The
Shack @ VE3SY
Today and Yesterday
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The current set-up as of the above photo taken in the summer of 2000 has seen a few additions to the shack including an additional rack of equipment and a second 72 foot tower for a 2 element 40 m beam and A4 yagi. The main equipment additions are the second PC an ALPHA 87A auto-tune 2KW amp as well as a Kenwood TL-922 amplifier and the new rotor control for the new tower. Left rack 1: Top speaker for the TS570S (bottom), my steam power PC for packet, 2m/70cm rig and a GE Phoenix for in-house telephone interfaced 2 metre rig and the TS570S at the bottom. Rack 2: Two Heath SB200 amplifiers, GE Phoenix and TNC for packet, Tail Twister rotor controller, home brew controller with selsyn driven position indicator for the main tower rotor and my scanner at the bottom Rack 3: Speaker for the MP, PIII 500 PC for my internet access and HTML work and the FT1000MP, Rack
4: All of the racks and panel were custom made by Gary Ritz of Ritz Electronics in New Dundee The Tower: The tower is a very heavy duty 80 foot self-supporting model that has a 5 foot face at the bottom and a 3 foot face at the top. There is 13 cubic metres of concrete holding it up. The antennas top down are a 3 band 6 metre through 70cm vertical on top (at 100 feet). The yagis are on 3 inch steel mast as follows 3 element yagis for 10 and 15. The 20 metre beam is just above the tower top and the rotor is 50 feet down the tower (quite visible in the picture) On 160, 80 and 40 I use dipoles and in the back yard I also have a DX77 seven band vertical for 80-10 including the WARC bands. Click here to see the story on the construction of the main tower. One of my hobbies back in the DOS days was writing software in QBASIC. A well debugged and heavily used package is still my Field Day logging software. Every June the downloads are quite high which indicates there is still an interest in DOS logging applications. Click Here to download and play. Trust me... the file is virus free
VE3SY Remote My First
Station
With all of the hype about wireless email being invented in the early 90s I guess no one considered the work being done by hams with surplus Teletype Machines. Here's a photo of yours truly circa 1966 sending wireless messages using an old converted Teletype Corporation Model 15. In the background is the Terminal Unit (lower with 2 meter) and the state of the art transceiver of the era - an all tube crystal controlled GE Progress Line. You can see the perforated tape in the foreground at the side of the TTY machine that was used to send the "brag tape" explaining all of the repetitive info such as the name, QTH, rig and equipment etc. The protocol in those days was 5 level BADOT with 850 hz FSK shift MY
DAD'S SHACK - - VE3APC As I recall the transmitter was operational only on 160 metres and used a pair of Taylor T55s in the final. His antenna was supported with the famous "A" frame structure made from 2x4 that was featured for many-many years in the ARRL handbook. What happened to this fine Home Brew set-up? Sorry to say as a young teenager, anxious to see what makes things tick, it was my first disassembly project. :-( 73 de Paul
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High
power amplifier with two 3CX1200A7s in grounded grid watt meter and
antenna switch and a Drake L-4B 2KW linear below. The High
Voltage (5KV) power supply for the pair of 3CX1200A7s is just visible
under the counter top.
WIRELESS EMAIL
CIRCA 1966
This
photo is of my fathers station VE3APC circa 1939. The receiver on
the left was a home brew 17 tube superhet and sits in the same place as my
first station above.