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- This Month in QEX -- September 1992
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- Digital signal processing is the "hot ticket" today in
- amateur radio--and other communications technologies. A
- fascinating look into DSP filtering techniques is presented in,
- "Using The LMS Algorithm for QRM And QRN Reduction," by Steve
- Reyer, WA9VNJ and Dave Hershberger, W9GR. This article is a
- companion piece to an article published this month in ARRL's
- flagship publication, QST. We hope to do more such companion
- pieces in the future, allowing authors the opportunity to expand
- on the technical niceties of their projects in QEX when QST page
- space limitations don't permit detailed coverage there.
- Long-time amateur satellite operators may remember the
- 4$X3$X5 mode-J filter used with OSCAR 8. The advent of later
- mode-J birds, such as AMSAT's microsats, has reawakened interest
- in this design. This month, ARRL Technical Advisor and AMSAT
- stalwart Dick Jansson, WD4FAB, describes a new kit implementation
- of the filter in, "The 4$X3$X5 Filter--Revisited."
- AM lives, and synchronous detection promises to help it live
- a fuller, richer life as ARRL Laboratory Engineer Mike Gruber,
- WA1SVF, reports in, "Synchronous Detection of AM Signals." Mike
- presents a complete theoretical discussion as well as practical
- circuits.
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- This month in QEX -- October 1992
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- Continuing our coverage of the DSP25 plug-in DSP board
- introduced in January, 1992 QEX, John Albert, WA9FVP, and Will
- Torgrim, N9PEA, give us "Developing Software for DSP." This
- article looks at some of the design considerations that go into
- making a flexible, practical, DSP-based packet system.
- In "Lightning--Your Home and Ham Gear," Stu Gurske, K9EYY,
- shows us one route to protecting ourselves from the dreaded
- effects of lightning strikes. It can be done!
- Ken Wickwire, KB1JY, wraps up his four-part series, "The
- Status and Future of High Frequency Digital Communication," with
- a look at where we go from here.
- Zack Lau's "RF" column looks at some portable microwave
- station design considerations, and Geoff Krauss chimes in with
- some devices suitable for portable--and other--"VHF+" uses. This
- month's "Gateway" includes a brief report on KITSAT, the most
- recent addition to the amateur space program. That it is a
- valuable addition is demonstrated by the KITSAT image reproduced
- on this month's cover!
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- This Month in QEX -- November 1992
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- John Champa, K8OCL, shares with us some of his expertise in
- the developing world of digital video systems. It's a technology
- that amateurs can exploit!
- Making the computer do the work is one of the obvious trends
- in amateur development. James Vandiver, WB4LHG, follows this
- trend with his "Multi-Mode Computer/Radio Interface." Although
- implemented on an obsolete computer, the techniques he describes
- are applicable to any platform.
- In this month's "Components" column, Mark Forbes rounds up
- some handy hardware, software and "bookware" for your
- consideration. "Gateway" this month reports on the results of a
- recent meeting between the ARRL Digital Committee and operators
- of the HF automatic-forwarding STA network.
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- This Month in QEX -- December 1992
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- Power supplies, especially those using the ubiquitous 723
- regulator chip, have been published ad infinitum, but Dennis
- Connole shows us in "Twin-Bridge Power Supply" that there is
- still fresh ground to be plowed on the subject.
- In "An Audio Peak Filter with Noise Reduction Effect for CW
- Reception," Yoshiharu Mita, JH1XEO, exploits the common-mode
- rejection of an op amp to differentiate noise from a signal using
- bandpass filters.
- Gregory Glass, N2MOH, wants us to experiment with video
- image processing, and in "The Video Experimenter" he shows us how
- easy it is to set up a video lab and describes some simple
- experiments to get us started.
- This month, Zack Lau's "RF" column describes a 10-GHz preamp
- Zack designed and shows us some of the trials and tribulations of
- building and measuring 10-GHz equipment. Harold Price kicks off
- his "Digital Communications" column by looking at how HF packet
- evolved to its present state and how it could be improved using
- existing techniques.
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