I finally got to the bottom of this! A great learning for me. The bottom line is that the Q8051 transistor needs a lot of gain to drive 2n2219A. The original transistor was a PN3565, 151-0341. The original was bad so I couldn't measure it. I had only 2 of those on hand and the one with a gain of 465 worked.
Onan, Thanks for all the help you provided me. I am sorry if some of the information I provided was a bit unclear. In the end I learned a lot. Many thanks!
Barry
