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s our 75th anniversary approaches next year, we’ve been doing quite a bit of looking back over the past three-quarters of a century magazine. One of the most consistent things we’ve noticed is the extent to which — from the very first issue — has been at the forefront of technical and operating developments in amateur radio. Over the coming months, we’re going to share with you some of the articles that have jumped out at us, from our perspective far in the future, as being particularly noteworthy.

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Antennas
I have been doing a lot of work on direction-finding antennas lately, so it sure seemed like it would be a good topic for this issue. In Photo A, we have the classic ferrite rod antenna used in most AM radios, often called a wave magnet in the early
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QSL Of The Month: JT1YL
JT1YL (home call OK1KX) was Milada (Mila) Klouckova. Her husband was Ludvik Kloucek, JT1AA (OK1KW). In 1957/58 Ludvik was a radio operator at the Czechoslovak Embassy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia’s capital. Mongolia was in great demand on the ham bands, n
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Oops …
In September’s digital edition cover story, and on the cover, we repeatedly (but not consistently) transposed the suffix of Terezinha Felix Cordoso’s call sign. It is PT2TF, not PT2FT. We apologize for the errors, especially to Terezinha! ■

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