73 Amateur Radio Today – September 1986

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

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