam

– Works out like a bandit. Replace guy wires with a very effective antenna …… W8DLU 70

Choke Evaluator

– Test equipment for the shack not the car …… Ives 72

Those Different Diodes

– Big technical article. Rouser …… Staff 80

A Good Five Cent QSO

– George fights a losing battle with the lids …… W4MLE 90

73 Amateur Radio Today – November 1962

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