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4 of the July 2022 homepage archives. Thursday the 7th
 Some things never change, and one of them
is addressed in this 1965 Electronics World magazine article entitled,
"Understanding
the Transistor Data Sheet." Since that time a lot of new parameters have been
added as physical models for precise simulations evolve, but terms like alpha (collector-emitter
current gain), beta (collector-base current gain, aka hfe), hfT (transit frequency
- unity gain point), etc., have remained the same over many decades. When you compare
the fundamental simple transistor model schematics, they look like ones you would
find in a modern textbook. Accordingly, you can read and remember this article on
interpreting transistor datasheets knowing that it is as useful today as it was
in 1965...
 The International Microwave Symposium (IMS)
is arguably the largest single annual event for radio and microwave engineers. According
to IMS2014 event officials the show in Tampa, Florida, boasted of a 7,500-visitor
attendance. European Microwave Week (EuMW) runs a close second place at around 7,000.
In 1958, 55,000 engineers attended the
Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE - eventually became the IEEE) in New York
City. IMS and EuMW would love to have numbers like anywhere near that. Maybe the
large number of attendees was because dissemination of information was not nearly
as instant (or eventual for that matter), and the absence of the Internet or even
e-mail or online bulletin boards made face-to-face and face-to-product encounters
a vital means of keeping abreast of the latest technology and regulations. Hot topics
like Electronics in Space (on the verge of reality then), and what caught my attention
was this: "Luminescent panels for flat-tube television were discussed by Sylvania
engineers," which coincided with discussions of plasmas. Was that early large screen
TV technology...
 Axiom Test Equipment, an electronic test
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When an Analyzer Makes More Sense Than a Meter," that helps identify when it's
better to pick an analyzer or a meter unit, based on the requirements you have.
Some test units, like meters, are designed for speed and simplicity and to read
a single electrical parameter, such as voltage, current, or power. Other test units
are more elaborate and are called analyzers because they not only gauge the value
of an electrical parameter, but they also enable full study of it. However, both
types of units have grown in power and sophistication and today's comparisons require
a bit more time and thought. Meters and analyzers may appear remarkably similar
at first, starting with the measurement of an electrical parameter such as voltage,
current, or power. Both types of units work with probes, sensors, or test fixtures
to determine the value of an electrical parameter for a device under test (DUT).
The meter usually gives a quick measurement, often a "one-button test," while the
analyzer may require more programming and setup time...
 "Mind-controlled
'metasurfaces' could be used in health monitoring, 5G/6G communications and smart
sensors, according to Chinese researchers. Mind-controlled 'metasurfaces' could
be used in health monitoring, 5G/6G communications and smart sensors, according
to Chinese researchers. Chinese researchers say they have made it possible for
humans to beam radio waves with their brains in a breakthrough that could have
uses ranging from health monitoring to mind-controlled military radar. In an air
force laboratory experiment, researchers showed that brainwaves could control and
interact with electromagnetic waves remotely. 'Our design provides users with a
universal way to manipulate electromagnetic waves using brainwaves,' said Professor
Wang Jiafu, leading project scientist with Air Force Engineering University in northwestern
Shaanxi province..."
 Whether or not this kind of stuff goes on
over the Ham bands these days, I couldn't tell you. It is easy to believe the level
of obnoxiousness of some people back in the 1940's when this "'Phone-Band
Phunnies" article appeared in QST magazine, featuring "Little Stinky."
Of course if you assume the way kids are portrayed in contemporary movies and TV
shows is typical of the real world, even the behavior described herein would seem
mild in comparison. Fortunately, kids today have a plethora of social media venues
for treating others to their brands of personalities, so maybe the Ham bands are
spared the abuse...
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My "Matchmaker's" design has been ripped off by other people and used on their products,
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Wednesday the 6th
 I believe this April 19, 1965 article in
Electronics magazine by Gordon E. Moore was the very first instance
of what has come to be known as "Moore's
Law." His opening statement, "The future of integrated electronics is the future
of electronics itself," might seem obvious in retrospect, but remember that at the
time the world was struggling - primarily psychologically and emotionally - with
a transition from vacuum tubes to semiconductors. There was a lot of resistance
to the replacement of tubes. He further prognosticated, "Integrated circuits will
lead to such wonders as home computers...," and, "That means by 1975, the number
of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe
that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer." In the age of germanium
and silicon, Mr. Moore wrote that gallium Arsenide (GaAs), a semiconductor
compound almost nobody had ever heard of, would be necessary for high frequency,
high power devices, including integrated multiple-stage amplifiers. Did the man
call it or what?
 This is another Radio Service Data Sheet
that appeared in the March 1936 edition of Radio-Craft magazine. I post
this schematic and functional description of the Crosley Model 515 (Fiver) 5-Tube
2-Band Superhet radio manufacturers' publications for the benefit of hobbyists
and archivists who might be searching for such information either in a effort to
restore a radio to working condition, or to collect archival information. An extensive
list of similar radio service data sheets from many different electronics magazines
of the day is at the bottom of the page...
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 While reading through this article on copper-oxide
rectifiers, I am once again reminded of how much we take for granted the conveniences
of electrical test equipment on today's shop benches. The advent of FET-input multimeters
was a huge step forward because the meter input impedance is so high that it has
practically no impact on the circuit being measured. Prior to that, most simple
meters drew their power from the circuit under test, thereby altering the true value
of current or voltage being measured. Of course there were vacuum tube voltmeters
(VTVM) with high input impedances, but few hobbyists or laymen could afford them.
This piece reports on how the advent of a
non-tube-based rectifier permitted alternating current (AC) measurements to
be made by DC-driven d'Arsonval meter movements so as to not excessively load the
circuit being measured. Rectox meters had the rectification components...
 Amentum is seeking well-qualified candidates
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 Here is a back-to-the-basics
treatise on AC and DC, plus an introduction to radio frequencies (RF). The author,
Herb. S. Brier, is a licensed Ham who presents a very high level treatment of the
topics for rank beginners in this 1957 edition. Remember that Popular Electronics
was a magazine intended to appeal to hobbyists with backgrounds in electricity and
electronics ranging from knowing how to insert batteries into a flashlight in the
proper direction (most of the time) to engineers and college professors. Part of
the publisher's mission was to introduce as many aspects as possible in order to
capture the interest of as many people as possible. They were pretty successful,
based on how long the magazine ran its course...
 With more than 1000
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for equipment racks and test equipment, system block diagrams, conceptual drawings,
and schematics. Unlike previous versions, these are NOT Stencils, but instead are
all contained on tabbed pages within a single Visio document. That puts everything
in front of you in its full glory. Just copy and paste what you need on your drawing.
The file format is XML so everything plays nicely with Visio 2013 and later...
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Tuesday the 5th
 I believe this is the very first episode
of the highly popular "Mac's
Radio Service Shop." This series of instructive stories was the brainchild of
none other than John T. Frye, creator of the Carl and Jerry series that ran
in Popular Electronics for many years. "Mac's Radio Service Shop" began life in
April 1948 in Radio News magazine (which later became Radio & Television News,
then Electronics World), and changed its name to simply "Mac's Service Shop" until
the final episode was published in a 1977 Popular Electronics magazine. "Mac" is
electronics repair shop owner Mac McGregor, and Barney Jameson his his eager, if
not somewhat naive, technician assistant. "Lessons" are taught in story format with
dialogs between Mac and Barney. Interestingly, here we have Barney on his first
day on the job, and Mac is just now asking him whether he has any experience servicing
electronics gear. Wouldn't you think he would have asked that question prior to
hiring him?
 "Machine learning models
are growing exponentially larger. At the same time, they require exponentially more
energy to train, so that they can accurately process images or text or video. As
the AI community grapples with its environmental impact, some conferences now ask
paper submitters to include information on CO2 emissions. New research offers a
more accurate method for calculating those emissions. It also compares factors that
affect them, and tests two methods for reducing them. Several software packages
estimate the carbon emissions of AI workloads. Recently a team at Université Paris-Saclay
tested a group of these tools to see if they were reliable. 'And they're not reliable
in all contexts,' says Anne-Laure Ligozat, a co-author of that study who was not
involved in the new work. The new approach differs in two respects, says Jesse Dodge,
a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI and the lead author of the new
paper, which he presented last week at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability,
and Transparency (FAccT)..."
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 Electronic warfare (EW) is a familiar term
today, but in 1947 its use was a relatively new concept. As you know, great advancements
in electronics occurred during the War years - from all the major Allied and Axis
countries involved. Transmitters and receivers, modulation techniques, antenna designs,
transmission lines, component introductions and improvements, ruggedness and portability
features (packaging), reliability, serviceability, operational techniques, and other
aspects of electronics benefitted from that oft-credited "mother of invention" named
"necessity." Along with electronic communication improvements came the need to thwart
the enemy's efforts to exploit those new methods; hence, the term "electronic warfare"
(aka electronic counter-measures, ECM). Now we also have electronic counter-counter-measures
(ECCM) to thwart the thwarting of the enemy. Can ECCCM be far behind?...
 According to this promotion in a 1948 issue
of Radio News magazine, the Howard W. Sams company had published more
than 5,500
Photofact service data packs since beginning in 1938 - that's averaging 550
per year. There would have been many more if not for the cessation of domestic radio
production during the war years from 1942 through the middle of 1945. Once televisions
were being cranked out in huge numbers in the early 1950's, the number of data packets
quickly grew into the tens of thousands (including also phonographs, tape recorders,
and other electronics wonders for the home. In fact, by September of 1949 the magazine's
title was changed to Radio & Television News in order to reflect the
importance of servicing the burgeoning TV industry...
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Monday the 4th
 Hams like members of the Mogollon Rim Collins
Collectors Club (K0CXX)*, play an important role in the preservation of vintage
radio equipment. They own a nice example of a
Collins model 30K-5 medium power (250 W) AM transmitter that is the subject
of this 1946 article in Radio News. At 5½ feet tall and weighing 350 pounds, the
30K is many times the volume and weight of a modern solid state transmitter (transceiver
+ PA) having the same capability. Its advertised price in 1946 was $1,450, which
is equivalent to $19.9k in 2022 money - obviously not in the affordability range
of your typical amateur radio enthusiast...
 Author Joel Kellogg* published Part 1
of his "SCIF
and Radio Frequency Secured Facility Design" article a bit over a year ago in
the InCompliance website. Now,
Part 2 is available. He states, "In recent years, we've noticed a growing
confusion in the industry over design and performance requirements for sensitive
compartmented information facilities (SCIF). Part 2 of this article is intended
to highlight the significant difference in the performance of radiofrequency (RF)
shielding between facilities designed per ICS/ICD‑705[1] and those intended to meet
NSA 94-106[2] performance requirements. We will also highlight some of the design
and construction methodologies that lead to significant differences in performance.
As noted in Part 1 of this article, there is a common misconception that a SCIF
design utilizing ICS/ICD‑705 construction recommendations will achieve the performance
requirement set forth in NSA 94-106, the NSA standard for RF shielding performance
and testing. Part 1 reviewed the typical construction recommendations identified
in ICS/ICD‑705, recommended materials, and typical installation methodologies used..."
* Anyone else remember "K, E, double-L, O, dougle-GGood,
Kellogg's best to you!"
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 In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous
Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of
human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands
which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth,
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. -- That
to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles
and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments
long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly
all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are
accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these
Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former
Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history
of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted
to a candid world...
 You are taught early in your electronics
career to be mindful of the tendency for
measurement equipment to affect the circuit it is measuring, and therefore the
indicated results. In the case of high frequency circuits, even minute amounts of
capacitance and/or inductance can render results utterly unusable, but even in circuits
operating down to D.C. the simple internal resistance of a meter can profoundly
affect measurement accuracy. High impedance circuits are particularly vulnerable
to such "loading" effects by test equipment. For example, consider a circuit being
measured (device under test, aka DUT) that has an impedance of 10 kΩ and the
internal resistance of the VOM is 100 kΩ (see diagram to left). If the open
circuit "true" voltage level is 11 V, then voltage division effected by the
100 kΩ meter in series with the DUT's 10 kΩ internal resistance would
produce a VOM reading of 10 V (ten elevenths of 11 volts) - clearly incorrect.
In the days before FET (field effect transistor) input multimeters, when most volt-ohm-milliammeters
(VOMs) consisted...
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Sunday the 3rd
 In these times of communists and Marxists
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our hard-won legacy of freedom, compassion, traditional family values, hard work,
and patriotism, this
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here at RF Cafe! Clues with an asterisk (*) are related to the puzzle's theme. All
crossword puzzles use a personally built dictionary of thousands of words and clues
related to RF, microwave, and mm-wave engineering, optics, mathematics, chemistry,
physics, and other technical subjects. As always, this crossword puzzle contains
no names of politicians, mountain ranges, exotic foods or plants, movie stars, or
anything of the sort unless it/he/she is related to this puzzle's technology...
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Friday the 1st
 Life is a constant battle on all fronts,
be it in health, personal relationships, business, medicine, careers, education,
technology, or any other realm. Scientists, engineers, and technicians at the former
Bell Telephone Laboratories are affected by that maxim as well as any group
of people. The company, known to many as Bell Labs, invested a huge amount of funds
and personnel effort into fighting the problems while constantly cropped up both
during research and development and which servicing their massive installed base
of equipment and transmission lines. Bell Labs regularly ran full-page ads in magazines
(including technical and others like Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Woman's Day,
etc.) informing the paying public of the extents they went to in order to bring
new products to market and to keep existing systems providing excellent quality
communications (the best in the world). This example for a 1948 issue of Radio News
magazine tells of the unexpected chemistry issues solved by their crack teams of
employees...
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 Berkeley Nucleonics recently added a couple
of courses on
Quantum Computing in the Berkeley Nucleonics Academy. Because you have taken
previous RF courses with 100% completion, you are entitled to those QC courses at
no charge. Would you like a passcode? You may also share this code with any colleagues
or students who may have an interest. Completion of the course takes approximately
4 hours and includes CEU units, a Completion Certificate and a BNC "60 Years" Commemorative
Tee-Shirt. The Nuts and Bolts (and Qubits) of Quantum Computing: This exclusive
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videos and get current knowledge of quantum computing from experts in the industry.
QC 02 - Quantum Computing Instrumentation in Use Today" A cursory look at some of
the research and development tools...
 Selenium rectifiers were the first widely
used replacements for vacuum tubes in commercial electronic equipment. Since amplification
was not possible - that came in late 1948 with the invention of the transistor,
compliments of Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen - diode action in AC-DC power supplies
was its primary application. Typical reverse breakdown voltage is in the neighborhood
of 20 volts and current handling capability depends on the interface surface area.
Cost kept the selenium rectifiers from being widely adapted early in their history
(1933), but by 1946 when this article was published in Radio-News magazine
it had dropped enough to make their use economical. Eliminating one or two vacuum
tubes in a radio or television power supply made the sets more efficient and increased
reliability since the selenium rectifiers rarely suffered failures if designed into
the circuit correctly...
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 Well I'll be darned, old Mac the master
radio repairman taught me something else new in this October 1949 issue of Radio &
Television News magazine. Along with giving sidekick and trusted technician
Barney a lesson on business ethics and how honest dealing can pay dividends as societal
conditions change, he also put on his Sherlock Holmes cap and deduced a
surprising cause for circuit failure based on the physical location of a lady's
radio; read on to learn the details. As usual, the exact scenarios of the stories
do not apply to today's environment and/or equipment, but the troubleshooting logic
certainly does. And, as usual, the time of year wherein the technodrama takes place
aligns with the edition's month of publication...
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