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On 15/06/2010 00:15, Steve Terry wrote:

It's R&EW is miss with it's Ambit kits, They must have been the first to
introduce the wonderful MD108 Schottky diode ring mixer, which became
the basis of RX 1st mixers and DSB / SSB TX balanced mixers.


It was the very best of electronic magazines I have ever come across. I
taught me a hell of a lot. One thing I will never forget was the article
about frequency synthesis. The picture of a bird swallowing pulses from
the stream will live with me for ever.

I wish I had saved more content for archives though.

Dave