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Amateur Radio Articles by H. Paul Shuch, N6TX

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

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

  • RF and Microwave Design
    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. Maxwell Without Tears: A Fresh Look at his Infamous Equations
    20. Gaining on the deciBel
    21. Technical Correspondence: Microstrip Design Calculations
    22. Interstage Coupling with an Edge-Coupled Line
    23. Combless Generator Tests Radar Warning Receivers

  • Antenna Design

    1. Parabolic Paradox
    2. Far Field Fallacy (also available in Japanese)
    3. Calculating Antenna Bearings for Geostationary Satellites
    4. The Very Small Array
    5. SETI Horn of Plenty: an Argus Antenna Alternative
    6. Multiband Reconfigurable Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna
    7. Updating the Multiband Reconfigurable Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna
    8. Built from Unobtanium: an ATDM Multiband Reconfigurable Synthetic Aperture Radar Antenna

  • SETI

    1. Searching for Life Among the Stars
    2. SETI Made Simple: What Can We Do?
    3. SETI Horn of Plenty: an Argus Antenna Alternative
    4. Correspondence: Arecibo and SETI
    5. Technical Conversations: Cosmic Cousins
    6. SETI: the Role of the Dedicated Amateur
    7. Quantifying SETI
    8. link to many more SETI Articles

  • Dr. SETI's Starship (Quarterly Column, CQ-VHF Magazine)
    1. Spring 2002: Star Voyager
    2. Summer 2002: In The Beginning
    3. Fall 2002: A Fork in the Road
    4. Winter 2003: Does SETI Theory Hold Water?
    5. Spring 2003: A Marriage Made in Heaven
    6. Summer 2003: Testing the Null Hypothesis
    7. Fall 2003: The Night That Elvis Died
    8. Winter 2004: 'Then I'd Have To Kill You.'
    9. Spring 2004: Postcards from Beyond
    10. Summer 2004: Worked All Worlds
    11. Fall 2004: Remembering John Kraus, W8JK
    12. Winter 2005: Quantifying our Ignorance
    13. Spring 2005: Blame It On Rio
    14. Summer 2005: Remembering W8FIS, the Father of SETI
    15. Fall 2005: Shouting in the Jungle
    16. Winter 2006: When did we become obsolete?
    17. Spring 2006: The Listeners
    18. Summer 2006: This I believe
    19. Fall 2006: Testing a dubious claim
    20. Winter 2007: Journalistic exuberance
    21. Spring 2007: Their past, our future
    22. Summer 2007: Light Speed
    23. Fall 2007: When Will We Reach India?
    24. Winter 2008: Millimeter Magic
    25. Spring 2008: Remembering Sir Arthur C. Clarke
    Transportation Engineering
    1. General Aviation Collision Avoidance Alternatives
    2. Near Midair Collisions: How Many Really Occur?
    3. Manned vs. Unmanned Space Flight
    4. Ned Nerdy Buys a Bike

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