ARRL Letter Mailing List wrote:
Rapp's remarkable contributions
spanned a period of more than three decades (1941-1962, 1972),

I remember an article, probably April '55, where
Rapp described a method of "amplitude discrimination".
If one used such a method, one could simply tune
in the weak signal by tuning out the strong ones.
Such amplitude discrimination required "back to
back limiters". When I asked my Elmer, W5OLV, how
to build a "back to back limiter", he couldn't stop
laughing.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:14:06 EDT, Cecil Moore wrote:

ARRL Letter Mailing List wrote:
Rapp's remarkable contributions
spanned a period of more than three decades (1941-1962, 1972),

I remember an article, probably April '55, where
Rapp described a method of "amplitude discrimination".
If one used such a method, one could simply tune
in the weak signal by tuning out the strong ones.
Such amplitude discrimination required "back to
back limiters". When I asked my Elmer, W5OLV, how
to build a "back to back limiter", he couldn't stop
laughing.

And I remember one solution of his to TVI was to "find seats for the
standing waves...."

Those were the days. It would be the ultimate joke on us if someone
really was going to publish the "collected works".
--

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net

On Apr 5, 6:34�pm, Phil Kane wrote:
It would be the ultimate joke on us if someone
really was going to publish the "collected works".
--
Well, they're all on the website! Not limited to members-only, either.

The article to read, though, is the one about the QS-59 receiver. Many
of the features described are common in today's rigs.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Dan, W2IQD wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 5, 6:34�pm, Phil Kane wro
te:
It would be the ultimate joke on us if someone
really was going to publish the "collected works".
--
Well, they're all on the website! Not limited to members-only, either.

The article to read, though, is the one about the QS-59 receiver. Many
of the features described are common in today's rigs.

God, I remember reading that one and almost being taken in (I was about
13
at the time). Years later I went on to write some April spoofs for othe
r
mags, but Larson E. was always my hero. I think Byron Goodman, W1DX, wa
s
the author?


QST actually had a story on a magnetic Morse key that drew so much irate
mail the League promised to tone done future April foolery and to
include "tip off" language in future articles.

Bill, W1AC

--
Remove QRM from my address for direct replies.)

On Apr 6, 12:52 pm, ) (Dan, W2IQD) wrote:
wrote:
On Apr 5, 6:34�pm, Phil Kane wrote
:
It would be the ultimate joke on us if someone
really was going to publish the "collected works".
--
Well, they're all on the website! Not limited to members-only, either.

The article to read, though, is the one about the QS-59 receiver. Many
of the features described are common in today's rigs.

God, I remember reading that one and almost being taken in (I was about 13

at the time). Years later I went on to write some April spoofs for other
mags, but Larson E. was always my hero. I think Byron Goodman, W1DX, was
the author?

Ya know...

It's not just the ARRL that has fun with this kind of thing. CQ
Magazine has a few articles in it this month that are very much in the
4/1 spirit. A Cray based CW contest simulator which will run all the
CW contests off the air by 2011? I have to admit that it sounded good
until you started thinking though the details and reading the supposed
names of those involved. It would *almost* work?

There was another article that was a bit more overt, I just don't
remember exactly what it was about.

I have to admit though, the ARRL's "finding of the bad coax jumper and
that's why propagation is so bad" thing was a funny one. They had me
reading along wondering what all the homeland security stuff was going
to be and before I really got the joke I'd read almost half. Classic
way to write these things. You simply start to run off the rails of
reality a little at a time, throwing in enough truth to distract the
reader until as close to the end as possible. Truly good ones leave
just about everybody wondering if it's true or not.

-= bob =-

KC4UAI writes:

God, I remember reading that one and almost being taken in (I was
about 13 at the time). Years later I went on to write some April
spoofs for other mags, but Larson E. was always my hero. I think Byron
Goodman, W1DX, was the author?

Ya know...

It's not just the ARRL that has fun with this kind of thing. CQ
Magazine has a few articles in it this month that are very much in the
4/1 spirit. A Cray based CW contest simulator which will run all the
CW contests off the air by 2011? I have to admit that it sounded good
until you started thinking though the details and reading the supposed
names of those involved. It would *almost* work?



I remember The Invisible Antenna article by the Oberlin College
Prof. [QST] and 73's "How to turn your [WW2] Command Set into a 5 Band
250 Watt SSB Tranceiver" article. The instructions were easy to follow:

a) First, remove all components except for the fuseholder in the
upper right hand corner.

cont. on page 98


Of course, the magazine had 96 pages total...

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