73 Amateur Radio Today – August 1970
Issue Contents:
Mount That Mobile Right!
– There are a lot of ways of doing it wrong; just ask most mobile ops …… K4IPV 14
Amateur Wattmeter for $3.85
– Unless you’d rather shell out umpteen bucks for a Bird wattmeter …… K1CLL 20
The Consummate Console
– Be the envy of every ham in town. Even your wife might warm just a little …… WB2FBF 22
An Impedance Multiplier for the VOM
– How to make your VOM read like a VTVM or such …… K6DQB 27
Repeater Audio: Time Out for Quality
– Hifi on FM? We sure can use it in place of that pilot-to-bombardier quality we hear so often now …… K6MVH 31
ATV: Getting a Better Picture
– Improving antennas feeders and converters …… WA6BJV 34
That Contest Craze
– Fiction? …… VK4SS 40
Log Periodic Antenna Designs for UHF/vHF
– Cover feature …… W3DUQ 45
Ham Radio Chess
– One hundred chess games on one frequency generate less QRM than one lid reciting his stupid “lineup” …… W0BMW 48
Knight Kit KG-696 Rf Generator Kit Review
– Reader test report …… W9KXJ 52
A VHF AM Transmitter
– Using low-cost transistors …… Brubaker 54
Raising a Rhombic
– First take an acre or so of land add one rhombic etc …… W8DYF 60
TVI From An Antenna Rotator
– What next? What next? …… W3URE 65
The ICmitter
– AM o r CW on 20- 160 meters …… Goldstein 67
General Class Study Course Part II
– Reactance exposed as resistance in disguise …… Staff 68
Perkins Radio Club and K1TPX
– Radio club for the blind …… Champagne 87
73 Amateur Radio Today – August 1970
