From the OZ Archive: September 2001
Twenty-five years ago, OZ featured antennas, transverter technology, overvoltage protection and on-air activity alongside association news.
Technology and on-air activity
The September 2001 issue of OZ presents a broad mix of technical topics and association news. Its contents include “Overvoltage Protection”, “Transverter with Excellent Strong-Signal Performance” and “A Three-Band HF Dipole Antenna”. Equipment protection, transverter technology and antennas are all represented. The titles do not, however, tell us which solutions were described or how they were tested.
Activity beyond the workshop also had a place. “EDR VHF Field Day 2001” identifies field day as one of the issue’s topics, while the contents also cover contests, DX and propagation forecasts. Columns on subjects including CW, SSTV, shortwave listening and radio direction finding show that several aspects of amateur radio were included.
Looking back after 25 years
Association information, local branch news, readers’ views and advertisements appeared alongside the technical material. The issue therefore offers a glimpse of the subjects the magazine brought together at the time, but does not by itself establish which interested the most radio amateurs.
Twenty-five years have now passed. The contents alone cannot document how equipment and operating practices have changed since then. They do, however, provide a concrete starting point for revisiting those topics and comparing them with personal experience today.
Written by the editors at Brugtgrej.dk — Denmark's marketplace for used ham radio gear.