73 Amateur Radio Today – June 1986
Issue Contents:
Never Say Die
– Nine full pages of W2NSD/1! …… 4
A Walk Through the VHF/uHF Spectrum
– Is there life after 40 meters? …… KT2B 26
Hams In Space
– W5LFL & W0ORE talk about the past present and future of ham radio …… KW1O 34
Two to Ten
– A quick way to get on 10 FM with a big signal …… WB5IPM 38
Some Guys Make It
– Classic humor from 73’s cellar …… K2ORS 46
Digital Simplex Repeaters
– New-wave ham radio—a marriage of packet and digital-voice technology …… K4YKZ 48
Messing With Microwaves
– Wonderfully cheap and incredibly fun! …… Neal 52
They Threw What Away?
– Our favorite uncle is dumping his UHF swr bridges …… WA8WTE 58
Those Tantalizing Twos
– Guess what? Your IC-2AT or IC-02AT is also a versatile scanner! …… AL7DS 60
Computer Rotor Control
– The first step toward an automatic shack …… WB2UVU 64
Head to Head
– ICOM’s IC-471A versus Kenwood’s TS-811A …… KT2B 20
MFJ’s New Packet TNC
– The MFJ-1270 …… N1BLH 24
73 Amateur Radio Today – June 1986
