Current HF Station
 

Current HF Station
FlexRadio 6400 HF Transceiver
Dave is on HF Digital ..currently FT8!
Active on 17, 20, 30  and 40 meter bands
Far screen: FlexSDR  Near screen Teamviewer  monitoring  tuner and amplifier
Cat  Madison is keeping an eye on things

 Flex 6400 station in garage closer to antennas
Elecraft 500W Amplifier and KAT 500 ATU on right
Remote controlled over home LAN or outside via internet
Webrelay controls some station functions

 

SteppIR Small IR 1/4 wave Vertical Antenna (new 2024)
Mounted on carport for accessory apartment. Bonded to metal roof for ground plane!
  ...more on old HyGain AV640 Vertical on a 10ft tower section
 

G5RV/ZK6BKW Optimized Multiband 94 Ft Dipole @ 40' fed with 39 Ft window line.
Mounted high in trees on a E-W ridge with 130' RG8 coax to remote radio.
Purchased from NI4L antennas
View picture of the old 40m dipole
 

Vacation Home Station
 

Winter QTH station in Maricopa, AZ 
Washington home station is remote controlled over internet
High noise levels, HOA restrictions  and poor grounds made this location in the desert SW a poor radio location.

 
 Shot of the old remote controlled TS-480 station-in-a-box
 Muffin fan exhausts warm air from cabinet when unit is powered on.

 

VHF/UHF Station in Workshop
 

Workbench VHF/ UHF Station
Yaesu 7900 and SWR meter.
 

Coax switch selects between  the Yaesu and PRO197 trunking scanner
Longer view of bench with magneto phone project in background
 

Yaesu and PRO 197 scanner below
Magneto phone collection in background

Discone antenna and UHF Yaki on 2nd floor
The Discone works exceedingly well over a wide range of frequencies
It's fed with RG8/X coax and  performs beyond expectations
View a huge cold war HF Discone at a Titan missile facility near Tucson.
 

Discone and Comtelco 3 Element Yagi mounted on 2nd floor deck
 

Icom IC T-70 dual band H/T with accessory mike

Stealth mobile 19"  dual band mag mount on SUV
 

Emergency Station
 

IC-706 in custom Go Box

AT-4 Auto Coupler and emerg vertical antenna
 

Typical digital station hookup
Dave runs only digital modes on HF
 

Operating in the shade. Jordan Peak
VHF-FM, VHF SSB and UHF

4 Element 144Mhz 'welding rod' Yagi Antenna purportedly has 8-10 db gain
Operator comments:
"This is the 2nd year I've used this Yagi and it has exceeded my expectations. An upcoming project plan is to try it for meteor-scatter contacts using the new digital mode FSK144" This is the third contest where I've had a blast on top of this 910 ft mountain near the home QTH.
Lots of Yagi plans on the internet

 

IC706 and SWR meter, logsheet

Pointing it to the NW
You can run this antenna Horizontally for SSB communications on 144.2
or Vertically for 144Mhz FM
I was able to contact VA7ACQ "Josh" just north of Victoria minutes after this was taken
 

  Field Day Jordan Peak Benchmark

 Field Day VHF/UHF station uses a 
 4 element homebrew Yagi
 

SOTA QSL Card

Station 2008
 

Collins 30L1 Linear, IC706
 

IC-740 Transceiver, PK232 and Yaesu FRG-7
 

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Another view
Note the Heath SB series Station Monitor (L) for RTTY tuning

1986 Station
(L-R) Icom 45A, Robot 400 SSTV Scan Converter, Hal RTTY Unit, Heath Station Monitor, Icom 740, Yaesu FRG-7
 

1983 Station
(L-R) Dave, HAL  Telereader RTTY unit and Heath station monitor, IC-740, Yaesu FRG-7
 

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05/06/25