Category: Parker–Peter

Schematic of the VK3YE “DSB-On-The-Beach” Rig

Peter Parker’s amazing 8 transistor DSB rig (featured in an equally amazing YouTube video — see earlier blog post) has sparked a worldwide resurgence of QRP minimalism. There is now a lot more activity on the “Minimalist QRP Transceivers” Yahoo group (be there or be square). Steve “Snort Rosin” Smith WB6TNL is minimalist mentoring to the max — with his help it looks like more VK3YE transceivers will soon be on the air. Steve was kind enough to take the info from Peter’s video and turn it into a .pdf schematic (see above). It is in the file section at the Minimalist QRP Transceivers group. I was, of course, pleased to see the inclusion of a robust 7 element low pass filter.

Michigan Mighty Mites are also tickling the ether. I may pull out my single MPF-102 Yingling 80 meter rig. You can join the Minimalist group here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Minimalist_QRP_Transceivers/

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8 Transistors = 40M DSB XCVR (on an Australian Beach)

Another brilliant rig from DSB guru Peter Parker, VK3YE. I really liked this one.
I loved his drawing of the circuit diagram — right there on the beach! Lots to be learned from this video. Thanks Peter!

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Homebrew SSB Portable from Australia

Peter Parker, VK3YE, is one of the true gurus of QRP phone. When I first started building DSB and later SSB rigs, I frequently found inspiration and ideas in Peter’s articles and web sites. This morning I came across this amazing video, produced just days ago, showing Peter and his new SSB transceiver in operation from a beautiful Australian beach. The rig is a 40 meter version of Farhan’s BITX-20. (I really like the frequency dial.)

Peter describes his rig this way:

It’s made from scratch, ugly style, with 99% being from the original design.
It covers 7 to 7.2 MHz, using a 9.05 MHz IF and a 2 MHz VFO.
I used a different microphone amplifier (I got more and clearer output than
the original with my electret mic) and a BD139 driver transistor.
The PA circuitry is also slightly different.
It’s been about my easiest and most trouble-free transceiver project to
date. Performance is excellent and a tribute to Ashhar. The furthest distance so
far was a 5/6 report from ZL (about 2000 – 3000km away).

The grand finale of the video is a four-way contact with homebrew rigs in use at all four stations. Excellent. Thanks a lot Peter.

Here is Peter’s web site: http://home.alphalink.com.au/~parkerp/

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