SPUTNIK made in Belgium

Some trials with 1P24b in parallel

Close-up of "the little Giant from the Ural" 1P24b

No ...no Xmas balls... just testing the drill and "Island cutter"

Definitive "chassis" for SPUTNIK MK1

..SPUTNIK Factory in ON-Land

On 80 meter:
( with the HC49 Xtalls ordered at  G3MFJ Graham ( G-QRP-Club shop )
Output power is just a bit over 1 Watt 
input to the final:  105 Volts  @35mA
( max Anodecurrent = 24 mA for min lifetime of 1000 hrs)
On 15 meter:
Output :706 milliWatt  !!

SPUTNIK on launchplatform ( sri today it's  also "Laundry day" )

Left : the DC/DC invertor

another view of the inverter

a 2500mA Ni-MH accu on board to fire up the two filaments
The + and - 12Volt battery is connected via two "Fahnestock" clips
the SPUTNIK is 100% portable and can be launched from different Launching sites hi!

Close-up of the tankcircuit for 80 meter

the two statorpackets of the polyvarcon ( 10-75pF)  and (10 -150pF) are wired in parallel, L1= +/- 36 turns , ANTcoupling L2=6 turns on T68-2

for 21 MHz ( as no T68-6 in junk-box ) used again a T68-2, this time

used 10  and 2 turns for L1 and L2

Only one stator packet 10-75pF is used

 here the difference  the one with and whitout USB 5V

Stations worked:

3 October  ( pre-Launching day hi! )

3570 KHz

antenna = trapdipool 80&40 meters at +/-8 mtr up

(http://www.on5ex.be/foxhunt/)

ON3ND: "JJ" 

ON7KO: Omer

OK1IF: Milan

PA3AFF:Piet

ON6EN: Jan

LA1ENA : Aage

ON6NA: Paul

ON4KMB: Michel

ON4AKR: karel

to commemorate the SPUTNIK- 1

launching at 4 October 1957:

4 October 2011 

+/- 21060 KHz

antenna = TH3Jr ( 3el tri-band yagi ) at 12 mtr up

UA1ASB: Leo

UA1CEG: Yuri

RA3AL: Gene

UA1OKO: Andy

ON6QB: Frans

W1PID: Jim

WA2TDL: Rick

VE5DC: Jerry

UA4FCO: Yuri

KE2EB: Geo

ON6RL: Guido

5 October

+/- 21060 KHz

RK1NA: Kon

UA4FCO:

UR5ZEP: Boris

UK1OKO: Andy

UA1CEX: Vic

W1PID: Jim

W1ACL: Lindy

6 October

+/- 21060 KHz

RN4AO: Gena

7 October

+/- 21060 KHz

RX3DHR: Vlad

UA1OKO: Andy

AA1MY:Seab

AA1TJ  : Mike at 13:40 UTC 239 & 449 rprts

2 x SPUTNIK-Clone QSO !

CT4RL/1: David  at 16:45

AA1TJ: Mike  at 15:10  UTC solid 2 x 559  rprts , thanks a lot dear Mike !!

2 x SPUTNIK-Clone QSO !

9 October

+/- 21060 KHz

EA7/ G4WZG  op. Bern nr Malaga S-559 R-559 Chirpy

(received email frm Dieter,DL2BQD  only sigs heard frm Bern RST 559)

LZ2RS  op. Rumi S-599+10dB  R-599 with QSB

10 October

+/- 21060 KHz

UA1OKO : Andy  S-579   R-339

RU3GS : Vlad  Lipetsk S-579  R-579

3570 KHz

ON6QB: frans

G4ICP/P: Richard

ON4KMB: Michel

ON3ND: "JJ"

ON4CKP: Luc

ON7CC: Jean

DL1JDT: Berndt

LA1ENA:Aage

ON6EO: Wil

ON6EN:Jan

DG3SHD: Achim

13 October

3555 KHz  (during their daily sked  !! at 06:15 UTC )

F8GPP: ( former ON5FL)  Bernard "Ben" R-559  S-599  

ON5AG : Frank    R- 589  S-599

pic:

 Xtal "in use"  :21060 KHz 

"in waiting" positions : 3555,30 KHz and 3570 KHz

21060 KHz

K6JSS/4: Bob  R-559   S-579

AA1TJ : Mike    R-239   S- 229   "yes we can !!"

2 x SPUTNIK-Clone QSO !

14 October

21060 KHz

RA3AL: Gene  nr Moscow S579  R-549

UA1CEG: Yuri nr Petersburg S 599  R-579

OH6FQI: Jaakko Jyvaskyla S-599  R- 449

US5EVD :Alex Nikopol  S-569  R-339

21060 KHz

15 October

21060 KHz

RD9CX :Sergej  Ekatarinburg  S-599  R-599

SM2BYW : Jimmy Skelleftea  S-599  R-559

UA3UAD : Yuri  Ivanovo S-339  R-339 

2 x SPUTNIK-Clone QSO !

18 October

RN4AO:  S-559  R-229

RA3SU: Peter  S-599  R-559

19 October

21060 KHz

YO5AMF: Alex  Oradea S-599  R-529

21 October

21060 KHz

YUS5EVD: Alex  S-549 R-539

21 October

21060 KHz

R3MD: Nick  S 589 R-539

22 October

21060 KHz

IT9QAU : Ferdi Catania 

R-579

S-599+10 dB (5W)

S-599 ( 1W)

S-589 (500mW)

RA3DUO : Boris nr Moscow  S-599+10dB R-579

End of SPUTNIK period !!

(4 till 22 October 1957 )

rcvd QSL's

my first QSL direct, tnx Jim !

" other Sputnik Company's "

&

"VLP Homebrewers"

http://aa1tj.blogspot.com/2011/10/early-sputnik-qso-party-results.html

http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/

http://dl3jin.de/sputnik1_tx.htm

Some pictures of other SPUTNIKER's

(satellites & Launching Platforms...)

Mike

AA1TJ

"the one and only" to blame for this whole

  SPUTNIK MADNESS hi!

Yuri,

UA3UAD

 

Peter,

DL3PB

Colin,

G3VTT

David's

CT4RL/1

QTH Ericeira : new SPUTNIK Launching platform in progress ... 

Graham's

G3MFJ fb SPUTNIK

SPUTNIK and other birds...

a little "Saw Whet" Owl ,  visiting  AA1MY, Seab's QTH...

 

SPUTNIK Activity in 2012

QSL-direct rcvd from Ken 

2012 Logbook  

Historic QSO

AA1TJ,Mike's Vanguard 30mW meets  ON6WJ's Sputnik 700mW

Vanguard 30mW TX

Vanguard's (regenerative) receiver

after one year ( build 03*10*2011) SPUTNIK made in Belgium  still working !

picture in the SPUTNIK cabine