Touring VY2 PEI

View from operating position

Operating as K3PG/VY2 on PEI

Using an ATS-4 4 Watts and an End Fed wire tied to the 2nd floor balcony railing and a chair in the yard I worked several stations.
    27 Aug 2012
1428 K1YAN 20M   559  Gary in Plymouth MA
1434* WA9PWP 20M   449 Paul in Stoughton WI running 3W
1435   DK1BN 20M   559 Walt remote 100W and 6el Mono Bander
1613 KB4QQJ   20M   559   Randy in Burlington NC QRP and Straight Key
1614 K2JT 20M   549 Joe in Montvale NJ
1617   K6FWJ 20M   559 ?  2W not sure of QTH
1912 K9ESE 20M   339  Jeff 3W Charleston WV mobile
2040* DH1BBO   20M   539 Olaf Goldenstedt  K2 5W Windom
2059* VE2PID 40M   569   Pierre Sherbrooke KX3 5W port. inv. Vee
2132* G3SES 20M   449 Phil 5W from Chester TS-940 at 5W wire ant

*times confirmed by other stations log



Had a great trip to PEI.  We stayed at Andy's Surfside Inn in North Rustico.  The view was what I was seeing at the operating position on the back porch.  We also attended a great Airshow at Summerside.

Sitting in 2-33 at Summerside PEI

AT PEI Airshow

Old Telephone Switchboard at PEI Potato Museum

More Pix of PEI and New England Trip on Webshots at http://community.webshots.com/album/583332329zljQTL?vhost=community&vhost=community

Flight of the Bumblebees 2012

Flight of the Bumblebees July 29, 2012

K3PG

Paul Gerhardt

K3PG

Lovettsville, VA

19 total contacts

15 Bees

19 X 15 = 285 Claimed Points

Set up was at Farm in Lovettsville, VA

Rig ATS-4

Ant End Fed Half Waves temporary in tree

Palm Paddles

Seemed like a lot of activity was fun even with low temporary antenna.

Log

Time Call RX Sent

40M

1:12 W1PNS 569 MA 34 559 VA 69

1:49 AB4I 479 VA 47

20M

2:04 WB4MNK 549 FL 2

2:10 N9NE 579 WI 50

2:14 K9DXA 559 IL 100

2:21 K9EW 559 IL 90

2:33 KX0R 559 CO 24

2:43 K6XM 559 CA 63 449 QRM

2:50 KG3W 559 PA 73

2:54 K4OSO 559 VA 5W

3:56 WA8ZBT 559 TX 5W

3:58 WG0AT 559 CO 222

4:04 AB9CA 559 MN 15

40M

4:08 KE0G 559 MN 5W

20M

4:20 WA4PIG 559 TN 656

4:23 W0CH 559 MO 7

4:55 N7OU 559 OR 70

4:59 LY2FN 559

ATS-4a Ready to test Now Finished

ATS-4a is now finished and fully operational.  The audio coupling Cap C55 was a problem that I solved by putting an additional .1uf in parallel with the existing cap.  Some folks have suggested swapping C55 and C61.  In any case it seems that C55 needs to be larger in value for the audio chain to provide adequate output.  At this point I am getting about three watts output at 12V with a weak 9V battery in the Oak Hills QRP Wattmeter into a dummy load.

ATS-4 Finished

ATS-4 Top

ATS-4 Bottom

Today the missing (lost) 'Red' SMD Cap came in the mail.  The last component was added and the unit was inspected and looks ready for final assembly and testing.

Quoted from ATS Yahoo Group


Another ATS4A on air.Posted by: "rv3apm1" rv3apm1@yahoo.com   rv3apm1Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:49 am (PST)

Thanks for this group and thanks Steve for nice job.
Now Built my small nice ATS4 A. Good CW tone , Pout 5-6W and only 15 m 4W. Good RX.
Note:
Not used liquid flux for switches, C55 really 1.0 uF, C46 0.01 uf
BS170, 2N7002 careful to do solder - not good for static
73 Serge