MY NON COMMERCIAL HAM RADIO PAGES
CONTENTS AND CLICKABLE LINKS

o  NEW spring 2009.. Butternut HF2V restoration and
antenna installation. A 2 band 80 and 40 (and maybe
160 (for the winter) CLICK HERE FOR THESE PAGES




o  My Ten Tec Argonaut Pages (MARCH-09 project) I
have done some troubleshooting and rebuilding of
one of my 509s.  click here to go

NEW...FIXING UP OLD ELECTRONICS
(a few pages I'm working on concerning fixing electronics and
basic trouble shooting and cobbling together electronic
equipment
(click here to view)

o  to my qrp construction and building projects
pages CLICK HERE TO VISIT

o My R7 Vertical pages (theory applies to all these
types of verticals ie R5, R7, R8, R6000. This was an
experimental prototype I lashed together for Field
Day one year (features a tweaker coil applicable to
any vertical) click here for my R7 experiment pages

o UHF VHF yagi on the same boom (new) and same
feedline (CUSHCRAFT YAGI PAGE LINK HERE)

o My TGM mini Beam pages. Shows the
construction, theory and swr curves. Features end
loaded elements with lots of pictures. A small city
lot installation with a 28 ft tv tower. click here to see

o FT301 Restoration Pages (with ideas on
fixing/restoring radio equipment)click here to see

o more antenna ideas (being worked on NO
LINK(YET)

o pictures from my visit to the ham radio museum in
Guelph Ontario (as per the picture below); there are
lots of photos of interesting old radio equipment
from the golden age of radio click here to visit

o photos and a bit of information on the Elliot Lake
Amateur Radio club (pictures from Field Day 2008)
and (NEW 2009)   click here

o A vintage Radio Repair and Restoration (a series
of pages with pictures of how to restore old radios
A 1930s Sears Receiver (family radio) LINK HERE

o Permeability tuning an antenna (some basic work
I've started on) LINK HERE

oo NEW- (udated Nov7-08) My homebrew short
vertical for the low bands and city lot..CLICK HERE
TO SEE
Welcome to earlandrews.com (Elliot Lake
Ontario Canada)
OTHER GENERAL INTEREST PAGES

o Elliot Lake pages with lots of pictures (click here to have a look at these pages)


o some general ideas and tips on small engines
click here to visit these pages - note: I generally don't work on other peoples small engines because I do not have a proper small engine shop and
also I don't have too much experience fixing small engines. IF YOU DO HAVE A PROBLEM..(however)..I can offer some free advice and if the
problem is not too difficult..I could perhaps help out.

NEW-- August 2008- CLAYTON AND TAYLOR LAKE AND THE OLD FLOATING BRIDGE PICS SECTION (SOME PICS OF MY FATHER AS WELL).
to link CLICK HERE
AMATEUR Radio and electronics (and
fishing) ACTIVITIES AND HOBBY PAGES
all the LINKS are in Blue (73 de VE3AB)
AT  Hammond Radio Museum in Guelph Ontario
Summer 2008..you can see many of the pictures of old equipment
from the early days of radio if you go to this LINK HERE
In the next little while I will be setting up a MEMORIAL PAGE for my
father John Andrews who passed away in Almonte
December 23, 2008.
YOU CAN SEE SOME OF DADS PICS HERE.
A curious black bear in my neighbourhood!

CHECK OUT THIS LINK (IN BLUE) FOR
REFERENCES FOR WHAT I HAVE DONE
FOR PEOPLE (mainly other ham
operators) in the past 3 years click here to
go!
CRYSTALS..I have hundreds of them! I'm
organizing my collection. I sell them at a hobby
price of $2 each for non ham freqs and $4 for ham
freqs. (I have sold about a dozen so far)

I BUY AND SELL XTALS click here for more
information.

I have limited supplies of FETs, RF transistors, old
germanium transistors, SCRs, Full Wave Bridges,
Rectifiers, tubes, resistors, capacitors, coils,
toroid cores, solder, and other stuff. If you need a
part or two for a building project or repair I can
maybe help you. I sell lower prices than retail. I
can sell used recycled but tested parts at 1/2 the
retail price. NEW OLDER PARTS are 80% retail!

I BUY broken radio gear and broken
electronics. Sometimes I can repair it and get it
going and other times it is just not worth it. I can
then test and sell off the sub assemblies as spare
parts units and sub assemblies to get other radios
going.


Enamelled Wire (I have miles of it). Unfortunately it
is a finer guage than many projects but for short
lengths to try building a project-- I can supply at
next to nothing cost.  CLICK HERE
On the BENCH.. a bit of heaven for me! Surrounded by all those
wires, and test instruments. I have spent a good deal of my life
trying to understand all these things.! I did not seem to have the
type of thinking necessary to do well at this but I have developed
over the years to where I am reasonably proficient at it. I graduated
the Electronic Engineering Technician program at Algonquin
College in Ottawa, Ontario.
Its important to keep your mind and body active. My main hobby is Amateur
Radio. It is great..especially in the winter months! These WEB PAGES are my
hobby too! I have spent hundreds (maybe thousands of hours on them now).
Keeps the mind sharp and thinking. The spell check helps keep me on the
straight and narrow! I can give you TIPS on how to make HAM RADIO and or
Shortwave Listening (we all get started by listening first) YOUR HOBBY. I do
this for FREE of course. It is in our AMATEUR RADIO CODE of honour.  

HEY!! I've caught myself slipping into some bad spelling
over the hundreds of hours that I've spent working on these pages!!!

-- Warmer months..I enjoy the great outdoors and I still play ham radio too.
FAST LINK TO MY FISHING
PAGES (thousands of Lakes
and trails up in this part of
Northern Ontario. Im from
Ottawa. Climate is very
similar.
Fast LINK to my Elliot Lake Pages with LINKS to the
cottage lot development projects (Elliot Lake On is
now a "Retirment Town". I moved here in 2005. NO
REGRETS EITHER!!
I do have some PARTS RADIOS such as FT301, TS820, HR10B, DX160
Argonaut 505-509 spares
and some other units kicking around.
IF you need a part or two to fix or build something..get in contact
with me Earl VE3AB (ve3ab at personainternet.com) or 705-848-9486.

A few hams have sent me things to work on through the mail. It is
economical for certain small items such as circuit boards and non
bulky items.

I FIX THE ODD ITEM HERE AND THERE AND SELL THE ODD PART
HERE AND THERE TO PAY FOR THIS RATHER LARGE WEB SITE. I buy
parts and parts units and junker radios too! These WINTER
PROJECTS keep me away from the winter blues. I never run out of
projects.
OTHER PAGES IN MY SITE. (links in blue)
Here my father is out in Clayton Lake trying to fetch his snagged lure. This
picture was taken 31 May 1942. Notice all the stumps!
Most of these stumps are all gone now but I remember well fishing amongst
them myself in the 1970s.
Just started working on DADs Memorial Page
LINK HERE
Earls Hobby Pages. Est. 2005
REFERENCES to my work.
Finnigan 8 yrs
old in his
Canada
sweater
Stop by my table and say HELLO! I will
be in Whitby, Smiths Falls and Carp
among maybe others.
My small parts Business ..what I stock & sell

ONE or TWO parts in an envelope is my
specialty. -- I cannot do big orders like the
BIG BOYS!!!
I sell the odd part
such as this
transistor; or I fix
the odd radio or
power supply for
someone. I work
inexpensively as
a hobby.
My shop rate is
$10 per hour. I
really like to
putter around  
doing various
projects at once!
My wife Annetta
often mans the
table at the
Smiths Falls or
Ottawa flea
market. I like to
browse the
tables and chat
with other hams.
Test Equipment in my shop: Variac (to bring the voltages up
slowly on older equipment), 100mhz oscilloscope, HP
Spectrum Analyser, Wavetek Sweep Generator, TUBE TESTER,
Variable power supplies, CRYSTAL TESTERS.
As a hobby I buy and fix older radios. I
sell the odd part or two (cheaply) to
other hams or radio experimenters.

I don't make much money at it ..but its
fun for me. I have lots of spare parts
and I'm always out to buy more.

o Actually collecting electronic
components is a bit of a hobby in a
hobby for me. I used to work in the
electronics components business.

I sell the odd part to hams and
electronics types who are fixing a radio
or power supply or stereo amplifier.
JUNKED RADIOS..I buy them..try to fix them..or part
them out. I have a number of them now. Hams have
been calling me for parts or a bit of help to fix a rig or
power supply. I often work for free but I do take the odd
bit of renumeration (small amount). I make a few dollars
from selling stuff on ebay and over the web through
this site. I usually end up spending it on ham gear!!!
Finnigan is the real brains in the operation! When we are faced with some real
difficult decisions..we turn to Finnigan! He does seem to be very intelligent even
though he often doesn't realize his own limitations..(just like we humans!!??)
MY EMAIL LINK IS =
ve3ab@personainternet.com
TELEPHONE 705-848-9486 7 days/wk 9am to
9pm
I BUY OLDER ELECTRONICS
(mostly radio stuff) and I fix it
up as necessary or I use the
parts (recycle) and sell new old
surplus parts that I gather.
MY CONTACT INFORMATION
below:
I test the PARTs I sell (even New Old Surplus
parts). I am working on an E.S.R. tester to test
capacitor leakage. "Generally"..I don't sell
Electrolytics because of their shelf life. IF I can
either make or build a reliable capacitor test
station..then I will sell ELECTROLYTICS.
click on the map and see where Elliot Lake
is at. Use your browser "back button" to
return to my home page.
Dear earl1andrews,

Thank You Earl. You got all the Gold
Stars. Your a very good man!
Earl,
I will pass on the VFO knob for now.
This morning I adapted a knob from a
different rig and it looks good.
Thank you very much for the pics and
your excellent communication.
Best 73,
Scott N2(IDENTITY PROTECTED)
Keeping BUSY..KEEPING MY THOUGHTS centered on
serving other hams..and enjoying myself. There is NO
GOUGING here. I go the extra mile and not all the deals
work out..BUT HEY! I've got a pretty good little pension
and took early retirement so I don't mind at all! When I
sell something..it comes with a MONEY BACK NO RISK
GUARANTEE! Usually I can test components and radios
pretty thoroughly ahead of time. So far ZERO returns
and 100 percent satisfaction ratings. Any money I make
goes towards this rather large web site and ham radio.
GIVING BACK TO THE INTERNET COMMUNITY.. MY PAGES ARE MANY
AND VARIED AND ALWAYS GROWING. I'm a WEB ADDICT..YES HAPPy!
Dachshunds are high spirited dogs. They love to hunt, dig and play. You
almost have to protect them against their own nature!! Finnigan had to have
an operation on his neck (the vertebrae). We took him to Guelph, Ontario.
It was a $4,000 operation. He is fine now but we keep him strictly from
jumping up on things (which he likes to do) and digging and real strenuous
exercise and we have him on a strict diet. He loves to eat!
I  BUY and SELL and TRADE old rigs. I do some
repairs as well. I advise on repairs and I charge only
$10 per hour for advice and help on repairs. I give out
most advice for FREE. Some repairs by mail as well.
PARTS..such as the ICs below. I buy them and
sell them and collect them and stock them and
catalogue them. Its sort of like what I used to do
before I retired from my government job. I use
some of them ..of course..for fixing and building
electronic circuits. I SELL CHEAP in small
quantities to hobbyists. email ve3ab@rac.ca
NEW..May 16-09..page of pictures of my FTDX 401
restoration.
click here to view this page
My "modified"/beefed up HF2V vertical (with the coil assembly up 10
ft from the base..is almost ready to go through the testing stage.
I beefed it up with some larger tubing and it is quite sturdy and about
32 ft long. It raises and lowers real easy. I am building a home brew
tilt mount for it. I have 5 pages and growing on this project LINKHERE
click on the pictures (these are
thumbnail pictures) to see them in
full size. Click the ESCAPE "ESC"
button to return.
I BUY ICs (microcircuits) cheaply. There are many just being
sold at yard sales and flea markets for next to nothing. I
cannot test them..so I sell them next to nothing ..try it or
them in your circuit. IF IT WORKS..then pay me a bit more.
I used to catalogue and work with ICs and its my hobby.
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enlarged in this
manner!