Guitarist

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In last issue’s Pickup Lines, we spoke with Bare Knuckle Pickups’ Tim Bartle to find out how different types of potentiometer can help bring out the best in our pickups and performance, and this time around we pick up the thread with Tim about guitar

Science Illustrated

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A spittlebug’s jumping power allows it to jump 116 times its body length, experiencing a force of 400G in the process. Jet pilots pass out when they experience 7G. Well-equipped hind legs allow the spittlebug to jump with 408 times more force than gr

PC Gamer

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A reliable platform for your build, the Tomahawk Max also comes in black to complement any style. This CPU is one of the greats, and uses the Zen 2 architecture to dominate in gaming and productivity. The RTX 2060 is a taste of the good life, where f

CQ Amateur Radio

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Last month, I wrote about the Nouveau 75 kit from the 4-States QRP Group and mentioned the modification coming to improve the quality of the received audio. That improvement came in the form of a small daughterboard that takes the place of the 3-lead

CQ Amateur Radio

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While surfing the internet, as I do from time to time, I came across several articles relating to energy harvesting. For those of you who are not familiar with this topic, simply stated, it is obtaining electrical energy from situations where it is n

Stereophile

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Before starting this review of Rotel’s Michi P5, the 60-year-old, Japan-based audio company’s recent preamplifier design, I thought it appropriate to consider “What is an audio preamplifier? What should it do?” There are plenty of opinions to be foun

Guitar Magazine

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Have a burning question about your amp or, worse still, a burning amp? Email us at editors@guitar.com Irecently took my Marshall JCM800 to my local amplifier tech because it was making an awful hum. He said that it needs a cap job. What does this mea

CQ Amateur Radio

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I confess. I am attracted to inexpensive workbench test gadgets, especially when a gadget proves to be useful and accurate. The operative word in the preceding sentence is “inexpensive.” I’m always looking for an innovative “good deal” in electronic

Hi-Fi Choice

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OBH-8mk2 PRICE: £129 TELEPHONE: 01442 260146 WEB: creekaudio.com REVIEWED: HFC 439 A straight forward moving-magnet phono stage, the OBH-8mk2 has fixed loading and no user adjustments. The new design uses an integrated circuit for the gain stage powe

CQ Amateur Radio

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Clayton Bane, W6WB‘s, March, 1947, article, “… About Grid-Dip Oscillators,” was followed two months later by “The Dipper “(reproduced below) by Wilfred “Bill“ Scherer, W2AEF. The article offered a variation on the GDO circuit presented by W6WB, helpi

CQ Amateur Radio

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This past summer, the Central States VHF Society held its annual conference here in Lincoln, Nebraska. What a nice treat it was to learn from some of the best minds in the world of VHF and UHF, moonbounce, etc. To see the huge EME dish being assemble

CQ Amateur Radio

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Editor, CQ: I wish to thank you for making CQ Digital ready for prime time. Yes, you’ve done it! It runs good on both my iPhone and iPad. My Elmer fed me CQ magazines starting back to its beginning — 1945. I was too young back in the late 1950s to re

Hi Fi News

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Was there a better time to be a hi-fi enthusiast than the late 1970s and early 1980s? It’s hard to argue against it because there was so much going on, what with the development of digital audio on one hand and the rise of subjectivism on the other.

Gas Engine Magazine

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Recently, a friend’s 1952 Clinton engine wouldn’t start. After some analysis, we narrowed the cause to spark. The component values may vary, but all high-tension ignitions are schematically identical. That made it easy to quickly determine that the c

CQ Amateur Radio

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Just as in the Case of the Five Orange Pips,1 this story began on a dark and stormy night, but over one hundred years later, in 1997. Many of the United Kingdom’s PRC319 military radios had just been released by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) as surpl

Guitarist

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ORIGIN: Vietnam TYPE: Drive pedal FEATURES: Buffered bypass, oscilloscope display (switchable) CONTROLS: Volume, Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Bright switch, Mode switch (STD/PRE/CAB), Bypass footswitch CONNECTIONS: Standard input, standard output,

CQ Amateur Radio

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During this lull in the solar cycle, 40 meters has been the best band for both local and DX contacts. Now that the sunspots are coming, other bands will soon be packed with signals as well. If you have a 40-meter dipole that’s been your workhorse thr

T3

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The 24-megapixel camera here takes top shots, supported by a snappy 39-point autofocus system. Snapbridge wireless support beams photos to your phone for sharing, and it’s flexible and easy to use. From £569, nikon.co.uk It’s so expensive, but it ear

Futurity

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Miniature electronics based on the Japanese art of kirigami are ideal for pressure sensing, researchers report. Miniature devices, notably those that bulge out from 2D surfaces like pop-up greeting cards, have seamlessly found their way into pressure

Fast Car

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The bods at US audio giants are so very proud of this new product, they asked us to park our ample arses on it, quite literally. In fact, we had to sit on this one for a few weeks in the proverbial sense too, because this high-end, hideaway woofer wa

Maximum PC

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IT’S A MOUTHFUL, isn’t it? Fractal Design’s Define S2 Vision RGB doesn’t exactly have the snappiest name, but it’s hard not to like it. This is an expensive case for true enthusiasts; the Swedish designer has poured its heart and soul into this one,

Guitarist

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The Junior’s simple-is-best ethos is certainly replicated here on the SB55/v. With just a volume and tone control and no necessary switches the control circuit is about as simple as it gets. The Eastman uses a pair of CTS 500kohm pots, the tone being

CQ Amateur Radio

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It is not too often that we discuss components, but this month I would like to introduce you to a relatively new and unique device, the super capacitor. Most of us are familiar with common capacitors, from the tiny ceramic pF versions up through the

Guitarist

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Matt Gleeson’s experience of analysing and examining hundreds of PAFs over the years has gone into these GAS-worthy ’buckers. They’re unpotted for extra sensitivity and are built on Alnico V magnets for the neck unit and Alnico II for the bridge, and

Urbis

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The Q7 QLED TV also boasts the One Connect Box: a stylish, thin box into which you can connect all your compatible devices away from the actual TV set. Gaming consoles, Blu-ray players, speakers and much more can all be placed near a power supply whi

You South Africa

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You can also create a “switch” for your bell. Tie one battery wire to the one end of the copper wire as you did before. Tie the other battery wire to a small paper clip. Using poster putty, attach the other copper wire a few millimetres away from the

Linux Format

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Much to learn, you have, my young Padawans… I’m unsure as to if you are addressing me personally, or you want me to correct your misconceptions. When 50 years of computing history you have, then comment you may… Having started long before laptops, o

Guitar Magazine

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Britain and the US might traditionally be the homes of overdriven thermionics, but one maker in Malaysia has been satisfying countless guitarists’ quests for high-quality, hand-wired tone for a solid decade and a half. We talk to Ceriatone founder an

Guitarist

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One thing that’s crucial to keeping a neat and efficient pedalboard is a power unit that can distribute power to all or most of the pedals on the ’board negating – or at least minimising – the need for any bulky adaptors while keeping power cabling t

Practical Caravan

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LIKE MANY OF us, Rod empties his toilet cassette in the evening, to ensure there are no late-night-red-light dramas! This is fine in summer, but during the winter months – Rod is a confirmed all-year caravanner – it can be dark before he gets a chanc