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SIENKIEWIC2 47 Peanut Whistles Spell Progress WA2CQL/KMD4313 -the lives and loves o/ flea -power hams Managing Editor 51 Build The Mini -M itter RICHARD A. FLANAGAN -your open -sesame to pipsqueak hamming K0D2566 Technical Editor SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION FEATURES W. KRAG BROTBY KQD2828 61 Dual -Trace Signal Switcher-traces by the twos Art 75 Dynamic Duo Q -Checker Editor JIM MEDLER -you use it with a scope 79 CB Rock Rater x 3 Editorial Assistant HELEN PARKER -.mil checker with the nlostest 82 Load Box Deluxe-what the test bench ordered Art Director 85 ANTHONY MACCARRONE S9er for SWLs-six-buck soup -up for SW sets 91 Mini-Jector---cheapie.signal injector in a probe Associate Art Director 94 Decibel Decimator-bye-bye to TV commercials EUGENE F. LANDINO II Cover Art Director ELECTRONICS FEATURES IRVING BERNSTEIN 65 First Full Report on CBS's Tapeless TV Recorder Art Associate 78 Mood Monitoring Electronically BARBARA GABRIEL 93 Imagineering Design Tips Advertising Manager 97 Hot Line To The Weatherman JIM CAPPELLO II 00 Lab Check-Am phenol 680 FET Voltmeter Production Director LEONARD F. PINTO COMMUNICATIONS: CB and SWL Production Manager 28 CB Rigs & Rigmarole CARL BARTEE 55 Shortwave For Non-SWLs Assistant Production Manager -getting on the bandwagon MICHELLE WOLFFS 60 CB Moonshine-oh, that hillbilly Mona Lisa Kit Division Manager 72 Propagation Forecast WILFRED M. BROWN 73 Lucky 13 For Bored DXers President and Publisher FEATURETTES B. G. DAVIS 45 Executive Vice-President What A Way To Earn A Buck-cartoon page and Assistant Publisher 64 Tiny As A Tack, Dazzling As A Dodo Bird JOEL DAVIS 59 Three Weirdos We Wonder At Vice-President and Editorial Director 96 Bigger Antenna Feeds There Aren't HERB LEAVY, KMD4529 REGULAR DEPARTMENTS RADIO -TV EXPERIMENTER, Vol: 24, No.