| MY NON COMMERCIAL HAM RADIO PAGES CONTENTS AND CLICKABLE LINKS o Brand New Oct-09 SCREWDRIVER MOBILE ANTENNA restoration and I will be incorporating it into an 160,80,40,30 meter Base Stn Vertical LINK HERE o QRP Radio in General I have started working on these pgs. LINK TO THIS PAGE BY CLICKING HERE o Short Wave Receiving (SWL hobby stuff) Including pics/Info Galaxy R530, FRG7 and other radios. o Butternut HF2V restoration and antenna installation. A 2 band 80 and 40 AND 160 with a base loading coil.) 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) (some new troubleshooting pages -- mid OCT 09 click here to see o more antenna ideas including my short vertical (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 Elliot Lake Amateur Radio Club (pictures from Field Day 2008) and (NEW 2009) and MORE PICS from club activities 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 |
| 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 John Carmicheal here in Elliot Lake collects old fishing lures and is interested in buying/trading ect CLICK HERE TO VISIT THAT PAGE 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) |
| 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 now have some limited stocks of QRP transmitting crystals. $3 each. New Schottky diodes, varistor diodes and torroids including the white ones for stable VFOs. 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 about 80 or 90 percent retail price. I do small wee orders..THAT IS WHEN IT PAYS OFF FOR YOU. I buy in bulk and sometimes I buy parts (new old stock) at garage sales and flea markets. 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. Keeps me busy, occupied and I can buy a some parts or the odd piece of gear. BASICALLY NON PROFIT retirement job for me. 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 which include some more pics of this nice Pike. I released him to hopefully grow bigger and produce some offspring! |
| 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!! LOTS OF FRESH AIR up here! I'm from Ottawa. Ottawa is generally a couple of degrees warmer (on average) (but not always) so not much difference to me. Snowfalls/accumulation similar. |
| I do have some PARTS RADIOS such as FT301, TS820, HR10B, DX160 Argonaut 505-509 spares,many generic ICs from the 70s, 80s, varistors, schottky diodes (a fair selection of these New Old stock, and some other units kicking around. I have some dual gate mosfets and JFETS, schottky diodes, germanium diodes ect ect. 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. |
| 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. I caught my first real fish..a Northern Pike around the floating bridge which is between Clayton Lake and Taylor lake on the river. See picture on this page. |
| Earls Hobby Pages. Est. 2005 |
| My small parts HOBBY ("Business") ONE or TWO parts in an envelope is my specialty. -- I cannot do big orders like the BIG BOYS!!! I cannot compete ** but I can complete***!!!! My goal is to make a few bucks here and there to pay for this web page and buy a few modest ham radio toys the odd time! |
| 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. I am building up a real nice test facility. JUST BOUGHT AN ESR TESTER FOR CAPACITORS (December 2009). o I work on older gear from the 1950s to mid nineties. o I ONLY HAVE PARTS and expertise with this older stuff mainly but there are exceptions. Call me at 705-848-9486. |
| JUNKED RADIOS..I buy them..try to fix them..or part them out. I have a fair number of them now. Hams have been calling me for parts or a bit of help to fix a rig or power supply. European hams have asked me for parts lately and I sold a circuit board for $11 ( a crystal osc board ft301) to a fellow overseas. GLAD TO BE OF SERVICE. GIVES ME ANOTHER REASON for keeping all this old stuff around. 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!!! I have older argonaut parts, FT301 parts,HW7 parts and some other radio parts from the 60s, 70s and 80s. |

| MY EMAIL LINK IS = ve3ab@personainternet.com |
| TELEPHONE 705-848-9486 7 days/wk 9am to 9pm |
| click on the map and see where Elliot Lake is at. Use your browser "back button" or ESCAPE KEY to return to my home page. |
| Dear earl1andrews, Thank You Earl. You got all the Gold Stars. Your a very good man! |
| GIVING BACK TO THE INTERNET COMMUNITY.. MY PAGES ARE MANY AND VARIED AND ALWAYS GROWING. I'm a WEB ADDICT..YES HAPPy! |
| CLAYTON LAKE, LANARK COUNTY. I caught my first pike near where my dad was pictured below. It was a real stumpy lake with lots of logs and even a floating bridge made out of logs. I have fished off the floating bridge. |
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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! |
| NO CHARGES (zero my friends!) for short consultations, emails, file (pdf) transfers (stuff like that). ALMOST EVERY DAY NOW I get an email from someone who is just getting started or is learning how to fix a radio. I got my start from ham radio people who gave me free advice and encouragement. |
| I have been working on this web site since 2005. It costs me $15 per month. I pay for it through the sales of electronic components (I sell a few here and there) and out of my own pocket. It is a HOBBY WEB SITE & activity. |

| NOVEMBER 14, 2009. Weather was mild enough that no gloves were required this day to go fishing. I managed to catch the biggest fish I ever caught (by far), A 20 lb Northern Pike. I'm going to have to buy a bigger landing net for next year! I'm from Ottawa area originally and I have adapted to the Northeast now and have learned to fish up here. Lakes are deeper and colder and generally there are less weed beds and more rock and drop offs. Im holding him (or her?) up by a weigh scale. Just at the 20 lb mark. |
| I don't act as a fishing guide because the insurance for my truck and the liability insurance costs are too great. This being said, I have taken a few fellows out fishing who were in town for a few days and had no boat or motor. I have them sign a liability waiver if they are in the my boat. I was thankful to have Glenn from Waterloo this day I caught the big pike. He snapped movies and pics with his digital camera and he caught a 4.5 lb pike to boot. We both really enjoyed the outings. The fish was almost too large for my NET! NICE GOING GLENN and I really enjoyed having your company those two days! If you need a "real" professional fishing guide for the Elliot Lake area or tackle, I would say get in contact with the Elliot Lake Trading Post. I have gotten some real good tips on tackle and places to fish and they know the guides. |


| Old Fishing Lures. Some people collect them and trade them. I like the old Brooks Reefers myself. A fellow here in Elliot Lake has a large collection CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE OLD LURES PAGES. |
| I do not have pop up ads or any other kind of commercial Tom- Foolery on my site. I find MORE AND MORE advertising on the web. It used to be fun and informative but it is getting too god dam commercial. This site is a YAHOO site built using Yahoo Site Builder. Was easy to use. NO IAM NOT ADVERTISING ..JUST STATING A FACT. |
| I do sell on ebay world wide. I export ham radio parts mainly. 100 percent rating so far. About 70 sales so far. On ebay..I buy in bulk because the parts I need cost too much individually. I sell my over stock parts (see this page for LIST of my overstocked parts) |
| I do not have pop up ads or any other kind of commercial Tom- Foolery on my site. Site financed by me, myself and I solely!!! |

| I can be reached at 705-848-9486 or by email at this EMAIL ADDRESS. I TAKE IN MOSTLY RADIO STUFF but there are exceptions. If you snap a digital photo of your item(s) I also can give you tips on whether or not its valuable. Mostly ham radio and cb ect (communications radio stuff..but there are exceptions. |
| MY MAIN hobby is Amateur Radio and Electronics. I cannot classify this as a "business" because I spend more than I make ..so it is a - MINUS PROFIT thing I do!! HOBBY !! bottom line- 0! I sell some radio parts and the odd time someone sends me some circuit boards or small electronics devices to fix for them. My shop rate is only $10 per hour! I took early retirement from a job in Ottawa. This keeps my mind occupied and is actually a scale model of what I used to do on the job..only I get to do things the way they should be done! click here to see parts I sell |
| IT is a HOBBY. I go to flea markets and travel maybe 400 miles each way or so sometimes and only make $100 or so in sales. NO money in it.. An interesting ACTIVITY! |
| MY JUNKER hr10b parts unit. |


| parts in drawers shown: varioius operational amplifiers, fets, 1496 mixer chips, various cb radio finals (qrp finals too) a good variety of common parts to fix radios and build qrp stuff I keep |