I am getting back after way to long. Back then I built a couple of walk around handhelds with five buttons. I want to build a third but I can't find the article. Best I can do is the circuit boards for hand and base. The second was built 12-1986 so there is a cut off date at least. So the memory test is, does anybody remember which publication and or the issue it was in? Thank You, Joe
I think this came from a Model Railroader article. I was making the CTC stuff (Gutierrez's first DCC efforts) back then for our HO layout. When I saw the PCB picture, it rang a bell, but so long ago...
So long ago. I do remember the CTC-16 articles. Drooled a lot for a 20 year old not looking at girls . . . ;>) The second I built has a date etch in the board so I have been looking through the back issues from December 1986. Been to 1978 so far . . . Not good to be searching for an article one issue at a time . . . All the cool articles I read back then are getting read again . . . ;>) I have a couple of Atlas RS-1's from their first release which may or may not adapt to DCC but everything else would be too much work for shakey results from what I have read. Not to mention the cost of starting over . . . Joe
Dear Sir, My almost 72 year old memory serves me right, I did do some searching on my MRR collection (CD's that is) and found the article and description of printed circuit boards as well as a correction on the schematics. I did recognize the layout of the circuit boards.... The article written by mr Kirk Wishowski is in Model Railroader Magazine of Jan 1986, pages 118 till 121 A later correction was published in the "Trainwire"columns of MRR March 1086 page 19 So there you'd have it, hope you can find these, otherwise I am able send pdf of te pertaining pages, but you'd have to let me know. Happy hunting, Dredgeboater
THANK YOU!!!! I have made it to 1983 in my search of the MR archives online. Now what did I do with my soldering pen? ;>) Joe