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OFF -BEAT SPEAKER SYSTEMS
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4- CHANNEL ON THE 60
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4- CHANNEL MATRIX
Now Good Is It?
TAPE BIAS
ADJUSTMENTS
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4 -CHA
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35
How Good Is Matrix?

Better than you think, but far from perfect. Here's a look
at what's happening right now. by Eugene Walters
39
Build A 4- Channel Power Amplifier

It delivers 60 watts rms per channel at .01 % IM distortion.
The perfect match for the "Zero Distortion" Preamp.
by Daniel Meyer
43
Off -Beat 4- Channel Speaker Systems

Here are some unusual answers to the question, "How
can get four speakers into my listening room and have
them look good ?" by Fred Petras
51
54
Tape Bias Level And Recording

Small differences in the bias level can make a large
difference in the quality of a tape recording. See what
happens. by Herb Friedman
4- CHANNEL POWER AMPLIFIER delivers 60

watts per channel, at insignificant distortion
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4- Channel Tape For Your Car
What's happening, what's available in 4- channel sound

gear for the automobile. by Frank Peters
68
TELEVISION
GENERAL
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Hard Rock And Your Hearing

Music can soothe; sometimes it can hurt. Here is
on what happens. by Merino y Coronado
58
Step -By -Step TV Troubleshooting

Inside the sync separator. by Art Margolis
69
Service Clinic
The "funny button." by Jack Darr
70
Reader Questions
R -E's Service Editor solves reader problems
Editorial
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Looking Ahead
Tomorrow's news today. by Jack Darr
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Equipment Report
Radatron Auto Sentry
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Appliance Clinic
All about timers. by Jack Darr
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State -Of-Solid -State

A digital circuit dictionary plus data on several of the
latest IC's and transistors. by Lou Garner
71
Transistor Interchangeability Directory

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CET-three important letters
Certified Electronic Technician! These three words symbolized by the three
letters, CET, identify a new kind of electronic technician. They signify the
technician who has taken the time, effort and interest in proving to himself, his
customers and his peers that he has established a bonafide level of knowledge;
much the same as the lawyer who passes the state bar exam or the accountant
who gets his CPA certificate.
Obtaining the right to use CET after your name is not easy. The test is a
difficult one-carefully prepared so that a large proportion of those who take it fail
it. The prerequisites for the test also require a level of experience in the field. In
some states, where licensing laws currently exist, the CET certificate is required
before the technician can be licensed to repair electronic equipment.
The number of technicians who display the CET certificate are growing rapidly
as more and more technicians come to understand the reason for the certification
program and what it does for them. The technician who holds a CET certificate
should display it proudly as it represents an authoritative evidence of his skills and
abilities.
Radio -Electronics strongly supports this program and, in fact, our editorial
staff acts as monitors for the CET examinations given in the metropolitan New York
area.
We urge that all technicians find out what the program is and what it offers.
We would like to see every qualified technician become a Certified Electronic
Technician and an active member of ISCET (The International Society Of Certified
Electronic Technicians). If you require further information on the CET program or
ISCET, please write to us. We will forward your inquiry to the proper organization
for reply.
There is still room in many states to become a CET with a certificate number
that is lower than 100. Take advantage of this opportunity now, and become one of
the first Certified Electronic Technicians in your state. -Larry Steckler, CET, Editor
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looking ahead
Enter Disco -Vision
Discomania seems to be
overtaking the television set
manufacturers as they search
for a new generation of video
products. Most of them are
also very closely researching
the possibility of cartridge
video-tape recorders for the
home -some are already selling them. But the concept of
the disc appears to have captured their imagination as a
potential new entertainment
medium that could provide
pre -recorded visual information at a cost far below that
of magnetic tape.
So far, three basic principles have been used in
video discs: (1) The mechanical pressure- transducer system developed by German
Telefunken, British Decca and
their joint subsidiary Teldec.
Zenith has also demonstrated
its own system, based on Tel dec principles. (2) An electrostatic- capacitance system
developed by RCA, that had
not been publicly demonstrated at press time. (3) The
laser-optical system shown by
Philips.
The third system, which
Philips calls VLP (see Radio Electronics December, 1972),
was warmly received by those
engineers who witnessed its
first demonstration. Now, suddenly, a new system has entered the race -but one that
so strongly resembles VLP
that there is open discussion
as to whether the two could
eventually
become
com-
patible. The new system is

Disco- Vision, developed by a
subsidiary of MCA Inc., the
entertainment collossus that
owns Universal Pictures, several record labels and a TV
program syndication com-
ser. The master disc may be
made from film, video tape or

a live television picture and is
laser- etched
in
real
time.
Pressings are made in a manner similar to the replication

of an audio phonograph disc.
Although MCA demonstrated
only a single -play Disco -Vision attachment for home TV
sets (the signal is fed in
through the antenna terminals), it showed a mockup of
a proposed changer, which
could accommodate up to 10
discs, which could provide up
to six hours and 40 minutes
of continuous visual material,
interrupted only by a 4 -second disc -changing cycle.
MCA believes the singleplay attachment could sell for
less than $400, the changer
for under $500, and record
albums for $2 to $10, depending on the length and
content of the material. Although MCA hasn't yet decided whether to manufacture
the hardware itself or farm it
out to others, its officials say
they are shooting at a late 1974 production target
which happens to be the target date for virtually all of the
competitive systems. MCA
also promises it will release
movie albums from "the

world's largest collection of
feature films" in Universal
Pictures' vaults.
Videoplayer rules
pany.
demonstrated
with only seven minutes of
program material, Disco -Vision's backers say that up to
40 minutes of color pictures
tures from those videodiscs

as well as VTR's and other
devices designed to be attached to the antenna terminals of home TV sets. Since
RADIO- ELECTRONICS
July 1961, when the FCC

ruled it had jurisdiction over
videoplayers under its authority to control radio -frequency
interference, manufacturers of
such "Class
TV devices"
which include most video players as well as Magnavox's Odyssey TV game
have been operating under
legal restrictions that some
I
said guaranteed a noisy picture.

The most odious part of
the rules was the provision
limiting signal strength to a
maximum of 2,000 V rms
across a 300 -ohm antenna
terminal, or 1,000 IN across
75 ohms (see Radio-ElectronIcs, December, 1971). Last minute modifications were
made in various video devices
to meet this restriction, but
their makers didn't like it.
Now the final rules are
out. As a result of the nearunanimous view of the industry that the earlier limit was
too low to produce a good,
clean picture, the FCC raised
the limit to 6,000 V across
300 ohms and 2,000 V
across 75 ohms. As a safe-
guard against video -players

feeding out through antennas
or CATV systems, the Commission added the requirement that these devices must
be equipped with a 60-dB antenna-transfer switch to disconnect the receiving antenna when the videoplayer
or other gadget is in use. The
increase in signal strength
permitted by the FCC is on
the order of 10 dB and
should help melt the snow
that has often been a characteristic of videoplayers sold to
date.
A new FCC ruling should

result in stronger, clearer pic-
Although
and stereo sound can be

pressed into a single -sided
plastic 12 -inch disc with a reflective coating. The disc revolves at 1,800 rpm (or 30
revolutions per second, in
synchronization with TV's
frame rate) and is scanned by
a 1-milliwatt helium -neon la-
CATV receivers
With cable TV now serving
more than 10% of America's
television receivers, and with
all future cable systems required to carry at least 20
channels, FCC-backed indus-
MARCH 1973
try studies are now under way

with a view toward standardizing CATV channels.
A large number of proposals for new channeling have
been made. Some envision 24
to 34 extra cable channels
not duplicating the present
broadcast channels. Others
involve the use of standard
vhf channels, plus some extra
new ones, as is now being
done with converters. Still
others foresee the use of multiple cables and the existing
channels. In the latter case, a
two -cable system would permit the transmission of two
programs per vhf channel, the
viewer
merely turning
switch to change from Channel 2A to Channel 2B, switching from one cable to the others. A two -cable system
would permit the use of 24
vhf channels, a four-cable
system 48 channels.
How would these various
plans affect receiver design
and costs? Sylvania's Advanced Development Manager
C. Bailey Neal has analyzed
the various plans and concluded that the first two
would unduly penalize viewers who are not connected to
the cable, and add to the
cost and bulk of television
sets. The first plan, with the
completely separate set of
cable channels, his study indicated, would require an extra tuner twice the cost of the
standard vhf tuner (which

would also be in the set for
off- the-air reception) and increase the cabinet size by
three to four inches, expanding a 17 -inch color set
to the bulk of today's 19inchers. The multi -cable approach was found to be the
most practical from the standpoint of receiver design, requiring only the addition of a
simple A -B (or A- B -C -D)
switch to change channel inputs.
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by DAVID LACHENBRUCH
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR
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The Sony TA -1055 delivers 23 +23W
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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
11
new s timely
Beeping traffic signals
help blind cross streets
waiting for the film to be developed,

and only after the full X -ray session is
the doctor in possession of the photos
that may solve his problem for him.
is
An electronic traffic signal that corn bines the traditional red and green lights
with a loud beeping during the first 5
seconds of the green light period has
been installed at a Vienna street crossing adjacent to a school for the blind. It
has had such excellent results that Viennese authorities are promising more.
A blind American electronics instructor points out that the blind are es-
pecially helpless at a street crossing.

"You just listen till you hear no sound
from either direction, then run like hell
and trust to luck." With the beep signal,
the blind pedestrian knows that there are
12 seconds to cross after the 5- second
beeping stops.
"But,' says one student, there is another advantage-the driver respects the
sound -and -light signal more than a conventional light. "When we had normal
lights," he said, "drivers used to roar
away on the green as if they were on a
racetrack, regardless whether a pedestrian -blind or not -was in the way. Now
they have more respect."
"Floppy- disc" video recorder

can make X -rays safer
Reduction of doctor and patient exposure to X -rays by as much as one -half
in such examinations as barium swallows, and even more in other procedures, is promised with a new magnetic
video disc recorder, which can record
and play back up to 600 pictures from a
single disc cartridge.
TYPICAL X-RAY SET-UP, including the examination table, TV monitor and Dicassette.
With the Dicassette recorder, the

doctor presses a foot switch that gives
him an instant video snapshot. The
recorder freezes the scene, giving the
doctor a still picture he can study as
long as desirable. In many cases, the Xray examination can be terminated immediately, as soon as the doctor is sure
he has found the trouble, thus saving the
patient unneeded exposure to the rays.
The new recorder, made by Arvin Industries, has two advantages over equipment now in use. It takes an absolutely
stable picture, something that cannot be
accomplished with the standard helical scan tape recorder, and it uses a low cost, easily interchangeable flexible disc,
in contrast to the expensive and critical
plated aluminum discs of existing
recorders with equal picture stability.
Listing for $4,000, with a cartridge disc
selling for $25, its manufacturer calls it a
breakthrough in reliability, simplicity and
In a barium
swallow, for example,

the patient swallows a barium solution to
make his upper digestive system visible.
The doctor watches the TV monitor
carefully to discover problems. If he sees
something interesting, he presses a foot
switch that takes a photograph. The Xray procedure goes on while the doctor
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
ing the other images.

Aside from the medical field, the
recorder has many applications in training, industrial applications, security,
banks, educational TV and CATV. Animation offers a particularly promising
field.
New upgraded program planned

for unified service training
THE DICASSETTE, with Its cartridge disc.
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be updated or replaced without disturb-
price.
Each Dicassette cartridge contains
600 stable full- revolution still frames.
Cassettes can be changed rapidly -less
than 20 seconds from lock -up to lock -up.
Pictures can be played back at 1, 3, 6 or
15 frames a second, giving stop motion,
slow motion or full motion. A stack of
disc cartridges four inches high can hold
as many as 10,000 pictures. Any one is
immediately accessible, and any one can
MARCH 1973
A two-day pilot session of a new

program designed to overcome some of
the service technician's problems of receiving information on new design features and circuitry in TV- electronics
equipment, and in participating in advanced service training will be conducted in Indianapolis March 19th and
20th. It is being launched by a group including the organized service technicians (NEA), the manufacturers and
the Electronic Industries Association
(EIA).
The main weaknesses in present -day
training methods, which the new program is intended to correct or amelior-
ate, are:
1. Manufacturers'
service training
sessions easily available to service technicians usually cover only the most popular brands.
2. It is estimated that to keep up
with current information on even the
popular brands, a technician would have
to spend at least two evenings a week
attending training sessions. Many technicians, realizing that they cannot attend
all the sessions, attend none.
3. Considerable material at the various service meetings is- necessarily -duplicated for each brand of receivers.
The new approach has been named
JESUP -Joint Electronics Service Upgrading Program. The first two -day pilot
training program will be broken down
into general sessions of an hour each, in
which authorities discuss such subjects
as feedback circuits (agc, aft, acc) TV
alignment, solid -state troubleshooting

techniques, for example, and into special
sessions of two hours, in which students
break down into 20 -man teams to work
actively on electronic equipment under
the direction of manufacturer training directors.
It is expected that the lessons
learned in the JESUP two -day pilot program in March will be used to debug,
modify and form the permanent program,
(continued on page 14)
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IS YOUR
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(continued from page 12)
of having his own business.

Mr. O'Rourke has a wife, Elaine, and
one son, Patrick, age 2.
dled by Joe Groves, manager of Photo Facts at Howard W. Sams Co.
Hugo Gernsback
scholarship winner
Your first preamplifier was probably
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Donald O'Rourke, 27, Brooklyn,

N.Y., is the winner of the last of the second Hugo Gernsback Annual Scholarship Awards. These awards are in the
form of $125 grants made to home -study
students of electronics. Eight are made
each year, to outstanding students in
each of eight home -study schools.
Donald O'Rourke joined the U.S.
Navy in 1962, immediately after leaving
high school. He served aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation as Aviation Jet Mechanic until 1965. Separating
from the Navy, he joined the New York
Police Department as Patrolman, and is
now working in the Medical Section of
the Police Academy in New York City.
Second -year guarantee

offered on 25 -inch TV's
A free second -year parts and labor
warranty -said to be the first ever made
by an American manufacturer -is being
offered by Philco -Ford on three new 25inch diagonal solid -state console color
receivers during its annual "One Idea
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second -year warranty has an estimated
value of up to $100, according to a survey of major TV service organizations.
The warranty is standard on the new
consoles during the sale only, and is optional on all other 25 -inch diagonal modular solid -state sets.
NEA- NATESA move
toward unity
Presidents of the two national service organizations, at a meeting of members of their merger committees and
boards in Nashville, Ind., November 30
last, agreed that the two associations
might be able to merge in a matter of
months. Members of both organizations,
they indicated, were still unclear in their
understanding of the proposed details of
the anticipated consolidation, and time
will be required to make all points clear
and to solve all vital issues before the
merger.
Meanwhile the two organizations are
cooperating closely on several mutual
projects, including the joint annual convention in Kansas City, August 1973, and
their joint effort to improve the design of
He became interested in electronics,

he says, because of "the many opportunities in this field," which, he points out,
products by manufacturers to bring
has now expanded to encompass areas

as far apart as space technology and the
needs of everyday living, and almost everything in between. He enrolled in a
Master Television Service course with
the RCA Institutes, without any previous
electronics experience. "I have found
the course very interesting," he says,
"not only learning basic electronic theory, but attaining practical experience in
building test equipment and television re-
FCC authorizes new type
ceivers."
After completing his studies Mr.
O'Rourke expects to work part-time in
TV servicing, with the eventual prospect
MARCH 1973
about better serviceability.
of common -carrier service

By the authorization of a new type of
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Mr. Larry Sullivan has called our attention to an error in the schematic in
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sales competition forced all other

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Today, sales competition on modular
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of defective modules during the warranty
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ting the timing of an automobile engine
with a vom or vtvm (August 1971, page
75) I've come up with an alternate
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1. No need to remove the distributor
cap or spark plug.
2. Engine can be timed to its specifications and not just top dead center.
3. Depending on the condition of
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1. Rotate the engine by hand to
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4. Adjust the distributor to the point
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...
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A-:-?
The new RCA WV -529A "Service
EVERYTHING YOU ASKED FOR

IN AVOM FOR ONLY $53.50"
Special" VOM features:

Taut -band meter movement
with mirror scale for accuracy.
Diode protected against burnout.
High- impact plastic case with
recessed panel
for rugged hand-
ling.
Measures up to 5,000 volts DC
without add -on accessories to
meet
broader range of servicing
needs.
Input polarity reversal switch

for DC voltage and current
TT
measurements. Also reverses

battery polarity in ohms function
aids in solid -state servicing.
Fuse mounted on front panel
for easy access protects ohms
circuits.
3 -color coded panel and meter
face for faster function identification.
Convenient 3 -to- l -step ranges
(VTVM- type).
One -year warranty on parts and
labor ... local replacement parts
availability.
Try the new RCA WV -529A today and see for yourself why we
believe it offers the best price/
performance combination on the
market. For more information,
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Or write RCA Test Equipment
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07029.
RC,'
Electronic
Components
'Optional Distributor
Resale Price,
complete with test leads, batteries,

and spare fuse.
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RADIO- ELECTRONICS
25
DISTORTION-TEST
AUDIO EQUIPMENT
easily
quickl y
accurately
Now the TECRON IMA makes

measuring IM distortion even
easier than measuring THD!
Just one piece of equipment has
both internal oscillators and inter modulation distortion analyzer. Simply
connect the oscillator output to the
input of the test unit, and hook the
unit's output to the input of the analyzer. One quick set up, then switch
a single
control to simultaneously
adjust input and output levels. Take
up to ten power level measurements
in 5db steps in just 60 seconds! Readings over a wide span of output levels
fully describe the distortion characteristics of the test unit.
The IMA itself has a guaranteed
residual IMD of less than 0.005%
(typically under 0.003 %). There are
seven IM ranges with accuracy assured to within 5% of full scale ( +0.005%
on the 0.1 full scale range).
As all other TECRON laboratory
instruments, the IMA is of advanced
design, ruggedly constructed from
highest quality components by skilled

American craftsmen.
Product literature is free upon request. For a technical discussion on
the advantages of using IM testing to
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Full input and output metering; also full input
and output monitoring oscilloscope terminals
solid state construction, utilizing FETs for stafull

bility and compact size (7 "x 19 "x 7 ")
complement of level controls
two internal
oscillators eliminate the need for additional
rack mount list price $570,
test equipment
with walnut cabinet $595
Made Only in America
Tecron
equipment
report
Radatron Auto Sentry
Educational
Burglar Alarm Kit

RADATRON CORPORATION PRODUCES AN
automobile burglar alarm aptly tagged

the Auto Sentry Educational Kit. It
intermittently blows the horn when
triggered by operating any of the car's
electrical equipment. In the past we
have warned that some kits are definitely not for beginners due to inadequate instructions or the high degree of skill required. This one is
specifically recommended for beginners because of its ease of construction and instructive nature. It does
give protection but should not be expected to foil a professional car thief
familiar with this type of alarm.
Guided by a well -prepared 52page booklet, the builder is given
background information about electronic components and soldering tech nigties. It is complete with a "What
did you learn?" quiz at the end. The
manual is amply illustrated with numerous views of the printed- circuit
board and the rear panel with its
power transistor relay driver. Radatron
points out that some vehicles do not
use a horn relay and offers one as an
option. Horn circuit color coding for
popular car models is included. There
are five push buttons, the single
printed- circuit board and the power
transistor to be assembled, and construction time is only 2 to 3 hours.
Resistors are preformed and wires cut
to length with connectors eventually
used to attach to the car's wiring without any cutting.
There is a troubles::.?o::n list

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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
MARCH 1973
limited mostly to suggesting incorrect

component insertion. One omission in
the booklet is the marking of component values on the schematic. The
information, however, is readily available in the parts list and can be filled
in. A neat small cast -aluminum enclosure houses the project. It can be easily mounted out of sight for further
security. The five coded push buttons
are mounted in die formation on the
front panel along with a green hold
indicator lamp.
The kit worked on completion
but instead of the specified alternating
15 second on, 15 second off horn
blast, the timing was 5 seconds on
with 20 seconds off. The discrepancy
is probably due to the wide electrolytic capacitor tolerances.
Operation is broken down into
three modes; armed, temporary hold
and permanent hold. The correct button choice puts the alarm into the
temporary hold mode after turning on
the ignition. Pressing the wrong button
blows the horn. Turning off the ignition terminates this mode automatically arming the alarm. A 25- second
delay gives time to leave the car.
While armed, any voltage transient on
the auto's 12 -volt battery bus caused
by operating any electrical equipment
including the door light or brake light
switches, triggers an SCR into conduction. The alarm is delayed for 15
seconds to give the owner time to
open the door and key -in the temporary hold sequence. A different button
combination selects the permanenthold mode disabling the alarm until
further programmed, allowing a parking lot attendant to drive the car without alarm activation.
The armed standby current drain
was measured at 12 -mA while the permanent -hold mode drain was 130 -mA.
A 24-hour "permanent" hold should
be considered a maximum since this
represents 0.13 x 24 or a 3.12 ampere hour battery drain.
The Auto Sentry is a simple kit to
construct well suited for the beginner,
with the finished product offering a
modicum of protection. Any gal who
services her own Maverick will find
this kit
cinch.
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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
31
AQQO}AUTOMATIC
STAPLE GUNS
appliance clinic
CUT WIRE & CABLE

INSTALLATION COSTS
without cutting into insulation!
SAFE!
ALL ABOUT TIMERS
Grooved Guide positions wire for

proper staple envelopment! Grooved Driving
Blade stops staple at right depth of penetration
to prevent cutting into wire or cable insulation!
No. T -18
-Fits wires
up to
in diameter.
3/ 16"
jII
%/
G1
BELL,
TELEPHONE,
THERMOSTAT,
INTERCOM,
BURGLAR
ALARM
and other low
voltage wiring.
Uses T -18
with 3/16" round crown

in 3/8" leg length only.
-Fits
wires up to
No. T -25
1/4" in diameter.
Same basic construction
and fastens same
wires as No. T -18.
Also used for

RADIANT
HEAT WIRE
Uses T -25 staples
"
1/4" round crown in 9/32 ",.

3/8 ", 7/16" and 9/16" leg lengths.)
with
T -18
and T -25 staples also available in Monel and

with beige, brown and ivory finish at extra cost.
No. T -75
-Fits
up to
wires and cables

in diameter.
1/2"
RADIANT HEAT
CABLE,
OF CABLE,
WIRE CONDUIT
COPPER TUBING
or any non -metallic
sheathed cable.
Riso used as
DRIVE RINGS
in stringing wires.
s-
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flat crown in 9/16 ", 5/8" and
length
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"Pioneers and Pacesetters

For Almost A Half Century"
32
by JACK DARR
SERVICE EDITOR
THE "CONTROL -CEN I LR
'
OF ANY AUTO -
matic electrical appliance that offers

multiple functions is the timer. Each
"thing" must be turned on and off at
the proper point in the cycle. In an
automatic washer, for instance, this
would include water valves, the motor,
drain pump, clutches for changing

speed from wash to spin, and even the
timer driving motor itself. When it
reaches the end of the cycle, it turns
itself off.
If you have troubles in any machine like this, the first thing to do is
to isolate the function that isn't working. For example, the hot -water valve.
A symptom here would be cold water
in the tub after the timer has gone
through the WASH position. If the machine has a TEMPERATURE selector
switch, HOT and WARM, this would be
set to WARM for the cold- water- in -thetub symptom. If the selector switch
was set to HOT, the symptom would
probably be "no- water -at all" since
only the HOT valve opens then. (First
step; check to make sure that the hot
water faucet is turned on.)
Check the wiring diagram on the
back of the machine, and locate the
hot -water solenoid. (Follow the hoses.)
There are several ways of checking
this. Pull the ac plug, and pull one
wire from the solenoid. Most of these
have push -on connectors. Check
sulated clips please!), and then plug

the machine in. With the contacts
open. you will normally read the full
line voltage across them, (unless another switch somewhere in the circuit
is open). However, when the contacts
should be closed, there should be absolutely no voltage drop across them.
If you see a low ac voltage reading,
this indicates that the contacts are
dirty. You're reading the drop across
the resistance of the "dirt".
This means trouble. The resistance of the poor contact generates
heat, the heat burns the contacts even
more, and you're in a vicious circle. In
a great many of these timers, the contacts are easy to get at. Fig.
shows a
typical timer assembly. You can clean
up the contacts with a "point- file ",
fine sandpaper or even an emeryboard. Smooth them off to a high polish, for best contact.
1
CONTROL
SHAFT
CAMS
SWITCHES
TIMER
MOTOR
the
coil for continuity with an ohmmeter.

If this is good, follow the wiring up to
the timer. It may go through the HOT WARM selector switch; some of these
control only the cold water solenoid,
however.
Most machines have very plainly
color -coded wiring. Follow the hot water valve lead to the contacts on the
timer. Be sure that all of the push -on
connectors are firmly seated. Wiring
troubles are comparatively rare, but
check for them just the same.
Next you can turn the timer knob
to the beginning of the WASH portion
TERMINALS
GEAR TRAIN
FIG. 1- TYPICAL TIMER ASSEMBLY,

motor and contacts.
with
of the cycle. The hot -water valve
Turn the timer knob by hand, to

open and close the contacts. Check to
make sure that the contacts meet absolutely flat, or parallel, for maximum
contact area. If necessary, bend the
contacts arms very slightly so that they
do meet properly. Contact closure
should be "firm ", so that the arm
bends just a tiny bit, to jam the con-
should be open, filling the tub. Check

across the timer contacts with the
ohmmeter.
A better test for contacts is to clip
the ac voltmeter across them (in-
tacts tightly together. Fig. 2 shows

how this type of cam and lever actuator works. As you can see here, some
of them use spdt switches. Be sure

RADIO -ELECTRONICS
MARCH 1973
L/Tyr em
frrt 1011
gives you
more than a
two year
warranty
There's a free gift waiting for
you at your Leader distributor.
Get to know :he Leader quality line, first hand,

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LBO -505 -5" DUAL CHANNEL

DUAL TRACE TRIGGERED SCOPE
Outduals their 211! You'll use it to compare,
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phase shift and frequency. It prov des separate or simulta,eous display of CH. 1 & 2;
alternate, chopped, added algebraically and
vector i'x -y). It also offers triggered and recurrent (automatic) sweep; plus PC or DC
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POST INJECTION
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MARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
33
HERE IS THE WORLD'S

ENTIRE SELECTION OF
AUTOMATIC TURNTABLES
WITH ZERO
TRACKING ERROR.
There they are. All one of them.
Garrard's Zero 100, the only
automatic turntable with Zero
Mucking Error.
Not that there haven't been
attempts by other turntable
makers. Many have tried. This is
the first to succeed. And it has
succeeded brilliantly. Expert
reviewers say it's the first time
they've been able to hear the
difference in the performance of a
record player...that the Zero 100
actually sounds better.
It's all because of a simple but
superbly engineered tone arm.
An articulating auxiliary arm,
with critically precise pivots,
makes a continuous adjustment
of the cartridge angle as it moves
.
from the outside grooves toward

the center of the record.
This keeps the stylus at a 90
tangent to the grooves. Consequently tracking error is reduced
to virtual zero. (Independent test
labs have found the test instruments they use are incapable of
measuring the tracking error of
the Zero 100.) Theoretical calculations of the Zero 100's tracking
error indicate that it is as
low as 1/160 that of conventional
tone arms.
Zero tracking error may be the
most dramatic aspect of Zero 100,
but it has other features of
genuine value and significance.
Variable speed control; illuminated
strobe; magnetic anti -skating;
viscous -damped cueing; 15

vertical tracking adjustment; the
patented Garrard Synchro-Lab
synchronous motor; and
exclusive two -point record support in automatic play.
The reviewers have done
exhaustive reports on Zero 100.
We believe they are worth
reading, so we'd be happy to send
them to you along with a 12 -page
brochure on the Zero 100. Write
to us at: British Industries Co.,
Dept.C243Westbury, N.Y. 11590.
GARRARD
ZERO 100
$19995
less base and cartridge
Mfg. by Plessey Ltd. Dist. by British Industries Co.
4- CHANNEL MATRIX
How Good Is It?
It sounds better than 2- channel stereo and
appears to be getting better all the time
by EUGENE WALTERS
any more; ask anyone at all who's

heard four -channel stereo and you'll
find that he agrees with the experts'
consensus-4- channel sound is in, and
it's already here in a big way.
Just take a quick look at the incredible equipment lineup. Everyone
who makes any kind of stereo equipment at all has at least one quadra-
of equipment designs, announcements,

pronouncements, technical papers purported to prove something or other,
and massive confusion for everyone.
There are two basic formats for 4channel sound today: discrete 4-channel tape, and 4-channel records. The
records can be further broken down
into the so- called "discrete" discs (the
RCA /JVC system) and the various
phonic product in the line; more
matrix types.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK THE EXPERTS
likely, it's three or four items or more.

These products can run from the
simple kit -type matrix decoders for
$19.95 on up to a super combination
AM /FM Stereo /4- Channel Receiver /Amplifier with every bell and
whistle you can think of and a few
that may not have occurred to you
yet.
But the all- important question is,
"What's in that little decoder box or
behind the decoder selector switch on
the big rig ?" There has been a variety
Let's take
look at the
RCA /JVC disc first. While we won't

offer any kind of final judgment here,
the "discrete disc" just might not end
up as the industry standard, even
though it does produce an exceptional
four-channel effect with the right
equipment and under the right conditions. But that's precisely the rub with
the carrier-type disc; it requires too
much in equipment modifications, special pickups, styli, and cannot be
broadcast on FM without some special
ruling by the FCC -which may be

hard to come by.
So if we rule out the carrier-type
disc, we are left with matrix, and the
one thing we can say for sure about
matrix 4-channel is that it's getting
better all the time. The beauty of the
matrix is its operational simplicity. No
special pickups are needed; no fancy
detecting circuitry; and any FM stereo
broadcaster can convert to quadraphonic by simply playing an encoded
record on the air!
For a while, there was a field of
three different competing matrix systems: Columbia /Sony's SQ; Sansui's
QS; and the Electro-Voice System.
There were also various schemes advanced by some manufacturers for
"recovering" the ambience information that is believed to be present in
most recent two- channel stereo recordings. This is done by extracting certain
phase differences and feeding these
on the cover
Discrete 4- channel records are not only possible,
but they are being made today. One of the current
group of discrete 4- channel systems is shown on this
month's cover. It consists of a JVC model 4DD -5 Disc
Demodulator, a special high- frequency- response JVC
phono cartridge (its got a conical stylus and frequency
response out to 38,000 Hz); and of course, the records
to play using this system. The record shown is an RCA
Quadradisc. Others are available now, as are a variety
of records from JVC. These recordings are not compatible with matrix records. Other 4- channel discrete
disc equipment is being produced by JVC, and also by
Panasonic. There are more demodulators, as well as
preamp -amplifiers and receivers with the discrete 4channel demodulator built in.
How good is discrete 4- channel? We don't know at
this time, but tests are being performed now to enable
us to give you some basis of comparison between 4R -E
channel matrix and 4- channel discrete.
MARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
35
signals, mixed with some of the upfront signal, to one or two rear speakers. To be sure, this technique very
markedly enhances the overall sound
PHASE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHANNELS
a)
b) DECODER
ENCODER
OUTPUT
OUTPUT
LF
RF
LF'
When it comes time to recover these four individual signals, we

still have just two equations, and no
amount of algebraic or electronic processing will extract more than two unknowns from two equations.
Yet something is extracted by the
decoder working on the signal from
that record. The decoder output in a
basic matrix system looks something
L and R.
like this:
t
LR
+90
90-90
+90
I
'
RR
LR'
180
RR'
0
RELATIONSHIPS between the four

channels In both encoding and decoding.
PHASE
quality and listening experience for

two-channel stereo recordings -much
the same way that a mono recording
can be enhanced by playing it through
a stereo system.
But even here. the sound improvement is markedly better for one
very important reason: we have transposed the reproducing system from a
"wall of sound" to a "room full of
sound " -creating the "sound field"
which has come to be synonymous
with four -channel.
In the process of creating such a
sound field, some front -to -back crosstalk is inevitable. For that matter, isn't
such "crosstalk" inevitable in the live
concert -hall situation? We don't sit at
a concert and try to measure the reverberation time of a particular pillar
or balustrade; instead we are immersed in the total sound field, and if
the hall acoustics are as good as they
should be, our attention is focused on
the source of the sound -up front, on
the stage.
What all this boils down to is a
new study and approach to the psychoacoustic aspects of sound reproduction -how we listen to and hear
live sounds and their recorded versions. Increasingly, matrix researchers
have come to rely on these psychoacoustic phenomena in an effort to
squeeze more separation out of their
respective systems.
We know how good a matrix can
sound. The reason why it has been so
difficult to get the matrix systems to
provide discrete effects can be seen in
this basic encoding formula:
L=
So it is possible to end up with some
usable signal. What has happened is

that the front -to -back separation has
these diluted channels can provide a
degree of listening satisfaction

unobtainable with conventional two channel stereo.
But from the vantage point of
ever -improving technology, it's quite
reasonable for us to be a little unsatisfied with this sort of compromise.
Something better was needed. In the
past year, several important developments have made the matrix record
look more and more attractive. For
one thing, Electro -Voice combined its
system with the not- dissimilar SQ matrix. That left two major matrix contenders: CBS SQ and Sansui QS.
The principal differences between
these two systems in their basic form
LF
7LR
7RR
7LF
L'R
.7RFit
+7
+7
LR
RR
R R
7LF
7RF
/
RF
7RR
TI
7Lq-me
RE
STEREO PICKUP
FOLLOW THE SIGNAL FROM THE STEREO PHONO CARTRIDGE, through the decoder to the
decoder output and this is the relationship between signals using an SQ decoder.
GAIN CONTROL
AMPLIFIERS
LE
o LF'
7RR
.7LR
7LF
o LR"
90
LR
7RF
o RR"
k17-90
RT
(LF + LR)cos(J + (RF-RR)sin0
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
four channels. Instead of decoding

into LF, RF, RR and LR, the decoder
output is something slightly different:
LF', RF', RR' and LR'. Yet even
L F
RR
r7LF
7RF
7RR
o RF'
RF
.7LR
PHASE AND AMPLITUDE
COMPARATORS
= (RF + RR)cos + (LF-LR)sin(I
These two equations represent the output of a typical matrix encoder -the
actual signals that will go into the
disc- cutting head.
But what has happened here? We
have taken four "unknowns" -the four
signal channels, LF, LR, RF and RR
and reduced them to two equations so
they can be cut in the disc as simply
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LF' = Lcosd + RsinB = LF

+ 2RFsin0cos0 + LRcos20
RF' = Rcos(l + Lsint/ = RF
+ 2LFsinBcos0 + RRcos20
RR' = Rcos/f-Lsin0 = RR
-2LRsin0cos0+ RFcos20
LR' = Lcos(/-RsinB = LR
-2RRsinBcos0 + LFcos20
been reduced-diluted in the process

of condensing and then recovering the
STEREO
PICKUP
COMPARATO R
SO MATRIX DECODER WITH LOGIC is shown here in block diagram form. Signal vectors produced when matrix signal is processed by this circuit are on the right.
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involve the method of phase -shifting

the rear channels before recording.
Sansui points out a major problem
with the rear channels as processed in
the SQ system: the 180 phase shift
used in SQ can cause severe rear channel cancellation when the actual
disc is cut. This is caused by the mechanical lineup of various vectors in
the groove walls.
To get around this problem, the
QS system phase shifts the left -rear
channel by +90' and the right -rear
channel by -90 . The total effect is
180' of separation between LR and
RR but apparently without the phase
cancellation that plagued other matrix
systems.
This was fine as far as it went,
but it soon became obvious to everyone that something had to be done to
improve channel separation. As long
as there were just two equations and
four unknowns, accurate recovery and
a high degree of separation seemed
im possible.
Back to psychoacoustics. If this
word has left a bad taste in your
mouth because of some of the early
attempts to make quadraphonic
records, it's certainly understandable.

After all, the Scheiber psychoacoustic
system looked good on the blackboard, but sounded barely like 21/2
channels of stereo. Then many experts
swung over to discrete, while others
decided to try different types of matrix
encoding. Now the experts are saying
that maybe Scheiber had something
after all.
The basic matrix methods went
about as far as they could a year or so
ago. To obtain the added separation,
something else was needed. If we go
back to the basic definition of "high
fidelity," we find that it is not a close
or precise reproduction of the original
sound at all. Instead it is a method of
creating an acceptable illusion of the
original sound or a kind of sound that
will be agreeable to the listener-with
little or no pretense of being faithful
to the original. True, refinements in
reproducing technology have brought
us ever closer to the original, but
stereo and quadraphonics are still just
an illusion.
Psychoacoustics tells us this about
field:
a sound
directionality is perceived by
ELECTRO -VOICE EVX44 Universal Decoder

is said to decode any
matrix recording.
BLOCK DIAGRAM OF THE SANSUI QS CODING SYSTEM
LF'=LF+0.71(RF+j LRI
LF
RR
AA
0.92(LF +jLR) +0.38(RF+jRR)
LR'=LR+0.71(RR-jLF)
0.92(RF -jRR) +0.38(LF -jLR)
RR'=RR+0.71(LR+jRF)
RF
TRANSMISSION
(ENCODER)
Ai
An
q,
rR
directional perception in
SANSUI 4- channel receiver is their model

0RX -6500. Has several
matrix decoding systems built in.
LR
phase, precedence and relative amplitude. A simple experiment will show

that the ears hear differences of intensity (amplitude) as differences in
RF'= RF +0.71(LF -jRR)
(DECODER)
0=8
tan 0 =0.414
cos 0 =0.92
sin 9 =0.38
2 sin O cos 0 =cos 20 =0.71
SANSUI OS CODING SYSTEM is shown in block diagram form. Mathematics of the system are
written in as they apply.
K'"
Directional Sensitivity of Ears

DIRECTIONALITY of a reproduced sound image is determined using calculations of this
type.
phase and that actual differences in

phase are perceived as differences in
amplitude. But then differences in amplitude are still translated by our ears
as phase differences, so the end result
is the same -our ears, -the ultimate
phase detectors, pinpoint directionality
by phase differences.
But something else important was
discovered both by CBS Labs and by
Sansui researchers. Given any two
identical sound sources, the one that is
louder will mask directionality from
the other. We perceive the louder
source at the instant that it is louder
than other sources. There is also the
precedence effect -sound waves that
arrive at the listener's ears first provide the needed phase relationship for
directional perception. If, a few microseconds later, another sound source
provides a louder signal, then directionality will shift toward that source.
In effect, even though we may be using four sound sources in the quadraphonic listening room, our own perception of instantaneous directionality
can accommodate only one of these
speakers at a time -as long as one of
these speakers is louder than the others. When amplitude is equal for all
MARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
37
11011
( i
M t
changes in the phases and amplitude

relationships of the matrix to provide
1605
1404
12130
1'.
oi
MODE
the appearance of various sounds

coming out of various places; it
doesn't change the level, but it does
change the phase /time relationships
+oa
SELECTOR
effect.
noticeably.
Since amplitude changes give the
effect of phase changes, the V ario -M atrix sidesteps the level juggling act entirely, and operates directly on the apparent phase relationships as they
occur at the listener's ears. If, for example, a l -kHz signal is fed to just
the LF encoder input, there will be a
separation of more than 20 dB among
the four channels. As a signal is fed to
another channel-such as a 3 -kHz signal to the LR channel -and is increased in level to gradually acquire
greater separation, it gradually begins
to mask the directionality of the 1kHz LF signal. As this happens, the
need for great separation between the
LF channel and the other three channels decreases, so the matrix in effect
reduces the separation of the LF signal. When the LR signal finally
reaches the same level as the LF,
there is still a separation of about 10
dB front-to -back.
As the 3 -kHz signal continues to
increase in level, the LF separation
becomes less needed and decreases
while the LR separation continues to
increase. While all this is going on,
the low -level signal (LF) retains its total energy; it's not artificially decreased the way it would be with
logic. In a logic matrix, the lower -level
signal in the LF channel would no
longer be reproduced at all, and only
its crosstalk components would be carried in the other channels. This separation effect continues in force, even
when two simultaneous signals are fed
into the system.
The Sansui Vario- Matrix, instead

of using the go, no-go operation of
logic, changes the parameters of the
matrix itself. Vario- Matrix operates on
work still has to be done in our understanding of just how psychoacoustics operate in a real listening environ-
Nn
SY N THE SI ZER
DECODER
A,
, .,
ho-,
WHAT THE USER SEES OF THE OS MATRIX Is this portion of the receiver controls. The MODE,
SELECTOR, and SYNTHESIZER DECODER knobs.
four speakers, then a total immersion

in the sound field occurs, but this happens in theory or with a tone generator only -certainly not with real mu-
perience. To be sure, gain - riding logic

possesses a high degree of directionality, and from the standpoint of
creating an illusion, can be very effec-
sic.
tive.
To capitalize on this effect, CBS
Hardware can be a problem, especially without any across-the -board
method of deceiving the ears into believing that they are hearing true directionality, when such directionality
without the logic may be only minimal. The SQ logic is modulated by
low- frequency signals, with logic gates
in
effect providing
instantaneous
controls. Lafayette Radio, for example, with its LRA -6000, has attempted to operate the SQ logic effectively. As compared with the Sony
SQD -2000, the Lafayette unit has
developed its gain- riding logic -a
switching of major audio signals

among the four loudspeakers. The entire sonic system in effect picks up a
particular kind of rhythm of its own.
The gates provide essentially an infinite number of states from full on to
full off, and by detecting small variations in the directional characteristics
of the decoded signal, modulate volume level settings for a given speaker
at any given time. The SQ logic will
turn one speaker on at a higher level,
while knocking the other three down.
The total effect is one of enhanced directionality. Certainly minute
differences in level have given way to
much greater differences, so the directionality practically hits the listener
over the head. Gain- riding logic works
very well with one predominant direction of sound source. When there is
more than one predominant source,
the system tends to get confused, and
become less and less effective. It is
"fooled" into doing some things that it
wouldn't ordinarily do. It can create
images with sound coming from the
sides or from the front, side and back
simultaneously. The logic operates so
fast that the listener can't hear it actually operating. This is a desirable
feature, but the false images created
by gain -riding logic can leave something to be desired in the listening ex-
38
RADIO- ELECTRONICS
fewer components, and uses a simpler

way of handling wave -comparative
logic. Yet the specifications for this
unit are impressive, and it does its intended job, up to a point.
But even the Sony unit is substantially different from the decoder
designed by CBS Labs. Here, we find
basic differences in time constants
how fast the logic works, and its total
Unfortunately,
lot of spade
ment. Still, what little has been

learned about the mechanics of how
we perceive sound has already conLF
RF
RR
OUTPUT IN EACH CHANNEL as de ivered by

a
rotationally symmetrical phase -amplitude
matrix system for 4- channel sound.
MARCH 1973
tributed toward vastly improved quadraphonic reproduction systems. The

coming few months will see a major
shaking -out of the matrix and discrete
systems, and the industry may well
settle down with a psychoacoustically
viable system that works as well as
discrete. In the meantime, eardrum
tests have borne out the reality of enhanced matrices. The Sansui QS system, when A -B'd with discrete sources,
showed little if any apparent differences between matrix and discrete.
The best-trained ears in the industry
came away from last Fall's AES convinced that this was the way to go.
But as with all major developments,
R -E
time (and phase) will tell.
BUILD
4- CHANNEL
POWER
AMPLIFIER
Unbelievably low distortion is a feature of this
four- channel amplifier for quadraphonic applications.
Each channel drives an 8 -ohm load at up to 60 watts rms.
by DANIEL MEYER
TIGER
.01
IS
MY LATEST
EFFORT TO PRODUCE
BETTER
audio power amplifier. With this design, distortion is reduced to a level of less than .01% at any power level up to
rated output. With distortion products pushed down to a
level more than 80 dB below the program material, it is
very tempting to announce that this is the ultimate and
that no further improvement in amplifiers will ever again
be necessary.
Since the same thing was said when amplifier distortion was reduced to 5 %, then I% and finally to 0.1% and
each time has been proven false, we will simply have to
await improvements in other components to a comparable
level of distortion before we can know for sure, but don't
take any bets. The ear has proven to be considerably more
sensitive to such things than anyone imagined ten or
twenty years ago.
Like most things, the Tiger .01 circuit has evolved
slowly over a number of years with small, but steady improvements. It is usually possible to consider a power amplifier as consisting of two parts; the input, or voltage amplifier portion and the output, or matching portion. The
point of division is obvious in most circuits, since the portion following the bias system is the output portion.
Except for car radios and a few other low /power special cases almost all development effort has been toward
perfecting the class AB, or B type circuits. Class -A circuits
+DC
LOAD
o
INPUT
FIG. 1- QUASI- COMPLEMENTARY OUTPUT TRANSISTORS

by driver in complementary configuration.
are only practical for power outputs up to approximately

10 or 12 watts. Beyond this point the high quiescent power
dissipation caused by low efficiency of class A- circuit discourages serious attempts at more powerful circuits.
The advantages of complementary class -AB and class B amplifiers have been known for at least twenty years.'
Most of the complementary circuits in use today are described in this paper. High -power complementary transistors were not available at this time though, and the few
germanium npn types that could be obtained were terribly
expensive. This led to wide use of quasi -complementary
circuits in which only one polarity of output transistor is
used with a complementary driver pair as in Fig. 1.
This type circuit presents a number of problems. First,
the output stage must operate at unity gain, since (in the
form shown here) the positive half cycle of the signal
passes through a pair of emitter followers that cannot provide any gain. In addition, the circuit inherently has greater
distortion than a complementary circuit due to the different
number of junctions in the signal path on positive and negative half cycles and the difference in input impedance of
the upper and lower pairs. Despite all of this, the quasicomplementary output circuit delivers reasonably good performance and is still widely used today.
Fully complementary output circuits became popular
in the late '60's when reasonably priced complementary
silicon transistors became available. Some of the best of
these were the Marrantz 15 and the JBL "T" circuits. In
1967 the first of the present series, Lil Tiger was introduced. Although not designed to be the worlds lowest
distortion amplifier, this circuit gave quite respectable performance at minimum cost, due to the use of complementary plastic output transistors. In October 1970 the
Universal Tiger2 introduced a new variation in output circuits, an output stage with gain; see Fig. 2. You will note
that that type circuit is completely complementary and also
cannot be built without complementary transistors in the
output stage. Using this type of output circuit reduces the
drive voltage needed for the output section of the amplifier
and also makes it possible to control the response of the
output section very neatly by proper choice of capacitor C
in the schematic.
The Tiger .01 uses a similar output circuit, but with a
1.
are driven
G. C. Sziklai, "Symmetrical Properties of Transistors and Their Applications" Proceedings of the IRE, 41, 717 -724 (1953)
"The Indestructible 125 Watt Power Amplifier." Popular Electronics, October. 1970
MARCH 1973
RADIO-ELECTRONICS
39
+DC
+DC
R9
C6
R3
'
TO OUTPUT
STAGE +
R4
LOAD
D2
O
D3
C8
FEEDBACK
Q2
ALL RESISTORS
FROM
OUTPUT
R7
MARKED R ARE
EQUAL IN VALUE
i^.C9
R8
C2
DC
R 22
2- OUTPUT STAGE WITH GAIN uses complementary transistors

in circuit requiring relatively low drive voltage.
FIG.
TO OUTPUT
STAGE -
Darlington output; thereby making the output section of

the circuit a triple. Doing this increases the current gain of
the output section of the amplifier and further reduces the
amount of drive current needed from the amplifier portion
of the circuit. From this we get greatly reduced gain variation with signal output and can almost eliminate any need
for matching of the complementary transistors.
The only problem with a triple is that temperature
tracking of the bias and output stage is far more critical
now. Feedback from current sensing resistors R37 and R38
to the first stage of the triple, Q10 and Q11, along with
thermal compensation diode D4 takes care of this problem.
Output feedback resistors R28 through R3I set the gain of
the output triples at approximately three, so we have a
very linear output section for our amplifier that only requires around 8 volts rms and a few milliamps to drive it
to full output.
With the output section of the amplifier taken care of,
the voltage amplifier portion can be considered. Most early
power amplifiers and even a few current ones, used singlestage voltage amplifier and driver systems with a bootstrap
collector load of the type shown in Fig. 1. Sometimes an
additional impedance matching stage was added at the input to allow matching to tube preamps. Capacitor Cb allowed the amplifier to produce full positive supply output
on signal peaks by adding the output voltage to the supply
voltage at the junction of the two collector resistors. This
type voltage amplifier does not lend itself to use with split
power supplies and it is generally used with a single -ended
power supply. Due to the half-supply voltage offset at the
output the speaker must be coupled through a large capacitor.
C7LL
D1
R10
DC
3- CROSSOVER D STORTION IS INHERENTLY LOW when current

source replaces the driver bootstrap capacitor.
FIG.
SPECIFICATIONS
Power Output -60 watts sine wave continuous; 8 -ohm
load.
Frequency Response -5.0 to 100,000 Hz at -1.0 dB
points.
Distortion -Less than .01% IM distortion up to rated
output. See graphs for complete distortion
information.
Output Impedance -Less than 0.1 -ohm 20 to 20,000
Hz.
Hum and Noise -More than 80 dB below full output.

Input Sensitivity-0.8 volts rms maximum for full rated
output. Level control provided to reduce sensitivity if needed.
Stability- Completely stable with any type load. Volt Amp limiting provided to protect output stage
from effects of very reactive load.
kHz TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION
60/7000 Hz (4:1) IM DISTORTION
1
- ---
0.1
This system normally has 20 some odd dB of negative

feedback and will produce an amplifier with less than 1%
distortion. The circuit can be improved and the amplifier
can be used with a split supply, if the input stage is made
a differential amplifier. This allows the input and feedback
points at the two bases both to be referenced to ground
and keeps the output point at dc ground. This is a considerable improvement since there are now two stages of gain,
which allows more feedback to be used to lower distortion
and the speaker now has no reactive components between
it and the output of the amplifier. The entire amplifier may
now be do coupled if desired.
Another improvement is the use of a. current source as
the driver collector load instead of the bootstrap capacitor,
split resistor system. This considerably reduces any cross -
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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
.05
.02
.01
.005
.1
.2
.5
10
20
RMS SINE -WAVE POWER OUTPUT PER CHANNEL
MARCH 1973
50
100
- WATTS
FIG. 4- DISTORTED WAVEFORM fed from collector of 01 to the base

of 03. Effect of distortion Is reduced by push -pull driver.
over notch distortion that may be present due to less than

optimum bias conditions. This type driver causes the driving voltage to switch very quickly through any voltage levels where the driving current requirements drop or disappear. Although this type driver does not eliminate the
need for bias in a quality amplifier, it makes the amount
of bias used much less critical. In lower quality applications, such as PA work, the bias system may be removed
and the amplifier run class B, generally without any noticeable effect on the quality. Amplifiers with these improvements can be expected to have distortion levels in the 0.1%
range, and there should be no distortion peaks in the low
power levels at the crossover point. Figure 3 is typical.
So at this point we have a pretty sophisticated amplifier with about all the gain we can handle without running
into phase margin problems, or the necessity of reducing
bandwidth drastically to keep the system stable. How do
you improve on this circuit. A look at the oscilloscope photograph of Fig. 4 should give you a good idea. This is a
photograph of the waveform at the collector of Q l as seen
TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION
REFERENCE POWER 60 WATTS
HALF POWER -3 dB
--
0.5
0.2
D.1
.05
.02
.01
20
50
100
200
500
1K
FREQUENCY
2K
5K
10K 20K
Hz
TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION Is very low at all frequencies (curves
above) and Is less than 0.1% at full- and half -power levels.
DISTORTION VARIATIONS WITH POWER are Illustrated by curves at
left. Typically, IM distortion is below THD up to rated power output.
GAIN -PHASE PLOT (below) shows how little phase shift there is In the
audio range. Phase shift Is only 10 at 80 kHz.
25
20
1f;0
15
135
10
00
45
o
20K
100K
1000K
FREQUENCY IN HERTZ
10 000K
LL
5- COMPLEMENTARY DIFFERENTIAL INPUT STAGE. Several of

its characteristics can be used to good advantage.
FIG.
at base of Q3 point in the circuit of Fig. 3.

Why is this waveform so highly unsymmetrical you
ask? Well the reason is quite simple. Q 1 is supplying the
current at this point to drive stage Q3. On positive half-cycles of the signal swing, Q3 must supply current to the
driver in the upper half of the output section and also
must supply the constant amount of current being soaked
up by stage Q4. On negative half-cycles, however, the output requires no current from Q3 and most of the current
from the current source Q4 is used to drive the lower portion of the output section. Thus on positive half- cycles, Q3
supplies output plus current source and on negative half cycles current source less output drive. Obviously the driving
signal at the base is going to be very unsymmetrical under
these conditions.
So what can be done to improve on this situation? Obviously a push -pull driver would be a good solution. Then
we would have two signal swings on opposite ends of the
circuit that would still be unsymmetrical, but which would
be of opposite polarity. Thus the distortion would be reduced as in any push -pull arrangement. There are several
possible ways to drive such a system, but the most elegant
is to use a complementary, cross-coupled input system. This
makes the whole amplifier symmetrical and push -pull from
the very input.
The complementary differential input stage also provides us with some additional advantages. With this type
circuit the base current for the input pair does not all have
to flow through the input resistor from ground and through
the feedback resistor from the output as in a normal single
ended differential pair. Referring to Fig. 5, the base current
path is from Q1 into the base of Q5 provided that the base
currents of the two transistors are equal. This results in no
offset voltage across the input resistor.
Exact matching is impossible, but even if the matching
is not perfect, we still have only the difference between the
two base currents flowing through the input resistor to produce an offset rather than the entire base current of one
transistor as in a single -ended situation. Since the differential current is so small through this resistor we can either
make the resistor quite large and have a very high input
impedance on the amplifier, or we can use a smaller resistor and get away with a rather large difference in base resistors without getting the considerable offset at the output
of the amplifier that this would normally cause. Since input
impedances over 50,000 ohms are of little value the later
course was followed on Tiger .01.
The only thing remaining is to choose a bias system
for the output stage. The input amplifier pretty well dictates the use of a transistor for this purpose. The dual difMARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
41
01, Q2, 03, 04

Q5, Q6, 07, Q8, Q9
Q10, Q17
Q11, Q16
012
Q13
Q14
015
2N5087
2N5210
SS1123
SS1122
40410
40409
MJ4502
NH802
+40
R8
10K
INPUT
AC
C12
DC
R47
10K
R4
LEVEL
10052
C9
0.1
R1
1K
L1
R43
15K
R2
1K
C1
C10
120 pF
0.1
F1
C11
R3
0.1
47K
D1
1N4753
OUTPUT
R44
15K
C2
100
50V
ALL RESISTORS
1/4 W UNLESS
NOTED.
ALL RESISTORS
5% UN LEas
R9
K
R19
NOTED.
2.2K
1/2W
1/2W
10052
1/2W
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board patterns and complete construction details next month.
FIG.
F2
CHANNEL. The bridge rectifier

supplies the dual -polarity voltages needed for the amplifier.
FIG. 7 -POWER SUPPLY FOR ONE
1N5624
perature changes. This information is provided by D4. The
diode's forward voltage drop changes with temperature and
changes the bias on Q9 to reduce the bias voltage slightly
as the output transistors warm up. All this keeps the amplifier's idle current under control under all power output and
ambient temperature conditions it is likely to be subjected
D1-D4
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ferential input stage cannot be perfectly temperature compensated easily. As a result the idle current in the driver
stage varies with temperature to some extent. If we attempted to use diodes for bias, this current variation would
result in bias voltage changes. This is highly undesirable,
and besides this it would take a bunch of diodes to get the
3 to 4 volts of bias that we need with this circuit (Fig. 6).
The bias voltage is set by the emitter -to-collector voltage drop across Q9. This voltage tracks quite well with the
base -emitter voltage changes of Q10 and Q11 when ambient temperature changes occur. The temperature of the
output transistors however is more dependent on the power
output at any given time and Q9 needs some feedback information on this temperature rise if anything is to be
done about stabilizing the output current with these tern -
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The power supply is a simple bridge rectifier system

with capacitor-input filters. Due to the large amount of isolation from supply ripple and hum in the voltage amplifier
stages, excellent noise figures are obtained without any
complicated regulated supplies. It is doubtful that any measurable improvement would be obtained if such a supply
was used. The output transistors are protected from highly
reactive loads by Q16 and Q17. These transistors monitor
the output transistor current and voltage drop. If either of
these, or a combination of the two occur that could cause
operation of the output transistor outside it's rated safe operating area the protection transistors will turn on and bypass enough drive current to keep the output device from
going into secondary breakdown.
That's all we have room for this month. Next issue
we'll present full construction information; along with parts
lists, full -size circuit-board patterns, and parts layout diaR-E
grams. We'll also have additional photos of the unit.
MARCH 1973
off -beat
4- channel
speaker
syst - ms
ALTHOUGH THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IS CONSID-
ered a recent phenomenon, any fellow interested in good

sound knows that it's been around for something like 15
years -since the advent of stereo. The average married guy
may be considered "Man of the House" in most respects,
but just as often he is NOT when it comes to the "furniture side" of running a household. This is the province of
the "Lady of the House," and woe be to anyone trying to
like adding "those boxes" that are an
tamper with it
integral part of stereo.
Fortunately, several years ago the acoustic- suspension
speaker system was developed, and manufacturers used
them as aid to beleagured husbands wanting to move from
mono to stereo sound. The compact speaker systems they
had conceived could readily and unobtrusively be incorporated into Ye Lady of the House's province. In one swoop
the manufacturers saved thousands of threatened marriages,
and virtually assured the future of two- channel stereo
sound.
And all was well for several years. Until four -channel
sound evolved. Many a stereo buff has been sitting on the
sidelines for the past four years, reluctant to go through the
hassle of convincing his wife that sound has advanced another stage, and that to attain the benefits of "The New
Order" some concessions to home decor are required. And
so he sits, only sporadically listening to his OLD two -channel rig and chomping at his innards with frustration because his wife won't let him add two more boxes -attractive
as the current ones may be -to louse up her decorating
scheme.
Enter a few speaker manufacturers who have obviously been on top of the situation, and are foxy enough to
know that if you can't fight 'em, join 'em. They have come
up with several intriguing approaches to "How To Get
.
In 4- channel stereo, the question
of speaker type and placement

arises early. Here are some answers
by FRED PETRAS
MARCH 1973
RADIO- ELECTRONICS
43
Around The Woman Of The House Relative To Quadraphonic Sound." Some of the approaches are actually variations on existing themes, while others are advances in concepts that the industry has been toying with for some time.
Any one of these approaches might appeal to your particular Guardian of the Living Room and thus enable you to
enjoy surround sound.
Before we go on to describe these new "lifesavers," a
bit of background relative to their creation. One of the
many unresolved aspects of 4- channel sound is, just what is
the RIGHT approach to it? That is evident in the variety
of basic systems- discrete tape, discrete disc, several matrix
disc systems, and even proposals of a combination discrete/matrixed disc.
Within the framework of each of these is another unresolved aspect of 4-channel sound, namely, Should the
conductor and engineers strive for a mirror image of the
bandstand or concert hall, or should they get as far away
as possible from mirroring reality and explore the potential
of quad for some new sound ideas? Where companies have
adopted the mirror approach, each has come up with his
special way of handling it; where they have decided to
generate a "new sound," they have also expressed themselves according to how they feel about the matter. The
end result is that each new quad tape or disc, in whatever
the basic system /approach, is actually a unique experience,
further offering several ways to savor it.
Which leads us to the final link in the chain -the
speaker system. Talk to 10 different owners of quadraphonic stereo rigs and you'll probably get nine different expressions on how to play 4-channel discs and tapes. But
within these expressions you'll find two basic schools of
thought. One holds that all four speaker systems should be
of a traditional design and the same general type, size,
quality and efficiency, and should be placed according to
rather precise guidelines. The second holds that your
speakers need not all be near -comparable; that you need
first -rate speakers for the front channels, but that the rear
channel models can be entirely different in basic design,
size, quality, efficiency, etc., because you can compensate
for the differences with various controls. It also holds that
since every quad disc or tape is unique unto itself in terms
of recording, so too, can speaker placement be unique unto
itself in terms of playback. This school includes manufacturers of the speakers we'll discuss. While these manufacturers as a group are anxious to aid 4- channel -hungry
chaps in getting around Ye Keeper of the Decor, some
point out that their decor-oriented products are not necessarily compromises in the way of quality sound. (We'll clue
you on those particular models as we go along.)
Wall models in profusion

Slim -line speaker systems with traditional "guts" have
been around for a number of years. They have not been a
great success in the two -channel field since they are regarded as a hybrid. They have enjoyed more success in
commercial applications where top -notch sound is less a
factor than efficient use of space. But now there is a new
crop of slim -line speaker systems on the scene, utilizing
different "innards" than the old slim -lines. This new crop
consists of two price ranges -low, and high, with sound fidelity being low /medium for the first group and truly high
for the second.
The first group -"Poly- Planar " -utilizes thin panels of
expanded polystyrene in a compacted bead structure instead of cone loudspeakers. This permits them to be incorporated in systems that are less than two inches thick. Developer of the concept, patent holder, and manufacturer of
Poly- Planar systems is Magitran Co., Moonachie, N.J. Magitran offers such speaker systems in the form of framed
MAGITRAN MODELS DS8P and DS8M (above) picture and mirror

speakers, respectively. REAR AND SIDE VIEWS (below) show construction based on the maker's Poly-Planar concept where panel replaces the speaker cone.
EXPLODED VIEW of Fisher's Sound

Panel (front to rear) shows dual drivers, polymer sounding board and dec-
orative grille.
mirrors and framed pictures in rectangular and oval shapes

for living room wall use, at $17.95 and $24.95. While the
bass response of the units -when used by themselves-could
not be called hi -fi in the generally accepted sense of the
word, and claimed specifications notwithstanding, their
sound is first rate when they are used in conjunction with
true hi -fi front -channel speaker systems. What happens is
that the bass response of the rear -channel Poly -Planar units
is reinforced by that of the front -channel units and the end
results is an illusion of solid bass emanating from the wall
area where the thin speakers operate. (This same phenomenon is apparent with some of the other systems.)
Fisher Radio recently came out with its version of
"picture" speaker systems. They use high- density acoustical
polymer diaphragms and twin drivers -for low- frequency
and high- frequency sounds. Their dispersion is fully omnidirectional -360 degrees. Called "Sound Panels," the new
models are true hi -fi speaker systems. Four of them can be
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MARCH 1973
used for the total speaker complement of a 4-channel system in place of traditionally designed systems, or two can
be used for front -channel operation combined with traditional speakers for rear -channel use, or vice versa. Their
bass sound needs no reinforcement. The units -a shade
thinner than three inches -can also be used in special floor
mountings to function as decorative screens, as for example
flanking a fireplace. The Lady of the House may also incorporate them into room dividers, or work them into a
hanging wall -such as a beaded screen type.
The Magitran picture speakers permit removing the
existing picture and substituting another. The visual designs
of the Sound Panels cannot be changed since they are
"welded" to the polymer diaphragms.
Conversion units
Since the advent of two- channel stereo, there have
been sporadic attempts to put across speaker converters
units that change a flat surface into a speaker system. The
most widely acclaimed appears to be the Poly- Planar concept as offered in Magitran's mirror and picture speakers
described earlier. In addition to finished decorative speakers, Poly- Planar speakers come as panels in a variety of
configurations, permitting you to get around The Lady of
the House by "turning on" tables, doors, walls, wall panels,
and other objects of decor and furniture to function as
speaker systems for rear -channel use. They are priced from
$8 to $19.
Another conversion approach is in the form of a round

diameter by 11/2-inch thick driver unit from Hi -Vi
Systems, San Clemente, Calif. Priced at $19.95 each, the
units convert many resonant objects into speaker systems.
We heard them installed on 4 by 8 -foot sheets of /8th -inch
thick decorative plywood and found their sound to be comparable to many of the simpler, more basic compact
speaker systems, with an openness and solid bass that some
of the latter did not possess.
Unlike earlier lighter weight devices of this type, the
Hi -Vi models have excellent transient response. Note: The
Hi -Vi units are strongly dependent on the objects to which
they are attached; hence, their performance will equate to
how well those objects disperse sound vibrations. The company mentions that they work well on the following surfaces: Fiberglass, plastic, glass, dry wall, metal. plaster
board, and Celotex. An executive of the firm also writes as
follows: "We have found that when these units are installed aboard a boat that has a clean hull, and when they
are played continually with either music or through a low cycle oscillator that no barnacles or other marine infestation will occur. The same holds true in homes where termites or other wood boring pests are a problem. We are
doing further development, and will shortly have data with
facts and figures to substantiate our claim."
31/2-inch
AQUARIUS 4 COLUMNAR SPEAKERS by JBL are 40 inches high and

10 Inches square at the base. They come In oiled walnut and satin
white finishes.
Model 400, "The Minitower," a 38- inch -high

column whose base is 14 by 14 inches. Its appearance is
both subtle and striking; black grille cloth is framed by
four corner posts of solid walnut accented by a brass extrusion. The top is solid walnut. The price, $389 each. Both
the above models have a dispersion of 360 degrees. The
third unit, Equasound Two, priced at $219.95 in walnut or
white, and $239.95 in rosewood, has a dispersion of 270 degrees. It measures 421 inches high, and is 111/2 by 11' at
its base. The systems come with three removeable side panels and matching leather top piece, in a choice of black,
orange or blue grille fabrics.
Lion is EPI
Molded- plastic units

In a class by itself is JBL's "Prima 25" series, whose
bright -hued housings are of a heavy molded plastic. Not
only are the Primas two -way as speaker systems, they are
two -way in that the housings are also available in the form
of matching storage modules. Further, the housings are
molded in a way that permits them to interlock when used
in multiples (see illustration) as combinations of speakers
and housings. The Prima 25 series is available in a dozen
different colors, including green, yellow, red, grey, white
and black, with various related grille fabric colors. The in-
Columnar systems
At least three companies have come up with double duty columnar speaker systems that may be just the thing
to solve your wife's hangup about adding two more
speaker systems to "her" living room. All three products
are attractive in their own individual ways, and each takes
up a minimum of floor space -I4 inches square at most.
All three can serve as pedestals on which to place appropriate objects of art, vases of flowers, etc., to enhance Ye
Little Lady's living room. Additionally, these models can
be used effectively in corners of a room. Each provides
first class sound of a quality that would permit four to be
used as a total quad speaker system complement, or in
conjunction with existing speaker systems either up front or
for rear channel sound. The most widely distributed of the
units is the JBL "Aquarius 4" priced at $186. It comes in
oiled walnut or satin white finish. It is 40 inches tall and is
10 by 10 inches at its base. In somewhat limited distribu-
JBL'S PRIMA 25 SERIES speakers come In decorator colors. The

housings are also available as storage modules for components.
terior colors of the storage modules relate to the speaker

grille colors. The Prima 25's can be stacked horizontally or
vertically. As speakers they cost $126 each. As storage units
they cost $48 apiece. The Prima 25's are bound to appeal
to any Queen of the Living Room whose preference is for
bold, dramatic, yet tasteful modern styling. As speaker sys(continued on page 50)
MARCH 1973
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gems, they'll hold their own against most models in their

price class. Four Prima 25's can serve as a full 4-channel
speaker complement, or they can be used in conjunction
with other speaker systems, either up front or at the rear.
components and coverings. The largest system contains a

12 -inch woofer, 41/2-inch midrange, and two-inch tweeter.
The fiberboard approach

Back in the early days when hi -fi was evolving from
mono to two- channel stereo, a lot of budget- strapped do -ityour- selfers embraced the cardboard box concept of
speaker systems. These were usually temporary makeshift
affairs, enabling a fellow with a spare raw speaker to enclose it in virtually any handy cardboard box and use it
until he could afford to buy a finished unit to match his
existing system, or go out and buy a new matched pair of
West, Inc., Van Nuys, California. Designed by Barney Rigney, well -known speaker pioneer, the units offer good
sound in little space and at a relatively small price -$14.95
each. Measuring approximately 6 inches by 7 inches by 71/2
inches, the round, square or octagon units are mounted on
a low pedestal base that permits angling them in a fairly
wide vertical arc when used atop furniture, or firing down
Mini multi- mounts

Another off -beat speaker concept comes from Sound
systems for stereo.
MINIATURE LOUDSPEAKERS
by
Sound West are
available in square.
round and octagonal
The
enclosures.
foam grille lifts out
for easy cleaning.
THE KRIKET MODEL 850 SPEAKER SYSTEMS by Acoustic Fiber Systems are In tooled leather and vinyls In decorator colors.
Well, this concept has returned -but in a highly sophisticated form, and one that should have broad appeal to Ye
Hausfrau with a yen for bright colors and unusual textures
and designs. It should also appeal to the four- channel -hungry guy who wants to meet his wife nine - tenths of the way,
but also wants reasonable sound quality. The concept returns in the form of the "Kriket" and "Nirvana" lines of
speaker systems from Acoustic Fiber Sound Systems, Indianapolis, Indiana. AFS touts the merits of fiberboard by
describing it as "The Working Wall." A company brochure
states that "The Working Wall is composed of two walls of
tubes set at right angles to each other and bonded tightly
together. The sound waves are absorbed into the tubes and
are transformed into directional wave patterns opposing
each other. This principle of polarization allows the sound
waves to cancel themselves and leaves the speaker to perform unrestricted."
In checking out two different pairs of AFS systems
(Nirvana 400 and Kriket 850) we were convinced that the
principle is valid; the sound emanating from the units was
open and uncolored and was of an overall high quality, albeit a bit shy at the bass end in the "flat" response position. But a slight turn of the bass control corrected the
shortage.
AFS
But let's get on to their appeal to The Lady
systems come in cube or rectangular form in at least eight
solid colors, and a variety of smooth -surface patterns, including straight stripes, undulating tiger stripes, polka dots.
and marbelized. There are also a number of textured finishes including tooled leather, suede, vinyl and cork. The
systems also come in housings with Indian rag -rug fabric
patterns, and -believe it or not -in fake fur coverings. AFS
is also experimenting with other materials and designs, to
give The Little Lady a chance to truly express herself
quadraphonically. The AFS speaker systems range from
$29.95 per pair on up to $198 per unit, depending on size,
.
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from a spot on the ceiling, or a horizontal or vertical arc

when mounted on a wall. The round or octagon units in
their white high -impact plastic housings are a cinch to incorporate in modern home decor, Ye Little Lady would
probably consider the square models fine in a traditional
furniture setting. All three types come with lift-out (for
cleaning) foam grilles in rust, blue, gold, black or white.
The Sound West minis can also function nicely outdoors
.
on a patio, or anywhere else you might want to hear
music. In testing a pair of the devices in a four -channel
setup we found their sonic attributes to be of a higher order than a four -inch speaker size would indicate. Their dispersion pattern is rather narrow.
.
Spherical speaker systems

Another awareness of the Little Lady of the House is
apparent in a spherical speaker system from JVC that can
JVC'S MODEL VSspherical

5313
system
speaker
loo
ivao
hangs or mounts on
a pedestal. It has
eight speakers inside
Its 13'/: -inch perforated housing.
operate as a pedestal or as a hanging model. Model

VS5313, priced at $179.95 each, contains eight speakers
within its 131/2-inch diameter black perforated housing. Offering a claimed 20 to 20,000 Hz response, in a 360 -degree
MARCH 1973
TAPE BIAS LEVEL
Key to quality recording

Only a small change in bias level can make a
rather startling change in the frequency response
characteristics of the recorded material

by HERE FRIEDMAN
ALL ELSE BEING EQUAL, CASSETTE
recording quality is primarily determined by the bias level applied to the

tape. In fact, except for the two- for-abuck cassettes, even when things aren't
equal it's still the bias level that primarily determines if the final sound
playback will be acceptable to the average audiophile.
As Radio-Electronics showed in
the March, 1972 issue, virtually no
two cassette tapes have the same high frequency performance when recorded
on the same recorder with the same
bias level. If the same series of tests
are run on another recorder factory-set
to a higher or lower bias level, the
scope traces shown in the March issue
would be vastly different.
Yet, with rare exception, most
cassette recorders can have their bias
adjusted for a "flat" response with any
quality cassette tape. On some of the
latest model recorders there is a
choice of up to three bias levels, making it much easier to match tape to
machine through factory-set bias lev-
major compromise is that frequency

response corrections must be made
through a change in bias.
Before bias adjustments we
should get two points out of the way,
as they can lead to confusion: (I)
Over a reasonable range of bias level,
say +20/ -10 percent of the factory-set
bias level usually used for "standard
tape, there will be very little change
in distortion at the "0," or maximum
recording, level. In most instances
there will be no measurable change.
(2) Similarly, there will be no, or little
change, in the signal -to -noise ratio
perhaps up to 2 dB. The change in
signal -to -noise ratio caused by a
change in bias level will be determined by the bias change's effect on
the tape's midband (400 to 1,000 Hz)
output.
To illustrate the relationship between bias level and frequency response, four popular tapes were selected for use with a Kenwood KX7010A recorder; the Kenwood was
chosen because it has a "regular" and
a "low- noise" bias selector, and because the bias level can be easily adjusted on this machine. (In all tests
the frequency response was swept
from 50 to 20,000 Hz.)
The first thing that comes to mind
is what constitutes "regular" or "low noise" tape other than the manufacturer's specification-which can often
be meaningless because "low noise" is
frequently a term used solely for advertising purposes. What can the user
expect in the way of performance if
he makes a wild guess on the proper
bias selection? In some instances he'll
NMI
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11111102
111111111111111
els.
Before you challenge the con-
tention that
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MINIM
tape's frequency re-
sponse can or should be corrected by

an adjustment in bias level, keep in
mind that we are not dealing with reel
recorders where the playback equalization is set for "flat" response from
an NAB test tape, where the bias is
then adjusted for maximum midband
output (or 0.5 dB down on the high
side), and, finally, adjustable record
high- frequency equalization is used to
obtain an overall- record /play "flat"
response.
Cassette recorders do not, as a
general rule, have an adjustable high frequency record equalization. Hence,
we cannot adjust the bias for maximum midband output, lowest distortion or lowest noise and then hope
to correct the high -frequency response
losses (or gains) with record equalization. As with many things about
cassettes, we must compromise, and a
1 -a- STANDARD BIAS used to record swept

audio spectrum on Scotch High-Energy.
FIG.
2 -a- STANDARD BIAS used to record

swep: audio spectrum on Norelco 100 tape.
FIG.
.3
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i.3
FIG. 1 -b-LOW -NOISE BIAS used to record

swept audio spectrum on Scotch High- Energy.
2-b-LOW -NOISE BIAS used to record

swept audio spectrum on Norelco 100 tape.
FIG.
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win, in others he'll lose.

Figs. 1, 2 and 3 show the performance obtained from three popular
tapes using the two bias levels provided on the Kenwood recorder. Fig.
is Scotch High Energy tape, supposedly a low-noise tape, yet the performance obtained with "regular" bias is
much better than that obtained with
"low- noise" bias. Although the low frequency performance remains the
1
same -as it will with most other

tapes -the "low- noise" bias degrades
the midband 6 dB, while the high end,
at 10 kHz, is degraded almost 15 dB.
Fig. 2 illustrates the same bias
levels on Norelco 100 tape. Here the
midband is degraded less than
dB
while 10 kHz is attenuated about 4
1
dB.
Fig.
3 is
Maxell UD tape. As a
Because there is a considerable

variation to be found in a tape's frequency response in the relatively large
limits between "regular" and "low noise" bias (about 25 %), it's obvious
that a small bias correction can be
used to shift the overall record /play
performance to a "flat" response. In
fact, a careful bias adjustment can be
used to tailor the high-end response to
a
specifically desired performance
level- either slightly peaked or attenuated.
Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate the frequency response variations that can be
obtained with just a small change in
bias level. The two tapes used are
Maxell Low -Noise and Maxell UD,
selected because with "regular" bias
their frequency response characteristics
are almost identical. Note that the
Low Noise tape is quite good. In fact,
when the Kenwood's bias selector is
set to "low noise" bias the Low Noise
tape's performance is down 6 dB at 10
kHz, as shown in Fig. 6 This is a
common problem the cassette user
faces: because a tape is labeled Low

Noise does not necessarily mean "lownoise" bias values should be used. The
designation Low Noise can -and often
does-mean only that the tape itself
has inherently less noise than the
manufacturer's previous product, and
the bias level might have absolutely
nothing to do with it.
Note in Figs. 4 and 5 that when
the bias level is reduced 10% below
the "regular" or "standard" bias level
the effects on the two tapes are con siderably different -even though they
are almost identical with "regular"
bias. First, the midband output of the
Low -Noise tape remains essentially
the same. The UD tape, however,

shows an increase of I dB.
Second, and more important,

while the Low -Noise tape shows an
increase of only
dB at 7 kHz, the
UD tape shows an increase of almost
2 dB at 7 kHz when the biased is reduced 10 %. At 10 kHz the Low -Noise
tape shows virtually no change; the
UD tape shows an increase in output
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swept audio spectrum on Maxell UD tape.
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swept audio spectrum on Maxell UD tape.
starter, note that the high end tends to

rise with the "regular" bias; at 6 kHz
the response rises + 1.3 dB. With this
tape the "low- noise" bias attenuates
the entire frequency range output as
well as degrading the high end to almost a flat response.
In typical use any of these three
tapes on a Kenwood recorder would
give an acceptable performance using
"regular" bias. The Scotch tape would
tend towards a mellow sound, the Norelco tape would be most "normal"
and the Maxell would be slightly
bright. But only the most critical listener would single out the Norelco
tape as being "flat." On the other
hand, "low- noise" bias would deliver
a "flat" response from the Maxell
tape.
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RADIO- ELECTRONICS
.tS
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Kn:
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1t in
FIG. 4 -b- STANDARD BIAS produced this re-
corded pattern.
5 -b- STANDARD BIAS produced this recorded pattern.
FIG.
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FIG. 4 -c -BIAS LEVEL IS INCREASED 10% to
FIG. 5 -c -BIAS LEVEL IS INCREASED 10% to
record this pattern.
record this pattern.
MARCH 1973
of almost 2 dB. How far the high end

can be peaked is illustrated in Fig. 7,
which shows the UD tape with 20%
less than "regular" bias. There is little,
if any, effect on the low-frequency
performance.
Just as decreasing the bias will
peak the high -end response, increasing
the bias will attenuate the higher frequencies. But observe in Figs. 4 and 5
that while it takes a 20% increase in
bias to "flatten" the Low Noise tape's
response, the same degree of "flattening" with the UD tape requires
only a 10% increase in bias.
Ability to control the high -frequency performance of recording tape
by modifying the so- called regular or
standard bias level means that just
about any quality tape can be precisely matched to cassette recorder as
long as the bias change isn't carried to
extremes. If a tape requires more than
a +20% change it's best to try a different tape. It's true that many "white
box" tapes with very poor high -frequency performance can be made reasonably flat by decreasing the bias as
much as 50% (to peak the high end).
But this much change generally pro-
duces sharply increased distortion,

poor signal -to -noise ratio, etc.
An important point to bear in
mind when tailoring
E- LOW -NOISE TAPE with low -noise bias

gives poor high -end response.
FIG.
FIG.
ing
-HIGH -END CAN BE PEAKED by reducas level. Bias is decreased by 20 %.
cassette
recorder's overall response by modifying its bias level is don't let the tape
manufacturer's designation confuse the
situation. Tape Brand A, designated as
Low Noise, might truly require a "low
noise" bias level. However, Brand B's
Low Noise tape might be nothing
more than "regular" or "standard"
tape, or even "white box" tape. Trying
to use both brands on the same
recorder because they are both called
Low Noise can produce two completely different levels of overall performance -one good, one downright
rotten.
The match between tape and bias
level is so critical in the cassette system that a 20% bias level error -which
is not uncommon -can cause the best
tape, used on the best recorder, to
produce a final performance no better
than that delivered by the cheapest
quality recorder. The Rule: If you
can't match the tape to the recorder,
get in there with a screwdriver and do
the job yourself.
R -E
benchnotes
RUBBER FEET FOR TEST INSTRUMENTS
Miniature test instruments can be pretty unsteady

when -out -weighed by their test leads -skid all over the
workbench. A firm footing can be gained by cutting nonskid feet from a rubber pad such as from an old phono
point -great for marking small components, lasts indefinitely and, more important, it marks on any surface in-
eluding shiny metal and the glass envelopes of vacuum

tubes. -Frank Y. Gilpin
PARTS BINS EASE ASSEMBLY
Assembling a project of your own design or from a
magazine article takes on the ease normally associated with
a kit when you sort out components in a marked tray be-
turntable. A hole -punch cuts feet for small equipment. Discarded typewriter pads make excellent shock- absorbing
pads for small and large equipment. A pair of scissors can
be used to cut pads of any size and shape.-Frank Gilpin
MARKING JUNKBOX PARTS
Junkbox parts have a tendency to lose their identity

with handling and time. Felt-tip marking pens and grease
pencils leave marks that just don't stand up or last for any
length of time. A resist marking pen used for making
etched printed circuits fills the bill beautifully. It has a fine
fore connecting and soldering. Egg cartons, candy trays and

similar compartmented trays marked R1, R2, D2 etc., lend
themselves well and make assembly a breeze. -Frank Gilpin
MARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
53
STEREO ON THE GO
11
STEREO
CHANNEL
AUDIOVOX MODEL C990 O -8 tape player for discrete 4- channel.
MODEL 6294, BY CHANNEL MASTER Is a 4- channel,
Following car stereo in its boundless

growth is 4- channel sound on wheels.
Take a look at the latest in tape players
Like making double -duty models that operate in a

car but can be removed for play in the living room.
Like adding models with fast -forward controls to
enable listeners to quickly pinpoint specific songs on a
tape.
Like coming up with models that contain a headphone jack, so a passenger can listen if the driver doesn't
want to.
Like producing models with smooth slide controls
for quick visual settings.
Like making better quality mini units for use in
glove compartments
to lessen thievery or to accommodate cars with limited under-dash space.
Like offering MORE models with: fine tuning to
eliminate cross -talk; automatic program stop; easy, do-ityourself installation potential; smooth, contoured lines for
safety's sake; easier -to-operate characteristics; radio facilities, especially FM stereo; and, in line with being `with it,"
more four-channel models.
All in all, cartridge player equipment producers have
done a good job to stimulate new interest in their products.
If you've been hesitating about getting a new player- either
a replacement or initial model -now's the time to stop
doing so. As we said earlier, you never had it so good, in
terms of what's viable, and available.
by FRANK PETERS
IN THE PAST, COME SPRING, A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY TURNED
to thoughts of love. Today, his springtime thoughts are just

as likely to be about a car. Complete with cartridge tape
player.
If your fancy lies in the direction of a car player this
spring, you'll find that you never had it so good. The pickings are broad. The units look good. Many have more features for the dollar than ever before. The price range is
wide. Quality at every price level is generally higher than
in the past. Many models are vandal -proof. Many are
double -duty types. And, if you're hot for four -channel
sound, there's a load of quadraphonic players from which
to make a choice.
Two or three years ago the car cartridge player market
consisted mainly of two kinds of players -cheap basic units
in the $30 to $50 bracket, and good quality models in the
$90 to $120 range, with a smattering of decent sets at
prices in between. Today there's a broad range, priced
from $40 on up to near the $200 mark, with far more to
choose from in the $60 to $80 bracket. In effect, there's a
model for every budget, every taste and need.
Space limits prevent us from elaborating on all the
changes that have taken place, so we'll hit just the high
spots . . .
Back in 1970 and 1971, the industry lived through a
deep slump, caused by a nationwide wave of auto player
thefts that kept many a chap from replacing a stolen set,
and kept many a fellow from buying his first add -on car
player. As sales moved farther down on the charts, manufacturers began to panic. Some dropped their prices to attract lost business. Some came out with lower priced models of lesser quality, taking the approach that a player was
a "disposable" on the order of a pocket transistor radio.
But the more astute manufacturers took a different route;
they stepped up their research and development efforts. In
due time they came up with players that were virtually impossible to remove from a car
unless a thief had a
blowtorch or the right tools, time and privacy for making a
heist. As soon as these players hit the market, sales started
to rise again.
This encouraged the industry to take a closer look at
itself, to see what else could be done to make its products
...
more interesting, and saleable

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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
8 -track
player.
...
On the 4- channel front

Since this issue of Radio-Electronics centers around 4channel sound, let's see where 4- channel stands relative to
automobile use . .
Oracles in and out of the cartridge player industry say
that Q -8 (quadraphonic eight) is going to surround a lot of
people in four-channel sound, and is likely to establish
four -channel sound as the big business it was predicted it
would be. The Word is that 4- channel sound will become
big in the car, then move into the home (as did the two channel Stereo 8 cartridge), and that Q -8 cartridges may
become even more popular than 4- channel records.
The predictions are based on three points. One, a car
is an excellent acoustical environment for 4- channel sound,
dramatically show -casing the qualities of Q -8's discrete surround -sound in a more effective way than the average living room. Two, Q -8 tapes are generally a more viable medium for discrete 4- channel primarily because they are less
susceptible to wear than discrete 4- channel discs with their
ever -so-complicated groove "squiggles" that require the utmost care and attention for continued full 4-channel effect.
Three, Q -8 tapes have more use potential; unlike 4- channel
records, they can be played in both auto or home environments. This fact alone, industry observers point out, is
MARCH 1973
a round -up of tape players for your car
AUTOMATIC RADIO makes this model QME -2445. It features fine tuning.
PIONEER'S QP444 plays 2- and 4- channel cartridge tapes in your car.
likely to make Q -8 a mass-market sound medium, especially appealing to the younger generation looking for a lot
for its money.
In addition to the foregoing, automobile Q -8 seemed
like an ideal way for manufacturers to pump new interest
into the cartridge format in the light of inroads being made
by the cassette. While the cassette has been thrusting to
make its way into the automobile, and has achieved some
success there, it still has a long way to go. Cartridge proponents are using Q -8 as a way to block further inroads into
a lot of new
the car field by the cassette. End result
four -channel equipment for car use.
As we go to press, at least 24 companies have one or
more surround -sound car players in their lines. And more
companies will be entering the business as the concept
catches on. Companies now in the field will expand the
number of their offerings to cover more budget points, and
there will be far more combinations with radio facilities. If
past history of the industry is any criterion, you'll see Q -8
equipment prices moving downward, to a point where they
will be only slightly higher than those of current two -channel Stereo 8 equipment. Eventually just as the eight -track
cartridge took over the field from the four -track cartridge
four- channel car tape players will replace today's two -channel models. This will be a "no- sweat" matter, in that Q -8
players accommodate existing two-channel Stereo 8 cartridges.
the precise and distinctly separate channel effect that a discrete model offers. If a dealer tries to sell you a "four channel 8- track" cartridge player for under $70 and claims
it is a discrete model, be suspicious; he may be trying to
put something over on you. Or he, too, may be a victim of
the misinformation and confusion rampant in the quadraphonic marketplace. We're not saying that a matrix car
player won't give satisfactory surround- sound; what we're
saying is, Don't expect to get discrete sound at matrix
sound prices.
The lowest priced 2 /4- channel surround -sound players- starting at about $50 -are two- channel Stereo 8 models
with simple speaker phase-shift circuitry. They produce an
enhanced double- stereo effect from four speakers that may
satisfy many people looking for four -channel sound but not
willing to pay a higher price. Such units will not play Q -8
tapes, unlike compatible 4 /2- channel Q -8 models which additionally play two -channel cartridges. Again, check before
you buy to know what you'll get in the way of compatibility /surround -sound.
Most Q -8 discrete players have the same basic features
as regular two -channel players: volume and balance controls; track selector and indicator lights; and dust -proof
cartridge openings. Some have additional features such as
tone controls, fine tuning, fast -forward, repeat play, slide in /slide -out anti -theft brackets, and one (in the Dyn line)
even has a remote control. They all have a sensing device
for four -channel /two-channel play determination. When a
Q -8 tape is inserted, the device is activated to, in effect, direct the sound information from each track to a separate
amplifier channel, for four distinct and different channels
of sound. When a two -channel tape is inserted, the device
triggers the unit to, in effect, divide the right -channel signal
into right front and right back, and left -channel signal into
left front and left back, for what could best be called
double- stereo. If the model contains a synthesizer /matrix
circuit, another effect is created -something that to a degree
approximates discrete sound in terms of distinct, individual
channel information. The degree depends on the amount
of ambient sound information "hidden" in a particular cartridge.
At this point in time a certain amount of confusion
about Q -8 is prevalent even at the manufacturer level. It is
manifest in confused product descriptions in catalogues,
brochures, and spec sheets. For example, one catalogue description of a Q -8 player says "four amplifiers give double
power with regular cartridges," whereas in fact, two -channel tapes played on it play at the same total amplifier
power as Q -8's, but through four speakers, rather than two
as in conventional stereo. Some literature dilutes its selling
...
Available 4- channel auto players

There are two basic types of surround -sound auto
players in the marketplace. There is the compatible Q -8
4 /2- channel model that plays Q -8 four-channel cartridges
in the discrete mode through four channels of amplification
and four speakers, and Stereo -8 two- channel cartridges via
four amplifier channels and four speakers for a four -channel effect. Such models come with and without a synthesizer circuit, which some companies call a "matrix." The
second is the so- called "matrix player," which derives a
four -channel effect from two -channel cartridges via two
channels of amplification and four speakers. Before you lay
your money on the line, make sure that you know what
you're buying.
For instance, if you heard a true Q -8 four-channel discrete player in a friend's car and he told you his rig cost
$150, don't think you'll best him with a $59.95 "four -channel" player that your local friendly dealer is advertising on
a huge banner plastered across his store window. A matrix
four -channel car player -which plays only two -channel
Stereo 8 cartridges, NOT four -channel Q -8 -will cost substantially less than a discrete player, but it won't give you
MARCH 1973
RADIO-ELECTRONICS
55
add one of these
TWO- AND FOUR- CHANNEL PLAYER. Lafayette's 99 P 16065W.
message by failing to indicate that a Q -8 unit also plays

two -channel stereo cartridges.
You will also find product literature rather vague
about certain details of quad operation. Most companies
fail to indicate whether two- channel material is merely split
between front and back, or if it is given a synthesizing/matrixing treatment in playback. In checking out a few
of the vague descriptions, we found that some distributors
and sales representatives handling auto players were also
confused- unable to say with certainty that, for example,
matrix models described as "2 /4-channel 8- track" or as
"Matrix 4-channel 8- track" could or could not play Q -8
cartridges in synthesized form rather than in discrete form.
Some were not sure if their matrix units -as the term might
suggest-actually decoded tapes, or synthesized their sound
information for a derived four -channel effect. (In a way,
this is a moot point since there are no matrixed four -channel cartridge tapes in the marketplace at this writing. A
two -channel, non -matrixed tape played through a matrix
model or through one with synthesizing circuitry, would
sound virtually the same. Even a trained listener might not
be able to hear a significant difference.)
Before you actually go out to buy a four -channel car
player, we urge you to determine which store in your area
handling such products has truly well- informed sales
people. In checking sales literature, catalogue pages, or
store ads before you go out to buy, do so with a lawyer's
eye, to make sure the product descriptions don't create the
impression that you're buying a Q -8 discrete player when
in fact the "four-channel" cartridge player is actually a
two -channel model that produces quasi- four -channel sound
via four speakers.
The following companies produce Q -8 players that offer true discrete four -channel sound: Audiovox, Model
C990; Automatic Radio, Model QME2445; Car Tapes Inc.,
Model CT18877; Channel Master, Model 6294: Craig,
Model 3129; Dyn, Model DS905; Fulmer, Model (n.a.);
Hammond Model HD585; Hitachi, Model CS4000; JVC,
Models 1350, 1352, 1353; Lafayette, Model 99P16065W;
Lear Jet, Model A245; Medallion, Model 65 -540; Metro,
Model MS9000; Mikado, Model Quad 8/4; Motorola,
Model TM920S; Panasonic, Model CX601; Pioneer, Model
QP444; RCA, Model 12R800; Realistic (Allied /Radio
Shack) Model 12-1834; Sanyo, Model FT864; Sony, Model
TC84; and Toyo, Models 721 and 722. The above sets also
provide four -speaker surround -sound from two -channel
cartridge tapes.
The following have matrix models that play regular
two -channel cartridges in surround -sound through four
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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
OUADRALINE MODEL TM920S is 4- channel player by Motorola.
speakers: Audio Vox Model C910; Boman (div. of California Auto Radio), Models BM911, BM950, and BM1950
(with FM stereo radio); Hammond, Models HD525, and
HD575 (with FM stereo radio); Hitachi, Model CS 1440;
Realistic (Allied /Radio Shack) Model 12 -2024; and Sanyo,
Models FT888, FT828, and FT867 (with AM /FM stereo).
One of the appeals of true quadraphonic car players is
their relatively low cost vis a vis most home models. You
can get a Q -8 discrete compatible 4 /2- channel model for as
little as $89.95 in the Lafayette brand, for example, with a
set of four speakers for an additional $8.95, making your
total investment just under $100 exclusive of installation.
Not bad for a complete system.
On the other hand, you can pay as much as $169.95
for a Sony TC84, less speakers and installation. As we said
earlier, there's a model for every budget, taste and need;
no matter how large or how small.
If you still have reservations about 4- channel and currently have a two -channel player in your car, you can
check out your feelings about the concept of four -channel
sound before going "whole hog ", for under $20.
Just as the home cartridge equipment field has its conversion units and quad adaptors, so too, does the auto
player field. Several companies and mail -order catalogue
houses offer four -channel simulators or synthesizers that
enable you to hook into an existing two -channel cartridge
unit to convert it to play (with the addition of two more
speakers) surround- sound. These adaptors are priced from
$6.95. Some brands to check: Olson, Robins, Lafayette, Boman Astrosonix, Magnadyne, Allied /Radio Shack, and
Sound Systems International.
What happens to the fellow who goes this route is that
he is usually pleased with the 4- channel concept. When it
comes time to plunk down his dough for a new all -in-one
four -channel player, he is more likely to opt for a deluxe
discrete model because he is sure that the benefits of 4channel sound are well worth the extra investment in
equipment.
Installing the tape deck in
car
Auto player manufacturers have done their best to accommodate the do- it-yourselfer who prefers to handle his
own player installation -to save money, or for the satisfaction of working with his hands. They have worked out
detailed, fool -proof, step -by-step instructions on how to install a player that are easy enough for even a novice to follow to successful completion. In fact, some auto player
suppliers say that 90 out of 100 fellows who can handle an
electric drill and can tape wires can do a hang -on installa-
MARCH 1973
tape players to your car
RADIO SHACK's Realistic model 12 -1834.
RCA MODEL 12 -R -800
tion with ease, and that 75 out of 100 can do an in -dash

installation in the space usually allotted for a car radio.
Further, the do- it- yourselfer is aided by the concept itself; since four speakers are used in a 4- channel ensemble
and the space in which the units operate is relatively small,
speaker placement is less critical than in a two -channel rig
where two speakers are called on to fill the same space
with a full, rich, open sound. Thus, you can utilize the
many available hang-on and under -seat /above -deck
speaker systems to make this aspect of a quad installation
a cinch. Unless you're a sound "nut" or nth-degree perfectionist, you can get by nicely without having to cut out
large holes in metal door panels for top quality sound in
your car.
If you insist on built -in speakers for the front channels
you still need not cut out door panels; instead, install them
in the "kick" panels flanking the area under the dash.
These panels are usually of an easy-to -cut material and are
relatively easy to work with. Should you object to above deck wedge speakers for rear channel use because they
clutter the deck, you might investigate the use of built-insagain, without worrying about cutting into steel. Some 90
per cent of today's cars have precut speaker openings in
the metal framework of the rear deck; it's just a matter of
sawing through the covering material, usually fibreboard, to
install the speakers. Before you go out to buy a four -channel car player, check your car trunk to see what sort of
rear deck openings your particular car has; many were
made to accommodate six by nine -inch oval speakers.
Make your selection accordingly.
A word of advice about speaker quality comes from
Ira Lash, sales manager for Audiovox, a major player producer. "If you use surface -mount speakers, go for the heavier magnet models. Try to match the quality of speakers,
front with rear. If you have to compromise, install better
speakers at the rear."
If doing -ityourself is not your style, you can have a
four -channel ensemble installed in your car economicallyif you ask for the budget surface -mount approach as opposed to the "full treatment" of built -in speaker systems.
The best place to go for an installation is to a specialist,
rather than the fellow who handles car installations as an
accommodation, or as an adjunct to a radio /TV /audio service setup. The specialist is likely to do the best job. Because he has the know -how and should know all the ins
and outs of the trade, he'll probably do the job for less.
Further, he won't foul up an installation, as the non-specialist might, when it comes to cutting into metalwork for
built -in speakers.
R-E
0 -EIGHT tape player.
LIST OF MANUFACTURERS
Audiovox Corp., 150 Marcus Blvd., Hauppauge, N.Y.
Automatic Radio, 2 Main Street, Melrose, Mass. 02176
Boman Astrosonix, 225 West Commercial Ave., Moonachie, N.J. 07074
Car Tapes Inc., 9180 Kelvin Ave., Chatsworth, Calif.
91311 and 333 East Ontario St., Chicago 60610
Channel Master Div. of Avnet, Inc., Ellenville, N.Y.
Craig Corp. 921 W. Artesia Blvd., Compton, Calif.
90220 and 50 -52 Joseph St., Moonachie, N.J.
Dyn Electronics, Inc. 3095 N.W. 77th Ave., Miami, Fla.
33122 and 1111 East 14th St., Los Angeles,
90021
Arthur Fulmer, 260 Monroe Ave., Memphis, Tenn.

Hammond Sound Products, 9300 Hall Road, Downey,
Calif.
Hitachi Sales Corp., 48 -50 34th Street, Long Island
City, N.Y.
JVC America, Inc., 50 -35 56th Road, Maspeth, N.Y.
Lafayette Radio Electronics, 111 Jericho Turnpike,
Syosset, N.Y. 11791
Lear Jet Stereo, Inc., 6868 South Plumer Ave., Tucson,
Arizona 85706
Magnadyne Corp., 9261 W. 3rd St., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Medallion Automotive Products Co., P.O. Box 19043,
Kansas City, Missouri 64141
Metro Sound, 11144 Weddington St., N. Hollywood, Calif.
Mikado Electronics, 1072 Bryant St., San Francisco,
Calif. 94103
Motorola, Inc., 9401 West Grand Ave., Franklin Park,
Illinois 60131
Olson Electronics, 260 S. Forge St., Akron, Ohio 44327
Panasonic, 200 Park Ave., N.Y.C. 10017
Pioneer Electronics of America, 1555 East Del Amo
Blvd., Carson, Calif. 90746
RCA /Parts and Accessories, 2000 Clements Bridge
Rd., Deptford, N.J. 08096
Realistic (Allied /Radio Shack), 100 N. Western Ave.,
Chicago 60680
Robins Industries Corp., 15 -58 127th St., College Point,
N.Y. 11356
Sanyo Electric Inc., 1200 West Walnut Street, Compton,
Calif. 90220
Sony (Superscope), 8150 Vineland Ave., Sun Valley,
Calif. 91352
Sound Systems International, 53 E. Oakland Ave., Salt
Lake City, Utah 84115
Toyo Radio Co. of America, Inc., 1611 Anderson Ave.,
Compton, Calif. 90220
MARCH 1973
RADIO- ELECTRONICS
57
step -by -step
,"
1'RDUBLE
Good sync is all- important
sync -separator action is
by ART MARGOLIS
THE SECRET TO SOLVING
trouble is in the approach.
SYNC
amplitude to override the reverse bias

and turn on the transistor for the duration of the period.
Collector current flows during the
sync -pedestal interval so the sync pedestal is reproduced in the collector circuit where it appears amplified and
inverted 180 degrees. The incoming
composite video signal can be about 6

volts peak-to -peak. The sync pulse in
the collector circuit is about 10 volts
peak -to-peak.
The clipped pulses on the collector
are the square, narrow horizontal
pulses occurring at a 15,750 -hertz rate
and the square wide vertical pulses oc-
If confusion does occur, it's often because

the technician has attacked the problem from the wrong angle. The sync separator circuit is relatively simple,
there are relatively few components.
But what the circuit does is not simple
at all. Understanding what happens to
the sync signals in the sync separator
helps turn a puzzling sync trouble situation into a quick repair.
The sync separator is fed a
sample of the composite video signal
taken off the video amplifier stages.
The separator then snips the entire
sync pedestal off the composite video,
keeps the pedestal and discards the
other parts of the signal.
The next horizontal and vertical
sync pulses are separated from each
other and fed to the horizontal and
vertical oscillators.
BLOCK DIAGRAM (above) shows how the sync separator fits into the horizontal sync circuits of
a modern TV receiver. TYPICAL SYNC -SEPARATOR CIRCUIT (below) is all solid state. The text
presents a complete description of its operation.
Typical transistor sync separator

Dc setup -The composite video
OVERRIDES -4V
BASE BIAS
TYPICAL SYNC SEPARATOR CIRCUIT
60Hz
/1/1
.1111%.
1
VIDEO
AMPL
VERT.
OSCILLATOR
VERTICAL
SYNC
SEPARATOR
INTEGRATOR
HORIZ
TAKEOFF
NETWORK
HORIZ
AFC
TYPICAL SYNC SEPARATOR STAGE
signal applied to the base of the sync

separator causes pulsing direct current
flow through base resistor R6 due to
rectifying action in the base -emitter
junction. Current flow makes the base
negative -or reverse -biased -with respect to the emitter. Capacitor C5
charges and tends to maintain the
negative base bias.
The collector goes to + 12 volts
through R8 (2700 ohms). In normal
operation, the drop across this resistor
places the collector at +9 volts. A
small stabilizing base bias is provided
by R7 and R6. The collector feeds a
pair of takeoff lines to the horizontal
and vertical oscillator circuits. One is
an integrator that extracts and shapes
the vertical pulse. The other has an
R-C network that shapes the horizontal pulses.
Ac setup- During the interval the
video appears, the reverse bias prevents any conduction through the
transistor. However the sync pedestals
are considerably more positive in voltage than the video. They have enough
58
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
SYNC
PEDESTAL
VIDEO
SIGNAL
INVERTED 180
CLIPPED OFF
SYNC PULSES
+12V
5V
4V
3V
2V
1V
R8
2.7K
5V P-P
10V P-P
R7
1
MEG
Cl
R1
05
15K
VIDEO
AMPL
R2
4V
8.2K
REVERSE
BIAS
C5
0.5
C6
R6
33K
01
SYNC
SEPARATOR
C3
T330 pF
WIDE TOPPED
EQUALIZING
PULSES
VERTICAL SYNC
PULSES, 60 Hz
EQUALIZING
PULSES
RESPONSIVE
C2
.027
ÒNLY TO
R"
2.2K
60 Hz. WIDE
TOPPED SYNC
PULSES
1\
001
NARROW TOPPED
HORIZ. SYNC
PULSES, 15,750 Hz
SCREEN IS
TRANSMITTED TV SIGNAL
MARCH 1973
pg
3.3t
BLANKED OUT
VIDEO
VERT
R3
_.:
HORIZ
AFC
SHOOTER'S GUIDE
in black -and -white and color television. Proper
essential. Here's how to make sure it works right
cuffing at a 60 -hertz rate. The horizontal takeoff line responds to the

horizontal pulses and sends them on
to the horizontal oscillator.
The vertical integrator has a .02 -11F

capacitor (C2) that can only charge up
during the wide topped pulses. The
wide pulses occur at a 60 -hertz rate.
QUICK CHECK
ATTACH VOLTMETER
NORMAL VOLTAGES
COLLECTOR
VOLTAGE
BIAS
COCK SELECTOR BETWEEN CHANNELS
2- SET ON OFF CHANNEL
SLIGHT POSITIVE
UNDER
MINUS
VOLTS
ABOUT 6 VOLTS
VOLTS
SET ON WEAK CHANNEL
APPROACHES
MINUS 4 VOLTS
ABOUT 9 VOLTS
SET ON STRONG CHANNEL
PRESCRIBED
VOLTAGE
PRESCRIBED
VOLTAGE
NORMAL VOLTAGES?
Q1
NOT NORMAL?
SYNC SEPARATOR
& COMPONENTS OKAY
SYNC SEPARATOR HAS
TROUBLE
TROUBLESHOOTING CHARTS help locate troubles fast. (above) Quick -check chart for use with
voltmeter. (below) Detailed step-by -step troubleshooting procedure.
IPURE SYNC SYMPTOMS?
ALSO HAS POOR

BRIGHTNESS,
SMEARING OR
RETRACE LINES
ALSO HAS
POOR CONTRAST
HORIZ. PULL OR
LINES ONLY
VERTICAL AND
HORIZONTAL
AFFECTED
CHECK ANTENNA,
RF, I.F. & VIDEO
CIRCUITS
INTEGRATOR
TEST HORIZ. AFC

TAKEOFF COMPONENTS
COMPONENTS
R4, C3, C4
TEST VERTICAL
R1, R2,
When the picture rolls, pulls or

goes off into horizontal lines it is out
of sync. The suspect circuits are many.
Any circuit from the antenna, through
the rf, i.f., video, sync to the sweep oscillators can contain the troublemaker.
A closer analysis must be made to
narrow the choice.
Even though the sync symptom is
prominent, are there any other secondary symptoms? If there is also poor
contrast, poor brightness, visible retrace, a smeared picture, agc symptoms, incorrect lock in on a hold control, crackling, humming or buzzing,
the trouble is probably not a sync
problem. The trouble will probably be
in the circuit the secondary symptom
points out.
When there are no other symptoms, just sync, then the trouble will
NO
YES
VERTICAL
ROLL ONLY
fed to the vertical oscillator.
Sync separator trouble shooting
INSIDE THE SYNC SEPARATOR
TRY 4 CHANNEL SETTINGS
The C2's discharge becomes the properly shaped vertical sync pulse and is
ALSO HAS
AGC SYMPTOMS
ALSO HAS
CRACKLING
CHECK AGC NOISE

GATE CIRCUITS
CHECK HV
CIRCUITS
CHECK VIDEO &

BLANKING CIRCUITS
SCOPE VIDEO SIDE

OF C5. VIDEO PRESENT?
YES
Cl, C2, C3
SCOPE BASE OF
Nb
IF ALL OK TEST
VERTICAL
OSCILLATOR
IF ALL OK TEST
HORIZ. AFC &
SYNC SEP. VIDEO

PRESENT?
TEST VIDEO
AMPL
YES
SCOPE COLLECTOR
OF SYNC SEP.
SYNC TIPS
PRESENT?-1
NO
OSCILLATOR
TEST C5, C6,
R5, R6, R7
YES
TEST R7, R6,
TEST BOTH VERTICAL

& HORIZ. TAKEOFFS
01, R5, C5, C6
MARCH 1973
TEST R8,
Q1, R7, R6
VIDEO
PRESENT?
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
59
probably be found in the sync circuit.

If the sync is running both ways, horizontally and vertically then the separator itself or the surrounding corn ponents are prime suspects. Should
the trouble be only vertical sync the
vertical takeoff line is indicated. When
the trouble is just horizontal, the horizontal takeoff line usually contains the
defective component.
Once all the preceding conclusions are drawn the pinpointing of
the actual component is simplified.
With a scope follow the video from
the video amplifier to the collector of
the sync separator. As soon as you
lose the correct pattern you have
passed over the bad part.
Quick check -While the scope is
the best approach in the sync stages,
some quick checks are also handy to
help isolate the section of the circuit.
The sync separator base bias and
collector vultage are direct functions
of the signal strength. Even though Q1
is reverse biased, some conduction is
taking place in the transistor. This is

proved by the difference between the
12 -volt supply and the 9 volts on the
collector. There is a 3 -volt drop across
the 2700 -ohm collector resistor.
Therefore if the reverse bias

should fall to minus 1 the transistor
will conduct more heavily and the collector voltage will drop below the 9
volts, due to the larger voltage drop
across R8. If the bias should increase
to minus 6 volts the transistor will
conduct less and the collector voltage
will rise toward the supply voltage.
Since the bias is a direct function
of the signal strength, the transistor
can be quick checked by changing the
bias and noting if the transistor is acting normally or not.
Attach the voltmeter and try four
different channel selector settings.
One, cock the selector between channels. This is a relatively noise -free setting. The total lack of signal, not even
any noise, does not let C5 charge up
at all and the -4 volts bias disappears.
The base goes slightly positive and Q 1

conducts heavily. The collector voltage
drops way down, under 5 volts.
Two, set the selector on any
unused channel. There is no signal,
but there is plenty of snow or noise.
The noise will charge up C5 a bit and
could provide a bias of about -2 volts.
As a result, collector voltage rises as
transistor conduction is reduced. It
could rise to about 6 or 7 volts.
Three, set the selector on a weak
channel. The weak signal will charge
C5 almost normally. The reverse bias
approaches -4 volts and the collector
rises, to 8 or 9 volts.
Lastly, set the selector to a strong
local channel. Normal voltages should
now appear.
This test takes much less time
than reading about it. If normal voltages are present, Q5 and its components are operative. Should the se-
quence produce other than normal,

attach the scope and pinpoint the defective leg.
R -E
solid-state news
The Signetics Corporation (811
East Arques Ave., Sunnyvale, Calif.
94086) has introduced a new fully decoded 256 X I static random access
memory (RAM), the type 25L01. Employing enhancement mode P- channel
MOS devices integrated on a single
monolithic chip, the new device is optimized for operation on +5 and -12
volt DC supplies, but also can be used
on +5 and -9 volt sources. It has a
guaranteed access time of only 1.0 s.
With a standby power dissipation of.
just 100 AW /BIT, its access power dissipation is but 1.7 mW /BIT.
The 25L01 can he driven directly
by standard TTL and DTL bipolar
IC's, while its data output buffer is capable of sinking a minimum of 2.0
mA, sufficient to drive a standard TTL
load. The new IC's internal block diagram is illustrated in Fig. -a, its pin
connections given in Fig. -b. Pack1
aged in a 16 -pin silicone DIP, the

25L01 nets for only $6.00 each.
With interest in digital displays
"B" PACKAGE
A17
A210
16
264 BIT
RAM PLANE
A39
15
14
A411
13
DATA
OUT
13
r_
Y ADDRESS
DECODE
SENSE
CIRCUIT
12
w
k
reaching boom levels, inexpensive new

readout devices have been introduced
by two major manufacturers: Fairchild's Semiconductor /Microwave and
Optoelectronics Division (4001 Miranda Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. 94304),
and Sperry Rand's Sperry Information
Displays group (P. 0. Box 3579,
Scottsdale, Ariz. 85257).
Fairchild's new display is a 1/4"
high LED digit which utilizes a new
and unique construction technique.

Only one LED is used per display
segment, with a molded plastic light
pipe converting the spot of light into a
uniform bar segment. A "fly's eye"
lens consisting of multiple convex
lenses on the display surface diffuses
the light to provide bright displays
with a viewing angle of 140'.
Sperry's new displays, Fig. 2, are
seven -segment planar gas discharge
devices designed specifically for interfacing with MOS /LSI circuits. Recommended for use in all dc or multi-
11
LL
a
DATA
10
Y INPUT
BUFFERS
I-
I-
AS1A6HAB
0- O
OUT
1.
14
3.
CS 16
4.
O
R/W 15
DATA IN
5.
VCC: 5
6.
VDD: 8
VD: 4
12
7.
8.
60
-BLOCK DIAGRAM (a) and pin connections (b)

RADIO -ELECTRONICS
ADDRESS
ADDRESS
ADDRESS
VD
VCC
ADDRESS
ADDRESS
VDD
CHIP SELECT
16.
15. R/W
14. DATA OUT
13. DATA OUT
12. DATA IN
11. ADDRESS 4
10. ADDRESS 2
9. ADDRESS 3
5
1
a
FIG
2.
of Signetics' 25L01 RAM.
MARCH 1973
2- SPERRY'S MOS /LSI compatible digital displays.

FIG.
plexed applications, with or without

suppressed zeros, the units are offered
in two sizes, the SP -330 Series ('/3 ")
R-E
and SP -350 Series ('h ").
the
state
of
This month's glimpse into the world of semiconductors

a glossary of terms so you too, can talk -tha' -talk.
takes off with
by LOU GARNER
SEMICONDUCTOR EDITOR
SPECIALISTS
LIKE TO USE
TERMS
BCD: Binary coded decimal.
DCTL: Direct -coupled transistor logic.
Bit: A small role for actors, but, in

logic technology, an abbreviation for
binary digit.
DI /CMOS: Expression used by Harris

Semiconductor to identify its dielectrically isolated CMOS devices.
AND
expressions peculiar to their field.

Frequently, these are acronyms of oft repeated phrases or common, but
longish, technical names. Sometimes
they are coined words, adopted because there is no completely suitable
term in the English language. In other
cases, they are slang expressions appropriate to the equipment, process or
technique described.
It follows, then, that logic circuit
designers, manufacturers and engineers have their own lingo -their own
stock of pet phrases and expressions.
As a result, a technician, hobbyist, student, or engineer, no matter how well
trained, skilled or experienced, may
find himself lost in a maze of unfamiliar terms when he first starts working
with digital circuits, especially if his
past experience has been primarily
with amplifiers, radio and TV receivers or transmitters, and similar types
of equipment. At times, in fact, the
novice to digital circuits may feel as if
he is drowning in a vast bowl of alphabet soup or, at the very least, is a
prisoner in an alphabet noodle factory.
For the benefit of those newcomers to the sometimes confusing
but, nonetheless, logical field of digital
logic, here is a brief review of the
most common special expressions used
and their basic definitions:
A/D or AD: With due respect to our

own advertising department, this AD
means analog -to- digital. Sometimes a
third letter will be added to designate
a particular circuit function. For example, the analog -to- digital converter
used in a digital meter might be referred to as an ADC circuit.
Chip: Not off the old block, but a basic substrate without leads containing
a single device or all the active and
passive elements of a complete circuit
i.e., an uncased IC. Some manufacturers use transistor, diode and capacitor chips in the fabrication of hybrid circuits.
.
DIP: Slang expression for a pickpocket

a dual in -line package. If it's
smaller than a breadbox and has metallic leads, it's the latter.
or
D -MOS
or
D -MOST:
Designation
used by the Signetics Corporation for

a proprietary semiconductor manufac-
turing process and /or devices proClock: Some people watch these, but
in digital work it's a pulse generator
which controls the timing of counting,
switching and memory circuits. Often,
a simple multivibrator or relaxation
oscillator.
CML: Current mode logic: logic circuits which operate in an unsaturated
mode in contrast to types which operate in a saturated mode.
CMOS: Complementary (or complementary- symmetry) metal -oxide

semiconductor. Used to identify devices manufactured of MOS materials
and using complementary circuit configurations.
COS /MOS: See CMOS. Expression
used primarily by RCA for its CMOS
devices.
D/A or DA: Not "district attorney,"

but digital -to- analog. As in A /D,
duced using the process; also, obsolete

expression for "the greatest."
DTL: Diode -transistor logic.
ECL: Would you believe emitter coupled logic?

FEB: If you were born in this month,
your birthstone is the amethyst, but
it's also an abbreviation for functional
electronic block, a less common name
for a monolithic integrated circuit.
Gate: Not to swing on, but the basic

electronic switch used in digital logic;
a circuit having two or more inputs
and a single output, in which the output depends on the combination of input signals. Four basic types are used,
identified according to the relationship
between the input and output signals
as . . . AND, OR, NAND and NOR gates.
function. DAC's (digital -to- analog
GIGO: The expression sometimes used

to describe poor digital equipment operation. It is an acronym for "Garbage
In, Garbage Out." Really!
converters) are used in many control

system designs.
Hybrid: A type of corn as well as in-
which we see, a third letter may be

added to identify a specific circuit
MARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
61
tegrated circuits manufactured using a

combination of discrete chips and thin
serted and held for use at

Don't forget!
later time.
film wiring.
IC: The common abbreviation for integrated circuit. IC, do UC?
LSI: Acronym for "large scale integration." Integrated circuits which

may contain the equivalent of thousands of devices.
McMOS: Not a Scotsman, but the expression used by Motorola for its
CMOS devices. See CMOS.
MECL: See ECL. Term used primarily
by Motorola for its ECL devices.
Memory:
device or system into

which digital information can be inA
Monolithic: Literally, "single stone."

Could be one member of a rock
group, but it's really used to identify
complete integrated circuits formed on
a single semiconductor chip.
"I," used by Women's Lib.

NMOS: Designation for n- channel
MOS devices.
PMOS: Guess? You're right- designation for p-channel MOS devices.
PRAM: If you're British, a baby

MOS: Metal -oxide semiconductor. Often used in combination with other
letters and /or acronyms to designate
special devices as, for example, MOSFET -metal oxide semiconductor field
effect transistor. See CMOS, D -MOS,
NMOS, PMOS.
MSI: Acronym for "medium scale integration." Integrated circuits which
may contain the equivalent of scores
or hundreds of devices. Without the
buggy; in digital logic, a programmable

random access memory.
PROM: Could be a dance if junior or
senior, but used alone it's an acronym
for programmable read only memory.
RAM: For our drinking friends, the
for Califorsymbol for bock beer
nians, a football player .
and, in
digital land, a random access memory
(bet you figured that one out your.
self).
ANODE
RCTL: Resistor- capacitor- transistor

logic; circuit in which logic functions
are performed by resistors, with capacitors used to improve switching
speed; a transistor serves as a buffer /inverter amplifier.
GATE
PROGRAMMABLE
UNIJUNCTION
TRANSISTOR (PUT)
+20v
vS
ROM: Read only memory; with an

"E," a city in sunny Italy.
CATHODE
RTL: Resistor -transistor logic; similar

to RCTL, but without the capacitors.
R1
22K
DI3TI
VOUT
CT
2212
.0 4.1F
v2
v1
Nn
TSL: Acronym abbreviation for National Semiconductor's Tri -State logic

devices.
TTL, T-L or T2L: Transistor- transistor
logic. Not a stutter, but the designation used for certain logic devices employing multiple- emitter transistors.
WHEW: Not a digital term at all -just

my reaction to finishing this list.
28VDC
-_
SCR trigger circuits

TO
Semiconductor manufacturers
SCR
generally recommend that pulse signals be used to trigger SCR's for optimum performance in light dimmers,
motor speed controls, power inverters,
GATE
solenoid drivers and similar applications. Four suitable pulse generator
TO SCR GATE
O
d
-PULSE GENERATOR CIRCUITS SUGGESTED by General Electric. A -PUT relaxation oscillator; b -Flip -flop trigger circuit; c -Pulse train circuit; d -High speed circuit.
FIG.
62
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
MARCH 1973
circuits are illustrated in Fig. 1. All

four were abstracted from GE application notes.
Perhaps the most popular pulse
generator is the basic relaxation oscillator. A simple and inexpensive, but
reliable, relaxation oscillator using a
programmable unijunction transistor
(PUT) is shown in Fig. -a. In operation, its repetition rate is established
by timing control RT in conjunction
with timing range capacitor CT. The
output pulse is developed across a 22ohm load resistor. A type 2N6027 may
be used for the type DI3TI PUT
specified.
1
The circuit in Fig. -b may be

used when it is necessary to trigger
two SCR's on alternate half-cycles as,
for example, in a full -wave power inverter. Here, a pair of PUT's are used.
The repetition rate is set by R2 in
conjunction with timing range capacitor CT.
In higher power applications, it is
often desirable to drive the SCR's
with a train of narrow pulses rather
than a single broad pulse to reduce
gate dissipation. This can be done
with the circuit in Fig. -c. In opera1
film resistors suitable for use in hybrid

circuits has been announced by the
OUTPUT FREQUENCY
ADJUSTABLE =ROM 0 001H to 1.5MHz
new Hybrex Division of the Burr Brown Research Corporation (6730 S.

Tucson Blvd., Tucson, Ariz. 85706).
Named the "S" series, the new units,
illustrated in Fig. 3, offer standard
TO
s.OV
P-P
AAA
TO
tion, a collector -coupled transistor

multivibrator, QI -Q2, serves to gate a
pair of UJT relaxation oscillators, Q3
and Q4, on alternate half-cycles. With
the component values specified, this
Where high -speed operation is

needed, the circuit in Fig. -d may be
used. Featuring a UJT relaxation oscillator, Q1, followed by a four-stage
direct -coupled transistor amplifier, Q2
to Q5, this circuit can generate rectangular pulses of 10-gs width at repetition rates of up to 20 kHz, depending on the values of the UJT's timing
resistor and capacitor. Q1 is a 2N2647,
Q2 and Q4 are 2N3414's, Q3 is a
2N5365, and Q5 is a D43.
1
Product /device news

Interdesign, Inc. (1190 Elko
Drive, Sunnyvale, Calif. 94086) has
announced a third addition to their series of general -purpose IC chips. Designated Monochip C, the new chip,
Fig. 2, contains 110 integrated com-
2- INTERDESIIN'S MONOCHIP
eral- purpose IC chip.
FIG.
gen-
ponents and 14 bonding pads, comprising 23 npn transistors, 8 pnp tran-
sistors,
Schottky diodes, and 73
resistors. Used in conjunction with the

firm's model MO -K Design Kit, which
nets for $39.00, the Monochip devices
permit an engineer or skilled technician to design his own custom IC's.
A series of glass passivated thin-
1oV
PP
28V
circuit delivers 1200 -Hz pulse trains at

a 50 -Hz repetition rate.
Q1 and Q2 are 2N3416's. Q3 and
Q4 are 2N2647's. If the circuit is used
on dc source voltages of less than 25
volts, use 2N3414's for Q1 and Q2.
4 TO
P-P
FIG.
4- WAVEIORMS
sil's 8038
IC voltage
AVAILABLE from inter controlled oscillator.
FM'd up to
FIG.
3- HYBREX'S "S"
SERIES thin -film re-
alstors for hybrid circuits.
temperature coefficients of less than

50 ppm / C. Standard resistance values are available from 10 ohms to
511,000 ohms with 1% tolerance; from
10 ohms to 510,000 ohms with 5% tolerance; from 10 ohms with 10% tolerance.
All have a power dissipation rating of 250 mW. Tighter tolerances and
higher resistance values are available
in custom types. Offered in both chip
and wafer form, the "S" series resistors are priced at 59 cents each for
10% tolerance types in medium quantities.
Another interesting hybrid circuit
component has been introduced by
the San Fernando Electric Manufacturing Co. (1501 First St., San Fernando, Calif. 91341) -would you believe
a monolithic ceramic chip inductor? It's
true! Dubbed Magnachip, the device is
manufactured from a proprietary ferrite formulation that is dispersed in
plastic, cast to a uniform film, and
then printed with conductive ink. A
process of stacking, interconnection,
lamination, and firing is used to produce the final devices, which are
small, solid, dense, multilayer inductances. Standard inductance ranges are
from 0.2 to 5H with a minimum Q
of 20. The units have a series resistance of 0.5 ohms maximum, a power
rating of 0.3 watt, and a current rating
of 1.0 amperes.
"Not another function generator
IC," was my initial reaction when I
first learned of Intersil's (10900 No.
Tantau Ave., Cupertino, Calif. 95014)
new 8038 Voltage -Controlled Os-
cillator. Upon closer examination,

however, 1 found that the new device
has a lot to offer. It works with any 10
to 30 -volt or 5 to -15-volt do supply. It can furnish high -level sine,
triangular and square waves simultaneously (Fig. 4) from 0.001 Hz to 1.5
MHz, and its output can be swept or
100 kHz. Its square-wave

duty cycle is adjustable from 2% to
98% and it has a typical stability of 50
ppm / C. But its best "spec" is its
price -packaged in a plastic DIP, the
8038CC nets for only $3.75 each in
unit quantities!
Intended for use in miniature,
battery- powered equipment, such as
hand -held calculators and portable test
instruments where power and space
are limited, HP's new displays are 7segment monolithic units 0.11 inch
high. The devices are available in 3, 4
and 5 -digit clusters with either the
standard right-hand decimal point or a
centered decimal, as illustrated in Fig.
5. End -stackable, the units feature
built -in magnification which increases
the apparent luminous intensity, thus
reducing power requirements.
FIG.
5- HEWLETT- PACKARD'S
Identified as the Model 5082 -7400

series, the new HP displays are packaged in standard 12 (3 and 4 digits) or
14 (5 digits) pin DIPs which can be
plugged into conventional sockets or
soldered directly into PC boards. The
shoulders of the lead frame pins are
intensionally raised above the bottom
of the packages so the displays can be
tilt- mounted up to 20 from PC
boards. A red dye is incorporated in
the plastic lens to filter out visible
light other than red and thus to improve contrast.
Unit prices for the 5082-7400 devices range from a mere $12.75 for a
3 -digit cluster to $21.25 for a 5 -digit
cluster. Quantity prices are lower, of
R -E
course.
MARCH 1973
new LED dis-
plays.
RADIO- ELECTRONICS
63
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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
67
hard rock's high dB'sand your hearing

Music soothes? Not if it is hard rock with amplifiers
going full blast. It's dangerous and hurts. Here's how
by MERINO
CORONADO
GUITARS COUPLED TO 100 -WATT AMPLI-
combo organs delivering 200

watts and accordions provided with
pickups and high -power amplifiers are
"in" on the rock scene today. Amateur
and professional rock groups are engaged in a wattage war: 50-watt amplifiers are quickly replaced by monsters of 200 watts or more, and the
technology of modern loudspeakers
make it possible to operate them continuously at high levels.
When it was found some discotheques operate with sound levels of
90 dB and up, doctors and psychologists began to worry about the
effects these music levels may produce
on the delicate human inner ear. Several medical and technical publications published articles on the subject,
and I decided to make some measurements myself.
fiers,
Frequency and intensity Omits

Textbooks say that the audible
frequency range lies between 20 and
20,000 Hz. This is not the case in
Mexico. Some time ago, a study with
several hundred workers of the Mexican Railways System revealed that the
audible range of these people goes
from 35 to 15,200 Hz. These results
agree closely with what I obtained
with some 150 of my students in the
School of Electrical Engineering.
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the frequency and volume ranges of

speech and orchestral music, as well as
ordinary sound.
The outer line depicts the boundaries of "normal hearing," that is, the
upper and lower limits of intensity
and frequency. For example, a sound
of 100 Hz becomes inaudible when its
intensity falls below about 38 dB. But
the same sound must have an intensity
of more than 50 dB but less than 90
dB if it is to be musically useful, as
shown by the first inner line. The innermost line is for speech.
Notice the threshold of hearing is
0 dB at 1,000 Hz, but is about -10 dB
at 3,000 Hz, the frequency at which
the human ear is most sensitive.
Sound that hurts

The upper portion of the curve,
the threshold of "feeling," is practically flat for all frequencies. Sounds
stronger than 120 -130 dB are not
"heard," but "felt" by the human ear:
a "tactile sensation" is experienced
and discomfort begins. Pain is experienced at 140 dB, but it is well known
that prolonged exposure to sound levels of 100 dB in some instances (and
even 80dB at certain frequencies) may
result in permanent, irreversible damage to the inner ear.
A number of representative noise
levels are shown in the table below.
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For Mexico, the normal or standard audiogram must be modified accordingly. But for the moment, let's
look at a standard audiogram such as
Fig. (reproduced from the June 1934
Bell Laboratories Record). This shows
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RADIO- ELECTRONICS
140
REPRESENTATIVE NOISE LEVELS
Db
0
10
20
30
40
50
AUDIOGRAM with frequencies and intensities found in ordinary

speech and normal music. Sounds with both
parameters located under the outer line are
inaudible. Sounds over some 130 dB cause
discomfort or damage to the ear.
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Go -go audiograms
Recently I organized a go -go
party with about 40 of my students
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Different machines produce different sound levels, as every acoustic

or industrial engineer knows. But what
about go -go music?
It is well known that a symphony
orchestra can produce sound levels
around 100 dB during certain fortissimo passages, but most of the time its
ability to produce high- intensity
sounds is considerably reduced. Since
I knew nothing about sound intensity
of go -go and rock music, I measured
the levels at three or four discotheques
and four or five "well-designed" go -go
night clubs. To my surprise, I found
constant levels of between 90 and 100
dB. That is more than the noise intensity found in the plant where this
magazine was printed!
In some night clubs the musicians
play on a stage and their amplifiers
and loudspeakers are also located
there. Customers can select a place to
sit away from the sound sources when
they're not dancing. But in "well-designed" discotheques, loudspeakers are
distributed across the room. A constant and equal sound level is found
in every square meter of dancing or
sitting space. There is no way to escape this Niagara of sound.
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120
130
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150
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Source of Sound
Threshold of hearing
Whisper at one meter
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Whisper at two meters
Conversation, low voice
Ordinary office or home
Expressway traffic
Heavy street traffic
Pneumatic drill at 15 meters
Printing plant
AVERAGE GO-GO MUSIC
Piston airplane engine
Discomfort begins
Jet take -off at 60 meters
Threshold of pain
Damage to the ear
Destruction of the ear
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go -go music. Line A is the mean audiogram
for both boys and girls before the party. Line
B shows the hearing loss for girls; Line C
shows the hearing loss for boys.
FIG.
under controlled conditions. An audio gram for each was made before the
party, and the music was carefully se(continued on page 89)
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to kick it around for a while. Mostly
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helpful (especially with some of our
customers!)
This is the Magic Button. One
company's engineers call it the Funny Button! Motorola calls it INSTA- MATIC,
Zenith calls it CHROMATIC TUNING,
and others have their own semantic
tricks with it. The idea of the whole
thing is to let the customer correct for
accidental misadjustment of controls
(kids, brothers -in-law, etc.) by simply
pushing one button. The picture then
comes in perfectly adjusted.
Basically, it's simple. The funnybutton is just a multiple- contact
switch. When it is pushed, several of
the regular controls are completely
disconnected, and preset controls
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switched into their place. The number

of these varies. In some sets, this is
actually nothing but the aft switch. In
others, such as the Motorola TS -929
Quasar II chassis, the brightness, contrast, hue and color controls, as well
as the aft, are switched.
In INSTA-MATIC position, the front
panel controls are disconnected. The
preset controls are mounted on the
top rail of the chassis, accessible from
the outside in most models. When you
install one of these sets, you tune it
up for the best picture, color, etc.
Then, switch to INSTA- MATIC, and adjust the preset controls to get exactly
the same picture quality. Check with
the owner, so the picture is set to
what he or she likes best.
In the Motorola chassis just mentioned, beside the controls already
mentioned, an AUTOMATIC TINT CONTROL is switched in. It changes the
demodulation angle, making it just a
little wider than the regular 90 , to
give "improved flesh tones." The red
video level is slightly raised to give
the picture a "warmer" tone. The acc

circuit is also in on INSTA-MATIC, to
help hold the color -level constant.
This is a great help during commercials, etc., old movies and such
things where color levels may change
drastically.
In the new Zenith D -line chassis,
the funnybutton is called CHROMATIC
TUNING. It switches in presets for
color, tint, contrast, brightness, and
aft. Here, the preset controls are in
the form of duals, each one mounted
behind the regular front -panel control
for the same function. To set these up,
adjust as before, for the best picture.
Then pull the knobs off, and push the
CHROMATIC TUNING button. The pre-
sets are adjusted with a special

wrench; one of these comes with each
set, in the instruction manual. (It has
been recommended that the installing
technician quietly snitch this wrench

out of the book, to keep the customer
out of them!)
The CHROMATIC TUNING Switch IS
a square pushbutton on the front
panel. In some it's a push -on, push -off
switch, in others a push -pull type. In
both of them, a pilot light inside the
pushbutton glows a bright orange, to
indicate that the set is in automatic
tune position. (This could save several
nuisance calls on new sets. If the
owner complains that none of the

front panel controls work, ask him to
check and see if this pushbutton

switch is lit.)
RCA uses a double- button system. Since these are side by side, anyone with a fat finger can push both at
the same time, and get "one- button"
control. One is the aft, and the other
is
the acm for
MONITOR. They
ACCU-MATIC.
AUTOMATIC COLOR
call the whole thing
Here again, the automatic controls are set up to make a good color
picture, comparing it with one tuned
in with the acm off. Two controls are
used, for color and tint. Unlike the
"full-disconnect" circuit used in others, the RCA circuit still leaves a little
range of adjustment for both color
MARCH 1973
Clinic
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
69
and tint, for customer preference. So

if you notice that the color and tint
controls do not seem to have enough
range, check to be sure that the acm
button is not pushed in. It also produces a slight shift in demodulator
angle to enhance the red in flesh
If yoult not
using IM
tones.
These things could be of quite a
bit of help to us, especially in making
preliminary diagnoses. If there is a
picture, with any kind of trouble

symptoms, just push the Funny-Button
and see if this straightens things up. If
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You've got a problem in the
B + + or boost-boost rectifier circuit.
In this same chassis, I have found the
68K series resistor practically open,
and the B + + rectifier open at the
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20Y1050. However, the high voltage
reads 25 kV, and the pix tube checks
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Also, I broke one of the bias regulator diodes, and I can't find a number
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It sounds very much as if your
two "top" transistors in the output
pair are both open (`top' transistor is
the one connected to the dc supply). If
this happens, they won't conduct, and
you'd have no dc voltage at the midpoint of the circuit as you should.
Take them out and check; you'll probably find the emitter -collector junction
open. Replace both of them at once,
in each pair, so that they'll be
matched.
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The grid slowly went more positive,

and the sound went bad, just as you
nite check, feed a 10.7 MHz AM signal into the i.f. input. If this won't go
say.
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If it does, the trouble is in the
FM oscillator or rf transistor, or the
FM tuner; loose solder joint. coil, etc.
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The AM works fine on this Zenith
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would you look for this ?-E.B., Adams,
BLUE BOWING OF HORIZONTAL

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I've replaced the flyback in a Magnavox T-931 color chassis. Now, everything else is OK, but I have a severe
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Can't converge them at all. I've tried
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Go back through the convergence
Mass.
If you can get an AM signal

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have their collectors connected to the

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Mena, Ark.
You sure can. An RCA SK -3066
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AUDIO FREQUENCY METER, Model

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The stylus is actually a miniaturized electromagnetic convertor that must carry the full
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lected in order to have the same instruments in all the records. The music was played at levels varying from
100 to 120 dB. By carefully positioning the loudspeakers, the same level
was obtained throughout the room.
After three hours of dancing (no
strong drinks were allowed), another
audiogram was made for each student.
The average results of both measurements are shown in Fig. 2.
Boys showed an average hearing
loss of about 10 dB, while girls

showed a loss of only about 6 dB. Of
course, these preliminary results are in
no way conclusive. But they are
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make audiograms of the students for
the next day in order to measure hearing recovery, if any was present.
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Sound levels below some 80 dB
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woofer, arranged for a 360- degree dispersion pattern. The
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of simulated or genuine walnut, and the design would be
appropriate to virtually any decor. Prices are $79.95 for
simulated walnut finish, and $99.95 for genuine walnut.
Electrophonic Corp. of America also has spherical
speaker systems, some for ceiling suspension, some for pedestal mounting. There are 10 models, ranging from $64 to
$126 per pair. They range in size from 11 to 13 inches in
diameter. Five models use 61/2-inch full -range speakers, the
rest use two speakers, of various sizes. But more! Two
models additionally function as hanging lamps. Two function as swag -lamp psychedelic speaker systems which, a
brochure notes, "provide a thrilling and unusual effect, the
multicolor light system in the lower half perfectly coordinated with the program material to illuminate and glow
with the signal." And two models function as pedestalsphere psychedelic light speaker systems, with light- to-music emanating from the top half of the spheres.
Lamp, clock, table, and novelty models

Two other companies have come on the scene with
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Products, Chicago, and Richards Manufacturing Co. of Los
Angeles. Dee Gee has perhaps the largest assemblage of
off -beat speaker systems designed primarily for back -channel use in 4- channel applications. They are available as 12
models of stack tables, commode tables, cube tables, and
end tables in modern, colonial and contemporary designs.
They also come as: 36 models of floor lamps, four price
ranges of table lamps, hanging lamps in nine styles; as four
models of wall clocks; as a wall plaque in the shape of a
barrel end; and -hold your breath -guitars, ukuleles, banjos
and bongo drums. The table models use either wide -range
four -inch or 51/4-inch single speakers, or a combination of
61/2-inch woofer- midrange and 3 -inch tweeter. The lamp
units and other models use either a 4 -inch or 51/4 -inch

single speaker. All connecting cords are 18 -feet long. The
lamp models come in five furniture styles.
Richards Manufacturing has devised a line of lamps in
table and hanging form incorporating wide -range speakers
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We hope you'll find among the foreAnd that's it
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LIST OF MANUFACTURERS
Acoustic Fiber Sound Systems, 2831 N. Webster Ave.,
Indianapolis, Ind. 46219
Carlu Manufacturing Co., 18002 S. Hobart Blvd., Gardena, Calif. 90248
Dee Gee Products, 5415 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Ill.
60640
Electrophonic Corp. of America, 101 -10 Foster Ave.,
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11236
EPI (Epicure Products, Inc.), 1 Charles Street, New buryport, Mass. 01950
Equasound Co., 3330 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles.
Fisher Radio Corp., 11 -35 45th Road, Long Island City,
N.Y. 11101
Hi -Vi Systems, 3817 South El Camino Real, San Clemente, Calif. 92672
JBL (James B. Lansing Sound, Inc.), 3249 Casitas
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JVC America, Inc., 50 -35 56th Road, Maspeth, N.Y.
Magitran Co., 311 East Park Street, Moonachie, N.J.
Richards Manufacturing Co., 4505 Bandini Blvd., Los
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A comprehensive photo /text guidebook created specifically to clear
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ular stage, determine defective component

and can actually be clamped in circuit to restore circuit operation temporarily in 80%
of component or tube defects. Ideal for locating and confirming intermittents.
SPECIFICATIONS:
AF Signal Tracer, RF & AF Signal Injector, AC & DC Voltage Indicator 0/60/550/
20,000 DC Polarity Indicator 60/550/20,000
volts, Lo ohms 0 -5. Hi ohms 0-500k -20 megohms. Tests Condensers, .00025 -12 mfd., Tests
Resistors 2 ohms -20 megohms, 2 Capacitance
Sub ranges .01 -.1 & 4-40 mfd., 3 Resistance
Sub ranges 50 -500 ohms, 5k -25k, 100k-1 meg.
RF &
NEW CT -1
From
Will allow you

to Dynamically test all
types of capacitors.
Transistor Substitution
Directory
This second part presents
complete listings of about
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their replacements from
eight suppliers.
$15.95
Model 510
Desoldering Iron
Now available at all Olson stores.

CHECKS: sync, sweep, video, audio circuits,
high voltage supplies (DC, RF or Pulse), low
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tubes, transistors, diodes, transformers,
speakers, etc. Will locate trouble to a partic-
PLUS:
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Step -By -Step Trouble-
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Measuring dB With your
Scope
The Model CT-1 features a built -in electronic

power supply providing BOTH AC and DC
Test Voltages in a special circuit with highly sensitive NEON type leakage indicator.
The CT-1 permits quick, accurate testing of
condensers for leakage or shorts with actual
DC voltage applied and readily indicates intermittent OPEN condensers with AC applied. Self- regulating power supply circuit
provides tapered forming current to suit par-
ticular requirements of capacitor under test.

Special circuit re-forms and polarizes electrolytic and tantalytic capacitors under test.
High sensitivity permits determination of
condenser dielectric breakdown before leakage causes major shut-down.
Only $16.95 postpaid

.00025 -1000 mfd.
Capacitor Range:
Over 200 M E G O H M S
Sensitivity:
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RADIO -ELECTRONICS
MARCH 1973
IMPOSSIBLE? BARGAINS IN SURPLUS ELECTRONICS AND OPTICS
- COSMOS
NEW
WAVEFORM GENERATOR, BF -5
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
Said to be the "New Wave' in integrated circuits of
the future. Ultra low power drain (microwatts)
4000AE
4001AE
4002AE
4006AE
4007AE
4009AE
4010AE
4011AE
4012AE
4013AE
4014AE
4015AE
4016AE
4017AE
4018AE
4019AE
4020AE
Dual 3 Input Nor & Inv

Quad 2 Input Nor
Dual 4 Input Nor
.99
S .99
$ .99
S
18 Stage Static Shift
Register
Dual Complementary
Pair & Inv
Hex Buffer, Inverting
Hex Buffer Non Inverting
Quad 2 Input Nand
Dual 4 Input Nand
Dual "D" Flip Flop
$4.99
$2.19
$2.19
..
$ .99
$ .99
$1.99
Static Shift
8 Stage
Register
Dual 4 Stage Static Shift
$5.99
Register
Quad Bilateral Switch
Decade Counter W /Decoder
Presettable Divide by
"N" Counter
$5.99
$1.99
$5.99
Quad and /or Select Gate
$2.39
$599
14 Stage Binary Ripple
S5.99
4022AE
4023AE
4024AE
4025AE
4026AE
8 Stage Static Shift

Register
Octal Counter W /Decoder
Triple 3 Input Nand
7 Stage Counter
4027AE
4029AE
4030AE
4033AE
SPECTRA
$5.49
$5.19
$ .99
$3.99
Input Nor
Decade Counter/7
$ .99
Segment Decoder
Dual J-K Flip Flop
Presettable Up /Down
$7.49
$2.99
Counter
$7.99
$1.99
Triple
$7.49
know this is what everyone wants

for their home -brew projects, because
they always ask for it. We now have
over 5 by 10' feet, but it won't last
long, so order now before it's all gone.
We don't want any broken hearts.
Specs: 20 conductors, 24 AWG, 7
strands, size is .88" x .044 ". We could
We
its virtues, but most people
know them or could easily look it up in any industrial

electronics house catalogue.
ft.$
Order No. SSFBRC
El
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1.00/3 ft.
5.00/18 ft.
530.00/100
$ 55.00/200 ft.
5100.00/400 ft.
$200.00/900 ft.
$500.00/2000 ft.
WIRE -WRAP COMPUTER WIRE
quality materials. Extremely rugged and flexible wire wrap wire. In addition to usual applications, can be
used for effective breadboarding, and wherever quick
stripping of solid wire is desired. Different colors are
now available. State first, second, and third choice of
colors. Shipping weight per 500' is lb.
10,000'
1000'
500'
Conductor Order No.
Size
WWW30(ft.)
WWW26(ft.)
WWW24(ft.)
30
26
24
$5.00
$6.00
$6.50
$75.00
$95.00
$100.00
$9.00
$11.00
$12.00
Sockets made by T.I. and Cinch.
All
are
low- profile,
compact
types.
14 Pin Dip Solder Tale Sockets
16 for $5.00
3 for $1.25
for $1.25
10
4.75
$14.75
$22.50
industrial grade
511025E 25 watt RMS amplifier,
$14.00
economy grade
S 11050E 50 watt RMS amplifier,
$21.00
economy grade
Transformer for stereo 10-watt
amplifiers (2 lbs.)
$ 3.95
Transformer for stereo 25 or
50 watt amplifiers 15 lbs.)
$ 5.95
Set of 13) 2000 mfd 50V capacitors
for 10 -watt stereo
$ 4.00
Set of (3) 2200 mfd 75V capacitors
for 25 or 50 watt amplifiers
S 5.00
4 Amp Bridge Rectifier, suitable
for all amplifiers
$ 2.00
Complete kit for 100 watt RMS stereo amplifier
1200 watt music) including two 50 -watt Sanken
hybrids, all parts, instructions, and nice 1/16"
thick, black anodized and punched chassis $88.00
Same for 50 watt RMS stereo amplifier, includes
$58.00
two 25 watt Sankens, etc
Same for 20 watt RMS stereo, includes two 10 watt
Sankens. etc.
$30.00
FAIRCHILD VOLTAGE REGULATORS

This is the UA 7800 Series. Three
terminal regulator, with thermal overload protection and internal current
limiting, making it essentially blow -out
proof. Because simple circuitry is used
with this device, designing regulated
power supplies is duck soup. Output is
rated at 0 to 1 ampere; maximum
input voltage is 35 volts. Choice of
voltages: 5, 6, 8, 12, 15, 18, or 24 Volts. Order as
7806,
7808,
etc.
7805,
.
$2.00
Voltage Regulator ( Sppcify Voltage)
.
PRINTED CIRCUIT MATERIAL
16 Pin Dip Gold Wire Wrap Socket

2 for 51.50
8 for $5.00
to 5 Gold Sockets (Cinch)
for
$1.00
for $5.00
13
2
14 Pin Right Angle Socket. Used
4 x 12 Sheets
12 x 12 Sheets
Assorted cut pieces at least
to moon L.E.D.
displays directly to P.C. board at correct viewing
angla
$1 00
.75 /ea.
.75 /ea.
$5.50 /ea.
$2.95/ea.
copper clad. Thickness 1/16 inch
COMPACT BRIDGE
a fortunate purAudio Amplifier

Hybrid Modules. With these you
Sl-102SA
can build your own audio ampli iers at less than the price of
discrete components. Just add
power supply, and a chassis to act
as a heat sink. Brand new units, in
original boxes, guaranteed by B
and F, Sanken, and the Sanken U.S. distributor.
Available in three sizes: 10 watts RMS 120 watts music
power), 25 watts RMS 150 watts M.P.), and 50 watts
RMS 1100 watts M.P.) per channel. Twenty -page
manufacturer's instruction book included. Sanken
amplifiers have proved so simple and reliable that they
are being used for industrial applications, such as servo
amplifiers & wide band laboratory application.
$2.25/ea.
Epoxy glass G10 material. Specify single or double
10 Pin
Amp
2 Amp
2 Amp
2 Amp
2 Amp
4 Amp
4 Amp
4 Amp
NE540
2N5296 35 watt NPN
2N6109 40 watt PNP
70 watt Stereo Kit
35 watt Mono Kit
for $5.00
Take advantage of Signetic's

NE540 power driver, (class AB
amp). Designed for 35 watts RMS
per channel. Distortion .5% frequency response, t .5db 20Hz to
100 Hz. NE540 requires two
I!II
power transistors, a 2N5296
(NPN) and a 2N6109 (PNPI, supplied per NE540. Kit package
includes (2) NE540, (2) 2N5296, (2) 2N6109, information on P.C. board layout, parts and circuitry, and a
list of miscellaneous small parts required to build the
70 watt amplifier for stereo.
16 Pin Dip Solder Tale Sockets

13 for $5.00
2 for $1.00
14 Pin Dip Gold Wire Wrap Socke
We have made
chase of Sanken
11010V 10 watts RMS amplifier,

industrial grade
511025A 25 watt RMS amplifier,
industrial grade
S I1050A 50 watt RMS amplifier,
70 WATT RMS AUDIO AMPLIFIER

BASIC PACKAGE, STEREO $5.50
New surplus from a large computer company. Solid

silver -plated OFHC copper conductor. Special high
temperature, thin -wall insulation of teflon, and other
SANKEN HYBRID AUDIO

AMPLIFIER MODULES
SS
$200.00 to
$1300.00. At the same time, they

greatly reduce system weight and power consumption.
Full technical data, P.C. layout, assembly, and hookup instructions included.
$ 9.75
BF -5 WAVEFORM GENERATOR
SUPER QUALITY I.C. SOCKETS
- STRIP FLAT BONDED
Sh. Wt. 11b./10 feet
from
That's right! A single chip TTL decade

counter with latches, BCD outputs, a
7-segment decoder driver, AND a 7segment LED display (with decimal)
on top. Only 0.15" thick (not counting
pins), the chip mounts in a standard
16 -pin DIP socket. Digits are 0.270"
high and can be latched in during the
next count or blanked.
$15.00
0.27 DLD
Quad Exclusive Or
Decade Counter/7
Segment Decoder
give all
costing
$ .99
Counter
4021AE
IS
SINGLE CHIP 7-SEGMENT

DISPLAY COUNTER, AND DECODER.
Just one of these BF -5 devices

produces sine, square, traingle,
ramp and sawtooth waveforms
without additional active components. By adding a second
BF -5, you can create amplitude,
frequency or phase modulated
varieties of these waveforms.
They are able to replace large
discrete waveform generators
200 Volt
400 Volt
600 Volt
800 Volt
1000 Volt
$ .60
$1.00
$1.50
$2.00
$2.50
$1.50
$2.00
$2.50
400 Volt
600 Volt
800 Volt
Figure A, plotted logic supply, 5 Volts at 1

Ampere, short circuit proof, ultra high regulation,
$16.00
ultra low ripple
Figure A, potted Op Amp supply, +15 Volts, and
-15 Volts at 0.5 Amperes. Mfg. by Analog Devices,
similar to their model 902. Short circuit proof, ultra
high performance
529.00
Figure B, 5 Volt 1 Amp supply, regulated by
$ 9.75
Fairchild 9305, short circuit protected
$ 7.75
Same as above, in kit form
$ 1.00
Mating connector for above
5 Volt 5 Amp regulated supply, by Blulyne,
$29.00
(not shown)
Op amp and logic supply. Supplies r 15 volts at 100
milliamperes and 5 volts at 1 ampere. Similar to
Figure "B" but larger. Ultra -low ripple Built by
Elcom
532.50
.
64 CHARACTER ASCI CODE

ALPHANUMERIC L.E.D. DISPLAY
square feet
52.50
SHRINK TUBING. B and F has a truckload

of shrink tubing, but we still expect it to go
fast. If you have ever used shrink, you know
it is indispensable for electronic construction.
Made a wire too short? Just splice and shrink tubing
over it and it will look like new. Pins too close? Same
solution. Excellent results with hot -air gun, soldering
iron, or even a match. This is polyolefin type where
outer wall shrinks, inner wall melts to encapsulate wire.
SPECIAL I.C.'S, PHASE LOCKED LOOPS

NE560
NE561
NE562
NE565
Locked Loop
Locked Loop
Locked Loop
Locked Loop
NE566Function Generator/Tone Encoder
NE567 PLL /Tone Decoder .
NE595 Four Quadrant Multiplier
NE555 Timer, 2u Sec to 1 hour, Special
Phase
Phase
Phase
Phase
CATALOG.
$12.00
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2513 Character Generator Rom
4"
ee
Phone
This display consists of 35 L.E.D -'s (light

emitting diodes) arranged in a 5
7
matrix. Numbers and letters of the alphabet
can be formed by lighting the appropriate
segments, i.e. from our 2513 character
generator Rom. One 2513 can be used to
drive up to 64 displays by time sharing. In
14 Pin Dip Package.
64 Character 5 x 7 LED Display
SHRINK TUBING ASSORTMENT, 25 feet each, of

1/8, 3/16, 1/4-inch tubing
$5.00
LOGIC AND OPERATIONAL

AMP. SUPPLIES
4"
$1.00, 5 for $ 3.50

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MARCH 1973
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RADIO- ELECTRONICS
101
POLY- PLANAR IS
APPLIANCE CLINIC
TYMETER
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DIGITAL CLOCKS
7'
HI-FI SOUND
IN ART.
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that both sides are in good shape.

The tinier-drive motor is a small
sealed synchronous unit, a lot like
those used in electric clocks. A gear train is used to give the little motor
enough torque to drive the cam assembly. We find very little trouble
with these motors, although if the machine has been visited by lightning,
the winding may be open. Normally,
neither the motor or gear train will require lubrication.
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your favorite photo, a mirror,
a bookend. Lets you decorate
your home with sound. Send for
detailed specifications and
installation ideas.
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Avalloble in 50, 60 cy. , oll voltoges, AC.
approved motor, cord. One Yeor Guarantee.
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Direct Read Out Interval
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2 -CAM DRIVES CONTACT ARMS in
timer, as shown here.
FIG.
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timer, and run through a couple of

operations, so that the system could
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This type of motor isn't repairable; the whole motor must be replaced. In most units, this can be done
without even taking the timer off.
Take out two or three screws and it
drops off into your hand. Exact duplicate replacements must be used, of
course. These are available from the
distributor for this make of appliance,
or from independent parts -wholesalers.
As I said, we have very few troubles with motors like this. When we
do though, it's sometimes a dandy. In
one notable case, an air -conditioning
system had a very puzzling intermittent. Most of the time it worked
perfectly. Once in a while, it would
start, then shut down. After much
head -scratching, and some not -toonice language, we "caught it in the
act ". These tiny motors are synchronous and they always start in the same

MARCH 1973
All
IMMURE=
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ARIES
.,.
NEW FROM ARIES!

ULTRA LOW COST DIGITAL CLOCK
(STANDARD TIME CHRONOMETER)
Aries /BF has sold over 12,000 digital clocks, to the
best of our knowledge more that the combined output
of all other manufacturers. Because of our huge
purchasing power, and the engineering background
gained, we can offer the features listed below. Compare with any other manufacturer and see if they can
offer all these features:
Decorator solid walnut case. A Striking addition to

luxurious living room. Our sketches
just don't do it justice.
Superb accuracy, seconds per month
Choice of 50 or 60 Hz operation, 12 or 24 hour
display in hours, minutes, seconds.
BCD outputs, for auxiliary readouts etc.
Excellent beginners kit, elaborate step by step
instructions debugged by trial construction by
experimenters who have never butt a kit before.
Only a soldering iron, wire snip and screwdriver
needed. Guaranteed
success (maximum repair
charge $10.00)
even the most
Low -cost Digital Clock Kit
GIANT
21/2"
New! For factories, offices, and commercial establishments, and those people who like large displays,
characters appear as a bright continuous line which
can be read from distances as great as 150 feet. All
drive circuits are solid state, and unit employs new
custom LSI clock chip. Indicates hour, minutes, and
seconds. May be wired for 24 hour or 12 hour
operation with a simple jumper change. Kit offered
complete with or without case for custom installations. Parts include P.C. board, sockets, solid state
components, hardware, resistors, caps, viewing filter,
etc.
Sh.Wt. 15 lbs.
GNNC /C With Case
$98.50
GNNC Without Case
$84.50
VIEW HOLOGRAMS! PERFORM

OTHER EXCITING EXPERIMENTS
LASER KIT!
Now
available only
from Aries! Brand new
Hughes "Hip Pocket"
type tube, and Aries
power supply kit, plus
NUMERAL
"NIXIE" CLOCK KIT
$47.50
OPTIONS
00
Standard readouts, GE florescent standard
unless otherwise specified. Cool blue green color,
best for decor of living rooms, bedrooms etc., this
is the unit that draws Oh's and Ah's.
01
Burroughs B5750 nixie tube readout instead
of GE hot orange color. Looks at home in a lab.
No extra charge.
02 Man 1 L.E.D. readouts. Intense red,
monochromatic light output, laboratory environment type display. Add $22.50 additional for this
display.
Quartz crystal time standard. In most
03
environments standard line operated units will give
accuracy of a second a month. If you live in an
area where line frequency is poor, this will give you
an independent time base of .0005% accuracy
when properly trimmed. Add $22.50 for this
crystal time base,
Special
National MM5311 clock chip and
readouts only, with instructions for do it yourself
clock projects. Specify GE florescent or Burroughs
$24.50
65750 nixie tubes as readouts
complete experimental
accessories. These tubes
are completely guaranteed by Aries and
Hughes, but are available at this bargain price because
their power output is slightly below Hughes standard.
Because of this fortunate purchase, you can purchase
the complete experimental kit for less than the price
of the tube alone. The Hughes specification for this
tube is 1.4 milliwatts output power when new, so that
minimum power specification of 1 milliwatt can be
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FUNCTION GENERATOR KIT

IMPOSSIBLE?
A $700.00 function generator for $99.00? But true!
The new, low-cost EXAR -205 monolithic waveform
generator makes this price possible. Our kit uses two
generator circuits
one is a carrier generator, and
produces sine, triangle, square, sawtooth, ramp and
pulse waveforms. The second is a modulation generator, for amplitude or frequency modulation of the
output waveforms. Output frequency range is from 20
Hz to 1.5 megaHertz. Modulation is switch -selectable
for internal AM, internal FM, or external modulation.
Model AR -620K Function Generator
$99.00
...
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We feel the most important

is saving money. There are a
thing about building a kit

lot of other advantages of
maintainability, use of standard parts,
and
complete documentation,
the experience and fun
of building it, but the overriding consideration is
economy. This kit costs less than half that of the
lowest priced competitive unit on the market.
The Aries 50 MHz counter is designed for years of
maintenance free service. MSI integrated circuitry,
course
cold cathode display tubes and conservatively rated

transformers mean low temperature rise. All displays
and I.C.'s are in sockets for easy maintainability. The
master oscillator is e 1.0 MHz crystal in a custom
designed cosmos oscillator circuit, having a stability of
t 3 PPM. Accuracy is 0.005% worst case, 0.0002% or
better when adjusted to WWV with a communications
receiver. A front panel selects a timing interval of 1.0
seconds, 0.1 seconds or 10 milliseconds. A variable
monostable multivibrator holds the count on the front
panel for a period of a fraction of a second to infinity.
For use in the period mode, the 1.0 MHz oscillator is
connected to the main counting chain and gated by
the input signal.
Assembly time for the
kit is approx. 10 hours. The

semiconductor complement is 111 7400, (1) 7408, (1)
7442, 110) 7490, (21 74122, (6) 74141, I11 74193, (1)
74196, 11) 74511, (1) CD 4007AE, Ill LM309, (6)
Diodes, and (1) Transistor. If you always wanted a
laboratory quality counter, but could never justify the
price, here is your chance.
50 MHz Counter Kit, Complete with Crystal Time
Postpaid in USA
$125.50
Base and Case
$119.00
POCKET CALCULATOR
We expected a favorable reaction to our calculator,
to revolutionize engineering calculations!

Use scientific notation,
i.e., 4235.7867 is expressed as 4.2357867 x
10'. Does squares,
square roots, reciproadds,
met throughout life of tube. Our specification is initial

power between 0.9 and 1.4 milliwatts, guaranteed not
to go below 0.5 milliwatt during the guarantee period
(6 months continuous operation!) Our kit includes
experimental accessories such as lenses, pinholes,
mirrors and a hologram to perform hundreds of
fascinating experiments. Holograms viewing is easily
demonstrated with this kit, hologram making is
possible, but is recommended only for advanced
experimenters.
This brand new calculator from T.I. promises
multiplies, divides. If
you have been looking
at electronic slide rules
you know what a phenomenal deal this is. By the way
this is direct entry as opposed to HP's indirect entry.
T.I. "Electronic Slide Rule"
$149.00
Ails
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AIRCRAFT /AUTO /BOAT QUARTZ

CRYSTAL CHRONOMETER
Revolutionary!, was the reaction of our customers
when they saw our latest kit. Measuring only 2%" x
234" x 2 -3/8 ", and accurate to 10 seconds a month, this
chronometer promises to entirely replace mechanical
docks in cars, boats and airplanes.
Fits into a standard 2W' instrument panel cutout. The
displays are bright L.E.D. displays that should last a
lifetime. Setting controls are recessed and operate
from a pointed object such as a pencil point or paper
clip, in order to keep non -authorized hands off. The
clock should only have to be reset at very great
intervals, or in the event of power loss (i.e. replacing
battery in car). The clock is wried so that the timing
circuits are always running, but the displays are only
lit when the ignition is on, resulting in negligeble
power drain. The low price is only possible because of
a new one chip MOS dock circuit, developed for
quartz crystal wristwatches.
Operates from 10-14 Volts D.C. An accessory unit
which mounts on the back adapts the unit 59 20-28
volts for twin engine aircraft and larger boats using 24
Volts ignition. Know how disgusted you are with the
usual car clods? Order this fine unit now for rallying,
sports events, navigation, or just to have a fine
chronometer that will give you a lifetime of superbly
accurate time.
Quartz Chronometer, Kit Form
$69.50
Quartz Chronometer, Wired
$99.50
$10.00
24 Volt Adapter
Circle
92 on
however, we were overwhelmed when we received

orders for hundredds at a time. The reaction of our
customers was that they felt this was the most
advanced pocket calculator on the market, and priced
so low, they could assemble and market it at a profit.
The features that make this so exciting are:
So compact it fits in a shirt pocket 13.13/16 x
4 -5/8 x 1 -1/4).
Performs every function you would expect in a
desk calculator, and then some, multiplies, divides,
adds, subtracts and gives true credit balance.
Includes constant and chain operation, full floating
decimal, suppressed trailing zeroes, and automatic
single entry squaring.
Powered by self contained AA batteries with up to
six hours operation (Nicad batteries with charger
option, up to five hours per charge).
Calculations performed by a single 40 pin LSI
(large scale integration) chip. Displays are 8 digit
LED's (light emitting diodes) and overflow and
minus signs are also LED's.
As a student, engineer, salesman, accountant or
anyone who would like fast accurate answers, this
calculator fills the bill, and at a price that
unquestionably makes this the lowest price high
quality calculator available.
Pocket Calculator Kit
$75.00
Pocket Calculator Completed
$99.00
NiCad Batteries & Charger
$17.50
Batteries & Charger Completed
$25.00
Check
Enclosed
Charge No.
Master Charge BankAmericard
l_IIIIIIIIIIII
ARIES, Inc.
119 Foster Street, Peabody, Mass. 01960
(617) 532 -0450
reader service card
MARCH 1973
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
103
tIFIN
E3y
TI
400
74100
74800
82533
82541
82542
82567
.25
.35
.25
.25
.25
.35
.35
.25
.35
74H04
EACH
51.25
7405
74H05
7406
7408
74H08
7410
74110
l3.00EAL14
quad EX /OR element

4 bit comparator
9 bit parity gen. /checker
2 input 4 bit multiplexer
82562
.35
.35
74H01
7402
7403
7404
74104
DIP
4H11
7413
7420
74120
74H20
74H22
7430
74130
7440
74H40
7401
8
put multiplexer
2 input 4 bit multiplexer
-ri-
746.E
LED
high brightness-- 350ft-L

920ma
single plane, wide angle viewing-- -1500
standard 14 DIP
long life -- -solid state
operates with IC voltage
requirements
displays all digits and
9 distinct letters
.50
.25
.35
.25
.40
1.30
7442
7446
7447
7448
7450
74H50
.40
.50
.25
.35
linears
1MIGO
NE526
4E560
1E565
NE566
NE567
709
710
Unit includes board, 7490.

KIT
7475 quad latch, 7447 seven
ASSEMBLED
segment driver, and RCA D62010
t comparator
to 1 line selector
parity gen /checker
256 bit programmable ROM
8 input multiplexer
input 4 bit multiplexer
2
4 bit comparator
810 to decimal decoder
fast carry extender

2 input 4 bit nwltiplexer
4 bit PI,
SI, P0, SO
4 bit shift register
10 bit 51,90 register
10 bit PI,SO register
45MC presetable decade counter
4581 presetable binary counter
presetable dec. counter 7581

presetable dec. counter 10MC
2581 divide by 'w" 2 to 15
8551
8570
8590
8275
state quad latch

8 bit SI. PO
8 bit P1, SO
u d bistable latch
748
op amp
5558
810
dual 741 op amp MINI

dual op amp DIP
dual 741 op amp DIP
op amp voltage follower
op amp TO -5
comparator TO -5
20 audio amp
4F-IF
.80
1.00
3.25
3.25
3.25
3.50
3.50
.35
.50
.75
.80
1.00
TO -S
1.25
2.00
amp epoxy
1.50
TO -5
1.50
.80
2.50
1.00
40pin DIP
STEREO WIDTH CONTROL

If you are sometimes bothered by insufficient spread
from some stereo material, this simple device (Mullard's
Sound-Source Width Control) may be the answer. The diagram shows the circuit of one of the two almost identical
channels. (In one channel the input collector load resistor
is a preset 4700 -ohm trimmer resistor.)
Circuit gain is 0.5, input impedance is 750,000 ohms,
output impedance 47,000 ohms and response is 20 Hz to
20,000 kHz at 3 -dB points. Total distortion is less than
0.1% for 0.5 volt output and about 0.15% for 1.0 volt out.
The output blocking capacitor can be 1 F when
working into a load of at least 10,000 ohms. For lower load
impedances, use a 250-F blocking capacitor.
The sound -source width control is connected in the
SILICON
signal diodes
100 PIV
60 for
80 as
REF!
52:55
TV/FM sound sy
tee OIP
.75
IC's are
$7Wg(9J1) CA.bboL111L,
CALIF
+16V (3.5mA)
2010
incandl display
BRBYLO,
macrRonscs
2.25
2.00
1.00
subtract, multiply, and divide

12 digit display and calculate
Chain calculations
True credit balance sign output
Automatic overflow indication
Fixed decimal point at 0, 2, 3, or 4
Leading zero suppression
Complete data supplied with chip
.90
CA3065
.55
1.75
1.00
1.00
DIP
circuits
2.00
Add,
.90
1.25
1.15
.65
3.00
1.00
1.15
.90
.90
1.15
calculator on a chip
705
pad. timer MINI
1.00
.50
precision voltage reg. OIP
new and fully tested - leads are plated with gold or so der.
Orders for $5 or more will be shipped prepaid. Add 354 handling and postage for smaller orders. California residents add sales tax. IC order are
shipped within two workdays of receipt of order - kits are shipped w thin
ten days of receipt of order. MONEY BACK GUARANTEE ON ALL GOODS SOLO
COD's may be phoned in
All
74195
183090 58 -IA power supply nodule TO -3

1143098 511-200me power supply TO -5
2.00
2.00
2.50
1.50
tri
96955
74195
74107
74153
74192
74193
dual comparator DIP
LM302
18308
14311
18380
LM703
1.60
1.40
1.00
7.50
2.00
1.75
1.00
1.00
2.00
1.50
2.00
2.00
3.00
3.00
1,15
1.15
3.50
1.15
.55
7493
7495
.55
.80
.40
.80
711
723
747
8 line
8290
8292
8520
59.95
.85
1175
7416
74118
7480
7483
7486
7489
7490
7491
7492
.50
74174
7074
positive DC regulator 70 -5
high speed comparator DIP
phase lock loop DIP
phase lock loop DIP
phase lock loop TO -5 or MINI
function generator 70-5 or MINI
tone decoder TO -5 or MINI
popular op amp OIP
voltage comparator OIP
N1561
CD2 digital counter
8233
8242
8251
8261
8266
d270
8271
8273
8274
8280
8281
7472
74172
7473
74173
7474
.25
.40
programmed to Count to any

Kr,
2 -9 for one kit, 2 -99 for
two kits, etc.
Includes board, 7490,
7447, RCA 082010 Numitron display
tube and five programming components.
Full instructions included - perfect
for displaying second, minutes and
hours, etc.
modulus
PD,
8210
8220
8223
8230
.35
.35
.25
.50
.40
all IC's shipped within 24hrs.
Can be
- -
.25
.40
.30
74171
1.00
1.50
1.50
1.25
CD3 universal counter
Jejl
.25
.35
.35
.40
74151
74H51
74H52
7453
74H53
7454
74154
74155
7460
.35
.35
7441
1.00
7451
.50
1.75
.25
candescent
segment
BCI48
tube y
511
68K
.6. high numeral

fisible at 30 feet
BC148
left hand decimal

9 pin base (solderable)
EACH
5 FOR
1,8K
C3
250 F
OR
BCI08
+1%
OR
BCI08
5.00
20.00
1F OR
250F
Cl
10K
LIN
100K
10F
It.
I I I
t !i7
NOON
NM
Actual size
POWER
transistor amplifiers.
Entire unit on ceramic
base, complete. Circuit
diagram and application
data included.
I
STOCK O.J5050
00
$1.25 eaN
44
TRANSFORMERS
FOR SEMICONDUCTOR PROJECTS
22 volts @0.5 amp. 2"x1>1r'x1i4'r...J9451 1.75 ea. 4/6.00

48 volts ct. @ .5 amp & 5.5 volts @ 0.5 amp.2 11"x24'rx2"
J9450 2 lbs. $2.50 ea. 4/9.00
12 volt, ct. @ 4.0 amp. & NIXIE winding, 170 volts @ 150 ma.
J9449 2%"x3rrx2%". 3 lbs. $3.50 ea. 4/13.00

34 volts, ct. @ 5.0 amp. &5 volts @1.5 amp. 3''/."x3 "x23/".
%R
J9448
5 lbs.
$4.75
SECTION
ea.
2/9.00
PUSHBUTTON SWITCHES
New lot of G.E. 8 section push button

switches. each switch SPST, and rated
8 amps at 240 volts, Each push button
different color for positive identification. 43/''x1'yrrx21fare, Pushing any

switch releases any switch that is
is a
already closed.
STOCK NO.J9052
1.25 ea.
5/5.00
0 0 0 0 0 o 0 0
Include sufficient postage, excess will be refunded. Send for new

48 page catalog loaded with other items. Minimum order $3.00
L.
104
150K
separate G.E. photocells and 2 stage NPN
--
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MASSACHUSETTS 01903
Phone (617) 388 -4705
CO.
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SPREAD)
DUAL PHOTO CELL ASSEMBLY
Oil
I
150K
A
150K
10K
C4
.22
R8
10K
4.7K TRIMMER
IN LEFT CHANNEL
ALL RESISTORS
5 %, 1/4 W
G ANGED TO
OTHER CHANNEL
FROM
stereo signal path where the signal level is 0.25 to 1.0 volt
as between preamp and main amplifier, between tape output and tape-monitor jacks, or between two tape recorders.
A 4 -pole double -throw switch can be used to take the
width control out of operation or you can simply mark the
position of the SPREAD control where the normal stereo affect is not affected. Here is how it's done:
1- Connect the device to a stereo system.
2- Disconnect the right- channel output from the main
amplifier or replace the right speaker with a dummy load.
3 -Feed a signal into the right channel only and turn
up the volume control until you hear a reasonably loud
signal from the left channel.
4- Adjust the SPREAD control for minimum volume
from the left speaker. Mark this position and make sure
that the control setting is not changed any more.
5 -Turn off the sound source. Connect the right channel and disconnect the left channel.
6 -Feed a signal into the left channel and turn up the
volume for a moderate signal from the right speaker.
7- Adjust the 4700-ohm trimmer for minimum output.
This completes the set -up operation. The SPREAD control
now gives a mono effect at one end of its range, ordinary
stereo in the "null" position located in Step 4 and extra -wide
R -E
stereo at the other end of its range.

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723C
741C
748C
RECORD telephone conversations- automatically. Leave recorder unattended. ROBERT'S,

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500
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720
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7453N
7454N
7472N
7473N
7474N
7475N
7476N
7486N
7490N
7492N
7493N
7495N
74107N
74121N
24g
220
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220
220
$1.20
$1.15
$1.02
220
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510
100 PCS TTL ICS
MIXED.
TO -5
TO -5
TO -5
TO -5
TO -5
DIP or MINIDIP
or DIP
380
380
900
DIP or MINIDIP ....400

DIP or MINIDIP ....430
558 (DUAL 741) MINIDIP

558 (DUAL 741) TO-5
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220
220
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7400N
7401N
7402N
7403N
7404N
7410N
7420N
7430N
7440N
7441N
7442N
7447N
7451N
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5/$10.00
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2N3638
2N3638A
2N3641
2N3643
2N5133
2N5134
2N5137
2N5138
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200
220
230
230
150
150
180
150
150
PNP
PNP
NPN
NPN
NPN
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10/$1.65
10/$1.80
10/$2.00
10/$2.00
10/$1.25
10/$1.25
10/$1.50
10/$1.25
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100/$15.00
100 /$16.50
100/$17.50
100/$17.50
100 /$10.00
100 /$10.00
100/$13.65
100 /$10.00
100 /$10.00
AMP SILICON SUBMINIATURE

RECTIFIERS
/$1.00 100/$7.50
1000 /$60.00
7/$1.00 100/$9.95
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10
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11
12
13
14
15
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700/$5.80 1000/$8.20 ea addn 1000/$7.50
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Volt 7 Segment Readout Tube $2.95. Counting and Display Kit (Readout Tube +7490+
7475 +7447) $5.25, 3 Kits for $15.00
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2N3055 npn, 100w I5A, TO -3, transistor
2- 2N3572 I 11F 1110OmC, npn, TO -92, plastic transistor
iJ
5 - ER900 TRIGGER DIODES for SCRs & Triacs
4 - 2.5 AMP 1000 PIV ITT, silicon epoxy rectifiers
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lOpf, 20pf, 30p, 40pf, 50p1
2 -FET'S 2N5457 N channel 5000 umhos, TO-92 plastic
1 -90 WATT PNP, 15A, 2N2612, TO -3, silicon
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10 -1N914 fast switch diodes, silicon 4 nanoseconds
10 2N404 germanium ono, TO -5 chrome case
2 -6 AMP TRIAC 200 PRY, TO -5
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30 - WORLD'S SMALLEST RECT. & zeners, 1W, assorted volts`
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5 - 2N3638 PNP, silicon, TO -5 plastic transistors
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2 FET'S 2163085 N channel, 10,000 umho TO -18 transistors
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O DYNAMIC amps. 200 ohms. 6 -ft. 200-
$1.98
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SN7437
SN7438
SN7440
5N7441
5N7442
SN7443
5157444
5N7445
SN7446
5N7447
SN7448
5N7450
.2S
.25
.28
.27
.45
5147413
5N7416
Ea o 5N7417
SN7420
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5N7421
5f17426
SN7430
0 SN7432
Factory Marked!
.29
-29
.25
.25
.75
.48
.48
.25
.25
.32
.25
.25
5747451
5147453
SN7454
SN7455
5N7460
SN7470
5N7472
SN7473
SN7474
SN7475
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6 Digits
557.00
KR102 7- Segment MAN -1 Type LED,
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1.25
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SN7483
SN7486
5N7489
5N7490
5157494
51'47495
5N7496
SN74100
51674107
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SN74122
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IC
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8- transistors
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50k In. Imp.:
for phono -tape
20.20,000
me.
DIP. Fairchild.
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1.95
5.65
-- -
amp TO.5, 10 amp TO 66.
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$2.98
2.es
2.90
MAGIC
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TRIGGER"
1 -WATT
AUDIO
AMP
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In TO-5 case.
400K in. Imp.
Westinghous
WC334. TO-S.
INTEGRATED CIRCUIT SOCKETS

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U lw -Pin, dual In line ..5.45
16 -Pin, dual in line .. .50
.29
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Am
$1.98,
FACTORY
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Type FACTORY esse.
HI slew rate op -amp TO- 5.....52.50
531
2 50
Micro power 741 IA)
532
2.50
Micro power 709 TO 5
533
FET Input op amp TO -6
3.95
536
2-50
Precision 741 TO -S
537
2.04
70W pwr driver amp TO-5
540
Precision 723 voltage reg. (DIP) 1.17
550
Timer 2 ufeconds to 1 -hour (A). 1_19
555
88
Dual 741 IAI
558
3 25
Phase lock loops_ DIP
560
car
Most complete listing!

10 amp 15 amp 25 amp
.72
.89
1.15
1.39
1.69
tith'
$2.503'x'38 LINEAR
CJ
char
.52
with photo 4J
fiber optic light
Use
LOW PRICES ON 'TRIALS'

.35
.65
.79
.92
1.25
1.50
53.50
8.50
12.50
3.50
7.95
12.50
8.86
Excellent for "HAM" use as antenna switching latching.

transmit. receive, etc., and 100'a of commercial or in.
dustrial uses. Includes plastic duet -cover with diagram
and hookup info, 11 -pin plug-in base. Contacts movable
gold flashed silver. stationary overlay, with a lvey cadmium oxide movables. All contacts 10 amp 3PDT. Coil
data,i15VAC 2250 ohms, 17.6 ma, 12 VDC 21 mil.
168 ohms. Sise: 21/4 x 1 5/16 ". Wt. 4 me. Center pin
missing. Comer Mfg. type equal too.
1.19
1.60
SILICON I 400
1.35
600
1.75
1.59
1.95
900
BRIDGE
m.79 0 2.25
1000
RECTIFIERS ii2a,=T;:%ie.,q
100
200
300
400
500
600
1973"
Y3w
t
character, 170 V.
5.45
2.50
1.75
1.75
1.19
51674198 2.65
SN74199 2.65
118 VAC 3POr

12 VDC SPOT
PIV2Amp it Amp
s.gCEO
.79
.99
5.35
57474184 2.50
SN74185
SN74192
51674193
5N74195
'Unique Scientific Device, "hand claps'.

tal mike amplifier, triggers OCR. Needs
Use as burglar alarm, intrusion device.
cell, triggers SCR's. relays, LED's. Even
pipe may be used. With hand booklet.
5.22
SN74165 3.50
51674180 .10
51674181 4.50
5N74182 1.10
KAP RELAYS
Two SCRs In one easel

6 amp
PRY
3 amp
51674163 1.79
Potter & Brumfield
200
j]
This display is excellent for
Bar any 3
Description
Take 10vs
2 Watt amplifier
.51.95
LM -300 Super 723
V. regulator TOS 1.49
LM -301
Hi-performance amp
49
follower
TOS
1 49
LM-304 Voltage
R. voltage regulator TOS
1 49
LM -305 Pos, voltage regulator
T05. 1 49
LM -307
Super 741
O LM 308
Super gain
amp TOS
1.98
LM 30916 5V 200ma op
V. regulator TOS 1.98
LM -309K 5V 1 amp V. regulator
TO3
2.25
LM -350 Dual peripheral
driver
TOS
.88
LM -370 AGC squelch dop
amp TOS
1.49
LM -373
AM FM SSO it strip TOS
3,75
FULL WAVE
SN74161 1.79
SN74162 1.79
1101
256 Blt RAM MOS
1024 Bit RAM NOS
1103
C haracter Gen. ROM
2513
7489 64 Bit RAM TTL
8223 P
ahle ROM
8224 Prograrogrammmmas!. ROM
MM5260 1024 Bit RAM
Type
LM -280
50
100
51674160 1.79
small portable electronics,

such as DVM's, calculators,
LEO
etc. Equivalent to Monsanto
READOUTS 3
MAN 3A. Operates from 5V;
'..:Amperes, with 47
2.95
.7.we Take 10% 20
ohm dropping resistor.
...
Take 101E
Dual Voltage Translater

Dual Diff. Line Driver
Same as SN7445
Same as SN7445
Ili Amp, 7 -Seg. Dec. Driver
EPDXY
2.10
5N74156 1.39
SN74157 1.25
SN74158 1.48
.75
.75
1.10
.95
1.10
1.41
.49
.49
.65
.99
1.45
1.25
For
Z.
149
51574155 1.39
51674141
51674145
__ 1.25
e.. too
w 100
....
Burroughs
2t/2" high
SN73
SN74415154
1.25
5N7492
5N7493
e.cwnt
TUBE SALE
51674151 1.13
3.50
1.00
SN7491
NATIONAL "OP" AMPS
NIXIE
request "ONLY"
.65
"How's Your
Tri -State Quad Buffer ... sLO

1.00
Tri -State Quad Buffer ...
Tri -State Quad Buffer
1.00
4 -Bit Comparator
1 50
1.00
e Channel Switch
1.00
Parity Generator Checker
8.88
Programmable ROM
1.00
Binary to Octal Decoder .
1.19
Preset Binary Counter
1.1e
Preset Divide by 12
.41
Same as 74107
1.50
Modulo Divide by 2 -16
1.95
Tri -State Preset Counter
1.00
Binary Counter
DM8093
DM8094
DM8200
DM8210
DM8220
DM8223
DM8250
DM8281
DM8288
DM8502
DM8520
DM8555
DM8680
DM8800
DM8830
DM8845
DM8845
DM8880
.44
Bay 3
or more.
m.n%
MEMORIES
Description
Type
DMRO91
SN7476
SN7481
5167480
.25
1.30
1.12
1.21
1.21
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.21
.39
.36
.44
.39
1.00
106
'TIME
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T.ke 10'F
60 TUBE SOCKETS, receptacles, plugs, audio, etc,

PREFORMED RESISTORS, Va watt, printed ckt
Si.
100
Si.
30 DIPPED SILVER MICAS. pop values, silvers, too
COILS A CHOKES. if, rf, ant, peaks, ose, parasitic
SO
Si.
10 -'IC' SOCKET -ADAPTERS. TO -6 DIPs, flat, handy ..
51.
60- PRECISION RESISTORS, 1/2, 1/2. I & 2W. 1 % aunt val. . Si.
60 TUBULAR CONDENSERS, to .0m, to lkv, molded too
51.
10
SUBMINIATURE IF'S, 455 keg, 3/4" square, transistor
S1.
TUBULAR ELECTROLYTICS, to 100mf, for ac /dc sets. etc. Si.
10
15
NE -2 NEON BULBS, for 1l Ovac, 100's of projects
51.
30 POLYSTYRENE CONDs. finest caps made, asst. values .. 51.
SO
PANEL SWITCHES, 110vac, micro, rotary, thermal, slide Si.
10- VOLUME CONTROLS, to lmeg, duals too, some w /switch 51.
40 MICRO MINI RESISTORS, t /ew, 100 ohm to lmeg, 5 %
S1.
30 MOLDED CONDENSERS, upright, & axial, to .1ml to 1KV 51.
SO
ONE WATT RESISTORS, 1 9a & 5%. AB's too, 100 to 1 melt SI.
10 TRANSISTOR ELECTRO's, 5mf to 300m, upright too
51.
10
UPRIGHT TRANSISTOR ELECTRO's 5mf to 300m
51.
60- CERAMIC CONDENSERS, l0mmf to .04, epos, discs
$1.
$1.
40 MICRO-MICRO-MINI CONDENSERS. to .Olmf Cerafil
IBM COMPUTER BOARDS, trans, caps, res, coils, etc.
$1.
5
ELECTROLYTIC COND's, FP's, & tubular, 2 & 3 sect. too
10
51.
TRIMMER POTS, 100, 600, 2K, 6K, 10K, 25K, Yew, snap-in61.
60 HI -Q RESISTORS, carbon, 1 /e. 3/2. 1, 2W 5 % ..
.
51.
to
hi
-Q,
to
6KV
lommf
npo's,
DISC
CAPACITORS,
.05,
Si.
50
Si.
50 MICA CAPACITORS, to .01, to 1KV, silvers too, asst
35 TWO WATTERS, resistors, carbon, metal -film, 6 % asst
51.
4 -MICRO POTS /knob, snap-in. 1 /5W 26k, 60k 100k, lmeg 51.
O 100. PRINTED CIRCUIT PARTS, electrons, trans, etc.
S1.
30 - YELLOW PACKET MYLARS, assorted values & sizes . . .
$1.
10 - POWER TRANSISTOR SOCKETS, for TO -3, asst types
$1.
3- MINIATURE" MOTORS. shaft, 3- 12vdc, high speed
$1.
64- PLASTIC TRANSISTORS, TO-18, printed circuit
Si.
2- CRAMER 28 VAC,4 rpm, 60 cy timing motor
$1.
transistor,
diodes
etc.
51.
100-pc PARTS, BOURNS pots
Si.
2-110 VAC MERCURY SWITCHES, press -At. 1' long
61.
1-HEL CAL FLASH TUBE retrtggerable, gas, strobe, etc.
Si.
die., "S" meter, etc,
1 -MICRO -MINI METER,
MOTORS.
Si.
3-MINI
sealed, 11,a to 12VDC, hi -speed
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5.25
.25
5N7401
5N7402
SN7403
5N74O4
SN7405
5N7406
SN7407
5N7408
SN7409
5N7410
SN7411
0N
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Type
5147400
$1
transistors, Texas
Si
pnp germanium
$1
3 -3AMP 1000 PlV epoxy bullet, silicon rectifiers
Si
50 - SILICON, glass rectifiers, computer, axial leads.
S1
50 -GERMANIUM, glass rectifiers, signal, axial leads`
$1
5 -216170, GE, RF. germanium, npn, transistors, TO 22
Si
10 -1 -AMP 1000 PIV, epoxy, submini, silicon rectifiers
Si
30 -500 MW ZENERS, axial 4, 6, 9, 10, 12V rectifiera
51
4- 2163055, HOBBY, 40W non silicon transistors, TO -3
51
5 -216155, HOBBY, IOW pep germanium transistors, TO -3
$1
3 -50 AMP SILICON RECTIFIERS, silicon, 6, 12, 24 volta
$1
5 -2161038, TEXAS, germanium pnp, 20 watts. TO-5, w /sink .
51
10- 2163054 hobby, non, TO -66, silicon, 30W, 30mc
Si
10 -SCRS, assorted voltages. TO -5, TO -18, TO-46
S1
3Q -3 -AMP RECTIFIERS, silicon, epoxy, assorted V, axial.
S1
S -515744115, hubby, BCD-to -Nixie driver IC, DIP
51
10- LINEAR AMPS, 709, 710, 711, 741, TO-5
51
10 -709 LINEAR AMPS. 741's too, DIP,
SI
5 -HOBBY MEMORY CELLS, SN741/ I, up to 16 -cell, DIP' .
Si
10 -709, 710, 711 LINEAR AMPS, brand new, flat pak
S1
2 -2166109 40 -WATT PNP PLASTIC TRANSISTORS, for any 540 3.1
10 -RCA CA -3000 OP AMPS, TO -fi case.
$1
5 -723 VOLTAGE REGULATORS, TO-6
$1
4 -1000 HFE DARLINGTON transistors, TO -18 case
Si
1 -2N5036 HI PWR plastic trans 100 viceo, 7 amp 85 watts
S1
2 -2165296 HOBBY 35 watts, plastic powers NPN
S1
2 -2N6109 HOBBY 40 watts, plastic powers PNP
$1
5- PLASTIC 76W powers. non. silicon, hobby 2N6121
$1
5- PLASTIC 36W powers, pop, silicon, hobby 2N6124
Si
2- MOS PETS, N channel 10 uHmoa 2N128 TO- 1 j2CA
$1
2- MOS FETS, DUAL GATE, N chan., 3N187 -1. TO -18, RCA
$1
$1
2 -MOS FETS, DUAL GATE, N Chan., 3N140 -1J TO-18. RCA
4- RCA 2163600 NPN, UHF transistors, tv -fm, TO -18
61
'Untested. gnarantr-1 satierallmit
LED-PHOTO -SOLAR 'DOLLAR STRETCHERS'
"LEDs ", visible, micro-miniature, axial leads
S1
2
"LEDS ", infrared, jumbo, TO- I8
Si
With
Cabinet
Largest Selection TTL 10'8
$1
$1
S1
3 - 2162646 UNIJUNCTIONS, plastic

S -216107, GE, most commonly used
$5 7.
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39
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39
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Voltage regulator (A)
95
723C
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j
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747C Dual 7410, IA)
..44
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748C
100
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78
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87
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104
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82
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84
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110
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96
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86
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85
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22
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98
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100
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78
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34
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91
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89
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23
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80
International Components Corp
81
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88
International Electronics Unlimited
98
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70
Keithley Instruments, Inc
86
Leader
33
Lee Electronic Labs
100
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102
Micro- Instrumentation Telemetry
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27
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84
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83
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102
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64-67
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13
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936 Hex Inverter
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962 Triple 3 input gate
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16 Pin DIP scokets
$3.25
561 phase lock loop
$3.35
565 phase lock loop
$3.25
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$3.25
567 Tone decoder
$ .80
amplifier
703 RF
$ .95
Dual 709
709C operational Amp $ .39
$ .75
723 Regulator
$ .39
741 operational Amp
$1.25
747 Dual 741
$ .44
748 Adust 741
high
power
TVR 2002
$1.00
723
$1.35
CA3065 FM /TV amp
5558 dual 741
(mini -DIP)
$ .88
$2.95
LM 308 oper amp
Silicon Control Rectifiers
.79
.79
.90
.60
.70
74141 -1.35
74154 -1.95
74161 -1.79
74192-1.75
74193-1.75
74194 -2.35
8570 -1.90
8590 -1.90
9309 -1.95
9312 -1.95
9322 -1.95
7442 -1.50
7446-1.50
7447-1.50
7448 -1.25
7450- .25
7460- .25
7472- .40
7473- .75
7474- .50
7475 -1.00
2A
PA234 1W audio ampi $1.25

Watt regulator $1.25
PA264
LM309K 5V lA regulator $2.25
$1.00
SE 501 Video Amp
531 High slew oper amp $2.50
536 FET input oper amp $3.95
$2.50
537 Precision 741
$2.04
540 70W Power driver
555 2 us to 1 hour timer $1.19
loop
$3.25
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Volt READOUTS
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Laws of Sets -even do your

own programming after completing simplified 116 page
Instructive booklet. Includes step -by-step assembly diag.
Circuits easily changed. Readout from Illuminated control panel. Req. 2 "D" bait. (not incl.). Best model
for home, school, Industry.
x 123/4' x 4')
$31.50 Pod.
No. 71,434EH
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Items,
edition. New
of
electrical and
Dozens
elertromagnetle parts, accessories. Enormous selection of Astronomical Telescopes. Unique lighting
and ecological items. Microscopes, Binoculars, Magnifiers, Magnets. Lenses, Prisms. Many surplus
Completely
new
1973
Illustrations.
gories,
On -site
FLEXIBLE IMAGE TRANSMITTER

Ili- resolution image- trans-
mitter lets you see remote,

inaccessible lighted areas;
thru pipes. tubes, any %' -}opening no matter how intricate. Provides clear, wide
magnifying
sighting.
7X
eyepiece focuses from less
than rfa' away. Ideal for
monitoring hazardous processes,
surveillance instr.,
demone. fiber optics. Over 4,000 coherent glass fibers
(.00.2 "), %' die. semi -rigid gooseneck sheathing.
See
$40.00 Ppd.
3" ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE

moon shots, orbits-
stars, phases of
Venus,
planets close up. 80 to 180
power. New Improved. aluminized and overcoated 3'
eyepiece and mounted

Barlow lens. 3x finder telehardwood
tripod.
Included
scope,
"STAR
FREE:
"HOST TO l'SE YOUR TELESCOPE".

$32.95 Pod.
Stock No. 85.050EH
$61.50 Ppd.
DELUXE 3'
No. 80.162EH
4'/4"
$99.50 FOB
Stock No. 85.I05EH
6"
$239.50 FOB
Stock No. 85.08GEH
MEASURE TEMPERATURE REMOTELY
Electronic thermometer gives

instant temperatures from
inches to 1000 -ft. off. Push

button, read one of 3 separ(Can connect to
3 plug -in
probes). Reads
from -22 to +122 F & -30
to -1-50 C. Accuracy-1%.
ate temps.
Inds
probes
Name
solid -state waterpf
Pone
w /18"
cable,
one 15 -ft.). 100's of uses
home, lab, Industry. Req. "D" batt. (not

fin. cab. Instrs.
Stock No. 71,741EH
(3'1/2rx4 /,30%4')
Address
State
Zlp
EXTRA
Il -FT.
TEMPERATURE PROBE
Stock No. 41,839EH
EDMUND
SCIENTIFIC CO.
gr
to
incl). Walnut
.
stop
flash per sec. (Does
action.) Not as
sophisticated as our other
strobes, but very handy & economical. Avg.

flashes, 120v, 60 Hz. ADprox 5x3" dia.
Stock No. 41,913EN
life:
million
$27.50 Ppd.
$4.75 Ppd.
GET POLICE, AIRCRAFT CALLS
Your standard AM home or

car radio can get exciting
2 -way
police.
fire, local
aircraft calls. etc. from
UBL` bands via Converters.
No interconnecting wires
needed -Just put solid state
Converter near ' set. Easy
Instrs incl. Ea. Kit req. On
batt (not included). POLICE & FIItE CONVERTER KIT
LO BAND. Operates in the 30 -50 MHz band.
Stock No. 41,828EH
$8.25 Ppd.
AIRCRAFT CONVERTER KIT. Operates in the 108M llz band.

Stock No. 41.827EH
136
$8.25 Ppd.
"flower power " - -why

$50 an ounce for
pay Ilke
perfume when you can make

your own in 5 simple steps?
You supply
the flowers,
animal fat and undenatured
alcohol (100 -proof vodka is
ideal) ---kit
contains
all
equipment needed for small
quantities. Enjoy making

exotic perfume from favorite
garden flowers-even turn It Into Cologne, hand lotion.
after -shave lotion perfumed soap! Easy instructions.
treatise. Gm hobby to turn a profit!
$10.75 Ppd.
Stock No. 71,684EH
1st LOW -COST VACUUM PUMP!

Nothing like It! Top -quality
hand -held pump produces &
maintains 25" of vacuum.
Has instant release tab, 1 %"
diem. stainless gauge (030"). 100's of uses-siphon
noxious fluids. evacuate bell
jars and castings, clean, retrieve, lift sterile objects,
Magdeburg
demonstrate
bleed
fuel
hemispheres,
lines, check leaks. etc. Lifts 40 lbs. with Included "T"
Lifter (23/4" dram. cup) -much more w /larger cup.
71,301
EH
$12.00 Ppd.
Stock No.
5.50 Pod.
No. 71.300EH (without gauge /lifter)
dollars. 45/4 diam. 3/44 thick.

No. 70.003EH
$10.75 Ppd.
6' diem. I' thlek
Stock No. 70.004EH
.8' diem. 11/' thick
Stock No. 70.005E H
Stock No. 70.006EH 10" diam. I%" thick 30 lbs
Stock No. 70,007E H 12'/a" diam 2' /e'thick 461s
"FISH" WITH
t
Co treasure hunting on the
$16.95
$24.50
$44.50
$72.50
A MAGNET
sometimes profitable) Tie

line to our 5-lb. Magnetdrop it overboard in bay.
river, lake or ocean. Troll It
along bottom-your "treasured" haul can be outboard AMINmotors, anchors, other metal
valuables. 5 -lb. Magnet is
war surplus -Alnico V Type
-Gov't. cost $50. Lifts over 150 lbs.
i't
greater weights under water.
$2.55 Pod.
Stock No. 85,152EH
9 -''/2
153/4
SIND CHECK OR MONET ORDER
LBS
LBS
on
land -much
$14.00 Ppd.
$8.75 Ppd.
$33.60 F.O.B.
MONEY -SACK GUARANTEE
300 EDSCORP BLDG.

ORDER
BARRINGTON, NEW JERSEY 08007
MARCH 1973
Ppd.
Pod.
FOB
FOB
bottom) Fascinating fun &
Stook No. 70,571 EH

Stock No. 70,570EH
STOCK NUMBER
fleet) QB
from $75.00 to hundreds of
$40.90 Ppd.
RADIO -ELECTRONICS
not
ASTRONOMICAL TELESCOPE KITS
60x
Please rush Free Giant Catalog "EH"
-i
frais
Grind your own mirror for

powerful telescopes. Kit contains fine annealed pyrex
mirror blank. tool, abrasives,
diagonal mirror, and eyeInstruments
piece
lenses.
you build range in value
diameter f /10 primary mirror, ventilated cell. Equatorial mount with locks on
both axes. Equipped with
SCIENTIFIC CO.
Barrington, N.J. 08007
Adj. slow dash rate
areas.
Real
recording!
Stock No. 60.857EH
Flashing
Strobe unit w /Edison base

easily screws into any std
socket' Great for parties,
dramatizing
displays, or
safety signal to warn of
indus. "hot" spots, constr.
MAKE PERFUME WITH A "STILL"
Unique controls focus, activate fwd &rev cycles on

projector. Digital counter to
index;
individ.
channel
eraseahllity; monitor switch
to project external sound
thru spkr; record music,
narration at same time. 10 -level vol. control. AC /DC.
Inds cable for Kodak Carousell80, patch cord (radio, hi -fi),
earphone. remote mike. blank cassette. 4 "C" halt.. instrs.
No. 71.619EH .. (9x8r/ax2 '/a) .. (5'/4 Ib.) .. $171.50 Ppd.
EDMUND
110
DIA.
$99.50 Ppd.
cassette recorder too. One
unit)
Items.
City
88.50 Ppd.
BEAM
SLIDE -SHOW "BRAIN & VOICE"
t'llAitT ":
cate-
interferometry,
AC, 833nm
Show/Corder, with built -in

slide -sound synchronizer, is
Solve problems, play games,
predict weather with this

actual working model of
brains.
giant
electronic
Amazing new fun way to
learn all about computer
logic.
programming
systems.
decimal. binary
holography,
case, 2.8 x 3.8 x 10 ", 110v
wavelength, small beam divergence.

Stock No. 79020EH
0.7mW (SINGLE TEM0aMODE), 0.8mm
Stock No. 79.024EH
$120.00 Ppd.
REPLACEMENT BULB. No. 41,918EH
Low price on 0.5mW Laser

(random
mode);
0.9mm
beam dia. (at 10M,16mm)
belies Its
quality. New
cold aluminum cathode tube
for atore life stability (hl
beam: 9000 -hr tube life
under normal cond.) Ready
to plug in. turn on. Starts
Instantly. Safe. easy for
Stork No. 41.623EH
71,606EH
Self - contained
tungsten -carbide -tip

110v
Electric Engraver, with control knob to adjust depth &
width of cut. works easily
on metal, glass, plastic, wood. steel, most hard surfaces.
Inds 2 "Operation Identification" window stickers. 10
"Stop Thief" labels. instructions.
Stock No. 60,971EH
$9.95 Pod.
Big surplus bargain -tiny

electrical pressure switch
ORIGINAL COST $11.50.
No.
STROBE SCREWS IN ANYWHERE
then register with police.

Discourages home, business,
car burglaries. Low cost
ULTRA LOW PRESSURE SENSOR
instructions included.
Stock
STOP THIEVES! ENGRAVE NOW!

urge you to loin
"Operation Identification ",
mark your valuables w/ soc.
sec. or driver's license 3,
Police
Ppd.
activated by only 0.02 psi

air or 3/a' or less water
pressure. Single pole. normally open. 10 ma DC contact rating. 30v AC /DC
(usual loada require sensitive relay or solid state
control). Use as sensor.
control,
counter.
switch.
edge guide, Instrument alarm. Long life (1,000.000 operations), impervious to shock, vibration. 1' sq. polycarbonate
use, 3 /16' diem. barbed pressure ports. Wt -10 grams.
KNOW YOUR ALPHA FROM THETA!
Learn to control your Alpha -Theta brainwavee

for
relaxation, improved memory,
concentration.
Bead
electrodes, hooked to amplifier, filter brainwavee signaling audible beep for each
Alpha -Theta wave passed.
Wrist & finger contact pick
up and amplify heart beat,
skin resistance. Reliable,
easy -to -use trainer unit offers features comparable to
many higher- priced models. Completely safe. Most people
can learn Alpha rhyttun control in 10 -12 lira with full
Pioneering again..... Castle presents a sensational NEW

Timesaver for the Professional TI/ Service
ician .... .
Speed Testing by signa/ substitution. 4 new, simplified
approach to signa/ circuit analyzing.... .
TV
TUNER
SOlDER..
Transistorized Test Unit substitutes the tuner in defective TV Receiver to prove whether
original tuner is good or bad. Performs tests normally made using elaborate and expenbut much more simply, with
sive signal generating equipment and oscilloscopes
easily understood results. Tests that are, in fact, so simple that they can be made right
in the home, in most cases without removing the tuner or chassis from cabinet.
...
Use with any 40MHz receiver
...
...
black and white or color

tube or transistor.
Completely self contained and battery operated; Mk. Il, all solid state, improved version of original
"subber." Uses L.E.D. indicator, has higher gain with wide range control affording more than 40db of
gain recuction.
anywhere.
Use on the bench or in the home
Substitutes the VHF tuner and tests the UHF tuner. Provides signal to simplify testing of tuner, i.f. system
and AGC system. Comes complete with extension cables and instructions.
...
Unsolicited praise bestowed this revolutionary device includes:

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$31.95
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CASTLE TV TUNER SERVICE,

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Phone: (312)
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- 561 -6354
WINEGARD HAS PULL!

Pull enough to bring in those dis-
tant stations -those hard -to -get

channels -pull enough to feed more
than one set! Try Winegard's CW980 Color -Wedge VHF -UHF -FM
model, with its optional antenna mounted solid state preamplifier,
for the ultimate in TV reception.
Or, for strong signal areas, try one
of Winegard's smaller models. They
offer the same high quality, the
same protective gold finish, the
same two -year replacement policy.
If the Winegard name is on the box,
you can be confident it's an antenna
with real "pull" -and that's the
name of the game!
Winegard Accessories
For Complete Systems...
Winegard Antennas
For Trailers and Boats
SR-20T
Specially designed SENSAR

solid -state antenna for boats &
recreational vehicles -extra
strong construction.
BC -782 BOOSTER -COUPLER
Solid -State Booster -Couplers

for all-channel TV and FM signals to
to 4 sets.
CC -282 COUPLER
All- Channel non -amplified couplers to connect two sets to one
antenna.
Winegard's new "Hideaway"

Travel antenna for trailers,
boats, campers, folds like an
umbrella for travel!
FM
CS -380
H
F
TR -35 TV OUTLET
TV outlets in a variety of
models for all- channel TV
and FM reception
plus rotor.
BAND SEPARATOR
Band separators to
connect 75 or 300 ohm
downlead to 300
ohm UHF, VHF & FM
terminals.
r ,,.
AC -823B CARTRIDGE
PRE -AMPLIFIER
Antenna -mounted
pre-amplifiers
in 8 models for
all- channel, UHF,
VHF -FM and FM
use, each in its
own weatherproof housing.
Winegard Company -3000 Kirkwood Street
Burlington, Iowa 52601
W I N E GAR D
TELEVISION SYSTEMS

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