| Welcome to the VE3AB BUILDING PAGE. I like electronics and radio equipment. Back in 1973; when I had my first licence; I started working qrp stations on CW. One fellow had built his transmitter in a pop can!- I became hooked low power weak signal work. In 1974 I bought a Ten Tec Argonaut 505 and began working qrp in ernest. I now have an Argonaut 515,509 and 505. Im working on building test jigs and hope to eventually build my own transciever or transmitter/receiver combination. |
| Here I am looking at a few of my unfinished projects. I'm retired now and hope to finish up a bunch of loose ends in my ham radio workshop. Some projects I have on the go are: a super-heterodyne receiver, an R7 style vertical and repairing several ailing rigs. |
| TUBES!!??! - back in my college days of 1979 to 1980..I said to myself..Im going to get rid of all my tubes and go totally solid state. NO MORE OBSOLETE STUFF FOR ME!!! Well that hasn't happened. I still have my tube tester and tubes that Ive gotten from people who are either getting out of the hobby ..or who have gone to that big ham shack in the sky! |
I started building this Experimenters VFO last winter. Didnt
get it finished. It is my first real attempt at soldering and
working with small surface mount components.
I was quite intimidated by the very close spacing of the
small Advanced Micro DDS chip.
I spoke to several people who worked with this stuff and
they told me that in industry they solder these types of
devices in and then wick up the excess solder with solder
wick. The small little chips are pretty rugged. This winter I
will find out if it survived when I put power to this unit.
The soldering iron is a 15 watt grounded tip Radio Shack
model. I use cheap but effective magnifying type glasses as
per the photo to help my eyes when working with these tiny
surface mount components.
The blue matt is anti static and a ground lead can be seen.
get it finished. It is my first real attempt at soldering and
working with small surface mount components.
I was quite intimidated by the very close spacing of the
small Advanced Micro DDS chip.
I spoke to several people who worked with this stuff and
they told me that in industry they solder these types of
devices in and then wick up the excess solder with solder
wick. The small little chips are pretty rugged. This winter I
will find out if it survived when I put power to this unit.
The soldering iron is a 15 watt grounded tip Radio Shack
model. I use cheap but effective magnifying type glasses as
per the photo to help my eyes when working with these tiny
surface mount components.
The blue matt is anti static and a ground lead can be seen.
Below on the bench working on an old HW16.
Bench instruments now include a 100mhz leader scope, a
sweep generator and an HP Spectrum Analyser.
Bench instruments now include a 100mhz leader scope, a
sweep generator and an HP Spectrum Analyser.
My homebrew receiver project. The receiver main board is a printed circuit board I bought
from FAR CIRCUITS in the U.S. The little DDS unit shown has quit on me but I am building one
up. The filter board is only partly built but the filters seem to work ok.
from FAR CIRCUITS in the U.S. The little DDS unit shown has quit on me but I am building one
up. The filter board is only partly built but the filters seem to work ok.
these pages are under
construction fall 08 will be finished
soon.
construction fall 08 will be finished
soon.