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Amateur Radio Articles by H. Paul Shuch, N6TX

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  • Satellites, Astronomy, and EME
    1. Calculating Antenna Bearings for Geostationary Satellites
    2. Orbital Analysis by Sleight of Hand
    3. Demonstrating Celestial Mechanics Through Measured Doppler Shift
    4. A Weather-Facsimile Display Board for the IBM PC
    5. A Low-Noise Preamp for Weather Satellite VISSR Reception
    6. Measuring the Mass of the Earth: The Ultimate Moonbounce Experiment
    7. 2001: A Moonbounce Odyssey
    8. Calibrating the Signal Generator in the Sky

  • Optics
    1. Wavelength Division Multiplexing Without Filters or Fuss
    2. An excellent article, but...
    3. Fiber Optics: Waveguide of the Future

  • UHF, Microwave, and Ham Radio
    1. Easy-to-Build SSB Transceiver for 1296 MHz
    2. Microstripline Preamplifiers for 1296 MHz
    3. How to Use Double-Balanced Mixers on 1296 MHz
    4. Rat-Race Balanced Mixer for 1296 MHz
    5. Low-Cost 1296-MHz Preamplifier
    6. Microstripline Bandpass Filters for 1296 MHz
    7. Vestigal Sideband Microtransmitter for Amateur Television
    8. Solid-State Microwave Amplifier Design
    9. Circuit Packaging for UHF Double-Balanced Mixers
    10. Interstage 50-ohm Terminator for VHF Converters
    11. Low-Cost Microwave Specrum Analyzer
    12. Calculating Preamplifier Gain from Noise Figure Measurements
    13. UHF Local-Oscillator Chain for the Purist
    14. Compact and Clean L-Band Local-Oscillators
    15. Quiet! Preamp At Work
    16. State-of-the-art Electromagnetic Jargon Generator
    17. Wideband Microwave Amplifier Design
    18. MMICs Mimic Mixer
    19. Parabolic Paradox
    20. Maxwell Without Tears: A Fresh Look at his Infamous Equations
    21. Gaining on the deciBel
    22. Technical Correspondence: Microstrip Design Calculations

  • SETI

    1. Searching for Life Among the Stars
    2. SETI Made Simple: What Can We Do?
    3. Correspondence: Arecibo and SETI
    4. Technical Conversations: Cosmic Cousins
    5. Dr. SETI's Starship
    6. link to many more SETI Articles

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