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Complete all 1954 issues (There were only 3 the first year.)


Volume 1, No. 1 October 1954

R/C Radio Control Transmitter
So You Want to Be a Ham (part 1)

Solar Batteries - 2 pages

Plans Bike Radio AM - 4 vacuum tubes 1R5,1U4,1U5,3V4 with assembly drawings, schematic, parts list - 6 pages

Fun with neon bulbs NE-2, NE-48 - 3 pages

Review of Knight Kit 6 in 1

6BX7 HIFI plans

50L6 capacity relay
Collision proof model electric control system at GE Co

1G4 Code practice set

How to control models by radio - boats, airplanes, Babcock BCR-4 receiver shown, E D Boomerang transmitter shown, Babcock BCT-4 transmitter shown, Aristrol transmitter shown

Review of Heath A-7B HiFi

Plans Bass Reflex speaker cabinet for Hi Fi

Carl & Jerry very first adventure - W9EGV putting up ham antennas

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Volume 1, No.2 November 1954 - 130 pages
Contents:
Black Light
R/C Receiver
Crooks of the Ether
Choosing Your TV Antenna
The Home Broadcaster
Burglar Alarm
PA System.
Inside contents are:
Home Broadcaster
A Code Practice Set (The Simple Way)
Command Post of the Future
Am I Too Old to Learn Television?
Choosing Your Antenna
The World at a Twirl
An Easily Built Black Light Source; The Lorenz "Sixty-One" R/C receiver for model boats airplanes cars; Parallel Resistance Chart
Dentistry (the Painless Way)
Nine Chassis Bases for the Home Builder
Hints on Reading Schematic Diagrams
So You Want to Be a Ham (part 2)
Radio Catches Crooks of Ether
Neon Tube Metronome and Seconds Timer
How to Use an Oscilloscope
Timing Relay Experiments
Time Delay Burglar Alarm
How Radar Works
Carl & Jerry
Equipment for Radio Control
Checking and Changing Phonograph Pickup Units
Width Control Adjustments in TV Receivers
The Electronic Flight Trainer
The Electric eye (How It Works)
A Compact Public Address System
New Airborne Radar Unit
Build this Plug in Absorption Wavemeter
How Many Controls?
Using and Understanding the Neon Glow Lamp.

 




Volume 1, No.3 December 1954

Lionel F-3 Electric Train painting on the cover by Leo R Summers

Radio TV R/C HI-FI Electronics
Featuring electronic ear
Model electric train control by voice
Lorenz R/C transmitter plans 3A4 27.255 mHz
Twinkling Christmas tree
Electronic train whistle
Flying the R/C plane
UHF Antennas
More

 

 

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