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SILICON CHIP PUBLISHER'S LE't·t'ER Publisher & Editor-In-Chief Leo Simpson, B.Bus. Editor Greg Swain, B.Sc.(Hons.) Technical Staff John Clarke, B.E.(Elec.) Ro.bert Flynn Regular Contributors Neville Williams, FIREE, VK2XV Bryan Maher, M.E. B.Sc. Jim Yalden, VK2YGY Garry Cratt, VK2YBX Jim Lawler, MTETIA Photography Bob Donaldson Editorial Advisory Panel Philip Watson, MIREE, VK2ZPW Norman Marks Steve Payor, B.Sc. , B.E. SILICON CHIP is published 1 2 times a year by Silicon Chip Publications Pty Ltd. All material copyright (c) . No part of the contents of this publication. may be reproduced without prior written consent of the publisher. Kitset suppliers may not photostat articles without written permission of the publisher. Typesetting/makeup: Magazine Printers Pty Ltd, Waterloo, NSW 2017 . Printing: Macquarie Publications Pty Ltd, Dubbo, NSW 2830. Distribution: Network Distribution Company. Subscription rates are currently $42 per year (12 issues) . Out-. side Australia the cost is $62 per year surface mail or $1 20 per year air mail. Liability: Devices or circuits described in SILICON CHIP may be covered by patents. SILICON CHIP disclaims any liability for the infringement of such patents by the manufacturing or selling of any such equipment. Address all mail to: Silicon Chip Publications Pty Ltd, PO Box 139, Collaroy Beach , NSW 2097. Phone (02) 982 3935. ISSN 1030-2662 * Recommended and maximum Australian price only . 2 SILICON CHIP Tell us what you like and what you don't like Welcome to the March issue of SILICON CHIP which is the fifth since we started. Already, this magazine is gaining a considerable following as more people come to know about it. That is very gratifying but we'd like you to tell us how to improve SILICON CHIP. Too few people are telling us what they think. Quite a few readers have taken out a subscription and have pencilled a note on the coupon saying "top magazine" or some similar comment. Now this gives us a warm inner glow but it does not tell us which parts of the magazine you really like. Maybe there were some parts you didn't think much of. Or maybe there was an article that you disagreed with. Perhaps you thought that an article could have been improved or it omitted some useful information. Please give us this sort of feedback. We want your constructive criticism so that we can give you the highest editorial standard. So if you think that something in SILICON CHIP is good or could be improved or whatever, please jot down those thoughts in a letter and send it to us, straight away. Don't worry about whether your writing is neat or whether you use correct sentence structure. Just write to us. We'll get the message. This month's Mailbag carries a number of letters which give a good example of what we're talking about. These letters mention an article which appeared then proceed to tell us how it might have been improv- . ed or what it omitted. Good. We might not agree with everything that is written but we're not afraid to publish criticism if it is constructive. If you feel that we should cover a particular topic or describe a pet project of yours, please put in your request. We might not be able to do it but there's a much higher chance of us doing so if you write to us. And if you wish to see a controversial subject discussed in some detail, say in Neville Williams' column "The Way I See It", don't hesitate to write - there is a good chance that Neville will get stuck into it. There are several other ways you can contribute to SILICON CHIP. If you're really keen you might submit an ar\icle for publication. You might send in an idea for the Circuit Notebook pages. Or you might ask a question to be discussed in the " Ask Silicon Chip" pages. It's over to you. We'd love to hear from you. Leo Simpson