Amateur Radio – My Shack

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This section is developing as I rebuild the station! 

 

The shack is beside lots of other IT stuff in the house

 

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HF

Icom IC-718 HF transceiver

Frequency range:      TX: 10-160 m + WARC
RX:                             0.030-30 MHz

Mode:                         AM/SSB/CW

RF Power output:     AM: 2-40 W
                                    SSB/CW: 5-100 W

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MFJ-902 ATU

A very small ATU which covers 80-10m.  It does not have an in-built SWR meter so you have to use either the one in the rig or a separate one.

mfj902

 

EVX4000 Antenna

·  3 band HF vertical

·  Frequency range:     10-15-20 m

·  Length:                    3.8m

·  Gain:                        3.5dBi

·  VSWR:                    1.5:1 or better

 

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Trio 9R-59D

I picked up this vintage receiver at a car boot sale in the Midlands about 15 years ago.  Not very great by modern standards but it’s OK after the valves have warmed up!

9R59D

 

Junker D.B.G.M. straight key

This is a superb, heavy straight telegraph key produced by a German company.  I got mine as a gift from my wife’s uncle (G4JIZ – Jesse) before he died.

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this isn’t mine (I’ll take a picture of it soon)

Ham Radio Deluxe

I am currently experimenting with some of the data modes.  I have installed a soundcard interface which allows me to do PSK31, SSTV, RTTY, etc.  I still have lots to learn hut I have started.  HRD provides a suite of software to allow PC control of the rig and interfacing for the data modes.

 

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Echolink

I have used EchoLink a little but am not hugely excited by it.  I have set it up to work on an Asus EePC.

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VHF

Trio TR7730

2m       FM      25W

I bought this small rig at the Scottish Amateur Convention at Cardonald College in the 1980s. It still works and I use it on 2m from the home QTH.

 

tr7730

 

Watson W30             

2m / 70cm       Collinear

This is a nice light vertical base station antenna which is mounted on the side of the house.  It could do with being a bit higher up but for now I can get in to GB3CS and GB3AY easily with 5W.

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In the car

IC E90

6m/2m/70cm Handheld Tx with wideband Rx
* 50MHz, 144MHz, 433MHz * FM (F3E)
* 5W

* 0.495 - 999.990MHz Wide band Rx
* AM/FM/WFM

* Adjustable 12 tuning steps
* 550 memories

* 14 varieties of high speed scan

 

I tend to leave it monitoring GB3CS (145.750MHz)

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5/8 whip

Mag mount on the roof

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Hands free mic/head set

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first created 11th Dec 2004

last updated 4th January 2009