Memory Test

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