[CQ-Contest] September CQ and QST

[henrypol2 at juno.com]

Great day at the PO box today! (originally written Friday, 8/22)  Both CQ
and QST arrived (and a fishing magazine).

CQ

Front cover photo of WX7M's monsterous 16-element 20 meter yagi! (no
typos here!)  A short writeup is found inside on page 68.  (looks like a
good article-in-the-making for the next ARRL Antenna Compendium)

Contest related items:  Editorial page - 98 CQ WW 160 SSB Contest DATE
CHANGE; Results - 96 CQ WW SSB Contest; Contest Calendar - Low Sunspots
and Contesting for The Little Pistol; and Announcing The 97 CQ WW DX
Contest (rules).

Other Interesting items:  Review - Palomar PFS-1 Linear Field Strength
Meter; Doug's Desk - Getting Started on 6 Meters; Radio FUNdamentals -
The 6L6, The Tube That Changed Radio Forever!; World Of Ideas - QRP
Reigning Supreme; and DX - QSL Bureaus.

QST

Front cover photos from the VK0IR DXpedition, with a lengthy feature
article inside.

Contest related items:  Results 97 ARRL International DX Contest CW and
97 School Club Roundup; The K9AY Terminated Loop - A Compact Directional
Receiving Antenna; Product Review - Three Legal-Limit Linear Amplifiers
(Alpha 91B, Ameritron AL-800H, & QRO HF-2500DX), Raibeam RB-206B
Two-Element 6 Meter Beam, & Timewave DSP-59Y Audio Noise Reduction
Filter; Hints & Kinks - A Simple Voice Keyer; Technical Correspondence -
Headset-Microphone Feedback; and New Software - PROLOG version 3.87. 

Other interesting items:  Build a Return Loss Bridge; The NCDXF/IARU
International Beacon Project; The MRX-40 Mini Receiver; Happenings - FCC
Opens Vanity Gate 3; and (just in case you are tired of contesting around
14.230, then check this out) Getting Started With Slow Scan Television.

Ads:  ZEIT has a new 12 inch circular analog wall clock with WWVB radio
control (great Christmas gift idea?); and Surplus Sales of Nebraska's
Catalog 8 is stilllll... comingggggggg.... soonnnnnnnnnnn........

73 abd good reading,
Henry Pollock - WB4HFL
Raleigh, NC


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