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The RF Workbench / Re: Boxes for HF beacon

« on: January 12, 2022, 1749 UTC »

You might try a NEMA box, the heavy plastic type, available at big box home improvement stores.  They're cheap (relatively), weathertight and UV resistant.  An option to consider is painting it white to reflect the heat if it's out in the open.  Be sure to ventilate the enclosure.

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The RF Workbench / Re: Where to start.

« on: May 27, 2014, 0118 UTC »

You might try to pick up a copy of The Radio Amateur's Handbook, an older one from the 1980s or thereabouts.  Handbooks of that era had projects in them that you could actually duplicate and get working as well as some good theory and practice stuff.  The modern ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications (hey, what's in a name?) is geared more toward microcircuitry using high-density circuit boards and surface mount components, which are fine in and of themselves but don't really lend themselves to easy duplication especially for a newcomer to the "black arts" of radio equipment construction.

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The RF Workbench / Re: 73 Magazine Index and archive

« on: August 15, 2013, 1107 UTC »

Do you know he originated the idea for the two year "Tech School?"

Wayne has a habit of remembering things that either didn't happen or that he had nothing, or very little, to do with.  But it makes him interesting to say the least.

I remember he published "Lifting Ma Bell's Cloak of Secrecy." Oh man - did he start something with that. They made him try to recall all those magazines.

I remember that.  He published an article on the infamous "Black Box" and some other stuff, including circuit diagrams.  Ma Bell went ballistic and filed suit and made all sorts of noise.  Wayne then goes on radio and TV and says, "Don't they understand that, by suing me, they're admitting that these circuits work?"

Ma Bell quietly dropped the suits soon after.

Good ol' Wayne.  Larger than life.  I miss 73 Magazine

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The RF Workbench / Re: 73 Magazine Index and archive

« on: August 13, 2013, 1925 UTC »

I'm still looking for an archive of Ham Radio, (much more technical) if anyone knows of one.

The ARRL owns the rights to the HR Magazine archives and you have to buy the CD-ROMs from them...and they're not cheap ($150 for the entire set).

Go to http://www.arrl.org/shop/search.php?mode=search&page=1