1999 Index Issues 192 through 197 (All dates are 1999 unless otherwise indicated.) Empirically Speaking (Smith) About the Amateur Radio Technology Task Force: May, 2; Nov, 2 Great Inventions: Mar, 2 PSK31: Jul, 3 Receiver Challenge: Sep, 2 Reprint permission policy change: May, 2 QEX Content: Jan, 2 Feedback 3CX800s for the Magic Band, A Pair of (Jan, pp 22-27): Jul, 64 Radiation-Pattern Plots, Creating 3-D Antenna (Jul, pp 40-43): Sep, 62 RF: Transmission Lines and ARRL Radio Designer (May, pp 58-59): Jul, 64 Letters to the Editor 3CX800s for 6 Meters, A Pair of (Sayer): Mar, 60 300-W MOSFET Linear Amplifier, A (Frey): Jul, 63; (Hayward): Jul, 63 Better Moustrap?, A (Montague): Jul, 62 Calibrated Panoramic Adapter, A (Anderson): Jul, 63-64 Center-Loaded Whip Antenna Loss (Bowen): Nov, 00; (Bingeman): Nov, 00 Digital Commutating Filter, A (Anderson): Jul, 62; (Kossor): Jul, 62 Educational Activity Award Nominations: Jan, 62 Fields, Near and Far, Of (in "A Test for Ambient Noise," Lefferson): Jan, 61; (Smith): Jan, 61 Handy Coil Winder; Compact Mobile Tuner (Smith): Mar, 60; (Stewart): Mar, 60 High-Performance Homebrew Transceiver, A (Johnson): May, 62; (Pierce): May, 62; (Carver): May, 62 Hot-Guy-Wire Antennas for Ham Radio, Practical (Bingeman): Jan, 62 Measuring Distortion in Linear Amplifiers (May/Jun 1999) (Chadwich): Sep, 61 Multiple-Octave Bidirectional Wire Antennas (Zavrel): Jan, 62 New Look at the Gamma Match, A (Severns): Sep, 59; (Gordon): Sep, 59; (Barker): Sep, 59 PC-DSP, Oktay Alkin's, Prentice-Hall (Smith): May, 62 Performance Specifications for Amateur Receivers of the Future (Drentea): Jul, 60; (Anderson): Jul, 60; (Graf): Jul, 60; (Fleagle): Sep, 60; (Popesue): Sep, 60; (Chadwick): Sep, 60; (Graf): Sep, 61 Phase-Noise Measurement (van der List): Mar, 61 Pi and Pi-L Networks, On (Bartell): Sep, 62 Pi-L Networks, A Concise Calculation Method for (Lickfeld): Mar, 59; (Bartell): May, 61; (Sayer): Mar, 59; (Smith): Mar, 59 PSK31: A New Radio-Teletype Mode (Sabin): Nov, 00; (Martinez): Nov, 00 QEX is great (French): Sep, 62; (Carver): Sep, 62 QEX Web Site, About the (Harris): Mar, 61 Radiation-Pattern Plots, Creating 3-D Antenna (Smith): Sep, 62 Regulated 2400-V Power Supply, A (Williams): Sep, 62 Signals, Samples and Stuff: A DSP Tutorial (Smith): Jan, 62 Standard Application Programming Interfaces (Heath): Mar, 61; (Smith): Mar, 61; (Dowler): Mar, 61 Switching Power Supply for Beginners, A (Mack): Sep, 62 Tetrode Boards, The (White): Jan, 62 Tune SSB Automatically (Premena): Mar, 61; (Smith): Mar, 61 Wind-Load Standards to Yagi Antennas, Practical Application of: Part 2 (Koning): May, 61; (Bonney): May, 61 Next Issue in QEX: Jul, 64; May, 62; Mar, 57; Sep, 64; Jan, 62 RF (Lau) 70-cm Power Divider, A: Jul, 56 Accurately Modeling Capacitor Q in ARRL Radio Designer: Nov, 00 Adding an Amplifier with a Transfer Switch: Mar, 55 Low-Loss 50:450-( MF/HF Transformer, A: Sep, 57 Solid-State Microwave Power Amplifiers, Building: Jan, 58 Transmission Lines and Amateur Radio Designer: May, 58; feedback Jul, 64 Sidebars Better Mousetrap, A (in "Performance Specifications for Amateur Receivers of the Future"): May, 49 Convolutional Code, The (in "PSK31: A New Radio-Teletype Mode"): Jul, 9 Cross-Flo Principles, Some Notes On (in "Practical Applications of Wind-Load Standards to Yagi Antennas"): Mar, 49 Is PSK31 Legal? (in "PSK31: A New Radio-Teletype Mode"): Jul, 9 Modeling Closely Spaced Wires with NEC-2 (in "The Multiband Extended Double Zepp and Derivative Designs"): Jul, 37 Tools for Interdigital Filter Construction (in "Waveguide Interdigital Filters") (Wade): Jan, 7 What about Ground Effects? (in "The Multiband Extended Double Zepp and Derivative Designs"): Jul, 38 Strays New Amateur Radio DX Information Page: Sep, 64 Write for QEX: Sep, 64 Technical Articles 3CX800s for 6 Meters, A Pair of (Hanson): Jan, 22; feedback, Jul 64 10 GHz Remote-Control System for HF Transceivers, A (Beals): Mar, 9 100-W MOSFET HF Amplifier, A (Sabin): Nov, 00 (See also "Diplexer Filters . . ." and "Power Supply . . ." 300-W MOSFET Linear Amplifier for 50 MHz, A (Frey): May, 50 A-Frame Mast, Inexpensively, A Large (side bar to "Another Way to Look at Vertical Antennas"): Mar, 7 Bedford Receiver, The: A New Approach (Green): Sep, 9 Better Mousetrap, A (sidebar to "Performance Specifications for Amateur Receivers of the Future"): May, 49 Calibrated Panoramic Adapter, A (Dildine): May, 9 Center-Loaded Whip Antenna Loss (Bingeman): Jul, 17 Cheap Sweep, The (Hoover): Jan, 54 Compact Mobile Tuner, A (Wintheiser): Jan, 28 Convolutional Code, The (sidebar to "PSK31: A New Radio-Teletype Mode"): Jul, 9 Cross-Flo Principles, Some Notes On (sidebar to "Practical Applications of Wind-Load Standards to Yagi Antennas"): Mar, 49 Current Sources (Cope): Sep, 55 Dentron MLA2500 HF to 6-Meter Conversion, A (Worsham): Mar, 38 Digital Commutating Filter, A (Kossor): May, 3 Digital-Receiver Design, Basics of (Brannon): Sep, 36 Diplexer Filters for an HF MOSFET Power Amplifier (Sabin): Jul, 20 Distortion in Linear Amplifiers, Measuring (Schreuer): May, 55 Double-Tuned Active Filter with Interactive Coupling, A (Heemstra): Mar, 25 Handy Coil Winder, A (Dildine): Jan, 51 HF Whips on Cars, Campers and RVs (Madle): May, 32 High-Performance Homebrew Transceiver, A (Mandelkern): Part 1 Mar, 16; Part 2 Sep, 3; Part 3 Nov, 00 Homebrew Logic Analyzer, A (Cicchinelli): Nov, 00 Interdigital Filter Construction, Tools for (sidebar to "Waveguide Interdigital Filters") (Wade): Jan, 7 Low-Distortion Receiver Front End for Direct-Conversion and DSP Receivers, A (Rohde): Mar, 30 Modeling Closely Spaced Wires with NEC-2 (sidebar to "The Multiband Extended Double Zepp and Derivative Designs"): Jul, 37 Multiband Extended Double Zepp and Derivative Designs, The (Zavrel): Jul, 34 Narrow-Band Doppler Spectrum Techniques for Propagation Study (Martinez): Sep, 45 New Look at the Gamma Match, A (Barker): May, 23 Noise/Gain Analyzer, A (Smits): Nov, 00 Parabolic Dish Feeds-Phase and Phase Center (Wade): Sep, 24 Performance Specifications for Amateur Receivers of the Future (Graf): May, 43 Phase 3D's 10.4-GHz Downlink: A Project Study Report, Preparing to Receive (Maier): Jul, 44 Phase-Noise Measurement, Experiments with (van der List): Jan, 31 Polarization Modulation: A Technique Worth Investigating (Nichols): Mar, 34 Power Supply for a MOSFET Power Amplifier (Sabin): Mar, 50 PSK31 Legal?, Is (sidebar to "PSK31: A New Radio-Teletype Mode"): Jul, 9 PSK31: A New Radio-Teletype Mode (Martinez): Jul, 3 Radiation-Pattern Plots, Creating 3-D Antenna (Smith): Jul, 40; feedback Sep, 62 Receiver Band-Pass Filters Having Maximum Attenuation in Adjacent Bands (Wetherhold): Jul, 27 Regulated 2400-V Power Supply, A (Williams): Jul, 50 Signal Sources (Pontius): Nov, 00 Stable, Low-Noise Crystal Oscillator for Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Transverters, A (Stephenson): Nov, 00 Standard Application-Programming Interfaces (APIs) in Amateur Radio, The Need for (Dobranski): Jan, 19 Switching Power Supply for Beginners, A (Mack): Jul, 10 Technology and the Future of Amateur Radio (Smith): Nov, 00 Temperature-Compensated DDS VFO, A (Preuss): Jan, 42 Transverter-Spur Identification, No-Tune (McKay): Jan, 56 Tune SSB Automatically (Dick): Jan, 9 Underground HF Antennas (Bingeman): Sep, 52 Vertical Antennas, Another Way to Look at (Severns): Mar, 3 Waveguide Interdigital Filters (Wade): Jan, 3 What about Ground Effects? (sidebar to "The Multiband Extended Double Zepp and Derivative Designs"): Jul, 38 Wind-Load Standards to Yagi Antennas, Practical Applications of (Bonney): Part 1 Jan, 46; Part 2 Mar, 44 Upcoming Technical Conferences 17th Space Symposium and AMSAT-NA Annual Meeting, The: Sep, 63 18th Annual ARRL and TAPR Digital Communicaitons Conference: Jul, 59; Sep, 63 33rd Annual Central States VHF Conference Announcement: May, 60 '99 QRP-ARCI Conference: Mar, 58 1999 IEEE MTTS International Microwave Symposium, The: May, 60 1999 Southeastern VHF Society Technical Conference: Mar, 58; Nov, 00 AMSAT-NA Call for Papers: May, 60 EME 2000 Brazil Conference: Sep, 64 EME Symposium 99: Jul, 59 Microwave Update '99: Sep, 63 Western States Weak-Signal Society Conference: Jul, 59 *eof