. QST . . YOW! 4) Pick out nonconductors to droi> in the rig,you old butterfingers! 5) Always wait two months before using any dia-grams in radio magazines. That gives the editorstime to sneak in the inevitable correction: Con-nection 6 should have been made to this gimmickinstead of that one. 6) Never dislocate a knee by crouching downworking on the rig. For the sake of my various in-surance records, that one shows up as crouchingdown to change a tire. 7) Never use celluloid coil forms. Maybe youaint got big enough lungs to blow out the flamesin one mighty puff. 8) Dont ever sit on the flo
. QST . . YOW! 4) Pick out nonconductors to droi> in the rig,you old butterfingers! 5) Always wait two months before using any dia-grams in radio magazines. That gives the editorstime to sneak in the inevitable correction: Con-nection 6 should have been made to this gimmickinstead of that one. 6) Never dislocate a knee by crouching downworking on the rig. For the sake of my various in-surance records, that one shows up as crouchingdown to change a tire. 7) Never use celluloid coil forms. Maybe youaint got big enough lungs to blow out the flamesin one mighty puff. 8) Dont ever sit on the floor for hours stuffingbeam elements with rock wool using the XYLsbroomstick, only to find out that some big braininvented insulating pellets that you can simplypour in. 9) Bounce a tube on the floor with impunity butnever toss it six inches onto a featherbed — thatsfatal! Outside Construction Techniques 1) It takes two men to put up a skywire on anicy roof; one to catch the other as he slips over the. *337 HamUton Ave., Glen,Rock, N. J. IT TAKES TWO AAEMTO PUT UP A SlcyWlBE OtiAM ICVROOF—O^JETOCATCM THE OTVIEB — edge. Any ol timer will tell you no antenna willwork unless its erected in temperatures below 15degrees. It helps to leave hunks of your hide stick-ing to it. 2) If you must stand on a 12-foot ladder andchop through a limb as thick as your thigh to clearthe beam, get the heck down pronto when she startsto go (one jump recommended). 3) When throwing a rope with rock attached upover a limb, remember Newtons Law of goes, too, for OF Slippery Mitts on top ofthe pole with block and tackle while you are trust- {Continued on page 1S8) July 1955 45 ^ccAaicai ^/wie^fi^^cH^^ — LOW-NOISE RECEIVER DESIGN 1645 Cameron DriveLemon Grove, Editor, QST: In the March issue the article on Low-Noise ReceiverDesign by Longerich and Smith was to me both interestingand profitable, since it enabled me to bring my receiverup to an acceptable level. I have an o
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