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Practical Wireless16Audio amplifier and loudspeaker filterapplications I use 100nF, which with 68kΩwill have a corner frequency of 23.4Hz. Tointerface

Practical Wireless1734Hz. It is not necessary to be this low andC1 could be reduced to 22nF which wouldbring this up to 155Hz.The gain setting resisto

Over the last few years I’ve hadmuch experience usingautomatic antenna tuners(a.a.t.u.s) and I actually ownan SGC unit. With modernmicroprocessors and

Note: An important feature included onthe MFJ-993B is an audible s.w.r. meter,with volume control. This makes the unitsuitable for an operator with im

The local oscillator is a vital partof any receiver or transceiver. Ifit’s a crystal controlled stage it’seasy to make, has very low noisebut only pro

poly block which has a reactance of 2Ω at7MHz and has low noise.A sinewave signal on the junction of theVaricaps - which is probably in excess of 1Vp-

The dissipation of components in Buffer2 were 34.5mW in Tr2, 1.7mW in R8, 28mWR9, 8mW R10, 3.8mW R11, 204mW in Tr3and 256mW in R12. This totals 535mW

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There’s no doubt about it - mostRadio Amateurs are adetermined bunch - despite agerelated problems or physicaldifficulties. Recently, I read areport o

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The winter of 2006 is now beinglooked upon as the bottom of thepresent sunspot cycle. Propagationwill favour the l.f. bands, as indeedit does most win

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happened across the web pages of the NewJersey QRP Club (now part of the AMQRP)and read about the new antenna analyserthey were developing.The product

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Iremember when I built my firstcrystal set as a boy and put it into asmall wooden box. I was impressed bywhat it did - but not by how it looked!There

use what they have to hand. In practice, I’veusually built such a circuit with twogermanium diodes of the OA81, 1N34A, orsimilar type, and the version

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