CE3YP call sign issued in 1968  (General License # 2.696).       Please QSL via email to CE3YP@tie.cl or EQSL.com.          Santiago,  CHILE      

Base station:    Yaesu FT-450 HF transceiver,  TenTec 715 speech processor,   IC-SM2 microphone,    RS-35(modified) power supply,   and Ham Radio Deluxe software.  

Base station antennas:     40m vertical Quad Loop multiband DX antenna, vertical polarization at 14m elevation, fed with balanced 100 ohm twin coax, CWS 2:1 balun and remote LDG AT-11 autotuner;     short and medium range 40m horizontal Quad Loop at 3m elevation with LDG 4:1 balun;       multiband NVIS antenna T2FD HF dipole at 4m elevation with 12:1 balun feed and rf choke unun;   YAESU FM-1-4S remote coaxial switch and ½" Heliax cables with Polyphaser lightning arrestors connected to a dedicated grounding grid.

Experimental antenna:  3.5 MHz vertical coil loaded quarter wave ground image.  Capacitance hat element with 50 ohm feed point grounded to independent subsurface ground mesh fed through 1:1 choke unun and RG-213 buried coax.    Project start date:  February 21, 2010.    Status: on air testing and report logging.  Project finish date: March 21, 2010. 

Licensed mobile HF as CE3YP/M.   Licensed portable HF as CE1YP and CE4YP.

Former builder/owner of Hallicrafters SX-110/TX-40 kits, EICO 753 kit, Heath HW-101 kit, Stoner SB-112,  Kenwood TS-120, TS-430 and TS-50, YAESU FT-80C and FT-600.

CE3YP base station, work and family pictures.

  Updated February 21, 2010.