Mal,

Send them a summary (a couple of paragraphs) and see if they are interested.  
If they bite, don't worry about following their typographic standards.  I would 
expect that, like most periodicals, they will reset your copy anyway.  The same 
goes for illustrations.  They will tell you what they need for photographs but 
as far as diagrams they will redraw them to their house style.

John 

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On 25/10/2007 at 16:12 hamilton mal wrote:

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>My EASY START tx should be easy to get going for most and I would submit the 
>cct but I do not want to get bogged down with preparation details and find it 
>would not be published in Radcom.  My cct consists of an IC706 transmitting a 
>couple of watts on 5 mhz / sq wave conv / divide by 10 / amplified by a 4426 / 
>FET pa / matching coil/C
cct for class E then an old TV line out transformer matching the pa to 50 ohms 
/ 5 pole LPF / SWR meter and away the rf goes via 50ohm coax some 50 metres to 
the base of the antenna matching network / 1/4 wave inv L at about 33 metres 
vertical and the rest horizontal.

>This is my approach and gives VFO control and good freq stability.  Most of 
>the components were from the junk box hence an economical build. To >date it 
>has proved totally reliable and no smoke. Using this approach would >be an 
>EASYSTART for those contemplating 500.  The PA coil is about 50 years old,  ex 
>TU5 tuning unit ceramic former with a tinned copper winding, just right for 
>the job. The condensers are also ex equipment, high voltage.

>Is Radcom interested???