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SEPTEMBER, 1946
CaV E R

W2 K VY testing the Wat t Squeezer I on the

a ir. By comparison to the new RM E 45
t he ' Vat t Squeezer is on ly a handfu l of
equipment . Nevertheless it pu ts out a
hea lthy signal in competition wit h many
higher power locals. The old adage t ha t
you can't work 'em ifyou can't hear them
18 ample justification for a receiver considerably more elaborate t han the rig. A
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ARTICLES
Zero Hins (Editorial)
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T he Bi-Square Beam, or Working the World
Wit h 90 Wa t ta
Grorgt .\forrQw, W8R KP
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The Wa tt Squeezer I
Robn'. L . Rod, lV.tK 1T
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Notes on The Ten-Meter Vert ical
Oliver Perry Ferrell
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Two-Meter Mobile Receiver
J ohn W omowicz, W 9D UT and /lerbert
S . Brier, W9 EGQ" . ,
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.\lorton B. K ahn, WeKR
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H-F Operation of Parallel Tubes
F ronk C. J
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Mont hly OX Predict ione-c-September
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Design ing t he P ost-War Ham Shack
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Crystal Control
Under t he exiucuc ics of wa r, one part icu lar
branch of t he rad io ind ust ry made cxtruord innry
ud vam-es in prod uct ion methods and t echniques.
From lUI uvernge pre-wa r unit product ion of approxim a tely 100,000 crystul uni ts yearly, ma nufact ure!":'; jum ped to t he ast ronom ical out put of
34 ,lXX) ,OOO cryst a l units pe r year. T olerances of
these mass-prod uced crystals are often closer t ha n
the best pre-wa r r-otnmercial crystals . All good
umatcurs should t nke adva ntage of these improved (and less expensi ve) crystals.
when crvst ul cont rol first became po pular in
amateur rad io. it was hailed 3.-<; a great boon to
better signals ami grcut er o pe rat ing pleasure. X ot
on ly was freq uency stabili ty improved, but t he
qualit y of siguuls Oil t he air became superior to
anyth ing known before. Wh en it was m ade mandatory 011 tlli rue, cryst al cont rol-was fi rmly cstnblishcd :if' t he urce pted method of controlling the
m ust er oscillator of t he nverngc ha m transm itter .
Va ri: b L~ freq uency oscillators, the electroncoupled osc illa tor, a nd its m a ny varia tions became more po pula r largely because of the suc cess
en joyed by DX und contest operators who used
th is met hod of frequen cy control. T he ab ility t o
move closer in freq uency to a nx stat ion was a
definite advuntugc over t he fi xed frequency stat ion. Fa irly hi gh price of crysta l uni ts at t he t ime
made extensive crystal CO VC fa ll;C of an a vera ge
ha m band au expe nsi ve proposition .
Unfo rt unat ely , wit h the v. f. o. came a number
of undesirable by- prod uct s. D iscou rteous operators pl.mked th eir v.Lo's. on top of DX--cullcd
before QSO 's were completed- and in general
mad e II n uisance of t he mse lves. Poor line voltage
regulat ion, m inor im perfect ions in t he rig, a nd
major imperfections in many of t he v .f.o's . became T n signals chirping anti blooping all over
the band. -The swish and swoop of v.f.o's . on
every amateur ba ud have become a trade-ma rk
of a good thin g gone bad .
Don 't get us wrung . T his is 110 "sou r grapes"
di scussion . \Ye use a v.f.o. in our own station .
But we usc crystals t oo . There is a ti m!' a nd a
place for everyt h ing. The variable freq uency
oscillator is used only under certain condit ions .
Ou r line regulation is fierce. Using cryetnls we
can run u p to 500 watts with no chirp. When we
make sched ules using; OU f crysta l frequency , th ere
is no q uest ion where we will he. And ,:l:-; m uch as

September, 1946

hat e to adm it it , the te m ptat ion to do a litt le

sw ishing and swooping with ou r v .f.o. is so grea t
th at using crysta l control somewhat improves the
q uali t y of our st at ion.
o peruting
.
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Personally we believe that it will be a
gra ve m ist ake to discourage a fa r wider usc of
crysta ls t han is made today . C rystal cont rol
should bt as muc h a pa rt of a st at ion as t he v .f.o.
St iek to cert a in freq ue ncies and you 'll m a ke
friends m ore readi ly . Use your v J.o. for certain
t ype corutuunicati ons, for D'X'ing or contest
.work, hut use it wisely, Get in th e habit of looking arou nd for a reply oJ! your own frequ ency.
The bane of our DX hands is the misused v.f.o..
encou rugi ng crystal control a nd encouragi ng DX
stat ions to do a bit of t un ing m ay see happier
operat ing day!'! for everyone.
As a parting t hought 0 11 th o sub ject , let 's talk
about t he amat eur who parks a v .F.o . on the ed ge
of t he ban d, dead-beating with till' stnt .i on who
occu pies the last di vision on his dia l. There a re
ve ry Icw v .f.o's. t hat can perform this tri ck with
t he stab ility of a good crystn l-e-t he result is numl' I'OUS pink t ickets for amateurs who should know
better. T a ke a look at the specificuti one of what
is, in effeet , the most de luxe \ ' . ' 0 . nvni lable to
t he radio engi neer-s-t he Gcuorul B ad in (j] 6-D
heterodyne frequency meter, cos ting in t he
neighborhood of 8600. Although it is com pletely
t em perature-controlled a nd incorporates voltag e
regulation, a spec ial variable condenser wit h the
worm cut d irectly on t he shaft, specially aged
coils, as well as ext raordinary r igid mecbunical
construct ion , it is only claimed hy General Radi o
to be accurate + .1% of t he calibrate d ch art data
which is ind ividua lly d rawn up for each meter ,
Of course, with the use of a crystal calibrator , t his
unit is IlS a ccurate as the accuracy of the crystal
calibrator. If t he a mateur followed the pract ice
of using a crysta l ca librator in conjunc tion wit h
his v.f.o., t he frequency a ccuracy will be improved m any fold . T his m a rke r crystal would not
have to be a ny specific frequency , any crystal of a.
specific frequency (preferably a low d rift one)
would do t he job. With t he simple add ition of a
small trim mer condense r across the v.I.o. tank it
would be possible to a lways ret urn the v-l-ojto
its prelim inary calibration .
Good operating techniq ues should be bu ilt
around Lot h t ypes of frequency eont rol-e-cryst al
a nd \-.f.o .
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BEA M
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GEORGE W. MORROW, WBBKP '

Anyone who has worked 77 countries since the war must have something
special at his shack. W88KP modestly gives the credit to his Bi-Square
beam. In this article he shares his secret with a ll who are interested.
being the most talked of subject in
amateur radio today. this simple beam and
an udditicnal clement which may be added to
give impruvcd results is of interest to every DX
minded ham. The radiator alone will perform
well, and by adding the parasitic element the results nrc really "hot."
The single element or Hi-Square is a horizontally polarized radiator concentrating most of its
radiation at low useful vertical angles. The radiation is bi-directional, at right angles to the plane
of the wires in the rudintor and, while not too dirrx-tionnl horizontally, the nulls are very noticeable (nfT the ends). The horizontal polarization
of this antenna results in u minimum of noise and
a muxi mum of signal pickup on reception, and
hlnh ground reflection efficiency when transmitring.
Theoretically, the mdintion resistance of an

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antenna is unimportant from the standpoint of

efficiency, so long as it is n sizable percentage of
the total -resistance. The high voltages encountered when the radiation resistance is low complicate the insulation problem. The chief advuntagc of a high radiation resistance is that the
antenna is not so critical as to frequency. This
means the antenna is not critical in adjustment
and enn be used with equal effectiveness oyer the
present 28 me amateur band, both for transmitting or receiving. Because the Hi-Square has a
high radiation resistance (higher than the average
doublet), ordinary inexpensive insulators may he
used for suspending the radiators. It aL"'O means it
is easy to tunc up and get going, and on reception
one part of the band will not be "hotter" than
another.
Construction
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relatively stable in wet weather. Radiation is .t right angles 10 plane of wires. P.ra,itic clement (right) is mounted
on wood spreaders with no direct connection to Bl-Seuere. Addition of redletcr lowen vertical nglc of radiation
and lnereeses g.in.

'-ETER
Single
B."squor,
8t"SQ1JC1re + Reflect or
5 -5

S-5

5- 5.5
5 -5
5-4 8
5 -5.Z

5-9 + 6db

S' 9 + eoe

5- 9 ' 36db
5 -9 + I Odb
5 -9 + IOdb
5- 9 + 5 db

Fig. 3. Held str~ngth reedings taken on Bl-Squere

with and without reRector.

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T he feed line is now slid up and down from the

fi rst point of attachment until a point is found at
which the brilliance of each of the t hree lamps is
equal. It is rwl necessary that the standing waves
be completely eliminated from the line; the linc
will operate with very low losses even though
there is a slight variation in current and voltage.
Another method would be to check t he voltage
and current excursions along t he line with an
r-f galvanometer or low range milliammeter
and rectifier connected to a pickup coil.
These detailed instructions are intended for the
amateur who is not satisfied unless he is certain
his radiator is operating at peak performance.
Actually the adjustments are not critical and
good results can be obtained by merely cutting
the radiators and stub to t he dimensions given
and letting it go at that. By actual tests this
radiator is at least as good as t he Lazy II, one of
the best 28 me arrays, and covers a greater horizontal path. It will out-perform most simpler

28 me arrays and compare quite favorably with

the more elaborate ones, without going to the
trouble to get everything right "on the nose."
You may " ish to cover a greater area than permit ted wi th a single Bi-Square. This can be done
ensily by building an exact duplicate of the one
described above and placing it at right angles.
Arrange an r-f relay to switch the transmission
line from one st ub to another and you are all set
to cover the globe in great style. There will be no
coupling between radiators so long as they are
exactly alike and at exact right angles to each
other, even though both are mounted on t he same
pole.

Adding

R.n.clor

Our next step in search for greater antenna gain

was to build a duplicate to the single Bi-Square
described above and mount these two on one pole
parallel to each other acrose-connected and
[Continued on page 60 ]

NO
- - CONNECTION
:-

NO
CONNECTION
BETWEEN , _

LEGS

kPARASITIC
ELEMENT

.... ~

LEGS

BETWEEN

x
DRIVEN
RADIATOR "'I

'"',

,,,

I
J

I- X I -

X 4'-6- LONG II

WOOD

,-r1-BOTTOM

r
X tX 4'- 6 - LONG

GUY ATTACHED/
AT EACH CORNER
TO HOLD ARR AY
NEAR SQUARE

WOOD

UNE TO TRANSMITTER

<r

T EMPORARY SHORT PLACED HERE.

~ - - .....
TO REV ERSE DIR ECTION

x-

3 - GLASS INSU LATORS

......

PERMAN ENT SHORT

PARASI TIC EL EMENT AS REFLECTOR

Fis. 2. Bi-Squere beam showing method of construction and physical dimensions of reverting stub
and supporti ns frame.

S.pt.mb.r, 1946

11

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The Watt Sq ueezer I is a com~ a ct low po wer transm itter. M echanic ally it is extr eme ly simple
and can be co nstructed with ill minimum of tools. Twisted cable is m d erin g lea d, ex te rna l
to the rig.

TH E WATT SQUEEZER I
ROBERT L. ROD, W2KVY '

An ideal beginners transmitter, this littl e rig in corporate s all the

features desired by the advanced amateur who want, an all band low power transm itter

the vast amat eur

frat ernity is a ra the r large group of indi viduals who nrc lll'l'et wit h a pparently insu rmountable obstacles deterring almost any and
a ll a ttem pts to plur-e a few watts on t he air.
:\108t of these unfortunates are cliff-dwellers residing in the larger cit ies, uud of t hese not a few
ha ve direct current as the only available power
sou rce. It cun also safely be surmised t hat at
least half th e met rc polit un brethren a re unable to
erer-t a n Sn-mctcr half-wave antenna without it
d rooping a t the ends or havi ng it perched at a preca rious angle with respect to the ground. Added
to this misery is t he constant shadow of the
l\CL who must be carefully co nside red a nd rcspected.
The rig described herein is an answer to the
probl em of gett ing on the air while living under
the follow ing conditions:
I ST HI B VT F l> T IIUOCOHOUT

'14.5 E. 49th

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st. , X . r. c.

T he aut her's sole sourer- of power is a rotary

converter delivering ~oo watts of ] In-volt, a .c.
Inasmuch as the power drai n of the com mu nications receiver is 179 watts, only 12 1 watt s are
available to power the ent ire t ransmitter. Th is
minut e quanti ty of power demands t hc utmost in
simplicity , efficiency, a nd economy of t ubes if a
transmitter is to he ut ilized which might. sup ply
thirty or fo rty watts out put.
A few score a nte nnas oWII{d hy neighboring
BeLs clutter t he roof, and siuco the author's
transmitt ing sky honk pusses O\"'I' tunny of them
with but inches to spare, all key clicks and spurious rad iat ions must be grcatlv utt cu uated if
pe ace on earth and good will a rc to prevail.
The Wa tt Squeezer I is a break-in transmitter
capable of pushing a fairl y decent signal into t he
QH~ l with extreme economy of line input power .
A 6Y6 is used as a conventional crysta l oscillat or which more t ha n adequately drives a single
807 power amplifier to a ny input within the tube's

CQ

mting. .A low-curn-ut-druin hil~" sy:"t(,111 i..,; lIStd to

ho ld the screen \'oltagp of the SO, at 1111 extremely
low value during portions of the time when the
key is up, thus effectivcly limiting excess ampli fier pla te current flow. This expedient makes
unnecessary utilizing battery or power supply
bins to keep the plun- current of t ilt! SUi down
when excitation i:" otf. D u ring the time when t he
key is d own und the tran.e mitter ls operating, the
80, scree n YOIt:lJ;!:P is instantly brought u p to its
norma l operat ing value uutumaticnlly.
A considera ble amount of ti me wu...; spent in
p erfecting the qua lit y of the t rnu smit t er signal
with e m ph nxis lx-ing phu-ed on key-click elim inntiou . The pnrticulur hy illl-{ nn-thod is pructically
('!iIkll 's...; and has 11("1 )('(1 mainta in fr iendly relatiuns with the Il(' i j!;h ho r i ll~ cliff-dwellers. And , if
c.m venient, the :-;Y:oih'lll can he applied to ot her
rigs, fellow ham...; are ecntempluting building.
It is worth a note that the only tools needed to
build the Wa tt Squeezer I are n hand drill,
rrunx-r, (;n'('ul('C rad io chu...."iJol punch (1-5/ 32 "') ,
und soldering iron. :\0 Iarj!(' chas..is inserts were

made, nor were they attempted . . . mainly becuuse the author had no facilities for heavy
machine shop work and surmised that 11I00"t
nmnteurs nre in a similar situution. F urt her
simplification in construction is achieved by
using shunt feed to both' stages, thus enabling
the rotors of both tuning condensers to remain nt
grou nd level.
Some of the parts incorporated into the eq uipment ure choice surplus items no w abounding at
t he many stores.

Notes About The Transm itter

CHancing a t Fig. ~ J it iJol upparcnt t hat the Wa tt

Squeezer I is extremely struightforwnrd usido

from the method USI'(! t o hold the 807 plate curren t with in limits. The st raight nvn cryst a l osciltat or is absolutely convent ionnl a nd performs
well with its own low-volt nge power su pply, which
offers good o utput regulation under keying cond itions. T he oscillator 1>0\\"('1' supply delivers some
aoo volts to the 6Y6 plnte more t han enough to
secure sufficient drive for the 807. By using a

+300 '1

rr:

."

' C

-"'-'7

.....

C7

GROUND

.. 6.30"

6V6 ,.-",

B07

".--\,-.

;..::.

........~

',---

-..,
ANTENNA

-- ....

.7

."

NOTE : Ott. .,d, 0'

011 lltol'" tr OVlOd.d
- 5.. oppet>di.

Fig. 1. Circuit diagram of the r.f e nd of the Wa Sq ueeeer I.

C-1 - 140 JlJlf verieble.
dlemeter, self-supporting, 1 '!12" did. link cpticnel .
C-2 - 100 Jl Jlf verieble, 1,000 volt spdcing.
RFC-2.5 mh, 125 me choke.
C-3-Q.OO1 }J.f mice,
R-1 -10 K, 1 wett.
C " ( .6, CB! C9-Q.OO1 jlf peper.
R2-15 K, 2 watt.
C-S -120}J.JJ mice.
R.3-200 ohm, 1 WdU.
C-7-0.001 }J.f mtce, 1,000 volt work ing.
R-4, R-B-2O ohm, '!h wett.
C-10 -0.01 JJf cecer.
R-S -1SK, 1 w ett.
C-11-Q.1 Jlf oeper.
R-6-$ee text.
L1 -3.S me, 23 turns No. 20 pldin enamel, sceced the
R-7-100 K, 1 wett,
wire d temete r on 1 '!12'" did. form.
S3 -$PST lo991e sw itch.
L-2-3.S mc: 32 turns No. 22, sceced the w ire Y.1-80 meter crvstel.

September, 19 46

13
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separate power sup ply for t he oscillator) one

finds t hat t he keying is cleaner a nd less apt to
ch irp. F urthermore, less power is wasted b y
using a small low voltage supply than is wasted in
d ropping resistors when a high voltage supply
is tapped off for a few hundred volts to power
the oscillator.
A further ins pect ion of the circuit diagram \\;11
show that the oscillator output is impressed
across the 807 grid through the coupling condeneer C-5, while the d-e 807 grid voltage is applied
to the grid of a 6A3. The 6A3 pla te is t ied to the
screen of t he 807, which in tum is t ied to B+
through resistor R-6. When the 807 is not being
excited, either due to the key being u p or the
oscillator being detuned or wholly inoperative, the
6A3 is conducting heavily in the zero-bias condit ion. Therefore the voltage at the plate of the
6A3 (a nd of course the voltage at the 807 screen)
drops to an extremely low value by virt ue of the
IR drop th rough ita plate load ....istance R-6.
wh en the key is down and the oscillator is operative the large negative voltage developed across
R-5 practi cally cuts off all plate current flow
through t he 6.\3, allowing the 807 screen voltage
to rise to a value determined by t he resistance of
R-6. Unde r this cond it ion, the 6A3 looks like an
open circuit, a nd the normal screen current of the
807 produces a n III d rop through R-6 which.
when sub tracted from the value of the + high
voltage, equals the desired screen voltage. Since
it is important to make certain that the 807
screen voltage is always sit uated some where between 250 and 300 volts in order to achieve maximum tube effic iency, the accompanying table lists
the value for R-6 which will set the 807 screen
voltage at + 250 volts with the key down when
one of four high voltage potentials a re availeble.i

DC

PI.te Volt.S'
400 volts
500 II
600 "
751)

II

R-6
(20 watt)
(20 watt )
(20 watt)
(20 watt)

20,000 ohms
42,000 II
50,000 II
85,000 . f

w hen the key is up and the 807 is cut off,

the 6A3 plate current flow tends to add a measure
of voltage regulation to the rig by drawing a
rather large amount of current from the high
voltage supply. A 2A3 or a 6V6, 6L6, or 7C5
(t he latter strapped as triodes by t ieing plate and
screen terminals together) may be substituted for
the 6A3 without disturbing the operation in a ny
way. In fact, any low plate resistance tube not
having a remote cut-off can be used.
T he oscillator tank coil is wound on a 6 prong
plug-in form, while the a mplifier uses a commercial coil of the 75 wat t va riet y) wh ich in this case
had ten turns removed in order to t une with t he
parti cular condenser, C-B, a vailable. D epending
upon requirements, any antenna coupling circu it
can be used.
T he oscillator is keyed in its cathode circuit,
and the filter network shown in the diagram is
used to minimize key clicks. The 0.1 JoLf condenser across t he key cont acts "softens" the note
and a ids in making break-in operation more
restful to the operator.
M etering is accomplished by placing a milliammeter across eit her of two 2G-ohm resistances, one
being inserted in series with the cathode circuit of
each of t he two sta ges. Although this type of
metering d0C8 not give the absolu te value of plate
current due to t he inclusion of screen and grid
currents in a ny particular rea ding, it docs offer
a n add itive feature of safety as com pared to
'Va lues (or R-6 vs. plate vol tage are listed to allow
(or cha nges in power supply design by the individua l ' pla te current metering. A S P D T switch (not
illustra ted} enables one meter to be used for
amateur.

Under chusis vi ew of r..f section. Placement of pam sho uld

be carefully duplicated . The
socket in the front is for the
6A3. From left 10 ri 9ht, the
center row sockeb are the 807.
6L6 plate coi l, crystal socket.
Beh ind the crysta l socket is the
6L6 socket.

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Power supply wiring is relatively simple and may vary

con siderably depending upon

components undo Th e lm port"nt co:uideration i. to have
th e proper output voltages.
Cere sho ul d be observed when ever the supply is operating.
Vo ltages are high enough to
be d. ngcro:u .

reading either the oscillator or the amplifie r

cat hode currcnt.!
Power Supply
" -hereas t he t ransmitter of the \Vatt Squeezer
I is rather convent ional, the power supply depa rts from t he beaten path to utilize a few kinks
to supply t he voltnges in spite of an acute t ransformer shortage. Since fe w manufacturers produce a plate transformer rated at eight or nine
hund red volts either side of center tap at 100 rna,
and since . it was deemed unwise to invest in a
higher current transformer merely to power a
single 807, two identical low voltage l OO-ma
surplus t ransformers were pressed into use.
T hese t ransformcrs a re connected with t heir
primaries in parallel and the secondaries, which
are rated at 460-0-460 volts, in series. No use is
made of the filament windings also incorporated
into the units. A correct "aiding" series connection must be made 0 0 the secondary side if t he
output voltages are not to buck each other yielding zero volts output by virtue of vector subt raction. Likewise the primaries must be correct ly
connected in parallel, a nd a voltmeter will remove any doubts which might prevail. The combinat ion produces a pproximately 920 volts no load , when correctly wired , leadi ng to the choice
of a superb new high-vacuum rect ifier, the
5H-lGY , as the 807 power su pply rectifier. The
5H4G Y filam ent draws but 2 amperes at 5 volts,
and the tube itself, being high vacuum, is absolutely free from hash usual ly associated with
older mercury-vapor tubes needed to handle this
voltage.
A 10 henry , ZOO-rna choke and an oil-filled
2 p.f lOOO-volt condenser fonn the high voltage
filter system with a bleeder included to load down
the supply when no load is being drawn from the
uni t.
'Important- See Appendix
September, 1946

Small receiver type components are used exclusively for t he oscillator power supply . Here
again an economy in power is realized by using
the 6X5 full-wave rect ifier t ube with its low current 6.3 volt heater. T-l , in addition to supplying
t he oscillator plate voltage, supplies h eater po wer
for aUt ubes and filament voltage for the 5R4GY.
The common a-c input is fused for safety, and a
bleeder is placed across the low-voltage su pply
output in keeping with safe practice.

Mechanical Detail.
Both chassis are ident ical in size, 7" x 13" x 2"
A rubber-covered fou r conductor cable interconnect s t he two units except for t he 807 hi ghvoltage feed which is brou ght from t he power
su pply to t he t ransmitter by feed-through insu lators at eit her end.
T he part icular layout shown is not in the least
crit ical, and no parasitic oscillat ions have been
d etected. Aside from t he half shield placed
around the SOi (M illen 80007), no special pain.
have been taken to isolate the two stages ot her
than placement o f the parts as shown . T he d-e
blocking condenser, C7, is mounted on two feedthrough bushings, one end of which serves as a
feed through insulator t o bring t he high-voltage
up to t he 807 plate cap e nd the other end serving
a simila r funct ion in bringing t he stator lead of C-f
back to the SOi plate t hrough C-7.
Plast ic-covered st randed hook-up wire is exclusively used for all wiring with t he res ult that a
commercial appearance is produced with a minimum of effort. T h is type of wire strips easily, is
readily bent into sharp angles, and is pleasingly
color-coded . For ease in trouble shooting, sta nd ard color designations are used througho ut. Red
indicates high voltage, green ident ifies grid circuit wiring, black represents ground, brown fi laments, et c.
A common ground , consisting of a piece of 114
solid wire, rune t hrough t he transmitter chassis to

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- - ---- - - -

Tl

E'~
.. !-

E~ ;

5R4GY
... 750

\I

"""

or

.!
E'~

El',

+3 00 \1

0 '

C.T

sw.

5.2

~ V . ZA.

t6.311

6X5

1l5V.60 CPS
R9

Rl0

2.
C' 2

Cl

Fi g. 2. Watt Squeezer I, Po wer Supply

11, T-2 -Pow er transfo rme rs (See text) O ne p late
C-12-8 jlf 45 0 d .c. worki ng vo lts.
. transform e r, rated be tween 600 end 900 vo lts either C-13-2 1J.( 1p OO d . c. worki ng vo lts, o il-fi ll ed .
side o f CT at ove r 1 00 me , may be substituted for
L-3-Fil te r cho ke, 10 henries, 200 mel
these two transfo rm ers depend ing upon the bui ldL-4-Fil ter choke, 15 henries, 80 rna (Stancor C-1 420)
er's req uire men ts.
R-9-1 00 K, 2 wa tt.
T. 3-Power transforme r, 700 volts CT et 70 me, 5
R-1 o-aO K 20 w att.
volts et 3 emps 6 .3 volts at 3 amos, (Stenccr P-4078). 5-1, S-2-SPST to gs le sw itches.
IEquivolerd parts may be 8ub.'ttiluled J

insure tha t ground cou ncc tious nrc good a nd

solid. The b07 screen-grid hypnss condenser is
placed across t ile socket in the shortest pa th to
the cat hode pin in order to minimi ze pa rasi tic
oscillations, With this prer-aution, IlO spurious
oscillat ions should develop . If a ny do a ppear they
cun proba bly he eliminat ed by inserting a 50 oh m
resistor in series wit h t he input to the 807 grid
:IS close to t he ad uul grid prong 1IS is possible a nd
a not her at t he screen grit! prong.
E xtra unused prongs on the soc ket of [s-L and
the GY6 a re used to support wiri ng IUIl I small
component s, and all lend s are kept as short as
possible. The key jack is mounted on t he rear of
the trans mitter chassis, a nd a n extra cont rol oyer
t he 807, a cathode swit ch , is placed 011 the front
wa ll of t his snmc un it, The ext ra switch is a convc uient way of de-energi zing t he S07 without
remo vi ng its plat e vo ltage by the power su pply
IIV switc h .
Tuning-Up
Since t he coils used in t he transmitter need no
special taps a nd since t hey a re not at all critical,
tu ning-up shou ld lx- a sim ple mat ter provided
that no errors exist in wiring a nd that nll com ponent s have been reasonably select ed to agree

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with t he spec ified values given in t he se hematir-.

Aft er uscc rt uining t hat t he voltages throughout
the circuit arc of the right order (if a su ita ble d -e
volt me ter is avnilnble}, t he oscillator call be
ch ecked for operat ion (wit h the S07 plate voltage
left oft) by inserting a cryst al in itl' socket a nd
tu rni ng the low -vol tage su pply on. Rot at e CO Ildenser C-l unt il the measured oscillat or cathod e
cu rrent dips from nn off-resona nce value of a bout
50 m n to a ppruximatelv 20 rna. F or stable
operat ion , C-l is next adj us te d for slightly less
capacity t han that needed to minimi ze the oscillat or cat hode cu rrent at its lowest reading. At
t his latter point , the 6Yti cat hode cu rrent will be
sligh t ly higher than that observed at the " peak"
of t he di p. A one-wat t neon bulb placed near C-l
will glow at t his point if t he above operation has
been eo rrcr-t ly performed , a nd a check on th e
qualit y of the note u nder keying ca n be made on
the st at ion receive r. If t he keying t ends t o drug,
decrease th e capacity of C- l slight ly, and if th is
measure does not clean up the keying, the cry stal
should be given It cleaning in carbon tct .
The fi na l a mp lifier Cal l be tuned by adjusting
C-2 for a minimum value of 807 cathode cu rre nt
with the key down , the oscillator operative, and
{Continued on page 59J

CQ

OLIVER P. FERRELL '

common practice for the new Ham,

and some oldt imers as well, to try to get out
on 10 meters with 1\ vertical half-w ave ant enna .
At first glance, the vertical a ppears to have scvera] advantages. It is very simple to erect , since
the length need not be over 17 feet , it can be
made to radiate equally well in all d irect ions or
azimuths and is fairly easy to tunc.
After erecting the vertical at some random
height , most amateurs find it works out pretty
well on the ground wave- a few find it works on
some "short-skip," but not on t he DX. Some
find it works errat ically on DX and on shortskip, while unfortunately, many fi nd it very poor
on both. Since the rest of the locals appear to
work the DX with other types of antennas the
vertical becomes a worthless hunk of wire. However, !) chances out of 10, it isn't the vertical
itself that is totally at faul t , but is probably due
to the Ham, who neglected to give a little more
thought to some simple a pplications of t he
"angle of radiation."

T I S A Y KRY

Angle 01 R.d i.tion

T he angle of radiation is not a mystic quantity,
determined experiment ally by trial and erro r. It
is a finite relat ionship of ionospheric wave propagation and great circle distances. On the 10 and
11 meter bands this relat ions hip is exceedingly
elementary and sho uld be fully understood beforehand by anyo ne attempting to usc these two
bands.
On occasions of 10 and 11 meter short-skip it
has been possible to fully establish t wo factors.
They are: (I) the short-sk ip is caused by an abnormal E layer condition, where the reflecting
medium is almost invariably 110 km in height.
(2) most of the contacts are made bet ween the
ranges of 300 t o o(x) miles. .A few single hop contacts have been made out to as far as 1400 miles,
but generally working beyond 900 miles calls for
an antenna that is fairly well in the clear and the
Note: This discussion of the lobe patterns for the
10-meter vertically polarized antenna is based upon
an average ground. This is considered to be a mixture of sand and loam. The moisture content of the
immediate ground will affect the dielectric constant
and earth conductivity. Radiation over very wet
earth generally results in the vector ratio accentuating the higher angle lobes. In contrast, radiation
over see water tends to accentuate the lower angles
of radiation.

.4609 North Broid St., r ui, 40, Pa.

September, 1946

usc of po wer measured up in t he hundreds of

watts. From t hese t wo parameters it is possible
to determine quite accurately t he minimum and
maximum angles of radiat ion.
The minimum worki ng a ngle of radiation for
working out on short-skip could be considered in
the tenus of an arc several minutes above the
horizon. But , wi t h t he power output employed
by the amateur, few stations can claim a working
minimum angle of 3 degrees, while the general
run is about -4 to 5 degrees. At angles below 3
degrees the ground scatter and absorption become
important attenuat ing factors which nonnally
do not interfere with higher angles of radiation.
For an angle of radiation of 5.5 degrees, which
is eq uivalent to a range of 900 miles, or the dlstunce between New York City and St. Louis, we
find approximately 40% of all short-sk ip contacts. During an intense sporadic E burst, 10
meters has been known to open from 300 miles.
This range will determine t he maximum angle of
radiation and is equal to exactly 2t degrees for a
llO km layer height. Therefore, a ny ty pe of
antenna th at radiates above 2-1 degrees to any
appreciable amount is, to follow the classic expression, a "cloud-wanner."
Any Ham who managed to get a crack at
radar sitting during t he war is probably familiar '
with t he num ber of lobes of vertical radiation as
the height of any antenna is increased. The
vertical half-w ave is particularly notorious at
this practice of radiating a considerable portion
of its energy at ext raneous and sometimes worth-

6 0'

VERTCAL RADIAT ION

WITH
BASE INSULATOR 2~' HIGH

RELATIVE

POWER

Fi,. 1. Rel.tive power radiated vs. the angle, 01 radi.

tion lor a 10 meter Mil-wave vertical anlenn. wilh Ihe
lJ be,e 25 lUI above ,round level
a

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less a ngles. Few Hams have t he facilit ies for

getting the vertical much above a nominal height
of :10 to 40 feet (height of base insulator). This
height persists even today because of the stigma
of " line of sight" commu nication when considering the erect ion of 10 meter antennas. Act ually,
the Incts of the angle of rad iat ion belie this t lmeworn hypothesis.
In Fig. 1 is shown the relat ive power radiated
vs. t he angles of radiation for a 10 meter halfwave vert ical antenna with t he base 25 feet above
ground level. Obviously, this radiator is doing
much ill the way of keeping seve ral clouds very
comforta ble. .-\ lobe of fai r size occurs at 60
deg rees. This corresponds to a short-skip hop
amoun ting to about 80 mites - an impossible
ionospheric cond ition on 10 meters. A second
ma jor lobe is rad iat ed at 30 degrees. T his corresponds to a range of about 210 miles-e-n shortskip cond ition which occurs very seldom . At th e
most useful angles of radiation, this vert ical at
this particular height radiates the leas t amount.
of power.
If we drop the antenna down about 9 feet to
where the base is exact ly one-half wave above
ground level a very interesting thing happens.
The 60 degree and 30 degree lobe. combine at 411
degrees and the relat ive power radiated at t his
angle is approximately ,1)0 % of the total energy .
Many verticals erected ncar th is height above
gro und appear to work out on the longer reaches
of short-skip. This cond ition is portrayed in
Fig. i where it call be seen that a certain small
percent ago of the power is now being radiated
bet ween 5 a nd 15 degrees. This corresponds to
working from 450 to 900 miles.
It is unfortunate, but many t imes const ructional diffic ulties do not perm it the erection of
tbe vertical 10 meter half-wave at its 1lI 00~t
effective height . T hat is, with the base only -l
to G Iect above ground level. T his is illust rated

ill Fig. 8 . .-\ t this low height a very small minor

leb o is found at about SO degrees. The power
lost here i:o only 7 to S%. Co nt rastingly, t he arc
bet ween 5 anti 24 degrees is now filled in by t he
maximum rad iated power a nd in the absence of
minor lobes presents a solid front at all the import:mt angles of radiat ion .

u,ins the Vertical on Lons Ranse DX

Fortunately the problem involving t he use of a
vert ical half-wave for 10 meter DX is not as COIllplicated as it migh t :It first appear. Here t he
propngntion of 28-30 me signals must depend
upon the F 2 layer, which varies in height from
260 km to 390 km . The height vari ation can
only sligh tly be anticipated. The maximum
height and maximum density of t he F region
occurs one or t wo hou rs after t he wave path subsolar point. Or in other words, the maximum is a
fe w hours after midday at the midpoint of the
working path. T his phenomenon has been observed by 10 meter DX men and is illust rated
monthly in the CQ Pred ict ion Charts.
Some years ago the H.C.A. Riverhead Receiving Station made a number of tests on 10
meters in conju nction with the reception of 7
meter t rans-At lant ic television signals. Those observat ions included the determinat ion uf the
signal angle of arrival or rad iat ion and since they
are still a pplicable to th is t opic they are illustratcd in the grnph form in Pig. 4.
Although the height of reflection va ried from
2S2 kill to 378 km , a line of mean range versus
angle of radiation IIUl ! ' 1)(' drawn . The maximum
angle of radiation will be d irectly related to t he
intensity of F region ionizat ion . Referring to d ata.
collected du ring the last sunspot maxi mum we
fi nd that the minimum F layer ski p distance,
which is inversely proportional to the maximum
ionization, was about 1100 m iles. This con-es-

VE RTICAL RAOlAT+ON

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botH 16 Fut ebcve ground level.

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Fi9 . 3. Relative pOWI:l' ,adi"ted n . the angles of r.di. lion For a 10 meta h.lF-wave vatic.l .ntenn. with the
bese 4 Fut ebcve 9round level.

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d ista nce .

po nds to a general max imu m angle of rad iation

nf 17.5 degrees. This angle is illust rated in t he
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 as the dashed line. The minimum
a ngle of radiation should follow quite closely
t hat of short-skip propa gation . Possibly, there
are frcqu ent occasions , vhere propagation docs
occur below 5 degrees, but it is the expressed
belief that in working ranges beyond 1750 to
WOO miles, the propagation is by two or three
hops. Employing the R .C.A . data the minimum
angle is a little over 7 degrees: this is also illustented in Fig3. 1, ! and S .

Optimum Mounting Height

T he vertical half-wave antenna does have an
important place in 10 meter communication. If
it were possible to put the antenna 100 or more
feet above ground, many of the minor lobe s
would fill in t he necessary angles for working
either short-skip or DX. However, since most
verf.ienls have tended in the past to be antennas
necessitated by space, time, and monetary expcnditures it is well to keep in mind t hat for 10
and 11 meters the maximum power must be
radiated bet ween 5 and 2t degrees above the
horizon. This can only be accomplished by keeping the vertical very low, with best results obtained when the base insulator is 4: to 6 feet above
ground level.

September, 1946

T here a re two factors which can not be neglected in any discussion on 10 meter ball-wave
antennas. One of these concerns the circular
pat tern of the vertical antenna. For the average
lI nm this is a pu re t heoret ical assum ption. Every
telephone line, ho use wirin g line, building, guy
wire and fence distorts the pattern till no t wo
identical vertical antennas have ident ical horizontal patterns. T his appears to be the reason
for many verticals being placed as high as 1'0:;siblc, but seldom above ao or 40 feet. If it is impo ible to mount the vertical low and with the
favored directions in the clear, it will undoubtedly pay better to try some other type of antenon, unless you have several hundred watts of
po wer to waste.
T he second point concerns the term "ground."
This docs not represent a loose bit of wire insecutely wrapped around t he nea rest waterpipc.
An efficient half-wave vertical antenna must be
worked against an effic ient ground . There nrc
literally hundreds of excellent ways to obtain an
efficie nt gro und-starting from the 120 wire 3
degree radial system used by the broadcast ing
stat ions, down to driving several iron stakes in
the gro und directly below the antenna. T his
problem can be left to the ingenuity of each
amateur, but remember the ground, to be a
ground, must be direct and low-resistant.

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JOHN WONSOWICZ, W9DUT

and
HERBERT 5, BRIER, W9EGQ 2

A novel design inco rpora ting a completely shie ld ed high -ga in r f sta ge
the requirements for a successful mobile receiver appear no different than
fo r a fixed station receiver. Actually they are
much st iffer. Mechanical stability is of utmost
import ance nnd sensitivity must be high, because
of the usc of low antennas. Equally important, if
less obvious- unless you have actually operated
"mobile't-c- is the need for true single-control operation. Under the best of conditions mobile OIr
eration requires the manual dexterity of a
Houdini. If one must be constantly retuning the
receiver, adjusting antenna coupling and the regeneration control, even Houdini himself would
have shied away from the idea.

T FIRST GLANCE

R.F Slag"
Unless nn r-f stage is used , t he antenna passing
- and hitt ing- t ree brunches nnd ot her objects
pulls t he det ector in a nd out of regenerat ion as
well as detuning it. An r-I stage eliminates these
effects, and allows the regeneration control to be
JOW Whitcomb sc, Gary, Ind.
2 1185 Johmon SI., Gary, Ind.
1

adjusted once and then forgotten . It also reduces (but does not completely eliminate) radiation from the oscillating detector. Anyone wh o
has built one will quickly tell you it is one thing
to recommend an r-f stage and quite another to
make one work well enough at 144 me t o give
any gnin, a nd not actually decrease t he sensit ivity of the receiver. The one in the receiver
described here does slightly better than this;
signals that are not quite readable without it a re
brought up to a readable level when the rf stage
is used ,
The entire r-f section is built in a self-contained aluminum box, 2 ~" x 3" x 5", which
plugs into the aud io chassis. An auxiliary cable
permits operation of t he receive r when t he r-f
unit is removed from t he chassis for adjustment.
Separate pieces of aluminum fastened together
with small flat-head machine screws a re used to
make the box . Any side can be removed for working on the unit. All parts, except the J ones plug,
are mounted on the 3" x 5" top plate, and wiring
can be completed before the sides and bottom
are fastened in place.

The entire r.' section is ccnta ined in a small aluminum box .

Rigid mechanical connections
will ed d stab ility. Components
are located for:min imumllenq~~
leads.

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(Left) The complete receiver II dressed up

to give it. Finished . ppelF. nce. The two
seetlc n ch.ssis is clearly visible from the
rCIF view shoL Power is brought In
through the four-prong-soclcet.

(Right) The r..l seetlen removed from the

.udio-ch.ssis shows the Jones plug used
for connecting the two units.

Note cnrefully t hat t he partition shield goes

di rectly across the socket of the 6A K5. T he metal
insert in the socket is grounded to t his shield.
Tum the socket so the control grid (pi n I) and
the plate (pin 5) arc on opposite sides of the partition. It ca nnot be em phasized too st rongly tha t
t he mo re care taken to make t he shielding compick', the better t he receiver will work. Cut out
from the sh ield only enough meta l to clear t he
socket terminals.

" Butterfl y" Cond e nser

T he "butterfly" t uning condensers are handmade, but after t hey were constructed Ca rdwell
announced their model E R-6-BF/S condensers
which are almost exact duplicates ; so constructional details are omitted . T his type of condenser has two ad vantages. M ost im portnnt (in
t his a pplication) they are much quieter, beca use
the rotor bearings a re no longer used for OIlC contact. Second ly, a lower minimum capacity is obtained. T he full capacity range of t he condenser
is covered in only 00 degrees. The 1H-148 me
band covers only about 20 degrees, so t his is
really no handicap. I nsula ted couplings fasten
the conde nsers together a nd to t he dial. T he
1.5-7 J,l J,lf t rimmers are soldered a cross the eondeusera with pra ctically no leads. They are t uned
through holes in t he side of t he box with a n insulated neutralizing tool. Both t he varia ble condensers and the trimmers are mounted on t woinch blocks of X" lucite, which, in t um, is

fastened to the top of t he box.

T he coils are wound on thin-walled, low-loss

September, 1946

bakelite forms for rigidity. Spa cing between

t urns is a dj us ted 80 t he trimmers peak nea r
minimum capacity. T here i1:J a powdered iron
slu g in 3, the primary winding of t he detector
coil. I is ad justment varies t he in ductance of the
coil cons iderably , but its ma in pu rpose is to increase the coupling between LS a nd L4. Tight
cou pling increases sensit ivity a ppreciably . These
cores are not readily a vailable commercia lly at
present , but can be obtained at Army-Na vy surplus stores complete wit h coil for a few cents each .
T hey were used in several radar receivers . If t he
core is unobt ninnble, interwind L3 and L4-.
It might be t hought t hat using a permeability
loaded coil in t he detector a nd a conventional
coil in the r-f stage would prevent accurate tracking of the t wo stages. This might be t rue if t he
core WM inside of L4. Actually , being inside of
LS, it has only a minor effec t 0 11 the inductance
of L.'j. One set ting of t he r-f trim mer holds across
the entire band .
T he rest of the circuit is conventional except
for C9, the detector grid condon...ser. Its adjustment will be described la ter. " 11ile a fivemegohm grid leak is specified, results do not vary
a ppreciably when its resista nce is va ried between
two and ten megohms. The full sup ply voltage
is applied across t he regenerat ion control, R6,
which is wire-wound to carry the current. Close

to 175 volts are ap plied to the plate of t he 9002

under operating conditions because of t he very
hea vy loading of t he circuit by t he preceding
stage. (\Vithout load , t he 9002 super-regenerates
with less t han 25 volts on its plate.)

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Circuit diaoram of two-meter mobile receiver. FollowinlJ ) spart(list.

C1, C7-C" dw<l1 ER-6 BF/ 5 va riable

C2, CB- 1.5-7 JJJl.f ce remic
C3, C4, CS-SOO iJJJf mice
C6-.001 Jolf mice
C9-3-30 J.l.JJf, ceramic
C1o-.004 JAf, 600 v., peper
C11, C13-25 p.f, 25 v., electrclvtlcs
C12, C14-100 llJ,lf, mice
C1S-Q.5 }.I.f, 400 V., peper
l1 -3 t. 116 enemef 1,4" I. D., intcrwou nd with L2
L2-S t. 116 bere, 14 11 I. D.
L3- 4 t. 116 cndmel, 1,4" I.D., permeebilitv tuned

L4-5 t. #16 ba re, %./1 1.0.

R1- 200 o hms for 6AKS, 1200 oh ms for 9001, 300
ohms for 9003, 1,.4 watt

Construction.1 Det.i1s
The 9]1" x 5" x 2 ~" chassis has a 334''' x l ~"

ste p cut out of the righthund end, covered with

aluminum, to acco mmodate t he r-f sect ion. The
ma le hnlf of the J ones plug mounts on the side of
t he ste p. The piece of alumin um forming t he
bottom of the r-f vox extends U " beyond the
outer side of the box . Two screws through this
lip, combined with t he Jones plug, hold the box
firmly to t he chassis.
This receiver fi ts in the glove compartment of a
1941 Buick. The pan el was made 67.(" x 10" to
allow room for t he microphone handset to be
stored in the compartment when not in usc.
Seven st rips of aluminum, 4" x 3/8" X 1/ 8" , with

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R2-3S,OOO 'ohms,~1,4 "w ett

R3-S00 ohms, 1,4 ~wci tt
R4- 4000 ohms, 1,4 wett
RS-S meg ., 1.4 Wcitt
R6---S0,OOO ohms, w.w. pot.
R7 -2S0,OOO ohms, pot.
R8 -2000 ohms, Y2 ~"tt
R9-S0,OOO ohms, Y2 wett
R1Q-SOO,OOO ohms, 1,4 wett
R11-S00 ohms, 2 wert
RFC1-BO mh t-i choke
RFC2-S0 t. 124( on 1,.4" polystyrene rod
T1 - 3:1 e-f trens o rm er
T2- 0utput transformer

Tube shie lds- J ohnson 27BA end 2775 (bose)

rounded corners, 5-pUCM 34" Iorm t he bar-ty pe

speaker grill, They are fastened together with
t wo screws, 2 ~ " long. The last st rip is t h readed,
and after asse mbly, the screws are ground off
Bush . Four 2-56 screws, tapped into the corners,
fasten the grill to the panel.
Only a 2)1" x 2" hole is cut in the panel for
the four-inch P)l speaker, but the volume is fur
more than can be used at any time. C15, from
t he ann of the regeneration cont rol to ground.
eliminates noise generated when the cont rol is
turned. It also increases the audio gain somewhat. If the receiver " motor-boats" when t he
volume control is advanced, increase the ca pacity
of th is condenser to as high as 16 llr.

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A lignme nt
Tuning a nd peaking this receiver is little
different than wit h any other. A signal generator,
which may be another calibrated super-regenerutive receiver, is IIlU1\t helpful for preli minary
adjustments. With the G.-\ K.~ out of its socket,
pick up a very weak siguu l from the signal generator. T hen adjust CO for maximum sensitivity.
Slightly less than maximum capacity gave best
results in this receiver. Once this is done C9
may be forgotten. Replace the 6AK5 and with
the iron core half in W, set C8 to center the band
on the dial. Xext, peak C2 to bring the r-f stage
in line. Unless all the shielding: is in place, it is
likely the r-f St3j.!;C will break into oscillation 88
C2 approaches resonance. For preliminary work
any length of wire may be used for an antenna,
but the finnl adjustment should be made 'li th
the antenna that will be used regularly. Different
antennas have considerable effect on the setting
of C. Experiment with the number of turns on
Ll is also recommended. Sometimes grounding
one side of Lt , even with a two-wire feed line
helps, and other times allowing it to float works
better.
After C is ndjustcd, the iron core in LS may be
varied for greatest. sen...itivity. Remember to
check the setting of CS each time the core is
moved. T he farther the core is inserted, the more

the regeneration control must be udva nccd . As

stated before, the r-f stage does not com pletely
eliminate receiver radiation, a nd operating the
detector at such a comparatively high voltage
does increase till' radiation. However , the radint ion is still much less than from a receiver
with 110 r-f stage.
Should the r-f stage persist in oscillating even
with all the shielding in place and the antenna
connected, increasing the resistance of the
cathode resistor will eliminate the oscillation .
This reduces thc gain of the stagc somewhat, and
should be done only M a last resort .
RFC is homemade and outperforms some
commercial chokes, probably because it has no
metal fittings. I n spite of the much higher mutual
conductance of the 6AK5 over 9001 and 9003
tubes, all three work about the same in the r-f
stage. Previous experiments here tend to show
that the higher the frequency used, the less importnnt is the higher JIlU of the l).-\ K5 . A 6Cl is
interchangeable with the 900"2 as the detector.
This receiver is used in conjunction with the
s:t2-A mobile transmitter we described in CQ for
August , If).!;''). Thc only change required to
move the transmitter from 112 to 14-4 mc, was
to replace the tank coil with one of 1/ 8" copper
tubi ng :i/8" inside diameter, consist ing of three
turns .

Underneath the audio-.chassi s, Placement of components is not critical because there is no r-l wiring in this sectlcn,
The wires running 10 the sid e of the chassis containing the r-lsedion are common grounds and not extended through
the chassis.

Septembe r, 19 46

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With relatively few custom-built components the Tmeo 75-GA achieves unusual deann ess of appearance by
careful attention to layout and wiring. A lot 01 equipment is contain ed on one I.rge chassis with no (lowdln,.

75 Wcdt8MORTON B. KAHN, W2KR '

C O~I1I ERCIAL TRA.'..;SMITIERS in

field
arc becoming more common daily. w hether
you arc interested in building your own rig or purchasing factory-built equipment, feat ures of commercial rigs arc of interest to all hams. I n almost
every case the development of ham rigs has been
under the supervision of amateurs t hemselves.
Commercial rigs incorporate refinements made
possible by be t ter production facilities, but by
and large t hey arc ideas available for anyone to
copy.
An interesting addition to commercially available units is t he 100/75 watt phone-c-o-w rig
manufactured by T emco. An all-hand unit, inthe amateur

corporat ing variable frequency operat ion together with fac ilit ies for d irect crystal control, it
is unnecessary to employ any external equipment
to permit frequency flexibilit y which becomes increasingly necessary as greater congest ion of
a va ilable channels occur.
Not the least unusual in the series GA transmitte rs is the provision to prevent obsolescence
and allow for expansion . It is a feature well worth
considering in desi gning any post-war equipment .
By relat ively minor design changes each unit can
have added to it the components to ra ise the
power u p to the maximum lega l input (or amateurs .

V.F.O.
The varia ble frequen cy oscillator incorporated
in t he Temeo transmitter closely approaches the

"Tra nenntter Equip ment Mf g. Co.,

545 H udson si., N . Y . 14, N . Y .

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freq uency stability obtained from II cry.sta l oscillator. T he v.J.o. is a HJ5, triode connected, togethe r wi th a Class A, 6AC7 buffer stage. A
regulat ed power su pply insures constant voltage
to this section, thus eliminat ing; frequen cy
changes d ue to voltage variat ions . Broa dl y
resona nt pla te circuits a rc em ployed in the GAC7
buffer etnge, as well as th a followin g buffer,
doubler a nd t ripl er.
Each of these st a ges
resonat es over the ent ire widt h of the a.ssoei ated
amateur band . Each plate circ uit may be
switched either to t he TB35 fi nal a m plifier or to a
following doubler or trlpler stage.
T he v~f-o tuning; dial and the 1'8.1;') plate circuit adjust ment dial arc the only tuning cont rols
required throughout anyone freq uency band .
T he finn! am plifie r plat e circ uit ut ilises standa rd
}()()...wat t plug-in coil fo rms with buil t-in va riable
links.
All the intermediate plate circuits use induet ively tuned systems for broadly resonati ng t he m
together with the t ube input and out put ca pacities. Tuning is a ccomplished with met alli c slugs
and these adj ust ments arc made under laboratory
conditions at t he factory and locked into posltiorr.
T he T B.'15 grid drive over the whole of each band
is practically consta nt, a nd what small varia ti ons
do occur at the higher frequencies, do not at a ny
t ime provide for less than t he requi red grid d rive
for the fi nal st a ge.
Pa rticular atte nt ion has been devoted to t he
design of the v.I.o. a nd associa ted Class A buffer
stnge. T o insure a high degree of frequency
(Conti nued on page 57)

CQ

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PARALLEL TUBES
FRANK C. JO NES, W6AJF'

Parall e l 813 5 in on a ll-bon d trcnsmitter fo r p hone and c.w.

transmitter illustrated in the

photographs and circuit diagrams was built
primarily to prove that relatively high tube
capacitances could be overcome and advantage taken of these troublesome items. The
writer previously had used type 807 tubes in
pa rallel at frequencies above 60 mc fo r several
years of operation with good results as compared
with the more usua l push-pull circuits. The larger
screen-grid 813 tubes have rather high eapacitance fo r input and output circuits in the 3O-rnc
range. An 813 has a rated input capacitance of
16.3 and output of 14 /lllf, values which are in
excess of the total value required in a t uned plate
circuit at 30 me for reasonable LC ratios. Putting
two tubes in parallel doubles these capacities
while push-pull halves t hem with respect to the
t uned circu its. Push-pull operation requires an
external split stator condenser for tuning thc
LC tank circu it to res onance. If this condenser
is large enough to tune the circuit with proper

H E RADIOPHOSE

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Berk~ley

4, Calif.

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amplifier. Fig. 2 (right) Connections for paralle l luning
accomplished by stra p connections on coil plugs.

LC ratio at 372 or 4 me, its value even at minimum capacity setting is t oo great for efficient
3Q-mc or even I-t-me operation when added to the
813 output ca pacitance.
Push-pull operation requ ires t wice the grid-togrid peak r-I voltage as t wo t ubes in parallel.
T his item may be of importance at higher frequencies where high peak voltage is d ifficult to
obtain from low d -e voltage supplies and relatively small doubler-exciter t ubes. Parallel operation offers some advantages in this respect provided the higher tube capacitances can be nullified
or even used to good effect.
S~ries Tuning

I t is possible to accomplish this by using series

rather than parallel tuning at the higher frequencies. This permits the use of even more
inductance than can be used with push-pull
operation, and the net result is more r-f power
into the antenna system at 14, 2 1, and 28 me.
Parallel tubes require relatively high C to L ratios
at low frequencies unless the plates are tapped
Speech amplifier and TZ~O modulalon occupy one
chassis. Mder panel contains instrume nts for entire
transmitter.

September, 19 46

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across only a porti on of the coil; for example, if

the plat es arc connected to t he center tap or II
coil, t he tuning capacity only needs t o be 011('quarter as great as if the plates were connected
to the to p end of the plate coil for proper I.G
ratio or " fly-wheel" effect.
In Fig. 1 t he basic series tuned circuit emplovt'd
in this transmitter is shown, in which Cl is the
tuning condenser and Co is the parallel S fS output
t ube capacitance of 2S JJ.lJ.f . T he range of C, is
from about 18 to 50 IJ.JJf, and is in series wi th
the tu be capacitance across t he plate coil L. T he
resulting red uction of t uning range of Ct is all
advantage at the higher frequencies for CU."I' of
t uning to any desi red frequency in an amateur
ha nd, provided the plate coil has t he correct
n umber of t urns (ind uct a n ce).
T he sa me t u ni ng condenser Ct can be connected
for pa rallel tuning as indicated in Pig. !! where ti ll'
tube or parallel t ube plates may be connected to
any desired point on t he coil for cor rect im peduuco match and LC ratio . I n actual practice tho
changeover fro m series t uning to parallel tuning
in a radio trans mitter is easily accomplished b~'
making a couple of s t ra p connections between
coil plugs on st a nd a rd plug-in coils as sh own ill
Fig. 3. T he low er frequency band coils arc ('011nect ed to the a -pin pl ugs, as shown in Fig. So,
which automatically makes the circuit becom e
the basic form sh own ill F ig. 2. T he high er frequency band coils arc st rup-cunnect cd a..;,; iud i-

OscW.tor Co il

35 turns #22 DCC, 134" IODI( x %" dia.

ta pped at 9 and 17 t urns from plate end.
Buffer Coils
(I ~" d ie. plug-in forms)
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28 me

JPri.- 25 turns #22 DCC, 134 " long.

\ Scc.- 25 Il , 26 DSC, close-wou nd
at end of primary .
/ Pri.- 16 turns 120 DCC . 1)-<'" long.
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JPri.- 7 turns , ZO DCC, 1 ~'" long.
\ See. - a " 122 DCC, interwound.
JPri.- 5 t urns 118, 1>4 " long .
\Sec.- 3 H 118, interwou nd.
Final Plate Coils

4me- 3-l t urns,

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21 me- 12 "
28 me- 6 "
2 ~ '" dia.

112, 3 >-2" long x 2 34'" d ie .

l I Z, 3" long x 2 ~ " dia.

n O, 3" long x 2 ~ " die.

110, 4" long x 2 ~ '" d ie.

copper tubing, 4" long x

eated in Fig. 31> to form the basic series tuned

circuit of Fig. 1. Once these st ra p connections
a rt' made for each RIa pla te coil, operat ion on

each band for series or pnru llcl tuning is autom ati eally obtained. I n the set illustrated here ,
t he origina l coil center tap wn... used for the plate
tap on low freq uencies nnd ns the r-f choke tap
on the higher freq uencies.
Series tuning can he applied to parallel-tube
grid circuits if link coupling is em ployed between
the buffer-tuned plat e and grid t uned circuits .
The snmc general type of coil st ra p system can be
nppliod t o sta ndard plug -in 1)0 watt coils providod an ext ernal fixed lin k eoil is used instead of
t he one normally attached t o the plug-in coil fonn
pins . I II the t rans mitter s hown here, a form of
un it y coupling was used with the grid coi l unt uned . T he tube input r-apacity a nd grid co il do
not resonat e within any amateur hands. T he grid
coil needs to he tightly coupled t o t he buffer
plate coil but should uot have enough t u rns
(Ind uct a nce) to resonat e with the R13 input
r-npucitanco within the a mateu r band . T his is a
little diffi cult at ~o me, where the 81:\ input
capucitn nce of abou t 26JJ I.t.f looks like a fair-sized
tuning condenser in value . As a result, the :m-me
plat e coil (and intcrwound grid coil) has a low
I.-tu-C rat io a nd a 6..\G7 doubler operates a t.
pretty high plate current.
An 807 was substitut ed for the o riginal 6AG 7
tu be in ord er t o insure be tt or t ube life for 28-

Fig. 3. Method o f strapping connections between coil

plugs on standard plug-in coil s. Strapping as shown on
top ( A) ljives parallel circuit drawn in Filj . 2. Connected as shown on bottom (B) gives basic series tuned
circuit of Fig. 1.

price of 1'07 tubes made t hem very d esirable for

usc in any excit er s t a ges, even in t he cryst a l
oscillator. T he type of Colpitt s "harmonic"
crysta l osci llat o r u!'('d in the circuit of Fi g. 4 will
fu nct ion vcrv well with a ny t etrodc or pent ode

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end TZ.40 modulaton. Heating un it may be switched
in seri~s with primary 10 lower pl.l~ voltage for tuning
up tr.nsmitt~r or op~ratlng at reduced input.

support for "iring the suppressors between the

t ube socket contacts a nd the t uned circuits or
high frequency by-pass co ndensers .
The 8 13 tubes have enough grid-to-plate enpacltance to cause self-oscillation in the amplifier
sho wn in the photograph. This tendency to
oscillation was stopped by connect ing the scree ngrid by-pass condenser back to ground t hrough
the plate by-pass condenser. Bot h of these mica
condensers should have a high working vo ltage
rating of at least 2500 volts . The degenerative
effect of this connection a pparently offse ts the
regeneration present from other sources in the
8 13 stage.
T he audio system in this transmit ter has a
cathode follower push-pull stage to drive the
TZ~O class B modulator stage. This ty pe of
driver has a much lower driving source impedance
than would a pair of 45 or 2A3 tubes. A t win
triode GSC7 connected as shown will provide
a gain of over 1000 for connection to a crystal
microphone. The hum levels (a nd distortion) a rc
very low in a 6SC7 if the cathodes a rc grounded
and grid leak bias from Hl-megohm grid resistors
is used instead of cat hode bias. This tu be without
a s plit resistor in the fi rst plate circu it, \\;1I provlde stable amplificat ion of oyer 3000 times in
the voice range but care must be taken to prevent
overload of the second sect ion in that case.

t ube wit h remarkably low values of r-I crystal

current provided the d-e screen voltage is mnint ai ned at a low value. T he type of oscillator
shown in Fig. 4- will supply over 100 volts of r-f
drive to the S07 buffer or doubler stage without
the crystal current exceeding 10 to 20 rna with
-1 or 7-mc crystals. T he oscillator plnte circuit
ca n be t uned to t he crystal fundamental or second
(or even, third) harmonic.
Parasitics
Screen-grid tubes a re not subject to much
trouble from low frequ ency parasitic oscillations
which often nrc bad in triode amplifiers with grid
and plate r-f chokes of the 2-millihenry values.
H owever, v-h-f parasitic oscillations readily take
place in single, parallel or push-pull screen-grid
tube circuits. It is good insurance to put simple
v-h-f paras itic su ppressors in each control and
screen grid circuit. T he r-f voltages and currents
are relat ively small at these points, which permits
the use of small carbon resistors for this purpose.
Fifty to 200-ohm .l-watt resistors with a bout 6
turns of 118 wire wound over them, make excellent a nd easily installed suppressors. T he ceramic
sleeve on the resistor makes a good mid get coil
form and t he resistor pig-tail leads twisted together wi th the 118 wire coil leads fonn n good

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R-F unit is simple and straightforward in appearance.

Parallel 813s are mounted slde-by-slde with common
connections tied togeth~r.

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i
--- SEPTEMBER
OLIVER PERRY FERRELL '

Comments and Problems

Comments from the uscn of the B.nd Pr
dictions ere invited and .rc of lnterest to CO
end to the IRPL. If you have some transmi,
sian problem directly involving conditions for
DX.ing 01 want to know what would be the
best nCI.g. houri for worLing I certain city
from your loutian you ere invited to write to
the Propegation Editor CO MaguiRe 342
M.dison An., New York 17, N. Y. Please
enclose either, penny post.l or a stamped self
.ddressed envelope for reply. Allow 7 to 10
day, for reply.

H }~ U :S I'nECE D E ~"TE D

and astounding rise in the

number of sunspots in late spring and summer
of 1946 is an excellent reason for getting your
transmitter, antenna and receiver in tip-top
shape for the late fall and winter DX. Latest reports indicate that the period between the sunspot minimum (1944.1 ) and the next sunspot
maximum will be the shortest in the records of
this phenomenon. All this will mean that DX
conditions this fall and ea rly winter will be on the
par of those in the law winter {Jan.-Mar.) of
1937. By the spring of 19-17 it is expected that
conditions will equal the best days of 1938 and by
the fall of 1947 (when the sunspot maximum is
now predicted) DX conditions ",;11 be unsurp assed by uny previous observat ions.

This month and hereafter, because of some

well-founded const ructive criticism by W6QYT
and others, a few changes in the physical a ppearance of the prediction graphs have been mnde. It
is now thought that the graphs will be somewhat
easier to int erpret directly with a minimum
amount of t ime. Fig. 1 illustrates the essent ial
points in a sample graph, which by the way is the
plot of the a verage working frequ encies for the
month of September on a path frum " '6-'V7 to
~ L und eastern VK . The UppN plotted line on
any of the graphs may be considered the average
maximum usable frequencies (l\lUF) for the corresponding time values (vertical lines) oyer the
path listed in the capt ion. Directly below that
line and following the trend of the l\.1UF outline
is the optimum working frequ ency. The OWF,
as it is called, is based upon the fact that DX over
certain paths is likely to stay in for a given period
of time. Therefore, any horizontal Iine connect ing
the ascending and descending slopes of the O'VF
outline indicates the period which that particular
frequency (horizontal line) should be complete ly
satisfactory for communication .
If for example, we were in San Francisco and
wanted to work Sydney, Australia (sec Fig. 1) for
about an hour or so after 2000, what would be
our best bet in September? Follovs;n ~ up the
vert ical line denoting 2000 hou rs PST we find that
jConJinlUd on 1'"9' 5~1

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explained In text. ThIS ",mple IS b.lsed on the West Coast of United State, to New Zealand and Australia.
September 1946 average.

September, 1946

29

LA WRENCE
L. KASHMAN
W210 P

~2TC

shows- another)oluuen to the present day

sFMce shortage.
Nothing
has bun omitted from this
all.band 500 watt ph onec.w. station that comfortably fits into the en d of a
narrow room. The typewriter well and desk ettec hment were cbteieed from
surplus, but similar units ere
standard commerciallitems.

WINKW shows " cleencut solution to today 's

housing shortage. located in " closet 38" x
34 11 the low power c.w.
transmitter run 20 watts

to 6L6. Plenty of
space for odds and en ds.
Lighting, transmitter, receive" and monitor are
controlled from panel
on tight hand side and
switch under monitor.

I..A:S YOUn NEW amate ur station wisely ! POiSt-

war amateur radio equipment is better than

ever; don't ma ke the mistake of ho using it
in a "shack " whi ch is so inadequate t hat it will
spoil half your fun .
~l any ha ms are scrambling to get back on the
air as quickly as possible, and in doing 80 they
a re neglectin g many fundamentals of good station
d esign. Getting the rig bac k on t he ai r is very
naturally the first t houg ht, but more ofte n t han
not , it excludes all considerations of comfort and
appearance. Think back for a moment, to prewar
days and the enjoyment which yo u got from
amat eur rad io as a hobby. How many hours a
yea r did you spend in your station? H ow large
:l pa rt d id radio pla y in your recrea tion? H ow
much emphasis, therefore, should you give now
to t he design of your stat ion for fuller enjoyment? The new a mateur must bear in mind t hese
co nsiderations in his fut ure ham plans.

Plan Ahead
If you expect to spend only a moderate amount
of t ime on you r hobby , t hen you should consider
designing your shack so t hat it can serve more
t han one purpose. Pla n your station as a center
of recrea t ional activities, eo other members of

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your fa mily may enjoy it s faci lities. You will

benefit fro m t he congenial at mos phere and cheerful furnishings.
If, on the other hund, you a re a rabid fan, then
rightfully consider using a certai n a mount of
space exclusively as a radio station. A man's ham
shack is his castle ! Perhaps the ultimate satisfaction for a rad io a mateu r is to have a space enti rr-ly his own, in which he can combine work shop, st udy and rad io station.

Using Limited S""ce

For many hams avai lable space is limited, us
for instance in a small a pa rt ment. When spar-e
is a t a premium, ingenuity is called UpOIl heavily.
Xow. perhaps more than ever before, it is possible to get a lot of radio equipme nt into a very
small space. T ricks learned du ring t he wa r will
prove their usefulness where compact ness is a
factor. Amateu rs can learn many useful methods
from the radio installations in the cramped
quarters a board aircraft a nd small co mba t
beets . .. . whose origin often was a pre-war ham
design.
Hela ti vely permanen t component s of t he st ati on should be given special consideration in your
pla nnin g. The power su pply is a good example.

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Good des ign fo r tra ns mitters, re ceive rs, and an te nnas doesn' t guarantee a
first-rate sta tion. He re are same gene ral con sideration s that provide the
fin ishing to uch - a comfo rtable ope rating pos ition .

Alt hough r-I and u-I circuits nrc changed frequ ently by most a mateurs, a well built power supply is very seldom altered . "'b y not put tilt'
power su pply ill %1 safety case and get it out of the
way ? Put it in the closet or under a desk . Running the necessary high voltage lines is neit her
difficult nor dangerous provided t hat proper precaut ions are ta ken . Filaments of course should
be supplied from a transformer relat ively close
to the t ube, because l OIlJ!; leads tend to introdu ce
a voltage drop and excessive r-f pickup. Obviously, only the rectifier filamen ts should be included in the power supply.
T here a re several advantages to be gained by a
sepa rate remote power supply . You gain more
room where it is most valuable, yo u allow greater
freedom of design, and if the remo te loca t ion is
properly chosen, hash in t he receiver is mo re
easily m inimized. P urely mecha nical noise fro m
vibrat ion CUll be done awa y with ent irely.
Recreation Room
If space is not a diffic ult problem, you can
borrow many useful ideas from the m odern
a rchitects who hnve given much thought to the
design of recreation rooms in homes. M ost hobby
rooms before the wa r were usefu l only for pingpo nJ.!: tallies and clothes lines. T he a rchitects
t hi nk that this is wrong; they feel that II hobby

room should lx- 11 renter for the spare-time activit ies of the entire fami ly. Flexibilit y of a rra ngement and a sensible segregation of d iffere nt
act ivities keynotes each of their designs. The
noisy, often messy work bench should be se parated from t he portion of t he room used for study
o r reading . T he materials used should be chosen
for the ha rd wear which may be expected in a
playroom or ham shack . At t he same time , t hey
must be at tractive enough to ma ke the room
pleasant. Storage sp..a ce should be engineered so.
that there is adequate room for a ll the " junk"
which ord inarily uccutuuhitcs in a room of this
t y pe. Lockers, closets and shelves should be provided so thut a neut, o rderly and uncluttered epI)('UTUUCC may he preserved .
I

Double Duty
There is no reason wh y the well planned
a mateur sta tion ca n' t do double d uty as a guest
roo m . The m inimum furnit ure requ irements
would be a studio cou ch convertible into a bed,
at least enough drawer space for overnight equipment, a nd a bed-side table with a reading lamp.
Furniture must be com fortable, durable a nd good
looking. , n wrc vcr possible it should se rve a dual
role, as for instance t he studio couch just mentioned . T hese t hings cont ribute to t he livability
of you r hum shack as m uch as they do to you r
hospitality!
A good sized desk, preferably with a rompart1I\('lIt fur a typewriter, makes an excellent locat ion for your receiver, log books and message
fHTlH~ . In 8 permanent installation built -in tables
provide custom des ign utility at rela t ively low
cost . .-\ 101Jl:.ll1 bookcase is ext remely useful for
maguaim-s ami technical books , A cork-board
bulletin board is useful to display QSL cards,
photographs and drawings . Good lighting is
especially importunt : n fluo rescent desk lamp if
properly filtered. will do a lot to increase your
comfort,

Decorating Materials
T he materials selected for decorating a hobby
room should express the character a nd fu nction

September, 1946

31

of the room itself. Linoleum for floors, for instance, is much less likely to be damaged or
soiled than a rug, It can easily be cleaned and
kept new looking. Upholstery materials are
available which can be cleaned wit h a damp cloth,
and which will stand long hard use. For the ham
who wants to go all out in making his station as
handsome as he possibly can, many new materials
are available which can be blended together to
make the ham shack part of the house itseU. So
many combinations are possible which are both
practical and in good taste that only a handful
can be mentioned.

Building M.teri.l.
If you build your station in the cellar of your
house you must be careful of damp floors . " n ile
a concrete surface may seem to be dry, actually
it releasee a great deal of moisture by evaporat ion. Asphalt tile was specifically developed to
withstand the alkali driven from the concrete
by this moisture, and makes an ideal flooring for
a ham station in a basement.
Attic rooms present different problems. T hey
a re usually very hot in the summer and very cold
in the wi nter, but t hey are ideally located for
connection with antennas. New types of insulat lng materials are available which make it
possible for an att ic shack t o be made just as
livable lle one any place else in the home.

I nexpensive prefabricated cabinet a nd shelf

units will soon be available which will make possible an orderly and logical arrangement of working materials. Tools a re most useful when t hey
are readily accessible; precision apparatus such
as test meters must be protected when not in lISC.
Adequate storage space can therefore contribute
materially to your convenience.
It is well wort h considering the rest of the
family in planning your station. You should try
to select a location which will not be in the way
of other domestic activities and which will by
the same token protect you from the disturbance
of people constantly walking back and forth
while you are trying to operate or work.
From the economic point of view, planning
along these lines is not expensive. You wou ld be
reluctant to spend hard-earned dollars to furn ish
your ham station if you did not feel you would
get an adequate return in added enjoyment. If
the room which houses you r station can be shared
and enjoyed jointly with ot her members of your
family, t hen t he expenses may seem very smal l
indeed .
Plan now to make your radio station a n att ractive part of you r home. You will insu re yourself of more pleasure nod more sat isfact ion t ha n
you ever before had !

W9CVU

W9CVU puts. lot of equipment on standard office size d esk. The secret to this trick is .bsence
of h.ywire of .ny sort. The pr.ctice of runnln, control leeds, Interconnecting cables, etc.
dr.ped .11 over the sheek should be number one taboo on the list 01 post.war statlon rules.

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The world's bissest Uans

miller is examined by .n
emeaed visitor in the CO
shop. The ri, is W21YO's
100 w.u.1I bend affair ,

ca DX.

September. 19 46

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By HERB BECKER, W6QD

(S end aU coniribiuions to Herb Beckc-. IJ,Oll South Grand A se., 1.0. Angelee, /5, CaliJ.J

o w T HAT you hnvc lurd about a mon th of activit y on t ilt' 20 a nd 40 rueter bauds wha t do you
thin k uf them? I CUll answer that question
for a Rock of boys, and every time t he question is
brought up, their opinions of conditions un the 20
meter band are the same. Fo r example: they say,
" It's do~ cut dog," or "u-real rat race," or "just
dO.l!l.!:oTll' disgust ing." T here a rc , of COUf1'e, variati o ns of t hese com ments, some of whi ch I have
forgotten, und ot hers we won 't try a nd print.
The odd part of it is, nig ht after night the old
gung seems to come bnek for more. T hcre seems
to he plenty of stuff in then', and in many cases,
the patient operator will grab a few choice OIW,s.
w hen the 20 meter band first opened yours truly
wasn't q ui te sure wha t t he edges of t he La nd
wen ' , t hat is , j udging from wha t I heard on tho
air. For the life of me, I couldn't tell where
14,1 00 ke was. H oweve r, after a week Of so the
region between 14,000 and 14,100 began to clear
up "('Q. noticeably. Could be the monitor stations hud something to do with this!
:\I ayl )( you fellows thi nk it is a lo t of Fu n to
wo rk DX on 20 meters but I know m a ny of t ho
~a llg who hnve lost a ll se nse of balance when it
('Ollll'~ to :mag.l!ing them . For example, the other
night a certain rather elusive D Xer was loS-."iuj!
out u C(l :1I1l1 before the guy had a chance to sign,
tilt' whole bnnd seemed to collapse and fall right
in Oil him. Act ually , t here must have lx-cn 15 or
20 stat ions who pounced Oil t he guy ... und righ t
suuu-k on his freq ue ncy. Result : T his DX stut io n eumc buck to no one ... he was probably a:-,
coufused ue those calling him. Then the payoff . .
he started CQing again, but in the meantime II
few of the ',"!'i , thinking the DXer WM still looking for someone to work, began calling him frant icnlly ngni n. Final resu lt : DX ma n a nd \rs 011
the sntue fre q ue ncy calling at t he same t ime .
YOil see, t hIS IlX
. ,t ,.'
game rca II y .IS f un .. . .. am

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EL4A
\\"f' received a nice letter from ClifT 1":"UII:",
E IA.\ . ClifT says there a re only t wo stations ill
Liberi a ; one of t hem is EL3A, Rupert Lloyd , ut.

H ,16U. EUA is with t he Pa u-Amcricun Airway

boys at Roberts Field, Liberia . Up to t he time of
writ ing; his lett er he sa id ubout the best t ime to
work him would be from 1600 G ~ I T to about
0300 G ~ I T. Il l' operate; both phone and c.w.
Probably most important is his QT II for Q.sLin~
purposes :
ClifT Evans
Pan-Am erica n Airways
.\ .1'.0 . 60511, I'/~ [
Miami, Florida

AC4', Are Back

I hear through the grapevine that W6G RL is
back in pre- wa r fonn, knocking them ofT again,
and of all thin gs, wo rking AGtYN again. Doc
says it 's much more fun working "D'X" t ha n
pulling teeth, so he is going to concentrate
on "DX" .
l{(,11 :\I oore, W6PD B, a "died-in-the-woo!"
phone nmn , if there eyer WIL'" one, grubbed a nice
juicy one ill working AC:lS:-;, who apparently is ill
Sikki tu . Il l" is (' .('.0. and when ] ' JI worked him,

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the American Legation, and himself, EL..IA . Il l'

~ays he is ru nning about 400 watts input and
~'4'ms to be gett ing out pretty well. 11(' wasn't
quite sure of the crystal Irequeneies which luground down himself, hut thought it W11$ around

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IIC wns u n 14:l:UJ. 1[c i~ t rviug t o follow a n ope ratlmr sr-lu-dule :u1(1 will lit' un daily from 1030 to
W:{O (; :\11', except Saturduys.. and then from
lLK)() to 2;{()() G ~ I T . QT lI as follows :
\ l"lS~
" . oJ
Gungtok Sikkim

viu Calcut tn, I nd iu

Uthcr nice ones (or li P Dll include XZ2 C~1,
t n ro . CaB )", Chunkaimr. 14220; YS213A, 14 150;
'" SI Bil . 141 :l;; ; \ S I BQ. 14100 ; SUI KE, 14336;
YSIB II, 14220. Kt'J1 S3Y~ the following are still
Iw.'iu!! chased: X .\SP, U:l:W. in Greece, V06G.
\"0 6 1'. 141'>;;; \"115.\ w,
OXLU, 1414ti.
1 1:l~O:

1434ti; 3n,I

reports ETa)" ill Et hiopia is operating

in the low end of the bawl, e.c.c . Also say~
EZ-IX apparently is in t he Saar area. ,.., me of the
bovs wonder if he j.. (>x-lInneX. Then there are
\\" fi E ~ Y

t wo

in the Azores , \r 1DTS/CT2, 14.125, c .W. , and

\\,s QE:>j CT 2 r, 14~!IO .

I I!II~-; most of you hu \ 'C noticed the abundance
of "C" call.. now on tln- air in China, as well as
the old X U calk J might he wrong but apparently the "C" culls apply to the Chinese hams
where the X U culls an.' seemingly being uSNI hy
the A merica ns , mostly Xlurines.
W L\P U of Dover-Foxcroft , Xlnine, is doing
his share of I>X , lind is :111 enth used oyer a rather
unusual tYIM' of uutonna which he had used before t he wnr. WIDP.J also uses this a ntenna and
is very hap py with it. Since it is a little difficu lt
to describe, :IS well a.s unort hodox, you mi ght
j.!;(' t ill tou ch wit h .:\ P U for d et ails.
WHITA 1'1'1'0 118 H\ I EC, 14140 c.w., a nd wh en
S Y I KE is on c .w. it i~ generally 14085. ITA also
worked YSIX , 14 ,(X)() c.w.
Old Q D had an extremely int erest ing QSO with
our uld frien d , J oh n Alva re z, C R9.:\G. .Joh n says
he {'U Il he addressed simply as:
.lnlm Alvare z

Governme nt Office
:\ Iucs o
Speaking or old-timers ZI AA O is batting it off
on c.w. 011 till' low end of the 20 meter band .
That guy is a tradition, and it's swell to hear him
hack in then'. He mentioned the other night
that he had heen slX'lIlting a great deal of time on
10 nl(:,t{'f phonc, out I told him that was O K, we
woullin't tell anyonc ahout it.
\\"HBGO on the opening of the band, workro
IlKaCX, 14IHO, IlK L\ B, alld OAH X, 3S well
a.s :.\: E2.:\ Y. BCO says the L'lSt one is practically
a local, hut it helps hi~ moral. "~e know what he
means .
.
Some or you fellows \,;11 remember \Y6A\YA ,
one of the old San Francisco DX men . He Im.<l
been \\; t h Submurine Signal Company for a number or years, and at prt':"Cnt i ~ operating po rta ble
K fi . Bill at the prf'M'ut is u:,i n~ a sin!1:le 6Y6, with
12 watts input (a far ('rr from the rock~nlsher in

t he o ld d uys) . CHIl:SO he worked \ '1<:8.:\8 in

Whitehorse , Aluskn , us well as I\Li"AD on the
Alcun High way. \\"IQ\" has been doi ng qu it e n
lot of c- w operat ing, alt hough he confesses he
docs slide down into t he phone baud every o nce
in awhi le, and with l ilt, help of his modulators,
works a few stations such as I.Xl SI and PApJQ.
Bob n-ports working ZDS.\ . H()lJ{), YH5X, U 096.
Y l;7X, 140..." 1, D \.:\ I.S, l -U50, and, incidentally,
this i~ C:('()rJ!;t~ Ha rt . formerly or AH R L H eadquarters ;
141O'J ; OZ5XY, 140'.l'J; S~15\\'E,
14 l SO ; EWG , 140..."6; and who says he is looking
for \\"est Const contacts : X S:\ H){; O, 14 1$6, and
~ay~ he i~ good " DX " but won't give QT II (t he
01<1 m e311)' ) : vrscr; 11085. and FQSAL, 140'.l3.
:;\iC'1' t!Oi llg . Bl.h. keep it up .
Following is a letter from PJ 3X located in
Curacao :
Dear O. .\1 .,
Ref erring In your It-tier dllted .t pril 1.5th 1 beg to
supply Ylm Icilh the foilo lL'i,lg information :
PJ.-JX started on the. third of .\Iardl 194f? and half
bun C'!altlfijiffi ns rr,~ t'r pen'mn ual gm:f'r1Im erdal8tatio,~,
since normal li'lIjf's are 'uJi qronted down here.
Curacao Il('emlf to IN' unk.". ,w ll'n to marty hams-the poeition of the isbmd. u'hich is Dutch, is 1!.06 N. and
68.56 11" (this Ut the location of my a1ltemw ).
The in put is bctueen. 100 u,lli 'iKJO IW tlS. Antenna.!
art' two dipol'H, 011(' horizontal ami olle vertical. The
horizontal onr can be turned. Til l' location of tM
antennae is bad, e-omplRtely su rrOlOldnf by h ills . The
fJrtle1llUlS are mlly so feet high.
I slffrled hWlt radio i't J.f);'J0 with call P .lpDII. T i ll
my depa rture to the 1I't'.~ 1 Indies I was ctice un 40 and
0 melerR c.w.
For the preHod I' ln unly actioe /HI ten meters. If I
ble w tlflflU'botly iTt the I:icinity, I u'ou[,f be glad 10 experimeut /Hi fit,,. meters or lower.
W ithin a couple of 1/I(mths I expect tu leave this
isla wi so that PJ3X U'O'I't baue 11 bmfllife.
J . P. Dl1 udey.
PS.-Jlany times I UVJ S asked what 1 tOO8 daing
down here. I can't answer that question, but I 'm a
army first lieutenant, and communication ofjici"r f or
armlt and navy.
Our old friend , WSP(lQ , has just lx-en heard
from . ~\l has worked ZBl E , G6CU/ ZC2,
\ ' Q2PL, VQSA, as well as the usual run of the
mill stuff. X ow he is looking for AC4YN. Speakinj.?; of ACl YN the frequencies which he will probably u~ are 14160, 14180 , and 142:!0. When he
('ome::! through, p;enf>mlly around i" to i" :.30 a . m .
Pa <"ifi c t iml', he doem't stay in "eQ' lon~, whop
to it, 00)'8.
Accordinp; to \V21 0P, his friend W2L:\P has
been working CSZ (Lisho n ) on 3895. LNP uses
a vcrtical, j.?;oiuJe up the side or au apartment
hOllsc 350 feet hil;h. \\'2IOP worked a VE .
\\"(.SA is doing his share of D X and about
e\"ery time }I(' ~('ts Oil the air he flna~~ himSf'lf n
new country or two .

ur.x,

35

September, 1946


by Amelia Black, W I NVP W20LB

o U R.~

TRULY and the O ~ l have just returned from

a vacation in New England. Wh ile in New
Hamps hire we stopped off (or a very pleasant
visit with the Evans, Dot-WI FTJ, and CarlWtU FT, in Bow. They're especially nice people,
and we found Dot as lively as her letters. We also
mel their two cu te junior c ps, the oldest of which a t
four is a lready very interested in the rad io room, and
is building 8 "ceiver" out of Fahnstock clips, washCl'R, screws, and nu ts. H e sits with Iones dall$l;liI1Jl:
down around hie neck, copyi ng endless messages in
his "log.'
We had no d ifficulty spotti ng the house, via their
80 meter antenna mast, which is stuck on the garage.
The antennas for 10, 20, 40 a nd SO, strung up around
the ya rd com e into view immediately afterwards.
'Ye found Dot on 20 c.w. when we arrived . She's
been surprising e veryone lately by getting on fane
to talk to some of her a nt i-o-w fri ends. Dot 's been
d oing pretty well on 10 too , with 32 countries postwar, t he last reported be ing; \ 'POYB, Barbados,
West Indios .
Tile fi rst news of importance concerns the nat ional elections of the YLHL. Lou Lacy, W51KC ,
of Bar tles ville, Okla., succeeds M ickey M aralin,
WOZT U, as presiden t of t he club. Louise Baker,
W9JTX , of En.."it St. Louis, I ll., t he for mer secretary,
succeed s Lou Lacr ns vice-president. Congratulations to bo th Lou s, and t hank s to M ickey for t he
excellent job she did .
We' ve neglected to congratulate Letha Dangerfield, WooUD, who was re-elected SCM of t he Midwest Division. Letha's now t he only YI. to hold
this position.
We' ve been planning for some time to rectify the
OM's observat ion t hat YLs never work c.w. Compiled here, is a list of some gals who' ve been heard
on :so c.w. recently. 1\0 doubt many of you fellows
will recogulze some good o ~)!~ with whom you 've had
enjoyable QSO's, b ut didn t realize .....ere YLs. You
may expect to hear more a nd more YLs with t he
YUH.. net once more fun ctioning on 36 10 kc, and
20 e nd 40 acti ve a,v;/tin.
\VIK UI , Ellen Hust ings, East Ha rtford, Co nn.
Wl rTJ , Dot Evans, Concord, N . II.
Wll\IJ E , Alice Morrison, D anvers, Mass.

Wl~lDV ,
Wl~IPP,

Louise Bruya , Wa lt ham, M ass.

Eunice Randall, Wa te rtown, M a.~.
WnI DW, Norma :\loske" M anchester, N . II .
W2NAZ, Lenore Conn, N. Y. C.
W2NQC, Violet Villar, N . Y. C .
W2MWY, Elenore ~l cGove rn, N. Y. C.
W3KGC, Kay Semergfa, Uniontown, Penn.
W3 FXZ, M aC)" Le Van, Flourtown, Penn.
W5JAL, Celia P hares, F t. Smith, Ark.
W7FWR, ~l ary Ann Tatro, Olympia, Wa.s h.
\\'7 J FB, ~liriam Brown, Everett, Wash.
WSSJ F, Gladys Nichols, w e pekonete, Ohio.
W8VYU, Theresa :\lc Lau~ h l i n , Greensburg, Penn.
W9JTX, Lo uise Baker, East S t. Louis, Ill.
WooU D, Letha A. D angerfield, J oplin, M o.
KL7AX, Verna St. Louis, Naknek, Alaska.
VI-::2111 , Ethel Pick, w e amou t h, Quebec, Cenedn.
V E6~11' , :\la.ude P hillips, Chancellor, Albe rta,
Canada.

YLDX
Lenore, W2NAZ, calling CQ on SO, was answered
by 8. loud sta t ion that she t hought was a local. T o
her sur/>risc it t urned out to be KZ5AD, Canal
Zo ne , 'uname-c-prov ing that these rock-bott om
Manhat tan antennas do get out!
A good start toward the Century Club has been
made by Lou Littlefield, WnlCW, of Cape Eli zabeth, M aine, who reports 50 cou ntries post-war on
10 moter-fone.
Another asp irant is W6UHA, M axine, who has
curds from 30 pOHlwMj las t QSO was with D4AGK
During t he pas t few months many of the Kirls who
took t heir exa ms t hree a nd four years ago have
finally bLOCH issued their call let ters. ~I08t of t he
New York City YLs became interested t hrough
AWVS work, and belong to t he new school of YL.<J
who arc tryi ng to get t hei r OMs in terested in t ho
hobby instead of the accustomed reverse. Some of
t he most recent ad d it ions a re W2PCU-~larth a
Truma n, W2PIH-Jcrry Weinberg, W2PMA-LiJHen Ruocco, W2PZA- -Jean Grabschied , W2QG KSophie Lash, W2QJe-Rita Wit t man, W2Q EJ Cecil Waters, W2Q EJ -:\liJ,!;non Rosenfeld, W2[Continued on page 50)

t--..- "'" no Q,./-------:--__- ---:'::::- 1'

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Bernard Bates, W IBB.\! , has been heari ng

a commercial transmitter on 43S me. He has
iden t ified it as WUK. W2PZB has supplied
8 confi rmation s ud ind icates t hat the transrni Uc r is on Lu ng Island, 178 miles from
North Harwich on Cape Cod.

HI S Hum E OF cc reaches y ou at t he end of a very

nice summer, 80 far as u-h-f work is conce rned .

New records have been se t up on most banda
above 30 megacycles. Six-meter activi ty IHl.~ been
somewhat low at times, limiting t he number of stations that ca n be heard dur-ing a n ope ning, but the
band has opened somewhere for t wo-way contacts
nearly ever)' day from t he la t te r part of .\Iay unt il
the middle of July, and somewhat less frequen tly
before and after. Low-atmosphere DX continues,
and may be enjoyed all Fall, which wi ll be very helpful when t he Dec. Sporadic- E layer DX occurs.
On periods of unusually good low-atmosphere
be ndi ng, or " d uct" transmission, two-meter reco rds
above three hundred mites have been established ,
even fro m home loca t ions. Sixth d istrict stations,
includi ng portables like " '4TZ/6, have set ne w
reco rds on two meters and above, from hills a nd
mountains in California.
E ven microwave work is picking up, and new experimenters will have to get right to work , or the
records will be stretc hed to d istances where special
locations or cond itions will be necessary to break
them .
All Districts Worked on 50 M el
ClifT Simpson, W0 YUQ in Manha t tan, !{aIl88B,
started to work DX on the six-meter band about
June 3, and by the 30th he had raised someone in
eve ry one of t he ten call areas! Vince D awson made
it at WPZJB on July 14. At last re ports, W9Z H lI
in Ill inois lacked only \V8, a nd \VI HDQ needed W6
although he had work ed a W6 in t he new W7 state,
Arizona . On July 27, Vince heard eastern stations
getting their " '7 contacts, Including W2BY~1 for
his last call area. and he heard W5JOV/ 7 get W3
for his last one.
Double.Hop Six-Meter OX
Some of the new records concerned the two-hop
work from California and the W7's to t he East Coast.
Co nditions were satisfactory for this type of workwhich in the summer requires that two sporadic-E
reflecting layers be located at exactly one-quarter
and three-quarters of t he d istance between the t wo
stations, a nd along the great-circle route be t ween
them. There probably was as much of this in June
a nd July as in all previous yea rs put together.
This fortunate circumstance is purtly due to relatively fa vorable condi t tona for six-meter sk ip DX,
and partly to the U"!C of stable transmitters nnd
narrow-hand receivers which improve the "eensitivity"-mcasured by signal-to-noise ratio. The
relative lack of wid espread use of the band for local
contacts, on t he other band, lim it the numbe r of
openings t hat produce two-way contacts, and further
limit t he stat ions t hat can be heard a nd worked .

Conklin Radio Company, 6800 CI'Jrendon Rood,

BO/Ioud. , 14, .lfary1<Jnd

by Josephine Conklin, W9SLG

Some thi nk that t hese six-meter openings, though
sporadic in respect to reliability and d irect ion or
location t hat can be worked, are also sporadic as
to the nature of the two-way contact. That , however, is not necessarily true. There was just as
mu ch trouble back in 193:J..193G d uring t he-summe r
openings on ten meters as t here is now on six.
Howard Zeh, W8JI~, has Rent us a record ing contai ning some of t he \\ 0 signals on July 14. Frankly,
fellows, it sounds far bet ter t ha n the eighty-meter
band because of the nbscnce of heterodynes, an d
compares favorably with twenty meters because
someo ne is not land ing right on top of the station
you a re working. The s lgnels on the record , two-hop
ones a t t hat, are fi rst class.
The fi rst reported two-way t wo-hop work th is
su mmer was between ' V60VK in Redwood City,
Calif., a nd W2BY:\1 in Lakehurs t, N. J . Then on
June 23, W7QAP in Tucson worked W8CLS /1
right after a contact with WpJZB in ~l i.s.Mour i .....ho
had bee n coming through for t wo hours; but......ei rdly
enough, Bud heard no other sig nals but these, although many fou nd th is to be one of the best days of
t he summer.
This was followed o n June 29, accord ing to
WPZJB, by a contact between WlIIDQ a t H artford a nd W5JGV f7-although we received only one
other report for tha t day. Then came t he big doings
on July 14, for which W8J LQ sent us t he record ing,
Howard found the band 01:n at 7 p. m. Eastern

tim e, bearing W6AOR, \\ 6AN N,

W6 F ~III ,

W6-

N A'V, \V5JGV/ 7 in Douglas, Arizona, W5WX in

Amarillo, and some one-hop signals. W9QCY in
Fort Wayne heard ' V6S M H and \V6AN N but he
seemed to be right on the edge of t he sk ip and foun d
t he fading to be bad, eve n from the W0 stations at
the half-way mark. W7QAP in Tucson worked
WSSLU. W8RU E in Pit tsburgh worked t wo W6's.
W80~ IY / 3 in the same city worked seven California
s tations, find ing h is receive r packed with WO's bet ween 50 a nd 51.5 megacy cles.
W7QAP agai n was in on t he t wo-hop work, for the
t hird time, on July 27. Using c.w. , he worked the
only signal on t he band - W I H DQ in Hart ford a fter a short contact with WPYUQ. Bud t hinks
that it was the tail end of t he opening at 8. 10 Mounlain time when he fired u p, working WQYUQ four
minutes later, and Ed T ilton at 8 :17. T hat was all,
except for an unidentified m.c.w. carrier on 50.9 me
a n hour later. On t his d ay, Wf)ZJB heard eastern
stations getting W7 contacts, includ ing W2BYM
and W5JGV/ 7, the latter with a 'W3.

Sl x.Meter Skip OX
Last month we su mmarized reports received up to
the date of wrtune t he column before we left for a
vacat ion in the Wes t I nd ies. Some ad ditional reporta have come in since, for the same d ays, which
a re of interest. In particular there is one from
' Vf)QI N for April 23, tho earliest sk ip-D X opening
of the season, when W9DW U, W9DZ M and
WPQI N worked several east-coast stat ions. In t he
following reports for June 11 through 16, d ata lis ted
last month in this column a re not repeated .
J une 11th. Minneapol is stations worked W5 E H ~ I ,
W5AJG and W5VV. WPQIN raised only EII~1.
Orville, W7H EA in T op penish, Washington , had h is

37

September, 1946

fi rst ope ning a t S:25 p. m. Pacific ti me, last ing two

hou rs, working W7QAP, W6QG, W6LSX, W6 FP \ '
and W6AO It. with deep fades on the signals. T h is
la tter work may have been on J une 13, accord ing to
W7QAP'. 10.,
J un. itlh, W7QAI' heard \\'O YUQ (who n-port ed 8. contact on t he l Ith with W7QAP,
' V5E II ;\I, e nd W9HD L/ 5 but our copy of QAP's 10J.!:
showed a dead bend on t he 11th). W8R UE / 3 in '
P it tsbu rgh worked W5J K;\1 (t ha t's M rs. W5AJ G )
in Dallas. QA P also worked WP ZJB for two mi nutes d uring had fad inj.!; j a few weak a nd fading signals were ('f)min~ through at the time on ten meters
from Ida ho and WO o
J une ISth . Erratic conditions were reported by
WiQAP who nt.i~d W7 D X H an d heard Will EA
and \viAY\" . T he Oregon statioru.. were giving R 9
reports to Southern California stations a nd others,
including WOII DY , W6 I. F:\, and W7G BI / 6.
J II 1l,1 4th . w o g l :\' in M inneapolis heard W4?1X
(pro bably W-I F K :" ill Atltmta ) calling CQ, and was
lu-a rd bv W I 1.1.1 . a nd W IH DQ. He also heard
wscov tltllill~ him . The openi ng was much better
in ~1 :m h ll w Ul, l \ n ll~L~, where WO\T Q worked
\\'3AX U, \\'3GOI . \\,3CG V, W2BD1, WDIUX/ 3.
W211\\'X , \\':1II D.I , W I I.I.L, WSC I.~/ I , and
W IC <; Y. W7QAP thought this should ha ve been a
~ood double- hop 01>f:>ni nJl:, even hearing t he words
" W8C I..'-; Porta ble' on about 5O,O;JO kc, which may
ha w 1>L"l'1l W ~Cl..'-;/l signing, or someone calli ng
h im . Bud worked W7A\ ' \", W5FHD, WPZJll, and
heard W O Yl"Q a nd W5AJ G between 4 :-16 a nd
9 :40 p. m . Mou ntain t ime.
J un e 15th . W81lUE in P it t sburg h worked
WO ZJ B and heard W5 FHV in Fort Wort h. \\'0\ T Q worked \ ' E:t AN Y and VE3AVW in T oronto.
It. was a fairly Jl:ood opening for WPZJB to t he
middlc-Atl a ntie sta tes.
J une t en , (' ",iIlJl: eight wa tts into a 6V6 tra nscei vor. VI.;4 J>G in Winn ip,;JI: worked W0 7...J B. T he
la t ter also got WRVI B, \\ 311 n .l und VE 3AXY,
.f U M 17th . W0 Z.JH neu r Kunsae C itv ha ll a brief
cont uet. with WfiSLO / ,i at Corpus C hri sti .
J une tm. Wh ill' ten-meter short sk ip was hetWt't'1I Atla nta 1lI1t 1 ~1i fll'! i S!'lipp i, W4FKX hooked
\\'5\'\", whose sig nnl was t he only one on t he band .
WO Z.IB had n ,i!;ootl contac t with W5EIIl\f , the
forme r eun uu-t being in t he morning a nd t he latte r
in t he lat e afternoon.
J w U' 20th. WpZJ B got W9 BDL/ 5 at Corpus
C hris ti at f) :57 p . m. Ce ntral t ime, followed bv working Wfi.\ X X who celled 0.1 in SJ!ani~h, a nd \ \'7H E A
loca t ed in W llShillJl,;to n. W OY UQ in Kansas hooked
W6AX :-:, W61..-';:-; and WG F~IIl , all in t he Los
Angeles ure-a . W7Q AP hoard a ca rrie r on ;JO,350 kc
at noon, a nti raised \\"5EII:\I , W5AJG and \\'9llD l. jt) in the evening, wit nessed by Clyde, \\'6QLZ.
J U'I ~ 131. A brief contact was reported between
W 5 E II ~ 1 a nd W07..J B in t he evening.
J IHU' i!b ul. Vince Da wson t hought t hat t his
should ha ve been a good day elsewhere, j udging
from ten met er "ki p to a ll parts of t he countrv. In
t he late mom ine , he heard W6AX!\ talking with a
W6 ma rine mobile. After calling all da y , WPZJ B
got w r..JG \ / 7 at Douglas, Ari zona , at 6:2;; p . m.
Ccnt m l time, 111('11 It. co ntact with \"E4 DG in
W i fl ll i l )('~'

JurI#' ,Nlrd . Th is was

do uble-skip DX de v as
reported in pa rt ab ove . Wh('o t he band opened. a t
9 :40 in th(' momin.e; at W0 ZJ B, Vince heard W I 's
work inll station" in Illinois and ~l i n ncsota, a nti t hen
h(' huok.'tl W2J C H/ l , W l l. L I. and W7Q AP, Inasmuch a~ thi!\ IIMlkt'tl li ke 8 !'l(t -up for double hops, he
b m atlC"lISt QA P '~ frt'<llH' lwy Rnd t he infonnation ,
It.

Broadband t.....e -meter 9round.plane vertical antennJ

at W3GKP, Silver Sprin9 , Md.

which was picked up by W I 's . He was rewarded bv

hearing Q AP work WSCLS / 1. Vince went on If)
work W8C LS /l , WII X, WIX F, W2FID , W l HXL...WI FJN', WIA EI', VE3A VW (a t 12:2<1 r- m.),
W2 F",. W2A~IJ , W4FKX, W8BOK / 8, W3CG\' ,
W2BY~I , W31lDJ, W4 EDD/3, WI QB/ 4, W8R XI'/3, WIIl EI / 4, operat ing mobile, W2E UI ,
W31ll'Y, W2BYW. VE3A E U (at 4 :41 p. m .),
\ V2GYV, T he ba nd t hen closed long eno ugh for
Vince t o promise his wife a trip t o t he movies, t hen
at S p. m . he risked d ivorce to fi nd ' Vl '8 weak ant i
Washi ngton , n. C, stat ions H-9, working W I C G Y,
WllST X / 3, W3IU N, W I K ~I Z /3 nnd W I ~ IU X / 3 ,
Vince heard WI IlDQ, W3BEH, and W4 FB II, working nil others heard . W~ Y U Q was a house ~Uf1'lt .
claim ing 30 conspiracy to get him away from ho me
on t he biJ/; day. W0 0 T V operated W0 Y UQ'g stnt ion , booking W8CLS/ I, W8CIR/I and \\'I C G \',
I ~ A t l~ n \A, \":4 F K X raised ~V1 C GY , WPZ.JB.
\\ II ~ , \\ 9P h., WI BB a nd \\ SC LS/ 1. lIe henrd
\V3I1 DJ , W2BY:\ I. W4 EDD / 3 in w eshtneton (for
very short skip), W2A~ I J , W2PTJ, WllQI X / O in
Mi nneapol is, W9S\". W0BJV in w a tert own, South
D akota, W IFJX. WSRUE / 3 in Pi t ts burgh worked
WUS\ in Grf'-at Cloud, Mi nn ., \V9JIIS in ~ln rshall ,
~t i n n . , and W9DZ~1 in C hamplin, ~l i n n. He heard
WllTA Z, WllQIQ, WllI F\\', W5 \ ' V and W p7.JB.
\\'7Q AP raised W~.)Jf..JB a nd had a double-ho p contact with W8CI ' /1, but missed mos t of the cri!'l_
cross ski p in t he east. Glenn Ha rnishfeger, W9QC Y,
in Fort \Va -ne, started out a t 10:25 a. m. b v wu-king W8Cl / 1, W8CIR/ I . W ID IC , W IA EI', and
W IIIX L, I n t he afte rnoon he heard WP7..J B w -rk ing W I 's, I n t he evening he heard a stat! III in
~l a rshall , Mi nnesota (W9J IIS or W9Q IQ? ), und
mi scellaneous signals which we re not positively
identi fied. I n M ioneepolie, t he va ri ous openi ngs
were parti cipated in , t he evening one t hat missed
F ort Wa yne bei ng t he best ; W9DW U worked 12.
W9I F W Kat five, W9SV hooked 27, W9 [) Z ~ 1 contacted 20, W9J II S and W 9 H X Y workinJl,; some ;
WOll l X rai .., ! W2 I1 Y ~I , W2FC, W2 E UY, W2E UI ,
W3AlR, W311 DJ . W3F X G , W3 BYF, W3AC /2,
W lIOI Z/ 3, W4C I>G , W ID E I / 4, W lQ B/ 4. W3GOI
and hea rd \\' D ll"X, W2P f J . W3C UD, W3 11 1'~~ /3
nud W3AC f2 .

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June 24th. A new state was worked by \V07..1 B in

a contact wi th WINWE /4 at Orland o, Florida ,
YE3AE U was hooked hy W(')YUQ.
25th. W(')Y UQ con tacted W8CLS/I,
W68LO / 5 and W5.JGV/ 7. WOZJB found the opening ,lI;(H)(l"..in the eveni ng working WIIlPV, WIAEP
a nd WSt.;LS jl before the hand shifted to W5 v\r in
Austin, Tcxa...., t he n to \v5.JCV/ 7 for a contact, and
back to W68LO / 5. \V0QIN in Minneapolis ho oked
WIAEi', WILLI., WlllDQ, and W2BY~1.
.J Iw e 26th. An other afternoon opening at WOQI N
produced con tacts wit h W8R UE /3, WI K1\IZ/ 3,
W2PWP who is ox-W3H DJ list ed on othe r da tes
a bove, W9STX /3, WI LLL and WlllDQ.
J une 28th. W07...JB heard a weak and fading signa l on 50.7 megacycles. WOYGQ hooked W7QAP
a nd W5JGV/ 7. W7tlAP had no other contact.
.J une eoo: A double-hop contact was rc!)()rted to
us bv Vince Da wson bet ween WI H)Q a nd
W5JGV / 7, hut we have no other comments on t his
da te.
J une 80th. W9QCY started t h is day off early at
8.50 a . m. by working W5AJ G, W5DKN, W0Y UQ,
WII'W E, W6SLO/ 5, W5FRD, endi ng at 10.10 p . m .
whe n he heard W9Ll\lX. W0ZJll started at t he
same time, raising W8CLS/I , W5AJG, 'V5 EHl\l.
W311FY, W80MY/3, W3BYF, W30R, W5JGV/7
(looks like double hop is possible here-see June
29th above), WINW E /4 , W2IDZ, W2IQQ, W3CGF,
W3n11l, W2BY~I, W4AVT, W9W~11 /4 . Vince
heard W7QAP, a nd a double-hop call Cram W30R
to W5JGV / 7 who exchanged calls. He a lso heard
W311FY calling W6ANN , who came t hroug h for a
fe w minutes. 'V~Y UQ hooked W80:\IY / 3,
W8KQC, W8LZN, W8IF~I , W3I1FY, W9QCY,
W21DZ/2, W30R, WI XWE /4 and W2BY~( , aetti ng two districts- W9 a nd W4-needed for t he
first euuion to work aU districts on six meters. W7QAP
also got in early to contact W 0lC V in T O!leka ,
K ans as, W 0ZJB , WUCHI in Grand Ju nction, owa,

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on Iwo meters at W3GKR .

September, 1946

Wfi:-;LO/ 5, W5AJG, W6LFN a nd W6AXN . He

heard W(')YUQ, W(')BJV and W5FRD. At noon,
"'7IlEA in Washington got W6,JUM , W6NAW.
W6ANN, W60LO a nd W9[.L1\I /6 of the Loa
Angel es gang.
July 50 Meg/lcyde Skip OX
.I uly 1. Usi ng only a. 9002 supe r-regenerat ive det ectorv nnd ha ving worked only W0ZJB, VE4DG in
WinnipeJ.!: was rewarded for hou rs of listening when
he heard W2BQK in Hergeufield, New J ersey, call
WY,Z.JB a nd work W9l\lZJ. WpZJB got in on a n
evening opening, working WI EKT, WILLL,
W8CLS/I , WIIIDQ, W2IJY~I, a nd W80MY/3 .
He also hea rd W8LZN in Detroit who WIl S busy with
South Dakota stations. In Fort w e yue, \V9QCY
hooked W SClR/I, WIUXT?, WIKPN ?, and
W2B Y~l. Out west, the opening was at noon rat her
t han in t he evening; W7QAP found his beam
pec uliarly unresponsive to d irect ions , worki ng
W711 EA in Washington and W7AVV , W7ERA and
\\'7AMX in Portland, Oregon . The la t t er were very
loud a nd were also ge t t ing California stations .
W7H EA started at 10:00 a . m , Pa cific t ime, worki ng
W6AQ.J , 'V7QAP, a nd W6IWS. H e heard com merciul ha rmonice like KPH , KFS, K UN and KNG for
t hree hou rs .
J ul y 3. W7QAP worked W6IWS in. Brookdale,
and WSJKM who was using a verticil.' hke her husband , WSAJG, was on 28 roc ; both of t he la t t er ~'ere
very good , but QAP 's beam had to be t u rned at rig ht
angles!
J ul" 7. In Tucson, W7QAP contacted W7ERA,
W7 FLQ, W6Q UK, W60LO and W6QG . He heard
W6IWH. His beam had to be point ed north-northwest for a ll contacts, and the W6's are said to have
had t he irs nort heast to make t he contacts.
Jul y 9. A card from W5WX on this date, appal'entl}: refering to an opening on the 9th, indicates
that he worked W6NA'V end W6LSN, hearing
Wr,\"X F and W7GBl / 6.
J uly 10. WI NW E / 4 was raised by WpY UQ at
6.0n p . m. Central time.
.I Illy 14. This is a big double-hop ~ay re~orted
parlier.
In Allentown, Pennsy lvania , " 3BYF
hooked W9KYF , W9 U ~ S, W9J V 1':, W411BR,
\\'411 VV, WI NWE / 4, W9 U1 A, W411 VD, W9X CS
and W9:\I ZJ and heard W9Q UV, W9[ F 8 , WOYUQ,
\\'9 D Z ~I , W911 XY and W 0 Z.J B . The latter started
at H.OO o'clock in t he evening; rnieing W4IIVV ,
W9QC Y, W8C LS/ I, W2A ~lJ , VE3IJF F, VF;3AZ V,
\,E3AXY, V I~A P , W8S LU, W2 P YW, W2 llQ K ,
W8UF X / 8, W4BHR. He heard East Coast stations
work ing lots of W6's and W7's hut non e of t he latt er
carne t hrough t o Vince, whose greatest trouble was
t he modulated oscillators used by perhaps a hundred
\'E'g in T oronto and W inn ipeg .
W8S UL near
Toledo worked W8C LS/I. W8J LQ heard W6AOR,
WHAX X , WG F~IIl , WGN AW, W5,J GV/ 7, W5WX,
W91'nl , W(')ZJ B, W (') YUQ, W5A,IG , W7QAP.
If! Pit tsburgh, W80~l Y / 3 worked seven W G'g and
W8HU E got two. W70WX heard W5WX and a
t wo-hop signal, 'V2llY l\1. W7QAP raised W6A N N ,
W6QG, W5EIDl , W8SL U, W6 F~1I1 and W6QUK
in a four-hour opening, and heard W9QC Y and
W5WX , together with a harmon ic of KKR2 on
;)3 me who came in for three hours. I n Fort Wayne,
WVQCY started to hear fadi ng si~n als for two hours
at 4 :30 p. m., t hen worked \HIIVD, W (,)YUQ,
WOZ.JB and heard W4BBR (for several hours )
W6Sl\lH and W6ANN, feeling t hat he was on t he
edge of t he ski p because of t he fa ding and s hifting
fro m one urea to another. The band opened at
{Continued on pflqtc 481

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V ariac Autotransformers
A new series of Variac autotra nsformers, deeign a tcd as T y pe V-5, is a nnounced by the General
Rad io Company. Intended for t he manual control
of e-o voltage, t hese new Variacs incorporate many
improvemen ts.

Through the use of grain-oriented strip cores, both

iron a nd copper are red uced for the same power
rating. This weight saving is fu rthered by aluminum
structural parts instead of steel a nd zinc. The overall red uction in weight yields 25% more KVA per
pound t ha n previous models.
The new General Radio unit b rush is used, which
can be changed without tools. P roper b rush p ressure
is assured by a n accurate coil sp ring, a nd brush extension is limited to p revent short-circuit damage
through contact of t he b rush holde r with the windmg.
Rated out pu t cu rrent for 115-volt models is 5
amperes ; ma ximum current is 7.5 a mperes. Voltage
output can be va ried from 0 to 17% above lin e
vol tage. Volt-ampere rating is 0.862 KVA. 230-volt
models will handle 0. 575 KVA with current ratings

of 2 am peres, rated , a nd 2.5 a m peres ma ximum.

Available in several models, with or witho ut case
a nd term inal box cover, the new V-5 Variac is
adaptable for bench u se in t he labora tory or for
build ing into other equipment.

Lightweight Oscilloscope
A new ligh tweight osc illoscope, the " Pocketscope," wh ich e mbodies allthe functions of t he conventional instrument but in ext remely com pact
form, h es been released by Wa tennan Products
Company , Inc., of Philadelphia. The " Pocketsco pe" weighs only fi ve a nd one-half pounds, is six
and three-eighths inches high, t hree and threequarters inches wide a nd 10 inches deep.
The M odel 8-10-A, fea tures a complete cathode
ray tube oscilloscope incorporating t he cathode ray
tube. ver tical a nd horizontal amplifiers, linear time
base oscillator, synchronization means a nd selfcon tained power supply .

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T he new instrume nt is capable of indica t ing in

two independent dimensions- verti cal a nd horizontal. As used normally , t he vertical d imension is
a m plit ude, a nd the hori zontal may be either a mp litude or t ime. However, by mea ns of external signals, any variable can be assigned to independent
dimensions.
The "Pocke tscope" cathode ray tube is magne tically shielded a nd t he telescoping light shield
(l.Y.f' inches) permits observation even in pl aces of
high light intensity. The controls a nd terminals a re
placed functionally so as to permit easy ad j ustme nts
withou t reference to complica ted ins tructions. N o
re-connections a re required fo r signals passing either
through t he a mplifier or di rectly to the deflecting
pla tes.
The ti me be...e osc illator uses a double triode, t ube
connected as a multi-vibrator, producing a substantial linear t race from 10 cycles to 50 kc. Synchronization with low voltages is poss ible in the
a udio, su personic a nd low r-f ranges.

V H F Transmitter Kit
A precision-machined shorti ng bar with multifingered silver plated contacts, a coaxial non-inductive pla te b locking condenser, a silver plated linear
tank circ uit, a nd a m icrome t ric t uning system (135
to 250 m e) em ploying a fi nely adjustable lead screw
a rc p refa brica ted, ready to assem ble in t he new
Hyt ron HY-Q75, v-h-f t ransm itter ki t .
Using t he HY75-for which the kit was especially
designed -useful power outputs (pla te power outp ut
less grid drive, radia tion a nd circuit losses) of 14
watts on c. w. a nd 11 wa t ts on phone ca n be ob tained.
A pi cto rial wiri ng d iagram and easy-to-u nderstan d

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pla nt. This means a substantial Increase of the alread y erect fa ciliti es for p roduction of quality parts

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that have built the htc h re puta tion e njoyed.the world
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Inst ruction manual make use -mbly a one-hour [oh.

A chart permits rapid locat ion of the amateur bands.
Quick ban d cha nging from 1~ to 2 meters is possible
by adjusting the positions of t he shorting bar and
cou pling loop which matches effic ient ly eit her CO II centric u r parallel-line fee ders.
The assembled ll Y-Q 75 is a com plete v-h-f,
r-t un i t-'l~ . c. or d. c., fixed or mobile. Add t he
HY7;') ttlhe, power supply , modulator and microp hone, a nd you are on t he air. The k it also makes an
excellent laborato ry power osc illator for special
v-h-f measurem en ts a nd clas...mom demonstrationss.
It is available eit her in k it form or completely assembled, wired , a nd tested .

10-11 Meter Converter

W:~ terp roof

Electric C ompany of Bu rbank, Californ ia. ILnnOUnCe8 the "Con-Set ](}-11 Meter, :\10bile-Fixed Converter. for usc on all sta nda rd radios.
Tbe uctual size is 3 }i" x 5 M" x 5 }2" and weighs less
tha n 2 Ills. The fou r tube co nverte r may he used in
eit he r an automobile or the home by a t taching to the
d t.'~ in'(l radio with a few !'imp le co n nectio n~ .
Full

60-W ott All Band Transmitter

A com pact si ngle unit t ransmitter that is sim ple to
per:tte und a t the same time flexible in its applicanon is now being manufactured by J ohn ~ lcck
l lUlust ril's, 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, III
A tiLtiG is used as a regenerative oscillator. T h is
d rin '''; two 61.6G's operat ing as push push dou blers
in the final r-f amplifier. A single 6SX7 connected as
a cascaded a mplifie r drives a 6SX7 phase inverte r .
Two 6I..6G's in push pull, operating Class AB arc
w~('d ll.~ mndula to rs. All Y cI')'stal or hi~h impcdarwc
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Kit craft I nc., 614 N. San Vicente Blvd ., LJS
Angeles 46, California. offers a new radio crystal 8Ct
kit desig ned to teach youngsters the principles of
radio while they build. The set comes complete wit II
tes ted galena crystal and mica condenser. Also ineluded is a 20-pll.~e illustrated manual containi ng
d iag rams, theory and all building and operating instructions. The set is extremely Cll.SY to build und
works almos t a nywhere ; base and coil form arc uf
"Lucite" plastic'. No so lde ring or bat teries arc n .. ..
qu irtcl. Auy tY I Il~ of ht~IHI phone may be u~'cI , tlVen

d y nami c mk- rophone m :~y he used.

Addi tional features include built-in antenna
cha ngeove r relay, p ro visio ns for plug-in ba t tery or
vihropac o pcrutiou, meter switching to final amplifie r grid or plate c ircu its for tuni ng, crystal socket on
front panel fur rapid frequency change, send-receive
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t rans mi t te r nnd power su pplies are com pletely r-ontai ned in a cabi net 15" x 11 " x 9 " .

Narrow Band FM
Sonar Rad io, Brook lyn, X .Y. has released thei r
new narrow band F ~ t unit. ~t odet X E-IO is a small
table-top unit which will provide an FM deviatio n
of 2-3 kc. C sirw; this attachment it is possible to
co nvert any phone or c-w rip; to narrow band F :\I
by merely inserting the connector in place of the
c rystal or frequen cy control equipment. Adva ntages
cla imed for nmutvu r F~I include eliminat ion of al most all BCI, greater signal-to-noise ratio, high
e fficiency , a nd economy over other forms of moduletion. Dimensions of the unit a n: 9%"" x 7" x 5"
overal l. Any A~ I recei ver Can be used to receive
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Coaxia l Dipole
Engineering E lect ronics, 50 Fairfield S t., M on tclair, New J ersey, have released a new coaxial dipole
for amateur service. The d ipole is supplied with 2
st a ndoff insulators, feed thru bolts, adjustable top
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After havilijt read your editorial regarding QSL
cards in J uly CQ, I feel t hat a few words of advice
might well be in order regarding QSL cards. I n t he
firs t place. QSL cards are such a n accep ted part of
the American ham scene that every man who jopereates on the ha m bands should be prepared to QSL
whe n he is req uest ed to do so. Receipt of a QSL card
from another ham is an implied request, and should
be 80 honored . T his is elementary courtesy.
Most foreign hams are not so plent ifully endowed
with cash a nd equipment as t he average American
amateu r. Rad io eq uipment comes by them qui te
dea rly , and they often must pay a tax on t heir
" wa tts" just as their automobiles are taxed by
"horsepower." Wit h t wo quick strikes against t hem
at the outset, they often cannot afford to QSL every
station that they work. wh ile in t he Air T ransport.
Command , I met a ham in t he Azores. E very station
he worked was a DX station and if expected to
gSL t his would hit him hard - in t he pocket book.
1 he sugges ted remedy is simp le: just purchase an
in ternational excha nge coupon a nd enclose it with
your QSL in an envelope addressed to the foreign
ham. V ou'll get your elusi ve DX confirmed this
way for certain!
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Ed itor, CQ:
Sam Gendler of Radio-T elevision Instit u te, in
comment ing upon T he Plate Dip article which appea red in t he June issue of CQ. hasJ >oinlcd out that
t he re is s till more to he said regar ing this ma tter.
Not only is the r-f com ponent impeded by resonant
tank circuit, but t he d -e compone nt is likewise
d iminished as a result of lowered effect ive pla te
vol tage. Th is d iminished d -e com ponent in t u rn
causes t he d ip obse rved on the plate circuit meter.
Furthermore, anothe r factor enters in, d ue to the
out-of-phs...se relationshi p between pulses of pla te
current a nd nega tive hall-cy cles of pla te tank voltage, whenever t he pla te tank is out of resona nce.
This out-of-phase cond ition aggravates t he plate
dissipat ion req u iremen ts, as a certain number of
current pulses will Bow d uring the period of maximum plate potential.
The complete a nalysis is diffi cult, and numerous
factors are at work; but in particula r it is well to
stress what is happeni ng to t he d-e component when
tuning through resonance, as this component is read
d irectly on the plate circuit meter.
I believe your readers may be interested in ~Ir.
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Ed itor, CQ:
T his letter is in defense of t he "expe rienced radio
man" referred to by M r. E . Slack J r., in t he J une
issue letters of CO.
M r. Slack speaks firs t about how ha rd it is to get

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UHF
(from page 119)
5.30 p. m. Central ti me (or Bert Arnold, W5WX , in
Amarillo ; W6 's firs t started to come in, follo w ed by
W4, \\'8 and W9. There were many stations on t he
band, mostly between 50 and 5 1 megacycles. He
worked W6AXN. W6QG . W6F)1Il W5JGV/ 7.
W7QAP, W6AOR and \\'6XAW, not \>eing able to
log stations heard.
July 16. On a dead band at 10:10 a . rn. W PZJB
LllW !.(lS S
called CQ and raised W2BY)1 for a ball-hour conF abrica ted from Amphencl 912-11 (8 crystal
tact, followed by W I LLL. H e heard WKR on
51,475 kc for three hours. In the afternoon, he
clear, hard , tough acrylic t hermoplastic, ligh t
worked WIIlDQ, WIN EW/ 4, W3C GV, W2PWP,
ill weight. strung and d urable) possessing excel- and
heard W2 BY~1 at 5 :38 when the band wen t
len t electrical c beracteristics at high Irequen- dead for good.
cies-e- Iow II()\H' r Iactor-e- Iow loss fac tor.
July 17. Yince at WPZJB worked W8CIR/I and
heard WSC LS/I just before 8 p. m.
July 19. Vince heard only one station thought to
LOW MOISTUIlE AIISO IU'TIO:'i
he W2.UlJ.
Possesses excel lent water a nd weather resistance.
July to. WPZJB heard plenty of fad ing stations,
Will not discolor from sunlig-h t or outdoor '
all the way to the F~I band which di d not sign.
exposure.
W8C FY swished in. T hen he worked 'V3BYF,
W2IDZ and W8CLS/l starting at 10 :30 a . m . afte r
two hours o( listening to t he unident ified signals.
t~\SII . Y A.TACIIEII
T he band reopened in t he evening a nd he hooked
A feature of the T ype I.....X Lt ne Spacer is that
WIHDQ. W2BYF, WILLL, W21lY)I, W4HVV.
it is easily attached to line without threading
W4CYW, W4W~1l /4 a nd heard several FM stawires through holes.
tions with no calls used, including one sounding like
Forestry Service on 53.9 megacycles, a nd a harmonic
of WKR.
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J uly t1. The ten meter band ope ned for W4 then
There is no metal CO Jl Wcl b..-twecn the line wire
W2 and in an hour moved to \VB's in Michigan
nnd Splicer to ca use noise or ChRUSt'S in line
which star ted the six-meter DX, for W0z.rIl who
characteristic. T he use of tie-wires or se t sc rews
t hen worked W I LLL. W8C LS/ I. WIFJN, W I A EP.
W I H DQ, W3GOI, W2PWP, W80 M Y/ 3, W3lU,
ill direct contact with line wires is 8 cont rih ut ing
W2AM J . li e also heard VE3AXT.
('1111 8 (' of unsuspec ted hi gh no ise level.
J uly 26. With no skip on t en meters, t he sixmeter band ope ned up during l00-mile contacts at
T)'I)C LX -2 (2 ln .)
35 list
.21 n e t
WP7.JB, h ringing contacts with WIFJN, W8CIR/I
T ype LX--1- (.1- in.)
4j list
.27 n e t
and t hen Vince heard WICGY. Signals had a flutter
with beat o8Ci~r uu, and high-frequency bands
T ype LX -6 (6 in.)
60 list
.36 net
were dead (rom t he effects of t he magnetic s torm.
This may ha ve bee n a urora-type DX.
51-:.; '1'111-:.' 1 AT YOU n JOIUn:n- if he doesn't
J uly $7. Double-hop signals helped W7QAP who
stock 1I1em order direct.
worked W~YUQ a nd WIHDQ. hearing only one
other uniden tified signal. WPZJB received good
FI\EE-Wr ile for pamphlet " H OW T O FEED signals from W5JGV / 7, a nd t hen t he band swished
east so he could contact WIXD~I in Rhode Island,
YO UII ANTEXNA IlIll ECfL Y WITH A 500W2JCR, 1V2BQK, WI KPN, 1V3F)ID. W2EIF,
OIlM O P EX-W IIl E LI XE" h y A. L. )Iunzig.
W3F LG, W2A)!J and t hen W5JGV /7 again. The
W 6BY.
double hop .....as giving \\"7 contacts to the eastern
stations.
July $8. W~ZJB raised W2BY)I , and heard a
~1R. JOnBEn : If you d o not stock this fast
station calling him a night-owl after ten o'clock in
mo ving item write or wire
the evening, Central time, on 50.1 megacycles.
for samples and discounts.
July t 9. This was one of t he best western Ope04
inga after a slow start with weak signals. W PZJB
heard W6A NN worked W7QAP and W5JGV /7.
Factor,: Laurcl wood &: T ippecanoe Ave., Lorna
Then he heard a station say H oulton, Oregon
(W7E RA ). W~AP had quite an evening, workin$
Linda . Calif.
W7I1 EA. W6
, 1V7ERA. W6FH)I , WooVK,
W ~Y U Q . W O B and WooVK again, hearing
VE7VQ1, W6SFL, WooLO, W6QX Ul ending with
hearing W7ERA alone contacting California stations, for a four-hour opening. 10 Redwood City
sout h of San F rancisco, W60VK worked 'V5JGV/ 7,
1V7QAP and W7DXBJ. also hearing VE7AEZ and
WPZJB. The ,V7DNu reception W R.8 a very short
hop (rom Portland, Oregon.

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Slx-M eter Lew-A tmosphere OX

In a ll of the excitement over skip DX Oil the DOmegacycle band , it is l'asy to overlook t he loca l work
a nd t ho low-atmosphere cont act s ut di sta nces of 100
m iles or more. This is sim ila r to the DX work Oil t he
2-m ('t cr hand , hut definitely should 1)(' encouraged so
t hut t here will hi' nct ivity when t he DX docs sk ip in .
W~JLQ in '1'01('(10 not es t hat a ntennas a re nt n
m-w low, wit h W9LM X a t IS feet and W9QC Y of
Fort Wa y lw, the 91:)..foot mall , down to 3.) feet , He
sa VI'I I hnt t he rcn..son he doesn't hear t he V1-:3 gang
is "t ha t t hey urc stuhhorn about polariza ti on-he no
longo r conject ures over vertical va. horizont al, II O W
he kn ows ! Af ter t rying 1\ vcrtical und h'urinJ!: Hil%
noise, he found t hilt II hori zon tal d ipole cu red t ill'
ignit ion noise to It d egree t hat it docs not swam p out
everyt hin g else. Wit h t ile W9Y K X configurufion-et welve elements ill t he Lu zy-H configunuio n wit h I"CHectors a nd directors, he docs some OX work . III an
inversion on July 4, he worked " '80A C in Akron
a nd heard W80M Y/ 3 in Pi t tsh urgh . He a lso contacts W9QCY in Fort Wa yne, und W&'-; L U at
Auburn Heights occusionully.
WUQCY has done some DX work wit h W9LM X ,

W9ECII , WRVIB, W9AB, W&JLQ, WSSL U.

WpZJ B in Gashlnnd , Missouri , regularly works
Wp Yl7Q at Ma nhat t a n, K ensua, 110 miles a irline.
The net nlso includes WOI C V in T opeka a nd
WpJ CQ in Fort R iley. YL'Q has stacked two of his
3..elemen t beams nnd now is mere consistent with
very little rude on hnd nights. This net operates
nightly O il 5004 m e and is looking for newcomers.
Du ring t he skip- D 'X on Ju ne 23, t he ~ I innt'nplllis
gung repo rted hearing W9Q IQ ill Ma rshall , Min n.,
17;) miles west , O il some kind of freak sk ywave or
mid groundwave.
Two-Meter OX
The hopefuls might listen to t his one. We r ecei ved
a let t er from 11 former Army Air Forces tower upetutor who reports t hnt an Army stutinn in Sant a l\Ia riu,
California, usi ng a st andard Bendix transmitter
(a bo u t 50 watt s outpu t ) from an 829 in the final , as
W(~ recall) on a bout 132 megacycles, worked a sta t ion
in sout hern Albert a, Canada, fo r eight consecuti ve
nig hts before the circuit wus monitored and t hey
were told t o stop .
Jim Brannin, W60 \, K, reports t hat on Sunda y ,
.J uly 28th, W6 N X S heard W6 l\I E L upward s of 400
mi les but no two-way co ntact was made. ' Vfi N X S
was on M t . Diablo in the Bay urr-e, while WG:\l E L
was on Frazier peak near Ba ke rsfield . WGOVK in
Redwood C ity was heard 170 mil es away by W6PSQ
in G rant's National P a rk . J im ulso worked W6 NJJ
1-19 miles awuy when N.)J was in Mendocino Nnt ional Pa rk ; considering that Jim's 12..element beam
is 18 feet off t he ground a nd a t a n altitude of 50 fee t
in a valley, that's good! J im 's other recent con tucts
include W6BVl";: ill Sacramento, 93 m iles withou t a
boam, and W6 LSX in Wa tson ville, 60 m iles away.
For a while, Bill La dle;' of W6RllQ a nd Bill
Hu nt er of W4TZ / 6 had a bit of a record established
on J une 9th . R BQ wus at RanK('I" Lookout Stat ion
ill Crnnt National Pa rk a t nn ele vation of 7500 Iect.;
W4T Z was at Goat M oun ta in some ten miles sout h
of Shee t Iron Mount ain west of Willows, California,
a t a n elevation of 6500 feet, a bout 280 miles away .
HBQ used fift y watts crystal controlled, end a superhet erodyne receiver wit h a 16-clcment beam. T Z
hnd t welve wutta crystal controlled and a threecleme nt bea m . The il a long carne ' V3HWX 's nice
DX of a bit over 300 miles to Rhod e Isla nd !
W2JWO who is located nt Patchogue on the sout h
shore of Long Isla nd about 55 m iles east of N ew

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York City, has had contacts out to close to 300

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On June 24 he worked three mobile stations in New
J ersey, W2 ~ LJ , W2J N and W 2N N F. He also
hooked W IK PR and W I LPO in Rhode Isla nd. On
July 3 he got WIJFF in Rhode Island. W3110 H in
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Orleans, Cape Cod, W3GQS in Feasterville, P enna. ,
WIBJE, W l HCK, W lIIJ ll, WIME, WIKO E, a nd
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:\teehaniesburg, Penne ., and W2PFQ / 8 in Poho(loco, Penna. On JuI)" 11 he raised W8CY~1 /3 at
Chester. Penne ., W3K:ME at T amaqua, Penna., and
WIKnt, Winthrt?p, Mass.
Bill Smith, ' V3G K P , got on with 30 watts into an
832A last November at Silve r Spri ng , Ma ryla nd ,
just outside of " "ashington. With a ground-plane
vertical, his best DX was W3CRB near Bal timore,
22 miles a way. Wi th a horizontal folded d ipole in
April, he could n't work a nybody, so p ut u p a bedspring-reflector vertical array, making repeated DX
contacts incl uding the following: ' V3CG V in Wilmington, Del., 95 miles; "r3 L ~ in Lancaster, Penna "
80 miles ; W9G BA/ 4 mobile on Skyline D rive, Virginia, 79 miles; ' V4I FW/ 4 mobile airborne, 30 miles
north of Richmond, 60 miles; a nd heard W3 HWN at
:\teehanicsburg: a nd W2P AU at :\It. Ephriam.
W3 KWH , t he Steel Ci ty Amateur Radio Club in
P itts burgh, is looking for schedules with 144-megs
cycle D X stations to try out the new 16-element
beam, accordi ng to W80:\IY/ 3,
Equipment and ActiYity
Due to the length of the 5O-megacycle DX news
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the material on equipment, antennas, activity , and
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I t was J erry, W2PBI, who was dashed to t he
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194 1 she was t he first woman to he offered a n a ppoin trn en t as a civil ia n rad io operator in the Signal
Corps.
He r code speed was already 3t) w pm, when she
a eceptod t he posit.ion. C haracter ist ically, she soon
a ttaint1! a speed of ;)t) wo rds per m inute ! M ick ey
rcmuim-d w ith t he Signa l Cor p:'! until August, 19-t 3.
when !' h (~ resig ned ht(/luSl. of Ihe b irth of her
d a ug hte r , P atricia Ann.
)liekt'Y's ma rriage to S~t. J ames :\la rJ?;lin can ht
a dded to t he list of romances resul ting from ham
radio, hut there tln- similarity sto ps. It is 1ru t '
that she m et J a mes o n the air, hut it. was defi nitely
no t n case of love at first sight, or sou nd rather.
:\l a r/l;lin at that ti me lived in t he barrack s a t. Ft,
1\ IlUX, o ne block from M ickey, and ope ra ted the rig
at W 9T IIR. T hcv ho th had crystals on t he same Irequency, and tlmt\ ; where t he trouble begun. Mickey
Nt)"S, " I d id n't k now t he mall, hut i t seemed t hat
r-vvry time I would tunc u p my rig to do some ntlo!;
chewi ng or handle so me truffle, \Y9TIIS would bla re
fort h with h is 4[)() watts eompk-tely blocking my 300
wat ts. " 'c fough t. lik e cuts a nd dogs. I wou ld toll
him to s ig n off, a nd he'd refuse. The ba t.tle kept 011
for t wo mo nths. One da y I met h im by acci dent.
li e sai d, "You' re ~ l i ('k l'l-W9ZT U .' I replied , ' Ynll
are t he dog who has xen forcing me ofT t he a ir
da ily !' W e decided to bury the hatche t, lx-camc
fr iend ly a nd la te r ma rried ,"
M ost of M ickev'a ha m activ it ies ha ve bee n on 40,
where she was very po pula r both as a n execlh-nt
o perator and IUl especially lively person. She's won
recogni t ion ll." a t raffic handler u..~ a member of t he
AA US and t he Fort v T raffi c System . She was also
a member of the l u't,L!; Cht~ \n~rs' Club, and was uppoin te d a n O ffic ia l Relay Stilt io n.
Unfortunately at la...t somet h ing ha s slow" t1
M iek ey do wn . R ecen tly M ickey , J im , a nd Pat ty,
started on their way to C al ifomiu, where t hey intend to mak e their fut ure home. Enroute t hey had
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a mont h or so we are figu ring 011 b rouk iug

wit h a list of count ries and zones y o u fellows

hun' worked. We a rc going to leave the 1.0IH.' S at

40, in other words , jus t t h e same as a lways, and
as fa r us t he co untries are co ncerned , when yo u
fellows send in t h e lis t we a re going t o follow the
same pre- war system of having you give t he call
lette rs of at lea..s t one stut .ion, and the d ate of t he
QSO in ea ch eu u n t rv worked . \\'c a rc gol ng to
sho w u grand t ot a l, as well as post-wa r tot als .
Obviously , this sho u ld please all facti ons. Some
of t he boys wa n t post-wa r t otals o nly, some of
them want all t im e t.otuls , so we couldn 't sec a nyt h ing w rong wit h showing both t o ta ls. N a tu ra lly,
t he q uest io n w ill a rise as to wh a t is a co u n try and
what is nut a cou ntry. W h at ever is d ecided , it
will be eq ua l for a ll concerned .
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enough for yo u boys to knock over some of this
good DX, why d on 't you take time out a nd drop
us a line on a nything you might feel would be of
interest to the readers of this colum n . Surely
there a re some interesting incidents that happen
in your " D 'X'ting and if, in your opinion, t hey
would be interest ing to someone else, drop us a
line. Then, too, don't overlook the fact that we
arc always a nxious to get photographs of D X
stations, because these are always interesting to

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the ot her guy. We will be sure and return the

pictures to you. Let's see if we can't get some

WH ITESTONE, N. Y.

would like very much to see some good healthy

cont ributions from all districts , yes , and they
include Ca nada . 1I0w about it, you YE's? We
a rc gradually getting known outside of the country and I am sure some of ou r D X gang from overseas will soon get in the swi ng of cont ributing;
their bit.
Wh en you haven't anything better to do wh y
d on't you round up a few fellows and get what
seems to be the prevailing argument going, on
what length you should cut the radia tor of a
folded d ipole, using t his 300 ohm twin lend.
Opinions out here a rc a dime a d ozen a nd when
a person proves his calculat ions arc correct, he' ll
ha ve someone po p u p and disprove it just as
convincingly .
That see ms to be all gossip t his month , but I
feel a little disappointed on t he DX reported from
thc \V9's, Guess I \\;11 have to get my ' Y9 11('8111
in action, in order to sec what's goiug on. See
you next mont.h .

DX PR EDICTIONS
[from pag' f BI

10-13-20 a nd 40 are apparently all open . T ell

meters, however, is closing down at this time a nd
alt hough it is very possible that signals are breaking through, they will be either weak or fading
up a nd down so much as to be nearly unreadable.
This cond it ion is denoted by t he solid white

transition area bounded by the 1lUF and OWF

outlines. On 13 meters at 2000 hours PST conditions might be somewhat better, but within one
half hour or so, 13 meters would also be ready to
close for t he day . On 20 meters the hand \\;11
open for several more hours, or at least t ill 2300
hours PST. Since the O' YF outline does not recross t he 2o-mcter band u ntil 2230, we have a
good chance of working Sydney on this frequency .
Of course, t he graphs ",;U only indica te thc
average cond itions for one month . Very severe
ionosphere storms would d isrupt a ny likelihood
of our working D X oyer certain pat hs 3.<; would
t he fact that a vary ing a mount of milia signal

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transmitting st at ion . Generally, the maximum

absorption throughout the radio spectrum occurs
directly below the sub-solar point, i.e., when the
longitude of the center of the great circle path is
d irectly u nder the suns ' rays , Absorption varies
so widely from clay to day, that in the accompanying graphs only the very minimum is plotted.

absorpt ion occurs daily and might completely

wipe out our signals before they have traveled
half the distance. Ionospheric absorption is much
more d ifficu lt to predict thnn the ) lUF. Absorption not only d epends UIXJD certain types of solar
radiation and their intensity in thc atmosphere,
but upon t he nntennn nnd power rad iated by the

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This is represented OJ' a slight shading Irom t 11('

base line during the .:\I UF and O\r F pea ks.

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~UII moves southward to cross the equutor, DX
r-end it io ns will he noticeably bettor from day to
day . The band to watch in the latter part of the
month will he of course, 10 meters. Around the
:', eund week of Sept ember trnns-cont inentnl openiug:.. frum W1-\\"2-"'3 and \r -l to " 5-\rf,..\\"j"
aud WU will start in the mid-nftcruoon hours . A:-,
11\1' mouth progresses we may expect to find this
pat h open daily till about 1800 hours EST (F i g. !').
Po.... :'ihl~ around the second week tho south nnd
r-r-ntrul . \fri (a ll ~ will brenk through intn the East
r-oast and a." far ' ,"e;-;t RoO; the ~ l i s,.. i....... ippi River. .\
little after tln- middle of the mon th the first Euro-

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Fig. 3. M UF and OWF Eastern half of United States

to Europe. Septemb er 1946 aver.ge
1M. nus will be heard on 10 (Fi g. 8 ) . For the most
purt they are not expected to be any too strong or
con-isu-nt , but will show a definite daily improve-

nunt a... we enter October.

South and Central America ns \\;U still he eood
HIlI I us the nttuospheric noise centers move southward with the sun , 20 meters will stay open
longer with numy signa ls picking up st rengt h
after the equinox. The improvement in number
a nd strength of the Europeans on 20 met ers will
tH:' particularly noticeable. Trans-Pacific DX
a p lX':lN to he slowly corning back . In F ig. 4 we
huve illustrutr-d the bn.... ic condi tions from Chicago
tu Tovko. Japan. Generally t his appli es to WI.
1\"2. 11'3. II'S. 11'0 as well as Il'g. Due to this
path pns.... in~ near th e auroral polar regions it is
difficult at present to predict the best hours of
11:"(' of the l :Jtransmission. Undoubtedlv
. the
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meter band would greatly simplify this matter.

But , to work the Asiat ics listen on 20 after 2000
hours CST.
The amateur band predictions nrc based upon
the research work now going on at t he Central
Radio Propagati on Laboratory of the Nntional
Bureau of Standards. Comments and inquiries
(rom the users of the predicti ons are invited and
are of interest to t he CRP L and CQ. Address,
P ropagat ion Editor, CQ :\1aJ!:fizioe, 342 Madison
Ave" New York }i, X . Y.

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lfrom page 24]

st ab il it y, p recision-made ca pacitors arc used for

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group of elect rical components arc mounted
within a cast aluminu m box. An interior shield
isolates the 6AC7 plate circuit from t he v-f-o
t uned circuit. Zero t emperature coefficient silver
mica condensers are used as shunt capacitors.
A 50 ~ J.l.r main t uning capacitor covers t he fundamental freq uency range of 3.5 to 4 me and the
gea red vernier dial permits accurate adj ust ment
a nd reset ting to desired frequency.
' Yhen cryst al cont rol operat ion is desirable,
provision is incorporated t o permit the 6AC7
buffe r to operate as t he crystal-controlled oscillator without need of t uning. Changing from
v.I.o. to crystal cont rol is accomplished from t he
front of panel by mea ns of a three-position
switch . Provisions are incorporated wit hin t he
transmitter to accommodate t wo crystal holders.
\Vhen the transmitter is operated on crystal cont roll it is only necessary to resonate the power
a mplifie r t uning condenser and adjust the antenna link to the point at which the proper plate
current is drawn from t his stage. I n ot her words
when using crystal t he T emco 75GA is a single
dial transmitter.

Method 01 Keying
When c-w operat ion is desired, break-in keying
of the v. f.o. and butTer st age is accomplished by
the grid block met hod, thus insuring distinctive,
clcar-eut., clicklese keying. I nasmuch as it is
unnecessary to t unc any of the buffer or doubler
st ages, no metering in them is requi red . The
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current and modulato r plate' current.
Speech Ampli~er and Modulator Section
The speech amplifie r uses a t ype 6SJ7 t ube, resist uncc coupled to a 6J5 t ube; t he latter drives
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with no antenna load . During adjustment , the

cathode current should measure approximately
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reached . If bot h t he oscillator and the am plifier
a ppear to be working satisfacto rily at this point,
the applicable antenna circuits may be connected.
In every cnse, the antenna coupling circuits
should be adjusted for maximum 807 cathode
current, after which C-t is immediately readjusted for minimum cathode current. "nen the
amplifier cathode current reaches 100 rna when
Ct is at resonance, the 807 is operating at its
maximu m current rat ing, and for long life this
value should not be exceeded. Depending upon
t he plat e voltage to the S07, it is possible to
realize up to 75 wat ts input to the amplifier wit hout exceeding tube rat ings.
It has been mentioned that a d-e voltmeter is
e xtremely handy to check t hat t he pla te voltage

RA
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NARIIOW

FM

..-z.

...

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BAND

"Cen be received on U II) ' A7\1 Superhet or

TnF rec-e-iver without distortion. P08itively elimina tes Broadcast Interference,
as there is no shock excitat ion on carrier,
wheu using Sonar Na rrow -Band FM Exci te r. "Greater Sav ing Ior the Ham : No
~ Iodul u tor ; Speech Amp. and Associated
Power Supply required.

of t he S07 docs not exceed 750 volts a nd t hat t he

screen voltage with the key d own is wi th in t he

range of 250 to 300 volts. With the key up, this

807 screen volt age shou ld drop to 20 volts.
Sometime during the initial tuning up, it is
advisable to insert a milliammeter in series with
R-5, the grid leak resistance of the 807, to measure
t he amplifier grid current with the oscillator
operative a nd the 807 plate voltage ofT. A maximum va lue or 5 mn is allo wa ble, however, under
normal o pera t ing conditions the value will be set
at approximately 3 rna by the s pecified v alues of
C-5 and the grid resistance, RJ;.
Coil values have been s pecified for t he eightymeter c-w band o nly. \Vit h ot her bands
available , Ls-l and L- can be removed to make
way (or coils which tune to resona nce at t he d e-

sired frequency. Those who feel that band changing is somewhat difficult a nd uneconomical (from
a crystal stand point) can press t he 807 into service
as a freq uency doubler ; however, the a uthor i...
limited to si ngle-band operation for the present
a nd no inconvenience has resulted from the decision to sim plify const ruction details by narrowing the rig down to t he barest essentials needed to
obtain efficient o perat ion.
O( course, in most ham work, everyone tis
a nxious to improve upon the other fellow's equipm ent by adding here and removing there to produce the answer to a particular transmitter problem. In poor loca tions where power is a limitat ion, the \Va t t Squeezer will perform exceedingly
well, and others in a similar situat ion m ight draw
several ideas from the rig as described. F ortunately, the rig can be easily duplicated and watt

September, 1946

S y,",~ Loeal Dm l" o OJ' Writ_ Uti

S ONA R RADIO CO R P.
P O. Bos 4-15
Brooklyn 1. New York

NARROW BAND FM
Sonar FM Exciter (2-3 kc d evtetlc nj-reliminetes BCl I penetretes Q RM ; meximurn
econc mv, more output. A ny A M rece ive r
cen be used . Sell-contained power supply.
Less crvstel
539.45
A st, tic 0.104 Crystal Mike-the o ld hol m
stendbv. Rugged ; high frequency response .
Ideal for FM unit above
514.76
Shure SingleButton Hand Mik~S i 9 na l
Corps Type 17B, with push -to-talk switch,
about 7 feet of cable end 3-contact plug .. .
.
,
$1.95
Cud well V .H.F. Oscill,tor-uses 6 F4 tube;
complete with coils for 141-151 Me., 215230 Me., 415 -455 Me
$10.80
F4 tube, cxtr"'
5 .55

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for wat t , the Wat t Squeezer I , gets a lot out for a

little, which is something these days .

Appendix

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The Inlltr u ct o l1rilph Code 'Teac her litcr. lly u lr. cl t he place o fan operetor-iner ructor
a nd en. bl.., anyone 10 leun and mallc r!:Ode
wit hout funhn aui,tane'!'. T houu. nd. of suettu fu l o pere tore hllve "acquire'! t he code' ",-jth the ( n ll:r lie t oll.n ph
S Yllltem. Writ e toJll f for full pnticulara and convenient ren tal plll nl .

There are t wo simple methods of metering t he

,ra tt Squeezer 1. A choice must first be made as
to whet he r or not both sta ges will be keyed
- imu ltaneously, Both stages a re keyed aimu ltancously when the solid connect ions on t he
schemat ic diagram are followed, omitting the
clott ed jumper between points Xli and Ie. I n this
connection, a SP DT swi tch may be used to shunt
a single 0-150 rna milliammeter across either R-4
or R-8, the 2O-Qhm met er shunts. Since both
cathode circuits are closed only when keying, the
W i plnte current limit ing tube, the 6A3, is in
reality not absolutely necessary as a part of the
circuit. However, in thc event that while thc key
is down the oscillator suddenly becomes inoperative due to a fault of some kind, the 6..:\3 circuit
will insure that the 807 is fully protected from
overload . T o make the most of the novel GA3
system, one can omit t he connection between
points I3 and X4 substituting a jumper from
r 4 to Xli which results in oscillator keying on ly .
T his urruugement necessitates the use of a two
circuit twu position rotary switch to accom plish
single milliammet er meteri ng of both stapes. I n
t his la tt e r case the met er is connected ln-t wt-en
XI a nd -ra when readin g oscillator cut bc.de cu rrent and bet ween Xz and Xli (or grou nd) when
rea din g final cut hodo current .
Annddi tiouul Iactor governing t he nbovo choice
is thn t almost t he full S07 plate voltage nppo urs
across t he key (in the up po sition) when both
st a ges a re keyed toget her when- us only the 11 \ ' 6
plate voltage is at t he key wit h jumper T 4 to .rs
in the circ uit lind Ia to r 4 ' open.

BI -SQUARE BEAM
Vrom page II)

Dr"t. C .f701 S IIR IIlAS ROAD. C III C:M . O .. D. n .L.

Jobbers, Amateursand Servicemen

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When p&lrc:h-.-llWparately _... , .. , . 10.00 Eac h
R . d io fu_ a MCtr ted ";zeII. 100 .... , .. ,.,. 3.6S
0..200 mic.-. mp me ter. 2 " inchea . _
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.9 5 E.c h
M ete r r",tifie n (H . If. a ve). " "
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( F u ll. a ve ), , , . , _
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Weat er n Electric conde.......nd re t. rd
COIl. 10 . ....rted .. ....... ,_ .. . .. . ..
1.95
Five"conductor cahl.. 20 It len,th. _. , , . ,
.79
}'Ii . lX U Ce r. m ic Standoff I nsulator.
Thread ed .......... ,. " , . . . , ... , .. 2.75 per 100

Fra,ht paid on eede.. over $200,00

Wrll.Jor drc-u w

AME RICAN SALES COMPANY

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fed with a 3/ 16 wave stub, T his gave u hid irect ional pattern quite sim ilar to the W8JK
2 scct ion flat top, wit h somewhat more gain, but
was vel')' hard to feed and quite critical as to
frequency and weather. So our next thought wus-c
why not use the added element as a reflecto r?
After numerous tests we have found it to be the
answer to a real antenna for 28 mc and low
power!
T he parasitic dement is shown in Fig, t und
is an exact duplicate of t he radiator in Fig. 1 except that the stub is longer.
This is mounted on the same pole as the driven
radiator and in back of sa me, the two squa res
being separated 4'6" ( l / S wa ve) by wood
spreaders which su pport the wires . There is no

co

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connection between t he t wo. Using a field st rength

meter located about 1000 feet from the array,
the shorting bar on the stub att ached to t he pa rasitic clement, was run up and down unt il the
point of greatest gain was located, the power input to the driven radiat or being held at a constant value after each change.
In our case using t he parasitic element as a
reflector the proper stub length was 9'3" but t his
is not critical t o about 2" either way.
We then moved the field strength meter to the
other side of the array at t he same dist ance from it.
Leaving a permanent short on the parasitic st ub,
(at 9'3" down) we st arte d temporarily shortening
t his st ub un til a point was located t hat gave
maximum guinI n this direction from t he array.
This was 7/10" from the point at which the stub
attached to the parasitic radiators. \Vc were then
all set , with a real gain. Uni-directional, North
or South, depending: on where we short t he
stub on t ill' parasitic element . There is a change in
loading when going from reflector t o director but
this is no doubt due to changed impedance. However. it worked so well we have been too busy on
t he band t o correct this condition.
The com plete a rray is more critical as to frequency t han the single Hi-Square but docs a
very good job over a wide band of frequencies as
shown by Fig. 8. These reports a re by meter on
a n SX 28A at u dist an ce of 24 miles at no watts
input here to t he fi nal.

Results
Since using thi s complete a rray we have many
t imes been accused by Sout h Americans of using
900 a nd not 90 wat ts. We have been able t o
work e l'eT1j station heard from South America a nd
all except one Asian. T his antenna is broadside
North and South and is used only for South
America and Asia .
\Ve usc a single Hi-Square broadside E & \V
for Australia , N ew Zealand and Africa a nd even
though t he " Zeddera" a re about 35 ofT the center
of beam, reports have averaged S7. In North
Africa t he reports a re just as good as t hose obtained with a 3-elemellt close-spaced rotary
aimed right on Algeri a nnd t hat point too is
about 30 ofT t he center of the Hi-Squa re beam.
All in all, for t he time, money and efTort involved these t wo antennas have given us more
and better DX than any others tried here in over
26 years us un amateur lind we have tried t hem
all except t he rhombic. \\'e have noticed our reports wit h no watts are usually as good and many
times better t han those obtained from DX by
the 1 kw boys. Sure it's just t he location- maybe.
\Ve think it is a couple of darned good anten nas,
which helped by the 3-clement rotary, have
worked 77 countries since November 1945.

September, 1946

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the a ntenna ma y be m ounted on any suitable rod or
pole b y the u se of t he 2 standoff insulators provided .

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Mini.ture RF Coil.
" Minid uctors, " a peacetime adaptation of the
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a rc now being packaged in standa rd two a nd three
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M inid ucto ra are now individually p ackaged and
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For t ransmi tting or receiving at freq uencies in the
range of 108 to 180 me, the Andrew Co. of Chicago,
type 704 coaxial antenna offers effect ive but inexpensive se rv ice.
Wh en mou nted vertically, this antenna produces
vertically polarized rad iation with greatest in tensi ty
in a horizontal di rection. The radiation is circula r or
non-di rectional. E lectrically, t he anten na is a vertical di pole, fed at t he center by a coaxial feed line
passing concentrically through t he lower radiating
elemen t.
And rew type 704 coaxial antenna, complete with
two mounting straps and fifteen feet of solid d ielect ric coaxial cable with all necessary connectors, comprises a complete an tenna k it. The net weight of the
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T he 1946 ed it ion of the T obe Catalog, now available u pon request to T obe Deu tsc hmdnn C orporation, Canton , M usse chusct ts, is a n up-to-da te comp ilation of struct ural da ta a nd pe rfo rmance characteristics of capacitors having widely di versified application in t he product ion of electrical a ppa ratus.
The 1946 ed ition of the catalog includes a sect ion
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radio noise from a m ultitude of common elect rical
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NC-2-40D RECEIVER
. with .. mat~ur banJ cov~rag"
Ev~ry leature th~ amateur needs is lound in the superb N(.240D

receiver. Special expanded coil ranges lor the 10,20,40 and 80

meter bands are included in addition to general coverage from

490 Kc . to 30 Me . Each amateur band is spread over 80% olth~

d ial rang e and the full visio n di al sho ws your location in th e band at
a glance . Stab ility and sensitivity are o utstand ing . A wi de ran ge
crystal filter gives o ptimum selectivity under all conditions.

The

serles-velve noise limiter, the AYC, beat oscillator, tone control

and S-meter are among the many auxiliary circuits that contribute to-

ward the all-aro und exce llence 01 the NC-2-40D. See it at yo ur

de.I. r's.

NATIONAL COMPANY, INC., MALDEN, MASS.

Pos itive conta ct. low capacity. excellent for,

switching to four different frequen cies ins tantly and accurately. Op erate s in any
p osition and requires a minimum of space.
Improves the appearance of any transmitter
in either front or behind panel mounting.
Over-all dimensions. 2" high. 11/. ' diameter
with oelal socket base. Fre quency range
3000 KC to 9000 KC supplied in any combination. Type 275 PM-Prices. will d epend
upon your specifications as to frequency and
tole rance . Quo tations upon req uest.

S table crystal blanks furnished within 10 KC of

y our

specified fr e q u e n cy

and guaranteed

to

within .01 % of marked frequency. Supplie d in

either 01 the convenient ve rs a tile types 01
hold e rs. 153 AC lor S-pronq or 162 PM for octa l
. s ocket. Frequency range 7000 Ie to 7S00 Ke.
TYPE 205 RF

TYPE 206 RF

(N ote)- Sa mfl "ysta" or.
TYPE 210 Ri

TYPE 211 Rf

FOR OCTAL

FOR 5.PRO N G
Cl voilobl. fo r 80 Met.r

FOR OCTAL
FO R 5PRONG

80
ANY
TYP

SOCKET
SOCKET
Band.
SOCKET
SOCKET

20 METER THIRD HARMONIC., ',

A 20 meter c rystal operating on a third hermonic fu ndamenta l. Mount ed in compact
holder l IJ. "x3J4"x %" for octal socket. Crysta l
b lank is guarante ed to b e w ithin .010;. of
marke d freq u e n cy. Frequency furnished to
w ithin 10 KC 01 your s pecificatio n.
TYPE 209 TH

$4.00

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MAIN OFFICE 1519 McGEE STREET
Phone Victor 9203

KANSAS CITY 8, MISSOURI

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