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87 the new 2018 arrl handbook with editor ward
silver in zero ax recorded live on thursday october
26 2017 i'm your host neil rap wb9 vpg thanks
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here after the show. Well Ward Silver N0AX was
first licensed at age 16 in 1972 and earned a
degree in electrical engineering at the University
of Missouri Rolla which is now the Missouri University
of Science and Technology. Ward spent time in
broadcast engineering and field and product development
engineering for many years and he's an avid contester,
DXer, he's on the DXCC honor roll. the top ten
in several contests and record lists and one
of the founders of the World Radio Sport Team
Championships. He's currently the president of
the Yasme Foundation, which he's been on the
show talking about that before and he's... Pursued
technical writing and he's been the lead editor
of the ARRL handbook and antenna book for a while
He's authored many others such as some of the
study guides ham radio for dummies recent one
on grounding and many many articles. He was the
2008 Dayton amateur of the year and in 2015 inducted
into the CQ contest hall of fame and he enjoys
his music especially with the world famous spurious
emissions band each year at Dayton. So Ward thanks
for coming back on the show. Oh thank you Neil
glad to be here and Yeah, that's I'm gonna have
to edit that Introduction down. It's about time
to go. How about that? Yeah, well, I actually
cut it from last time so yeah and by the way
any time any time we mention a Certain brand
of radio on this program. Now. We have a little
clip of one of the spree submissions band songs
So anytime somebody, you know, one of those,
like some of those TV shows, whenever you say
the word, you know, the sirens go off and everything,
you know. So anytime somebody says, says Balfang,
we play a little clip of the, the Balfang song.
There you go. Yeah, Neil, that was a big hit
and thank you for the idea. Now, now we'll see.
We'll see how this other idea pans out. I don't
know. I'm still trying. I want, I want to get
the whole song this time. I don't know. Well,
everybody will see, you know, uh, have fun. Well
tonight we're going to talk about the new ARRL
handbook that just came out here recently and
I wanted to mention something I saw on Twitter
today. Kay Craigie, the past president of ARRL,
N3KN tweeted out when she saw that you were going
to be on tonight with this. She said, any technical
concept Ward can't explain clearly probably made
no sense to begin with. And experts, newbies
like benefit from his work. So, one of the things
that we want to talk about tonight is your work
in trying to explain complicated things and technical
things. Well, Kay is very kind and I appreciate
the endorsement. You know, 15 years of doing
hands -on radio and trying to fit complicated
ideas into a two -page format is quite a challenge.
And I understand Mark Twain's remark about, I'm
sorry, I wrote you such a long letter, I didn't
have time to write you a short one. But you know,
yeah, it's really true. And she's very kind.
I really appreciated the feedback from the readers
over the years and the handbook is really something
that I enjoy putting together. I really have
to acknowledge the work of all the people that
put their shoulder to the wheel and contribute
so much to the handbook because some of it I
do write but not very much compared to all the
articles and updates and reviews and everything
else that come in. I think the contributor list
was in, you know, dozens this year in a major
revision like this. Well, we're going to put
that theory to the test here. So we've got a
little piece here that we want to play and we're
going to have you explain everything. So here
we go. This is this is test number one. Here
at Rockwell Automation's world headquarters,
research has been proceeding to develop a line
of automation products that establishes new standards
for quality, technological leadership, and operating
excellence. With customer success as our primary
focus, work has been proceeding on the crudely
conceived idea of an instrument that would not
only provide inverse reactive current for use
in unilateral phase detractors, but would also
be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal
grammeters. Such an instrument, comprised of
Dodge gears and bearings, Reliance electric motors,
Allen -Bradley controls, and all monitored by
Rockwell software, is Rockwell Automation's retro
-incabulator. Now basically, the only new principle
involved is that instead of power being generated
by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes,
it's produced by the modial interaction of magneto
-reluctance and capacitive directance. The original
machine had a base plate of pre -famulated amulite
surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing
in such a way that the two spurving bearings
were in a direct line with a panametric fam.
The lineup consisted simply of six hydrocoptic
marzel veins, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar
waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively
prevented. The main winding was of the normal
lotus o deltoid type placed in panandermic semi
-boloid slots of the stator. every seventh conductor
being connected by a non -reversible tremie pipe
to the differential girdle spring on the up end
of the gram meters. Moreover, whenever fluorescent
score motion is required, it may also be employed
in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle
arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. The retro
-encabulator has now reached a high level of
development, and it's being successfully used
in the operation of milfer trunnions. It's available
soon. wherever Rockwell Automation products are
sold. All right, so there you go. So explain
to us how the retro -encabulator works. Well,
you see the dingle arm and the cross product
with the divergence of the gradient of the Thelman
wire is really important. You haven't got that
under control. Why you could have a hyper prompt
disassembly. There you go. Yep. Sinusoidal depleneration.
That's just a bad thing. Yeah. Zoom night. Yeah.
Oh, we've had some, we've had some fun with that.
Just tweeted out the the YouTube address if you
want to watch the video of that because the guy
is the latest one anyway, the guy actually was
was doing it as a Demo tape so, you know to prove
that he could sell anything, you know on TV And
so he's got the whole set and you know moves
his hands and everything, you know, like it like
that actually works Yeah, I'll take the guys
a master Yeah, he did a good job with it. So
if you want to watch that that's retro in tabulator
on YouTube and as I said, I tweeted the The link
to that out while ago if you want to watch that
after the show, it's it's pretty funny. Well,
let's talk about some serious stuff The 95th
edition of the handbook caught off the press.
So tell us about what a reader would find in
the handbook. Well, retro -cabulators are not
in there. The handbook gets a big facelift every
once in a while. My first attempt at this was
in 2010 when we took it apart and reorganized
it and then again in 2014 and The 2018 edition
is another one of these major reworks. So I think
the biggest change to a long -term reader at
the handbook is that you'll find the chapters
that used to be receivers and transmitters and
transceivers and that sort of thing are now more
about functions, receiving, transmitting. and
that sort of thing. Everything in ham radio,
in terms of the equipment, is starting to change
with SDR and DSP techniques and stuff. So instead
of trying to tell people how to build a specific
device, basically we talk about the functions
and then how they would be done in an analog
way, say the old SuperHat. and then how they
would be done digitally through software -defined
radio techniques. So this is sort of a transition,
I think, in five years, four or five years. You
may not be able to buy a new radio that's fully
analog, except for maybe some niche -type transceivers.
So it was important to move the handbook in that
direction. Another big plus is Ken Norton, Norris,
KK9N has brand new update of the remote control
section in the building a station chapter. And
that's quite a cool thing. We're also starting
to include more microwave material, notably Paul
Wade, W1GHZ. has contributed a bunch of new material
and so there is a lot of new stuff. We're trying
to hang on to the basics that are not changing
but we're trying to update the handbook to reflect
the current state and trends of technology. I
think that's a really good assessment of where
we are with things right now because the the
digital trend, even even VHF and UHF, and now
HF is right there. And so we're in that transition
right now of moving from one to another. And
there's a lot of both going on. And SDRs are
just catching on like wildfire. And I've been
lucky enough to play with With the SDR in a box
at school the ICOM 7300 and just fell in love
with it And I think you're going to see more
of that Well, we're just starting SDR is not
only taking over the the existing radio, but
it's going to enable entirely new ways of Looking
at the radio spectrum And that is going to change
the way the radio looks, the way we operate,
the way we think about operating, the way we
think about radio. And you'll still have radio
waves going from point A to point B. But the
equipment on each end is going to start looking
quite a bit different. The current radio is still
a box with some numbers on it and a big knob
in the middle. And that's pretty much been the
the standard for radios since the 1930s. And
this DR is going to enable big changes. So it's
important to know what's under the hood. We don't
all have to become hotshot DSP coders, but it's
important to know the basic functions and the
basic elements so that you can use and understand
what it is that your radio is doing. So the handbook
is It's not a design manual for SDR, but it's
a how to use SDR and how SDR works document.
Very good. Well, you mentioned it's the first
big revision in a while. It was actually 2014.
So what are some of the additions that are in
the book this time? Well, how long you got? Well,
you know, we've touched every chapter except
the chapter on telemetry and navigational data,
and that is in work with the two primary authors
to come in a future edition. So everything's
going to be touched. Chapters two, three, and
four that used to be the electronic fundamentals
and then analog basics and digital basics. all
that's been reorganized now and you've got a
fundamentals chapter and then a circuits and
components chapter and you know that kind of
thing. So that's in the digital basics chapter
is now a downloadable PDF. There's a big radio
math article that's downloadable and radio math
cheat sheet to help you out. Then we talk about
toroidal cores Noise materials all been updated.
There's a really nice new section on electromagnetic
simulator software by the founder sonnet software
Jim ratio aj3k If you read hands on radio the
November column mentions Jim's online article
about Maxwell's equations is very knowledgeable
guy started out with Apple IIe programs, and
now he's got a big company that does electromagnetic
simulations. And you keep going. We've got a
new chapter on DSP and SDR fundamentals by Doug
Grant, K1DG. The oscillators chapter has new
material. There's a lot of new filter stuff.
I'll get into the projects in a minute. Just
jumping through all this, not to dwell on SDR
too much. In 5AC, Steve Hicks, who's VP of engineering
at Flex, wrote a lot on SDR signal chains and
user interfaces. We have some stuff on GNU radio,
GNU radio, FPGA tools, and all sorts of stuff.
So then you get into the free DV protocols. That's
all new. It's in discussion of the Pallet amplifier.
modules, the new system fusion and DMR. I guess
protocols are really their systems. Propagation
chapter is updated. We've got new treatment on
waveguides, a bunch of new antenna projects.
Even added some connectors, connector material.
And it just goes on, vector impedance analyzers,
time domain. reflectometry discussions, an amplifier
repair section got updated, all sorts of things.
So hey, there's some grounding and bonding stuff
in there. How about that? Oh, some grounding
stuff from you? Yeah. The satellite stuff got
updated, the EME stuff got updated. Digital and
ATV stuff got updated, too. So we touched an
awful lot of it. And just some of the new projects,
there's a bunch of new VHUHF and microwave filters
from Paul, W1GHZ. There's a couple of nice pre
-selectors for your SDR if you start playing
around with the little dongle RTL SDR for example.
Those don't have very good front end rejection
of strong signals and you need a pre -selector.
So got a couple of those. Some new audio interfaces.
Arduino and pickaxe stuff, a couple of new antennas,
and we have a spud gun antenna launcher article.
Oh, there we go. Yeah, so there's also something
with that element of danger, fire, imminent death.
Oh my. Well, I remember, you know, back in the
day, I picked up a copy of of the handbook from
my college bookstore it was on clearance it was
the the previous year's edition and got it real
cheap you know and I thought well you know I'll
pick this up and come to find out they were using
it as a textbook for the broadcast electronics
course and there's just all kinds of stuff in
there and and so much information just packed
into to one big book And it's changed over the
years. And you mentioned all these recent changes.
But this thing can serve a lot of different people.
It can serve as a textbook for this class, as
well as just for the casual ham that wants to
launch an antenna. There's a lot of professionals
out there that keep a copy. On hand as well because
it's got a lot of day -to -day stuff in it and
so they'll buy a copy it's only what is it 50
bucks now and If you go in and price college
textbooks or material you're in the three digits
So I would tell my students even if you're not
really interested in ham radio. This is a great
book full of reference material, basic theory,
projects, tables of interesting stuff and things
about feed lines and transistors. And you can't
beat the bang for the buck. You really can't.
And I'm just delighted that we're, you know,
working hard on trying to make it a real practical,
useful thing. And even if you don't read it,
it'll hold stuff down because it's real heavy.
Well, that brings us to the next question. So
let's talk about how people can get ahold of
a copy and what different formats are available
for that. And then we're going to take a break
here in a minute and take some calls. So, so
tell us about, about how you would get a copy
of the handbook. Well, arrl .org slash Store
go to the ARL store. That's the best place It's
available from ham radio outlet and DX engineering
and all of the ham radio vendors just go down
to your local ham fest and There's a book vendor
there. They should have a copy. So They're all
over the place one note this year. We dropped
the CD -ROM All the material that comes out as
a supplement is downloadable. So you get a code
with each book and then you can download a CD's
worth of material and put it on your hard drive.
So a lot of good stuff in there too, but you
know online at your local electronics dealer
as they say. Okay, very good. Well, we're going
to take a quick break and then we'll come back
and give you a chance to call in and ask some
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like. But let's hear from you and hear about
some of those questions out there. And actually,
I did have one. And I may have to... Pull this
up here. I did have a question that came in earlier
this week It was about Oh, I don't see it at
the moment it was about Some I can't remember
what was radio or something that was drawing
power even while it was turned off, and they
didn't understand why it would draw power while
it was turned off. So you want to try that one?
Well, sure. That's typical of a lot of electronics
these days. You turn the power off, really all
you've really done is turn off the display, and
maybe in a radio you turn off power to the...
amplifier section and whatnot. But what's going
on inside is it's still still live. It may be
waiting for some kind of a signal or perhaps
if a signal comes in and it's above a certain
level the radio will wake up. Usually that's
a configurable item inside the menus. they're
sort of a standby setting. And if you turn that
off, you can make it really turn off. But usually
that's the radio can wake up on some kind of
an event. I found the exact question here too.
It's from Gail Harris and says her ICOM 706 Mark
2G has phantom power. Her solar system gets drained
when it's hooked up, but not turned on. Yep.
Go in and see if there's a configuration item
to kill whatever it is that's sucking down the
juice. And phantom power is a name also used
to power microphones. So if you plug in on that
microphone, like icons have power on a certain
pin of the output connector. And that's for powering
an electorate mic and it's called phantom power.
And as long as I'm on that subject, there's a
big section. What's that? 48 volts. And if it's
turned on and you accidentally plug in your phone,
into a mixer that has phantom power turned on
because somebody didn't know and turned it on
and you walk in and just plug it in and not realize
it. It does quite a number on your headphone
jack I've heard. Yep, you got to be careful about
mixing different types of gear. Pro audio has
its way of doing business and that's not always
the same as how hams do it. There is a big new
section on the microphones by Jim Brown, K9YC,
and a big section on how to properly set up your
microphone levels. Plus, Jim Ton, before Echo
November Echo E &E, contributed some updated
compressor and other circuits for speech amps
and that sort of thing. The circuits in there,
have been out there a long time and there's better
technology in there. So we're trying to get to
the how to actually operate your equipment part
of things in the handbook. Very good. 812 -638
-4261 is the phone number if you have a question
or you can tweet us like she did at HamTalk Live
and ask whatever you want to. We'll give it a
try. Ward, while we're waiting to see if we have
any of those questions come in, why don't you
talk a little bit about the history of the handbook.
It's been 95 editions, so talk about a little
bit of the history behind it. The very first
edition was in 1926 and it was a little book
that was about the thickness of a couple QSTs,
two and a half QSTs in the old format, the old
smaller format. And as the saying goes, it's
grown a bit. And that pretty much had everything
you needed to know to hook up a typical ham station
of the day, which everybody was using the same
stuff. I can't remember when they finally got
rid of Spark for sure, but everybody was using
the same type of radio equipment in those days.
And so the handbook could focus on that. And
then later, the antenna book came out in 1939.
So for 13 years, the handbook was it. After World
War II, Well, actually, there's an interesting
little sidebar here. There was a defense edition,
1942, after Pearl Harbor. And there's a few copies
of those floating around out there. They printed
a special edition of the handbook for amateurs
engaged in homeland defense and the military.
And then they kept putting out handbooks and
then World War II ended and everybody came home
and hand radio took off again and so there were
lots of handbook editions every year. So 1926
was 91 years ago there's been a couple of different
editions sometimes they came out at the same
time they were not all the same, like there was
the Defense Edition, that sort of stuff. So this
is the 95th edition. We got five years to go
for the Centennial. There was a supplementary
book in the 1960s and 70s called Understanding
Ham Radio, Understanding Amateur Radio, and it
was sort of the gateway to the ham book. We laugh
about that. retro and cabulator but when you're
just getting started out in ham radio a lot of
the more advanced projects and things that you're
not familiar with do have that retro and cabulator
flavor about it and so I remember reading as
a kid I read a copy of the handbook and hit something
that totally bamboozled me and then I could go
back to this understanding ham radio book and
And then I go, oh, oh, I kind of get it. And
then I go back to the handbook and read it. A
lot of us learned electronics out of the handbook
that way. So it's a long tradition of both teaching
and instruction and guidelines for practical
use. And the handbook has always been approached
with the idea that the first rung of the ladder
is low enough for a motivated amateur to reach
like a general class licensee or a somewhat experienced
technician. And the first rung has to be low
enough that somebody who wants to get there can
do it. It's not an engineering textbook. It's
for ham radio operators. And we recognize that
not all of us are engineers and technical experts.
So, that information is valuable to everybody.
Hope that wasn't too long, but that's basically
how the handbook has come together over the years,
and it's a great honor for me to be the editor
of this book, and not only that, the antenna
book and the license manual. So, it's about 3
,000 pages of material, and I'm very proud to
be responsible for it. Very good. Well, we've
got another question here. I think we kind of
got this answered already since he typed it in
but Carl KD9HQT says he has the handbook from
1993 that was owned by his grandfather in 9SNK
and covers most of the theories and covering
components and designing antennas and such even
though you know some of that's outdated would
some of that information from before 93 and forward
be reused and revised to meet current information
standards in this new book? Oh yes. Laws of physics
haven't changed very much since 1993 so the fundamentals
of electronics are still valid. You'll find some
antenna bits and transmission line bits that
are verbatim from earlier editions. And that's
an important part of the handbook is some things
are not changing. And so we need to be consistent
in the way that we present them and treat them.
And it's kind of fun to keep some of this old
stuff alive. For example, in the antenna book,
there's a couple of pen and ink drawings. that
were in the very first edition back in 1939.
And as long as I'm the editor, we're going to
keep them in there. Oh, that's cool. Well, as
they say on Star Trek and also Dr. Demento, you
cannot change the laws of physics, Jim. Yeah,
that's true. And I thank Carl for his question.
It's good to keep some of these old books around
and, you know, find your the notes or the signature
of somebody from long ago and far away. I have
a handbook from the year I was born and a handbook
from the year I was licensed. Some guys try to
collect them all. I'm not sure my house could
stand the weight there, but a handbook is a real
piece of ham radio tradition, even as it changes
every year. So that's important. Thank the caller
for the question. All right. Well, just checked.
I think we've got all those covered and we've
got two minutes left. So with these last two
minutes, why don't you touch a little bit more
on that new remote control section of the handbook?
Yes, very good. Remote control is a big deal.
Many hams are using stations by remote control.
There's more every week and you can do that with
very simple setup or you can make it as complex
as you want but the internet connecting us to
our radios is enabling people who couldn't get
on the air because of living conditions or restrictions
or whatever. They set up a remote station someplace
or they share a remote station with somebody
else. Anyway, there's a brand new section on
how to do that. Ken, KK9N, wrote it. It updates
from Rick, K6VBA stuff before. It's really good
material. It's not exactly cookbook because every
station is different. But if you're contemplating
remote station control, this is a good chunk
of the handbook. that you'll find really useful.
Ken is very knowledgeable about networking things
and he lays it out very clearly what you need
to do and how you can do it and the manufacturers
are making their equipment more network friendly
every year or so. This is a big new area of ham
radio and I think the readers will appreciate
it. Now the one section that I need for that
is how do you get your IT administrator to allow
that through the firewall at a school? Is that
a specific enough question? Yeah. Ken should
give you enough information that at least you
can ask the right questions. You may still get
to know, but, um, um, at least you can sound
intelligent while you're getting there. There
you go. I'm still fighting that battle. Uh, we've
got it all set up and ready to go and works great
inside of the, inside the network. Well, you
know, uh, if you're planning on doing a demo
of ham radio, you know, you're going out to a
shopping mall or. Affair or something like that.
I suggest people consider using a remote station
the portable setups are always a compromise and
You often spend time trying to explain to people
why you can't talk to anybody You know, it's
noisy low antennas and stuff like that Why not
use a remote station and have a nice big monitor
there so they can see what's going on and use
full -size antennas in a good location and really
show them what ham radio is about and most people
will think that's just fine have some radio gear
to show them but say hey we're connected to a
station someplace and and how about that we're
talking to Europe or South America or California
or whatever Yeah, and some some great stuff and
Troy do we 9k VR just chimed in and says says
yeah That's a great question because he has the
same issues All these school networks. All right.
Well, we're out of time Ward, but thank you so
much for coming on Thanks everybody and Glad
to have a Have you invite me back? Thank you,
Neil Alright, well that's a wrap for this week's
HamTalk Live. Thanks to Ward in Zero AX and everybody
out there for tweeting in and next week Don Greenbaum
in one DG will be here to talk about the KH1
Baker Island De -Expedition and you can see all
of our upcoming guests at HamTalkLive .com. This
is Neil, WB9VPG saying 7375 and may the good
DX be yours.