Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
Simulated Emergency Test (SET) scenarios
Severe Weather Reference Card
ARES Moments - 10 short articles for a club bulletin promoting ARES participation.
Antique Splitdorf Crystal Radioo. This little radio belongs to a friend of mine to whom it was given by a neighbor who said it belonged to her grandfather.
"The Internet is a Wonderful Thing!" from WorldRadio, February, 2008. This story follows a trail that began with my 2007 visit to the RSGB and how chasing some details of a TPTG transmitter owned by Barbara Dunn, G6YL, the first licensed female operator in the UK, led to a 70-year old QSO with a ham in Ohio.
Classic Rigs at the Dayton Hamvention from 2007.
"Getting an 'Almost' Wrinkle Finish on Diecast Aluminum" from The QRP Quarterly, Winter 2008. There are lots of procedures for finishing diecast aluminum. I did a fair amount of research amongst the alternatives and settled on a pretty simple and straightforward way to get a great-looking finish for my Hi-mite 20 meter QRP rig.
Here's a PDF image scan of the historic Sylvania products booklet, 28 Uses for Junction Transistors. This little booklet, from 1955, introduced amateurs and hobbyists to the famous 2N35, 2N34, and 2N68 junction transistors. It is hard for us today to appreciate how revolutionary was the introduction of the transistor to the hobby world.
Raytheon got into the act too, introducing their transistors, especially the CK722, to the hobbyist market with the publication, Raytheon Transistor Applications, More than 50 Practical Circuits using Raytheon CK722 Transistors. This 120 page document is an 8.8 MB download. The booklet doesn't have a publication date but I believe this is from 1955.
Whereas the first Raytheon publication was mostly a collection of reprints from electronic magazines their second effort in 1957 was a much more considered and deliberate text, Raytheon Transistor Applications Volume II. As it says on the cover, "All New Circuits with complete how-to-do-it instructions." Volume II makes it apparent that the first volume was just thrown together. For instance, the first 17 pages of Volume II cover transistor basics and a section on Practical Circuit Design with subsections on Amplifiers, Breadboarding & Bias Measurement, Interstage Coupling, DC Stabilization, Distortion, Oscillators, Transistor Installation, Etched Circuit Boards, Testing Transistors, and Power Supplies for transistor circuits. It also uses other transistors besides the CK722.