ERRATA CORRIGE

Until now I have found only one mistake in QEX March-April 2003 page 52, Fig. 6, schematic of the PIN-diode attenuator circuit in which the by-pass relay must be as follow (our pc board template is OK): RF In goes to the common and RF Out goes to the other common.

100nF input capacitor goes to K11A terminal, the output 100 nF capacitor goes to K11B terminal. Of course the relay position indicated is at normaly close OFF position (NOT exited), so RF is bypassed by the short and the attenuator circuit is kept outside the RF path.

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My push-pull preamplifier schematic alone has been included
by John Delvoldere, ON4UN
in Low - Band DXing (Fourth Edition) by ARRL
ISBN: 0-87259-914-0
ERRATA CORRIGE: in this schematic there is a printing error
the emitter resistor to ground in each 2N5109 should be 100 Ohm
(not the wrong value shown of 560 Ohm)
My QEX article is correct.
The text article in the book at page 7-98 and 7-99 is indeed 100%
correct so with 100 Ohm emitter resistor each transistor is biased
for about 50 to 60 mA (so for 2 X 2N5109 a total current of
around 100 mA at 12V DC or about 115mA at 13.8VDC.