February 1999 Issue Articles and Columns   Select Year and Month to View Other Issues

ARTICLES

MAGNIFIERS 1X TO 1000X - John C. Little
Magnifiers come in many sizes, shapes, and prices. Find out which one is the best for your applications.

AUTOMOTIVE NAVIGATION: WHERE IT’S AT AND WHERE IT’S GOING - Jeff Stefan
This article explains the inner workings of automotive navigation systems.

BOATERS AND ROVERS UPSET WITH HF SSB PHONE SERVICE SHUTDOWN - Gordon West
February 28th is the final day that AT&T will handle telephone calls over high-frequency single sideband. But there will still be ways to communicate effectively ...

BUILD AN INEXPENSIVE WHOLE-HOUSE TEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY MONITORING SYSTEM — PART 1 - Mike Keryan
With the THX10 remote monitoring system described in this article, you will be able to transmit data from up to eight monitoring stations on your house’s power line, and receive the information on your PC, without any calibration or wiring between rooms.

DOING ELECTRONIC CALCULATIONS WITH ELCAD - Fred Blechman
Learn to use this simple software program that allows you to do some fairly complex electronic calculations quickly, and print out the results.

LOOKING INSIDE A POWER SPLITTER - Gerald Roylance
Ever wonder what’s inside a TV power splitter? Read on ...

COLUMNS

AMATEUR ROBOTICS NOTEBOOK - Robert Nansel
Even though you will be starting with a very simple hardware/software combination, this month’s project will put your skills to the test.

OPEN CHANNEL - Joe Carr
Lightning observing: some lightning detection history, types of lightning, and constructing a storm scope.

RESOURCE BIN - Don Lancaster
Another look at some favorite websites.

STAMP APPLICATIONS - Lon Glazner
If you ever wanted to store a text file and parse the data out to some serial device, or have a string of serial data stored automatically, then the RAMPack B may be just what you’re looking for.

THE COMPUTER-CONTROLLED WORLD - Ryan Sheldon
Will return next month ...