UK Microwave Group – Early Scatterpoint Newsletters



SCATTERPOINT – ORIGINALS

An Amateur Radio Publication for the Microwave Enthusiast

The original Scatterpoint newsletters were published roughly quarterly when the group was founded, prior to the transfer of the RSGB Microwave Newsletter.

Martyn G0CZD was the editor.

The issues are available

online below in Acrobat PDF format:-

The Originals . . . PILOT – NOVEMBER-1999

• Editorial

• The DC Bands

• Change my transverter crystal? – yet again!

• Rain scatter – Where When How ?

• Testing Times

Issue-1 – FEBRUARY-2000

• A look at the ‘DC’ bands

• WA5VJB Antenna Measuring notes

• Minicircuits ZHL42 amplifiers

• YAMSHA: Yet Another Mode S Helical Antenna

• California Microwave 11-026700 Tx on 3.4GHz

• Membership News

Issue-2 – JUNE-2000

• Tips for multiband operation

• HS400 modification

• System Benchmarking

• Direct Digital Synthesis for microwavers

• The Manchester 10368MHz Beacon

• VHF/UHF Tropospheric Ducting Forecast

Issue-3 – OCTOBER-2000

• The WA5VJB log periodic

• Proposal for a scatter monitoring system

• Sun noise measurements

• Roundup of sweep oscillators

• DiSQeC system to control masthead equipment

Issue-4 – FEBRUARY-2001

• The DC bands 1.3 and 2.3 News

• How much gain do you need in your preamp?

• Tuned AF Level Meter for RF measurements

• 2.5GHz TV converters for Amateur Satellite reception

• Low cost VHF-10GHz noise source

Issue-5 – JUNE-2001

• Waterproof WA5VJB feed, 2.3GHz antenna

• Tuned AF Level Meter for RF measurements – Part 2

• AO-40 S2 transponder performance spreadsheet

• Pulse Valve info for Microwave bands

• HS400 – Fitting Electrical Frequency Control

Issue-6 – OCTOBER-2001

• DC bands 1.3 and 2.3 News

• Tropo and Antennas

• 1kHz Amplitude modulated 10GHz Gunn diode

• Antenna measurements at Adastral Park

• Bondage – Wire Bonding